TripOne - Sixteen Strong [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]
I'm under bright lights
Shining like you've never seen me before this
Ugly kid, all my flaws are enormous
But these flows are gorgeous, so out of this world
You can catch me in that two-door DeLorean, darling
Spanish girl in the passenger, we going exploring
She said "I wanna come to your show
Can we both be together? I keep things on the low"
I said, "Make me up some tacos and we'll see where it goes"
My pen's much more passionate than yours
You ain't rapping for the rafters, you just rapping for the whores
I be rapping for the masters that be preaching like a pastor
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I'm the trinity, bastards
Teachers see my ass up there, reciting these lines
Now they know I'm not quiet, I'm just ahead of my time
Captain of the late '90s, I'm the head of my time
"Someone told me you's a rapper, man, I thought they were lyin'"
So I gave 'em that

[Hook]
Sixteen strong (repeated)
And then we gon' ride, and then we gon' roll
Just to let you know (sixteen strong)
(x2)

[Verse 2]
Man, I'm the king of South Brunswick, it ain't even worth bragging about
So I ain't stopping 'til the cameras is out
Snap-snapping when your man come about
Looking like the main attraction
I ain't handling no actions with you amateurs now
And yeah I'm seventeen, still got a sixteen strong
The careers you dreamed up haven't lived this long
Cause rappers looking for a way in like they hunting for Shawn
Or Marlon, smart talking but I'm far from Harvard
40K, top ten, so highly regarded
Plus the flow go slightly retarded, so holla
Bitches, stronger than your normal competition
My unorthodox composition could leave Bach shocked
And make Mozart jump out of his wig
Go so hard, flow god, with power to jump over towers and shit
'Bout to make a batter bow in this bitch
Bada-bow! It's the Fall Classic when I'm on the mound and I pitch
I got it!

[Hook]

Sixteen strong (repeated)

[Bridge]
This how I feel right now!
(x4)

[Verse 3]
They say you never see diamonds until you seen rocks
And you ain't never seen doors open until you seen locks
But I been down to Earth, I been left out
So now I'm headed for the stage, and not in that crowd
I'm playing for a different game that you ain't been 'bout
Soft-talking rappers ain't been loud
Since '97 I been killing shit, now
It's all a flash, I look back, I got myself saying "wow!"

This is for the homies that were with me, before my name all blew up
For the kids that were watching Rugrats, before they all grew up
Sometimes you wanna go back, when you're kicking with the kinfolk
Like it's 2000-and-something, with my cousins, all playing that Nintendo

And yeah, I still got some candy wrappers laying on the floor from last night, man, I am still a kid
I still go like three days in a row without making my bed, I feel alright, I'm just a kid!
Now these people that are telling me to mature, they don't know who they dealing with
It's more important that I'm still a kid
It's more important that I'm just a kid
November's Coldest

This how I feel right now!