Karpe - Sminke (med Masta Ace) - перевод текста песни на английский

Magdi:

Vi selger alt for mange skiver til å kalles undergrunn/

We sell way too many records to be called underground/

Alt for dårlig image til at alle synes det er kult/

Our image is too flawed for everyone to think it's cool/

Akkurat for lite kjent til å kalles kjendis/

Just a bit too unknown to be called a celebrity/

Med akkurat for lite spenn, til at jeg kan spend it/

With just a bit too little cash, to actually spend it/

På et image som er kjøpbart, jeg har hørt at/

On an image that's for sale, I've heard that/

Det er binizz i et image og de synes at du bør ha et/

There's business in an image, and they think you should have one/

Image eller finn ut at du gjør noe annet/

An image, or figure out something else to do/

Jeg veit om plateselskap som gir deg image på sølvfat/

I know record companies that hand you an image on a silver platter/

Ahh, så hva med Karpe da/

Ahh, so what about Karpe then/

Alt for lite kontroversiell for Natt & Dag/

Not controversial enough for Natt & Dag/

Men alt for skilla til å oversees rapmessig/

But way too skilled to be overlooked rap-wise/

Så hva skjer når rapperene skal kommentere placksa vi har/

So what happens when rappers comment on the plaques we have/

Troppa opp på ifpi med pistol/

Showed up at IFPI with a pistol/

Og fant kassa full av imager de delte ut til artister/

And found the box full of images they were handing out to artists/

Og please, bror, jeg tar hva som helst som finnes/

And please, girl, I'll take whatever's available/

Etter at noen stjal jovial som image/

After someone stole 'jovial' as an image/

Ref:

Chorus:

Lille Thomas hadde en drøm om å få spille gitar/

Little Thomas had a dream of playing guitar/

Og syntes Frank Bakke virka som en hyggelig kar/

And thought Frank Bakke seemed like a nice guy/

Så nå har han sminke på seg/ nå har han sminke på seg/

So now he's wearing makeup/ now he's wearing makeup/

Lille Frode bodde i boden sin med trommer en stund/

Little Frode lived in his basement with drums for a while/

Til han møtte Emi-Bjørn og fikke en royaltysum/

Until he met Emi-Bjørn and got a royalty sum/

Så nå har han sminke på seg/ nå har han sminke på seg/

So now he's wearing makeup/ now he's wearing makeup/

Lille Eirik spilte keyboard og var heldig som faen/

Little Eirik played keyboard and was lucky as hell/

Da Terje Pedersen fikk Eirik til å signere med han/

When Terje Pedersen got Eirik to sign with him/

Men nå har han sminke på seg/ nå har han sminke på seg/

But now he's wearing makeup/ now he's wearing makeup/

Lille Kristian var busy med å spille på bass/

Little Kristian was busy playing bass/

Til Yngve Næss sa det var best for han å binde seg fast/

Until Yngve Næss said it was best for him to get tied down/

Så nå har han sminke på seg/ nå har han sminke på seg/

So now he's wearing makeup/ now he's wearing makeup/

Chirag:

Ey, la meg starte me no′ barnslig, sminke er for jenter/

Ey, let me start with something childish, makeup is for girls/

Jeg bruker ikke sminke, sminke er for jenter/

I don't wear makeup, makeup is for girls/

Ikke smigret av at Sigrid Hvidsten synes at jeg er fet/

Not flattered that Sigrid Hvidsten thinks I'm cool/

Jeg scatter skibidibop-shit så lenge penga ruller inn/

I scatter skibidibop-shit as long as the money rolls in/

Deler blåveisen ut som Mike Tyson up in this/

Handing out black eyes like Mike Tyson up in this/

Så jeg er for gammel til å bry meg om hva en 16-åring synes/

So I'm too old to care what a 16-year-old thinks/

Dette er en norsk rap-classic/

This is a Norwegian rap classic/

Takin'ova, Barcelona, Live fra jævla Passit/

Takin'ova, Barcelona, Live from damn Passit/

Ingenting er døllere enn imaget til et indieband/

Nothing is duller than the image of an indie band/

Som bøyer imaget etter tiden for å få seg fans/

That bends its image according to the times to get fans/

Ser dem oppi stolen oppe hos Asbjørn oppå Lydverket/

See them in the chair with Asbjørn on Lydverket/

Kunstnersjel som er for fet til å svare, og nå smiler jeg ikke/

An artistic soul that's too cool to answer, and now I'm not smiling/

Chirag har sett de spille skuespill me leppestift/

Chirag has seen them play-acting with lipstick/

Toys oppå loftet som på coveret til Aerosmith/

Toys in the attic like on the cover of Aerosmith/

Jeg må si, ingen i det landet her rimer som meg/

I gotta say, nobody in this country rhymes like me/

Det over 10 år i gamet, boy og imaget er meg/

It's over 10 years in the game, girl, and the image is me/

Ref.

Chorus.

Masta Ace:

Eyo the label owe me cheese and a bunch of royalties/

Cause I ain′t seen a dime, they a bunch of royal thieves/

Cause they don't pay their fees, really I should bring 'em to their knees/

If their bank account, I could put a freeze/

My first album dropped, they said that I should get a job/

I took a look around and saw that I was getting robbed/

I came up in the era of sodomy and rape/

I know you probably wondering how do we escape/

Most didn′t, most still getting exploited/

Everywhere our music′s still getting exported/

Getting reissued, repackaged, then getting re-released/

Cause we the ones who wrote it and we're tired of getting greased/

Like a squeaky axel, frustration gonna keep me at you/

If I don′t get what I deserve, ya heard/

Now this goes out to the labels everywhere/

Learn how to care and keep it fair, aight/

Lille Eirik spilte keyboard og var heldig som faen

Little Eirik played keyboard and was lucky as hell

Da Terje Pedersen fikk Eirik til å signere med

When Terje Pedersen got Eirik to sign with

Han / men nå har han sminke på seg / nå har han

Him / but now he's wearing makeup / now he's

Sminke på seg /

Wearing makeup /

Little Tommy started out he was the king of the b's

Then he sold a record deal and I sing on the streets

So he got makeup on, yea, he got makeup on,

Lille Frode bodde i boden sin med trommer en stund

Little Frode lived in his basement with drums for a while

Til han møtte Emi-Bjørn og fikk en royaltysum

Until he met Emi-Bjørn and got a royalty sum

Så nå har han sminke på seg

So now he's wearing makeup

Nå har han sminke på seg

Now he's wearing makeup

Little point started out he had a serious flow

Then he sold a record deal for some serious dough,

Now he got makeup on, now he got makeup on

Damn...

Karpe - Sminke (med Masta Ace)

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