A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
说唱
Rap
Single guys get a bad rap.
单身男人名声不好。
Rap is just to me very annoying.
说唱对我来说很烦人。
I don't even really like rap music.
我甚至不太喜欢说唱音乐。
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
说唱实际上来自朋克摇滚,而不是黑人音乐。
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
很多说唱歌曲本身并没有很多旋律。
If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.
如果我能说唱,那将是一种轰动,但我不能,你看,我只是一个白人。
If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.
如果你呆在一个地方,你只能谈论一件事,因为你只知道一件事。
And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.
把它变成说唱并不难,除了每一行的最后几个字都押韵。
I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.
我记得有人跟我说“有人会从这个说唱节目中赚大钱”,然后我就想“不可能”。
Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
意识说唱——一个我认为并不存在但经常被提及的术语——并不十分流行。
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
哈克尼的名声有点不好,但它是我住过的唯一一个感觉像社区的地方。我认识我的邻居。
I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.
我当时没有意识到自己造成了多大的伤害,我想很多说唱歌手现在可能也没有意识到这一点。那时候我说了很多胡言乱语,我看到了它的危害。