Target – English Lyrics

• By: Catch, Young Adz
• Album: The Elephant In The Room

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the rhythmic complexity of UK Drill with 'Target.' This song is a fantastic way to learn contemporary British street slang and observe the unique rhythmic flow and cadence used in London's urban music scene.

[English]

Yeah

You got a target on your back when you're an artist

Nowadays these youngens do a drill and go use smart whips

My nigga turning strange but I just love the guy regardless

In a world full of liars, you say the truth

they label you the harshest

Sold my Lamborghini truck coz what's the point in driving round the fastest

when all my friends are OTR or sitting in the Marshes?

I know a nigga died a soldier coz he weren’t the smartest

No fear, his mind didn’t fail him but his heart did

Bro just keep it real thats all I’m asking

Niggas do gangster shit and then go hide behind Imams

Or call big homies tryna hash their qualms

I don’t need to go to LA just to walk with guns and

I don’t need to fly Dubai to go drive super cars

Bro got grabbed before my show I’m on stage forgetting my bars now

Time heals everything but they don’t tell you that it’s hard

When you got nerve damage you’re insecure about your scars

I know a nigga that was rich, he shitted on the trenches till it made him poor

Been putting batteries in backs and making niggas score

When Wireless was in Crystal Palace we brought out the skorpz

They killing girls in my city too baby, please stay indoors

Coz the sticks with the game

How you snake your darggy for a bitch and some chains?

I told bro that he can have everything of mine but my wife

If he weren’t on the run he’ll rock a quarter mill in ice

One of my top juvvies lifed off, smoking spice

They think the back door's open

like we don't know that you're playing both sides

Yeah right this shit is here airtight

Keeping real’s a rare sight and I aint seen no fair fight

Before bro died he was tryna reach me

Fiends even tryna teach me

Pinning heroin and smoking crack, dying from diabetes

How can you relate when you aint never had to go through faeces?

To get the 40 shots you swallowed

I run my trap like Putin, playing old school Dubz and Hollow

This time’s all borrowed but the hammers aint

She took half a gram and faint

The joint’s got a laser what we brang to Tape

Now 29 rock the stage like we aint really do two bag a day

Aye I sat on the back of PCX’s

Before I ever sat with Dave talking about DBX’s

I told this girl a hundred times, I don't wanna read your texts

I wanna press, man I aint pressed about your meedi exes

And then I tell her don’t upload me, man the streets are reckless

The hammer on me like I tweak electrics

I got the skorpz you think these sweets selective?

So baby please stay indoors, you think these sweets are sexist?

About you’re fassting up yourself tryna be on guestlist

Shake my head, the game is just a mess

I see these little boys struggling to pay off on their debts

and instead of flying straight with their connects

they make a rap song and claim it's a finesse

I'm just shaking up my head

I'm in

I'm in my local barbers taping up my dreads

I’ll tape the road too, my barber knows he makes sure that I’m next

Yes

Life of a trap lord boss

All them niggas round you, you don't even know who the back door was

Yeah Ross Kemp can get an interview or Trap Lore Ross

You wanna step into the trenches then it’s at your cost

I aint talking to no little man, i’ll at your boss

I don’t water nothing down if anything, i’ll add more Voss

Cah Catch is on your playlist like

like I wasn't on a mattress with a makeshift knife

practice till I make it right

You really think they reformed me? You're mad

I still get nightmares of them recalling me back

And I get PTSD whenever we all in a bank

Coz my last bank I had us taking sweetcorn off a pack

Yuck

TMI maybe

Now i'm a rapper so its EGA or EMI, crazy

And way before 29 made moves on Wave tunes

I saw him making it snow bro and it was late June

You think them bando days leave your brain?

You ever seen a fiend get excited when they see your veins?

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
target /ˈtɑːrɡɪt/ B2	noun - a person or object selected as the aim of an attack
artist /ˈɑːrtɪst/ A1	noun - a person who creates art or performs in the entertainment industry
harshest /ˈhɑːrʃɪst/ B2	adjective - cruel or severe in treatment
soldier /ˈsoʊldʒər/ A2	noun - a person who serves in an army; in slang, a loyal or tough individual
nerve /nɜːrv/ B2	noun - a fiber transmitting impulses of sensation to the brain
insecure /ˌɪnsɪˈkjʊr/ B2	adjective - uncertain or anxious about oneself
trenches /ˈtrɛntʃɪz/ B2	noun - long narrow ditches; metaphorically, the difficult/dangerous life on the streets
reckless /ˈrɛkləs/ B2	adjective - heedless of danger or the consequences of one's actions
struggling /ˈstrʌɡlɪŋ/ B1	verb - striving hard to achieve something despite difficulties
debts /dɛts/ A2	noun - something, typically money, that is owed or due
finesse /fɪˈnɛs/ C1	noun - intricate and refined delicacy; in slang, the act of handling a situation cleverly or scamming
reformed /rɪˈfɔːrmd/ C1	verb - improved by making changes to something
nightmares /ˈnaɪtmerz/ B1	noun - frightening or unpleasant dreams
fiend /fiːnd/ C2	noun - an evil spirit or demon; colloquially, a drug addict
veins /veɪnz/ B2	noun - tubes carrying blood toward the heart

Key Grammar Structures

• You got a target on your back when you're an artist

  ➔ Zero conditional (General truth)

  ➔ The structure 'When + present simple, present simple' expresses a universal truth or fact in the speaker's life.

• Sold my Lamborghini truck coz what's the point in driving round the fastest

  ➔ Gerund after a preposition (In + -ing)

  ➔ After the preposition 'in', the verb 'drive' becomes the gerund 'driving'.

• I know a nigga died a soldier coz he weren’t the smartest

  ➔ Relative clause with omitted pronoun

  ➔ There is an implied 'who' or 'that' between 'nigga' and 'died'.

• Time heals everything but they don’t tell you that it’s hard

  ➔ Noun clause (Object of 'tell')

  ➔ The phrase 'that it’s hard' functions as the object of the verb 'tell'.

• When you got nerve damage you’re insecure about your scars

  ➔ Adjective + Preposition collocation

  ➔ The adjective 'insecure' is conventionally followed by the preposition 'about'.

• Keeping real’s a rare sight and I aint seen no fair fight

  ➔ Double negative (Colloquial)

  ➔ Using 'aint' (have not) and 'no' together is common in slang/dialects to emphasize the negative.

• Before bro died he was tryna reach me

  ➔ Past continuous for ongoing action

  ➔ The structure 'was tryna' (trying to) describes an action that was in progress in the past.

• You ever seen a fiend get excited when they see your veins?

  ➔ Present perfect for life experience

  ➔ The question 'You ever seen' (Have you ever seen) asks about experience.