
01 PRE
慢拍开头曲,慢热引出不屈街头态度的宣誓。
SK Laflare(西海岸Rapper,Frank Ocean堂兄弟):
Paid your dues, while you're Paid In Full
一手交钱一手交货,快给我全额支付
I can't wait to win, you wait to lose
我的胜利手到擒来,你的落败已成定局
Your mind of a failure, hate rules
无视法则,特立独行
When you settle for what you hate to do
当你面对困难坐享安乐之时
I go the extra mile, I'm withthe extras
我依然不知疲倦继续演绎
Extended clips shoot through your necklace
射穿你的项链
Leave you breathless
拿走你的呼吸
EARL:
I'm a problem to niggas
我生来就是个大麻烦
Pop artillery, the carbonates with him
点燃炮火,再用碳酸饮料扑灭
Starving to hit 'em, spar with a nigga
如饥似渴给他致命一击
Just watch, I'mma kill 'em all in a minute
都给我看好,我会一分钟以内解决他们
两个潜力新秀轮番上阵,用并不激烈但危机四伏的Beat阐明了自己的态度,真诚而积极,慢条斯理但不失狠劲。
t02 BURGUNDY
[Intro: Vince Staples]
"What's up, nigga? Why you so depressed and sad all the time like a littlebitch? What's the problem, man? Niggas want to hear yourap. Don't nobody care about how you feel,we want raps, nigga."
咋了伙计?为啥像个小女生一样每天闷闷不乐?出啥问题了?人们都想听你说唱,没人真正顾及你的感觉,只要你唱起来。
Vince诉说了Burgundy的Intro,表面上像是劝说EARL,实际上却是在讽刺只听歌求乐却不真正关心歌手真正想要表达的情感。
EARL:
Grandma's passing
祖母去世了
But I'm too busy tryna get this fuckin' album cracking to see her
但我为了这张唱片几乎没时间去陪她
So I apologize in advance if anything should happen
所以我想赶在一切发生之前道歉
And my priorities fucked up, I know it, I'm afraid I'm going to blow it
我有我自己的准则,但很担心我会搞砸了它(Doris)
And when them expectations raising because daddy was a poet, right?
因为我爸爸是个诗人所以你们很期待我能写出诗歌般的句子,对吗?
Talk all you want I'm taking no advice
我不想听从任何建议
Nigga, I'm 'bout to relish in this anguish
我知道我会因此尝到痛苦的滋味
And I'm stressing over payment, so don't tell me that I made it
没完没了的账单让我头疼,所以别说我现在很牛逼
Only relatively famous in the midst of a tornado
名誉就像是狂风暴雨而我正身处其中
Verse 1 是这张专辑最真诚的时刻,EARL诉说了对祖母的去世的种种歉意,和当下生活的痛苦,没有复杂的双关和词句,却唱出了最让人动容的词句。
[Interlude: Vince Stanles]
Vince又迅速承接第一段的情感基础诉说了过度部分
"Hey Thebe, nigga, Annotatewhat's up nigga? I heard you back, I need them raps, nigga. I need the verse, Idon't care about what you going through or what you gotta do nigga, I needbars, sixteen of 'em."
Hey伙计,咋样,听说你回来了?再来一段吧,我不关心你经历了啥或者想干啥,我只想让你再来一段哥们。
预示了后半段的情感转折。