R E A L I T Y ain't always the truth 现实的一切并非都是真相 Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth 年轻时代喜欢的音乐 就等同于你的现实生活 These are the streets 就像走在街道上 Sh*t is real out here 到处乌烟瘴气 This ain't no f**king joke 这并不是在开玩笑 I lived in a spot called Millbrooke Projects 我住在一个叫做米尔布鲁克的地方 The original criminal minded rap topic 是最初的犯罪说唱主题兴起的地方 With twenty cents in my pocket I saw the light 我来这里的时候 身上只揣着20分钱 If you're young gifted and black you got no rights 如果你是个黑人 即便你才华横溢 在这里也没有任何权力可言 Your only true right is a right to a fight 你唯一的权力就是斗争反抗 And not a fair fight I wake up wondering who died last night 然而 并没有绝对公平的斗争 我只能在早上醒来的时候猜想谁昨晚又把命搭进去了 Everyone and everything is at war 所有人 所有的一切都像一场战役 Making my poetic expression hardcore 我想更诗情画意的表达缠绵悱恻的行为 I ain't afraid to say it and many can't get with it 我不避讳说这些 很多人都讳莫如深 At times in my life I was a welfare recipient 在我的一生中 我一直靠福利救济 I ate the free cheese while the church said believe 在教堂大肆宣扬信仰的时候 我吃着免费的奶酪 And went to school everyday like a goddamn fool 我像个傻子一样 每天去学校上下课 Well anyway here I am chilling at the party 好吧 然而此刻 我却在一个派对上冻得瑟瑟发抖 Brothers looking at me like they wanna kill somebody 弟兄们看着我 嫉恶如仇的眼神里带着一股杀气 A cypher manifested in the center of the jam 拥挤的人群中赫然显示着对决的分数 I got to show these wack rappers really who I am 我要向这些说唱歌手证明我的价值 让他们知道我是谁 It's me against them so I clear the phlegm 我清了清嗓子 开始了正式的对决 And wage the war hardcore to the end 战争的代价就是终结 For someone looking inside yeah from the out 对于从围观者来说 It seems like disrespect is what rap is all about 看似说唱就是肆无忌惮的无礼的宣泄 But hip-hop as a culture is really what we give it 可是嘻哈对于我们而言 是一种文化 But sometimes the culture contradicts how we live it 但有时候这种文化却和我们的生活方式格格不入 'Cause every black kid lives two and three lives 因为好像黑人孩子的生命都很顽强 The city's a jungle only the strong will survive 这个城市就像丛林 物竞天择 强者生存 R E A L I T Y ain't always the truth 现实并不总是真相 Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth 年轻时代喜欢的音乐 就等同于你的现实生活 R E A L I T Y ain't always the truth 现实并不总是真相 Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth 年轻时代喜欢的音乐 就等同于你的现实生活 Every single day I hear lie after lie 每一天我都活在一个又一个谎言中 Like "Black people don't die we multiply" 好像黑人都是坚强不催的 So when I kick a rhyme I represent how I feel 所以当我用韵脚来表达我的感受时 The sacred street art of keeping it real 存真的神圣的街头艺术 Why I gotta listen to somebody else 为什么我要听从别人的意见 How they got wealth let me talk about myself 他们是如何获得财富的 让我来谈论一下我自己 But all I really got is hip-hop and a glock 我深深爱着嘻哈音乐和摇滚 The results are obvious if I'm confined to my block 如果我只局限于我的条条框框里 那结果是显而易见的 Occasionally in the city I'm released 偶尔在城市中释放自己 To meet other beasts looking for the feast 与其他寻找盛宴的野兽相遇 We grunt and growl on the prowl as the air gets thinner 当空气变稀薄时 我们会咕哝着 咆哮着 "Yo yo there he go him" there's the dinner