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入獄獄警訓話：

你之后會被分配一個號碼 your number is going to be given to you.

號碼是按順序的 it's a sequential number.

那個號碼不是隨意的數(shù)字 it's not a random set of numbers, son.

這數(shù)字是有它的含義的，它代表著你 that number means something. it's your number.

現(xiàn)在是你的號碼 it's your number now.

你知道這數(shù)字它的涵義是什么嗎，孩子？ you know what that number represents, son?

276000，仔細聽著 276,000.now listen carefully to me,

你就會明白 and you'll understand a little bit

我為什么會那么生氣 about what makes me so angry.

在哥倫比亞 we only have less than500,000people

這個區(qū)的人口不到五十萬 in the district of columbia, son.

現(xiàn)如今 百分之七十的人口是黑人 now, only 70% of them are black.

五十萬人的百分之七十是多少？ now, what's 70% of500,000?

算一下，華盛頓有35萬個黑人 do the math. we got about 350,000black people in d.c.

就算這其中一半是女性 of the 350,000, half of them are female, aren't they?

你再算下，用你的腦子算一算！ well, what's that? use the math, son! the math!

不到17.5萬人是像你這樣的男性 less than,people are males like yourself.

好 那我們假設(shè)他們都沒有超過21歲 now, all of 'em not over 21 years of age.

其中有一半是孩子 half of 'em are kids.

算算還剩下多少？ now, how the devil have we got

也就是說在哥倫比亞這個區(qū) we got only to ,adult males

我們只有七萬五到八萬的成年男性 in the district of columbia,

而現(xiàn)在你拿的編號序列已經(jīng)到了276000 this is the number276000today?

你自己想想吧 figure it out for yourself!

我們已經(jīng)厭倦了看到21歲年輕人入獄了 we've exhausted the 21-year-olds,

更別說20歲、19歲的了20-year-olds, 19-year-olds.

現(xiàn)在18歲的也來了 we're working on 18.

犯罪年齡越來越低 we're movin' on down the line, son.

入獄人數(shù)已經(jīng)超過了三十萬人 by the time we cross, ,

之后還會有16歲，17歲的人進來 we'll be down to 16- and 17-year-olds.

華盛頓的黑人會越來越少 we're wiping out our race in washington, d.c.

而你還擱這 and here you are in here

玩著這種愚蠢的小游戲 playing these little silly-ass games.

這里可有你好受的 well, we got somethin' for ya, son.

歡迎來到華盛頓監(jiān)獄 welcome to the d.c. jail.

你或許能順利活到出獄 或許不能 you might make it outta here, and you might not.

雷（獄中和隔壁獄友說唱）：

我的腦子像杰西詹姆斯一樣運轉(zhuǎn)著 roll my fuckin' brains like jesse james

喲太陽啊，被太陽能量包裹，僅僅是因為我們 yo, sun, as in solar, simply because we are

我們是冉冉升起的星辰，永不落下的太陽 we be the risin' stars and suns that never set

說句話，小弟，想賭一把嗎，兄弟？ word up, jack. wanna make a bet, black?

我掌握了真理 i got the formula

把我丟在空中 讓我來照耀并溫暖你們 throw me in the sky,and i'll warm ya

而你們卻抹了防曬霜 把我丟進了監(jiān)獄 get your sunblock, throw me in a cellblock

確實，我有了你所說的知識 indeed, i got the science you need

比古希臘還要古老的知識 lessons more ancient than greece

太陽神的言語從來不是我的信條 apollo never my creed, my creed

奧巴塔拉(非裔的神)會和你決斗 obatala will battle ya

如果你想要天上的衛(wèi)星 so bring your troops if you wanna

那就派出軍隊來吧 satellites in the sky

有人在角落靠賣沒有用的玩意大賺 some selling clouds on the corner

但我們在這片土地就只能堪堪過活 but we livin' for the land

源于大地卻最終成為沙礫 from the soil to the sand

如同大海里的一滴水 我仍然在追求本我 and the water in the sea be the essence of me

你若沒有準備好接收這結(jié)果 you ain't ready for this fruit

那就將它掛回樹梢 then put it back on the tree

給我力量掰彎這些柵欄 uh. give me the strength to bend back these bars

手持山姆鎖，我是山姆的兒子，他是我父親 got the locks of samson, i'm sam's son. he's my father

試著向圣父，圣子，圣靈祈禱 tried praying to father, son, the holy ghost

我想讓我的理智回歸 i miss my motherfuckin' sanity

從沒來過監(jiān)獄也沒想過自己會進監(jiān)獄 never been here and never planned to be

但冥冥之中一切自有安排 but my own plans had plans for me

現(xiàn)在那個男人卻擅自為我做了計劃 and now that man's hands got plans for me

現(xiàn)在那個男人卻擅自為我做了計劃 and now that man's hands got plans for me

他現(xiàn)在計劃實現(xiàn)了 我想要逃 and now that man had plans, so i jetted and ran

邁克把我拉了回來 the mike cord pulled me back

我就應該扔掉那包大麻 i should'a dropped it from my hand

把它留在韻律里就好了 and left it at the scene of the rhyme

現(xiàn)如今我們都在服刑了 now we all serving time

連我的靈感也在受刑 even my prose is on probation

難民，不止是海地人 refugees, they ain't just haitian

雷（獄中不戰(zhàn)而屈人兵）：

我在街區(qū)的角落矗立 i stand on the corner of the block

手里拋著紫晶石 slinging amethyst rocks

痛飲這杯甘甜乳汁 drinking 40s

其中蘊含著地球40 多年的歷史 of mother earth's private nectar stock

條子們都是狗逼 dodging cops

只是因為原因五 就讓我變成了魔鬼 'cause , oh, be the

我需要補償 下點紫水雨讓我品嘗（紫水:酒混毒品） and i need a fix of that purple rain

那些毒品讓我全身上下連細胞膜都興奮異常 the type of shit that drives membranes insane

歐耶 吸著糖果洋芋（指毒品） oh, yeah, i'm in the fast lane

我的身體被解放 仿佛疾駛在高速路上 snorting candy yams that free my body

靈魂也變得凝練 有人呼喊沙贊 我會瞬間出現(xiàn) and soul and send me like shazam

永遠不要問我是哪只鳥 never question who i am

上帝心里都明了 god knows

私底下 我和上帝是老相識 and i know god personally

事實上 他讓我稱他為我 我即上帝 in fact, he let's me call him me

是的，我是認真的，小逼 yeah, i'm serious, b

這些傻籃子們都在密謀些什么屁 doggone niggas plottin' shit

挺好，我現(xiàn)在也被盯上 條子無時不在注視 lovely, but the feds is also plottin' me

他們試著限制我 讓我無法使用占星術(shù) they're trying to imprison my astrology

天上繁星 都被他們用鐵窗遮住 put our stars behind bars

條紋之間是屬于我們的繁星 our stars in stripes

紅色條紋上有著我們斑駁的血跡 using blood-splattered banners

而這成為了我們的國旗 as nationalist kites

而我還可以運用風之力 but i control the wind

這就是為什么 他們會叫它老鷹旗 that's why they call it the hawk

我還是荷魯斯 伊西斯的兒子 i am horus,son of isis

和耶穌一個待遇的冥王之子 son of osiris, worshipped as jesus

像拉撒路一樣上演復活奇跡 resurrected like lazarus

你也可以叫我懶惰雷茲 but you can call me lazzie, lazy

是的，我很懶 yeah, i'm lazy

因為比起工作耕地 'cause i'd rather sit and build

我更喜歡坐下來堆砌辭藻 than work and plow a field

為了所謂的綠色經(jīng)濟作物的產(chǎn)量 worshipping a daily yield

而祈禱祭典 of cash green crops

而他們做過最聰明的事 stealing us was the smartest thing

是把我們的成果直接盜竊 they ever did

可惜他們不會告訴他們孩子那些真相 too bad they don't teach the truth to their kids

我們做出的貢獻 他們有沒有報答相向 our influence on them is the reflection they see

當他們透過一道虛偽的鏡子 when they look into their minstrel mirror

談論著他們的歷史 and talk about their culture

他們的存在 their existence is that

不過是腦子有病的亂臣賊子 of a schizophrenic vulture

是的 完全沒有悔改 yeah, there's no repentance

他們注定會活下去 they are bound to live

會背負著無期徒刑的罪名活下去 an infinite, consecutive executive life sentence

所以你打算為什么而活，兄弟？ so what are you bound to live, nigga?

你在外面服刑的時候 so while you're out there serving the time

我會在這和太陽同步 i'll be in syncwith the sun

當你在月球漫步 while you runfrom the moon

槍炮反映著生命之初 life of the womb reflected by guns

那些崇拜月亮的人 我才是你們的太陽神 worshiper of moons, i am the sun

我們已經(jīng)是頭號公敵 編號第一 and we are public enemies number one

第一，第一，第一！ one, one, one!

第一，第一，第一！ one, one, one!

雷（保釋后詩喃會上）：

我們都身處宇宙 你卻在按摩著宇宙的背脊 you massage the universe's spine

我們被時間沖刷著 你卻旋轉(zhuǎn)著穿過了時間記憶 the way you twirl through time,

你一路走著 太陽上都留下了你的痕跡 and leave shadows on the sun.

我的愛如風般吟唱 my love is the wind song.

如果我能決定 if it is up to me,

我將不朽 i'll never die.

如果我能決定 if it is up to me,

我愿明天就離去 i'll die tomorrow

在鬼門關(guān)里呆上一個鐘頭再輾轉(zhuǎn)千萬次 a thousand times in an hour

然后就再多活那么七分鐘吧 and live minutes later.

如果這一切由我決定 if it's up to me,

陽光將永遠熱烈 the sun will never cease to shine,

月光也永遠皎潔 and the moon will never cease to glow,

我會在太陽的熱烈和月亮的柔情之中 and i'll dance a million tomorrows

翩翩起舞 in the sun rays of the moon waves

在過去的時光中沐浴 and bathe in the yesterdays

再迎接即將到來的昨天 of days to come,

不再顧慮良多 ignoring all of my afterthoughts

忘卻憂愁過往 and preconceived notions.

如果我能決定 if it is up to me,

我就這樣決定 it is up to me,

這就是我的愛 and thus is my love.

無暇 untainted.

無邊 eternal.

千萬種風 the wind is the moon's

是月的想象 imagination.

是月的徘徊 wandering.

風從縫隙中滲出 it seeps through cracks,

蕩漾著草地 ripples the grass,

探索著未知 explores the unknown.

對你的愛也是我靈魂的想象 my love is my soul's imagination.

我是如何愛你的？ how do i love you?

想象吧 imagine.

勞倫（詩喃大賽中）：

我感覺我背靠著磚墻 i feel like my back is against a brick wall

卡車駛向我 離我的臉僅有兩英寸 and i got a mac truck inches from my face.

渾身上下的細胞都在叫喊著：“逃！” every cell in my body is screamin', "run!"

但我逃不了 but i can't.

我又打又踢又跑又跳 i'm kicking and stomping and running and jumping,

大肆破壞著 wreaking all kinds of havoc,

制造著混亂 creating a bloody mess,

但我依舊一步未動 and i am going nowhere.

我的大腦覺得我在動呢 somewhere in my mind i think i am moving.

現(xiàn)實中我也確實在跑呢 somewhere in reality i am running.

但我體內(nèi)的某種東西 哦 絲毫未動 somewhere inside myself i am, oh, so still.

靜如死水 quiet, dead.

那是我的靈魂 它不再上揚 my soul is not rising.

我的精神它不再抖擻 my spirit is not lifting.

我的生活不再繼續(xù) my life is not living.

但我依舊在逃跑著 but i am running,

如同苦行僧一般穿過宇宙 旋轉(zhuǎn)著 moving through the universe a whirling dervish,

沒有終點 沒有目標 沒有意義 with no end, no purpose, no means,

生活沒了生的意義也沒了活的必要 no life left to live.

但依舊 絲毫未動 and yet, still,

我想要去到一個我能跑動的地方去 i want to go to that place where i can run,

逃向自由 我的大腦如是說 run free, my mind tells me.

但這兩個詞現(xiàn)實中卻并不相容 but those words cannot occupy the same space in reality.

逃跑 run.

自由 free.

我背靠著磚墻 my back is against a brick wall.

勉強兩英尺是一輛駛來的卡車 i got a mac truck inches from my face!

說出來！ man: say it!

逃向自由吧 我的愛人 就現(xiàn)在 run free, baby. right now.

雖然看起來如此艱難 it just looks hard,

但做起來卻又如此簡單 but it would be so easy.

調(diào)轉(zhuǎn)方向 走吧 just turn around and go.

切斷所有的聯(lián)系 電話接起又掛斷 clip all the wires, hook-ups, and hang-ups,

隨后你到了家 有了自由 and then you're home free.

你能那么輕易地編造借口 you can give birth to an excuse so easily,

那你也會相信自由會一直在的 you'll believe it's always been there.

那一部分的自然秩序 part of the natural order, made to order

它們生來就被你那永遠聰慧的大腦掌控 by your forever clever mind,

無時不刻不在保護著你 constantly protecting you against things

而你卻不再需要那些東西保護著你 you no longer need to be protected from!

我相信著 and i believe.

我如同圣徒信耶穌般相信著 i believe like a holy roller,

在山上 我歌著唱 流著汗 布道著 講述著 singing, sweating, preaching, go tell it on the mountain,

同時用著20種不同語言 while speaking in different tongues

沒有救生圈 and diving in ,feet of baptismal water

我潛入10000英尺的洗禮水中 without a life preserver.

我相信我就像我的哥哥一樣 i believe like my bullet-ridden brother

他現(xiàn)在在某處身受重創(chuàng) out there somewhere right now,

吐出他的最后一口氣 鮮血汩汩 gurgling blood through his last breath,

鮮血吐出紅色又虔誠的祈禱 spitting out a red, ripe prayer,

嶄新的 鮮甜的 如此新鮮 so new, so sweet, so baby fresh,

富有真理 他以為這樣能夠挽救他的生命 so full of truth, he thinks it can save his life.

但上帝從不到訪絕望之處 god does not exist in desperation,

在犄角旮旯里的下水道某處 and hope is lying dead

在胡同拐角那 somewhere in the sewer down the street

在某人的腳下 around the corner in the alley

希望女神的尸體躺在那 underneath the feet of somebody itching,

躺在那人腳下 他發(fā)癢著 抓撓著 顫抖著 scratching, trembling, jonesing for their next hit

為下一次打擊某人做著準備 and suckin' somebody's dick!

我只剩下2分鐘了 i got minutes, y'all.

在我逃向自由或者死亡之前 i got motherfuckin' minutes

我只剩下兩分鐘了 before i run free or die, y'all.

只有兩分鐘 minutes

在那輛駛來的卡車撞上我的臉之前 before i smash my face into the grille of a mac truck.

在我拆那10000塊磚之前 before i get ,bricks shoved up my ass.

在我逃向自由或者死亡之前！ before i run free or die!

雷（詩喃大賽中）：

如果我能找到一處真相能有回響的地方 if i could find the spot where truth echoes,

我將站立在那 i would stand there and whisper memories

低聲訴說著我孩子們的未來 of my children's future.

我將把他們的未來塞進我的過去 i would let their future dwell in my past

只為我現(xiàn)在能過的更加光明 so that i might live a brighter now.

現(xiàn)在讓我來介紹我的領(lǐng)地 now is the essence of my domain,

它囊括了所有事情的過去與未來 and it contains all that was and will be,

我既是現(xiàn)在也代表未來 and i am as i was and will be

以為不論現(xiàn)在還是未來 我都是我 because i am and always will be that nigga.

我都是我 i am that nigga.

我都是我 i am that nigga.

時間在我身上無效 i am that timeless nigga

如同蔓藤再鐘擺上擺動一般無效 that swings on pendulums like vines

穿過那片囚禁著糊涂蛋的礦井 through mines of booby-trapped minds

他們被時間奴役著 that are enslaved by time.

我就是取代生命的生活 我是的 i am the life that supersedes lifetimes, i am.

是那個有著蛇形頭發(fā)的我 it was me with serpentine hair

是那個擁有永恒凝視與不朽之光的我 and a timeless stare that with immortal glare

是那個能夠?qū)⒎踩说目謶只癁槭^的我 turned mortal fear into stone time capsules.

那些被奴役的人如同行尸走肉一般存在 they still exist as the walking dead,

和我一樣 最初飽受苦難 as i do, the original suffer-head,

那個象征著生命與母系的頭顱被割下 symbol of life and matriarchy's severed head,

我就是美杜莎 medusa i am.

我就是個黑人 我就是個黑人 i am that nigga. i am that nigga.

我就是個黑人 是的 黑人 i am a negro, yes, negro,

尼哥一詞源于necro 意味著死亡 negro from necro, meaning death.

我克服了死亡 所以他們以此為我命名 i overcame it, so they named me after it.

我一直在死亡身后唾棄著它 and i've been spitting at death from behind

并在它背后貼上挑釁的字眼 and putting "kick me" signs on its back,

因為我不會受到時間的影響 because i am not the son of sha clack clack.

我遠超它們 遠超 i am before that. i am before.

我甚至遠超遠超本身 i am before before.

超越死亡即永恒 死后也是永恒 before death is eternity, after death is eternity,

死亡也消失了 自此就只剩下永恒 there is no death, there's only eternity,

我駕馭著永恒 迫使它煽動著翅膀 and i be riding on the wings of eternity like,

我喊著 ya！ ya！ ya！ ya! ya! ya! sha clack clack.

但我的飛行旅途并不順利 but my flight doesn't go undisturbed

因為時間延遲了我的夢 because time makes dreams defer,

它用噩夢替換了我的白日夢 and all of my time fears

讓我白天也還在重現(xiàn)夜晚的噩夢 are turning my days into daymares,

那些噩夢縈繞在我的過去 and i live daymares reliving nightmares

使我終日惶恐不安 that once haunted my past.

時間鐘表滴滴答 時間轉(zhuǎn)頭來鞭笞著我 sha clack clack, time is beating my ass,

我還做著夢呢 希望能有幾個西瓜 and i be having dreams of chocolate-covered watermelons

西瓜外裹著巧克力 西瓜里裝滿炸雞 filled with fried chickens like pi?‘a(chǎn)tas,

邊上還站著兄弟的兒女們 with little pickaninny sons and daughters

他們拿著棍子 standing up under them with big sticks

拿著鋁棍 劈打著西瓜 and aluminum foil, hitting them,

需要拿到里面的炸雞的翅膀 trying to catch pieces of falling fried chicken wings.

而那些阿姨和叔叔站在角落 and aunt jemima and uncle ben are standing in the corners

拿著槍 準星瞄準著孩子們的頭 with rifles pointed at the heads of the little children.

我叫喊著：“不要傷害孩子們” "don't shoot the children," i shout.

“不要傷害孩子們”，但為時已晚 "don't shoot the children." but they say it's too late.

他們都已經(jīng)被時間所影響了 they've already been infected by time.

而且他們已經(jīng)超越了我的時間 but this shit is before my time.

我需要更多時間 我需要更多時間 i need more time. i need more time.

但卻為時已晚 but it's too late.

他們開了槍 射殺孩子們 they start shooting at the children

射殺了孩子們 and killing them.

一個接著一個 越來越多 one by one, by ,

越來越多 by , by ,

越來越多 by , by ,

但我的靈魂暴漲 速度更快 but my spirit is growing by ,

快過了光速 faster than the speed of light

光也有局限 because light only penetrates the darkness

光只能穿透那已存在的黑暗 that's already there,

我已存在在那 and i'm already there.

我在這 在長路盡頭 i'm here at the end of the road,

同時也是超越時間的那條路的開端 which is the beginning of the road beyond time.

我雖至此 我的兄弟身處何方？ but where my niggas at?

糟了 oh, shit.

糟了 我的兄弟都迷失在了時間長河 oh, shit, don't tell me my niggas got lost in time.

我的兄弟都在時間消亡之前死去了 my niggas are dying before their time.

我的兄弟都在服侍著那不公正的時間（服刑） my niggas are serving unjust time.

我的兄弟都因時間而老死了（坐牢到死） my niggas are dying because of time.