English Translation[Verse 1]
February 18th, '98 NY state
Between two artists
To let the world see what Iโm worth
To make a difference, I
After my first word โskyโ
And after the sky thickened with 9/11
Dad misses his hometown
So, I left with mum first
1 year ago, the me in USA
Lost in translation
A language where โYesโ is โnoโ, โnoโ is โyesโ
โIf youโre younger, youโre lowerโ, feel the oppression
Everything got boring, expressing yourself got awkward
Now everything makes sense, and I got used to it
Even if I fit in, the people around me ask
โWhatโs America like?โ
Shit, I donโt even know anymore
[Hook]
Ask yourself
What defines you? What defines you?
Where you were born? Where you grew up?
What defines you? What defines you?
The parents that gave birth to you? Your inherited appearance?
What defines you? What defines you?
Yeah...
Who are you?
[Verse 2]
Yeah, uhh
โEven if you have a good heart, you canโt go to heavenโ
Even if Iโm called, Iโm the elementary student that never obeys
When my classmates recite the Lordโs Prayer
Pretending to be a rebel and looking out the window, yeah thatโs me
โA unique kind of faithโ
Canโt quite grasp the concept
I only like my teachers and friends
When I get home, I prepare to sacrifice with my grandmother
Things that affect me now; crazy people, experience, environment
I dedicate this song to all of them
Today I made a difference with others
For this beat, my identity is stripped off
Wait, donโt give your identity away
Donโt be controlled, donโt be limited
Cause as much as you donโt have high expectations
Achievement goes away, punk
[Hook]
Ask yourself
What defines you? What defines you?
Where you were born? Where you grew up?
What defines you? What defines you?
The parents that gave birth to you? Your inherited appearance?
What defines you? What defines you?
Yeah...
Who are you?
[Verse 3]
Who are you?
Before that let me ask, โHiphop, whatโs that?โ
Same shitty English, mixing up profanity, wordplay?
No, itโs about your story
I am what I spit, I donโt tell fake shit
Without anything Iโm good at โAgency castingโ I got this kind of thing
Recklessly grabbed the opportunity I saw
Seemed like it would be fun everyday
Now my heart crazily yearns to change the way I live
So
If you see me in the subway
Kids thinking its foreigner, how amusing
Take a good look at my face
Vernon appearing everywhere
I could become your rival
Ah believe me, I believe in myself
Even if I donโt have it right now, I will have it all someday
Got no 2 chainz, just tryna rap true
Just tryna make a million dollars off a rap tuneHangul[Verse 1]
February 18th, '98, NY state
๋ ํ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ด์
์ธ์์ ๋ด ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช
ํด ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด
๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋์
After my first word โskyโ
And after the sky thickened with 9/11
์๋น ๋ ๊ณ ํฅ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ง๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋จผ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ
1๋
๋ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋์
Lost in translation
โYesโ๊ฐ โ์๋โ, โnoโ๊ฐ โ์โ์ด ๋๋ ์ธ์ด
โ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋ฎ์ถฐโ, ์ต์์ผ๋ก ๋๊ปด์ ธ
๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ ์ซ์ฆ๋ฌ๊ณ ํํ์ ์ํด๋ ์ด
์ด์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ค ์ดํด๋๊ณ ์ต์ํด
์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ค๊ฐ๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณด๊ณค ํด
โ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ด๋ค๋?โ
Shit ๋๋ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ด์ ํ๋ ์๋๋ฐ
[Hook]
์ค์ค๋ก์๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์ด
What defines you? What defines you?
๋๊ฐ ํ์ด๋ ๊ณณ? ๋๊ฐ ์๋ผ์จ ๊ณณ?
What defines you? What defines you?
๋ ๋ณ์์ค ๋ถ๋ชจ? ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ์ ์ธ๋ชจ?
What defines you? What defines you?
Who are you?
[Verse 2]
โ๋ง์ ์ฐฉํด๋ ๋ชป ๊ฐ์ ํ๋๋๋๋ผ์โ
๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฌ๋ ์๊ธ์ด ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ด๋ฑํ์
๋ฐ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ธ์ธ ๋
๋์ถฉ ๊ฐ์ด ์ธ๋ ์ฒ ์ฐฝ ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋ค๋ณธ ์ yeah thatโs me
โ์ ์ผ๋ฌด์ดํ ๋ฏฟ์โ
Canโt quite grasp the concept
๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ ์๋๋ค๊ณผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์ข์์ ๋ฟ
์ง์ ๋์์ค๋ฉด ํ ๋จธ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ด ์ ์ฌ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ
์ง๊ธ๊ป ๋ด๊ฒ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ฌ๋, ๊ฒฝํ, ํ๊ฒฝ
๊ทธ ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์ด ๋
ธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ณ
๋จ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๋ค๋ฆ์ด ๋ง๋ ์ค๋๋ ์ ๋
์ด beat ์์์ ๋ ์์ ์ ๋นจ๊ฐ๋ฒ๊ธด๋ค
์ ๊น, ๋ค ์์ ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ฃผ์ง๋ง
ํต์ ํ๊ฒ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ท์ ํ๊ฒ ํ์ง๋ง
Cause ๋๋ฌด ๋์ด ๋ฐ๋ผ์ง ์๋ ๋งํผ
์ฑ์ทจ๋ ๋จ์ด์ ธ ์๋ง
[Hook]
์ค์ค๋ก์๊ฒ ๋ฌผ์ด
What defines you? What defines you?
๋๊ฐ ํ์ด๋ ๊ณณ? ๋๊ฐ ์๋ผ์จ ๊ณณ?
What defines you? What defines you?
๋ ๋ณ์์ค ๋ถ๋ชจ? ๋ฌผ๋ ค๋ฐ์ ์ธ๋ชจ?
What defines you? What defines you?
Who are you?
[Verse 3]
Who are you?
๊ทธ ์ ์ ๋จผ์ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณผ๊ฒ โHipho ์ด๋๊ฑด ๋ญ๋ฐ?โ
์ข๊ฐ์ผ๋ฉด ์์ด ์ ์์ด๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ๊น๋ wordplay?
No, itโs about ๋์ ์๊ธฐ
I am what I spit ๋ฐฐ์ถํ์ง ์์ fake shit
์ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ ํ๋ ์์ด โ๊ธฐํ์ฌ castingโ ์ด๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ฐ๊ณ
๋ฌด์์ ์๋ก์ ๋ณด์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ก์ด
๋น์์ ์ผ์๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฌ๋ฐ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋
์ง๊ธ ๋ ๋ฏธ์น ๋ฏ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ๋นก์ธ๊ฒ ์ด์ด
So ์งํ์ฒ ์์ ๋ ๋ณด๊ณ
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ผ ์ ๊ธฐํดํ๋ ๊ผฌ๋ง๋ค ๋ด ์ผ๊ตด ์ ๋ด๋ฌ
๊ณณ๊ณณ์์ Vernon ๋์ฌ ๋๋ฉด
๋ด๊ฐ ๋ํฌ๋ค์ ๋๊ฒฝ์ ์๋๊ฐ ๋ ์์ ํ
๋๊น
I believe me ๋๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฏฟ์ง
์ง๊ธ์ ์์ด๋ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ์ง
Got no 2 chainz, just tryna rap true
Just tryna make a million dollars off a rap tuneRomanized[Verse 1]
February 18th, '98, NY state
Du hwaga saie
Sesange nae gachireul jeungmyeonghae boigi wihae
Byeonhwareul mandeureo boigi wihae nawa
After my first word โskyโ
And after the sky thickened with 9/11
Appaneun gohyangi geuriwo eommarang nareul meonjeo bonaego
1nyeon dwi migugeseo nawa
Rost in translation
โYesโga โaniโ, โnoโga โeungโi doeneun eoneo
โeorimyeon najchwoโ, eogabeuro neukkyeojyeo
Modeunge silhjeungnassgo pyohyeone seotulleosseo
Ijen imi da ihaedoego iksukhae
Jal eoullidagado jubyeoneseon gakkeum naege mureobogon hae
โmigugeun eotteondae?โ
Shit nado aneun ge deo isang hana eopsneunde
[Hook]
Seuseuroege mureo
What defines you? What defines you?
Neoga taeeonan gos? neoga jaraon gos?
What defines you? What defines you?
Neol nahajun bumo? mullyeobadeun oemo?
What defines you? What defines you?
Who are you?
[Verse 2]
โmaeum chakhaedo mot gayo hananimnaraenโ
Ttara bulleodo sugeungi an gassdeon chodeunghaksaeng
Ban chingudeuri jugidomuneul oeul ttae
Daechung gati oeneun cheok chang bakkeul naedabon ae yeah thatโt me
โyuilmuihan mideumโ
Canโt quite grasp the concept
Nan geunyang seonsaengnimdeulgwa chingudeuri johasseul ppun
Jibe doraomyeon halmeonirang gati jesa junbireul
Jigeumkkeot naege yeonghyangeul michin saram, gyeongheom, hwangyeong
Geu moduege i noraereul bachyeo
Namdeulgwaui dareumi mandeun oneulnarui nan
I beat wieseo na jasineul ppalgabeosginda
Jamkkan, ne jasineul neomu jujima
Tongjehage hajima, gyujehage hajima
Cause neomu nopi baraji anhneun mankeum
Seongchwineun tteoreojyeo imma
[Hook]
Seuseuroege mureo
What defines you? What defines you?
Neoga taeeonan gos? neoga jaraon gos?
What defines you? What defines you?
Neol nahajun bumo? mullyeobadeun oemo?
What defines you? What defines you?
Who are you?
[Verse 3]
Who are you?
Geu jeone meonjeo mureobolge โHipho irangeon mwonde?โ
Jojgateumyeon yeongeo yok seokkeogamyeonseo kkaneun wordplay?
No, itโt about neoui yaegi
I am what I spit baechulhaji anha fake shit
Jal haneun geo hana eopsi โgihoeksa castingโ iran geol batgo
Mujakjeong saerowo boyeossdeon gihoereul jabeo
Dangsiui ilsangbodaneun jaemisseul geot gatdeon
Jigeum nan michin deut gippeun maeumeuro ppaksege sareo
So jihacheoreseo nal bogo
Oeguginira singihaehadeon kkomadeul nae eolgul jal bwadwo
Gosgoseseo Vernon naol ttaemyeon
Naega neohuideurui donggyeongui sangdaega doe isseul tenikka
I believe me naneun nareul mitji
Jigeumeun eopseodo eonjengan modu gajigessji
Got no 2 chainz, just tryna rap true
Just tryna make a million dollart off a rap tune