Be Quiet – English Lyrics

• By: Pitbull
• Album: El Mariel

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Pitbull's world with "Be Quiet," a high-energy track that offers a glimpse into Miami club culture and a lesson in keeping the peace. This song is an excellent way to pick up slang and understand the nuances of quick-paced, rhythmic speech.

[English]

Shakespeare

Mr. 305

This is to them boys that be in the club that talk a whole lot of nothing

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Let's ride (let's ride)

Let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride

I'm rolling

Through the backstreets

Them boys don't applaud

But they clap heat

I'm in that seven forty-fizzle

With them dark boys on it low key

Blowing that oooh-eee...

Jump out They like who's he?

Imma snatch about two or three

It's a Dade thing when you speak cocaine

Slash perico, chi chi get the yayo mang

I'm stating facts

This where we from

The bottom dawg

This where you come

When you need it, want it, don't got it, in the drought

Looking for a good price

Hit 95 south

K's as in kilos

P's as in pounds

E as in ex,

We got it on deck

So show some respect

To the cocaine capital

Dade-County bitch!

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Let's ride (let's ride)

Let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

I'm cool, I'm quiet

A couple shots will put yo ass on a diet

This is for them big boys

Doing them big things

In the big chevy's

With them big rims

Making big noise

With them big speakers

And anytime they cook yaye

Its some big beakers

Listen buddy

We off the chain

Now what they do, what it is, what it ain't

Listen buddy

We off the chain

I suggest you hand over them thangs

I got my game from Jose Antonio Armando Perez Torrez

Ese si era mi consorte

And I missed ya dad

But I know you watching me

With you in heaven

I know ain't stopping me

The game is mine now

I'm building clientele

I'm just tryna get paper like Seinfeld

Sign, seal, deliver: Its done

Ready or not, here I come

Dale!

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Shhh...

Be quiet

Keep it cool, you don't wanna start a riot

Let's ride (let's ride)

Let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let's ride, let's ride, let's go (let's go)

Let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride (hey, hey)

Now let the beat ride

Shhh...

Key Grammar Structures

• This is to them boys that **be** in the club that talk a whole lot of nothing

  ➔ Emphatic 'be'

  ➔ The use of "be" here emphasizes a habitual action or characteristic. Instead of "are," it highlights that these boys *always* talk a lot of nothing.

• Keep **it** cool, you don't wanna start a riot

  ➔ Object pronoun "it"

  ➔ "It" refers to a previously mentioned or implied concept, typically behavior or the situation.

• **I'm rolling**

  ➔ Present Continuous tense

  ➔ Describes an action that is happening at the moment of speaking or in the present time frame.

• Them boys **don't applaud**

  ➔ Simple present tense (negative)

  ➔ Uses the auxiliary verb "do" + "not" to express a negative action in the present.

• Imma **snatch about** two or three

  ➔ Informal contraction "Imma" and phrasal verb "snatch about"

  ➔ "Imma" is a contraction of "I am going to". "Snatch about" here likely means to quickly take or grab a few of something.

• It's a Dade thing **when** you speak cocaine

  ➔ Subordinating conjunction "when"

  ➔ "When" introduces a subordinate clause, indicating a time or condition related to the main clause.

• So **show** some respect

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ A direct command or request is given, with the verb in its base form (without a subject).

• I got my game **from** Jose Antonio Armando Perez Torrez

  ➔ Preposition "from"

  ➔ "From" indicates the origin or source of something.

• Now what they **do**, what it is, what it ain't

  ➔ Auxiliary verb 'do'

  ➔ Used as an auxiliary verb, here emphasizing the action.

• Ready or not, **here I come**

  ➔ Inverted word order

  ➔ The subject "I" follows the adverb "here" for emphasis.