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Natures Greatest Mystery is the debut album from The Four Owls featuring some of the UK's most well known underground emcees featuring Leaf Dog, BVA, Fliptrix and Verb T. The Four Owls are possibly one of the UK's best super-groups and I can guarantee if you're a fan of their solo music, You'll love them as a group.
Natures Greatest Mystery has been entirely produced by Leaf Dog who in the last few years as progressed a lot as a producer, he's worked with Rass Kass, Cool G Rap, Canibus and many other large names in hip hop. The album features a total of 14 tracks featuring all of The Four Owls and also the odd feature with Dirty Dike, Jam Baxter and Q-Unique jumping on a few tracks.
The entire album is filled with Lyrical warfare at its finest, Original is an open letter to anyone who bites rhymes in the hip hop scene and reminds them it's about being original and pushing the boundaries of hip hop which makes you a great artist. All My Life features the group expressing their views on the money obsessed culture we live in, another track worth shouting out is Not Like Before featuring each rapper having a trip down memory lane and how they achieved the status they have individually in the UK hip hop scene today.
Not Like Before by The Four Owls
Not Like Before Lyrics
- Not like before
- We're gonna tell a little story
- It's about me, about he, about we
- Not like before
- Yeah yeah, take me back, the owls.
- Man I only went to school to sell weed at lunch time
- Two gerners on a tub, mine crushed up fine
- Losing my mind, sniffing lines. No attendant sign
- Made the habit mine of any drug I could find
- All I knew about was crime until I dropped a few shrooms
- Made a few tunes, me and BVA coming real soon
- And then it dropped, and nobody listened
- Lost but not forgotten was the beggining of this mission
- I used to be living on the floor with Freddy T
- One of the reasons for the malnourished Leaf that you see
- He gave me the pc, I used to make the beats 'for this CD
- Got passed the torch from Iz and Cool G
- Much repsect for that, and highfocus is the future
- See I've got your back, no shotty in my back-pack.
- Got my queen, no need to chase rats, your behind
- While i slowly take over the map,
- Wheres the owls at? ah!
- Many things have changed since the old school days
- Runnin' 'round on train tracks, sprayin up the trains
- Picking up an eighth bag to blaze it in the day
- Now i smoke a little this, but its indie kush haze.
- Ill take you back for a lesson.
- Way back to the Brixton mass' open mic sessions.
- Average spotted me, thought that i was reppin'
- Then we met a little later at the speakers road in mecka.
- He took me to a studio in Queens Road Peckham
- Recorded force fed imagery it seemed that it was destined
- I aint seen him in a couple years, but cuz hes still my bredrin
- Cant forget about the man who put you in for a second
- Like verb T, certified G the mic veteran. Runone.
- Blessed me with beats from his collection.
- Got mad nice on the decks at every damn event son.
- Whores and cash, have your back, we rinse up the shows n' that.
- Supported dark raider rugged-man. That was classic fact.
- Reminisce reminisce. Remember lacey shooz wit' kimo up in Brixton lab.
- Then he moved it down to white chaple place. Was nang.
- Late nights was rammed, man it went to plan.
- Since then im high-focused on the prison fam.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
- At school i never used to go and stay at home high.
- That stoned in zone guy, the same and you know why.
- Then college, i wasnt really concerned with that.
- Mainly went to sell ten pound sacks, and chase rats.
- Dropped out and went back, but i still wasnt focused.
- Started rappin' on beats about how we be the brokest.
- for lost but not forgotten then there was world war three.
- Then the war ended and we still hadn't dropped the CD.
- But now things are different cos kids still pump and listen
- To the CD that we give them three years ago on the mission.
- Still leave the page written, hit the stage with our spitten
- Got a contract and learnt how to make our shit thicker.
- Cleared our own path like a snowplow.
- Gained the know how on how to get exactly where we want
- And never go down, and now we're that storm on your horizon.
- With more tracks laid down than a fifty year old whore
- Thats still riding.
- Yo it started back, when i heard Slick rick and doug e fresh
- I was eight used to play the vinyl when i dub cassettes.
- I spent my teen years weeded out past high
- With gang-star Wu-Tang tribe and the pharcyde.
- I cant lie, i was shy hittin open mics as a kid.
- But the studio i was smashin it.
- I had my first record out i was eighteen.
- Touring with phi life cypher for that was like a day dream.
- Shedded my innocence then started to grow wise.
- Grow flow wise i hooked up with low-life.
- Got some guidance and applied it, had confidence
- with kashmere and ghost toured the country and the continent.
- But still i had to keep a nine to five to keep the bills paid
- And quit the weed just to try and keep my mind alive.
- Sixteen bars is not enough time to write my entire life
- This is just one instalment.
- Now im a proud father, grown responsible.
- Learnt over years hate kills love conquers all.
- So i look to the future after steppin' back.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
- Make music move units stay reppin' that.
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