歌词
[A]Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son
[A]嘿，怎么样？怎么样？让我们保持真实，伙计
Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin?
先数数钱，懂我意思吗？
[N]Yea yea
[N]好的，好的
[A]Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin?
[A]嘿，把那百元大钞好好地放到这边来，懂我意思吗？
[N]Yea yea
[N]好的
[A]Cause we spendin these Jackson's
[A]因为我们只花这些面值二十的美钞
The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go
这些总统太引人注目了，你知道这是为什么
[N]I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right?
[N]我说，这就是我们生活的全部了，是吗？
Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin?Yo then what man, what??
衣服，票子和女人，懂我意思吗？
Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
让我们把生活的现实主义和现实都形象化
Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
去TMD根据薪水而把人分等，这是最坏的价值观
And my mentality is, money orientated
但我的心思还是一切向钱看
I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
我注定要过着其他人无法实现的梦中生活
But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners
但是必须得有所准备，因为我们所有人都会因此变成罪人
Now some, restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin
现在我们中的一些与世长辞，还有一些正在监狱服刑
Others such as myself are tryin to carry on tradition
其他像我自己这样的人正在努力地让传统沿袭
Keepin the schwepervesence street ghetto essence inside us
保持着街头成功的法则，我们拥有贫民窟的精华
Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
它给予我们特有的洞察力，我们凭借它指导生活
Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go
尽管，我们都知道无论如何人固有一死
but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin with some kind of dough
但是只要我们还在干这非法的勾当，我们就能一直赚钱
so, and to that day we expire and turn to vapors
所以，到我们咽气，被焚烧化为气体的那一天
me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty papers
我和我的哥们儿还会在某处把钱高高垒砌
Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high
保持真实，带着枪，及时行乐
Cause life's a bitch and then you die
因为生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；这就是我们及时行乐的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；那就是我们抽叶子的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；这就是我们及时行乐的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；那就是我们抽叶子的原因
I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing
在我生日的那天我早早地醒来，我已经在祷告中度过了20年
The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in
我仍然保持着年轻人的活力，感觉到神清气爽
My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it
我的名声家喻户晓，因为我成功了
One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created
在我这四分之一的人生中，看到一些东西正被造物主创造
Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some
一年365天我都在用写词，而且我也会
Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from
装上麦克风，来上一段即兴说唱，咒骂是我换气的方式
my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain
那些拜金主义压得我大脑的血管生疼
Don't go against the grain simple and plain
别和简单与朴素背道而驰
When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
当我还这么年轻的时候，我曾经艰难度日
Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards
抢走外国人的钱包和珠宝，然后撕碎他们的绿卡
Dipped to the projects flashin my quick cash
投身到让我能快速赚钱的行当
and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash
然后我抽到了生平第一口叶子
Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I used to run with
现在大家赚足了钞票，曾经的伙计都过着
is rich or doin years in the hundreds
富有的生活或者就整天和百元大钞打交道
I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tomorrow
于是我把我的座右铭改成了“去TMD明天”
That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
用一元钱买了一个瓶子，而不是去买乐透
Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks
然后我站在街头，看着随着可卡因卖出而不断变多的钞票
I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back
我调制好了之后，切下一小块就能赚到不少钱
Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
我用这种超屌理论发声，让这个时代像带有静电的毛织物一样噼啪作响
Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage
用这复杂的理论冲击着你们的大脑
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；这就是我们及时行乐的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；那就是我们抽叶子的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去；这就是我们及时行乐的原因
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
因为你不会知道自己什么时候会离开人世
Life's a bitch and then you die
因为生活是个婊子，最后你都会死去
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