Encore
Thank you, thank you, thank you
谢谢你,谢谢你,谢谢你。
You’re far too kind
你太善良了
Haha
Uh, yeah
Ready?
准备好了吗?
Let’s go
让我们开始
Can I get a encore/do you want more
我可以再来一次吗?你是否想要更多?
Cookin’ raw with the Brooklyn boy
与布鲁克林的男孩一起加工
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
所以,最后一次,我需要用尽全力咆啸
Now, what the hell are you waiting for
现在,你在等待什么样的地狱
After me, there shall be no more
在我之后,再也没有
So, for one last time, nigga, make some noise
所以,最后一次,Nigga,制造些噪音吧
Get ‘em, Jay
准备,Jay
Who you know fresher than Hov/riddle me that
The rest of y’all know where I’m lyrically at
Can’t none of y’all mirror me back
Yeah/hearin’ me rap is like hearin’ G. Rap in his prime
I’m young H.O./rap’s Grateful Dead
Back to take over the globe/now break bread
I’m in Boeing Jets/Global Express
Out the country but the blueberry still connect
On the low but the yacht got a triple deck
But when you young/what the fuck you expect (yep, yep)
Grand openin’/grand closin’
God, you’re man Hov cracked the can open again
Who you gon’ find doper than him with no pen
Just draw off inspiration
Soon you gon’ see you can’t replace him (him)
With cheap imitations for these generations
Can I get a encore/do you want more
Cookin’ raw with the Brooklyn boy
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
Now, what the hell are you waiting for
After me, there shall be no more
So, for one last time, nigga, make some noise
What the hell are you waiting for
Look what you made me do/look what I made for you
Knew if I paid my dues/how will they pay you
When you first come in the game/they try to play you
Then you drop a couple of hits/look how they wave to you
From Marcy to Madison Square
To the only thing that matters in just a matter of years (yeah)
As fate would have it/Jay’s status appears
To be at an all-time high/perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan/wearin’ the four-five
It ain’t to play games with you
It’s to aim at you/probably maim you
If I owe you/I’ll blow you to smithereens
Cocksucka’/take one for your team
And I need you to remember one thing (one thing)
I came/I saw/I conquered
From record sales to sold-out concerts
So mo’fucka’/if you want this encore
I need you to scream ‘til your lungs get sore
I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless
Lost under the surface
Don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure
Of walking in your shoes
Caught in the undertow/we’re just caught in the undertow
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
Caught in the undertow/we’re just caught in the undertow
And every second I waste is more than I can take
I’ve become so numb
I can’t feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I’m becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you
I’ve become so numb
Can I get a encore/do you want more (more)
I’ve become so numb
So, for one last time, I need y’all to roar
One last time, I need y’all to roar
My 1st Single
Ohh!
Yeah!
So much for first single on this one
[Verse 1]
Shady’s the lable
Aftermath is the stable
That the horses come out erra
Of course we’re about to stir up
Some shit ?? Mix water with syrup
It’s the mr. picked on Christopher Reeves
Just for no reason other than the just to tease him
Cause he was as big as ?? He used to be Superman
Now we’re pourin liquor on the crib in his name for him
Eminem you wait till’ we meet up again
Fucker I’m kickin your ass for everything you’ve ever said
It’s one for the money two for the fuckin show
Ready get set, let’s go
Here comes the ?? stompin and stampedin up the damn street
Like them buffalo soldiers, I told ya I’m bout’ to blow
So look out below, geronimo, motherfuckers is dominos
I’m on a roll, around and around I go
When will I stop? I don’t know
Tryna pick up where the Eminem Show left off
But I know anything’s possible
Though I’m not gonna top what I sold
I’m at the top of my game
That shit is not gonna change
Long as I got Dr. Dre on my team
I’ll get away with murder
I’m Michael J. he’s like my cock from the day
We keep the mark from the tapes
In a safe, locked them away
Better watch what you say
Just when you thought you were safe
Them fuckers got you on tape
You swear to god you was playin
Whether or not you was little Joshua
Gosh I wish I coulda told you to not do the same
Cause one day it could cost you your name
[chorus]
And this was supposed to be my first single
But I just fucked that up so,
Fuck it, let’s all have fun let’s mingle
Slap a bitch and smack a ho
This was supposed to be my catchy little jingle
That you hear on your radio
But shit’s about to hit the shingle
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh No
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Oh Ah Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Poo Poo Ca Ca
[Verse 2]
Erra Erra Eric swallowed some generic sleeping pills
And woke up in bed next to his best friend Derick bare naked
chicka chicka chicka ..
And then just turned 16 and used a fake id
To sneak in V.I.P. to see R. Kelly
Hehehehehe, to be so young and naive
Oh what I wouldn’t give to live so Kim and care free
Paris and Nikki’s parents must be so tickled to cherish
Every picture with their kids with hickeys all over their necks
Hickory Dickory derr digga
Look at me work wizardry with these words
Am I a jerk or just jerk chicken
Or Chicka chicka chicka chicka jer jer jerkin the chain
22 jerks and a jerk circle
Or is it a circle jerk or wait a minute
What am I sayin, allow me to run it back and rewind it
rrrbb lemme ask you again
Am I just jerkin the chain
Am I bizerk or insane
Or am I just one of them damn amateurs
Workin the damn camera filmin one of them
Paris Hilton home made pornos
Who keeps tiltin the lens at an angle
Chicka Chicka
Just recently somebody just discovered
Britney and Justin videotapes of them fuckin
When they were just mouseketeers in the Mickey Mouse club
And dusted them and went straight to The Source with them
Cause they coulda sworn someone said Nuh-
And then tried to erase and record over it
But if you listen close enough to it you can hear the
Uh Uh and then the come-to-find-out-it-was-Justin
Sayin ’I’m done-uh!’
Come on this was
[chorus]
supposed to be my first single
But I just fucked that up so,
Fuck it, let’s all have fun let’s mingle
Slap a bitch and smack a ho
This was supposed to be my catchy little jingle
That you hear on your radio
But shit’s about to hit the shingle
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh No
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Oh Ah Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Poo Poo Ca Ca
[Verse 3]
Any opinions or somethin you just wanna get off your chest
And address it about my lyrics I’d love to hear it
All you gotta do is pick up the phone and just dial up this number
It’s 1-800-I’m a dick sucker I love to suck a dick
And if someone picks up you can talk all the shit you want about me
Just type in your number back and follow it by the pound key
And I’ll be sure to get back
As soon as there comes a day that I fall out with Dre
Wake up gay, make up with Ray (Hey!)
So fuck a chicken, lick a chicken, suck a chicken,
Beat a chicken, eat a chicken like it’s a big cock(?) bawka-bi-kaw
Or suck a dick, and lick a dick and eat a dick
And stick a dick in your mouth
I’m done you can fuck off
fucka-fucka-fuck offf!
[chorus]
And this was supposed to be my first single
But I just fucked that up so,
Fuck it, let’s all have fun let’s mingle
Slap a bitch and smack a ho
This was supposed to be my catchy little jingle
That you hear on your radio
But shit’s about to hit the shingle
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh No
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Ah
erra Oh Oh Ah Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Oh Ah Oh Ah
Poo Poo Ca Ca
Yellow Brick Road
[Intro]
What we have to do is deal with it when these idividuals are young enough. If you wish to be
saved, not in a religious sense but not to constitute what this country at times calls if or
which over. We seem to be approaching an age of the gross. We all have this idea that we should
move up from our parents station and each generation should do a little bit better.
[Verse 1- Eminem]
Come on, let’s cut the bullshit enough
Let’s get it started, let’s start addressing this issue and open it up
Let’s take this shit back to bassmint
And we can disscuss statements thats made on this tape
And its whole origin of the music that we all know and love
The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna destroy
Let’s rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit
Crossin 8 Mile in the border in the hate territory
I’d like to share a story, this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
You will well inform me, I am well aware that I don’t belong here
You’ve made that perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
>From Bel-Air shopping center just for stopping in there
>From the black side all the way to the white side
Okay there’s a bright side a day that I might slide
You may call it a past I call it haulin my ass
Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them good old notorious oh well known tracks
[Chorus x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home
[Verse 2- Eminem]
I roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and van dike
And steal a god damn bike from somebody’s backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half way mark
To meet Kim had to walk back to her mama’s them dramas after dark
To sneak me in the house when I’m kicked out my mom’s
Thats about the time I first met Proof when poof he’d carry on the set
Set eyes born in and out some flyers, he was doin some talent shows
At center line, I had told him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I’m out my mind shook his head like white boys dont know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew we’d meet again somewhere down the line
[Chorus x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home
[Verse 3- Eminem]
My first year in 9th grade, can’t forget that day at school
It was cool till your man MC Sham came through
And said that Boom was the brain cuz the clan makes troops
It was rumors but man god damned they flew
Musta been true because man we done banned they shoes
I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And we just through them in the trash like they yesterday’s news
Guess who came through next, X clam debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green
With a key sissies now with this bein a new trend
We don’t fit in crackas is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African symbols and medallions
Represents black power and we ain’t know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall with ’em
All over our necks like we’re showin ’em off not knowin at all
We was bein laughed at you ain’t even half black
You ain’t supposed to have that homie let me grab that
And that Flavor Flave clock we gon’ have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin back at Manix’s basement
Sayin how we hate this, our races wit dope the x clan take this
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two time me and there was this black girl
At our school who thought I was cool cuz I rapped so she was kinda eyein me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain’t even gon’ say it plus
The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it
Not only would I become more popular but I would be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or spoke to the oh foolish pride girl
But I’ve heard people say they heard the tape and it ain’t that bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that apologize
I was wrong cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a (bitch?)
[Chorus x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home
专辑的背景介绍
说唱天王Eminem又开炮了!在经过了2002年的自传电影以及2003年的力推新人之后,2004年Eminem重新回到了自己的说唱事业上,年初推出乐团专辑《D12 World》之后,Eminem的第四张个人专辑《Encore》终于千呼万唤始出来。这张专辑如同前作《The Eminem Show》一样为了防范盗版商而改在周五发行,但是仅仅三天,这张专辑的销量就突破71万1千张,不可阻挡的占据了Billboard 200排行榜的冠军宝座,再次证明了他当代说唱王者的实力。
《Encore》出笼,难免又要有一些人成为Eminem口中挖苦的对象,这些人或诚惶诚恐或怒不可遏,上到美国总统布什,下到纽约街头耍嘴皮卖艺的,近如邻门说唱同行,远至阿富汗不为人知的山洞,概莫能外。简单汇总一下,这次有幸入Eminem尊口的各界名流有:总统布什为首的油滑美国政客,身处水火之中的Michael Jackson,已故超人扮演者Christopher Reeves,还有Hillary Duff, Lindsay Lohan之辈的当红玉女优伶。
正如这张专辑的封面和名字一样,这是所谓《The Eminem Show》的一个延续。但是实际上这张专辑却没有他的前作那么出色,原因有一点,Eminem变了。虽然方式上没什么变化,但是变在了细微之处。也许是年岁增大的缘故,Eminem稍显“底气不济”了,专辑里不少的歌没有以前的那么肆无忌惮的叫嚣,更多的歌曲甚至声音有些低暗。不是没有原因的,在这张专辑里除了一些攻击性的歌曲之外,Eminem失去了本色,只是和许多平庸之辈一样说些无关痛痒的笑话,尽管有些同样出色,但是和泛泛之辈相似就是Eminem的下滑。同时这张专辑较以往也更加的Eminem个人化,专辑中还有一些给她的女儿的歌曲,人性之处固然值得称道,但作为这张专辑来说,套用国内的流行语讲就是从“愤青”向“小资”蜕变……
专辑中的单曲方式和套路主要承袭了《The Eminem Show》,内容虽然比以前有趣了,但只是略显硬性不足。有时声音的黯淡也并非技术问题所致,因为专辑的制作组依然是由老大Dr. Dre领班,Eminem也继续身兼制作人。嘉宾也包括了Eminem近年力捧的两位小弟50 Cent与Obie Trice,以及D-12乐团的同僚,师傅Dr. Dre也献声专辑同名单曲。虽然有些方面弱化了Eminem的硬核,但是还是有《Just Lose It》《Encore》这样出色的作品,《Just Lose It》也是这张专辑的首要主打单曲,这首针对Michael Jackson的作品怎能不是专辑亮点之一。仁者见仁智者见智,《Like Toy Soldiers》将会给这张专辑带来一些讨论的话题。在涉及超人扮演者Christopher Reeves的《Rain Man》中,Eminem说道“I killed Superman……”,还言称自己新名字就是达斯汀·霍夫曼扮演而著名的弱智名字“Rain Man”。至于《Big Weenie》之类的作品就有凑数之嫌,存在简直是有损Eminem的形象,皮皮塌塌的,节奏内容都不符合Eminem惯有的硬派风格。颇值得关注的讽刺歌曲还有关于Hillary Duff等当红明星的《Ass Like That》。当然,这张专辑里还有《Spend Some Time》《One Shot 2 Shot》之类颇有实力的歌曲。除了20首专辑正装单曲之外,附赠的三首歌曲倒是都非常优秀。
如果是一个因为Eminem的硬核而喜欢他的歌迷很可能会有些失望,但是不影响这张专辑一些单曲仍是他们的最爱。Eminem在这张专辑里稍有服软,可毕竟大多数的作品还是很有冲击力的,只是有了较多耍滑头的单曲而已。比Eminem早年的强势专辑弱化不少,只能说是Eminem一张合格的专辑。如果是一个喜欢Eminem个人的歌迷来说,这张专辑仍然是典藏级的作品,因为其中包含了一些对Eminem早年生活和女儿的片断。对于这张专辑,既可以理解为Eminem的成熟,也可以认为他音乐的转向。
几乎肯定有人会片面的认为《Encore》里看不出Eminem有什么新的突破,只是以往套路的翻新,但是Eminem依然能够这样淋漓尽致的嘲笑并且能够边骂边说甚至让人忍俊不禁,歌词,语速,主题,如今的说唱艺人虽多,此等层次的歌手又有几人能望Eminem之项背?不过话说回来,以目前Eminem的人气和地位,这样的一张专辑当然可以轻易成为说唱歌迷顶礼膜拜的对象,可如果今后Eminem就此停滞不前的话,新人辈出的流行歌坛发生什么事都不好说。所谓不进则退,《Encore》虽然尚可,但是Eminem还应该尝试新的突破,坚持自己强硬的风格,让这张专辑里柔弱的部分消失,他可以做得更好。(CatCobain)