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Man, im learning so much about rap artists when i read your posts. there are dozens of them i didnt know, and theyre famous in ur country,..
let me show u a bit of what i know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPopSCcSY8c

tell me if u want more!

Idk what they are saying :S

Cris J.A.C.K wrote:Idk what they are saying :S

Ditto. Are there any English lyrics?

I translated a song, hope you'll undesrtand it. because it took me hours, i won't do it for every song. So I've choosed a better one, where the lyrics are one of the best. Hope it has the same taste in english as in french, because in french, it is just awesome, everybody agrees to stay that this song has the best lyrics ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdL_CieTnIQ
Hope you'll enjoy


Before I go I had to write my public a letter,
From the black poet, Kery James the melancholic
In all sincerity,
Because you deserve it,
I only have the truth,
In exchange of the love you have for me,
Only for those you really love me,
Cry listening my songs,
Those who defend me like we were from the same blood,
Those who have in their heart compassion for me ,
To those who guess me, can notice my bad mood,
Will notice the nuances and the hidden meanings in each letter,
Those I’ve written to,
Those I’ve described,
Like my words were theirs, to those I’ve healed,
To those I’ve helped,
To those I’ve protected,
For those I’ve pleaded,
Those I’ve always pretended
To represent
Those I’ve carried, enhanced, (cant’t find the last word, sorry!)
Reconforted, when they only had my words to shelter,
To the invalid of happiness to who my text serve as crutch,
To unknowns who consider me as a member of their family,
Those who have made me a place, in their heart, in their live,
I only have 2 things to say, I’m shamed and thank you.
I’m shamed of not be the one you admire,
I won’t only be the one you hope for,
In me there is love,
But in me there’s hate,
In me there is pain,
And I still have a bit of humor,
In me there is tenderness but I can be a brute,
In my mouth there is wisdom but there are sometimes insults,
I love peace,
But I also like resistance,
Aware that violence can be the last chance
To get peace.
I have a side of shadow too
And I’m alone in front of it when my side of light falls,
My side of shadow has few morals and virtue
What leaves my side of light my side of shadow perpetuates it,
To exposed to the pleasure of flesh,
My side of shadow could shut off my light,
My side of shadow hates to rise the white flag,
If it isn’t to struggle you with it and dip it in your blood,
My side of shadow could skid, hit, arm itself, load
A gunfire and discharge it,
My enemies don’t know what I’m capable of,
I’m on the wings of the dove, but my balance is unstable,
There are too much who take my honor as a floor cloth,
I wait,
But my side of shadow waiting,
Has whereof to make them quiet, (don’t know if it is comprenhensible)
You don’t have any idea what it whispers me,
Blood on walls and tears on faces,
Fighting with myself like kamel I resist,
I live with the fear my light withdraws,
I live with the fear they push me too far,
That I ruin everything with one blow,
Their live and mine because of one doubt.
That’s why I have to go,
Before I see everything I’ve built destroyed,
Anyway, here I’m always stressed, I feel like oppressed
I don’t have time for anything, I’m always in hurry,
Anxious and tormented I live in anxiety, I angst,
I don’t even know who I have to see in the mirror, when I look at me in the looking-glass,
Like a candle I enlightened you,
But as the time I consumed myself,
It surprises you but I don’t even enjoy the success.
You can find that strange till you don’t know what I know,
Just watch the human beings, you’ll note they all die,
You can amass property, necessarily one day you’ll leave it all,
I watch the future, and I only see graves in the horizon,
So it is time I exile myself, among the men of reason,
Here the people are fake, deceitful, travesty the values (im not sure it means what im thinking of)
See the worst as the best.
Pssst just a second,
Let me step back to impulse better,
That I breathe, I open myself, I find myself again
Maybe that I discover myself,
Thug life, I grew up in the hood,
At the doors of the illegal it’s hard to be honest,
Ten years old and smoking in the towers of cement,
I’ve spent time waiting man, waiting for the clients,
I’ve done dirty,
I’ve done bad to my mum,
I’ve survived but my brothers
Have taken bullets,
Thug story, I don’t lie,
And when I cry it’s bloodred, bloody past,
No gloves, all my youth I’ve challenged the state,
I’ve believed for a long time in the vendetta of the beretta,
Graze jail and cemetery,
till my side of shadow meets my side of light,
“Ideal j” it was me,
“Si c’était à refaire” it was me,
“Savoir et vivre ensemble” it was me,
“Ma vérité” it was
“A l’ombre du showbusiness” it was me again,
Each album is a part of myself,
Reflects what I am at the time I write it,
I change so my music can’t always be the same,
While she has to be faithful to myself,
So yes I’ve contradicted myself
Yes I’ve change my mind
Because yes I’ve grown up,
I preferred to shock you than to lie to you,
Speaking the truth I choosed the way of the sincerity.
Few understand my music,
Neither my choices, that’s why I write this letter only to my public,
Those who love me, see in me a hope,
Even eyes closed, sensible souls can still see,
I’m such wised as crazy,
Such strong as weak, I’m such human as you,
So many debates on forum,
I’m just a man

*crickets* lol

American rappers are famous world wide....If your French, you should know of most of them.

French rappers sound dope as fuck, this songs the shit (english parts at least, but french sounds amazing too)

steelie? do u like IAM?? i forgot this band, but i should have put it in the top 10 rappers ever i've posted, theyre great, i love them, i know some good songs, if u wanna listen to them. The problem is that they have amazing lyrics,you wont understand them :S

@Ganguskhan:yeah i know, i knew the most important, but then its hard to discover new artists, when the raido and the tv sucks :)
no one of my friends know hopsin, for example ^^ i really try to discover new stuff but this is tough :( the topic about the top 10 rappers is very interesting

damn thanks for the lyrics paris. i like the track, just don't know french lolz.

Props Paris! Thanks!

Listening now, and I like.