歌词
"N.Y. State of Mind"
我心中的纽约
Yeah, yeah
是的，是的
Ayo, black, it's time, word (Word, it's time, man)
黑人兄弟，是时候了（什么？就是现在吗，伙计？）
It's time, man (Aight, man, begin)
就是现在（好的，我们开始吧）
Straight out the fucking dungeons of rap
这TMD的是地下说唱发出的声音
Where fake niggas don't make it back
那些冒牌货哪凉快上哪儿待着去
I don't know how to start this shit, yo now
我其实不知道要怎么开始才好，但是现在
Rappers, I monkey flip 'em with the funky rhythm I be kickin'
其他说唱歌手随着放克节奏手舞足蹈的时候，我开始了说唱
Musician, inflictin' composition of pain
我就是音乐家，谱写着这乐章为了克服痛苦
I'm like Scarface sniffin' cocaine
我就像疤面煞星那样吸着可卡因
Holding an M16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now
不过他是拿着M16机枪扫射，而我现在用笔就能将杀伤力发挥到极致
Bullet holes left in my peepholes
我从那些弹孔中窥视着一切
I'm suited up in street clothes
街头的穿着在我身上显得特别合身
hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
给我把9mm手枪，我就能干掉敌人
Y'all know my steelo with or without the airplay
无论是否收听电台，你们都会知道我的风格
I keep some E&J, sitting bent up in the stairway
你们会看到我坐在街边的台阶上，喝着E&J的白兰地
Or either on the corner betting Grants with the cee-lo champs
要不就是看见我在街角玩骰子赌钱
Laughing at baseheads tryna sell some broken amps
我嘲笑那些瘾君子，因为他们为了买纯的毒品而卖劣质的赚钱
G-packs get off quick, forever niggas talk shit
我们花钱如流水，我们总是满嘴跑火车
Reminiscing about the last time the Task Force flipped
我回忆起上次“任务”被泄密的场景
Niggas be running through the block shootin'
伙计们冒着枪火在街区里奔逃
Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston
是该有所行动的时候了，他们可能会穷追不舍到休斯顿那么远的地方
Once they caught us off-guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and
曾经因为放松警惕让他们找到了我，而一只对讲机被遗落在草地上
I ran like a cheetah with thoughts of an assassin
我像一头有刺客般思想的猎豹一样飞奔过去
Pick the Mac up, told brothers, "Back up," the Mac spit
捡起那只对讲机，冲着它喊话，让兄弟们过来支援
Lead was hittin' niggas, one ran – I made him backflip
我对他们进行了一轮扫射，我击中了其中一人，他仰面倒下
Heard a few chicks scream, my arm shook, couldn't look
我听到了一些女人在尖叫，我的胳膊在颤抖，视线模糊
Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "Yo, my shit is stuck"
我重新装弹，听着子弹上膛的声音，突然我的枪膛卡住了
Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger
试着扣动扳机，但是它无法射出子弹，我现在可身临险境了
Finally pulled it back and saw three bullets caught up in the chamber
最后我回过头，眼睁睁地看着3颗子弹击中了我的太阳穴
So now I'm jetting to the building lobby
所以现在我能飞上天堂的大厅俯视一切了
And it was full of children probably couldn't see as high as I be
下面的那些孩子可能不能看到我到底身处多高的地方
(So what you sayin'?) It's like the game ain't the same
（那么你要说什么？）只是俯视这场游戏的感觉有所不同
Got younger niggas pulling the triggers bringing fame to their name
我看到更年轻的人们用枪来给自己积累声望
And claim some corners, crews without guns are goners
也看到了没有枪的帮派成员横尸街头
In broad daylight, stickup kids – they run up on us
在光天化日下抢劫孩子，他们习以为常
45's and gauges, Macs, in fact
实际上他们更常用45式手枪和冲锋枪火拼
Same niggas will catch you back-to-back, snatching your cracks in black
到了晚上他们就像打背靠背比赛一样，马不停蹄地四处贩毒
There was a snitch on the block getting niggas knocked
但是街区也有给条子告密的眼线，他们会让这些毒贩子吃不了兜着走
So hold your stash 'til the coke price drop
所以买家付账之前，别把你的货给亮出来
I know this crackhead who said she's got to smoke nice rock
我知道有个“粉儿姐”，她说她只会抽些狠货
And if it's good, she'll bring you customers in measuring pots
如果对她胃口，她也会把自己给你们这些顾客抽上一口
But yo, you gotta slide on a vacation, inside information
但是你们可别上瘾，在该去度假的时候还赖着不走
Keeps large niggas erasin' and their wives basin'
潜藏在街头深处的信息无处不在，麻痹大意的家伙难逃一死，不堪诱惑的女人吸上了毒
It drops deep as it does in my breath
而我能在呼吸中将它们领悟地更加深刻
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
我不会睡着，因为睡眠是死亡的温床
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
我们的生活都已经被定义，在超越我们智慧之墙的上方
I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of mind
当我身处心中的纽约，思考的是这里的罪恶
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Be having dreams that I'm a gangsta, drinking Moets, holding Tecs
我一直都有当个帮匪的梦想—握着Tec-9手枪，喝着酩悦香槟
Making sure the cash came correct, then I stepped
我能从白手起家，到财源广进
Investments in stocks, sewing up the blocks to sell rocks
靠的是到各处去进货，然后奔走在各个街区去贩毒
Winning gunfights with mega-cops
还得赢下跟许多条子的枪战火拼
But just a nigga walking with his finger on the trigger
我只是一个在街头游荡，随时准备扣下扳机的家伙
Make enough figures until my pockets get bigger
赚足够多的钞票直到让我的口袋渐渐鼓起来
I ain't the type of brother made for you to start testin'
我可不是那种会让你们对我的能力有所怀疑的伙计
Give me a Smith & Wesson, I have niggas undressin'
只要给我把史密斯威森的左轮手枪，我就能把那些家伙干掉
Thinking of cash flow, buddha and shelter
说到现金流，大麻和我们的避难所
Whenever frustrated, I'm a hijack Delta
无论遭遇何种挫折，我依然保持强硬
In the PJ's, my blend tape plays, bullets are strays
住在皇后桥住宅区里，听着我的混音辑和窗外偶尔传来的枪声
Young bitches is grazed, each block is like a maze
年轻的女人抽着大麻在每个街区里游荡，好像身处迷宫之中
Full of black rats trapped plus the Island is packed
街道里全是黑色的老鼠乱窜，而且监狱里也被塞得满满的
From what I hear in all the stories when my peoples come back, black
这是从我那些从那里回来的黑人兄弟们口中得知的
I'm living where the nights is jet-black
我生活的地方黑夜是伸手不见五指
The fiends fight to get crack, I just max, I dream I can sit back
看着朋友为了抢毒品而反目成仇，我冷眼旁观，只是希望我能够休息一下
And lamp like Capone, with drug scripts sewn
可以把阿尔卡彭当做指路明灯，在刀尖上舔血也在所不惜
Or the legal luxury life, rings flooded with stones, holmes
或者选择过合法的奢靡生活，带着镶满钻石的戒指，住着豪宅
I got so many rhymes, I don't think I'm too sane
我可以用太多的韵脚来描述这些，只是我觉得自己不是很清醒
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain
因为在这儿的生活如同地狱，而我却必须继续下去
And be prosperous, though we live dangerous
尽管我们生活在危险之中，也照样能兴旺发达
Cops could just arrest me, blaming us, we're held like hostages
条子只是像挟持人质一样将我们逮捕，盘问我们
It's only right that I was born to use mics
我唯一能确定的是我用麦克风说唱的本事与生俱来
And the stuff that I write is even tougher than dykes
我写的唱段甚至比大堤还坚不可摧
I've taken rappers to a new plateau, through rap slow
我慢慢地说唱着，把其他的说唱歌手带上了一个新的高度
My rhymin' is a vitamin held without a capsule
我的韵脚就是没有被装在胶囊里的维他命
The smooth criminal on beat breaks
我就是节奏中的犯罪高手
Never put me in your box if your shit eats tapes
别把我的歌放入你们的收音机，它们会把我的磁带吃掉
The city never sleeps, full of villains and creeps
在这不眠的城市，全是声名狼藉的恶人
That's where I learned to do my hustle, had to scuffle with freaks
那也是我知道靠贩毒赚钱，也必须和荡妇打交道的地方
I'm an addict for sneakers, 20's of buddha and bitches with beepers
我为运动鞋，大麻和带着寻呼机的小妞而着迷
In the streets I can greet ya, about blunts I teach ya
在街头我能抽着叶子跟你们打招呼
Inhale deep like the words of my breath
深深地吸一口，就像去把我的言语给消化
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
我不会睡着，因为睡眠是死亡的温床
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
每当我追溯往昔，我就能放下现实的谜团
Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
我心中的纽约，没有任何东西可以取代
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