Pour Ceux [English translation]

For those who move

Not for those who shit themselves

Who fight

Even when the bigger ones get walked all over

For our sisters who will be the mothers of tomorrow

Wesh1, wesh fam, Mafia K1 K12

For the Kahloush, The Arboush 3

The Gypsies with a shady look

Hardcore even when they smooch

For the social outcasts who make mistakes on the walls

Who have shortcomings

For Tuaregs 4, the street pirates

Who don't have many teeth left on the side

Who limp, scarred and cross-eyed

Always in the first row when shit goes down

Two envelopes in the ballot box, one with a shoutout to the bled 5,

In the other a shoutout to the youth living in the ghetto 6

It's for the guys with our without a driving licence

Kilos in the storage 7, weed in the trunk

And 20 gramms of poppers

Getting your hands dirty like young Fresh for the bigger names

200% famished8

Middle finger high up if you see where I'm coming from

Samir is here, Dry is here 9, we're about to fire

It's for the accompanied chicks

The charming, the stylish, shaved who cast a side glance

I'm protesting, family as the only string

For the guys from my street who work themselves to death

It's for the Jean Valjeans 10, the big nutcases, the rajel 11

Who drive a BMW like in the old days with yellow front beans

Who roam, who pile joint butts up in the ashtray

Who have a shotgun who can make a wild boar dance

To those you love or those who backstab you, those who make you smile or shiver

Those who make you roar with laughter

The big bonkers, those who want to fuck or Heineken 12

Or those who get smashed on weekdays

Brought up on hardcore animes like Ken 13

To the struggle survivors

Who are assimilated to their cities, like in the guerilla

To the wholesaler of hya 14 and sinsemilla 15

Tho those who'll always be there for their family

Tho those who love real funk, I'm not talking about the Mia 16

Without a weapon, holding back tears like Kelly Joyce 17

It doesn't concern you so right now, just turn off your TV

Those who'll understand that life is what you make of it until your death

Life isn't a movie with the ghetto as the setting

For those who know very well and rubbed shoulders with the unforgettable

It's part of our past, of those indelible things

Those who very soon, we registered as special guys on the asphalt

By their attitude, that's on behalf of OGBitume

For those here who pay the rend but in the bled aim to be owners 18

I'm not going to spend my life playing the sparring-partner

It's for those guys but also girls who are bitter 19 on SSL20

For those who want their money21 in addition to their share in royalties

For the social outcasts who scare you, who make money

Always on time for transactions, ending on a deckchair in Pattaya 22

Big sadists with a hard-on, who pass by the court bar 23

Who drive the British way, the Thaï way 24, lift the barbell alone

For the believers, the valiants who have little culture, immature

Brought up on rice, couscous, belt blows

To the working class

The binmen dads

Moms with sanitary works

Who work in pain

For virgins

Those with pussies or armpits which don't reek

Who take care of themselves

Who made a halal wedding 25

Hey yo for the driver of powerful, sparkling cars

The homies who drive in wheelchairs

It's for the guys who bring out the CBR 26 when it's hot

Who squat the bars, the pools of crazy suburbs

I'm rapping for safebreakers

Those who work your storage or strong-box

For those who go out fresh, homies under the summer's sun

A can in hand in the hood, let it be winter or summer

Then the follow-up, guys on the run, chasing, hit and run even under influence

For those who in order to get high, blast the sound in their ears

And screw the PS2 all night long to get to sleep

For those who knock out the crazy way

It's the nutcases' tarot all ready to get on board

I'm rapping for all of those who have their luggages ready to go

Either to get on board or get out of the double-door entrance with the piggy bank

Those who do anything not to get assailed, the crazy ones

Those who speed up, keen on weapons, those who polish their guns

Or those who like trips by night

When you see us at the wheel, the one who's bombing is Michael Knight 27

Those who don't have Internet

Watch the news from the window

Shifty guys

From whom we put chain bracelets 28

Who fuck the bosses

24/7 the state owes us

Tho those who sing our anthems

You have free rein

And all of those who have an alias and feel free

Give way to my dream team

We'll meet up at the mike

It's maybe the most intimate moments

No more routine

Enough with being the victims

Because death already crossed us out

Like the Argentinian jersey 29

My rap is the captain

He's the one who wear the armband

We're here to make ghettos quiver like Boissard 30

We're harder for the softer

For those who love gang-bangs

And getting massaged like in Thaïland

If you have a good plan, go on man

For those who never put down the break31 or the Grec 32

Aside from that, what was I saying ?

It's for better and for worse

For those who have the African logo embroidered on leather

For Africans

Those who brought "Les Points Sur Les I"33

For those who left

It's for my homies, it's for M.S and L.A.S

It's for those who vote

Those who fight for their homies

Those who seek the jackpot

Those in the streets who lost their homies

Those who suffer for the ghetto

For those hardcore guys

For those who don't eat pork

For those who sleep outside

That, it's for those guys who don't joke around

There's no kidding with me

For those who move

Not for those who shit themselves

Who fight

Even when the bigger ones get walked all over

For our sisters who will be the mothers of tomorrow

Wesh, wesh fam, Mafia K1 K1

For the Kahloush, The Arboush

The Gypsies with a shady look

Hardcore even when they smooch

For the social outcasts who make mistakes on the walls

Who have shortcomings

For Tuaregs, the street pirates

Who don't have many teeth left on the side

Who limp, scarred and cross-eyed

Always in the first row when shit goes down

1. Common colloquial interjection who comes from the Darija (Arabic dialect from North Africa) expression for "How are you ?". In France, it's pretty much part of everyone's (and not necessarily Maghrebi people !) vocabulary as long as they're relatively young and it's generally used to greet someone or to react to something with surprise.2. The name of the collective, Mafia K'1 Fry, is backward slang for "Mafia Africaine" or "African Mafia"3. Means Black people & Arabs in Darija4. In North-Africa, the indigenous people are called "Imazighen". Among that group as a whole, you have several ethnic groups: Touaregs, Kabylians, Chleuhs, Chaouis, Riffians and many more. Touaregs are nomadic people who live in the Sahara and Sahel.5. Darija word for "region", "land". For the African diaspora living in France (and subsequently the European one as well), the word is used to talk about "the homeland", e.g "J'vais au bled cet été, l'Algérie m'avait manquée !" which roughly translates to "I'm coming back to the homeland this summer, I missed Algeria !"6. HLM is the French term for public housing7. In most of the neighborhoods in France, you get to ask or rent a garage to park your car but most people use it as a storage8. In French, "crevard" is slang for someone who is kind of opportunist but also skinflint because of his financial struggle9. Respectively the real name of OGB, member of the collective and another member10. Hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"11. Darija for "man"12. In French, the equivalent to "fuck" is "niquer" (or "baiser", but not in that case) and the backward shortened slang for it is "ken". It's then a play on words with that term and the famous Dutch beer brand Heineken: For those who want to ken or Heineken.13. The French version of the Japanese anime "Fist of the North Star" is called "Ken Le Survivant". Its violence and dark topics caused an uproar when broadcasted in a famous 80's-90's kid show called the Club Dorothée (Dorothy's Club) and family organizations backed up by some politicians succeeded in censoring it by corrupting the French dubbing.14. Darija for cannabis15. Spanish for "seedless", it's a technic consisting of growing a cannabis without a male seed resulting in a plant containing more THC.16. Referring to the iconic IAM (One of the biggest name in French rap history !) hit, Je Danse Le Mia.. by the way, you have to check it out.17. Referring to a pop song from back in the days which has this line18. Most of the African diaspora in France live in public housing yet in their homelands, they generally live in houses that their grandparents or parents built on grounds they inherited.19. "Seum" is a slang derived from Arabic which literally translates to "venom" or "poison". For the French youth, it means being resentful or "salty" about something20. I'm sorry but I have no idea what SSL could mean here21. Assuming "barres" means money here which I'm not sure but hey, that matches !22. Resort in Thaïland, first choice for little to big drug dealers for its cheapness.. and sexual tourism23. Play on two French idioms: "Avoir la barre" (litteraly "Get the bar" but means having a hard-on and "Passer à la barre" (litteraly "Pass at the bar") but means being brought up for trial24. Reference to different style of boxing25. Religious wedding26. The Honda CBR is a motorcycle which was very popular at that time in the ghetto27. Hero of the series K200028. Handcuffs29. Soccer jersey30. Ghetto in Guadeloupe31. Breakdance32. Also common under the name "Döner" or "Kebab", it's one of the name used by the French youth to describe this round sandwich stuffed with crudités, roasted meat and white sauce made of yoghurt33. Translating to "Dotting the I's and crossing the T's", it's a 2000 Rap album

• Artist:Mafia K’1 Fry
• Album:La Cerise sur le Ghetto