Brooklyn(Explicit) - Mos Def

Hey hey ha ha say what say what
说什么说什么
Ha ha bust it yo
开枪吧
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
有时候我觉得我没有伴侣
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
有时候我觉得自己是唯一的朋友
Is the city I live in is beautiful brooklyn

Long as I live here believe I'm on fire hey
只要我还活在这世上相信我热情似火
Cuz its the b the r the o the o k

L y n is the place where I stay
纽约是我的归宿
The b the r the o the o k

Best in the world and all usa
全世界最好的全美国最好的
Its the b to the r the o the o k

L y n is the place where I stay
纽约是我的归宿
The b to the r the o the o k

Place where I rest is on my born day
我安息的地方是我出生的日子
Bust it sometimes I sit back and just reflect
有时候我会沉默不语静静思考
Watch the world go by and my thought connect
看着世界缓缓流逝我的思绪交汇在一起
I think about the time past and the time to come
我想起过去和未来的时光
Reminesce on bed stuy when I was pride and young
在床上回想起我年少时的骄傲
I used to try and come to the neighborhood function
我以前常常来参加邻里聚会
Throw on my izod say a little something
穿上我的Izod说点什么吧
When I was just a youngin before the days of thuggin
在我还小的时候就开始做街头买卖
How me and charlie chims
我和Charlie尽情摇摆
Aiyyo what

I'm only buggin
我只是心烦意乱
Fast forward nine now I gotta team my seed
一往无前现在我要组建我的团队
I must proceed at gods speed to perform my deed
我必须全速前进完成我的使命
Livin the now space and time round the nine to five
活在当下朝九晚五的时空里
For as long as I'm alive paw I got to strive
只要我还活着我就得努力奋斗
I ain't sittin roadside that ain't harder to plan
我不会坐在路边计划起来易如反掌
I'm out here for my fam doin all that I can
我来这里是为了我的家人我竭尽所能
I love my city sweet and gritty in land to outskirts
我爱我的城市不管是陆地还是郊区
Nickname bucktown cuz we grown to outburst
我们的绰号是巴克城因为我们已经到了爆发的年纪
Philosophy redefine us touch mines I touch back
哲学重新定义我们触碰我的心我回应
Walk the streets like a sweet and get beat like drum tracks
像糖果一样走在大街上被人打得落花流水
Catch no shakes over jakes
我不会沉迷于那种东西
Boomp boomp

We bust back
我们奋起反击
Bring the marty to your face wit no place to run back
带着兄弟来到你面前无处可逃
I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump back
我来自贫民窟创作了动听的音乐
This ain't a game clown play ya james brown and jump back
这不是闹着玩的小丑扮演好你的詹姆斯布朗然后闪开
What you want jack young cats stash they jums at
你想要什么年轻人把东西藏起来
Draw they guns back momma screams where she sons at
把他们的枪收回来妈妈对着她的孩子大喊大叫
Tryin to hunt that recurring dream of high stakes
试图追寻那反复出现的高额赌注的梦想
The fourth largest first artist brooklyn is the place
第四大第一艺术家布鲁克林是这个地方
Settled by the judge many years ago
很多年前就被法官解决了
Three billion strong and here we go
三十亿人我们开始吧
*part two*

Good morninnnnnnnnngg vietnam
早上好越南
Ha

Back up back up back up back up back up
退后
*repeated in background*

Yo sometimes I sit back reflect on the place that I live at
有时我静静坐着反思我生活的地方
Unlike any place I ever been at
不像我去过的任何地方
The home of big gats deep dish hammer rim caps
豪车的主场深盘锤式轮毂盖
Have a mishap push ya wig back
遭遇不幸把你的假发往后一推
Where you go to get the fresh trim at
你去哪里买新的装饰
Four on the jake got the timb rack
枪上装了四把枪准备好了
Blue collars metro carding it
蓝领阶层都在调查
Thugs mobbin it form partnership
暴徒群起而攻之
Increase armorment street pharmacist
增加铠甲街头药师
Deep consequence when you seek sleek ornaments
当你寻找时尚的装饰时后果很严重
You get caught rode the white horse and can't get off
你被抓住骑着白马无法脱身
Big dogs that trick off just get sent off

They shoebox stash is all they seeds gotta live off
他们的鞋盒里塞满钞票这就是他们赖以生存的种子
Its real yo but still yo its love here
这是真的但我依然爱你
And its felt by anybody that come here
每个来这里的人都能感受到
Out of towners take the train plane and bus here
外地人坐火车飞机坐公交车来这里
Must be something that they really want here
一定是他们心中所求
One year as a resident deeper sentiment
在这里住了一年感情更深
Shoutout go brooklyn they representin it
大声呐喊去布鲁克林他们代表着一切
Sittin on they front stoop sippin guinesses
坐在他们的前门门廊上啜饮美酒
Usin native dialect in they sentences
在他们的句子中使用当地方言