"Get-get.. get down!" - [James Brown] “获取，得到..趴下！ ” - [詹姆斯·布朗]

   

[Nas] [纳斯]

Uh.. uh.. uh.. 嗯..嗯..嗯..

New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete 纽约的街道上killersll走路像手枪皮特

And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys admiration 和帕皮·梅森，给了男孩刮目相看

Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem 王子从皇后区和弗里茨·哈林

Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from starvin 街的传说，药物保持引擎盖从starvin

Pushin cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's 推着汽车，尼基·巴恩斯是70年代

But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities 但有高知名度的名人一长串

Worldwide on the thorough side of things 在全球范围内的东西彻底端

Livest kings, some died, one guy, one time 活的君王，有些死了，一个人，一时间

one day grabs me, as I'm about to blast heat 1天抓住了我，因为我即将爆热

40-side of Vernon, I turned well he asked me 弗农的40方，我转过头好，他问我

"Whatchu up to, the cops gon' bust you" “ Whatchu到，警察会去你的胸围”

I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered 我是一个十几岁的喝了冲泡，迷迷糊糊我想知道

if God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the block 如果上帝送他，造成2辆警车进入了块

and looked at us, I ain't flinch when they watched 看着我们，我是不是当他们看到退缩

I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair 我把它上楼，浴室的镜子，拂过我的头发

Starin at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do 在盯着一个年轻的弟子，我几乎放弃我的生命有什么骰子做

Yeah man, throwin them bones 是男人，他们肆意的骨头

Hopin my ace get his case thrown 河滨我的王牌得到他的情况下抛出

His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoein 他的女朋友是不是等他，她在世界上直hoein

While he lookin at centerfolds of pretty girls 虽然他在漂亮女孩看着插页

showin they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's livin proof 舒他们很少COOCH ，帮派分子不会死，他是活着的证明

The D.A. who tried him was lyin 该D.A。谁试过他是胡扯

A white dude, killed his mother durin the case 白色的纨绔子弟，杀死了他的母亲durin的情况下

Hung jury, now the D.A. is bein replaced 洪陪审团，现在D.A。贝因被替换

Pre-trial hearin is over, it's real for the soldier 预审赫林已经结束，这是真实的为兵

Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild 走在法庭上，他的眼神是野生的

Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle 三重凶杀案，我坐在后排过道

I wanna crack a smile when I see him 我想破解一个微笑，当我看到他

Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom 扔了一个拳头的黑色力量，使所有我们想要的是他的自由

He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin 他抓起法院人员的枪，并开始squeezin

Then he grabbed the judge, screams out -- nobody leavin everybody 然后，他抓住了法官，惨叫了 - 没有人要走大家

   

"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown] “趴下，趴下！趴下，趴下！ ” - [詹姆斯·布朗]

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[Nas] Everybody [纳斯]每个人都

"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown] “趴下，趴下！趴下，趴下！ ” - [詹姆斯·布朗]

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[Nas] [纳斯]

Some niggaz fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em 有些兄弟们他妈的他们的敌人，他们的屁股，当他们赶上时间

Weird-ass niggaz are dangerous, so don't test 'em 怪异屁股的兄弟们是很危险的，所以不考时间

They make you, dissapear, this a year that I won't forget 他们让你dissapear ，这一年，我不会忘记

Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' execs 售出的CD的双白金，遇见莫高管

Southern niggaz, independent label, real killers 南方的兄弟们，独立厂牌，真正的杀手

Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chillin 懂行的，跑了田纳西州多年，现在他们待在

They had the coke game somethin crazy 他们有焦炭游戏事端疯狂

Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me 已销售出的音乐，他们的汽车后备箱，那些歌我惊讶

Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or somethin 把我拉到鹭成风， sherm或事端

Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them 深吸了一口，什么他妈的，我转身冲他们

Southern niggaz ain't slow, nigga tried to play me 南方的兄弟们也不慢，兄弟们试图发挥我

I left from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy 我从他们身边帅哥离开了，他们很酷，但他们疯了

Now I'm back around the old school that raised me 现在，我回来了周围的老同学说把我养大

New York gangstas, we loungin, out in L.A. see 纽约帮派分子，我们loungin ，在洛杉矶看

A dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay 一个花花公子从鹈鹕湾写了我耶

The letter say, "Nas I got your back - the fools don't play" 信中说， “纳斯我得到了你的背部 - 傻瓜不玩了”

I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral 我推出了一些瘸子下降到克伦肖葬礼

Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible 从来没有见过这么多的人宰，我知道浩负责

The nigga still alive in a hospital 黑鬼在医院还活着

Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too 午夜时分，他们蹑手蹑脚在他的房间，并拍摄过医生

See my cousin's in the game, thuggin and things 请参阅我的表弟在游戏中，般的暴徒和东西

He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano 他插我一个贵妇人谁是半MEXICANO

Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano 给了屁股，我是万人迷女高音

She passed me the indigo, but the imbecile 她从我身边走过的靛蓝，但低能儿

shoulda never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed 早该从未毛尖趾，以为我的眼睛被关闭

Openin the hotel room do', to let her goons in Openin的酒店房间做“ ，让她在暴徒

But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li shit 不过，我感动的方式，在某些李连杰狗屎

I let the hammers blow, wet three kids 我让锤子打击，湿三个孩子

See honey thought I had somethin to do, with all the drama 见蜜以为我有事端做，所有的戏剧

Cause I was with a crew, that had her people killed 因为我是一个剧组，这让她人死亡

Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fuckin witchu 叫了我的表弟，告诉他我是不是他娘witchu

He responded cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers 他回答很酷，但他告诉我，在这里该怎么就怎么

   

"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown] “趴下，趴下！趴下，趴下！ ” - [詹姆斯·布朗]

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[Nas] Everybody [纳斯]每个人都

"Get down, get down! Get down, get down!" - [James Brown] “趴下，趴下！趴下，趴下！ ” - [詹姆斯·布朗]

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[unknown speaker] [未知音箱]

All I really gotta say is that 所有我真的不得不说的是，

if that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? 如果这就是我们的人民怎么会去下不来，我们怎么过坤起来？

How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down? 我们如何过坤起来，如果这就是我们怎么了？

A shame when you ain't look at it 可惜，当你不看它

My folk is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk 我的民歌是溜溜的民俗，但我们都亲属

Somebody gotta make a change 有人得做出改变