- Akua Naru the world is listening 歌詞
- Akua Naru
- Flashback, '88
1988那一年 Copped my first tape 第一盤磁帶剛到手 Third Grade 小學才讀了三年 Young girl banking Roxanne Shante 喜歡蒐集Roxanne Shante的唱片 Around my way 想盡了辦法 Called McKay 還跟McKay打了電話 Disarray 那時人們的生活還是亂七八糟 Langston's a dark hues get bruised 蘭斯頓詩裡的女孩深色皮膚上滿是淤青(典故:蘭斯頓·休斯的詩作Song For A Dark Girl) Stored away, hey 她的同胞們成批地被買賣 Caught in cage 被當成物件,關進籠子 Fought in the maze, gave up 黑人在泥淖中掙扎,也曾經放棄 And now I got dreams of being live on stage 而現在我卻膽敢夢想登台露面 What 是又怎樣 Turn up the volume, me and my cousin 音量調大,我跟著堂兄 Doing the wop 一起跳街舞 Dreaming about the Salt-N-Pepa haircut 那時很想剪Salt-N-Pepa那樣的髮型 Speakers bump like the rock pumps 音響裡是震天的鼓點 The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump 伴著節奏在一旁跳繩 What you want? At once 你想要的是什麼? ...and we love the 曾經我也和Pecola Breedlove(Toni Morrison小說The Bluest Eye中的主角,一個一心想要一雙白人那樣的藍眼睛的黑人女孩)一樣 We dreamed of ourselves 自顧自地胡思亂想 Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was 直到Queen Latifah告訴我們什麼才是榜樣 Went from invisible to seen on the Smooth tip 從一開始的默默無聞到跟著Sweet Tee的節奏開始說唱(致敬80年代女rapper Sweet Tee的作品On the Smooth Tip) Sweet Tee, to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene 再跟著Monie的腳步向前,站到舞台中間(致敬Monie Love的作品Monie In The Middle) So then saw myself, I'll drop mics when I'm over 直到那時我才找到了自我,表演完會嗨到丟麥 Pick up a pen and like Antoinette 拿起筆來,寫出的句子像Antoinette的那樣 'Lights Out, Party's Over' “把燈關了,都別玩兒了(致敬女MC Antoinette的作品Lights Out, Party's Over) This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante 這首歌寫給Latifah(Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante) Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae 寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill,Heather B和Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa , even me 寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我 Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy 寫給Apani B,Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim (Lil Kim),Foxy(Foxy Brown) This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo 還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo -Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe 寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D 寫給Mysitic ,BO$$,Sparky D For those never seen 寫給那些陌生人 On the search for female emcees 尋找女性MC的人 The microphone fiends 拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人(引自Eric B & Rakim的作品Microphone Fiends) Stomped in the '90s 時間到了九十年代 After school you could find me 放學之後總能在後院兒看見我 In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhyming 求著別人給我個beat U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues 跟著U-N-I-T-Y(Queen Latifah的代表作)和Heather B的藍調練習 Claim the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen 得知了Phyllis Hymen(美國女歌手演員,95年逝世)去世的消息 I rap to keep from crying 要說幾段verse才能喘過氣不哭出聲來 Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$ 最後終於出人頭地,說話有了分量 Recipe for a show 演出也開始得心應手 They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo 但他們說乾這行女的不行,所以我向來單打獨鬥 Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home , though 在居住的黑人社區裡(Blackstreet也是一個黑人r&b樂隊),Ill Na Na(Foxy Brown的首張專輯)伴我成長 I rap along to every song 每一首歌我都跟著唱 And ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo 都沒給玩兒留出時間(致敬Yo-Yo的代表作You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo) Check, how I hit every note, though 瞧瞧這音我唱的準不准 Even sung along with patois 連牙買加黑話都學得有模有樣 Like in the joint she did with Patra Yo-Yo和Patra合作的那首 I'm on a Romantic Call.. . “我在甜蜜蜜地打給他” (Talkin' to my baby Down ah mi yard) (“給我的小情人打電話,就在我家”) Blank page calling, a ...[??] (這句聽不清,翻不出來......sorry) The crowd yes ya'llin' 台下的人大聲喝彩 Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning 早晨五點起來淡然地捲葉子 Sported he Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn 聽著Lil Kim的硬貨,接著是Lauryn的歌 She showed me the beauty and the natural cut 是她讓我明白什麼是美,讓我愛上了natural cut(Lauryn Hill的標誌髮型) Amplify my Rage, growing out my afro puffs 讓我能夠保持憤怒,剪掉了之前的afro puffs(afro puffs也是一種黑人髮型,同時也是The Lady Of Rage的代表作) This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante 這首歌寫給Latifah(Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante) Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae 寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill ,Heather B和Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me 寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我 Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy 寫給Apani B,Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim(Lil Kim),Foxy( Foxy Brown) This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo 還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo-Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe 寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D 寫給Mysitic,BO$$,Sparky D For those never seen 寫給那些陌生人 On the search for female emcees 尋找女性MC的人 The microphone fiends 拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人 New millennium, came of age 2000年後,年歲漸長 While things stayed the same 但身邊的事物都還是原樣 Media forms changed 傳媒的形式已經變了 New name, from What-What? to Jean Grae 新的名字出現,從那誰誰到Jean Grae We bootlegged, the bootleg 私底下該錄磁帶的還是錄磁帶 Put away cassette and VHS tapes in vinyl crates 和磁帶、錄影帶放在一起的還有黑膠唱片 Fast forward album release dates 按發行時間順序播放快進 Hip-hopalizing what we buy or objectify 到了現在,Hip-Hop被物化 In these days 成了商品被擺上櫥窗 Tell me what's the plight of a female MC's fate? 跟我說,什麼叫女MC命途多舛生活艱辛? Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ? 一個女人成為DJ的故事又有什麼意思? Downloading everyone and now my heroes seemingly gone 人們下載的歌誰的都有,但我的偶像似乎已經沉寂 Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged 找了半天才找到Lauryn Hill的不插電版唱片 Guess I lost one 之前有過,好像丟了 Some come and go 萬事雲煙,來來去去 Self-labeled ***** and ho 有些人管自己叫叫雞 A heretic of discourse 吐出來的話根本沒法聽進去 I turn off the radio 我把電台關掉 I can 't relate, nor can I hate 我和這些音樂完全沒有共鳴,但也不能說討厭 For the ways we negotiate 因為本就異路殊途 The ***ist spaces we navigate 我們仍在艱難地對抗性別歧視 I stay reppin' 我仍舊在人群中扛著大旗 Vaunted by the crest of hip hop's crescent 但新一代的Hip-Hop浪潮卻為虎作倀 It seems... 似乎(下句是Lauryn Hill名言:Fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need) 'Fantasy's what people want reality to be' “幻想裡的人人都想要,而現實的一切才是我們需要面對的” This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante 這首歌寫給Latifah( Queen Latifah),Lyte(MC Lyte)和Shante(Roxanne Shante) Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae 寫給Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill,Heather B和Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me 寫給E-V-E,Nikki D,Salt-N-Pepa還有我 Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy 寫給Apani B, Missy(Missy Elliot),Kim(Lil Kim),Foxy( Foxy Brown) This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo 還寫給Rah Digga,Rage(The Lady of Rage),Left Eye和Yo-Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe 寫給Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat和Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D 寫給Mysitic,BO$$,Sparky D For those never seen 寫給那些陌生人 On the search for female emcees 尋找女性MC的人 The microphone fiends 拿著麥的惡魔也可以是女人 The world is listening 世界在聆聽 The world is listening 世界在聆聽 The world is listening 世界在聆聽
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