Lo sanno i veri [intro] + C'era una volta [English translation]

That's so true, Killa, the true ones know it

10 years of this shit, not the day before yesterday

it's not that you're underground if you listen to black guys

when I had started, like, you weren't even here

and god knows where the fuck you were, dude

grown up with mold on the ceiling

come out from shit like Apocalypto

so I don't believe to the story about your cousin

being a prodigy and that he rules 5 times more than I do

but around nobody knows him

and I don't forget who I am, asshole

don't do it either

'cause in saying blasphemies about a God

sooner or later he comes down

little rappers diss bosses of rapping

it's like Primavera1 dissing Serie A2 (well...)

I'm respected by the pioneers, by those from the street,

ask Bassi Maestro, ask Joe Montana

this flow cracks you, what the fuck are you rapping

you can't act like the Libanese if you're Scrocchiazeppi3

With this shit, I've never cut poor figures

Ed Lover can suck me off and so can these haters

these frustrated journalists that hate my job

if their children pay more attention to me than to them

you dreamt of a Gold record and you failed (you ass!)

and I'm at the second Platinum (lucky?4 I think not!)

You want to be in my place and I can't blame you,

this pen pierces you like Joe Pesci's in Casino

Yeah, as much as I can love rap

past is a flashback

I can't go back being the one of Check Check

(back in the days)

Aigor, press REC, new track on MySpace

a joint in my hand, beers and playstation matches

in my memories, jam and graffiti, walls and Intercity trains

and paint stains on my clothes

15 years old of nowadays talk about hip hop on the internet

when I was 15, I was at Muretto, in the cold with a ghettoblasta

doing freestyle

how many travels without a ticket, a bit different from today's

I, covered in piercings, a Fedez without tattoos

and evenings at Leoncavallo, openmic on fridays

slaps on stage, MC on the floor

I miss everything of this, yes

the truth is that I love hiphop

don't dare saying the contrary

because now you see me at the top

slamming my dick inside these prostitutes

not giving a fuck about the rest, only I, bro,

know how hard I work for this.

This is dedicated to the true people who stay

how many creeps I've run on over that bum cha

how many trains I've ridden through Italy, up and down

some trains sometimes pass and never come back again

my life plays in rhythm, it's been like this for years by now

my heart still beats but it stayed there

among weeda and friends I haven't seen for quite some time

once upon a time there was a rapper and a microphone

Sleepless nights with a pen in my hand

hearing you talk about [recording] studios feels weird

if I think at myself recording

with my mom in the livingroom on the sofa

she used to say "Emiliano, tomorrow I [have to] wake up [early], if

you're going to record tonight, be quiet"

it's weird how things change in about a year

they change and they'll never go back to how they used to be, bro

if I think to how things went with some of my idols

first idols, then colleagues and eventually enemies, that's life

ask Giso and Telaviv where we started from

terrible stages, rotten car audio systems, demolished

what the fuck do you think, boy, before hits I made tapes

[I'm] in the game since 2006, emerging among 2000 fakes

this is dedicated to those who were there and know that on beat

I've wrecked half of those who you discovered in

Spit

Blocco Recordz, when I think back to that time

my story starts like that: There was a change...5

This is dedicated to the true people that stays

how many creeps I've run over with that bum cha

how many trains I've ridden throughout Italy, up and down

some trains sometimes pass and never come back again

my life plays on rhythm, it's been like that for year by now

my heart still beats but it stayed there

among weeda and the friends I haven't seen for a while

Once upon a time there was a rapper and a microphone.

1. football team made by only the under-19 y.o. players of a major team. They play in a separate trophy2. the Italian football major league3. both are characters from Romanzo Criminale4. "avere culo" (to have ass) means to be extremely lucky5. wordplay: "C'era una volta"(there was a time) means "once upon a time", "C'era una Svolta" is a variation on that