PoW WoW – English Lyrics

• By: B.o.B
• Album: EARTH Mixtape

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a linguistic journey with B.o.B's "PoW WoW," a thought-provoking hip hop track that invites listeners to explore complex themes of reality and societal structures. This song is special for its bold lyrical content, offering a unique opportunity to engage with English vocabulary and expressions used to discuss conscious and political topics, making it a compelling piece for language learners interested in contemporary social commentary.

[English]

We will ensure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning... for human reproduction.

It is dangerous, profoundly wrong and has no place in our society or any society.

This order is an important step in advancing--

But when everything comes out it's going to blow the lid off of everything,

because this is the biggest damn story in human history, and it's simply this:

You are not alone and you have never been alone

Bobby Ray, Bandz

Bobby Ray ha-ha

Show your belly button if you ain't a clone

Show your belly button if you ain't a clone

Show your belly button if you ain't a clone

If you a surrogate you homegrown

Why you still got them damn panties on?

Why you still on your damn camera phone?

Bobby Ray Bandz on Genghis Khan

Walking in with the damn Daniels on

Haters on my ****, no I ain't alone

Airports sell too much damn cologne

State ****** wear too much damn cologne

Pack so loud smell it through the phone

Bob when you gonna write a book for shit s sake?

But ****** don't read so I keep making mixtapes

I keep making mixtapes

Everyone I meet shop a beat or a mixtape

See they plan to enslave

And make a billion dollars just off inmates

Clone meat your intake

Chicken look like it do nothing but lift weights

And you just fixed the big plate

Kids looking growing by fifth grade

Other day I saw a baby in a stroller

Little ***** had a goatee and a temp fade

Goatee and a temp fade, goatee and a temp fade, goatee and a temp fade

If chemtrails are clouds when I pee it's lemonade

Over and out, air force flying over my house

Helicopters flying over the crib

We get it, you know where I live

No *****, you know what I give

No chill, **** [?]

Cornrows, [?]

Get harder than malaria still

Get harder than surgical steel

I give it to her she like, 'Hercules real'

[?]

Verbally kill, I hurt you for real

I'm from the city where the goons often lurking the field

And if the cops don't kill then the murderers will

Can't hire these stripes, gotta earn them for real

How you gon' search for what's real

When all the preachers that you wors*ip be perverted for real

And this will never play on syndicated radio

Cause that's just the way it goes

Yeah, in my bloodline, uh

Cherokee in my bloodline, yeah

Cheekbones in my bloodline, yeah

**** shows in my bloodline, yeah

In my bloodline, in my bloodline, in my bloodline

Wanna cross me out like a plus sign, uh

What's behind a supernatural, is it actual?

I blow your mind like explosives in a cantaloupe

A stick of dynamite in your cantaloupe

Astral project, I astral catapult

What the **** you laughing for?

Chain hang from my clavicle

You were inside of my admiral

Eat you like an enzyme or a cannibal

Like I'm holding election with Hannibal Lecter

Tied up in the stretcher hitting on a professor

Man I roll up the lettuce

Get stoned like Rosetta

Too faded tryna hold it together

You've been demoted a letter

You slow enough to trigger motion detector

You could lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

You can lead someone to knowledge but you can't make him think, Bandz

Yeah, in my bloodline, uh

Cherokee in my bloodline, yeah

Cheekbones in my bloodline, yeah

**** shows in my bloodline, yeah

In my bloodline, in my bloodline, in my bloodline

Wanna cross me out like a plus sign, uh

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
clone /kloʊn/ B1	noun - an exact copy of a biological entity verb - to make a genetically identical copy of
history /ˈhɪstəri/ B1	noun - the study of past events
alone /əˈloʊn/ A2	adjective - having no one else present
society /səˈsaɪəti/ B2	noun - a group of people living together in an ordered community
dangerous /ˈdeɪndʒərəs/ B1	adjective - able or likely to cause harm or injury
advance /ədˈvæns/ B2	verb - to move forward
surrogate /ˈsɜːrəɡət/ C1	noun - a person who carries a pregnancy for another person
cologne /koʊˈloʊn/ B1	noun - a perfume for men
loud /laʊd/ A2	adjective - making a lot of noise
write /raɪt/ A1	verb - to mark letters or words on a surface
plan /plæn/ A2	noun - a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something
enslave /ɪnˈsleɪv/ C1	verb - to make someone a slave
intake /ˈɪnˌteɪk/ B2	noun - the amount of something taken in
growing /ˈɡroʊɪŋ/ A2	verb - increasing in size or amount
fade /feɪd/ B1	verb - to gradually become less visible
flying /ˈflaɪɪŋ/ A2	verb - moving through the air using wings
kill /kɪl/ A2	verb - to cause the death of
stripes /straɪps/ A2	noun - a long, narrow band or line

Key Grammar Structures

• But when everything comes out it's going to blow the lid off of everything,

  ➔ Future tense with 'going to' + verb

  ➔ Expresses a future action or event that is likely to happen. 'Blow' is the base form of the verb.

• You are not alone and you have never been alone

  ➔ Present perfect tense (have + past participle)

  ➔ Indicates an action that started in the past and continues to the present or has a result in the present. 'Have been' is the present perfect of 'be'.

• Why you still got them damn panties on?

  ➔ Informal/colloquial grammar with 'got' for possession.

  ➔ This uses 'got' (informal for 'have') to show possession. The tone is colloquial.

• Bob when you gonna write a book for shit s sake?

  ➔ Informal/colloquial. Contraction 'gonna' (going to) + base form of verb.

  ➔ This is very informal language. 'Gonna' is a contraction of 'going to', indicating future action. The phrase includes expletives (e.g. 'shit').

• See they plan to enslave

  ➔ Infinitive of purpose ('to' + verb)

  ➔ 'To enslave' indicates the purpose or intention behind the 'plan'.

• Clone meat your intake

  ➔ Noun phrase. The sentence structure is unconventional/fragmented.

  ➔ This is a fragmented sentence, using a noun phrase to convey a message about consuming cloned meat.

• Kids looking growing by fifth grade

  ➔ Fragmented sentence, lacks a complete verb. Use of present participle 'growing'.

  ➔ The sentence is grammatically incomplete. It uses the present participle 'growing' but lacks a main verb.

• Over and out, air force flying over my house

  ➔ Present continuous tense ('flying')

  ➔ The verb 'flying' is used in the present continuous tense, describing an action happening at the time of speaking or around it.

• How you gon' search for what's real

  ➔ Informal/Colloquial, contracted form of 'going to' (gon'), and contracted 'what is' (what's)

  ➔ The sentence uses informal language, including 'gon' (going to) and 'what's' (what is).

• Wanna cross me out like a plus sign, uh

  ➔ Informal contraction 'wanna' (want to) + infinitive, simile ('like')

  ➔ The phrase uses 'wanna' (want to), which is informal, and a simile using 'like'.