Euer bester Feind [English translation]

[Verse 1:]

There he is again, your best enemy,

which the Bild tabloid writes about in every little detail: Alleged homophobe, alleged woman hater.

At least that’s what is shown on TV.

Most of it’s a stinking pack of lies anyway.

Germany, I’ve only raised your kids for you.

Please, now you want to point the finger

at me and blame me for whatever

else they pull. 1

No big deal, I’ve never shirked responsibility, 2

I show up in court on time with a suit and tie

I’m seeing this word too often when I open the paper, 3

so I think my middle name is “bad ass rapper.”

Why are you always pointing your finger just at me?

That’s what’s come of it, I’m going into politics.

Out of the slums and into the mansion, I’ve won a Bambi award, but, as always they respond adversely to me.

[Hook:]

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

I’ve changed my ways, even if it seems like yesterday. 4

I know very well that you’re only into gossip.

Your thinking is stereotyped; you put me on the same level with felons.

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

(When I) look you in the eye, I only see genuine envy.

Is this your concept of justice?

What you say about me is the biggest pile of shit!

[Verse 2:]

There he is again, your best enemy.

Recently, it looks like a rat race.

The media won’t acknowledge that I’m a changed man

and sadly always label me as the gangster.

It’s a girl, now I’m a family man.

At this point, I’d like to say hi to Alice Schwarzer. 5

Maybe I’ll soon be the Mayor of Berlin.

So now who has prejudices – you or me?

Germany, this is certainly my job

I’m the boogeyman, I’m the scapegoat 6

I’m everybody’s bad boy, no problem.

I can take it, ‘cause I’m mean like 10. 7

All of them want to get involved here.

They give me their shit and are intrusive.

It’s okay, if you don’t know what to do next,

write about me if it increases your circulation.8

[Hook:]

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

I’ve changed my ways, even if it seems like yesterday.

I know very well that you’re only into gossip.

Your thinking is stereotyped; you put me on the same level with felons.

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

(When I) look you in the eye, I only see genuine envy.

Is this your concept of justice?

What you say about me is the biggest pile of shit!

[Verse 3:]

There he is again, your best enemy,

who supposedly doesn’t even write his own lyrics.

and all the bloggers are back on their iPhone.

Before I forget – a “peace” goes out to Heino. 9

If I had a euro for every lie they told,

I’d be as rich as I am now without rapping at all.

Allegedly, I kyped my beats. 10

Supposedly, no one could ever trust me.

All right, you make me out to be the boogeyman,

but I’m the boom man, I won’t tolerate it, man.

Today my former rappers wants to tell all. 11

Without me, no one would know you,

I don’t give a shit.

‘Cause if I weren’t here, you wouldn’t have done shit.

Bohlen is the pop -, but I’m the rap titan. 12

That’s the last time I let myself get fucked

‘cause you people would love it if I just once lost my cool.

[Hook:]

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

I’ve changed my ways, even if it seems like yesterday.

I know very well that you’re only into gossip.

Your thinking is stereotyped; you put me on the same level with felons.

There he is again; I’m your best enemy.

(When I) look you in the eye, I only see genuine envy.

Is this your concept of justice?

What you say about me is the biggest pile of shit!

1. Whatever else they pull: here, “pull” means: try to “get away” with something: to try to do something bad without being caught and/or punished.2. shirk = to avoid duty or responsibility.3. “Paper” is a term often used for “newspaper.” 4. even if it seems like yesterday: meaning - the way he was (yesterday).5. Alice Schwarzer is a prominent German feminist and an alleged Bushido adversary. She and Bushido have been at odds with each other since 2007 when she characterized him as a coward after he backed out of a talk show appearance with her. 6. boogeyman: an imaginary monster used to frighten children. Scapegoat: a person made to bear the blame for others. 7. Gemein wie 10: 10th track on Bushido’s 2003 “Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline” album. 8. Circulation: the number of copies a newspaper or magazine distributes on any given day, week, or month. 9. Heino is a German folk and Schlager singer. In 2011, Heino returned his Sonder-Bambi “Unknockable Stars,” which he received in November 1990, in protest against Bushido for his controversial Bambi win in the category “Integration,” November, 2011. 10. Kype = to steal. 11. ex-Künstler: possible reference to Kay One, who left Bushido’s lable, ersguterjunge in April, 2012, through Facebook. Source: Wikipedia.12. Germany’s most successful producer, Dieter Bohlen is known worldwide as the “pop titan.” Bushido is putting himself on the same level with Bohlen when calling himself the “rap titan.”