歌词
Yo, the saga begins, beget war
我的传奇，开始于无休无止的战争（完美的比喻，将街头生活喻做战争）
I draw first blood be the first to set it off
我总是身先士卒，无数的伤口，无数次鲜血直流（first blood，set it off都是著名动作片名）
My cause, tap all jaws lay down laws
换来的是我崇高的地位，万人之上，我掌控这方小世界的规则
We takin what's yours we do jerks rush the doors
我们就是强盗，会剥夺你的所有（这里歌词错误，应该是“do joox”，意为强盗行径）
Here come the deez tryin to make breeze and guns toss
不会只是嘴上功夫，我们直接和你械斗
In full force, my team'll go at your main source
全力以赴，我们直接捣了你的老窝
We're not tourists, hit bosses and take hostage
我的9毫米口径（这里歌词错误，应该是“my 9‘torious’”）不是吃素的，擒贼先擒王，让你众叛亲离
Your whole setup, from the ground up we lock shit
我们能地遁，从地下飞起，一枪要了你的命（比喻Mobb Deep从地下到地上，掌控说唱圈）
Blood flood your eye, fuck up your optics
从弹孔流出的血，弄瞎你的眼睛
Switch to killer instincts for niggaz pop shit
因为我是暗杀流行说唱歌手的杀手
Yo nigga Noyd what's the topic Nine pound we rocked in
Noyd老铁（Big Noyd，Mobb Deep二人的好基友，也是很牛的说唱歌手），要直入主题，我们带的可是九口径（枪，借指他们牛X的说唱技术）
96 strike back with more hot shit
96年我们归来，带来更多的燥乐
Illuminate my team'll glow like, radiation
我们红得发紫，激光把我们的前路照得一片光亮
With no time for patient, or complication
你已无药可救，并发症（指帮派内讧）让你病入膏肓
Let's get it done right, my click airtight
但我们的帮派却风光无限
Trapped in a never ending gunfight so niggaz lose stripes
街头的枪战永远不会停息，同胞们因此在罪恶的道路上越走越远
Or lose life, jail niggaz sendin kites to the street
甚至失去生命，难道你们不知道那些牢里的兄弟是怎么进去的？！
Over some beef that wasn't fully cooked, finish em off
劝你最好打典好我们，大事化小，小事化了
Well done meat, that said twenty-two slug to your head
否则我会给你秀点见血的，子弹从22口径的枪中射出，直接命中命门
Travel all the way down to your leg
从头顶射入，从脚底射出，穿透你的身体
Aiyyo it's hell on earth, whose next or gonna be first
这里是人间地狱，你随时都可能毙命
The projects is front lines, and the enemy is one time
我们的住所就是前线，而敌人就是条子（one time常指条子）
I ain't gotta tell you
情况已不需我明说
It's right in front of your eyes [X 2]
因为乱象，就发生在你眼前
We wreck the QBC, nigga rep yours it's all love
我们代表着皇后桥（纽约最混乱的街区之一），居民们互相爱护的地方（反义，讽刺）
Milli stacked down, heavenly guarded by hollow tip slug
从小人物做起，凭着枪杆子一步步走向神坛
Then crack down, on wannabe thugs adapt to gat sound
我曾经以买药为生，梦想做枪林弹雨中生活的匪徒
And bow down, slow the fuck up, see how my foul now
熟练地趴下，遁走，凭着技术逍遥法外
Articulate, hittin body parts to start shiftin shit
不是跟你吹，我身上任何地方都能藏药
Never hesitant, it's the crack game unlimited
从不会怂包，因为我已习惯卖药的生活
Summon rasta we can do this, forever infinite
永世呼麻，我们和Rasta教徒一个德行
Then reminesce, twenty years later how we was gettin it
我想二十年后，我们会回忆这段峥嵘岁月
Either with me go against the grain you better hit me
如果你反对种植（麻），我就会打你
Leggin me or robbin me niggaz better body me
把你打到残疾，甚至抢劫你，办了你
Cause it's a small world and niggaz, talkin like bitches
因为在这个小世界,兄弟们已经怂的像个娘们
Bitches singin like snitches, pointin you out in pictures
而女人却最为危险（引用《教父》，结合上文，也指小人最为阴险），如果她们告密，会把你底细抖得一干二净
Cause she rep the QBC faithfully, playa hatin me
因为她们已经义无反顾地背叛了我们，还在别的帮派嚼我们舌根
All that bullshit, is just makin me
但这些蛋逼事，只会让我越挫越勇
More the better, then concentrate on gettin chedda
更好的是，我会更精于我的事业
If shorty set you up you better dead her, I told you
我跟你讲，如果真有小人这么做了，你最好把他办了
Shape and mold you, Sun you, then I hold you
给你洗脑，然后把你控制，做成傀儡
Like a pimp mind control you double edge blow you
就像皮条客调教下属一样调教你
It'll be I, like I'm supposed to, the click is coastal
我会这么做，因为我们就像鸡尾酒
International to local, Bacardi mix physically fix
从当地小酒混成国际名酒，就像混合的百加得
Hit you with shit, that'll leave a loose nigga stiff
把你打的稀巴烂，教你如何做人
Probably thick, Son I solved em
这才叫狠，我平常就是这么解决敌人
Pulled him in my world then evolved him to chaos
把他们拉入我的世界，使他们神志不清
Walk the beat like, around the way cops the average pitstop
我的说唱在节奏上游走，可以媲美我躲条子时的走位
QBCity GodFather Part III, Gotti Gambino
皇后桥的兄弟：Godfather，Part III，Gotti Gambino(人名)
And Ty Nitty, Scarface rest in peace
还有Ty Nitty，和我已逝的兄弟Scarface
whose next or gonna be first
你随时都可能毙命
The projects is front lines, and the enemy is one time
我们的住所就是前线，而敌人就是条子（one time常指条子）
I ain't gotta tell you
情况已不需我明说
It's right in front of your eyes[X 2]
因为乱象，就发生在你眼前
Yo, the heavy metal king hold big shit, with spare clips
用枪的兄弟，子弹一定会备足
You seein clips when the mac spit your top got split
当你看到子弹飞出的同时，它已经射入你的头顶
Layin dead with open eyes close his eyelids
倒在地上，将眼皮盖上，又失去了一个兄弟
Turn off his lights switch to darkness, cause deep in the abyss
把他的世界由光明变为黑暗，街头生活就是残酷如深渊
Is street life, blood on my kicks, shit on my knife
街头生活就是：敌人的血从我的匕首滴下，滴到我的脚上
Youse the wild child, kid cold turnin men into mice
我从小就是个疯狂的人，身边孩子的冷眼相看让我如此凶残
I was born to take power leave my mark on this planet
我生来就想要夺取权利，这是本属于我的东西
The Phantom of Crime Rap, niggaz is left stranded
匪帮说唱的阴影，就是兄弟们陷入的困境（人们被西岸匪帮说唱中描写的香车美人的“暴徒生活”所迷惑，于是想要成为匪徒，使黑人区愈发黑暗）
Shut down your operation, closed for business
给我注销你的厂牌，停了你的事业（厂牌指当时如日中天，号称“匪帮说唱帝国”的Death Row）
Leave a foul taste in your mouth, like Guinness
否则我会在你的嘴里留下肮脏的东西，就像吉尼斯酒一样
POW niggaz is found MIA
敌人们被我办了，却只会被认定为失踪（匪帮常和警察串通）
We move like the special forces, green beret
我们拥有特种部队般的力量
Heavily around my throat, I don't play
戴上大金链，即使它会束缚我喉咙，使我呼吸困难（大金链是80年代说唱歌手的必备，90年后逐渐过气，Prodigy在此借指自己想要做曾经那样淳朴的说唱乐，即使这会使自己粉丝少掉渣）
Shit brand new, back in eighty-nine, the same way
去他的新潮流，我就热衷于所谓89年的老土
The God P walk with a limp see, but simply
God P的眼神微弱，但却直入主题
To simplify shit, no man can go against me
把说唱逐渐简单化，却无人去阻挡（Prodigy认为西岸说唱乐歌词没有营养，却依靠流行的旋律红遍全国让他很气愤）
Test me you must be bent G, don't tempt me
你想挑战我？丫个假匪帮，别不识好歹和我做对
I had this full clip for so long, it needs to empty
正好我枪里子弹寂寞了，需要让他们出去溜溜
The reason why it full for so long, cause I don't waste shit
为什么他们会寂寞？因为我不轻易出手（有小弟帮他做事嘛）
You properly hit, blood in your mouth, so you could taste it
你被我的子弹折磨，血在你嘴里，你可以尝尝是什么味道（杀了他不如慢慢折磨）
Quiet as kept, I lay back and watch the world spin
外面依然安静，我躺下来，看着世界在转（自己就是中心）
I hear thugs, claimin that they gonna rob the Mobb
我听说有些小子想要抢劫我们Mobb Deep
When they see us, I tell you what black, here's the issue
但当他们看到我，我会告诉他们，什么是黑（阴三）
It's a package deal, you rob me, you take this message
这是个交易，你抢劫了我，你也就差不多完了
Along with that, I ain't your average cat
你要记住，我不是任你摆布的Hello Kitty
Fuck rap, I'm tryin to make CREAM and that's that
去你的说唱，我要获掌控这世界的一切（做出像C.R.E.A.M.这样的歌），这就是我的目标(而这首歌即是如此)
Whatever it takes however it gots to go down
无论代价如何，我都会一直坚持
Four mikes on stage a motherfuckin four pound
4个麦在台上，因为我一人不止能顶仨
Speakers leakin out sound and niggaz leakin on the ground
我的歌会被人们传颂
I could truely care less the God will get his
我从不在乎上帝给我降下多少磨难
Regardless blow for blow let's find out who wear hardest
因为无论是多大的打击，我都会坚强的应对
This rap artist used to be a stickup artist
有的说唱“艺术家”更应该被叫做“抄袭艺术家”
Sometimes I test myself see if I still got it
但我不是，我会经常锻炼自己，让自己保持真实
A live nigga stay on point never diss
一个真正的说唱歌手从不会被针对（因为没有理由使他被diss）
Regard shit or forget the essence, from which I emerged
因为他不会唱烂歌，而且不会忘本
P is sick, so save that bullshit for the burbs
P就是个废物，我都懒得鸟他
Live up to my word, if I got beef, niggaz comin in herds
就像我的词说的一样，如果我被针对了，就会有一大群兄弟来给我撑腰
We flush through your click get purged
我们会反杀，把你的帮派灭个精光
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