[A] Aiyyo, wassup wassup let's keep it real son [A] Aiyyo ，日wassup日wassup让我们保持它真正的儿子

Count this money, yaknowhatI'msayin? 算上这笔钱， yaknowhatImsayin ？

[N] Yea yea [N]是啊是啊

[A] Aiyyo, put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin? [A] Aiyyo ，把格兰特的那边，在安全yaknowhatImsayin ？

[N] Yea yea [N]是啊是啊

[A] Cause we spendin these Jackson's [A]因为我们赵本山这些杰克逊

The Washington's go to wifey, you know how that go 华盛顿一起去wifey ，你知道那是去

[N] I'm sayin, that's what this is all about right? [N]我的意思，那就是这是怎么一回事吗？

Clothes, bankrolls, and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin? 服装， bankrolls和锄头yaknowhatImsayin ？

Yo then what man, what?? [echoes] 哟那么什么人，什么？ [回音]

   

[Verse One: AZ the Visualiza] [诗一： AZ的Visualiza ]

Visualizin the realism of life and actuality Visualizin生活和现实的现实主义

Fuck who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary 他妈的谁是一个人的地位取决于工资最不好

And my mentality is, money orientated 而我的心态，金钱至上

I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it 我注定要活在梦中对所有我的窥视谁没有把它

cause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as five percenters 引起耶，我们是初学者在引擎盖五percenters

But somethin must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners 但是事端必须得在美国引起我们所有人变成罪人

Now some, restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin 现在一些人的休眠和平有的呆坐着在圣昆廷

Others such as myself are tryin to carry on tradition 其他像我这样的都试着进行传统

Keepin the schwepervesence street ghetto essence inside us 坚持着我们内心的schwepervesence街贫民区精华

Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us 因为它为我们提供了正确的见解来指导我们

Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go 虽然，我们知道在某种程度上，我们都该走了

but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin with some kind of dough 但只要我们要走thievin我们将用某种面团被要走

so, and to that day we expire and turn to vapors 因此，与那一天，我们到期转来转去蒸气

me and my capers-ll be somewhere stackin plenty papers 我和我的刺山柑，会在某个地方stackin大量论文

Keepin it real, packin steel, gettin high 坚持着它真正的，包装;钢，开始报高

Cause life's a bitch and then you die 因为生活是个婊子，然后你死

   

[Chorus: AZ the Visualiza] [合唱： AZ的Visualiza ]

Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high 生命是一个婊子，然后你死了;这就是为什么我们得到的高

Cause you never know when you're gonna go 因为你永远不知道你什么时候去

Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye 生命是一个婊子，然后你死了;这就是为什么我们吹嘘碱液

Cause you never know when you're gonna go 因为你永远不知道你什么时候去

Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high 生命是一个婊子，然后你死了;这就是为什么我们得到的高

Cause you never know when you're gonna go 因为你永远不知道你什么时候去

Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we puff lye 生命是一个婊子，然后你死了;这就是为什么我们吹嘘碱液

[--> chorus #1 echoes at the end] [ - >合唱＃ 1回波在结束]

   

Cause you never know when you're gonna go 因为你永远不知道你什么时候去

Life's a bitch and then you die 生命是一个婊子，然后你死

[--> chorus #2 includes these lines, echoes at the end] [ - >合唱＃ 2包括这些线，呼应在结束]

   

[Verse Two: Nas] [诗二：纳斯]

I woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing 我醒来的时候早在我出生的那天，我20年祝福

The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in 青春期的本质离开我的身体，现在我很新鲜的

My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it 我的物理帧庆祝，因为我做这

One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created 一季度，通过生活中的一些神LY类的东西产生

Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some 得了押韵365天年再加上一些

Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from 加载了麦克风和萧条的，咒骂的同时，我从喷着

my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain 我的头骨的原因，而是痛在我的大脑内静脉的钱维持

Don't go against the grain simple and plain 不要反其道而行简单朴素

When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard 当我年轻的时候在这以前我做我的事硬

Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards 罗宾外国人拿他们钱包，他们的珠宝和撕裂他们绿卡

Dipped to the projects flashin my quick cash 下降到flashin我快钱的项目

and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash 并得到了我的第一块屁股戒掉的减弱与哈希

Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I used to run with 现在，它的所有有关的现金充裕，兄弟们，我曾经与运行

is rich or doin years in the hundreds 是富人还是干什么年的数百

I switched my motto -- instead of sayin fuck tomorrow 我转向我的座右铭 - 而不是在说他妈的明天

That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto 巴克说买了一瓶可能已经袭击了乐透

Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks 有一次，我站在块，宽松的裂缝产生栈

I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back 我做了切小块让我回来的战利品

Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric 时间是Illmatic保持静态像羊毛面料

Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage 包了4马蒂奇说打击你的整个白菜

   

[Chorus] [合唱]

   

[Olu Dara plays trumpet until fade] [奥卢达拉扮演的小号，直到淡出]