El Malestar En La Cultura Lyrics English Translation by Residente
It’s not the same, a dream and a thought
When a fan is blowing, compared to when the wind is sought
Reading a book is history, reading a tale
Preserving a culture, not following a stale
The essence of rap from before
Subculture resisting against the dominant lore
Allow me… allow me…
Allow me to express my view
You don’t define the culture, the culture defines you
Understand, grasp it?
Culture doesn’t stay, it adapts, doesn’t sit
It changes, mixes, fuses
Culture evolves from a brain with few neurons
To a thinking mind, let’s see if you reckon
It’s what turned monkeys into people, reckon
From a fur coat to armor
It’s the seed that grows, develops, and gets warmer
From horse riding with horseshoes
To flying in a plane, thirty thousand feet high it goes
Like any civilization, today rap endures
Adapting to the temperature
And in that adjustment, it changes its shape
Because culture is never pure
No longer with pencil or script
I write with brush and paint, my thoughts I encrypt
I structure everything, breaking the ties
Free, without constraints
Because the rap you defend
Because the rap you defend hits me at the waist
Rap doesn’t carry me, I’m the one who carries it
The world doesn’t move if I don’t move a bit
All rules I always broke
Because they don’t measure what it took to reach this yoke
Rules for me are sinister
In school, rules from teachers made my life blur
Rap has always been politically incorrect
Ah, rules are for architects
I’m the art of doing what I shouldn’t do
Like in jazz, leaving the tempo and falling anew
On a beatless track, still they nod
Without walking on water, I make them believe in God
I have the rhymes, ah, I have, I have the rhymes that soothe your pain
I have the rhymes, I-I-I have the rhymes that soothe your pain
I have the rhymes that soothe your pain
So you find peace without going to Bolivia
For you, I go all in
My north has always been the south