[Intro: Nas] [简介：纳斯]

Yea, niggaz want to talk about this rap shit 是啊，兄弟们想谈谈这首rap

Niggaz want to talk about this money 兄弟们想谈谈这个钱

About these cars, these homes, these labels 关于这些车，这些家庭，这些标签

Clothes, sneakers, big money shit 服装，运动鞋，大资金狗屎

Now everybody tryin' to get rich 现在每个人都试着致富

Now get rich niggaz, fuck it 现在先富起来的兄弟们，这他妈的

   

[Verse 1: Nas] [诗歌1 ：纳斯]

Some rap pioneers, be them crackheads 一些说唱的先驱，是他们crackheads

When they speak, you see missin' teeth 当他们说话，你看想着牙齿

Silver chain with a silver piece 银链与银片

Niggaz your grandfather's age 兄弟们，你爷爷的年龄

They pants still hangin' down they legs talkin' about they ain't paid 他们的裤子还在犹豫不决，下腿，他们说对他们不支付

And they hate you, 'cause they say, you ain't pay dues 他们恨你，因为他们说，你们是不是缴纳会费

And ..... was stealin' and robbin' them 并.....是stealin “和罗宾他们

I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve 我觉得这是一个问题，我们得解决

Hip-Hop been dead, we the reason it died HIP-HOP已经死了，我们就死的原因

Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because MC's skills are lost 不是Sylvia的故障或因三菱商事的技能都将丢失

It's because we can't see ourselves as the boss 这是因为我们不能把自己看作是老板

Deep-rooted through slavery, self-hatred 根深蒂固通过奴役，自怨

The Jewish stick together, friends in high places 犹太粘在一起，朋友在高处

We on some low level shit 我们对一些低级别狗屎

We don't want niggaz to ever win 我们不希望兄弟们永远赢

See, everybody got a label 你看，每个人都拿到一个标签

Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal 每个人都是一个说唱歌手，但很少致命流

It's fucked up, it all started from two turntables 它搞砸了，这一切都从两个转盘启动

   

[Hook: Nas] [钩：纳斯]

When they crown you - and you rise up to your position 当他们冠你 - 你起来，你的位置

(Carry On Tradition) （进行传统）

When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition 当他们的骑士，你 - 然后你去争取，去打仗，不上访

(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition) （进行传统） - （进行传统）

Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition) 坚持下去， CA矣（矣传统）

(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep （进行传统） ，当你代表我们代表

Then (Carry On Tradition) 然后（进行传统）

   

[Verse 2: Nas] [诗2：纳斯]

Now some of these new rappers got their caps flipped backwards 现在一些新的说唱歌手得到了他们的帽子向后翻转

Wit their fingers intertwined in some gang-sign madness 机智的十指紧扣在一些帮派标志的疯狂

I got an exam, let's see if y'all pass it 我得到了一个考试，让我们看看你们都传递

Let's see who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest 让我们看看谁可以举一个爸爸凯恩线最快

Some of you new rappers, I don't understand your code 你们中的一些新的说唱歌手，我不明白你的代码

You have your man shoot you, like in that Sopranos episode 你有你的男人拍你，就像在女高音情节

Do anythin' to get in the game, mixtapes, you spit hate 做干啥“ ，以在游戏中获得，混音带，你吐恨

Against bosses; hungry fucks are moraless 对老板;饿乱搞是moraless

You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate vocalists 你应该在一个充满不幸的歌手坑被扔

Niggaz, I coulda wrote your shit; I had off-time, was bored wit this 兄弟们，我本可以写你的屎;我有空闲时间，很无聊这个机智

I coulda made my double-LP, just by samplin' different parts of Nautilus 我本可以让我的双唱片，只是samplin “鹦鹉螺号的不同部分

Still came five on the charts with zero audience 还是来了五张在图表零观众

The lane was open and y'all was droppin' that garbage shit 车道开着，你们都被丢下垃圾狗屎

Y'all got awards for your bricks - it got good to ya 你们都得到了奖项的砖 - 它得到了很好的雅

You started tellin' them bigger dogs to call it quits?! WHAT? 你开始在告诉他们大狗调用它退出？什么？

   

[Hook: Nas] [钩：纳斯]

When they crown you - and you rise up to your position 当他们冠你 - 你起来，你的位置

(Carry On Tradition) （进行传统）

When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition 当他们的骑士，你 - 然后你去争取，去打仗，不上访

(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition) （进行传统） - （进行传统）

Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition) 坚持下去， CA矣（矣传统）

(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep （进行传统） ，当你代表我们代表

Then (Carry On Tradition) 然后（进行传统）

   

[Verse 3: Nas] [第3节：纳斯]

Now niggaz got the studio poppin', it's mad clearer 现在的兄弟们得到了工作室屁股 ，这是疯了更清晰

Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us 工程师得到了他的耳塞也可以听到我们

The live-in-the-park sound, versus the studio state of art sound 本次现场点上公园的声音，对艺术的声音工作室状态

We on the charts now; from British Walkers and Argyles 我们对现在的图表;来自英国的步行者和Argyles

Look at us rap stars now, wit our black cars now 看看美国说唱明星，现在，现在我们的智慧黑车

Fortune 500 listed, brunches, sip Cipriani's 财富500强，早午餐，品尝Cipriani餐厅的

Sippin', blunted, with rich white guys around me 啜饮着，迟钝，与身边的富裕白人

Thick white girls around me, Chinese lined up 我周围的厚厚的白衣少女，中国一字排开

Because I'm what?, every dime lust 因为我是什么？，每一分钱的欲望

We used to be a ghetto secret; can't make my mind up 我们曾经是一个贫民窟的秘密;不能让我的心了

If I want that or the whole world to peep it 如果我想的还是全世界的人窥视它

Now (Carry On Tradition) 现在（进行传统）

Fuck a bum wack rapper makin' his career out of dissin' 他妈的屁股怪人说唱歌手金他的职业生涯了dissin的“

Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone, we miss 'em 和平的挣扎“的艺术家，死一个人走了，我们错过了时间

I promise I (Carry On Tradition) 我发誓我（进行传统）

   

[Hook: Nas] [钩：纳斯]

When they crown you - and you rise up to your position 当他们冠你 - 你起来，你的位置

(Carry On Tradition) （进行传统）

When they knight you - then you go to fight, go to war, don't petition 当他们的骑士，你 - 然后你去争取，去打仗，不上访

(Carry On Tradition) - (Carry On Tradition) （进行传统） - （进行传统）

Carry on, ca-carry on, (Carry On Tradition) 坚持下去， CA矣（矣传统）

(Carry On Tradition), when you rep what we rep （进行传统） ，当你代表我们代表

Then (Carry On Tradition) 然后（进行传统）