PUBLIC ENEMIES – Bilingual Lyrics Korean/English

• By: Sik-K, Lil Moshpit, OSUN

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a linguistic journey through "PUBLIC ENEMIES," a high-energy Korean hip-hop anthem. By exploring its bold lyrics and impactful delivery, you can uncover modern Korean slang and expressions of self-confidence and defiance, making it a powerful and engaging way to experience the language. This song is special for its origin from a celebrated performance on 'Show Me The Money 12' and its ability to inspire a tenacious spirit.

[English]

Uh, yeah, yeah

Fill up the funds, empty the mind

Relax, crawl down below

It's easier than I thought

Call up thirty, bring up a deal

What you got, I got the fever

Run that up, Neo behind me

Fake-ass, tryna hop in that Beamer

Not giving to anyone except my own

Try to lowball the rest

Even if you give it, I won't take it, give it to your dog

I wouldn't eat you even if you gave me one rice cake

Those days of smoking are over

A successful alligator too

Got caught by a snake, then stomped it

Even if my pants rip

I ignore what you say

Just turned DND on, DND on

I got five stripes on my Adidas, on my Adidas

Need a process, I need that Brita

Not an outdated leader, I'm the leader

Not just anyone, a versatile beauty, preferably a beautiful one

Tryna fight with demons

Fighting with demons

Been hearing the same things for ages, I'm tired, so tired

I don't even want to weigh the pros and cons, I hate it more

I'm running away like

Yeah, I made a wish when I was young

We smoking time like we always young

I've been acting like a kid my whole life

At the mart in front of my house

I used to buy polar puffs and bread

The tab was given to my mom

Like Tommy from Vice City

Resetting my life like new

I feel a steroid rage coming on

Your face, cover it before it's too late

I asked you to help me

Your answer to that was

You cannot understand my ambition

1.5 years of dopamine detox

I got no label on my table, dusting off the dirt

She tryna keep airplane mode, huh

Shawty still wanna play more, huh

Party gon' wild for the night

Destroy this thing up like a claymore, huh

Babе knows what's her asset

Why you see me with thе same set?

Can't even see where's the stains at?

Already on the freakin' next thing

Next thing, next stage, we on a POV van then

Hold that sit up, living like vacay, still laid back

Tied up with a session cascade

Why are you all trying to hit on me?

You guys are trying to hit on me

Please stop clinging to me

If you can't have fun, just leave

I ignore what you say

Just turned DND on, DND on

I got five stripes on my Adidas, on my Adidas

Need a process, I need that Brita

Not an outdated leader, I'm the leader

Not just anyone, a versatile beauty, preferably a beautiful one

Tryna fight with demons

Fighting with demons

Been hearing the same things for ages, I'm tired, so tired

I don't even want to weigh the pros and cons, I hate it more

I'm running away like

Ice, I put OKA on my chain

Huh, just one hit for MR. Buster

Bling, I kissed it I do my dance, bass go bang like

I bring all of those purple baguettes

You get in the bread like that baguette

I do what I want, my fashion isn't from Korea, babe

Straight to Japan, I say back it again

Straight to Japan, I say back it again

Pullupboi gon turn shot HENZ

Pullupboi gon turn ripped the bass

Okay, my fit lookin' too fresh

Huh, boy, check out my swag

Yeah, yeah, check out my swag now

I said, check out my swag now

Come here, baby, check out my swag now

I said, check the freak out my swag now

Huh, huh, huh, huh, even if I fall to the bottom

Huh, huh, huh, I still have dreams and a crew

Huh, huh, huh, I'm on a different level than those CEOs

Huh, huh, huh, we go stupid, we go fuck it up and

Huh, huh, huh, because we're top-tier, we laugh loudly

Huh, huh, huh, we do it together when it's time

Since my teens, it's been an industrial cartel thing

Let's raise a glass to victory, we go

Shot, shot, shot, shot, we go

Shall we go?

Shall we go, go?

...

[Korean]

Uh, yeah, yeah

돈 채워, 마음 비워

긴장 풀어, 밑으로 기어

생각했던 거보다 쉽네

삼만 불러, 딜 하나 띄워

What you got, I got fever

Run that shit up, 내 뒤에 Neo

Fake-ass, tryna hop on that Beamer

내 새끼들 빼고 안 줘

후려쳐봐 나머지

줘도 안 먹어, 네 집 개 줘

난 떡 하나 주면 안 잡아먹지

담배 피우던 시절은 버려

잘나가는 알라도

뱀새끼 걸렸다가 족쳐

바짓가랑이 찢길라 해도

네 말은 씹어

Just turned DND on, DND on

I got five stripes on my Adidas, on my Adidas

거쳐가는 과정 필요해 I need that Brita

말고 구시대의 leader, 내가 leader

아무나 말고 팔방미녀, 되도록 미녀가 좋아

Tryna fight with demons

Fighting with demons

백날 우려먹고 지겨워, 이제 지겨워

장단 따지기도 싫어, 내가 더 싫어

난 도망치듯이

Yeah, 소원을 빌었지 어릴 적

We smoking time like we always young

평생을 어릴 것처럼 굴었어

우리 집 앞 mart에서

사곤 했어 폴라포랑 빵

외상값은 give a toss to ma mom

Vice City Tommy처럼

Reset해 처음처럼 나의 Life

Steroid rage 올 거 같아

너의 face, 가려 늦기 전에

나 좀 도와달라고 물었지

그에 대한 너의 대답은

내 야망을 cannot understand

1.5년 동안 도파민 Detox

I got no label on my table, 털어 먼지

She tryna keep airplane mode, huh

Shawty still wanna play more, huh

Party gon' wild for the night

Destroy this thing up like a claymore, huh

Babе knows what's her asset

Why you see me with thе same set?

Can't even see where's the stains at?

Already on the freakin' next thing

Next thing, next stage, we on a POV van then

Hold that sit up, living like vacay, still laid back

Tied up with a session cascade

왜 이렇게 다 작업을 할라 들어

짜식들 작업을 할라 들어

제발 좀 그만 좀 달라붙어

못 놀 거면 그대로 나가주렴

네 말은 씹어

Just turned DND on, DND on

I got five stripes on my Adidas, on my Adidas

거쳐가는 과정 필요해, I need that Brita

말고 구시대의 leader, 내가 leader

아무나 말고 팔방미녀, 되도록 미녀가 좋아

Tryna fight with demons

Fighting with demons

백날 우려먹고 지겨워, 이제 지겨워

장단 따지기도 싫어, 내가 더 싫어

난 도망치듯이

Ice, I put OKA on my chain

Huh, MR. Buster 하나만 패

Bling, I kissed it I do my dance, bass go bang like

난 가져와 all of that purple baguettes

빵에 넌 들어가 like that baguette

I do what I want, 나는 절대 안 빼

내 fashion 아니야 from Korea, babe

Straight to Japan, I say back it again

Pullupboi gon turn 찍었어 HENZ

Pullupboi gon turn 찢었어 bass

Okay, my fit lookin' too fresh

Huh, boy, check out my swag

Yeah, yeah, check out my swag now

I said, check out my swag now

이리 와봐, baby, check out my swag now

I said, check the freak out my swag now

Huh, huh, huh, huh, 밑바닥까지 떨어져도

Huh, huh, huh, 나는 꿈도 있고 crew도 있네

Huh, huh, huh, 얼굴 사장들과 차원이 달라

Huh, huh, huh, we go stupid, we go fuck it up and

Huh, huh, huh, 일류니깐 크게 웃어 we go

Huh, huh, huh, 할 땐 함께 해

십대 때부터 산업 cartel shit

승리의 축배를 들어, we go

Shot, shot, shot, shot, we go

Shall we go?

Shall we go, go?

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
돈 don TOPIK 2	noun - money
마음 ma-eum TOPIK 2	noun - heart, mind
긴장 gin-jang TOPIK 3	noun - tension, nervousness
풀어 pul-eo TOPIK 3	verb - to loosen, to release
기어 gi-eo TOPIK 3	verb - to crawl
삼만 sam-man TOPIK 4	noun - thirty thousand
딜 dil TOPIK 4	noun - deal
띄워 ttwi-wo TOPIK 3	verb - to float, to raise
후려쳐봐 hu-ryeo-cheo-bwa TOPIK 4	verb - to hit, to strike down
떡 tteok TOPIK 2	noun - rice cake
뱀새끼 baem-sae-kki TOPIK 5	noun - snake (derogatory)
족쳐 jok-cheo TOPIK 5	verb - to stomp, to crush
바짓가랑이 ba-jit-ga-rang-i TOPIK 4	noun - trouser leg
씹어 ssip-eo TOPIK 3	verb - to ignore, to dismiss
Adidas a-di-da-seu TOPIK 4	noun - Adidas
과정 gwa-jeong TOPIK 3	noun - process
leader ri-deo TOPIK 4	noun - leader
팔방미녀 pal-bang-mi-nyeo TOPIK 5	noun - all-around beauty
우려먹고 u-ryeo-meok-go TOPIK 4	verb - to dwell on, to harp on

Key Grammar Structures

• 돈 채워, 마음 비워

  ➔ Informal imperative using verb‑stem + 어

  ➔ The verbs "채워" and "비워" are the informal imperative forms of “채우다” (to fill) and “비우다” (to empty). They tell the listener to “fill the money, empty your mind.”

• What you got, I got fever

  ➔ Present simple with “got” as “have” (possessive)

  ➔ In colloquial English, "got" replaces "have". The structure “I **got** fever” means “I have a fever.”

• Just turned DND on, DND on

  ➔ Past simple with “just” indicating a recent action

  ➔ "Just turned" uses the simple past **turned** plus the adverb **just** to stress that the speaker activated DND moments ago.

• Tryna fight with demons

  ➔ Colloquial contraction “Tryna” = “trying to”

  ➔ "**Tryna**" is a spoken reduction of “trying to”. It functions as a present‑participle verb phrase meaning “attempting to fight”.

• 난 도망치듯이

  ➔ Pattern “-듯이” meaning “as if” or “like”

  ➔ The suffix **-듯이** attaches to a verb stem to express similarity: “as if I were escaping”. Here “도망치듯이” = “like (someone) is running away”.

• Can't even see where's the stains at?

  ➔ Contraction “Can’t” + informal negative “even”, plus colloquial tag “at?”

  ➔ The phrase **Can’t even** intensifies the inability (“I’m unable to even …”). The added **at?** after “stains” is a colloquial, non‑standard tag often heard in spoken English.

• I got 1.5년 동안 도파민 Detox

  ➔ Duration expression “-동안” with a numeric time phrase

  ➔ **1.5년 동안** means “for one and a half years”. In Korean, “-동안” attaches to a time noun to indicate the length of an action or state.

• I do what I want, 나는 절대 안 빼

  ➔ Double negative in Korean “절대 안” (never not) + English contrast

  ➔ **절대 안** combines the adverb “절대” (absolutely/never) with the negation “안”. Together they create a strong negative meaning “I will never take it out”.

• Ice, I put OKA on my chain

  ➔ Phrasal verb “put … on” indicating placement

  ➔ **put … on** is a two‑part verb where **put** is the main verb and **on** specifies the location. Here it means “attach OKA to my chain”.