歌词
Everybody put three fingers in the air
所有人都把你们中间三根手指举起来(三根手指象征着“HiiiPower”运动,分别代表着 心智Heart,荣誉Honor和尊敬Respect)
The sky is falling, the wind is calling
白驹过隙 日月如流 生命一点点消逝
Stand for something or die in the morning
申明你的立场或者死在明天清晨
Section 80, HiiiPoWeR
生在80年代的我们 不该满足现状
Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
Martin Luther的视线注视着我
Malcolm X put a hex on my future, someone catch me
Malcolm X感染了我并对我的未来施下妖法
I'm falling victim to a revolutionary song
我正沉陷于这首旋律 沦为这次运动的牺牲者
The Serengeti's clone
潮流逆袭 犹如坦桑尼亚般的再次克隆(The Serengeti's 坦桑尼亚是人类历史上移民规模最大的地区)
Back to put you backstabbers back on your spinal bone
重新规划叛逆者的人生与思维方式 就像医治你那错位的脊椎
You slipped your disc when I slid you my disc
当我为你播放这张碟片
You wanted to diss, but jumped on my dick
你脑海中所有不满立刻释然 反倒追随于我
Grown men never should bite their tongue
成年人永远不该保持缄默
unless you eating pussy that smell like it's a stale plum
除非你有像烂梅子般酸苦的难言之隐
I got my finger on the motherfucking pistol
我把我的手指放到手枪上
aiming it at a pig, Charlotte's Web is gonna miss you
瞄准一只猪,夏洛特的网将会怀念你
My issue isn't televised, and you ain't gotta tell the wise
我引来的争议没有在电视上播放,智者不会被媒体所蒙蔽
how to stay on beat, because our life's an instrumental
如何去与鼓点契合,因为我们的生活就是一首器乐曲
This is physical and mental, I won't sugar-coat it
它是肉体与精神双重的,我没有在给它加糖衣,没有美化它
You'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
而其他歌手过于绚丽的语言 只会让听者犹如糖尿病般死去
And everything on TV just a figment of imagination
电视上的东西仅仅是想象力的虚构
I don't want no plastic nation, that like a Haitian
我不要一个纸糊的国家,想海地人般生活在恐惧里(Haitian 在美剧“英雄”里有个叫Haitian的角色可以任意删改受害者的记忆)
While you motherfuckers waiting, I be off the slave ship
当你这些混蛋还在等待的时候 我已经逃离这艘奴隶船
Building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
筹划另一项金字塔工程,书写我自己的象形文字
Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
就把这次维权运动称作Hiiipower
Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
是的,没有更贴切的名字 就叫HiiiPower
Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches
正在教授你的见解像五星级大餐馆般高档
I mean the shit is, Huey Newton going stupid
我意思是,就像Huey Newton疯狂的倡导着人权运动(Huey Newton美国黑人创始的民权组织黑豹党的创始人)
You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR
你不能抗拒它的HiiiPower
Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR
高举你的手,为了HiiiPower
Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
Martin Luther的目光注视着我
If I see it how he seen it, that would make my parents happy
如果我能知道他怎么会有那么深远的眼光,我的父母将会非常高兴
Sorry mama, I can't turn the other cheek
对不起妈妈,如果有人打了我的脸,我定会以牙还牙
They wanna knock me off the edge like a fucking widow's peak, uhh
他们处心积虑地预谋着把我击落到万丈深渊中
And she always told me pray for the weak, uhh
她经常告诉我去为那些不幸的人祈祷
Them demons got me, I ain't prayed in some weeks, uhh
那些恶魔抓住了我,我却已经几星期没有祷告过(prayed in some weeks,双关语也可以理解为,恶魔试图让他折磨那些不幸的人)
Dear Lord come save me, the Devil's working hard
亲爱的上帝来救救我,这些恶魔拼命地试图夺走我地灵魂
He probably clocking double shifts on all of his jobs
为了完成任务他付出双倍的努力
Frightening, so fucking frightening
甚至能在空气中嗅到那一丝恐惧
Enough to drive a man insane, I need a license
足够把一个人逼疯,我需要考一个执照才能杀了他
to kill, I'm standing on a field full of land mines
我站在一块全是地雷的土地上
Doing the moonwalk, hoping I blow up in time
跳着蹩脚的太空舞步,希望这一次能一炮而红
Cause 2012 might not be a fucking legend
但愿能在世界末日前让世人了解我想表达的信息
Trying to be a fucking legend, the man of mankind
试着去作一个传奇,成为世界末日后唯一的幸存者(Kendrick把自己比喻成电影“我是传奇”中的主人公 唯一存活的地球人)
Who said a black man in the Illuminati?
是谁说的有一个黑人在光明会里(Jay-Z和Kanye West都被谣传是光明会的成员)
Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party
上次据我了解,光明会是最大的种族歧视的组织
So get up off that slave ship
所以逃离这艘奴隶船
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs
筹划另一项金字塔工程,书写你自己的象形文字
Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
就把这次维权运动称作Hiiipower
Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
是的,没有更贴切的名字 就叫HiiiPower
Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches
正在教授你的见解像五星级大餐馆般高档
I mean the shit is, Bobby Seale making meals
我的意思是说,就像Bobby Seale把自己的见解和世人分享(Bobby Seale黑豹党创始人)
You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR
你不能抗拒他的HiiiPower
Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR
高举你的手,为了HiiiPower
Every day we fight the system
我们每天都在对抗这个体制
just to make our way, we been down for too long
只是为了走出自己的道路,我们被压制得太久
But that's alright, we was built to be strong
但那也都还好,人类天生就是不断变强
cause it's our life, na-na-nah
因为那就是我们的生活
Every day we fight the system
我们每天都在对抗这个体制
We fight the system
We fight the system
Never like the system
从来不喜欢这个体制
We been down for too long
我们被压制得太久
But that's alright, na-na-nah
但那也都还好
Who said a black man in Illuminati?
谁说过光明会里会有一个黑人
Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party
上次据我了解,光明会还是最大的种族歧视的组织
Last time I checked, we was racing with Marcus Garvey
上次我去看时,我们在和Marcus Garvey赛跑(Marcus Garvey牙买加的政治领袖)
on the freeway to Africa till I wreck my Audi
在通往非洲的高速路上,直到我撞坏了我的奥迪
And I want everybody to view my autopsy
而我想邀请所有人去参观我的尸检
So you can see exactly where the government had shot me
所以你们可以清楚地看到政府击中了我的哪里
No conspiracy, my fate is inevitable
这不是阴谋,我的命运是不可改变的
They play musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal
一旦我的言语遭到了政府的反对 他们就会铲除我(musical chairs像抢椅子游戏中被淘汰的选手)
Frightening, so fucking frightening
我又在空气里闻到了恐怖的气息
Enough to drive a man insane, a woman insane
足以使一个男人疯狂,使一个女人失去理智
The reason Lauryn Hill don't sing, or Kurt Cobain
这就是Lauryn Hill不再唱歌的原因
loaded that clip and then said "Bang!", the drama it bring
Kurt Cobain扣动扳机结束了自己的生命,带来一个疯狂的剧情
is crazy, product of the late 80s
这是80年代晚期的产物
Trying to stay above water, that's why we shun the Navy
试着在着混乱的社会中生存,那也是我们逃避海军的原因
Pull your guns and play me, let's set it off
拔出你的枪让我们面对面地战斗,局面一触即发
Cause a riot, throw a Molotov
制造一次暴动,点燃手中地酒瓶
Somebody told me them pirates had got lost
有些人告诉我海盗已经消失了
cause we been off them slave ships
因为我们已经逃离了奴隶船
Got our own pyramids, write our own hieroglyphs
策划另一项金字塔工程,写出了我们自己的象形文字
Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
就把这场维权运动称作HiiiPower
Yeah, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
是的,没有更贴切的名字 就叫HiiiPower
Five-star dishes, food for thought bitches
正在教授你的见解像五星级大餐馆般高档
I mean the shit is, Fred Hampton on your campus
我的意思是,Fred Hampton就在你的校园里(Fred Hampton另一位黑豹党成员 在1969年被FBI残忍的谋杀)
You can't resist his, HiiiPoWeR
你不能抗拒他的HiiiPower
Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR
高举你的手,为了Hiiipower
Thug life
Thug LIFE!
专辑信息
1.Fuck Your Ethnicity
2.Hol' Up
3.A.D.H.D
4.No Makeup (Her Vice)
5.Tammy's Song (Her Evils)
6.Chapter Six
7.Ronald Reagan Era
8.Poe Mans Dreams (His Vice)
9.The Spiteful Chant
10.Chapter Ten
11.Keisha's Song (Her Pain)
12.Rigamortus
13.Kush & Corinthians
14.Blow My High (Members Only)
15.Ab-Souls Outro - intro
16.HiiiPower