Жук в муравейнике [Zhuk V Muraveynike] [English translation]

[1: Oxxxymiron]

I remember the moment in my childhood, when being still a virgin

I picked an unknown nickname

And out of protest

Said "I'll take their place"

And went deep in the archives - the sea of books -

I believed that knowledge is great, but

After spending 10 years in the dust, I realised that I won't find myself in them

And I threw away a volume, went out having grabbed with me only a pair of pliers and glue,

I hit the city road towards Savoy hotel in a stolen Volvo

Drink with me, lousy bitch, drink with me!

Get your ass in the room and close the door!

Put some glue in the door lock, you can scream now if you want! Kiss the ground! I'll make such things to your sister that compared to me Jason1 is a loser!

I dream about a tetra pak with blood

I'll end up badly, that's a fact

Prepare a casket and a hearse, the Middle Age Carnival

There're flocks of crows flying above the scaffold

It takes a half-step for a prophet to become a public enemy - Savonarola2

But my rap is like self-defense

There're so many of you, you are a flock of sheep, you're standard like a facial composite,

And there're few of us, we're 3 vagabonds3 and we don't know the way

From East Mordor4 to Emerald City, away from the concrete blocks

Where we're milk cows - immured in the stalls and waiting for some oxygen

My album will morally shitcan everyone

Сhucks, Stone Island polo shirt

VGB lives beyond limits

And even though Miron's rider won't get him a new Maybach,

But taking something that's not mine is alien to me and I don't love them - Winona Ryder5

[Hook: Oxxxymiron]

I don't care about your opinion

There ain't gonna be no movie,6 since I'm a beetle in the anthill7 of your rap

This is "fuck your mom" among your unanimous debate

I breathe as a beetle in the anthill since the cradle

Ant, run!

Yes, I'm a beetle and I disturbed the whole anthill

And even though it's not Amerika here, Van'ka8 is my Dre,

I'm Marshall like Zhukov and Voroshilov! 9

I draw parallels like an entomologist

To the fact that every one of us in your house is a beetle in the anthill

Ant, run!

[2: Schokk]

It's not enough space for me here, I fled leaving my home and Luxus10 behind

And if life in Deutschland is like honey, life in London is vinegar11

But I'm used to do what I want, I don't give a fuck about your judgement!

Looking down, sad sighs and listening are out of my character

I'm a Vagabund goddammit, rain is just right for me!

My pockets are empty and my passport is expired

Anger is inside of me, meaning my knife is inside of you. I'm poor, you're screwed

I live for sins, so put a cross on my back!

And if someone is all about hype and public image, I'm a lunatic who doesn't give a fuck

You don't get my morals like Polizisten who don't get thieves

In real life punches knock you down. It's not rap, n*gga

You had a couple of falls and won't stand up again, you're like Ram Digga12

And 3 of us have it as usual: it's either feast or famine

My pockets are like a garden, they're either empty or full of spinach

But if you decided to burgle my house out of hunger, watch it!

I'm not greedy, I feed my enemies to death!

[Hook: Oxxxymiron]

I don't care about your opinion

There ain't gonna be no movie, since I'm a beetle in the anthill of your rap

This is "fuck your mom" among your unanimous debate

I breathe as a beetle in the anthill since the cradle

Ant, run!

Yes, I'm a beetle and I disturbed the whole anthill

And even though it's not Amerika here, Van'ka is my Dre,

I'm Marshall like Zhukov and Voroshilov!

I draw parallels like an entomologist

To the fact that every one of us in your house is a beetle in the anthill

Ant, run!

I don't care about your opinion

There ain't gonna be no movie, since I'm a beetle in the anthill of your rap

This is "fuck your mom" among your unanimous debate

I breathe as a beetle in the anthill since the cradle

Ant, run!

Yes, I'm a beetle and I disturbed the whole anthill

And even though it's not Amerika here, Van'ka is my Dre,

I'm Marshall like Zhukov and Voroshilov!

I draw parallels like an entomologist

To the fact that every one of us in your house is a beetle in the anthill

Ant, run!

1. Jason Voorhees is the main antagonist of the Friday the 13th series. 2. Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. At first, he was very popular among people but eventually popular opinion turned against him and he was executed.3. Vagabund label included three members - Oxxximiron, Schokk and Ivan Karoy (aka Vanya Lenin).4. Oxxximiron compares East London where he used to live to Mordor.5. A pun. Winona Ryder was in the cast of the film Alien: Resurrection.6. A catch phrase from the soviet film Gentlemen of Fortune (Dzhentlmeny udachi)7. This is a reference to "Beetle in the Anthill", a 1979 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.8. Ivan Karoy (aka Vanya Lenin)9. A pun. Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) vs famous Russian marshals Georgy Zhukov and Kliment Voroshilov. Oxxximiron used to be called "Russian Eminem" and apparently wasn't flattered by that. Hence the pun.10. Der Luxus (german) - luxury.11. Schokk had to leave Germany and move to the UK because he was charged with armed robbery and drug dealing.12. Ram Digga is a Russian rapper. He fell off the balcony and is confined to a wheelchair since then.