All the things I learnt from Newport Always twice as fast a three o’clock in the morning so no one can jump you Always be prepared and always have a laugh I tell you what I like Wildings at Christmas mate
I grew up in Newport in the nineteen eighties Hanging by the castle with all my mates Sparking up a spliff in John Frost Square Puking on ourselves coz we just don’t care Drinking so much booze you get covered in shite Stella Artois to Diamond White Learnt all my lessons being from Newport I’ll always remember all I was taught
I think back and I remember well Buying underage booze in Baneswell Drinking on the corner taking amphets Sharing a pack of ten cigarettes Over Maesglas on the BMX track Was the first time I tried squidgy black We’d get a chase from the police Causing trouble and disturbing the peace
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport There’s loads of things that you’ll never see Unless you grew up in the NPT
Ridding round the streets playing with my toys Avoiding the Youth Firm and the Rodgy Nutty Boys Going down the County Saturday afternoon Making a draw yogurt heated up on a spoon Adam and Dipper would come round my house We’d drink ten cans and then we’d go out Have a fat spliff on the way into town Try walking in the Murenger without falling down
Remember when Zanzibar was Brooklyn Heights Getting chips from Boomers and dodging fights Hooking up with the crew after school Go up Mister Cues to buy weed and play pool Big up to Walshy and 38 Double D Now that shit’s just a memory Seeing the colours on LSD Smoking soapbar with Phil Sasha and Lee
We used to kick it in town on a Saturday Come back from Hitman with tunes to play Can’t remember much of what went on I think about it now but most of it’s gone I think back and reminisce Checking out the girls I wanted to kiss Then it’s on to the park chilling on the swings It’s amazing how you remember these things
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport There’s loads of things that you’ll never see Unless you grew up in the NPT
I use to pick asparagus so I could get paid At Very Hill Farm out marshfield way I never saved any money always spent up all my cash Often swapping it with Tony and with Willis for some Hash Seven fifty for a teenth fiver for a gram Get acid in the Trout Vaults never drank in the Talisman These are things I did as a teenager No Instagram or mobile just a BT pager Down by the statues with the crew felt like a star Two pound fifty for half a pizza from Newport Fish Bar Was you a Sweaty or a Townty were you torn Didn’t care much for Ritzy’s but I did Grooves Platform I tell these stories like biblical psalms Like that time that Giles Sports had a visit from John Barnes Remember Barkers Chippie Jeans on display Or Universe in Magor when Sasha DJed You know these days might all be in the past But fucking hell son I had a proper fucking blast It was like a shit version of New York But like a good shit version of new York
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport There’s loads of things that you’ll never see Unless you grew up in the NPT
Riding on the scramblers down the train tracks Playing pitch and toss on the wall outside the Halifax Shooting up the soft kids with my black widow Newport taught me things when I was just a kiddo Up to Brecon park to have a fight Rolling up a blunt but no ones got a light Fiver in the machines at Megabowl This is the way that we use to roll Go to registration to answer my name Then I’d go to Rileys for a few fucking frames Sneaking in the pictures with a straw and rifle shots When I got older it was draw and micro dots Learnt all my smarts in my home fucking town Always playing up always acting the clown Getting up to mischief but never getting caught And I owe my education to my Home in Newport
This ain’t a Hip Hop story from Brooklyn or the Bronx When your born and raised and been port for yonks You got tails port knowledge for laughs Killer whales and dolphins in Maindee Baths But I was west side Aston Stores and Johnseys Vicky wine Garrads Shobaraj alonzi’s BMXing through Brynglas Delivering the ad mag when I could be assed Tosser Thompson nicking from the Smiths warehouse bins Stories of scraps in the Boileys and the Quinns Garry Evans for maggots fishing with Cliffy Dallas Sue Ellen how I got my first stiffy Half a coke at the tavern turns on the rope swings Striming idlers in the chippy that became my thing Then the lights and Lasers led the way to Zanzibar 80s Newport nipper turned to 90s fucking safe spa
There’s loads of things that you can’t be taught Unless your born and raised in chikka chikka Newport There’s loads of things that you’ll never see Unless you grew up in the NPT
Yeah you knows it makes sense Fucking 80s 90s 2000s all the teens All the fucking shit 2020 70s all the fucking ages Billy Webb fucking rocking it for the GLC innit Yes you knows Ayingerbrau Pils use to have all of that Anyone who’s had the fucking boot Anyone who’s had a yard of ale down Dippers You fucking knows your safe Newport 1980s fucking loves it Almo’s Or going over to fucking Stuart Jones to get some football boots and some dubbing You fucking knows it makes sense Wicked fucking Billy Webb Goldie Looking Chains fucking knows it