Gravé dans la roche [English translation]

Aketo

In this rap business

we came hands in our pockets

Back in the day it was 'chuck that beat'

We were doing things on the fly

letting our rage talk

my friends and I

we want to carve this into stone

we're hungry and we have nothing in our stomachs

since then the name has changed

and you how things worked out

everything went so fast

where am I up to?

In real life?

yeah that's what I'm talking about

I'd be lying if I said it were the same

to start off with, I'm less on the straw

I came out of my hole

visited places and started to live

good times with my crew

liking each other

and making our relatives proud

that have known us and that supported us

before all others

this is for the guys back home

night gangs that fight

or those that stay next to the HQ

where I'm in my element

where I spent so much time

not doing anything all and liking it, that I'm like a piece of furniture

that we can't move

like an ink that's impossible to erase

like a tag written in acid, like my name

carved with a candle on the windows the metro

S.N.I.P.E.R with a fucking wording

(chorus)

hey come here

listen, swing

your head if you like it

for our families and our friends

it's carved in stone

coming out of nowhere

it was written, it's not by mistake

one day our name will be

carved in stone

we're not telling go, you're hanging on

we're getting closer to our goal

on disk or under the porch

it's carved in stone

now you're staying the way we are

we're transcribing the life we're living

on disk or on the scene

it's carved in stone

Blacko

Aket Tuni Blaki

I didn't cahnge

I'm still the same bastard

I don't even turn my coat around

I keep my same principles and my place markers

I don't like being a celebrity, all I do is gather my cash

I have all my points of reference otherwise I'm lost

the family, the gf, the bros, chilled

fuck their hip-hop jet set

I take advantage of the cash that I have

I'm not being american about it, I'm don't worry anything

I'm not a star and I don't want to be one

I'm not better than any other, I didn't walk on the moon

carved in asphalt, carved in stone

just my pen and my friends

I remember when we started

9 7 start of our story

offer to start an album we didn't even believe it

30/01/2001 the machine starts

2003 the business is still on, fuck success

now that we're here,

we intend on staying

carved on the paving stone, liked or hated

the adventure continues and will continue

inch'all who lives will live on

(chorus)

Tunisiano

Yow that I nearly stopped weed

stopped rapping in my room

you know ever changed since the 9/11

but for the rest, it's the same

just living the life

you recognised the voice you like

the same voice signature

chacal going full-out

hip hop without any complex

so carved in stone

that I light my zigs with a silex

rich, no always having trouble with money

that incurable sickness that's only treatable with a 12 pack

ah, pretty one, there's worse, I kill myself this way

breath, life is beautiful, it's not spelt A.I.D.S

still the same disgusting bastard, efficient, rapacious

who's looking nice, aka Tunisiano

my first struggle

like my first sounds,

my first steps in the studio

like the first steps on the moon

the same rakli, the same shit going on

Hourti selacem mrouti ou zoukiharti / Hourti erras mrouti ou zouk yha3ti

The same stories gossips of J.Lo or R.Kelly

to the of B.I.G to that of Lady Diana on the Alma bridge

here you shake your head, this album leaves you in trance

Sniper carved in stone, we're back to shock France

(chorus)

Aketo, I rap my life, we're persisting, we never let go

Whatever we tell you

We want to control this network

Only if god wills it we'll get it

stained with our emblem the world is ready for everything

(chorus)

• Artist:Sniper
• Album:Gravé dans la roche