Mom told me go live, become a man
Don't get absorbed by this crazy life
She told me make money and find yourself a cute girl
Have kids with her and leave the slum, I'm scared for you
Here there's only rompopom rompopom ayaya
Only rompopom rompopom ayaya

In our neighborhoods, money doesn't make the man
I sing the melancholy of my crazy life
The girl dressed in Gucci, very hot
Hello beautiful stranger, let's dance the Puerto Rican salsa
Burned by the fires of passion until dawn
Before the police throw me in the hole
I hear the voice of my crazy friend Soprano
I looked for happiness at the bottom of a marijuana field

Here come the heavy weapons, my friends start ("Rum!")
And they shoot ("Rum! Rum! Rum")
But the sirens are spinning, my friends run away ("Rum!")
Under the sound of bullets ("Rum! Rum! Rum!")
The neighborhood forgets nothing but it has forgiven
Our moms are lionesses, they are worth gold, kid
Food tastes better when it's shared
Despite the lack of money, I feel so good in my neighborhood
Mom told me go live, become a man
Don't get absorbed by this crazy life
She told me make money and find yourself a cute girl
Have kids with her and leave the slum, I'm scared for you
Here there's only rompopom rompopom ayaya
Only rompopom rompopom ayaya

Yes, you saw me in a Lambo in Los Angeles
Accompanied by Amel singing Jean-Jacques Goldman
You thought Sopram'Baba has turned his coat
I'm not surprised by your stupid talk
The neighborhood is in the blood, in the attitude, in the experience, in the smile
Tears in the habits, in the soul, in the food
The loneliness in the solitude, the silence of what we've seen
The rompopopompompom cried under the moon
Tell yourself that I've been singing the neighborhood since I was 12 and that won't change
The love I have for these slums will always be in me until they bury me
Just talking about it brings back the smell of the neighbor's good mafé
Those who worked at the factory squat the café and tell us to go pray
By Allah, tell me how to forget?

Mom told me go live, become a man
Don't get absorbed by this crazy life
She told me make money and find yourself a cute girl
Have kids with her and leave the slum, I'm scared for you
Here there's only rompopom rompopom ayaya
Only rompopom rompopom ayaya

I've seen people rob the couriers to pay the lawyer
I've seen thefts end in dramas, dramas, crazy life
I've seen people get stuck for a gram from Paris to Marseille
I've seen people get killed in a drive-by: Assassination
I've seen people who dreamed of leaving, to put the ring on her
That the judge has sentenced, life behind bars
In armed robberies for the baby's milk
Such is life in my neighborhood

Mom told me go live, become a man
Don't get absorbed by this crazy life
She told me make money and find yourself a cute girl
Have kids with her and leave the slum, I'm scared for you
Here there's only rompopom rompopom ayaya
Only rompopom rompopom ayaya

Neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, ayaya
Neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, ayaya
Neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, ayaya
Neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, neighborhood, ayaya

Mom told me go live, become a man
Don't get absorbed by this crazy life
She told me make money and find yourself a cute girl
Have kids with her and leave the slum, I'm scared for you
Here there's only rompopom rompopom ayaya
Only rompopom rompopom ayaya

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