[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

Against the canvas of the night 对夜晚的画布

Appears a curious celestial phenomena 出现一个奇怪的天象

called Black Star, but what is it? 所谓的黑星，但它是什么？

   

[Talib Kweli] [利布Kweli ]

Black people unite and let's all get down 黑衣人团结起来，让我们都趴下

We got to have what? We got to have that love 我们得有什么？我们得有爱

   

[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

What is the Black Star? 什么是黑星？

Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car? 它是与黑色的色调，黑色轿车的猫吗？

Is it shinin' from very far, to where you are? 难道照耀从很远的，你在哪里？

It is commonplace and different 这是司空见惯的，不同

Intimate and distant 贴心遥远

Fresher than an infant 比婴儿更清新

   

[Talib Kweli] [利布Kweli ]

Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses 黑，我家厚，像他们条纹糖蜜

Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses 星，呈上升趋势，在群众眼中

Black is the color of my true love's hair 黑色是我的真爱的头发颜色

Star's are bright, shining, hot balls of air 星的明亮，闪闪发亮，空气热球

   

[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

Black like my baby girl's stare 黑色像我的宝贝女儿的凝视

Black like the veil that the muslimina wear 像黑面纱的muslimina穿

Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared? 黑如行星，他们担心，他们为什么害怕吗？

Black like the slave ship that later brought us here 黑色像奴隶船，后来把我们带到这里

Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears 黑色的好像是道路的泪水在脸颊

that leave black faces well traveled with years 这让黑面具有多年游历

Black like assassin cross-hairs 黑如刺客十字

Blacker than my granddaddy armchair 黑不是我的祖父扶手椅

He never really got no time to chill there 他从来没有真正得到没有时间去那里放松

Cause this life is warfare, warfare 造成这种生活是战争，战争

   

[Talib Kweli] [利布Kweli ]

Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all there 深在前线，和黑人都在那里

Black like the perception of who, on welfare 黑象的感知谁，福利

Black like faces at the bottom of the well 黑如脸在井底

I've been there before 之前，我一直在那里

To bring the light and heat it up like "la cocina" 为了使光热起来，如“洛杉矶COCINA ”

Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer 让没有想象发生，但也许我只是一个梦想家

I love rockin' tracks like John Coltrane love Naema 我喜欢摇滚曲目如约翰·柯川爱Naema

   

[M] Like the student love the teacher [M]。像学生喜欢的老师

[T] Like the prophet love Khadeja [T ]像先知爱Khadeja

[M] Like I love my baby features [M]。就像我爱我的孩子的特点

[A] Like the creator love all creatures [A] ，如造物主的爱所有的动物

   

[Talib Kweli] [利布Kweli ]

Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers 谁承认真理与和平人士

We on point like heat seekers 我们就喜欢热一点的求职者

Targettin' the black marketing strategists Targettin “黑市场营销战略家

Run up on em with the heaters 跑起来的新兴市场与加热器

Everybody followin' with no leaders 每个人都没有领导跟随着

Feelin' like we killin' ourselves 感觉就像我们扼杀了自己

because I know they can't defeat us 因为我知道，他们无法打败我们

It don't stop 'til we complete this, keep this fly 它不会停止，直到我们完成这个，保持这个飞

There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God 有这么多，当你只是停留黑神的生活

   

[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July 黑比床- Stuy在7月夜空

Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie 黑比黑莓馅饼种子

Blacker than the middle of my eye 黑不是我的眼睛中间

Black like feh-lah man cry 黑如FEH -啦男人哭了

Some man wan ask "Who am I?" 有些人婉问“我是谁？ ”

I simply reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic" 我只是回答说：“通过UNI ， VERSAL磁”

Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop 工作要尊重天使，爬上山顶

and tell it 'til the valley's enveloped 并告诉它，直到山谷的包膜

You're full of big chat but you nah know me 你是十足的大聊天，但你全息认识我

I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see 我暗像月亮的一面，你看不到

when the moon shine newly 当月亮照耀新

   

[M] You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me [M]。你知道还有谁是黑星？ （谁？）我

[T] You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me [T]你知道还有谁是黑星？ （谁？）我

[A] You know who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we) [A]你知道还有谁是黑星，我们谁？ （我们）

[A] be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin' [A]是照耀和照耀，当我们rhymin 和rhymin

We be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin' 我们被照耀和照耀，当我们rhymin 和rhymin

   

[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two 现在每个人都跳一个，两个的声音

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension 这是第三只眼视力，五维方

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight 第八届光，是会放光芒今晚

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension 这是第三只眼视力，五维方

   

[T] You know the light [T]你知道光

[M] Go from the dark [M]。从黑暗中去

[T] The other way is ass-backwards [T]的另一种方法是屁股，向下

[M] It's absurd [M]。这是荒谬的

[T] Make you wanna crow like a blackbird [T]让你像黑鸟想乌鸦

[M] That's right [M]。这是正确的

[T] You livin' from your first day to your last night [T ]你从你第一天活着的话你昨晚

[T] Sometimes you show your ass like [T]有时候你表现出你的屁股像

[M] Lint on your clothes [M]。林特在衣服上

[T] When you froze in [T]当你在冻结

[A] THE BLACK LIGHT [A]黑光

[M] Dead that [M]。死了

[T] Before you get your head wrapped [T]在你得到你的头包裹

[M] Like Badu [M ]八都一样

[T] We see through your voodoo [T]我们通过您的巫术看

[T] Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin' with that black magic [T]就像夏娃的小河，你的戏份“与黑魔法

[M] Try to civilize you [M]。试试您文明

[T] Not walk on by you [T]不走由你

[M] Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll [M]。像civil- （谎言不要让你列入黑名单） ，它会

[T] Be unlucky for you like a black cat [T]是不吉利的，你喜欢黑猫

[M] A panther [M]。豹

[T] Revolution is the answer [T]革命就是答案

[M] That's what we need [M]。这就是我们需要的

[T] Greed plague my people like the cancer [T]贪婪困扰着我的人喜欢的癌症

[M] True indeed [M]。确真

   

[Mos Def] [莫斯戴夫]

Now black people unite, and let's ALL GET DOWN 现在，黑人们团结起来，让一切都趴下

Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two 现在每个人都跳一个，两个的声音

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension 这是第三只眼视力，五维方

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight 第八届光，是会放光芒今晚

Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two 每个人都跳一个，两个的声音

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension 这是第三只眼视力，五维方

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight 第八届光，是会放光芒今晚

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension 这是第三只眼视力，五维方

Equalin' up to eight, light sh Equalin “多达八个，光SH