| CALBO:
| CALBO:
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| J’aurais trs bien pu te dire que je suis n avec ce talent,
| I could very well have told you that I was born with this talent,
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| Balancer d’innombrables raisons tordues, tchatche ou autres arguments.
| Throwing countless twisted reasons, chats or other arguments.
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| Mais voil, celui que tu voit l, doit la majeure partie de son succs
| But lo and behold, whoever you see there owes most of his success
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| l’excs de taf, son concept: mec jamais vex.
| the excess of taf, his concept: guy never vex.
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| Complx par rien du tout, on s’est dit: on nique tout,
| Complx by nothing at all, we said to ourselves: we fuck everything,
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| Calbo, lino en croisade, tu bouges ou t’es avec nous.
| Calbo, lino on crusade, you move or you're with us.
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| On tait une trentaine au dpart, 10 l’arrive,
| We were around 30 at the start, 10 at the finish,
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| Avis par les autorits de ne jamais y arriver.
| Advice by the authorities never to make it.
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| C’est comme ca qu’on forge un homme dans les quartiers chauds,
| That's how you forge a man in the red light districts,
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| Ce qui est infaisable, devient faisable quand tu me tournes le dos.
| What is infeasible, becomes doable when you turn your back on me.
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| Le chemin vers le succs, j’ai su qu’c’tait quelque chose de possible,
| The path to success, I knew was something possible,
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| Ce luxe n’tait pas reserv, pour nous pas impossible.
| This luxury was not reserved, for us not impossible.
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| Et vu qu’c’tait un art o on se dmerdait pas trop mal,
| And since it was an art where we managed not too badly,
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| On est entr balancer queques balles.
| We went in to throw some balls.
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| Boxer les mots intoxiqus par mon flow, les soces du chaudron,
| Boxing the words intoxicated by my flow, the soces of the cauldron,
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| Calbo a fait ses premiers, gars, sur le goudron.
| Calbo made his first, guys, on the tarmac.
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| Je rappe mon vice puis glisse sur le macadam et tisse
| I rap my vice then slide on the tarmac and weave
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| Des intrigues sur mes cahiers, cre l’cole du tournevis.
| Intrigues on my notebooks, create the school of the screwdriver.
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| Vice en poche, hisse la banire,
| Vice in your pocket, hoist the banner,
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| Fauche tout bout de champ, coche tout.
| Mow everything, tick everything.
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| Approche de la majorit, mais je m’accroche,
| Approaching the majority, but I'm hanging on,
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| Quand tout le monde reste ygri, quand tout le monde fuit aigri,
| When everyone stays sour, when everyone flees embittered,
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| Quand toutes les tcis sombrent dans l’ennui c’est l que je nuis.
| When all the tcis sink into boredom, that's where I hurt.
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| Enfin un jour on cre l’Arsenik, inonde les ondes, dbloque les blocs en briques.
| Finally one day we create the Arsenik, flood the airwaves, unblock the brick blocks.
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| J’oublierais jamais ceux qui m’ont aid ou supporter,
| I will never forget those who helped me or supported me,
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| Car on se retrouve souvent seul quand on arrive enfin au sommet.
| Because you often find yourself alone when you finally reach the top.
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| La route est dure, elle est sinueuse, la route est pleine d’embuches,
| The road is hard, it is winding, the road is full of pitfalls,
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| Elle n’est pas sre, elle est tortueuse, alors des fois je trbuche.
| She's not sure, she's crooked, so sometimes I stumble.
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| Mais vaille que vaille je vais de l’avant, Arsenik trace ta route lche pas ton
| But come what may, I'm moving forward, Arsenik traces your path, don't let go of your
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| plan.
| plan.
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| -acap | -acap |