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No matter how good a woman is, she still can't really teach him to be no man or daddy 无论多么好的一个女人，她仍然无法真正教他没有男人或爸爸

   

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Used to walk around with a head full of naps 用来走动全小睡的头

Chubby young kid with a head full of raps 胖乎乎的年轻小子满斥责的头

Doing what he can, just trying to adapt 做什么，他可以，只是想适应

Jumped to the block off of grandma's lap 跳到挡掉奶奶的腿上的

Jumped to the block, so did every emcee 跳下来将挡，所以每次做司仪

But gotta tell the truth, yeah, the block wasn't me 但总得说实话，是的，块是不是我

Lookin' for adventure, but the block was not 追寻的冒险，但该块不

The block was real, Woo got killed 该区块是真实的，胡丧生

Half a year later, Big Spank got killed 半年后，大巴掌丧生

And I got robbed, and Ronnie got shot 我总觉得被抢了，罗尼被射杀

And I bought my first tape by 2Pac 我买了我的第一个磁带被2Pac的

And I got hard, cause I was smart 和我辛苦，因为我很聪明

I knew that the weak and the meek couldn't make it in the street 我知道，软弱和温顺不能让它在大街上

Had to assert yourself to survive 有主张自己的生存

So I convinced myself it was better for me 所以我说服自己这是对我好

To be Jack in the *Lord of the Flies* 是杰克在苍蝇的*主*

It's a book I read, books I read 这是一本书我读，我看的书

Cause I'm addicted to literature 因为我沉迷于文学

As a young boy rollin' 'round with the clique 作为一个年轻的男孩罗林轮与集团

Cause of that I was insecure 那因为我没有安全感

I was insecure cause I realized 我很没有安全感，因为我意识到

Ain't no room for the civilized 是不是没有空间文明

When the wild men rumble in the jungle 当野人在丛林中的隆隆声

And that's why Simon and Piggy died 这就是为什么西蒙和小猪死亡

Ralph survives, but he lives changed 拉尔夫生存，但他的生活改变

Nothin's the same, shit'll drive a man out his brain 没什么是相同的， shitll驾驶人从他的大脑

Drive a young man insane 开车一个年轻人疯狂

My cousin Jimmy had a breakdown he ain't never been the same 我的表弟麦身心崩溃，他也不是没有过一样

And he never will be again 他永远不会再

If I could fix his brain 如果我能解决他的大脑

Take back the crack in his mind 收回裂缝在他的脑海

Give it all back, you can have the racks and fame 给它都回来了，你可以有机架和名利

I'd give it all back in exchange 我愿意付出一切早在交换

   

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This is for the dads and the grandads 这是为父亲和grandads

And the little homies that ain't never had dads 和小兄弟们，是不是从来没有爸爸

This is for the uncles and the OGs 这对叔伯可见OGS

And the lil homies, and the YGs 和律兄弟们，和YGS

This is for the men I look up to 这是男人我仰望

And all the struggles that the men had to go through 和所有的人有斗争经历

For every man that's ever had to man up 对每个人说的过到人了

If that's you, let me see you put your hands up 如果这是你，让我看看你把你的手

   

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I lost my youth, chasin' my youth 我失去了我的青春，追赶我的青春

Made me a youth in the back of a coupe 一言我一青年在跑车后面

Teenage love, like Slick Rick said 少年的爱情，就像斯利克里克说

I hit her with my Dougie and I had a gold tooth 我打了她与我的Dougie ，我有一颗金牙

Fur Kangol, Filas too 毛皮Kangol ， Filas太

She was light-skinned red gold tooth 她是浅肤色的红色金牙

But of course it didn't last cause I had to go to college 当然，它并没有持续，因为我不得不去上大学

And she was still in high school 她还在读高中

Damn, I'm a dad, this is bad 妈的，我是爸爸，这是不好的

This ain't good, my baby's in the hood 这是不好的，我的宝宝在引擎盖

And I'm walkin' 'round the black ivy league campus 而我走着轮黑常春藤联盟的校园

Like I wish you house niggas would 就像我希望你的房子黑鬼会

So I go get a job, UPS 所以我去找到一份工作，UPS

Where they treat you like BS and 在那里，他们对待你像BS和

You all know how the story goes 你们都知道故事的结局

Drop out of college and sell 'ses 辍学大学和销售“ SES

I figured I'd invest in studio time 我想我会投资在录音室的时间

Drop rhymes, have success 落韵，有成功

But, mostly I got fronted on, stunted on 不过，主要是我得到了额上，对发育不良

Nigga dealt with some stress 兄弟们处理了一些压力

I'll take that two, take that three 我买了两个，拿那三

Cause my momma got to see me on TV 因为我的妈妈终于看到了我在电视上

And my grandmomma got to get her Grammy 我grandmomma得让她格莱美

And my grandaddy got to see his boy eat 我grandaddy终于看到他的儿子吃

See his boy grow, I wish I never had that show 看到他的孩子长大了，我希望我从来没有过的节目

I wish you never had to go 我希望你从来没

Wish you could meet my wife, wish you could see my life 希望你能满足我的妻子，希望你能看到我的生活

But you had to see the light 但你必须看到光明

Wish I had you one more day 希望我有你多一天

Wish I had tomorrow that's your birthday 希望我明天是你的生日

We can sip gin, straight get fade 我们可以喝杜松子酒，直GET褪色

We can ride old schools through the trey 我们可以通过三分球骑旧学校

   

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