Grand Médine [English translation]

[Refrain]

I'm gonna kill this profession

[Verse 1]

My 10 years of fighting are worth more than their 20 years of career

I told myself rap wouldn't produce a singer of diversity

The hand that gives is the hand that directs, cut it off completely

Médine wants to be buried in Médina at the heart of Dakar*

People no longer educate themselves, we just farm our people

There are more useful rappers like J.Cole on the streets of Ferguson

I did it all alone, I didn't pose on any of their records

By the success of Tieks hitting the racks, today I back up them

I have been fashionable, I've never been jet-set

I've had the same mates since Primary school: Salsa, Proof de "Ness & Cité

I was born to challenge those who spend their time worshipping themselves

We didn't manage to seduce them, well I'm gonna terrify them

Check all your sources, revise all your fucking lessons

It's the return of the panther, a rare species these days

Click bang, we have red eyes, hot ink and boiling blood

You're in a Palestinien spirit, but you have the humour of Netanyahu

I turn my back to them like a pro-Morsi

And so the best MC is an mono-brow Arab

They are all hypocrites, rap is a big competition of air-mic

Either you blow up or you disappear, like a Malaysian flight

Hey! I'm gonna kill this profession, like a Mathias Cardet book

Provocation is my turf, I'm gonna censure their verses

After me, there are no more classics, except the manufactured Reeboks

I don't make rap for you to listen to, I make rap for you to play-back

I steer all the marketing guys who chat like cash registers

They wear rap like a clothing brand when I carry it like a surrogate mother

I'm their Allah fanatic, my Arab life of Halal meat

I feel like doing the shahada to the passengers of Aaliyah's plane

Ha! The truth comes out

They prefer to play Iglesias~ than pretending to be clergymen

Ha! Of all the parties, all the big meetings

I don't wanna die at the MGM Grand, but at Médina

[Refrain]

I'm gonna kill this profession

[Verse 2]

I'm coming to liberate the neighbourhood, no mercy for the Free District

You have a journalist's view, well I call myself the long-sighted

A Press which has 'Street' as the name of it's blog

I don't see the world through the eye of a geopolitical scientist

Oh! I deny their attacks without rising to the bait

Because I'm from the suburbs with a sense of entertainment

I'm half-butter half-white in the context of Birmingham

Do they blame Cassius Clay for having stood alongside Louis Farrakhan?

Why then, do they make a fuss

When I go and see Stellio Capo Chichi?

I'm the MC of these bohemian masochists

Bullshit, I'm not any chuch, no extremist, and no leftist

My parish is Din Records, I'm good at striking the producers

We're North African, black, white, Normans, descended from Ragnar Lodbrok

I use drugs from fear of others and I repeat until they understand

They are perhaps bad-tempered, certainly not Palestinian

Oh, we're in the game, didn't come to play

But I show up on sites like a Daesh jihadist

(Don't matter) He who deceives will always find those who allow themselves be deceived

We won't print the message better with a 3D printer

Run away! Let's come out of our boxes, raise our weapons for the battle of the classes

I'm not a clasheur anymore, just an iconoclastic rapper

*spits* on what you're listening to, they fade completely

Me, I wanna reconcile the people, not like Soral but like Desmond Tutu

2017 will be war for the blacks, Maghrebs and whites^

I'll go to the polls like a soldier while you'll go there twerking

Yesterday is better than tomorrow, today there's a lack of labour

Call me Erdoğan in Air Jordans from the Ottoman empire

Ah! The truth comes out!

They prefer the status of expat than to fight those who exploit us

Ah! From all the fights, all the big meetings

Even if I die at 31 call me Grand Médine

Grand Médine

[Outro]

You don't have older brothers, great men to identify with

You don't have big wars, great causes to sacrifice yourself for

No gangsters, guns to authorize

Beneath our arrogance, we're joining to unite

Rap like Grand Médine

Speak like Grand Médine

Strike like Grand Médine

Walk like like Grand Médine

Rap like Grand Médine

Speak like Grand Médine

Strike like Grand Médine

Walk like like Grand Médine

• Artist:Médine