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Growing up in working class, ghetto London puts young people at an unfair disadvantage from birth.

Surroundings, schooling, role models, job opportunities are all poor and moving out of the “manors” is extremely difficult.
Plan B grew up in the East end of London, left school with few qualifications but found music and acting. Others, like the boy in this song/sketch, are not so lucky and get drawn into the gang culture by ‘olders’ – older peers who scout for new gangmembers.

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This line, similar to Tupac’s ‘When thugs cry’, depicts the tears of a thug to be murky – dirty, dark etc.

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She takes a hit (of heroine) before she goes out to prostitute in order to satisfy her heroine addiction. It’s a vicious cycle she lives.

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Heroine users feel an intense sense of euphoria. This took away the pain of the abuse, which she soon became dependent on

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Although she was no longer being abused, the memory of the abuse lived on.

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The song’s protagonist is in a situation with only one way out, which is presumably death.
The ‘one place left to go’ could imply the afterlife – either heaven, or hell.

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Potential long term consequences of child abuse include drug abuse.

Plan B says that because of her childhood, the trauma she had been subjected to increased the risk of her being caught up in this type of lifestyle

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The song’s protagonist, Michelle, is in a situation with only one way out, which is presumably death.
The ‘one place left to go’ could imply the afterlife – either heaven, or hell.

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This could mean one of two things.

Left or right – Politics
In politics, there is a spectrum with left and right on either side. He referred to cutbacks in the previous line, so could be talking about the recent budget cuts the UK has experienced and blaming these for his job loss. So he could be wondering who to vote for in the next election – a left or right wing party.

Left or right – Bad or Good, Heaven or Hell
Now that he has lost his job, he does not know what to do. Does he turn to illegal business? – this is ‘left’, as left is depicted as the devil’s side/hand.
In christian art, the righteous are depicted to go through the right door to heaven at judgement.

(Memling,Hans. Triptych with the Last Judgement)

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Reference to London, England.
England has a monarchy headed by Queen Elizabeth II
[who was quite a looker when she was younger, see below]

“the Queen bumping Klashnekoff” this wordplay may also refer to the Queen listening to UK mc Klashnekoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGJd1LwQ64

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