ニプシー・ハッスル(Nipsey Hussle)が生前にレコーディングしていたヴァースを起用して,ジェイ・Z(JAY-Z)が本年リリースされた映画『Judas and the Black Messiah(邦題:ユダ&ブラック・メシア(裏切りの代償))』のインスパイアード・アルバム収録の楽曲に,ヴァースを提供しました。
[Verse 2: JAY-Z]
Scorpion bricks, way before Aubrey’s double disc
.40 on my lap, clap, sound like 40 did the mix
Filtered bass, sift coke like a Michelin star chef
Chef kiss to my wrist, I go dummy with my left
IRS on my dick try to audit all my checks, too late
You know they hate when you become more than they expect
You let them crackers storm your Capitol, put they feet up on your desk
And yet you talkin’ tough to me, I lost all my little respect
I’m sellin’ weed in the open, bringin’ folks home from the feds
I know that payback’s gon’ be mean, I’m savin’ all my little bread
Pray for me, y’all, one day I’ma have to pay for these thoughts
Real niggas is extinct, it ain’t safe for me, my dawg
They killin’ niggas in they own hoods, that make sense to you at all?
You burnt your bridge to the other side, you know you can’t swim across
Y’all know niggas can’t swim, they fried Mike after he died
Y’all know niggas can’t win, you never land, all jokes aside
I arrived on the day Fred Hampton got mur—, hol’ up
Assassinated, just to clarify further
What y’all gave birth is the chairman mixed with Jeff Fort
Big stepper on that jet with my legs crossed (Uh, uh)
Black stones on my neck, y’all can’t kill Christ (Uh)
Black Messiah is what I feel like (Woo)
Shit ain’t gonna stop ’cause y’all spilled blood
We gon’ turn up even more since y’all kill cuz’
Meek Mill feat. Rick Ross & JAY-Z – “What’s Free”(ヴァース3及びサビ部分対訳)
[Verse 3: JAY-Z]
In the land of the free, where the blacks enslaved
Three-fifths of a man, I believe’s the phrase
I’m 50% of D’USSÉ and it’s debt free (Yeah)
100% of Ace of Spades, worth half a B (Uh)
Roc Nation, half of that, that’s my piece
Hunnid percent of TIDAL to bust it up with my Gs, uh
Since most of my niggas won’t ever work together
You run a check up but they never give you leverage
No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and ‘Ye
They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA, uh
I ain’t one of these house niggas you bought
My house like a resort, my house bigger than yours
My spou- (Come on, man)
My route better, of course
We started without food in our mouth
They gave us pork and pig intestines
Shit you discarded that we ingested, we made the project a wave
You came back, reinvested and gentrified it
Took niggas’ sense of pride, now how that’s free?
And them people stole the soul and hit niggas with 360s, huh
I ain’t got a billion streams, got a billion dollars
Inflating numbers like we ‘posed to be happy about this
We was praisin’ Billboard, but we were young
Now I look at Billboard like, “Is you dumb?”
To this day, Grandma ‘fraid what I might say
They gon’ have to kill me, Grandmama, I’m not they slave
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, check out the bizarre (Ah)
Rappin’ style used by me, the H-O-V
Look at my hair free, carefree, niggas ain’t near free
Enjoy your chains, what’s your employer name with the hairpiece?
I survived the hood, can’t no Shaytan rob me
My accountant’s so good, I’m practically livin’ tax free
Factory, that’s me
Sold drugs, got away scot-free
That’s a CC, E-copy
Guilt free, still me
And expect me to not feel a way to this day
You would say y’all killed me
Sucker free, no shuckin’ me, I don’t jive turkey
Say “Happy Thanksgiving,” shit sound like a murder to me
Smoke free, all of y’all callin’ out toll free
Label rob you for millions yet you wanna put a hole in me
Sugar free, seasoned but I’m salt free
You lay a hand on Hov, my shooter shoot for free
I promise World War Three
Send a order through a hands free
Kill you in 24 hours or shorter, you can’t ignore the hand speed
On god, it’s off the head, this improv but it’s no comedy
Sign I fail? Hell nah
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha) Hahahahahahahahaha
[Chorus: Meek Mill]
What’s free?
Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be
Free is when the TV ain’t controllin’ what we see
Told my niggas, “I need you”
Through all the fame, you know I stayed true
Pray my niggas stay free
Made a few mistakes but this ain’t where I wanna be
Before I’m judged by 12, put a 12 on my V
Told my niggas, “I need you”
Stay up, I know these times ain’t true
Real life, what’s free?
今日は6月29日にリリースされたドレイクのアルバム『Scorpion』より,収録楽曲「Talk Up feat. Jay-Z」を取り上げます。
Drake feat. Jay-Z – “Talk Up”
(Verse: Jay-Z)
Yo, get close enough to HOV, smell like a kilo still
First album 26, I ain’t need no deal
Already a hood legend, I ain’t need no shine
First Rollie flooded out, I ain’t see no time, woah
Stand-up niggas, we only duckin’ indictments
Dope boys, Off-White, lookin’ like soft white on ’em
Heh, you know what I’m sayin’?
We in the buildin’, we came for a billion, ain’t nobody playin’
Live every word that I’m rappin’
Say I lost 90 bricks and it happened
You probably wouldn’t believe everything that you seein’ right now if it wasn’t live action
I ain’t on the ‘Gram, they record who I am
God to these dope boys, how do you not be a HOV fan?
I’m what Meech shoulda been
I’m what Supreme didn’t become
If Alpo didn’t snitch, niggas’d be like Young
I got your President tweetin’, I won’t even meet with him
Y’all killed X and let Zimmerman live, shhh, s-streets is done