Dickes B [English translation]

Chorus:

Phat B 1 B, the song plays around with this, home on the Spree,

In the summer you do well and in winter it hurts

Mama Berlin - bricks and gasoline

we love your smell when we go pub crawling.

!. Verse:

The asphalt-ground shook and hummed in the ear

When I lost my young heart to a phat beat

Since back then I like the city better than before

When I cruise through Berlin City Reggae is my motor.

I sing on my bike, at times bass and at times and times tenor

at home I turn the sound up, the neighbors have humor.

They dig fresh downbeats from my record-store

Concrete Jungle, Supersonic - Sound System Culture

When there's a party then we're on the dance floor,

the DJ does the Verses and the Jarvis the chorus.

You sink into the bass like a bog body in a bog,

it forces you to your knees, 'cause the rhythm is hardcore.

We shake, what we have until 7 in the morning,

somewhere else it's closing time, with us it's trash collection

then we build a phat pipe 2, it occurs suddenly to us,

and we blow thick smoke through Brandenburg gate.

Chorus:

Phat B, home on the Spree, ...

2. Verse:

Compared to other cities, the Berlin-air

offers the best taste, the very best quality,

for celebrating parades and exclusive parties

the masses are there now, nobody had asked for them!

Earlier in Berlin it was all about tanks and rockets3,

today I live in the East between flowery wallpapers,

I don't care much for thalers 4 and dough,

make a track here and there, but in exchange for a concrete (home)5!

A pretty cool place, the city, from all the places6,

but where now are the dudes, who also arrive all serious,

to work their potential and their hot styles,

too much strength in the lungs for too few trumpets...

Chorus:

Phat B, home on the Spree, ...

3. Verse (Kappa): (Jamaican Creole)

This a one name it nice reggae musik me say nice, nice

inna Berlin is just like a paradice, it nice

everybody say dem love di vibes, vibes

when the reggae play dem say dem feel allright

when the reggae play trust me ju nah fe worry,

everybody come the reggae vibes dem all a study

make we take a check up pan the crew dem way promote it.

cause a reggae well it come fe run the city.

every monday night you now say dat a escobar

coming from near me say you coming from far.

every tuesday night you now say dat a tanzbar.

everybody go dey want fe look like a star.

every wensday night you can go check out subground

way the reggae musik mash the whole place down .

black kappa voice comming through di mikrophone

an make me say one love to all of the sound

big up Barney Millah , Concrete Jungle crew dem

big up Panza, Supersonic crew dem

big up Alex an the Such A Sound crew dem

and make me say one love to the nex sound dem.

so we sing

Chorus:

Phat B, home on the Spree,

In the summer you do well and in winter it hurts

Mama Berlin - bricks and gasoline

we love your smell when we go pub crawling.

1. Literally fat or thick2. referring to a bong3. referring to World War II4. An ancient European currency5. unclear, but likely referring to the communist era concrete buildings in the East6. literally "from all the seams" took that to be referring to "places"