Paris-Cuba [English translation]

(refrain by Roldan)

I don't believe in what you appear to be

I've never seen you in the neighborhood

Your way of thinking says to me

Everything, everything to the contrary!

Kool Shen

I'm not a star, not a pimp, not a player

I have nothing to sell, nothing to do with bad payers

I am in the biz, man, micro test, give me a check-up

Send the beat, yeah I'm there, man, yeah I'm the boss

Tonight this ghetto vibe, concrete trend

You criticize while your son is per-pomming

Our way of speaking

Like the way we were able to zap ourselves

Even they start rapping

Salif

It's war and I give the warriors what they want

Your bro sulks

Because you're like us, you listen to our last single

You get ready in the Foot Locker

You have the Requins, the Redskins

You buy my CD and I dodge

We don't rap on JetSkis

These fat boxes and gold CDs

Everything's fucked is our motto

They make the music of idiots

We make the music of gentlemen

Hey, you listened to Hard Rock, you've moved on to R.A.P.

You believe in yourself in the GTA and you don't think of anything but skidding anymore

(refrain x2)

Kool Shen

They sell their Nikes to buy themselves shit

While here at our place we sell shit

To buy ourselves Nikes and feel money

That scares 'em, huh?

That cuts you, huh?

Can your kids even fantasize about the place I come from?

I have its smell and its taste

Without a signal receiver, listen

My sound pushes you away and ends up being the hit band

I cradled your childhood

Long before rap was in fashion in France

Salif

You're fucking this shit

Too many hold-ups on your way

You didn't pay for our CD, you stole it from Carrefour

We bought you a Twingo but you wanted a BM

Your PS is a bitch of a machine, that goes with your TNs

I'm doing wrong like cardboard, keep your dentures in MC

I rap for the bad boys who go to the coal entrance

Your mother saw a lawyer, today you'll really need one

You're done in G.A.V. all because of a joint

(refrain)

Everybody's been in the neighborhood since dawn, wanting to open a gap like the carpenter who encounters a legendary tree does to the whole trunk... If they shoot me, I'm going there

(refrain)

• Artist:Kool Shen
• Album:IV My People Mission