| Bendero, Bendero
| Bendero, Bendero
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| Ouais, Bendero, Bendero
| Yeah, Bendero, Bendero
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| Bendero, Bendero, c’est l’histoire de Bendero
| Bendero, Bendero, this is the story of Bendero
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| Un truc pas très rigolo, pourtant, ce mec était réglo
| Not so much fun, though, this guy was legit
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| Régler ses dettes, c'était chose faite
| Settle his debts, it was done
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| Faire d’l’argent, il savait faire
| Make money, he knew how to do
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| Comme faire peur et les faire taire
| How to scare and shut them up
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| Il s’en bat les couilles de plaire
| He don't give a fuck about pleasing
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| Toujours terré sur son terrain, Bendero est parti d’rien
| Still holed up on his land, Bendero started from scratch
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| Maintenant, c’est lui qui tient l’terrain et veut régner comme un parrain
| Now he's the one who holds the ground and wants to reign like a godfather
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| Personne l’a parrainé, c’est pas un paresseux
| Nobody sponsored him, he's no lazy
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| À la porte, ça a sonné, c’est Bendero qui l’a saigné
| At the door, it rang, it was Bendero who bled it
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| Ouais, Bendero, Bendero, fais belek à tes potos
| Yeah, Bendero, Bendero, do belek to your friends
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| Ouais, Bendero, Bendero, à toi seul, t’es un héros
| Yeah, Bendero, Bendero, on your own, you're a hero
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| Bendero, Bendero, c’est pas un rigolo
| Bendero, Bendero, he's not a joke
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| À treize ans, il picolait, la même année, il quitte l'école
| At thirteen he was boozing, the same year he left school
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| T’as son daron qui quitte l’appart', là, Bendero a pris une tarte
| You have his daron leaving the apartment, there, Bendero took a pie
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| Des tartes, il en a mis, des K.O., il en a pris
| Pies, he put some, knockouts, he took some
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| Brisé par l’CJD, Bendero, il est tombé
| Broken by the CJD, Bendero, he fell
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| Quinze ans dans sa cellule, zéro sur son pécule
| Fifteen years in his cell, zero on his nest egg
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| Toute la nuit, il regarde la lune, il a tourné, ça l’a forgé
| All night he's staring at the moon, he's been spinning, it's forged him
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| Ca y est, il est sorti et maintenant, il veut manger
| That's it, he went out and now he wants to eat
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| Bendero, Bendero, un ambitieux, pas un chanceux
| Bendero, Bendero, ambitious, not lucky
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| Et pourtant, Bendero
| And yet, Bendero
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| Bendero, Bendero, fais belek à tes potos
| Bendero, Bendero, do belek to your friends
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| Ouais, Bendero, Bendero, à toi seul, t’es un héros
| Yeah, Bendero, Bendero, on your own, you're a hero
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| Bendero, Bendero, c’est pas un rigolo
| Bendero, Bendero, he's not a joke
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| Rigoler, il aime pas ça, il a la tête dans les aires-ffa
| Laughing, he doesn't like it, he has his head in the air-ffa
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| Réservé mais respecté en respectant tous ses marchands
| Reserved but respected by respecting all its merchants
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| Il marchandait toute la journée, la nuit, chez toi, il visitait
| He bargained all day, at night, at your house, he visited
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| Ta porte, il dévissait, ton coffre, il démontait
| Your door, he was unscrewing, your trunk, he was dismantling
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| Sa vie, un gros pépin, son but, c’est de palper
| His life, a big glitch, his goal is to palpate
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| Bendero aimait compter mais sur ses potes, il ne compte pas
| Bendero liked to count but on his friends, he does not count
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| Il a grandi, c’est un bandit, maintenant, le calibre, il brandit
| He's grown up, he's a bandit, now the caliber he wields
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| À vrai dire, ça a tiré, un soir, on l’a touché
| To tell the truth, it pulled, one evening, we touched it
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| Bendero, dans l’ambulance, pense déjà à riposter
| Bendero, in the ambulance, is already thinking of fighting back
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| Au poste, il prend du grade, il attire les grosses brigades
| At the post, he takes the rank, he attracts the big brigades
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| Les brigadiers veulent sa te-tê, lui, il est prêt pour allumer
| The brigadiers want his te-tê, he is ready to light
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| Un matin, il a tiré, dans l’thorax, il a visé
| One morning he shot, in the chest, he aimed
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| Bendero, il s’est vengé, mais là, sa vie a basculé
| Bendero, he took revenge, but then his life changed
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| Car Bendero, il a tué
| Because Bendero, he killed
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| Tuer, il voulait pas
| Kill, he didn't want
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| En vale-ca, il doit s’barrer
| In worth it, he must get out
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| À Marbe-be, il prend congé
| In Marbe-be, he takes his leave
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| T’as ses terrains qui tournent plus
| You have his lands that turn more
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| Là, la roue, elle a tourné comme une toupille, il tourne en rond
| There the wheel, it spun like a spinner, it spins around
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| À la recherche de faire du blé, t’as personne qui veut l’aider
| Looking to make wheat, you got nobody who wants to help her
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| T’façon d’l’aide, il en veut pas, c’putain d’gars sort d’la lère-ga
| Somehow help, he doesn't want it, this fucking guy comes out of the 1st-ga
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| Le temps passe, il pète les plombs, il fait plus rentrer un rond
| Time passes, he freaks out, he doesn't fit anymore
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| Dans sa villa, il devient barjot, lui qui faisait passer des kilos,
| In his villa, he becomes crazy, he who put on the pounds,
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| des kilos et des kilos
| pounds and pounds
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| La Polo servait d’ouvreuse et la RS était porteuse
| The Polo served as an opener and the RS carried
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| Porteuse de stupéfiants, Bendero, il est méfiant (bah ouais, ma gueule)
| Drug carrier, Bendero, he's suspicious (yeah, fuck off)
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| Bendero, il avance seul car il sait car il sait qu’il mourra seul
| Bendero, he walks alone because he knows because he knows he will die alone
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| La Squale
| The Dogfish
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| Bendero
| Bendero
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| Bendero, il avance seul car il sait car il sait qu’il mourra seul
| Bendero, he walks alone because he knows because he knows he will die alone
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| Bah ouais, frérot
| Well yeah, bro
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| Bendero, il avance seul car il sait car il sait qu’il mourra seul
| Bendero, he walks alone because he knows because he knows he will die alone
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| Tout part de là | It all starts from there |