[翻譯] Immortal Technique-Rich Man's World

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Immortal Technique - Rich Mans World (1%) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCgh09m00tY

（Arthur Jensen）（註1：） You get up and howl about America and democracy. 你高喊著美國與民主 There is no America. There is no democracy. 美國不存在！民主也不存在！ We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies 我們的時代沒有國家和意識形態 The world is a college of corporations 世界由大大小小的公司聯手組成 Inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business 被一成不變的商業法規控制 The world is a business 世界是商業的 And I have chosen you to preach this evangel. 我選擇你來傳道！ For all my free-market, healthcare-robbing, stock-stealing, retirement-fund-fucking-with niggas 這首歌獻給自由市場的掠奪者們 Fuck your little credit-card scamming, jewelry-stealing, crack-selling, liquor-store-robbing motherfuckers 你們這些詐騙犯、偷竊者和販毒者都是小咖而已 (It's a rich man's world) 這是個屬於富人的世界 Shout to the homies, Carnegie, OG, Willie Randolf Hearst, Farouk, Rockefeller, the real Rockefeller, my main bitch Leona 嘿！兄弟們！卡內基、威廉·赫茲、法魯克一世、洛克斐勒、莉奧娜·亨斯利 Pour out a little Louis the Thirteenth, Scott Rothstein, Jack Abramoff, hold ya head, 史考特．羅斯汀、傑克·阿布拉莫夫，準備好了嗎？（註2） my Rothschild niggas.Let's get this money 兄弟們上！我們來搶錢啦！ I spend my day pairin America overseas 我離鄉背井到美國打拼 Pensions for the workers? Nigga please 員工們乞求我給他們退休金 Embezzlement etiquette private settlement 我懶得鳥他們，我只會為自己挪用公款 I'm better with confederate rhetoric from my mansion in Connecticut 身在康乃迪克的豪宅中，我最好使用有富人的用語和腔調 Foreclose and evict homes at the tenement 我早就離開了廉價公寓 I twist words like a speech impediment 我花言巧語，舌燦蓮花 I hope you got good credit bitch 你們最好聽話 If not better get a new job with benefits 不然你就他媽的去做其他工作 While I play golf with niggas I get cheddar with 當我享樂時快點離開我的眼前（整段都翻得很不確定，問了在美國的朋友他也不知道是什麼意思XD，麻煩各路強者不吝指證。） New money buys brand new karats 用賺來的錢買鑽戒 My old money bought your great grandparents 用家產買下你的祖父母 You got grills in ya mouth I ain't mad at ya 當我看見你嘴裡裝著鑲金的牙套，不禁笑了出來 I own every gold mine in South Africa 南非所有的黃金都是我的 Thanks baby you made me a billion 謝謝你讓我成為億萬富翁 Plus I own a building for each one of my children's children.That's the shit 現在我給我孫子每人都準備一棟房子 Snort coke in the whip miss USA sucking my dick 在名車裡面吸毒，我是最屌的美國人 Yeah what!Fuck the law 'cause real jail is for suckers 去你的法律！那些爛監獄是給你們住的 I go to country club prison you dumb mother fuckers 你白癡嗎？就算我進監獄還是照樣吃香喝辣 (I am the 1% fucking bitch) （因為我是那一趴的有錢人） You know my CEO corporate steeze please 這就是我的CEO作風你知道的 Overthrow governments overseas in a breeze 輕易推翻各地的政府 Politicians in my pockets for a few hundred Gs 用錢賄賂政客 So if I'm ever in court my assets'll never freeze 所以我的資產永遠不會被凍結 I got a job and house and a bank account 工作、豪宅、帳戶裡的錢樣樣不缺 When I'm out I doubt that's something you could say 我想你會這麼形容我 And if not then I fake death like Kenneth Lay 否則，我會像Kenneth Lay一樣演一場假死的戲，證明我家財萬貫（註3） Make money every day the world burns on its axis 世界走向毀滅，我每天爽爽賺錢 While y'all struggling to pay taxes 當你在抱怨繳不出稅的時候 I'm getting my money the fastest 我的錢愈滾愈多 Memos and faxes shredded-up documents 我和各國政客們不停在暗中交流 Slush funds through the corrupt continents 擴張我的賄賂版圖 But they don't want me indicted 他們也不想讓我被起訴 'Cause they don't want my dirty laundry aired when I fight it 這樣的話他們幹的骯髒事會流出 Don't get my lawyers excited 也不要惹我的律師 'Cause what good is a law if you can't rewrite it 我們有能力修法，讓法律服務我們 I got CIA traitors, dictators 我知道誰是CIA裡的叛徒和獨裁者 So fuck y'all whistle blowers and haters 所以告密者和恨我的人別想逃出我的法眼 (It's a rich man's world) 這就是有錢人的世界 Shit!I'll invest money from Al Qaeda 自由市場裡的錢來來去去 In the bank 911 widows go to later 金融系統裡的一些資金甚至來自蓋達組織的支持者 Capitalism's who I pray to ,Fuck the state of the world 我只信奉資本主義，我不管事業變成什麼樣子 Money talks so what the fuck I need to say to ya girl 金錢是唯一的老大！ (I don't pay em to fuck, I pay em to leave) 我付錢不是要搞他們，是要他們滾蛋！ You know my CEO corporate steeze greed 這就是我的CEO作風你知道的 I'll treat countries like the IMF down on your knees 我看待國家的態度就像是IMF對待窮國們一樣，在我面前他們只能跪（註4） Real gangsters run the world fuck what you believe 事實就是，我們這些真正的幫派統治了世界 I'll cut down the forest while y'all niggas burning some trees 當你砍下幾棵樹，我已經收下整座森林 I'll get your family murdered for a couple of Gs 我會為了錢殺了你全家 'Cause your working-class money ain't fucking with me 工人階級的生活甘我屁事 You think rappers are rich 'cause of songs you heard? 你以為饒舌歌手是因為歌曲而致富嗎 My labels make the money and haven't rapped a fucking word 我不用寫任何一句歌詞就能賺進了大把鈔票（註5） Yacht in the ocean coastin' with the sails out 我過著豪華奢侈的生活 Hey America thanks for the bailouts 國家的紓困金都進到我的口袋裡 I made off at the Banco Ambrosiano 我和大銀行家掛勾 Got away scott free like el Vaticano 卻像梵諦岡一樣一身清白（註6） Activists act a bitch get mad at me 社運份子對我叫囂 'Cause I'm a tax free charity 因為我打著慈善的名號避稅 80% to the staff and company 80%的財產屬於公司 And 20% to the homeless and hungry 20%的財產用作慈善 The country gotta pay the fed reserve 國家為我們保護我們些富人 Kick back to the banksters haven't you learned 還準備了預備系統防止金融危機呢 You protest cops who patrols on the street 你為街上的警察發聲 But I bought city hall so I own the police 我買下整個議會，所以警察也歸我管 Email, Facebook and the shit you tweet 電子郵件、臉書、你的推特廢文也一樣 Own the phone companies so I heard you speaking 電信公司也歸我管，所以我都知道你在講些什麼 My suggestion is no correction no elections, sex with no affection 唯有我的建議才是正途，別想靠選舉改變一切，冷眼看個這世界 No invention would benefit the world of man 沒有任何發明能造福人類 Will exist 'til I got the money in my hand 不管怎樣我都能賺得飽飽的 World bank, interest rate damn rape on the spot 銀行家、富人終究會統治世界 But I'm a gangster you gon' take my money like it or not, nigga 就像是真正的黑幫一樣，搶走你的錢 (I got your country in my pocket, motherfucker!) 你的國家也在我的掌握之中 You know my CEO masonic steeze cheese 這就是我的CEO作風你知道的 Only little people pay all these taxes and fees 只有平民百姓需要繳稅 Since you were born we controlled what you watch and you read 我們控制了你眼中所見、你接觸的事物 And pretty soon we're gonna own the fucking air that you breathe 很快地，連空氣也會被我們掌握 I take what I want fucker I don't have to say please 只要我想要的東西，我都能搞到手 I'll convince you that it's good for you, take it and leave 這對你來說也是好事，接受這一切吧！ You think presidents are the face of a nation 說到這裡，你還認為總統是國家的門面嗎？ I put em all where they are, end of the conversation 別做夢了，總統也和我站在同一陣線註1：取樣自電影螢光幕後(1976)Arthur Jensen的口白，由Ned Beatty飾演。註2：這一串都是資本家與企業家的名字。註3：Kenneth Lay，安隆企業創辦人，因證券詐欺被判刑，後來心臟病發去世，陰謀論者說他是為了脫罪而假死。註4：IMF，世界貨幣組織，由強國主導的機構，時常成為反全球化、反資本主義人士的目標。批評該機構的政策嚴重傾向跨國企業與西方國家。註5：這兩句應該是在比喻真正的富人都不是靠工作賺錢，而是地下事業。註6：這兩句說的是梵諦岡高層人員曾捲入義大利安布羅西亞諾銀行的洗錢案。這首歌取樣ABBA合唱團的歌曲Money, Money, Money -- 「你相信神嗎？」「我相信有人遠遠的看著我們」「很不幸地，那是政府。」 -伍迪艾倫<傻瓜大鬧科學城> -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 1.200.118.179 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Hip-Hop/M.1623139725.A.E0D.html ※ 編輯: nbaworf (1.200.118.179 臺灣), 06/08/2021 16:19:08