《Underground For Dummies》歌词

歌曲： Underground For Dummies

所属专辑：Human The Death Dance

歌手： Sage Francis

时长： 04:14

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Underground For Dummies - Sage Francis[00:00:00]

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And you'll know it was me by the trail of demos[00:00:10]

你知道这是我的声音[00:00:13]

Spare me the details e-mails memos[00:00:13]

别用细节，邮件和笔记来烦我[00:00:15]

Dookie-gold chain letter to whom it may concern[00:00:15]

致看这封信的人[00:00:18]

Put this around your neck until your hangin' on my every word[00:00:18]

把金链子挂在胸前，好好听我唱歌[00:00:21]

Stalkin' walkin' in my big black boots[00:00:21]

穿着我的黑色靴子，大步前行[00:00:23]

I'm the DIY artist with thick grass roots[00:00:23]

我是一个优秀的创作歌手[00:00:25]

Had a couple managers as a youth[00:00:25]

年轻时签过很多经纪人[00:00:28]

I was too young to know better but I was like[00:00:28]

那时我不懂事，总问[00:00:30]

"What does a manager do "[00:00:30]

经纪人是干什么的？[00:00:31]

Now one of them he saw dollar signs in my skin color[00:00:31]

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[00:00:34]

另一个说，你要低调些[00:00:36]

Post-VIP posse pre-Internet Nazi era[00:00:36]

现在是前网络纳粹时代，而我是vip中的vip[00:00:38]

Powers of suggestion suggested[00:00:38]

资深人士建议我[00:00:39]

I be what I'm not and that's not me ever[00:00:39]

装模作样赚钱，但那从来不是我的风格[00:00:43]

From Lasienega to Meadowbrook Drive[00:00:43]

从Lasienega到Meadowbrook[00:00:44]

Never looked surprised[00:00:44]

人们拿着小刀和铁钩追逐[00:00:45]

Cut to the chase with metal hooks and knives[00:00:45]

这并不令人奇怪[00:00:48]

Now it's battle time I stepped in the arena[00:00:48]

现在是战斗时间，我走进竞技场[00:00:50]

Thirteen-year-old gladiator freak with[00:00:50]

就像个十三岁的斗牛士[00:00:52]

A fever for the flavor of a fight on the mic[00:00:52]

热衷抢夺麦克风[00:00:54]

+Follow the Leader+[00:00:54]

我喜欢那首Follow the Leader[00:00:55]

Mr Chuck was the surrogate father[00:00:55]

Mr Chuck就像我的生父[00:00:56]

KRS-One the teacher[00:00:56]

KRS One是我的导师[00:00:58]

There I was sneakin' into clubs[00:00:58]

我溜进夜店[00:01:00]

Beat an emcee to the punch over instrumentals dubbed[00:01:00]

我打败了夜店主持[00:01:03]

From tape deck to tape deck[00:01:03]

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[00:01:04]

速度快得就像要拧断脖子[00:01:06]

The only whitey in sight[00:01:06]

虽然我是个白人[00:01:07]

That doesn't make me realer than you or faker than you[00:01:07]

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[00:01:10]

我说我的歌是真实的，信不信由你[00:01:12]

Started breakin' rules[00:01:12]

我开始破坏规则[00:01:13]

Ten years later still hadn't stopped[00:01:13]

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[00:01:15]

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[00:01:17]

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[00:01:21]

也许我还需要时间成长[00:01:24]

Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)[00:01:24]

来吧，来吧，虚伪小人，虚伪小人[00:01:27]

Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)[00:01:27]

来吧，来吧，放荡女人，放荡女人[00:01:29]

This is hip-hop for the people[00:01:29]

这是大众嘻哈[00:01:31]

Stop callin' it Emo (waah)[00:01:31]

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[00:01:34]

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[00:01:37]

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[00:01:40]

地下或者主流[00:01:41]

Some are bound to change teams[00:01:41]

有些人注定会改变[00:01:42]

Y'all weren't doin' this dirt[00:01:42]

但不是你们[00:01:44]

When Jeru +Came Clean+[00:01:44]

那时Jeru发了他的新歌Come Clean[00:01:45]

Before the Freddie Foxxx conflict with DMX[00:01:45]

Freddie Foxxx准备和DMX打官司[00:01:47]

Around the time when Jay-Z and Nas' girl had sex[00:01:47]

Jay Z跟Nas girl还在一起[00:01:50]

I used to wake up every morning on a hard wooden floor[00:01:50]

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[00:01:53]

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 [00:01:55]

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[00:01:58]

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[00:02:00]

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[00:02:03]

伙计，你再也不需要买唱片[00:02:05]

Seratooo promo-sexual laptop[00:02:05]

可以直接在网上下载[00:02:08]

A hollow existence in a bottle[00:02:08]

拿起酒瓶[00:02:10]

Ya sip-sip then swallow[00:02:10]

呷一口，然后咽下[00:02:11]

I tripped quick then followed a path that made sense[00:02:11]

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[00:02:14]

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[00:02:17]

我可以用嘴赢得比赛[00:02:19]

And light up the stage with just speech[00:02:19]

用演说点亮舞台[00:02:27]

I remember the days Ken and Dave let me crash on their couch[00:02:27]

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[00:02:30]

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[00:02:32]

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[00:02:34]

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[00:02:37]

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[00:02:40]

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[00:02:43]

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[00:02:45]

他们只在乎声名地位[00:02:48]

Pop pop goes the weasel (the weasel)[00:02:48]

来吧，来吧，虚伪小人，虚伪小人[00:02:51]

Drop drop goes the easel (the easel)[00:02:51]

来吧，来吧，放荡女人，放荡女人[00:02:54]

This is hip-hop for the people (the people)[00:02:54]

这是大众嘻哈，大众[00:02:56]

Stop calling it Emo (wah)[00:02:56]

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[00:02:59]

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 )[00:03:04]

听见它最后说，最后说什么？[00:03:07]

Was "Whiiiiite booyyyy"[00:03:07]

它说，白人男孩[00:03:10]

I'm +Still Sick+ with an independent record label[00:03:10]

Im Still Sick with waiting tables是[00:03:12]

I built quick just when I got +Sick of Waiting Tables+[00:03:12]

我最喜欢的专辑[00:03:15]

Then in the blink of an eye I +Waged War+[00:03:15]

还有[00:03:17]

+As a Known Unsoldier+ with a soul you can't pay for[00:03:17]

Known Unsoldie专辑我也很喜欢[00:03:20]

I ran a business on my own two legs[00:03:20]

我现在自己做生意，不再需要经纪人[00:03:22]

Known to beg if I needed to with Home Grown bootlegs [00:03:22]

然后我写了home grown，但没有大量发行[00:03:25]

Cut and paste images of my face and then sloppily placed 'em in a case [00:03:25]

我喜欢在每一个专辑封面，加上我的卡通人脸[00:03:31]

Strange Famous I stayed +True when School was in Session +[00:03:31]

比如专辑Strange Famous，当我还在读书的时候，我很真诚[00:03:34]

Went to college to buy time—that sh*t was expensive [00:03:34]

为了拖延时间，我又上了大学，大学学费真的很贵[00:03:36]

So I shamelessly self-promoted[00:03:36]

我慢慢成长[00:03:37]

The radio station would open doors and opportunities[00:03:37]

直到音乐世界向我敞开大门，提供机会[00:03:40]

Eventually made it to Oakland[00:03:40]

我来到了Oakland[00:03:42]

Where anticon accepted me with open hands[00:03:42]

Anticon公司签下了我[00:03:44]

+Journals got Personal+ on a one dollar advance [00:03:44]

我发了第一张专辑Journal Personal[00:03:45]

Non-Prophets We had a hope that a UK label smashed[00:03:45]

没有赚一分钱，然后那个英国唱片公司弄砸了我的第二张专辑Hope[00:03:49]

So I crossed out my eyes and signed to Epitaph[00:03:49]

我转而投奔了Epitaph[00:03:51]

This is the hustle of an emcee[00:03:51]

发了[00:03:53]

The +Distrust is Healthy+[00:03:53]

专辑Healthy Distrust[00:03:54]

In a dirty industry where the promises are empty[00:03:54]

在这个肮脏的产业，誓言都是空谈[00:03:56]

I'm more honest than friendly[00:03:56]

我不友好但是诚实[00:03:58]

More handsome than sexy[00:03:58]

我不性感但是帅气[00:03:59]

Let me bring you up to speed +Humans do a Dance that's Deadly+[00:03:59]

让我们一起加快速度，跳起代表死亡的舞蹈[00:04:04]