Supreme NTM - Tout n'est pas si facile [ENGLISH SUBTITLES]

French Rap classic. Extract from 1995 LP "Paris sous les bombes" from Supreme NTM. Enjoy it :)

---------------LYRICS---------------

Everything is not that easy, everything is only hanging by a thread (x4)

1983, already more than 10 years ago
Hip Hop was making its first moves in France
There were no rules, no laws and certainly no contracts
No problems between you and me
Everything was clear, from the aim to the way everything should be done
Naïve, green but so proud to move in a parallel system
Where the basic values were in jumble : Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun
Hip Hop never needed either gun or gangs. Neither toys nor crews
Instead, it needs the faith of the ones defending its memory and ethics as essential values
The ones which still stir me up when I remember about the very beginning in the waste land of La Chappelle
At that time our heroes were called Actuel, Lucien, Dee Nasty, Tecol and Meo
Big up! Big up for staying that long top billing, as high as the flow
of my words
We needed to work hard : hours and hours, days and days and even years for the Hip Hop to hang on
Everything was not that easy for the Supreme

Everything is not that easy, everything is only hanging by a thread (x4)

Everything is only hanging by a thread so we have to be clever.
As long as friendship and sincerity are things which can easily blow up
That's the dark side of human nature
I experienced it and it hurt me. Thanks to that I'm aware of this complicated topic
I believed that the hell of our life rallied us under the same banner.
I believed that the hell of our life made us become brothers
Yesterday this had been true, not that long time ago, is it? - Yes: maximum 3 or 4 years ago there has been a misunderstanding
That is to say that's the way history evolved and it would be an illusion to believe that unity, even of thoughts, is possible
C'mon, put your kleenex away. It's OK : we are still here to live it up
The strength decreased but we already jump over the obstacle... Which almost didn't slow us down

Everything is not that easy, everything is only hanging by a thread (x4)

We grew up together, we built up together. I recall the talks we used to have together
And our dreams. Do you remember our dreams? When we were in the shed, when we felt the fever rising
Fuck! All that is far now. It's far
I spent my teenage times smashing trains. I do not regret anything
We met happiness so many times that we could die tomorrow without regrets or remorse
Our only mistake was to dream a bit too hard
Though we all came from the same area. We all had the same ghetto culture
Yes it was really ideal. Actually we had everything to succeed
But everything is not that easy. Destinies split up, friendship is fragile
For us, life was never a long calm river and today everything is still not that easy

Everything is not that easy, everything is only hanging by a thread (x8)

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[Nekoala]

Props for the translation, even if the original material is much more metaphoric and subtle.

[hcapone21]

Bonne traduction, les nuances sont justes, un beau geste pour les vrais amateurs de hip hop.

[HoldTJ]

2:24 il dit non ta traduit oui mais je crois c'est correcte mhh

bonne traduction ;)

merci ;)

[JeanFrancoisAmadei]

La traduction est vraiment au top, bon boulot.