[00:00:00] Underground For Dummies - Sage Francis
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[00:00:10] And you'll know it was me by the trail of demos
[00:00:13] 你知道这是我的声音
[00:00:13] Spare me the details e-mails memos
[00:00:15] 别用细节，邮件和笔记来烦我
[00:00:15] Dookie-gold chain letter to whom it may concern
[00:00:18] 致看这封信的人
[00:00:18] Put this around your neck until your hangin' on my every word
[00:00:21] 把金链子挂在胸前，好好听我唱歌
[00:00:21] Stalkin' walkin' in my big black boots
[00:00:23] 穿着我的黑色靴子，大步前行
[00:00:23] I'm the DIY artist with thick grass roots
[00:00:25] 我是一个优秀的创作歌手
[00:00:25] Had a couple managers as a youth
[00:00:28] 年轻时签过很多经纪人
[00:00:28] I was too young to know better but I was like
[00:00:30] 那时我不懂事，总问
[00:00:30] "What does a manager do "
[00:00:31] 经纪人是干什么的？
[00:00:31] Now one of them he saw dollar signs in my skin color
[00:00:34] 现在其中一个经纪人在我身上看见了商机
[00:00:34] The other he said to keep it undercover
[00:00:36] 另一个说，你要低调些
[00:00:36] Post-VIP posse pre-Internet Nazi era
[00:00:38] 现在是前网络纳粹时代，而我是vip中的vip
[00:00:38] Powers of suggestion suggested
[00:00:39] 资深人士建议我
[00:00:39] I be what I'm not and that's not me ever
[00:00:43] 装模作样赚钱，但那从来不是我的风格
[00:00:43] From Lasienega to Meadowbrook Drive
[00:00:44] 从Lasienega到Meadowbrook
[00:00:44] Never looked surprised
[00:00:45] 人们拿着小刀和铁钩追逐
[00:00:45] Cut to the chase with metal hooks and knives
[00:00:48] 这并不令人奇怪
[00:00:48] Now it's battle time I stepped in the arena
[00:00:50] 现在是战斗时间，我走进竞技场
[00:00:50] Thirteen-year-old gladiator freak with
[00:00:52] 就像个十三岁的斗牛士
[00:00:52] A fever for the flavor of a fight on the mic
[00:00:54] 热衷抢夺麦克风
[00:00:54] +Follow the Leader+
[00:00:55] 我喜欢那首Follow the Leader
[00:00:55] Mr Chuck was the surrogate father
[00:00:56] Mr Chuck就像我的生父
[00:00:56] KRS-One the teacher
[00:00:58] KRS One是我的导师
[00:00:58] There I was sneakin' into clubs
[00:01:00] 我溜进夜店
[00:01:00] Beat an emcee to the punch over instrumentals dubbed
[00:01:03] 我打败了夜店主持
[00:01:03] From tape deck to tape deck
[00:01:04] 从一个录音音座换到另一个录音音座
[00:01:04] Pause tape mix at breakneck speed
[00:01:06] 速度快得就像要拧断脖子
[00:01:06] The only whitey in sight
[00:01:07] 虽然我是个白人
[00:01:07] That doesn't make me realer than you or faker than you
[00:01:10] 那并不代表我的歌比你的更真实，或更虚假
[00:01:10] But I'm authentic forget it
[00:01:12] 我说我的歌是真实的，信不信由你
[00:01:12] Started breakin' rules
[00:01:13] 我开始破坏规则
[00:01:13] Ten years later still hadn't stopped
[00:01:15] 十年后我仍在破坏规则
[00:01:15] Won the biggest battle in a Metallica shirt before the album dropped
[00:01:17] 后来我穿着Metallica乐队的汗衫，领取了我的奖杯
[00:01:17] A week later smashed the trophy at a show
[00:01:21] 一周之后，我在演出上把奖杯砸了
[00:01:21] It was takin' up the space that I needed to grow
[00:01:24] 也许我还需要时间成长
[00:01:24] Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)
[00:01:27] 来吧，来吧，虚伪小人，虚伪小人
[00:01:27] Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)
[00:01:29] 来吧，来吧，放荡女人，放荡女人
[00:01:29] This is hip-hop for the people
[00:01:31] 这是大众嘻哈
[00:01:31] Stop callin' it Emo (waah)
[00:01:34] 不要再叫它情绪摇滚
[00:01:34] I know a kid who thinks he's hip-hop 'cause he buys it
[00:01:37] 我认识一个孩子，以为自己是嘻哈，因为他买了我的专辑
[00:01:37] I know a kid who thinks he's hip-hop 'cause he never buys sh*t
[00:01:40] 我认识一个孩子，以为自己是嘻哈，因为他从来不听其他种类的音乐
[00:01:40] Underground or mainstream
[00:01:41] 地下或者主流
[00:01:41] Some are bound to change teams
[00:01:42] 有些人注定会改变
[00:01:42] Y'all weren't doin' this dirt
[00:01:44] 但不是你们
[00:01:44] When Jeru +Came Clean+
[00:01:45] 那时Jeru发了他的新歌Come Clean
[00:01:45] Before the Freddie Foxxx conflict with DMX
[00:01:47] Freddie Foxxx准备和DMX打官司
[00:01:47] Around the time when Jay-Z and Nas' girl had sex
[00:01:50] Jay Z跟Nas girl还在一起
[00:01:50] I used to wake up every morning on a hard wooden floor
[00:01:53] 我曾经天天在装潢着硬木地板的房子里醒来
[00:01:53] Livin' in Brooklyn with a car I couldn't afford
[00:01:55] 住在Brooklyn，开着我买不起的汽车
[00:01:55] And if I wasn't hangin' out in front of Fat Beats records
[00:01:58] 如果我的唱片没有放在Fat Beats records唱片店的前排
[00:01:58] I was in the factory mailing out my 12-inches
[00:02:00] 那一定是因为我把它们都做成了黑胶碟
[00:02:00] Nowadays the DJs don't even spin wax
[00:02:03] 现在DJ都不怎么打碟了
[00:02:03] So f**k a promo copy buddy you can download the track
[00:02:05] 伙计，你再也不需要买唱片
[00:02:05] Seratooo promo-sexual laptop
[00:02:08] 可以直接在网上下载
[00:02:08] A hollow existence in a bottle
[00:02:10] 拿起酒瓶
[00:02:10] Ya sip-sip then swallow
[00:02:11] 呷一口，然后咽下
[00:02:11] I tripped quick then followed a path that made sense
[00:02:14] 我的音乐道路一开始并不顺利，但是很快我就找到了方向
[00:02:14] Started out with a live band then worked with turn-tablists
[00:02:17] 我先是做现场乐队，后来转型做了说唱歌手
[00:02:17] Now I strike a match with the back of my front teeth
[00:02:19] 我可以用嘴赢得比赛
[00:02:19] And light up the stage with just speech
[00:02:27] 用演说点亮舞台
[00:02:27] I remember the days Ken and Dave let me crash on their couch
[00:02:30] 我想起了Ken和Dave借我沙发睡的日子
[00:02:30] And I saved what I could and put the cash in my mouth
[00:02:32] 我尽我所能改变现状，最后赚了很多钱
[00:02:32] When I played in my hood I had a fraction of outs
[00:02:34] 当我穿着帽衫开始我的说唱，我并没有方向
[00:02:34] 'Til Atmosphere put me on and now I'm packin' the house
[00:02:37] 后来Atmosphere激励了我，现在我已经游刃有余
[00:02:37] Since the mid-80s this has been a game of cat and mouse
[00:02:40] 从八十世纪中叶开始，唱片业就成了一场猫鼠游戏
[00:02:40] It's funny hearin' all the sh*t these rappers brag about
[00:02:43] 那些说唱歌手夸张的歌词，让人听了好笑
[00:02:43] Knowin' all of them are walkin' around with massive doubts
[00:02:45] 他们自己都不相信自己唱的
[00:02:45] Talkin' bout it's only status and platinum plaques that count
[00:02:48] 他们只在乎声名地位
[00:02:48] Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)
[00:02:51] 来吧，来吧，虚伪小人，虚伪小人
[00:02:51] Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)
[00:02:54] 来吧，来吧，放荡女人，放荡女人
[00:02:54] This is hip-hop for the people (the people)
[00:02:56] 这是大众嘻哈，大众
[00:02:56] Stop calling it Emo (wah)
[00:02:59] 不要再叫它情绪摇滚
[00:02:59] Irony is dead it's so motherf**king dead I was there by its deathbed
[00:03:04] 讽刺已经死去，彻底死去，我站在它的床边
[00:03:04] And the last words that it said (Was what )
[00:03:07] 听见它最后说，最后说什么？
[00:03:07] Was "Whiiiiite booyyyy"
[00:03:10] 它说，白人男孩
[00:03:10] I'm +Still Sick+ with an independent record label
[00:03:12] Im Still Sick with waiting tables是
[00:03:12] I built quick just when I got +Sick of Waiting Tables+
[00:03:15] 我最喜欢的专辑
[00:03:15] Then in the blink of an eye I +Waged War+
[00:03:17] 还有
[00:03:17] +As a Known Unsoldier+ with a soul you can't pay for
[00:03:20] Known Unsoldie专辑我也很喜欢
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