THESE STREETS KNOW MY NAME – English Lyrics

• By: DJ Khaled, Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer, Sizzla
• Album: GOD DID

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

("These Streets Know My Name" by DJ Khaled)

♪ Blessed is the man that walketh not ♪

♪ In the council of the ungodly ♪

♪ No sanity, ways of sinners ♪

♪ Great is Jah, judgment yard ♪

♪ And greatly to be praised ♪

♪ We The Best Music ♪

♪ In the city of our Jah ♪

♪ In the mountain of His holiness, Sizzla ♪

♪ Another one, DJ Khaled ♪

♪ Alien badness, I stay wid a 'matic ♪

♪ And don't play wid di badness, and don't ramp with Khaled ♪

♪ Never believe in us ♪

♪ God did, dat's why we roll wid chopstick ♪

♪ Sum'n long like a moptick, shootas don't need no practice ♪

♪ Expert shooter, di Mavericks, ♪

♪ Wid di broom, dem are bandits ♪

♪ Fire not miss, a wi have di chalice a keep ♪

♪ Gi' dem bwoy deh a nappy, a baby dem, God see ♪

♪ Wul a di weight go dung pon me, heavyweight ♪

♪ DJ Khaled boom di beat and I kill di beat ♪

♪ Me can fling lyrics ♪

♪ Yeah, EastSyde is in di lead ♪

♪ We nuh disbelieve, a expensive feature ♪

♪ So-so me should pree ♪

♪ Di bwoy smile, enuh, and go medz me later ♪

♪ Bwoy dem play harder fi yuh owna paper ♪

♪ Do my crime so neat, EastSyde nuh fear investigator ♪

♪ Know mi roots like cultivation ♪

♪ I love Jamaica, I puff mi grades ♪

♪ And I stack the paper ♪

♪ Bines will shot yuh face and need calculator ♪

♪ We born for danger ♪

♪ EastSyde, get the cash, repatriation ♪

♪ EastSyde a rule from God creation wid bad behavior ♪

♪ Somebody go tell mi teacher said it wrong fi say that ♪

♪ School a Illuminati, I love my fuckin' occupation ♪

♪ Not a failure ♪

♪ Skilli pon a beat, is like gas to flames, yeah ♪

♪ So di place a bun down, every fire station ♪

♪ Cyaan' put out di flames, a alien invasion, money makers ♪

♪ Yeah, oh, yeah ♪

♪ These streets knows my name, yeah ♪

♪ These legs knows my pain, more fire, yeah ♪

♪ Oi, bun fire fi feel disappointed and shame ♪

♪ More education and more wealth, now ♪

♪ Dem wan help now, dem wan help now ♪

♪ And you haffi know how fi get inna yuh ♪

♪ From dem sell out we nah go friend dem up ♪

♪ Me seh anytime yuh ready, jus send dem up ♪

♪ An' make me bun dem up an' bun dem up an' end dem up ♪

♪ Babylon seh independent and dem peng dem up ♪

♪ Yeah, modern slavery a dat a hang dem up ♪

♪ Buju Banton, Sizzla, and Khaled nah go friend dem up ♪

♪ Killer cross, Skillibeng haffi go pen dem up ♪

♪ We fire, that a fi go bun dem, alright ♪

♪ When you see di nation, but we tell dem ♪

♪ No violation, so we tell dem ♪

♪ Tell dem liberation, now we tell dem ♪

♪ Tell dem reparation, oh, yeah ♪

♪ When you see Jah nation, now we tell dem ♪

♪ No segregation, so we tell 'em ♪

♪ Hope and aspiration, dat we tell 'em ♪

♪ Haffi bun up Satan, wah dem a wait pon? ♪

♪ These streets knows my name, yeah ♪

♪ These legs knows my pain, more fire, yeah ♪

♪ Oi, bun fire fi feel disappointed and shame ♪

♪ Celestial meditation when the kush touch di flame ♪

♪ Bwoii, y'affi put di respect pon we name ♪

♪ All di scope dem we aim ♪

♪ Well, clip a race ♪

♪ Dem a run way cah di Killer make di hammer clap ♪

♪ Di banga weh we use line dem up, a nuh scammer chop ♪

♪ Di bomb a drop, a rob, attack, di Don a chop ♪

♪ Legendary status ♪

♪ Which badness backa dan, dem shoulda know ♪

♪ Mi watch a Patek and mi chain a blind dem eye ♪

♪ And gyal a brace it and a send it back like a reply ♪

♪ Dem think dem ccan run in this, snot nose between dem eye ♪

♪ Skilli roll up with a hundred dirt bike ♪

♪ We roll up inna these rides, Louis V slides ♪

♪ Chain bright like a street light, weh yuh feel like? ♪

♪ Extra clip when we carry have thirty inna it ♪

♪ You nuh wan' EastSyde buss yuh head in three side ♪

♪ Tell dem seh a one ground, God nah fail ♪

♪ Ah nuh random, fat buss head like condom ♪

♪ Man blood a leak out pon dem plot ♪

♪ Dem know a different for fire man and di one tunshirt ♪

♪ Ask the street cah we been bad ♪

♪ These streets knows my name, yeah ♪

♪ These legs knows my pain, more fire, yeah ♪

♪ Oi, bun fire fi feel disappointed and shame ♪

♪ More, more flames, Sizzla ♪

♪ But a weh dem take you for? ♪

♪ More fire, more, more, more flames ♪

♪ Respect goes a far way, not halfway, we be on this all day ♪

♪ Never gonna get me giving up, we going all di way ♪

♪ The ups and the downs, yeah, the cuts and the bruise ♪

♪ The system messing up, but what we all gotta choose ♪

♪ And it ain't getting the better, if you sit back, you lose ♪

♪ My brothers and my sisters all over the news, hey ♪

♪ That's what we do, yeah, we burn out corruption, hey ♪

♪ Now big up your crew, tell dem watch how we function, hey ♪

♪ What next to do when you reach out junction? ♪

♪ I'm out the slum, giving up ain't an option ♪

♪ Hands up, heads high ♪

♪ The limit is the sky ♪

♪ Hands up, heads high ♪

♪ The limit is the sky ♪

♪ Gettin' through the damage, get the package, I'm out ♪

♪ Getting the money, that's what the hell I'm about ♪

♪ These streets knows my name, yeah ♪

♪ These legs knows my pain, more fire, yeah ♪

♪ Man from you haffi feel disappointed and shame ♪

♪ They ain't believe is us ♪

♪ Jamaica did ♪

♪ Fire, oi ♪

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
street /striːt/ A1	noun - a public road in a city or town
name /neɪm/ A1	noun - a word or set of words by which a person, place or thing is known
pain /peɪn/ A1	noun - physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury
fire /faɪər/ A1	noun - the hot, glowing combustion of something verb - to discharge a weapon at or toward someone
flame /fleɪm/ A2	noun - the visible part of a fire that is hot and bright
Jah /dʒɑː/ C1	noun - a name for God used in Rastafarian belief
blessed /ˈblɛsɪd/ B2	adjective - favoured or protected by divine favor verb - to confer divine favor upon
kill /kɪl/ B1	verb - to cause the death of a person or animal
roll /roʊl/ B1	verb - to move by turning over and over on an axis
money /ˈmʌni/ A1	noun - a medium of exchange, especially coins and banknotes
wealth /wɛlθ/ B2	noun - an abundance of valuable possessions or money
education /ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən/ B2	noun - the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction
liberation /ˌlɪbəˈreɪʃən/ C1	noun - the act of setting someone free from oppression
hope /hoʊp/ A2	noun - a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen
respect /rɪˈspɛkt/ B1	noun - a feeling of admiration for someone or something
danger /ˈdeɪndʒər/ A2	noun - the possibility of suffering harm or injury
slavery /ˈsleɪvəri/ C1	noun - the system in which people are owned by others as property
legendary /ˈlɛdʒəndəri/ C1	adjective - famous or well known, especially for being impressive
celestial /səˈlɛstiəl/ C1	adjective - relating to the heavens or the sky
heavyweight /ˈhɛviˌweɪt/ B2	noun - a person who competes in a heavyweight class, especially in boxing adjective - very important or influential

Key Grammar Structures

• Blessed is the man that walketh not

  ➔ Inversion + Relative clause (archaic verb form)

  ➔ The adjective "Blessed" is placed before the subject, creating an inversion. The clause "that "**walketh**" not" is a relative clause modifying "man".

• Never believe in us

  ➔ Imperative mood (negative command)

  ➔ "Never" is used at the beginning of the clause to give a negative command: **Never** believe in us.

• If you sit back, you lose

  ➔ Zero conditional (present simple + present simple)

  ➔ Both clauses use the present simple to express a general truth: **sit** back → **lose**.

• We nuh disbelieve, a expensive feature

  ➔ Negation in Jamaican Patois (nuh + verb)

  ➔ The particle **nuh** precedes the verb to create a negative meaning: **nuh** disbelieve.

• We roll up inna these rides, Louis V slides

  ➔ Phrasal verb "roll up" + Preposition "inna" (Jamaican Patois)

  ➔ "Roll up" means to arrive or appear, and "inna" = "in" in Jamaican Patois: **roll** up **inna** these rides.

• The limit is the sky

  ➔ Linking verb "is" + Predicate nominative

  ➔ The verb **is** links the subject "The limit" to its complement "the sky", which renames the subject.

• Hands up, heads high, the limit is the sky

  ➔ Parallel structure (imperative phrases) + Linking verb "is"

  ➔ Two imperative clauses "**Hands** up" and "**heads** high" are placed side‑by‑side, creating a parallel rhythm, followed by the statement "the limit **is** the sky".

• They ain't believe is us

  ➔ Non‑standard negative contraction "ain't" + Subject‑verb agreement error

  ➔ The colloquial contraction **ain't** replaces "do not" or "are not", but the verb "believe" lacks the required auxiliary, and "is" is incorrectly used after a plural subject.