歌手 Akua Naru the world is listening

Flashback, '88
1988那一年
Copped my first tape
第一盤磁帶剛到手
Third Grade
小學才讀了三年
Young girl banking Roxanne Shante
喜歡蒐集Roxanne Shante的唱片
Around my way
想盡了辦法
Called McKay
還跟McKay打了電話
Disarray
那時人們的生活還是亂七八糟
Langston's a dark hues get bruised
蘭斯頓詩裡的女孩深色皮膚上滿是淤青(典故:蘭斯頓·休斯的詩作Song For A Dark Girl)
Stored away, hey
她的同胞們成批地被買賣
Caught in cage
被當成物件,關進籠子
Fought in the maze, gave up
黑人在泥淖中掙扎,也曾經放棄
And now I got dreams of being live on stage
而現在我卻膽敢夢想登台露面
What
是又怎樣
Turn up the volume, me and my cousin
音量調大,我跟著堂兄
Doing the wop
一起跳街舞
Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut
那時很想剪Salt-N-Pepa那樣的髮型
Speakers bump like the rock pumps
音響裡是震天的鼓點
The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump
伴著節奏在一旁跳繩
What you want? At once
你想要的是什麼?
...and we love the
曾經我也和Pecola Breedlove(Toni Morrison小說The Bluest Eye中的主角,一個一心想要一雙白人那樣的藍眼睛的黑人女孩)一樣
We dreamed of ourselves
自顧自地胡思亂想
Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was
直到Queen Latifah告訴我們什麼才是榜樣
Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip
從一開始的默默無聞到跟著Sweet Tee的節奏開始說唱(致敬80年代女rapper Sweet Tee的作品On the Smooth Tip)
Sweet Tee, to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene
再跟著Monie的腳步向前,站到舞台中間(致敬Monie Love的作品Monie In The Middle)
So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over
直到那時我才找到了自我,表演完會嗨到丟麥
Pick up a pen and like Antoinette
拿起筆來,寫出的句子像Antoinette的那樣
'Lights Out, Party's Over'
“把燈關了,都別玩兒了(致敬女MC Antoinette的作品Lights Out, Party's Over)
This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
這首歌寫給Latifah(Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante)
Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill,Heather B和Jean Grae
E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa , even me
寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我
Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
寫給Apani B,Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim (Lil Kim),Foxy(Foxy Brown)
This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo -Yo
Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe
Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
寫給Mysitic ,BO$$,Sparky D
For those never seen
寫給那些陌生人
On the search for female emcees
尋找女性MC的人
The microphone fiends
拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人(引自Eric B & Rakim的作品Microphone Fiends)
Stomped in the '90s
時間到了九十年代
After school you could find me
放學之後總能在後院兒看見我
In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming
求著別人給我個beat
U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues
跟著U-N-I-T-Y(Queen Latifah的代表作)和Heather B的藍調練習
Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen
得知了Phyllis Hymen(美國女歌手演員,95年逝世)去世的消息
I rap to keep from crying
要說幾段verse才能喘過氣不哭出聲來
Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$
最後終於出人頭地,說話有了分量
Recipe for a show
演出也開始得心應手
They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo
但他們說乾這行女的不行,所以我向來單打獨鬥
Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home , though
在居住的黑人社區裡(Blackstreet也是一個黑人r&b樂隊),Ill Na Na(Foxy Brown的首張專輯)伴我成長
I rap along to every song
每一首歌我都跟著唱
And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo
都沒給玩兒留出時間(致敬Yo-Yo的代表作You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo)
Check, how I hit every note, though
瞧瞧這音我唱的準不准
Even sung along with patois
連牙買加黑話都學得有模有樣
Like in the joint she did with Patra
Yo-Yo和Patra合作的那首
I'm on a Romantic Call.. .
“我在甜蜜蜜地打給他”
(Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard)
(“給我的小情人打電話,就在我家”)
Blank page calling, a ...[??]
(這句聽不清,翻不出來......sorry)
The crowd yes ya'llin'
台下的人大聲喝彩
Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning
早晨五點起來淡然地捲葉子
Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn
聽著Lil Kim的硬貨,接著是Lauryn的歌
She showed me the beauty and the natural cut
是她讓我明白什麼是美,讓我愛上了natural cut(Lauryn Hill的標誌髮型)
Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs
讓我能夠保持憤怒,剪掉了之前的afro puffs(afro puffs也是一種黑人髮型,同時也是The Lady Of Rage的代表作)
This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
這首歌寫給Latifah(Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante)
Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill ,Heather B和Jean Grae
E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me
寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我
Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
寫給Apani B,Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim(Lil Kim),Foxy( Foxy Brown)
This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo-Yo
Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe
Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
寫給Mysitic,BO$$,Sparky D
For those never seen
寫給那些陌生人
On the search for female emcees
尋找女性MC的人
The microphone fiends
拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人
New millennium, came of age
2000年後,年歲漸長
While things stayed the same
但身邊的事物都還是原樣
Media forms changed
傳媒的形式已經變了
New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae
新的名字出現,從那誰誰到Jean Grae
We bootlegged, the bootleg
私底下該錄磁帶的還是錄磁帶
Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates
和磁帶、錄影帶放在一起的還有黑膠唱片
Fast forward album release dates
按發行時間順序播放快進
Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify
到了現在,Hip-Hop被物化
In these days
成了商品被擺上櫥窗
Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate?
跟我說,什麼叫女MC命途多舛生活艱辛?
Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ?
一個女人成為DJ的故事又有什麼意思?
Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone
人們下載的歌誰的都有,但我的偶像似乎已經沉寂
Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged
找了半天才找到Lauryn Hill的不插電版唱片
Guess I lost one
之前有過,好像丟了
Some come and go
萬事雲煙,來來去去
Self-labeled ***** and ho
有些人管自己叫叫雞
A heretic of discourse
吐出來的話根本沒法聽進去
I turn off the radio
我把電台關掉
I can 't relate, nor can I hate
我和這些音樂完全沒有共鳴,但也不能說討厭
For the ways we negotiate
因為本就異路殊途
The ***ist spaces we navigate
我們仍在艱難地對抗性別歧視
I stay reppin'
我仍舊在人群中扛著大旗
Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent
但新一代的Hip-Hop浪潮卻為虎作倀
It seems...
似乎(下句是Lauryn Hill名言:Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need)
'Fantasy's what people want reality to be'
“幻想裡的人人都想要,而現實的一切才是我們需要面對的”
This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante
這首歌寫給Latifah( Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante)
Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae
寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill,Heather B和Jean Grae
E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me
寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我
Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy
寫給Apani B, Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim(Lil Kim),Foxy( Foxy Brown)
This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo
還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo-Yo
Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe
寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe
Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D
寫給Mysitic,BO$$,Sparky D
For those never seen
寫給那些陌生人
On the search for female emcees
尋找女性MC的人
The microphone fiends
拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人
The world is listening
世界在聆聽
The world is listening
世界在聆聽
The world is listening
世界在聆聽

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The Journey Akua Naru  The Journey
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