hello你earth (front lines)
Yo, the saga begins, beget war
我的傳奇,開始於無休無止的戰爭(完美的比喻,將街頭生活喻做戰爭)
I draw first blood be the first to set it off
我總是身先士卒,無數的傷口,無數次鮮血直流(first blood,set it off都是著名動作片名)
My cause, tap all jaws lay down laws
換來的是我崇高的地位,萬人之上,我掌控這方小世界的規則
We takin what's yours we do jerks rush the doors
我們就是強盜,會剝奪你的所有(這裡歌詞錯誤,應該是“do joox”,意為強盜行徑)
Here come the deez tryin to make breeze and guns toss
不會只是嘴上功夫,我們直接和你械鬥
In full force, my team'll go at your main source
全力以赴,我們直接搗了你的老窩
We're not tourists, hit bosses and take hostage
我的9毫米口徑(這裡歌詞錯誤,應該是“my 9' torious'”)不是吃素的,擒賊先擒王,讓你眾叛親離
Your whole setup, from the ground up we lock shit
我們能地遁,從地下飛起,一槍要了你的命(比喻Mobb Deep從地下到地上,掌控說唱圈)
Blood flood your eye, fuck up your optics
從彈孔流出的血,弄瞎你的眼睛
Switch to killer instincts for niggaz pop shit
因為我是暗殺流行說唱歌手的殺手
Yo nigga Noyd what's the topic Nine pound we rocked in
Noyd老鐵(Big Noyd,Mobb Deep二人的好基友,也是很牛的說唱歌手),要直入主題,我們帶的可是九口徑(槍,借指他們牛X的說唱技術)
96 strike back with more hot shit
96年我們歸來,帶來更多的燥樂
Illuminate my team'll glow like, radiation
我們紅得發紫,激光把我們的前路照得一片光亮
With no time for patient, or complication
你已無藥可救,並發症(指幫派內訌)讓你病入膏肓
Let's get it done right, my click airtight
但我們的幫派卻風光無限
Trapped in a never ending gunfight so niggaz lose stripes
街頭的槍戰永遠不會停息,同胞們因此在罪惡的道路上越走越遠
Or lose life, jail niggaz sendin kites to the street
甚至失去生命,難道你們不知道那些牢裡的兄弟是怎麼進去的? !
Over some beef that wasn't fully cooked, finish em off
勸你最好打典好我們,大事化小,小事化了
Well done meat, that said twenty-two slug to your head
否則我會給你秀點見血的,子彈從22口徑的槍中射出,直接命中命門
Travel all theway down to your leg
從頭頂射入,從腳底射出,穿透你的身體
Aiyyo it's hell on earth, whose next or gonna be first
這裡是人間地獄,你隨時都可能斃命
The projects is front lines, and the enemy is one time
我們的住所就是前線,而敵人就是條子(one time常指條子)
I ain't gotta tell you
情況已不需我明說
It's right in front of your eyes [X 2]
因為亂象,就發生在你眼前
We wreck the QBC, nigga rep yours it's all love
我們代表著皇后橋(紐約最混亂的街區之一),居民們互相愛護的地方(反義,諷刺)
Milli stacked down, heavenly guarded by hollow tip slug
從小人物做起,憑著槍桿子一步步走向神壇
Then crack down, on wannabe thugs adapt to gat sound
我曾經以買藥為生,夢想做槍林彈雨中生活的匪徒
And bow down, slow the fuck up, see how my foul now
熟練地趴下,遁走,憑著技術逍遙法外
Articulate, hittin body parts to start shiftin shit
不是跟你吹,我身上任何地方都能藏藥
Never hesitant , it's the crack game unlimited
從不會慫包,因為我已習慣賣藥的生活
Summon rasta we can do this, forever infinite
永世呼麻,我們和Rasta教徒一個德行
Then reminesce, twenty years later how we was gettin it
我想二十年後,我們會回憶這段崢嶸歲月
Either with me go against the grain you better hit me
如果你反對種植(麻),我就會打你
Leggin me or robbin me niggaz better body me
把你打到殘疾,甚至搶劫你,辦了你
Cause it's a small world and niggaz, talkin like bitches
因為在這個小世界,兄弟們已經慫的像個娘們
Bitches singin like snitches, pointin you out in pictures
而女人卻最為危險(引用《教父》,結合上文,也指小人最為陰險),如果她們告密,會把你底細抖得一干二淨
Cause she rep the QBC faithfully, playa hatin me
因為她們已經義無反顧地背叛了我們,還在別的幫派嚼我們舌根
All that bullshit, is just makin me
但這些蛋逼事,只會讓我越挫越勇
More the better, then concentrate on gettin chedda
更好的是,我會更精於我的事業
If shorty set you up you better dead her, I told you
我跟你講,如果真有小人這麼做了,你最好把他辦了
Shape and moldyou, Sun you, then I hold you
給你洗腦,然後把你控制,做成傀儡
Like a pimp mind control you double edge blow you
就像皮條客調教下屬一樣調教你
It'll be I, like I'm supposed to, the click is coastal
我會這麼做,因為我們就像雞尾酒
International to local, Bacardi mix physically fix
從當地小酒混成國際名酒,就像混合的百加得
Hit you with shit, that'll leave a loose nigga stiff
把你打的稀巴爛,教你如何做人
Probably thick, Son I solved em
這才叫狠,我平常就是這麼解決敵人
Pulled him in my world then evolved him to chaos
把他們拉入我的世界,使他們神誌不清
Walk the beat like , around the way cops the average pitstop
我的說唱在節奏上游走,可以媲美我躲條子時的走位
QBCity GodFather Part III, Gotti Gambino
皇后橋的兄弟:Godfather,Part III,Gotti Gambino(人名)
And Ty Nitty, Scarface rest in peace
還有Ty Nitty,和我已逝的兄弟Scarface
whose next or gonna be first
你隨時都可能斃命
The projects is front lines, and the enemy is one time
我們的住所就是前線,而敵人就是條子(one time常指條子)
I ain't gotta tell you
情況已不需我明說
It's right in front of your eyes[X 2]
因為亂象,就發生在你眼前
Yo, the heavy metal king hold big shit, with spare clips
用槍的兄弟,子彈一定會備足
You seein clips when the mac spit your top got split
當你看到子彈飛出的同時,它已經射入你的頭頂
Layin dead with open eyes close his eyelids
倒在地上,將眼皮蓋上,又失去了一個兄弟
Turn off his lights switch to darkness, cause deep in the abyss
把他的世界由光明變為黑暗,街頭生活就是殘酷如深淵
Is street life, blood on my kicks, shit on my knife
街頭生活就是:敵人的血從我的匕首滴下,滴到我的腳上
Youse the wild child, kid cold turnin men into mice
我從小就是個瘋狂的人,身邊孩子的冷眼相看讓我如此兇殘
I was born to take power leave my mark on this planet
我生來就想要奪取權利,這是本屬於我的東西
The Phantom of Crime Rap, niggaz is left stranded
匪幫說唱的陰影,就是兄弟們陷入的困境(人們被西岸匪幫說唱中描寫的香車美人的“暴徒生活”所迷惑,於是想要成為匪徒,使黑人區愈發黑暗)
Shut down your operation, closed for business
給我註銷你的廠牌,停了你的事業(廠牌指當時如日中天,號稱“匪幫說唱帝國”的Death Row)
Leave a foul taste in your mouth, like Guinness
否則我會在你的嘴裡留下骯髒的東西,就像吉尼斯酒一樣
POW niggaz is found MIA
敵人們被我辦了,卻只會被認定為失踪(匪幫常和警察串通)
We move like the special forces, green beret
我們擁有特種部隊般的力量
Heavily around my throat, I don't play
戴上大金鍊,即使它會束縛我喉嚨,使我呼吸困難(大金鍊是80年代說唱歌手的必備,90年後逐漸過氣,Prodigy在此借指自己想要做曾經那樣淳樸的說唱樂,即使這會使自己粉絲少掉渣)
Shit brand new, back in eighty-nine, the same way
去他的新潮流,我就熱衷於所謂89年的老土
The God P walk with a limp see, but simply
God P的眼神微弱,但卻直入主題
To simplify shit, no man can go against me
把說唱逐漸簡單化,卻無人去阻擋(Prodigy認為西岸說唱樂歌詞沒有營養,卻依靠流行的旋律紅遍全國讓他很氣憤)
Test me you must be bent G, don't tempt me
你想挑戰我?丫個假匪幫,別不識好歹和我做對
I had this full clip for so long, it needs to empty
正好我槍裡子彈寂寞了,需要讓他們出去溜溜
The reason why it full for so long, cause I don't waste shit
為什麼他們會寂寞?因為我不輕易出手(有小弟幫他做事嘛)
You properly hit, blood in your mouth, so you could taste it
你被我的子彈折磨,血在你嘴裡,你可以嚐嚐是什麼味道(殺了他不如慢慢折磨)
Quiet as kept, I lay back and watch the world spin
外面依然安靜,我躺下來,看著世界在轉(自己就是中心)
I hear thugs, claimin that they gonna rob the Mobb
我聽說有些小子想要搶劫我們Mobb Deep
When they see us, I tell you what black, here's the issue
但當他們看到我,我會告訴他們,什麼是黑(陰三)
It's a package deal, you rob me, you take this message
這是個交易,你搶劫了我,你也就差不多完了
Along with that, I ain't your average cat
你要記住,我不是任你擺佈的Hello Kitty
Fuck rap, I'm tryin to make CREAM and that's that
去你的說唱,我要獲掌控這世界的一切(做出像C.R.E.A.M.這樣的歌),這就是我的目標(而這首歌即是如此)
Whatever it takes however it gots to go down
無論代價如何,我都會一直堅持
Four mikes on stage a motherfuckin four pound
4個麥在台上,因為我一人不止能頂仨
Speakers leakin out sound and niggaz leakin on the ground
我的歌會被人們傳頌
I could truely care less the God will get his
我從不在乎上帝給我降下多少磨難
Regardless blow for blow let's find out who wear hardest
因為無論是多大的打擊,我都會堅強的應對
This rap artist used to be a stickup artist
有的說唱“藝術家”更應該被叫做“抄襲藝術家”
Sometimes I test myself see if I still got it
但我不是,我會經常鍛煉自己,讓自己保持真實
A live nigga stay on point never diss
一個真正的說唱歌手從不會被針對(因為沒有理由使他被diss)
Regard shit or forget the essence, from which I emerged
因為他不會唱爛歌,而且不會忘本
P is sick, so save that bullshit for the burbs
P就是個廢物,我都懶得鳥他
Live up to my word, if I got beef, niggaz comin in herds
就像我的詞說的一樣,如果我被針對了,就會有一大群兄弟來給我撐腰
We flush through your click get purged
我們會反殺,把你的幫派滅個精光