Спонтанное самовозгорание [Spontannoye Samovozgoraniye] [English translation]

[Intro]

I knew my diagnosis beforehand –

Spontaneous combustion

The doctor said “Manic depression”

Fucking valium? Get off my case, kill yourself

[Verse 1]

Still no money, still this draw-out debt

Still in the basement, with Parliament beats

And I’m back to the track

Your dick is like Toulouse-Lautrec [1]

If Russian rap is a hundred years dead then I’m fucking a skeleton

I built an album on bones

With no end in sight, like it’s a naked fatman

Everyone asks for shit and writes “give me money”

There are a million of you, but my idol is Grisha Perel’man [2]

Canning Town, where “get down” means “pick up a cripple”

There they don’t read shit and don’t honor Madlibs

Why the fuck should I talk shit? The dark allies of Bunin

Giving head at ten years old – that’s my university

Uncut, showing the paparazzi my dick

My mother’s Theresa and dad’s Ratsinger [3]

Last in line for the mic check I spit blood

Call me sunny bunny – Donny Darko

[Chorus]

No…

You’re not a hustler, bro

But a subservient lackey

After us comes the flood

VGB [4] …

Rap took off from courts

Bitch, my passport’s ready

After us comes the flood

[Verse 2]

Butikgrad, Petersburg, Reeperbahn

A tour unheard of even by Thor Heyerdahl [6]

I’m here like Guk, the limit. Vagabund, Canning Town

Gaplo group J2, chicks here, chicks there

I know that girls bring problems

But I’ll fuck yours on speed and ibuprofen

When I finished I cried my eyes out, and

My childhood like a wasteland behind a Korean café:

That’s what the dog’s about [7]

I’m not digital, my style’s like little screws and details

Watch out and run off: I’m wild like Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

While you have Keds and a polo from Poland

And you’re like Heather Mills [8]: you’ve lost Paul

You’re a medalist at the festival in the ten-point system

In the category of “girly rap

Of T’mutarakan’” [9]

Bitch you’ve lost your hearing,

Bitch what plug-ins??

A sound from a vagina

[Chorus]

Notes

1 French painter

2 Mathematician who rejected a million-dollar prize (perhaps to make a statement about plagiarism and cheating in the field)

3 Pope Benedict

4 The label Miron co-founded

5 Tennis courts?

6 A well-traveled Norwegian anthropologist; in Russian his name is the same as the word for “tour”

7 He’s using an established phrase that means “that’s what it’s about” but is literally “that’s where the dog’s buried” and makes a punchline out of it by saying the dog is buried by a Korean café (since the stereotype is that Koreans eat dogs)

8 Paul McCartney’s ex-wife

9 Ancient city that stopped existing a thousand years ago