Lunatic [English translation]

Booba:

August 18, 1998

B.O.O.B.A.'s locked up in the 78th district

Lunatic I am ever since I was born

A.L.I. you have all my gratitude

Live in war, die in peace

I write punchlines in cell, young side, block B

I do push-ups like I'm in the army

I got a thirty-months sentence in my face with no remission

I feel home in prison

Condemned for aggravated robbery

F.F.'s first album and Arsenik's music help me kill time

A few reports, some time spent in solitary

I'd have sold the shirt off my back for a pair of boobs

I miss the ghetto, later I'll learn

Who is who, many of them forgot about me

Let them believe I'm not going anywhere

Toad turned into a prince and moved the fu-k off his water lily

Akon:

I stay untouchable when I roll up

Chest wide open and I ain't gone hide

Raised in the streets, Dakar to New York

Cause that's how many n-ggas lose their lives

Because I'm a lunatic, a lunatic

The type of n-gga that don't let beef ride

I'm telling you now, it ain't nothing to load up

And blast your monkey a-s in broad daylight, yeah

Booba:

2000 - Finally free

Seine Heights are my landmark

One hand on the heart, one hand on the gun

"Mauvais Œil" will turn out to be a classic album

Lunatic 92i is the name of my clique

We went gold in freelance, first to make it

I'm not a knight because I'd have to dismount

The streets stick with us,

Skyrock radio refuses to play our stuff

They want us to change topics, what the fu-k

I have big cars, big biatches, plasma screens

I have clean money and dirty money

They want to boycott us, destroy us, but I'm strong-minded

I start to consider leaving France, "hoes down, G's up"

So I take the road even though bad luck may hit me

But I keep on flirting with crime

Incarcerated again for murder attempt

Akon:

I stay untouchable when I roll up

Chest wide open and I ain't gone hide

Raised in the streets, Dakar to New York

Cause that's how many n-ggas lose their lives

Because I'm a lunatic, a lunatic

The type of n-gga that don't let beef ride

I'm telling you now, it ain't nothing to load up

And blast your monkey a-s in broad daylight, yeah

Booba:

I get out of prison once again

I got lucky, big up to Yann Le Bras

There's a big S on my tee shirt

That means Senegal, East Army in my record player

I think about my label

Dark future, slumrat left the boat

As vicious as that guy from Luth

I have Hulk's shorts, Luke's power

I wage a struggle on my own

I got hatchets, don't you come and search my hut

Pont de Sèvres is my hive of activity

The ghetto has a tail, so the police captain can suck it

It's time for me to make big money

Provisionally, it's time for me to change a few things

I'm in my own diaspora, hard sh-t, terrific

Feel me in your rib cage, Tallac records

Akon:

I stay untouchable when I roll up

Chest wide open and I ain't gone hide

Raised in the streets, Dakar to New York

Cause that's how many n-ggas lose their lives

Because I'm a lunatic, a lunatic

The type of n-gga that don't let beef ride

I'm telling you now, it ain't nothing to load up

And blast your monkey a-s in broad daylight, yeah

• Artist:Booba
• Album:Lunatic