The Ballad of Rooster Jenkins - Logic.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Sir Robert Bryson Hall II/Arjun Ivatury/Roger Jia/Jason Wool
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Sir Robert Bryson Hall II/Arjun Ivatury/Roger Jia/Jason Wool
[00:04.022]The ballad of Rooster Jenkins begins on the Destrehan Plantation in the fiery cauldron of Louisiana
[00:11.836]On the year of the Black man's freedom, 1863
[00:16.742]The war between the states was long, but will not be forgotten
[00:22.438]Now the Destrehan Plantation began construction in 1718 by Robert Antoine Robin de Logny
[00:30.934]Who owned the land and the slaves
[00:35.476]The architect who built this house was Charles Paquet, a free man of color
[00:41.726]And he was paid in rice, corn, livestock, and a male slave named Leveiller
[00:49.909]The slave master and man of the house, Robert Antoine, died two years after its completion
[00:57.185]And in the years to come, would be taken over by outside blood
[01:03.104]Master Richard La'Blanc, the youngest slaver in the plantations history
[01:08.241]Came into power in 1839 at just twenty years old
[01:13.378]And La'Blanc treated his slaves as such
[01:17.485]His habits include skeet shooting, attending Mandingo fights, and fancies himself quite the chess man
[01:25.580]Though he's more of an enthusiast than a player
[01:28.753]With an ELO of about fourteen hundred, far from grandmaster
[01:34.481]Priscilla Cole was born into slavery, and traded at just fourteen years of age
[01:40.599]Along with seven other females and two negro men, one of which she would marry the following year
[01:47.517]A man by the name of Rudy Jenkins
[01:50.931]Shortly after, Rudy and Priscilla conceived a child to be named after his father
[01:57.358]But only a week before the child's birth
[02:00.533]His father was strapped to a tree, whipped until unconscious, revived, and hung
[02:08.734]In front of the entire grounds
[02:11.320]As to set an example of what happens when conceiving
[02:15.302]Without the permission of one's master
[02:19.255]The baby boy was born four weeks before the expected date
[02:24.263]And so his mother nicknamed the early bird Rudy Rooster Jenkins, after his late father
[02:33.082]Now, Priscilla was no field negro, like her dead husband
[02:38.489]Of lighter complexion, she tended to the master's needs indoors
[02:43.762]The upper echelon of Black work in those days
[02:47.378]She taught Rooster how to read and write young, as she had been taught by her previous owners in Alabama
[02:54.001]Not long after young Rooster turned six, his mother gave birth to his brother John
[03:01.012]Priscilla died from complications in birth, and the boys were looked after by Eda Jane
[03:07.263]A grandmother-like figure who taught them to work the sugar cane cauldrons
[03:12.068]Which, when combined with the hundred and ten degree days, made Lucifer's throne look like an Alaskan hot spring
[03:20.250]On the first of January, 1863, word spread through the plantation that Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation
[03:31.480]And on Rooster's twenty-second year on this Earth, he and his people were free
[03:39.302]Black men and women rejoiced
[03:41.820]And Richard La'Blanc was there to greet them with open arms, smiling and hollering with them
[03:46.947]Oh, it's a good day, it's a good day, y'all free now
[03:52.336]So you know what that means?
[03:54.346]If you wanna leave, you're free to do so
[03:57.967]But if you leave, it means you're trespassing
[04:02.135]And I will have my men gun down every single last one of ya
[04:07.379]As a matter of fact, why wait?
[04:11.971]La'Blanc and his men then proceeded to gun down every man, woman, and child that did begin to walk towards their freedom
[04:22.041]And with a loophole like this, though they were free
[04:26.605]Those who remained alive were still enslaved
[04:30.712]Rooster and his brother John included
[04:34.310]Some time later, the hottest summer day of the year
[04:38.344]Rooster and John found a newspaper that fell out of the pocket of one of Richard La'Blanc's goons
[04:44.800]They picked it up, read about current events
[04:48.555]And stumbled upon a story about a paddy-wheel steamer called the S.S. Republic
[04:54.419]Which was lost in a hurricane off the coast of Savannah Georgia en route to New Orleans
[05:01.445]The ship sank with four hundred thousand dollars in gold coins
[05:06.628]Rooster told his brother they were gonna make a break for it, become rich, powerful
[05:12.332]And return one day to set their people of the Destrehan plantation free
[05:18.064]John wasn't so sure, but reluctantly, he followed his big brother
[05:24.803]And that night, they made their escape
[05:28.648]Nearly to the edge of the plantation when they heard dogs on their trail
[05:33.004]And spotted the illumination of lanterns through the bush
[05:37.266]Face to face with an eight-foot-high fence
[05:41.637]Just put your leg over on this side
[05:43.710]You gon' be fine, I promise
[05:45.173]The boys scurried and climbed for their lives
[05:48.243]Hoping to board the train sailing by in just the nick of time (I'm scared)
[05:53.086]The dogs at their heels and La'Blanc's man not far behind
[05:57.485]Gunfire began to reign down upon them
[06:02.025]Johnny!
[06:02.893]John had been shot through the neck
[06:07.018]Barely able to breathe through the suffocation of his own blood
[06:11.423]John told his brother to go (Go, go already)
[06:14.813]And by the skin of his teeth, Rooster Jenkins hopped in that train into the abyss
[06:21.710]A free man stained in the blood of his dead brother
[06:26.870]This is the ballad of Rooster Jenkins
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[06:33.703]Yeah
[06:36.356]Ha-ha (Oh, that's dope)
[06:38.756]Haha, yeah, ayy, yeah
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[06:42.087]I'm on my own now, comin' through with the wickedest style
[06:44.939]Be rappin' 'til I'm senile, in denial, my haters is
[06:47.706]Hater niggas marry hater bitches and have hater kids
[06:50.510]They said I'd be nothin', that's so egregious
[06:52.982]Now I sell out arenas like Arenas, I'm Regis, a millionaire
[06:56.633]I'm still in there, bringin' them somethin', the others fillin' air
[06:59.581]I'm unlimited like Singer's "Clair" sample by Jay Dee for "Players"
[07:02.741]I'm too paid, these other rappers is splittin' hairs
[07:05.590]My raps a supervillain, there's nothin' but lairs
[07:08.045]Flow switch up like clothes in The Witcher, now show me your wares
[07:10.774]Geralt of Rivia, here's a piece of trivia
[07:12.909]I'm Nvidia, built for the game, could take a lead of fame
[07:15.972]I'd rather write about a runaway slave hitchin' a train
[07:19.120]Mixing up the sugar cane, cotton pickin' by the range
[07:21.838]Blowin' out the slave master's brains
[07:23.910]Welcome to the world, I built my life
[07:25.690]Like Wilt, got 'em all on tilt
[07:26.549]Don't need no stilt, I'm high on life
[07:27.956]Better get that right, they in my sight
[07:29.370]Better know I write, better know I made this beat on an MPC, I'm MVP
[07:32.594]I'm honestly kinda on empty, but it's not my fault
[07:34.596]Got a million records in the vault
[07:36.113]Vinyl on the shelf don't do it for my wealth
[07:38.153]Myself ain't the only one I help, you don't get that? Alright, oh well
[07:40.865]I don't make shit just 'cause it sell, I make shit 'cause it sail
[07:43.263]To watch my haters burn in Hell as I exhale like a cancerous tumor
[07:46.864]That takes a strand of your DNA and it makes that shit ya exhale
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[07:50.063]As soon as I exhale, I get on the next rail
[07:52.919]Wait, I mean the next track, hold up, wait, now bring it back
[07:53.850]
[07:55.664]This right here the introduction, y'all ain't even at the junction
[07:58.585]Glock 9 at the function, I got everybody jumpin'
[08:01.125]Look, Mama, now ain't I somethin'? Know I ain't afraid of nothin'
[08:03.968]That ain't true, I'm good at bluffin', they told me I'm good for nothin'
[08:06.840]But I know y'all dead wrong, fake Jesus, I'm head strong
[08:09.607]I ain't never left, every day I've been at it
[08:09.955]
[08:11.793]All I ever needed was some time
[08:16.312]To figure out mine
[08:19.061]And get outta my mind
[08:22.923]All I ever needed was some time
[08:27.646]To figure out mine
[08:31.740]Get outta my mind