£2 Chicken N Chips has long been a cultural favourite amongst teenagers and children from all races living in inner city London. I first fell in love with £2 Chicken n Chips when I started secondary school, I had to save up for the whole week because I only received 0.30p a day to spend on what I liked from my Mum. I was on free school dinners so my Mum would always ay that I had no reason to have extra money to spend on sweets when I had free lunch in school and dinner at home. £2 Chicken n chips to me meant ultimate freedom of choice lol Chicken shops are the place to link up with friends after school and discuss the happenings.
I made this track because chicken shops played a part in developing my cultural identity. If you look in any inner city town centre after 3:30pm on a week day they will be surely packed with school kids hustling for that 2 piece chicken n chips meal.
I wanted the video to have a real sense of my local community in it so I set the location of the music video in the most on demand chicken shop in woolwich 'Super 1 Fried Chicken'. Abdi the manager also runs a Saturday football training and mentoring initiative for the local teenagers in the area. This shop is more than just a place to buy chicken and chips but it acts as a community centre for school kids to also feel safe. I posted a message on my instagram saying free chicken and chips and supermalt bottles 3pm in woolwich!
On the day of the video shoot over 100 school kids turned up in excitement, I brought over 100 two piece chicken and chips boxes with drinks and handed them out freely for those who partook in the shoot.
It was truly a celebration of our beloved £2 Chicken n Chips!
lyrics
£2 Chicken and Chips Lyrics
(AB)
yo brother, what you saying,
(Friend)
I’m good what you saying
(AB)
I’m feeling a bit hungry you know bruv, Ive got two pound though.
(Friend)
What can you get for two pounds?
(Ab)
Two pound? Only one thing init bruv, Chick chicken,
(Friend)
6 Wings,
(AB)
I might even get a chicken fillet burger bruv and put the cheese on the top and tell the boss man put that burger sauce in there!
(Friend)
Hash brown?
(AB)
I’ve only got two pounds though
Verse 1
When the first school bell rings no long ting,
whole squad in the chicken shop want to hundred hot wings,
if you ain't got no burger sauce I ain't buying,
give me strawberry Marinda I'll be licking my finger.
Ay bro how much for that 2 pound Meal?
I have £1.50 can you give me a deal ? he said "I'll give you one hot wings and chips" I said add a drink too!
but don't give me the drumstick give me the succulent thigh piece. I don't need a fork for my chips I am an African I yam my chips like this.
I go chop am, I go chop am.
I munch my chicken like an Afrikan boy I don't much chicken like no white boy.
Chorus
Nothing tastes better than this,
My 2 pounds chicken n chips,
you can have a two course meal 2 pounds ghetto food,
(Repeat again)
Verse 2
In my opinion I never be feeling em, I got my sound in Australia all the way down to Syria,
I got squad in Algeria met some brothers in Switzerland,
I am about that life waiting you be saying,
Tougher than an elephant,
never be irrelevant,
Blacker than a PS3,
full tank of melanin,
I'm about to start killing them,
float your head with some helium, I'm pumped up with adrenaline freaky girl we be fondling
(AB)
yeah man and I was like ah ah! Extra hot wings. God is good.
Its funny man, you can’t go to waterloo, London bridge. If you ever tried to buy chicken and chips in London Bridge.
(Friend)
Four pound.
(Chorus)
Nothing tastes better than this,
My 2 pounds chicken n chips,
you can have a two course meal 2 pounds ghetto food,
(Repeat again)
(Ab)
Yeah Spell it with a K
The cultural ambassador,
Afrikan Boy
yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don’t know what kind of chicken, pigeon they cook in them chicken shops
but I dey chop’am I dye chop’am
Afrikan Boy’s pepper pepper chicken shop coming soon.
BOSA!
credits
released July 31, 2016
Production by Drew Kwame,
Lyrics by Afrikan Boy
