Talib Kweli / Black Girl Pain
I do it fot the love
I do it for the poet
I do it for the thug
This is for victory, and this is for the slaughter
I do it for my mother, I do it for my daughter
Promise I'll alway love ya, I love to kiss and hug ya
You and your brother should be looking out for one another
I'm so blessed man, ya'll the reason I got up
Somebody put his hands on you, I'm getting locked up
I'm not playing that's the prayer I'm saving for Diani
And if I die then she'll be protected by Amani
That's her bigger brother and I love the way he love her
She a girly girl, she love to imitate her mother
But she a Gemini, so stay on her friendly side
She'll put that look on you, it's like somebody friend just died
My pretty black princess, smell sweet like that incense
that you buy at the bookstore supporting black business
Teach her what black is teh fact is her pearents are through
She four reading Cornrows by Camille Yarborough
I keep her hair braided ,bought her a black barbie
I keep her mind free, she ain't no black zombie
This is for Kashera
This is for Khagijah
Scared to look up in the mirror
I see the picture clearer through the stain on the frame
She got a black girl name, she livin black girl pain
This is for Makeba, and mor my mamacita
what's really good ma, I'll be your promise keeper
I see the picture clearer through the stain on the frame
She got a black girl name, she livin black girl pain
My mama said life would be this hard
Growing up days as a black girl scarred
in every way though you've come so far
but they just know the name they don't know the pain
so please hold your head uo high
don't be ahsamed of yourself
Know I will carry you forth till the day I die
Cuz they just know the name they don't know the pain
This is for the Beatrice Bertha
Benjamin who gave birth to
Tsidi Azeeda
for Lavender Hill
for Kyalitsha
ALTHLONE
Mitchells Plain
Swazi girls I'm repping for thee
Mannenburg
Guguletu
where you'd just be blassed to get through
For beauty shining through like the sun at the highest noon
From the top of the cable car at Table Mountain
I am you
Girls with the skyest blue uf eyes and the darkest skin
for Cape Coloerd called
for realizing we're African
For all my cousins back home
The strength of mommy's backbone
The length of which she went for rausubg sacruficing her own
The pain of not reflecting
The range of our conplezions
For rubber pellet scars on Auntie Elna's back I march
First Raised
Caramel shining in all our glory
For Mauritius
St.Helena
My blood is a million stories
Winnie for Joan and for Edie
For Norma, Lesile, Ndidi
For Auntie Betty, for Melanie,all the same family
Fiona, Jo Burg
Complex of mixed girls
For surviving through every lie they put into us
now
This world is yours and I
swear I will stand focused
Black Girls raise up your hands
The world should clap for us
My mama said life would be hard
Growing up days as a black girl scarred
in every way through you've come so far
but they just know the name they don't know the pain
so please hold your head up high
don't be ashamed of yourself
know I will carry you forth till the day I die
Cuz they just know the name they don't know the pain
彼のNew Album, 「Beautyiful Struggle」から。聞き込むうちに、この歌が気になってきて、題名も題名なので歌詞を見てみると、これが素晴らしかった。TALIB、こういうこと歌ってくれるからやっぱりいい。2バース目はJean Graeっていう女性ラッパーがRapしてるんだけど、これもまたいいね。女の子の名前と思われる固有名詞がたくさんでてくるけど、これはきっと周りの女の子たちの名前でしょう。
これはBlackの女の子たちに向けた歌。Hookは、ママが「あなた達の人生は困難が待ち受けているだろうけど、どうか自分を恥じないで、顔を高く上げてちょうだい、彼らは名前は知ってるけど私たちの痛みは知らないのよ」って言った
っていう内容。私のつたない英語力で訳したのでもちろん完璧でないけど、こういうニュアンスです。ここでいう彼らっていうのは、きっとBlack以外の人々。こういう歌がなんで私は黒人でもないのに好きなのかわかんないけど、なんでだろうな、こういう歌を聴くたびに彼らの強さや痛みや孤独を感じてしまう。私が一生かかってもどんな経験をつんでも、全ては理解できないほど深くて重いものを彼らは生まれたときから背負って生きている。そういうのを、こういう歌で再確認する。
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