Efrain - State Your Name [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Verse 1:

I was a terror since the public school era
Never I was a quite nigga
But niggas still knew better
Fresh pair of 12s hair long as hell
School trip to the zoo my brother took a trip to jail
Even at 12 I knew I was sick as hell
Beating on cafeteria tables rhyming with Darrell
Tryna prevail with the flow going back and forth like Big L
Wasn't a fan of school though I did well
Inhaled my first L at 13, 15 year old influence introduced us to it
Now it's puff pass before my first class stair case
Battling for respect this little voice in my head like

Verse 2:
I ain't an activist
But I get proactive (Why?)
Cause current rap is lacking
This
Don't call it conscious rap
Cause this ain't conscious shit
You see the semi 50 bricks a shot of Henny
See I run on campaigns who rampage
Who react and relate
To that pain from black slaves that's black pain
You get sniped for your rights
These vampires will drain your soul
Just ask blade
Or ask me EFRAIN a little Puerto Rican born and raised in the city
South Bronx stories there's plenty so
Welcome to Intervale where cops play pin the tail
Quota ain't siting well
Lock em up wish em well
A picture tell 1,000
Experience infinity
This whole shit sick
The remedy ain't
Serenity
Relying on luck
Fuck your sweet serendipity
If you don't like me
Then Let me be
Like nigga


Bridge:
I speak but no one hears
I dream cause no one dares
I see what's so unclear
Never mind give em beer
Bread and circuses
You cannot purchase inner worth
And if you could
Insecurities Will resurface
See my back against the wall everything on the line
So I’m on my grind and not a day goes by where I'm not in my essence
Efrain is the message
They told me state my name I came to reign and claim my presence like