Listening Guide for CD Track 22, “Oye Mi Canto”
Listening Guide for CD Track 22, “Oye mi canto” 0:00 If you’re proud to be Latino right now stand the f*** up. Double cut, double cut, let’s go. SBK. Alive, we comin’ up, comin’ up. Nina Sky. N.O.R.E, Da-ddy Yan-kee, Gem Star, Gem Star, Big Mato, Big Mato, c’mon, c’mon. 0:23 [CHORUS sung by the Nina Sky duo over reggaeton beat] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa (what you say?) Boricua [Puerto Rican], morena [dark woman], dominicano, colombiano Boricua, morena, cubano, mexicano Oye mi canto [Listen to my song] 0:43 [N.O.R.E.] You see this is what they want, they want reggaeton (what, what?) They want reggaeton, esto e’ lo que quieren [this is what they want] Toma reggaeton [take reggaeton] (¿qué, qué?), toma reggaeton You see, I'm N.O.R.E., keep my story, my story I always kick it (¿qué? [what?]) when I bone shorty [slang for girl] I slap culo [ass] and listen (¿qué?) [Gemstar] Soy el Gem Estrella [Star] Cuando canto lo que dicen [when I sing what they say] (what?) Una nalgada en el culo, ella grita [a slap on the ass, she yells] (what?) [N.O.R.E.] You see a boricua gotta rep for its own It be Fajardo, San Juan, Bayamón [cities in Puerto Rico] [1:07] [Gem Star] Sol en el campo [sun in the countryside] Santiago [a city], tabaco y ron [cigars and rum] Allá En Puerto Rico con [Over there in Puerto Rico with] Bacardi Limón [N.O.R.E.] Ah, this all that, you can tell Spanky on it The remix to the remix with Yankee on it [Gem Star] Este e’un mofongo [This is a mofongo, a local food made of plantains] Un chin y con N.O.R.E.
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