K. Jayz - Understand Me [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Hook x2]
Had a long life, better understand
Too many backstabbers, better watch your friends
I ain’t start at the top, still had to climb
So many relationships I had to decline
Cause they dragged me down when I tried to get up
Taking advantage of me, you know you pushing your luck
Nobody’ll understand what I been through
Even if I tried to put you in the same shoes

[Verse 1]
No I’m not a thug
No I’m not a drug addict
Everybody wanna live the life that is lavished
Without any work involved
You know, magic
Nobody wanna work for it, just gotta have it
Look up in the sky
What do you see?
You see me flying by
Too care free
Cause I been working hard
Still working hard
Too many motherfucking battle scars
Raising the bar
For all the niggas tryna rap
And starting off like shit
I did the same, but you gotta work for it
Now I kill every track as if they killed my mom
Folding every single nigga like origami
Mechanical bull flow, nigga, take a ride
If you can’t really do it, don’t even try
I’m ready for the ball field, motherfucker
Had so many homies that I’d treat just like a brother
But they didn’t really feel the same mutually
Oh I had to learn during puberty
As I got older and learned from mistakes
And trust nobody, especially today
Every little moment, gotta keep my guard up
They could've just poisoned me from the water
Balling everyday like I’m in the NBA
Too much on my mind, so you know a nigga gotta say
Anything on the tip of my tongue
And once it starts, my mouth is on the run
5 million degrees when I spit this flow
Cause I spit that fire on every motherfucking foe
Never run outta breath and I always work under stress
And I always kill every motherfucker to try to be the best

[Hook]

[Verse 2]
I tried my best in love
But too many times it was fucked up
Cause no matter how good I was…
They’d rather have a nigga who’s locked
Or lock ‘em up emotionally
Or physically
Not supposed to be that way but they don’t know any better
So when good comes, they don’t show any better
How many days ‘til we learn to treat loved ones the best?
How many days do we earn until ain’t no more left?
Kill for no reason
Ridiculous
As long as you black, people suspicious
In this world we live in
I’m still alive, but I’m still not living
Temptations, hard not to give in
Peer pressure, but gotta be independent
Coming to me like I’m supposed to be the person to be
The savior at the end of the street
But never before was there a need to even look at me
And know that I was the one to be
The person who will resurrect hip hop
Along with others who will keep that thought
In mind, and not fall in the generation gap
And only worry about tattoos and snapbacks
Nigga, what the fuck is that?
It ain’t really music, and that’s a fucking fact
Get it together and really fucking rap with me
Put hip-hop back on the fucking map with me
If I do it alone or do it with a team
It don’t matter cause I’ll be the best that I can be
So nigga, you can just tag along
But if you don’t, then really get outta my zone

[Hook]