Jay-Z - Streets Is Watching - Scarface
Look if I shoot you I'm brainless
看吧 如果我射击你 我就是一个愚蠢的人
But if you shoot me then you're famous
但是如果你射击我 你就出名了
What's a ni**a to do
一个黑鬼要做什么
When the streets is watching blocks keep clocking
当所有街道的人都在监视
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
等待着你心碎 等待着你犯第一个错误
Can't ignore it that's the fastest way to get extorted
不能忽视 这是占领的最快的道路
But my time is money at twenty-five I can't afford it
但是我的时间很珍贵 25美元 我支付不起
Beef assorted like Godiva chocolates
混合的牛肉就像Godiva巧克力
Niggas you bought it I pull the slide back and cock it
黑人们你们买了 我悄悄地放回原处 然后大摇大摆地走开
Plan aborted you and your mans get a pass
计划失败了 你和其他人都通过了
This rhyme you're operating on b**ch time
这种韵律 你练习了很多事
Y'all niggas ain't worth my shells all y'all niggas
你们这些黑鬼不值得我的珠宝
Trying to do is hurt my sales and stop trips to John Meneill
试着做这些破坏我的交易 阻止和John Meneill进行交易
The type to start a beef then run to the cops
他们想从牛肉开始 然后跑进警察局
When I see you in the street got one in the drop
当我看见你失落地站在街上
When I'd rather be on tour getting a hundred a pop
当我宁愿去旅行 然后听到了一百声枪响
Taking pictures with some b**ches in front of the drop
在面对失败的时候带走一些坏女人的照片
The streets is watching
很多街道的人都在监视
When the streets is watching
当所有街道的人都在监视
Blocks keep clocking
街区的钟表还在计时
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
等待着你心碎 等待着你犯第一个错误
Can't ignore it
不能忽视
Now it's hard not to kill niggas
现在很难不去杀一个黑鬼
It's like a full time job not to kill niggas can't chill
就像全职工作也不会要了黑鬼的命 不能颤栗
The streets is watching
所有街道的人都在监视
When you froze your arms
当你冻结你的武器
Niggas want to test you whenyour gun goes warm
黑鬼想检查一下你 当你的枪走火时
Can't get caught with your feet up
不可能抓住你
Got to keep your heat up
让你保持你的热烈
Sweet niggas running 'round swearing sh*t is sweeter
亲切的黑人一直在跑着 发着誓说一切会变得更加有乐趣
Once you're tagged lame the game is follow the leader
一旦你被标注上残疾人的印记 这场比赛就会跟随着领导人
Everybody want a piece of your scrilla
每个人都想拥有你的scrilla
So you gotta keep it realer
所以你要保持更加真实
Kidnap niggas want to steal you
有些黑人想偷偷地盗取你的东西
Broke niggas don't want no cash they just want to kill ya
心碎的黑鬼不想要现金 他们只想杀了你
For the name niggas don't know the rules
对于一个名字来说 黑人不知道规矩
Disrespecting the game want you to blow your cool
对比赛不尊重 想要你发火
Force your hand of course that man's plotting
用武力束缚着你 当然这是男人的阴谋
Smarten up the streets is watching it's on
变得漂亮 这个街道的人还是在监视
When the streets is watching
当所有街道的人都在监视
Blocks keep clocking
街区的钟表还在计时
Waiting for you to break make your first mistake
等待着你去打破 等待着你犯第一个错误
Can't ignore
不能忽视
My street mentality: flip bricks forever
我对街道的心态就是永远用砖头攻击
Know me and money we like armed co-defendants
了解我和钱 我们就像武装了的共同被告人
Ni**a we stick together
黑人还在一起坚持
Sh*t whatever for this cheddar ran my game into the ground
不管这种切达干酪是如何进入到我的游戏然后落在地面
Hustle harder until secret indictment time came around
抢夺是更困难的直到秘密的控告时间来到
And you can look up and down the streets
你左右打量着这个街道
And I can't be found
我不能被发现
Put in twenty-four hour shifts but that ain't me now
24小时轮班 但是现在不是我
Got a face too easy to trace
有张很容易被发现的脸
Niggas mouths got slow leaks
黑鬼把秘密泄露
Had to hire a team of workers
不得不雇佣一批工人
Couldn't play those streets
不能在这些街道上比赛
See out of space like Mercury
看到像水银一样的空间
You jerkin me Hectic
你脸红地穿着我的短上衣
Had to call upon my wolves to send niggas the message
不得不召回我的狼群然后给黑鬼送条信息
I said this: 'Let's play fair and we can stay here
我说 我们要公平地玩 然后我们才可以留在这里
I'm trying to transform you boys to men like daycare'
我想像托儿所一样把你们这些男孩变成男人
Ay there's money to be made and niggas got the picture
黑鬼们了解情况 知道有钱可赚了
Stopped playing with my paper and we got richer
不再贴糊墙纸 我们赚到了更多的钱
Then hard times fell upon us
然后我们经历过了困难时期
Half of my staff had warrants
我一半的员工都被授权了
The other half in the casket lay dormant
而另一部分的人已经在棺材中长眠
I felt like life was cheating me
我感觉生活在欺骗我
For the first time in my life I was getting money
我生活中第一次赚到了钱
But it was like my conscience was eating me
但是我感觉我没有了良心
Was this a lesson God teaching me Was he saying that
这是上帝给我的一个教训吗 是他说的吗
I was playing the game straight
我直接玩着这个游戏
From Hell from which few came back
从地狱中 有几个人能够回来
Like bad coke pimp or die was my mind frame bad
就像坏了的可口可乐 皮条客或许会死去 还是我心态不好
Was niggas thinking simplify was turning coc*ine crack
是黑鬼想法简单吗 把***想成简单的事
Ain't a whole lot of brain to that
心里没有想太多
Just trying to maintain a stack
只是想维持一个堆叠的状态
And not collide like two trains that's on the same track
而不是像两辆火车在同一轨道上相撞一样
But get my life together like the oils I bring back
但是我的生活就像带回的石油一样
In the bottom of the pot where the water gets hot
在锅的底部 水都变热了
Got my transporter take it across the border then stop
我的运输车越过边境然后停下来
To set up shop with a quarter of rock
然后用四分之一的石头建立一个商店
Here's the plan:
计划是这样的
For three straight weeks
连续三周
Niggas slaughtered the block
黑鬼消灭了一切障碍物
But you know the game is food
但是你知道游戏就是食物
It f**ked up me and my dudes
它让我和我的哥们变得乱糟糟
One drought can wipe a ni**a out
马上就会消灭掉黑鬼
Faster than the cops
比警察还快
And this unstable way of living just had to stop
这种不稳定的生活方式不得不停止
Half of my niggas got time
我一半的家伙有时间
We done real things
我们过真实的生活
By '94 became the subject of half of y'all niggas rhymes
94年的时候我们就成为黑鬼新闻中的话题 一半的头条都是我们
Public apologies to the families of those caught up in my sh*t
公开道歉 使我们的家庭陷入了困境
But that's the life for us lost souls brought up in this sh*t
但是这就是生活 我们在迷失自己的情况下长大
The life and times of a ni**a mind
一个黑鬼的时间和生命
Excited with crime
兴奋地犯罪
And the lavish luxuries that just excited my mind
奢华的奢侈品刺激着我的神经
I figured"sh*t why risk myself I just write it in rhymes
我认为 为什么要让我自己冒险 我只是在写诗
And let you feel me and if you don't like it then fine"
让你感觉我 如果你真的不喜欢
The mind state of a ni**a who boosted the crime rate
黑鬼的精神状态提高了犯罪率
So high in one city they send National Guards to get me
如此兴奋 在一个城市中 他们让国民自卫军来攻击我