I can tell you what it is, I can tell you what it isn't 我可以告诉你它是什么，我可以告诉你它不是什么

No more K. Dot, my mother had named me Kendrick 没有更多K点，我妈妈叫我肯德里克

Fuck a stage name, that's the name that I was given 他妈的一个艺名，这是我被赋予的名称

The only thing that I can identify within this bidness 我可以在此bidness内确定的唯一的事

I'm just a good kid from Compton that want to rap 我来自康普顿只是一个好孩子希望说唱

Weighing my options, pick up a Bible or a strap? 权衡我的选择，拿起圣经或带？

I never killed a man, never sold any crack 我从来没有杀过人，从来没有卖过任何裂纹

All I ever did was try to keep my city on the map 所有我做过的就是尽量保持我的城市在地图上

But this monkey on my back, y'all don't want me to win 但是，这只猴子在我的背上，你们都不要我赢

I'm tryna follow dreams, you want me to follow trends 我tryna追随梦想，你要我跟随潮流

So just to get a dollar, will I sell my soul? 所以刚拿到一块钱，我会卖掉我的灵魂？

I look the Devil in the eye and tell him, hell no 我期待魔鬼的眼睛，告诉他，根本没

They say anything worth having is worth the wait 他们说，什么值得拥有值得期待

Well I want the world, tell me how long that takes 好吧，我想这个世界，需要多少时间需要告诉我

There's no time like now, I can cut my patience/patients short 有没有时间像现在，我可以把我的耐心/短的患者

or give 'em some more gowns, I don't even want the crown 或者给他们多一些的礼服，我什至不希望冠

I just want a peace of mind, and nigga, when I get it 我只想要一个平和的心态，和兄弟们，当我得到它

you won't get a piece of mine, won't you mind your own bidness? 你不会得到一张我的，你不介意自己的bidness ？

A rich nigga buy anything you sell him 丰富的黑人买什么你卖他

A broke nigga believe anything that you tell him 一个一文不名的黑人相信什么，你告诉他

Well I'm a broke nigga 我是一个一文不名的黑人

But still I wouldn't listen to you even if your hand was on a Bible quote, nigga 但我不会听你的，即使你的手放在圣经上的报价，兄弟们

Pfttuh Pfttuh

   

See I was brought up different 看我被带到了不同的

Whatever that my pops said, for sure I'd listen 无论是我的啪啪说，肯定我会听

You said you did dirt, but I can't dig it 你说你做的污垢，但我不能把它挖出来

It don't concern you if you wasn't born in it 它不关心你，如果你不是出生在这

Oh-no-oh-oh 哦，不，哦，哦

I swear we got to fast-forward... 我发誓，我们一定要快进...

   

Before time flies by 在时间飞逝而过

My new sound for '0-10 is, why lie? 我的新的“ 0-10声音，为什么撒谎？

And if you ain't trying to win, then why try? 如果你不想要取胜，那么为什么尝试一下呢？

Now you can low-ball or give me high five 现在，您可以低球或者给我五高

This is I nigga, look into my eye 这也是我的兄弟们，看着我的眼睛

Nigga, I am Kendrick... Lamar 兄弟们，我肯德里克 - 拉马尔...

Nigga, my name is Kendrick... Lamar 兄弟们，我的名字是肯德里克 - 拉马尔...

I said my name is Kendrick... Lamar 我说我的名字是肯德里克 - 拉马尔...

I changed the name cause I was tired of being like y'all 我改了名字，因为我已经厌倦了被你们都一样

Now finally I'm ready to tell the world who I are, pfttuh 现在终于我准备告诉世界，我是谁， pfttuh

   

And that used to be a hell of a task 而这曾经是一个任务的地狱

Now I'm ahead of my class, so go ahead and harass 现在，我前面我的课的，所以，尽管骚扰

my character like it don't carry a 我的性格就像它不携带

confidence that can marry a Halle Berry or Angelina with no cash 信心可以娶一个哈莉·贝瑞和安吉丽娜不带现金

I'm bout to cash in my thoughts 我就要兑现我的想法

Give you a compass, then tell you get lost 给你一个指南针，然后告诉你迷路

What I'm bout to accomplish is something that you can't fathom 什么我就要完成的东西，你无法捉摸

Once the 'Eves' come, they quick to stare 'Adam'/at him 一旦“前夕”来了，他们动不动就盯亚当 /他

Hoping I don't take they bitch, but I'm on some other shit 希望我不带他们婊子，但我在其他一些狗屎

When I'm done, I'm tryna run the government 当我做了，我tryna运行的政府

They are big dreams 他们是大梦想

Transition from a rapper to a human being, you can't 'school' a dean 转型从说唱到一个人，你不能“学校”迪安

I be tutoring artist-es, leave 'em with no audience 我该补习艺术家ES ，离开他们，没有观众

All cause they all oversaw it, my God 所有的原因都监督它，我的上帝

Y'all be out partying, I be stealing your audience 你们要在外面聚会，我会盗取你的听众

All because who I are, Lamar 所有因为我是谁，拉马尔

   

But my first name, it gotta be Kendrick... Lamar 但是，我的第一个名字，它得是肯德里克 - 拉马尔...

Nigga, my name is Kendrick... Lamar 兄弟们，我的名字是肯德里克 - 拉马尔...

I changed the name cause I was tired of being like y'all 我改了名字，因为我已经厌倦了被你们都一样

Now finally I'm ready to tell the world who I are, now let's go 现在终于我准备告诉世界，我是谁，现在让我们去

But we can't go... backwards 但是，我们不能去...倒退