Capitale de la Rupture [English translation]

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M.A.R.S.E.I.L.L.E is making the headlines

I can't recognize my city any more

I can't recognize my streets

where is my old downtown

the one I used to know now seems to be gone

North Side, South Side, Downtown

to all the children of the Moon,

to our untamed streets

to my messy generation!

My entire city is now subdued, defeated, hombre

To make it a nice French Rivera city

Marseille is now a city-sized construction site

It's the last hammerblow!

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In favor of their standards

Lots of files treated during their receptions

It's ridiculous!!!

Meanwhile my brothers are struggling

While they build their hotels

more beautiful

my city is than it is in your head

Marseille rebuilt against our will

Petty criminals

get long prison sentences

in les Beaumettes or in Luynes (prisons around Marseille)

For not that much

you'll get your ass kicked

What has become la Joliette

after hundreds of expulsions

certainly not what we wanted...

What happened to the bled-like city?

They say this time is now over.

Capitale of the europeean culture??

if this was a joke nobody would believe it

Marseille has been redrawn by Euromed

It came to mess up the whole culture of the city

the gap is growing

just feel

the fracture

is opening

MARSEILLE!

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capital of the rupture

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Too few are opposing

the colonists

of the beatiful

phocean city

All their plan are at the very opposite

of the tradition

of the spirit

of the ancient city

that always gathered different communities

land of refuge

open to the other

rebelious to the kings

land of asylum for the apostles

what do you say? the gateway to the Orient

has been elected capital of european culture?!

MARSEILLE is making the headlines

I don't recognize my city

I've heard it had become pretty swanky.

It's the civilization shock

2013

it all went so fast

cops and video camera around every corner

expelled because of their business

count those who remain

minds are demolished

like the walls on which we used to lean

so this one is for the pissed off brothers

antisystem

that they wish to put in jail or worse

what will my people become for real?

sorrow is now growing in our streets

a kind of apartheid is now forming

ours blocks were not just about drunkness

real camaraderie, i mean the real, the joy

the was no riffle

nor Kalash[nikovs] nor [M-]16

here youth is clearly in danger

they do nothing for it

it's been true for fucking ages

living on top of each other

the only way to earn a living is dealing weed

no more room in the circuit

so some take arms and shoot straight in the bull's eye

They rebuild our blocks

and kick us out

meanwhile poverty grows and grows

taking it easy tourists parade

and my brothers are sent to jail

all of it under the eyes of cameras

in order to sanitize each square and park

and the very own city's IDENTITY!

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capital of the rupture..

• Artist:Keny Arkana
• Album:Tout tourne autour du Soleil