Trouble after trouble
Every day the same shit
The same dead faces and
Our life that we can lose
Why always bad vibes? Why
Always bad phases?
It's grumbling, it's thinking
It wants to fuck up the base
Paname City, the city where I was born
I've contemplated the winters
I've contemplated the summers
This is where I am loved
This is where I am hated
This is where we chain
All: rights, lefts, hooks
All with battered faces
All rushing towards a wasted life
All angry, all listed, all mowed down
By the scythe of info because
We all want to succeed
But for most to succeed
Is to build their empire
So we walk on each other in
Claiming from the street
So we shoot each other and
Our youth is lost
So we walk on each other in
Claiming from the street
So we shoot each other and
Our youth is lost

Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
So that French HipHop
Strengthens its ramparts!
So that those who believe in
Us don't get the blues
To prove that we love them and that
For us they are stars
Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
For the independence we represent against the
Pros of the barcode
For the resistance we represent
Against power so that HipHop does not
Limit itself to "Fuck you bastard!"

What do you want me to tell you
Except that we need love
To get out of this!
Tolerance, less ignorance
Humor when the atmosphere is dead
My tone is dramatic
But don't worry I'm supersonic
Ultramagnetic, connected to the cosmic
Fanatic freestyles
Metaphysical atmospheres Mythical academy
MASTER MADJ watches over their politics
Watches over my shit on which
For years I meditate
Before my rhymes are said
Before the criticism falls
Before it gets complicated
Before dealing with the restless mass
The media that gets excited
Their crooked politics
Under the table deals
Fraudulent elections corruption
Threats to integrate us
In a branch
But ours is watertight and it's
HipHop when my tongue cuts!
And it's HipHop when my tongue cuts!

Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
So that those who no longer have any
Find the light in the fog
So that our Women are never afraid
To walk alone late at night
To prove that we love them and that
For us they are stars
Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
So that our audience understands that ASSASSIN
Will never be a tricard
In no street, no boulevard
No third-quar because it's for you that we
Rap, that we fight
That we hold without deviating

We represent hope for a positive HipHop
Even in negativity we will remain positive
That is to say creative, receptive
Constructive in the face of adversity, combative
In the face of respect, recognition
Attentive
Wait, wait, wait! What, what, what
What? I don't have a sniff!
In the impalpable and subversive show-business
I draw inspiration from all cultures
All social horizons all smells, all
Colors, all religions, all stars
In front of our raps
All naked like newborns
No baggy
No costume can counter the sensible rhyme
And if our HipHop goes to shit
It's because the actors of this
Movement did not listen
Ann Peebles, Gil Scott-Heron
Nor understood Wu Tang Clan
Few know Al Green or Donny Hathaway
Even fewer UTFO, Roxanne Shanté
DST, Kurtis Blow
There are bases in the ghetto!
Ask Fat Joe! Ask Primo!
If tomorrow I live from HipHop
It's thanks to the people present in the past
I know it, don't forget, now
Let me pass
I have stored information that I must reveal
To help those who do not know
To calm those who only parade
Those who only parade

Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
To shut up
All the scroungers
To preserve nature, our future
Our memory not to corrupt "for
A handful of dollars, asshole!"
Why did we call our
Album "Touch of Hope"?
So that Mumia is free as well
As all the black panthers
All the prisoners of opinion
Don't you find it strange?
That they lock you up as soon as your love
Shines more than their headlights

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