[Talib Kweli] [利布Kweli ]

I do it for the people, I do it for the love 我这样做是为了人民，一切都为了爱

I do it for the poet, I do it for the thug 我这样做是对的诗人，我做的暴徒

This is for victory, and this is for the slaughter 这是胜利了，这是屠宰

I do it for my mother, I do it for my daughter 我这样做，我的母亲，我做我的女儿

Promise I'll always love ya, I love to kiss and hug ya 答应我会永远爱你，我爱亲吻和拥抱雅

You and your brother should be lookin out for one another 你和你弟弟应该找谁了彼此

I'm so blessed, man, y'all the reason I got up 我是如此幸运，人，你们都在我起身的理由

Somebody put his hands on you I'm gettin locked up 有人把他的手放在你，我想趁自己锁起来

I'm not playin, that's the prayer I'm sayin for Diani 我不是在玩，这就是祈祷我在说的迪亚尼

And if I die then she'll be protected by Amani 如果我死了，然后她就被阿曼尼受到保护

That's her bigger brother and I love the way he love her 这是她的大哥哥，我爱他爱她的方式

She a girly-girl, she love to imitate her mother 她娘娘腔女孩，她喜欢模仿她的母亲

But she a Gemini, so stay on her friendly side 但她是双子座，所以留在她的友好方

She'll put that look on you, it's like somebody' friend just died 她会把看起来你，就好像某人的朋友刚刚去世

My pretty black princess smell sweet like that incense 我很黑公主甜美的气味像香

That you buy at the bookstore supporting black business 你买在书店配套黑色商务

Teach her what black is; the fact is her parents are thorough 教她什么是黑色;事实是她的父母都是彻底

She four reading Cornrows by Camille Yarborough 她4阅读Cornrows卡米尔亚伯勒

I keep her hair braided, bought her a black Barbie 我把她的头发编织，她买了一个黑色的芭比娃娃

I keep her mind free; she ain't no black zombie 我把她的心灵自由;她不是没有黑色僵尸

This is for Aisha, this is for Kashera 这是为阿伊莎，这是为Kashera

This is for Khadijah scared to look up in the mirror 这是Khadijah吓得查找在镜子

I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame 我看到画面更清晰直通框架上的污渍

She got a black girl name, she livin black girl pain 她找了一个黑人女孩的名字，她活着的黑人女孩痛

This is for Makeba, and for my mamacita 这是为马凯巴，为我mamacita

What's really good, ma? I'll be your promise-keeper 什么是真正的好，马？我会是你的诺言，门将

I see the picture clearer thru the stain on the frame 我看到画面更清晰直通框架上的污渍

She got a black girl name, she livin black girl pain 她找了一个黑人女孩的名字，她活着的黑人女孩痛

   

[Hook] [钩]

My mama said life would be so hard 我妈妈说生活会这么难

Growin up days as a black girl scarred 长大的天为一个黑人女孩伤痕累累

In so many ways though we've come so far 在许多方面，虽然我们已经走了这么远

They just know the name they don't know the pain 他们只知道名字不知道痛

So please hold your heads up high 所以，请把你的头高高

Don't be ashamed of yourself know I 不要嫌弃自己知道，我

Will carry it forth til the day I die 将携带它出来直到我死去的那天

They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl 他们只知道名字不知道痛的黑人女孩

   

[Jean Grae] [让GRAE ]

This is for Beatrice Bertha Benjamin who gave birth to 这是比阿特丽斯伯莎本杰明谁生下

Tsidi Azeeda for Lavender Hill for Kyalisha Tsidi Azeeda的薰衣草山的Kyalisha

ALTHLONE, Mitchells Plain, Swazi girls I'm reppin for thee ALTHLONE ，米切尔平原，斯威士女孩我reppin为你

Mannesburg, Guguletu where you'd just be blessed to get thru Mannesburg ， Guguletu ，你刚刚被幸运地获得通

For beauty shinin thru like the sun at the highest noon 对于美女闪耀直通像太阳在中午最高

From the top of the cable car at Table Mountain; I am you 从缆车在桌山的顶部;我就是你

Girls with the skyest blue of eyes and the darkest skin 女孩的眼睛的skyest蓝色和最暗的皮肤

For Cape Colored allied for realizing we're African 对于普有色联盟为实现我们在非洲

For all my cousins back home, the strength of mommy's backbone 我所有的表兄妹回到家里，对妈妈的骨干力量

The length of which she went for raising, sacrificing her own 它的长度，她去筹集，牺牲了自己

The pain of not reflecting the range of our complexions 不是反映了我们的肤色的范围之痛

For rubber pellet scars on Auntie Elna's back I march 有关阿姨Elna的背部橡胶颗粒的伤疤我往

Fist raised caramel shinin in all our glory 拳头在我们所有的荣耀提出焦糖闪耀

For Mauritius, St, Helena; my blood is a million stories 毛里求斯，街，海伦娜;我的血是一百万的故事

Winnie for Joan and for Edie, for Norma, Leslie, Ndidi 小熊琼和伊迪，对于诺玛，张国荣， Ndidi

For Auntie Betty, for Melanie; all the same family 对于贝蒂阿姨，为梅拉尼;所有同族

Fiona, Jo Burg, complex of mixed girls 菲奥娜，乔伯格，混合复杂的女孩

For surviving thru every lie they put into us now 对于幸存的直通每一次谎言，他们投入我们现在

The world is yours and I swear I will stand focused 世界是你们的，我发誓，我会站在聚焦

Black girls, raise up your hands; the world should clap for us 黑人女孩，请举起手;世界应该拍手我们

   

[Hook] [钩]

My mama said life would be so hard 我妈妈说生活会这么难

Growin up days as a black girl scarred 长大的天为一个黑人女孩伤痕累累

In so many ways though we've come so far 在许多方面，虽然我们已经走了这么远

They just know the name they don't know the pain 他们只知道名字不知道痛

So please hold your heads up high 所以，请把你的头高高

Don't be ashamed of yourself know I 不要嫌弃自己知道，我

Will carry it forth til the day I die 将携带它出来直到我死去的那天

They just know the name they don't know the pain black girl 他们只知道名字不知道痛的黑人女孩