Karma Krys – English Lyrics

• By: Young M.A
• Album: SleepWalkin

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the power of storytelling in hip-hop with Young M.A's "Karma Krys." This song offers a unique opportunity to learn authentic, conversational English through its candid lyrics about love, loss, and accountability. Its raw emotion and real-life narrative make it a compelling piece for language learners to connect with and understand the nuances of personal expression in music.

[English]

You really a fucking coward

...

Like, y'all don't give a fuck about nobody but yourself

You don't even give a fuck that I really be holding you down and making sure you good

Like, I swear when you, the way you are, like, you overlook everything

And that shit is so foul and so fucked up

And you don't even realize that...

Uh, driving through Brooklyn sipping this Hennessy

...

I knew this break up would get to me eventually

I'm all drunk and shit, look what you did to me

I wonder if you still love me or even missing me

Or even mention me

Fucking these bitches ain't helping my pain mentally

Only physically

Cause I don't love em I don't give a fuck about em

They only good for a nut, shit I'm better off without 'em

You said you heard I was doing me

But what you heard and what they say got to do with me?

I know I hurt you more than once, and yeah that's true indeed

But now you fucking with somebody, damn who is she?

I know a way a nigga living is whack but you don't get a nigga back like that

You got me smoking this black, thinking, sipping this yak

Mind racing now I'm mad, now I'm gripping this gat

Somebody else making you smile, I can't live with that

Somebody else holding you down, I can't live with that

You, outta my world I can't live like that

See I was just fucking them girls I was gon' get right back

I swear I was gon' get right back

How you gon' ride around in someone else whip like that

Fuck around and get a dyke bitch clip like that

I should've known it was somebody how you dip like that

How you switch like that

And you ain't even flip like that

You just left and let it end like that

But I was wrong so I can't even trip like that

But it's crazy how that pain can just hit like that

And you don't even realize that you got a good bitch on your side that really be there for you

Like, y'all don't give a fuck about none of that

All you care about is yourself

And that shit is so motherfucking draining and overwhelming...

Uh, I just wanna call your phone and apologize

But my pride got me colder than some haagen-daz

I can't cry but know it's tears there behind my eyes

And honestly I had a lot of truth behind them lies

But how could you be feeling someone else

I thought that you was focused on yourself

Getting money yeah, focused on your wealth

I guess you was just speaking for your health

And I know I ain't shit but this is it

You really just gone throw away all the time that we spent?

All the places we been

My lover, partner, and friend

Remember October Fifth the day I said I commit

Damn

Damn, it's really hitting home

I guess I never realized I made you feel alone

This right here really hit a bone

That's why I'm writing, I mean typing got me in that mood

I'm in the zone, got the beat playing through my phone

Karma was plotting on my ass, damn I should've known

I know this gon' be a bumpy road

But I gotta suck it up like a runny nose

After everything that I fucking had to say to you

The only thing you had to respond to was: "Yeah, we should break-up then, so yeah, let's leave each other alone"

Like, you know how motherfucking selfish that is?

Like, I swear I give 80 and you give motherfucking 20

And that shit is sad and it's sick and it's selfish, and you don't care

And that shit is really not right at all

The way you been treating me I would never do that shit to you

I would never treat you the way you fucking treat me a lot

I would never do that to you!

Like, I don't know what your problem is but you really need to fix it

You really do, cause you're gonna lose somebody that actually gives a fuck about you

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
coward /ˈkaʊəd/ B2	noun - a person who lacks courage
overlook /ˌoʊvərˈlʊk/ B2	verb - to fail to notice; to ignore
foul /faʊl/ B2	adjective - offensive, disgusting
drunk /drʌŋk/ A2	adjective - intoxicated by alcohol
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - deep affection verb - to feel deep affection for
hurt /hɜːrt/ A2	verb - to cause pain or injury
pain /peɪn/ B1	noun - physical or emotional suffering
selfish /ˈsɛlfɪʃ/ B2	adjective - concerned only with oneself
overwhelming /ˌoʊvərˈwɛlmɪŋ/ C1	adjective - very great in amount or intensity; hard to cope with
pride /praɪd/ B2	noun - a feeling of deep satisfaction in one's own achievements
tears /tɪərz/ A2	noun - drops of liquid that come from the eyes
truth /truːθ/ B1	noun - a fact or reality
lies /laɪz/ B1	noun - false statements
wealth /wɛlθ/ B2	noun - abundance of valuable possessions or money
health /hɛlθ/ B1	noun - state of being free from illness or injury
partner /ˈpɑːrtnər/ B1	noun - a companion, associate, or spouse
commit /kəˈmɪt/ B2	verb - to pledge or bind to a course of action
karma /ˈkɑːrmə/ B2	noun - the sum of a person's actions determining their fate
bumpy /ˈbʌmpi/ B2	adjective - uneven; full of bumps
break-up /ˈbreɪkˌʌp/ B2	noun - the ending of a romantic relationship

Key Grammar Structures

• Like, y'all don't give a fuck about nobody but yourself

  ➔ Use of the colloquial second-person plural pronoun 'y'all' and the contraction 'don't' with a negative pronoun 'nobody'.

  ➔ The word 'y'all' is a contraction for 'you all' (second-person plural).

• I knew this break up would get to me eventually

  ➔ Past-in-the-past future meaning with 'would'; 'get to' as a phrasal verb meaning to affect or trouble.

  ➔ The word 'would' marks a hypothetical or reported future from a past perspective; 'get to' is a phrasal verb meaning to affect emotionally.

• I'm all drunk and shit

  ➔ Intensifying use of 'all' after 'be' to emphasize state; casual filler.

  ➔ The adverb 'all' after 'be' acts as an intensifier: it means 'completely' or 'very'.

• Fucking these bitches ain't helping my pain mentally

  ➔ Ain't as informal contraction for 'isn't'/'aren't'; present participle clause 'helping' after 'ain't'.

  ➔ The word 'ain't' is an informal contraction often replacing 'isn't' or 'aren't'.

• Cause I don't love em I don't give a fuck about em

  ➔ Use of informal pronouns 'em' for 'them'; repeated 'do/does' negation with 'don't'.

  ➔ The word 'em' is a spoken informal form of 'them'.

• Somebody else making you smile, I can't live with that

  ➔ Present participle 'making' introduces a non-finite clause (reduced relative clause).

  ➔ The verb 'making' forms a non-finite clause indicating ongoing action linked to 'Somebody else'.

• Damn, I should've known

  ➔ Contracted form 'should've' = 'should have'; expresses past deduction/regret.

  ➔ The contracted form 'should've' stands for 'should have' indicating a past expectation or regret.

• Cause you're gonna lose somebody that actually gives a fuck about you

  ➔ Colloquial 'gonna' = 'going to'; restrictive relative clause with 'that'.

  ➔ The word 'gonna' is a colloquial form of 'going to' used for future intention.

• The only thing you had to respond to was: "Yeah, we should break-up then, so yeah, let's leave each other alone"

  ➔ Colon introduces direct speech; quotation marks indicate a quoted sentence; hyphenated 'break-up'; contraction 'let's'.

  ➔ The colon introduces a quoted sentence, which is placed inside double quotes.