B-Boy (Original) - Macklemore
Ladies and gentlemans
女士们 先生们
This an ode to the B-boys B-girls
这是一首献给街舞男女的颂歌
The people out there
世人都会
Who do it for the love
为爱奉献
And believe me
请相信我
I'm not dissin' anybody out there
我并非恶意排斥
Who's trying to get paid
他们为此获取报酬的行为
I'm trying to get paid too
因为我也很想得到报酬
But I got one question
但我有个问题
Whatever happened to the heart
不管是什么
That pumped the passion into the art
因艺术而激发内心的热情
The entity that gave you
它赋予你的真实感
The energy to wanna start
那份蠢蠢欲动的激情
Breakdancing I'm battling
我接受霹雳舞挑战
Doing it at the park
就在公园表演
Where the mission was expression
在这里展现艺术
Not only to top charts
不仅仅是为了上榜出名
I don't know what happened
我不知道怎么回事
Wanting to blow rap
就想滔滔不绝说下去
You lose soul and passion
你失去了灵魂和激情
For the flows and the tracks
随波逐流 不搞创新
Radio's lacking controlled by fascists
缺少推广 又被暴虐分子掌控
Assholes doing damage
会有混蛋搞破坏
But we're gonna take it back
但我们一定会夺回阵地
Before beats to a hundred G's a pop
在打败众多音乐牛人之前
All you needed
你只需要
Was a tabletop and a beatbox
有个舞台来表演口技
Hip-hop without the B-boy
没有街舞男孩的嘻哈艺术
Is like shelltoes only having two stripes
就像不成形的贝壳头
Hip-hop we're freedom-fighting
嘻哈音乐 我们为自由而战
Graffiti-writing party types
致力于涂鸦创作的艺术
That recite and organize
以吟诵为主 组织成段
And revitalize our rhyming
将押韵演绎到极致
'Til the group of the moneymakers systems
我们要让创富志的人
Knows that the industry
知道这个领域
Can eventually get served
并最终获益
Breakers of my verses spinning up
我的节奏劲爆 声调渐高
A revolution throughout our words
我们的歌词丰富多彩
If you really want it come on get it
如果你想感受它的魅力 就来挑战
Cause I've got it
因为我早已驾轻就熟
I'm honestly paying homage
我诚恳地向你致敬
To forgotten pioneers
被遗忘的先驱
Of this culture that are giving them
这种艺术赋予他们
Props and learn
力量和学习的机会
If you wanna earn your stripes
如果你想出风头
You gotta be able to rock this mic
一定得会玩转麦克风
And set cyphers alike
演出独一无二的风格
The feeling to put in everything
这种感觉会征服一切
You got in the circle
你就是中心
Will never be documented
永远不会被白粉圈子
In the Coke commercial
有案可查
We be the baddest
我们痞气无敌
Now B-boys B-girls
俊男靓女们
Bring it back to the block
让街舞重返街头
Lemme see you get ill
我要看着你衰弱
For real pop and lock
才能成为真正的赢家
If you record without thought then stop
如果你头脑空白 就别去录歌
Because I'll serve your whole album
我会给你提供整张专辑
With the goddamn beatbox
还有很牛的口技表演
Without thought it just happens
没想到就这样发生
If you gotta think to feel
如果你想去感受
That's not rapping that's acting
那不是说唱 那是种表演
I'm from a land of backpacks and fat cats
我来自权势之流的地盘
MCs with sick raps
还有许多表演低俗说唱的歌手
Who serve those that are wack
他们为这些怪人服务
It's a way of life
它是种生活方式
I put all my energy into the melody
我把所有精力都投入到旋律中
On the mp3s until the death of me
创造标准音质 至死方休
Record exceptionally especially
尤其注重录音
Whenever I be monumentally
每当我拿着麦克风
Grammatically killing the mic
尽情发挥才艺时
I tell my DJs cranking that music
都会告诉DJ 放出那段音乐
Keeping 'em moving when the beat plays
劲爆的旋律倾泻而出
Staying into it
跟上节奏表演
Breaking and grooving and MCs they
现场动感而迷人 那些说唱歌手
Thinking that you should always pursue
认为你应该追求
In what their dreams make
他们梦想中的境界
Taking from lucid to really do it
保持头脑清醒 投入实践
All the people gotta make their money
人人都要赚钱
And the way to make money
而赚钱的方法
Is to get inside of the industry
就是投身到这个行业
Take it on the radio flow
让这艺术从广播中倾泻而出
So you can go blow we get a car
你可以去给我们弄辆车
And a crib up on MTV
在音乐频道占据一席之地
But in the end what's classic
但究竟什么是经典
Radio bubblegum
广播摇滚舞曲
Or a voice filled with passion
还是充满激情的声音
To my real hip-hop heads
向嘻哈巨头致敬
Please stand up
请站起来
Cause the only people
因为唯一能够
That can preserve this art is us
让这门艺术留存的人是我们
Sing
大声唱出来