MC's Act Like They Don't Know
Clap your hands everybody
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if you got what it takes
大家拍子打起来
'Cause I'm KRS and I'm on the mic
如果觉得够嗨
and Premier's on The Breaks
因为在下KRS现在我拿着麦
Goin' out to the hardcore hip hop
还有大神DJ Primier操控着节拍
Goin' out to the hardcore hip hop
向着硬核嘻哈出发
Of course we don't flip flop
向着硬核嘻哈出发
If you don't know me by now
当然,我们绝不拖拉
I doubt you'll ever know me
现在如果你还不知道我的大名
I never won a Grammy, I won't win a Tony
我想你再也不会认识我了
But I'm not the only MC keepin' it real
我从没得过格莱美,也没有得过托尼奖杯(美国的音乐剧奖项)
When I grab the mic to smash a rapper,
但是,在keep it real的这件事上,我并不是唯一的MC
girls go, "Ill"
当我拿着麦克风暴虐一个rapper
Check the time as I rhyme, it's 1995
围观的女孩子们惊呼碉堡
Whenever I arrive the party gets liver
当我发功押韵,看看时间,这是1995年
Flow with the master rhymer
只要我现身派对,整个气氛变得很沸
as I leave behind
跟着押韵大师的flow一起陶醉
The video rapper, you know, the chart climber
让那些人难以望其项背
Clapper, down goes another rapper
录MV的rapper,你懂的,还有些打榜单的歌手
Onto another matter, punch up the data, Blastmaster
一锤定音,又一个rapper被我搞定
Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
再接着下一单,看看账单上打出的数据,活生生一台Blastmaster
Call up KRS, I'm guaranteed to rip a party
知识至上,它高于几乎所有人
Flat top, braids, bald heads or knotty dreads
呼唤KRS,我保证让派对很有气氛
There once was a story about a man named Jed
不管是平头,扎辫头,光头还是脏辫头
But now Jed is dead, all his kids instead
曾经有个故事,是关于Jed的(应该是圣经里的所罗门)
Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head
不过现在Jed已经不在,只剩下他的子孙
Word, what go around come around I figure
还想着从他们脑袋里搞些押韵词汇出来
Now we got white kids callin' themselves *****s
有句话,叫做三十年河东,我觉得有道理
The tables turned as the crosses burned
现在有些白人小子自称是尼格了
Remember You Must Learn
十字架被烧毁,早就今非昔比
About the styles I flip and how wild I get
切记切记,你要学习学习
I go on like a space age rocket ship
看我怎么玩得有范儿,看我怎么狂野不羁緛
You could be a mack, a pimp, hustler or player
我就好比是太空时代的火箭飞船
But make sure live you is a **** rhyme sayer
你可以是个浪荡客,皮条客,古惑仔或者公子哥
MCs act like they don't know
但一定要确保现场演出时你是最碉堡的那个
This is what you waited all year for
MC们都假装若无其事
The hardcore, that's what KRS is here for
这就是你们苦等一年的杰作
Big up Grand Wizard Theodore, gettin' ill
超级硬核,这也是为什么我KRS要来这
If you see then ya saw I'm in your grill with mad skill
怒赞DJ Grand Wizard Theodore,渐渐燃起来了
MC's can only battle with rhymes that got punchlines
如果你看到那么你已经见识过,超级疯狂的技术就在你的面前呈现
Let's battle to see who headlines
那些MC们只能用有punchlines的押韵来battle
Instead of flow for flow let's go show for show
有本事我们来靠谁上头条热门来battle
Toe for toe, yo, you better act like you know
别为了flow而flow,我们来个现场的show
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly
针锋相斗,yo,你最好表现得是个内行都看得懂
They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly
太多的MC把这个词看得太轻了
It might be the fact that they express wackness
他们连一小群人都无法带动,哪怕只是一丁点效果
Let me show ya whose ass is the blackest
可能是因为他们是表现弱鸡来的
I flip a script a little bit, you ride the tip and ****
让我来展示谁得肤色才是最黑来的
Too sick to get with it, admit you bit
我稍微改动一点剧本套路,你就gao潮叠出
your style is counterfeit
根本把持不住,稍微承认点吧
Now tone it down a bit
你的风格都是矫揉造作
My title you will never get, I'm too intelligent
收敛点吧
I'll send your family my sentiments, my style is toxic
我的名号,你永远都得不到,因为我的智慧无人可及
When I rock and shock and hip hop it unlock your head
我会想你的家人传达我的想法,我的风格是剧毒
I knock it
当我疯狂摇摆,疯狂嘻哈,解锁你的头脑
It split quick from the lyric
我轻轻一敲
Direct hit, perfect fit, you can't get with it
它就与歌词分离
MCs act like they don't know
直接命中,完美匹配,你根本无法驾驭
Some MC's don't like the KRS but they must respect him
MC们都假装若无其事
Cos they know this kid gets all up in they rectum
有些MC并不喜欢KRS但是他们必须得尊重他
Slappin' and selectin' em, checkin' em, disrespectin' em
因为他们知道这孩子让他们翻肠倒胃(?)
Just deckin' em, deckin' em, deck-in' em
扇他们,挑选他们,检查他们,鄙视他们
Who in their right mind can ****c a style like mine
狂揍他们,狂扁他们,捅他们
I design rhyme and get mine all the time
如果有人路线正确还可以模仿出我的风格
MC's standin' on the sidelines, always dissin'
我精心设计韵脚并且永远妙笔生花
When I roll up and rush their crew, they start *****in'
MC们只能靠边站,喋喋不休语出不逊
I don't burn, I don't freeze, yet some MC's
让我出场丢翻他们的团队,他们就开始嘴贱
Believe they could tango with the likes of these
我不火爆,也不冷酷,然而还有些MC
Cross your t's and dot your i's whenever I arrive
还相信他们可以沆瀣一气浑水摸鱼(?)
Wide, magnified, live like the ocean tide
我随时到场,你们的字母就得改成小写
You ****, you lied, I reside like Artifacts
我活得狂野而强大,像海中的洋流一般
On the Wrong Side of Da Tracks, electrified
你很吊吗,你骗人,我就像是一件工艺品,如此存在(Artifacts也是一个组合)
Comin' around the mountain, you run and hide
在唱片错误的一边(Artifacts的经典歌曲),嗨起来
Hopin' your defence mechanism
围着山打转,你逃跑躲开
can divert my heat-seeking lyricism
躲进你的防御装置
As I spark mad izm
可以躲过我的热追踪式歌词抒情
The 1996 lyrical style's what I give 'em
当我激发出疯狂(mad izm也是他和Channel Live的一首歌)
MCs act like they don't know
1996的歌词风格就是我给他们的东西