[Hook] [钩]

You would never know 你永远不会知道

If you could ever be 如果你能永远

If you never try 如果你从来没有尝试

You would never see 你绝不会看到

Stayed in Africa 留在非洲

We ain’t never leave 我们是不是永远不会离开

So there were no slaves in our history 所以有我们的历史上没有奴隶

Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he 没有奴隶船，无痛苦，说我疯了，或者是不是他

See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything 见我睡着了，我做了一个梦，它是全黑的一切

   

[Verse 1] [诗歌1 ]

Uh, and we ain’t get exploited 呃，我们没有得到利用

White man ain’t feared so he did not destroy it 白人不害怕，所以他并没有摧毁它

We ain’t work for free, see they had to employ it 我们是不是免费的工作，看看他们不得不使用它

Built it up together so we equally appointed 把它建立起来，所以我们同样委任

First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it 前400年里，我们看到其实很喜欢

Constitution written by the W.E.B. Du Bois 宪法写的W.E.B.杜波依斯

Were no reconstructions, Civil War got avoided 没有重建，内战得到避免

Little black Sambo grows up to be a lawyer 小黑三宝长大后成为一名律师

Extra extra on the news stands 额外额外的消息看台

Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan 黑人妇女投三K党负责人

Malcolm Little dies as a old man 马尔科姆小死亡的老头

Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him 马丁·路德·金读悼词对他

Followed by Bill O’Reilly who read from the Quran 其次是比尔OReilly谁在读古兰经

President Bush sends condolences from Iran 布什总统发出慰问来自伊朗

Where FOX News reports live 凡福克斯新闻报道直播

That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize 内贾德赢得曼德拉和平奖

   

[Hook] [钩]

You would never know 你永远不会知道

If you could ever be 如果你能永远

If you never try 如果你从来没有尝试

You would never see 你绝不会看到

Stayed in Africa 留在非洲

We ain’t never leave 我们是不是永远不会离开

So there were no slaves in our history 所以有我们的历史上没有奴隶

Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he 没有奴隶船，无痛苦，说我疯了，或者是不是他

See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything 见我睡着了，我做了一个梦，它是全黑的一切

   

[Verse 2] [诗歌2]

Uh, and it ain’t no projects 呃，是不是没有项目

Keepin it real is not an understood concept 坚持着它真正的不是一个概念的理解

Yea, complexion’s not a contest 是的，肤色是不是比赛

Cause racism has no context 因为种族主义无背景

Hip hop ain’t got a section called conscious 嘻哈是不是有一个叫意识的部分

Everybody rappin’ like crack never happened 每个人都说唱裂像从来没有发生过

Crips never occurred no Bloods to attack them 瘸子从来没有发生布卢兹攻击他们

Matter of fact no hood to attack in 其实事情没有罩进攻

Somalia is a great place to relax in 索马里是一个伟大的地方放松

Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin 弗雷德·阿斯泰尔是第一个做旋

The Rat Pack was cool group of black men 鼠包是黑人酷团

That inspired five white guys called The Jacksons 这激发了五颗白色的家伙叫杰克逊

Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him 阿姆在装，但随后他又激发了黑色说唱歌手试着模仿他

And that’s what really rose up out of Michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 Cent, ha! 而这正是真正站起来了密歇根州，白由说唱歌手50美分名称的标志，哈！

   

[Hook] [钩]

You would never know 你永远不会知道

If you could ever be 如果你能永远

If you never try 如果你从来没有尝试

You would never see 你绝不会看到

Stayed in Africa 留在非洲

We ain’t never leave 我们是不是永远不会离开

So there were no slaves in our history 所以有我们的历史上没有奴隶

Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he 没有奴隶船，无痛苦，说我疯了，或者是不是他

See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything 见我睡着了，我做了一个梦，它是全黑的一切

   

[Verse 3] [诗歌3 ]

Uh, and I know it’s just a fantasy 嗯，我知道这只是一个幻想

I cordially invite you to ask why can’t it be? í诚挚地邀请您来问，为什么不能有呢？

Now we can do nothing bout the past 现在我们可以做什么回合过去

But we can do something about the future that we have 但是，我们可以做一些事情，我们有未来

We can make fast or we can make it last 我们可以快速或者我们可以把它最后

Every woman Queenin’ and every man a Kingin’ 每个女人都Queenin “和每一个男人Kingin ”

When those color lines come we can’t see between 当这些彩色线条都不能看的

We just close our eyes ’til it’s all black every-THING! 我们刚刚关闭，直到它的全黑每-映入我们眼帘！

   

[Hook] [钩]

You would never know 你永远不会知道

If you could ever be 如果你能永远

If you never try 如果你从来没有尝试

You would never see 你绝不会看到

Stayed in Africa 留在非洲

We ain’t never leave 我们是不是永远不会离开

So there were no slaves in our history 所以有我们的历史上没有奴隶

Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn’t he 没有奴隶船，无痛苦，说我疯了，或者是不是他

See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything 见我睡着了，我做了一个梦，它是全黑的一切