Vent Og Se [English translation]

Here in our neighborhood we're used to fighting

Homie, stand tall

We're not allowed to dream, people like us, no

But we'll say watch us

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

The whole world will see

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

We're from Vestegnen1

And we're children of the suburbs

The A bus can certainly take you here

But never below the surface

Because we grew up here

Where you're not a child for long

We gather bottles to buy cigarettes

And the bottles are bought with child support

We're from split homes

So we gather in the neighborhood

To paint our name on a wall

So the world can see that we've existed

It's a weird form of materialism

But here they know what I mean

When I say that my holy cross

Is a logo with three stripes

You could see me on the playground

In my cousins old clothes

We were playing gangs and drug dealers

Where they were hanging out and smoked

Perhaps it was his BMW

His money or the girl on his arm

But I've known for as long as I remember

That when I grew up, I should be like him, because

If we shine, then the world can see us

My success won't be camouflaged

I'll lift weights and get tattooed

Because there are so few reserved seats

The church believe that they can free us

But religion for a suburban kid

Has never been faith, hope and love

But money, power and respect

Here in our neighborhood we're used to fighting

Homie, stand tall

We're not allowed to dream, people like us, no

But we'll say watch us

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

The whole world will see

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

Home for De Unge Mødre2

For coke sale, fuck up tickets3

We've got our hoods on our heads

We've got asphalt beneath feet

We wear Louis Vuitton

Even though we live in concrete

We're always late

-An entire season

But if you're up for trouble

Just come

We run from the law

Like a marathon

On basketball courts

In Air Force Ones

Jump for the basket

How high can you get?

To me, rap was a lotto ticket

Because without it I'd been invisible

Abs my ghetto passport would have gone invalid

I'd have been hit like thunder and lightning

Stole for the clothes I wore

But I knew some of Tupac's lyrics

So when I rapped, they'd listen

The only white boy the gangs loved

So well, mt notebooks were full of rap

And that's my beginning

On the search for my fame

Eminem's words, Tupac's ghost

Fill me, so I chase that feeling

When I go on stage I'm not alone

I can hear Burhan G say,

"Anker, do it for us

They said we wouldn't achieve anything,

But we did"

The three stripes that I entered

Are religion for a suburban kid

It's not Father, Son and Holy Ghost

But money, power and respect

Here in our neighborhood we're used to fighting

Homie, stand tall

We're not allowed to dream, people like us, no

But we'll say watch us

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

The whole world will see

Watch us

Watch us

As soon as we have just a little

I used to say

Some day

I'll return

So let them all see

When I'm rolling down the street in my new BMW

Some day

I'll return

So let them all see

When I'm rolling down the street in my new BMW

When I'm rolling down the street in my new BMW

1. A suburban district of Copenhagen2. A TV show about women getting children at an age that is socially considered too young3. I couldn't find an English word, but it's an amount of money you have to pay because you've done a mistake, and if you don't pay, it'll have physical consequences

• Artist:Ankerstjerne