OT: Songs with Spanish Need translations -Help a gringo out

What songs?

Have you considered google translate?

I have tried it but it doesn't always work for stuff it gives weird translations that don't always make sense.

like this

'Amonos, dámelo, caete con ese paquetón
Yo no quiero usar el cuete no
Es muy baqueton
El bote no me asusta a mi
Es como vacación
Pero yo te asusto a ti
Miados en el pantalón
5, 4, 3 y 2 y 1
Yo quiero la hierba y el nudo
Es lo que le queda a este cuetazo de budo
Pierde puro verde o pierdes el culo
Tu di
Ahí esta la otra que te decía loco
Estos vatos tienen más feria
Aquí vamos a chingar, listo?
Vámonos pues


'Let's go, give it to me, fall down with that packet
I do not want to use the cuete
It is very baqueton
The boat does not scare me
It's like a vacation
But I scare you
Mied in the pants
5, 4, 3 and 2 and 1
I want the grass and the knot
That's what this budo buzz looks like
Lose pure green or lose your ass
You say
There is the other one that told you crazy
These vatos have more fair
Here we are going to fuck, ready?
Let's go then

Well, a cuete is a gun, a bote is a box, and baqueton here means lazy. Hierba can be any herb, like mint, I've never heard it used to mean grass. But that's in the south of Mexico, could be different in the north.

YOU CANT TRANSLATE IT LITERALLY...

'Amonos, dámelo, caete con ese paquetón
LETS GO, GIVE IT TO ME, GET ON YOUR KNEES FOR THIS BIG PACKAGE
Yo no quiero usar el cuete no
I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO USE MY GUN
Es muy baqueton
GOT A BIG BULLET
El bote no me asusta a mi
THE SHOT DOESN'T SCARE ME
Es como vacación
ITS LIKE A VACATION TO ME
Pero yo te asusto a ti
BUT YOU'RE AFRAID OF ME
Miados en el pantalón
PULSATIONS IN YOUR PANTS
5, 4, 3 y 2 y 1
Yo quiero la hierba y el nudo
I WANT SOME WEED AND YOU NUDE
Es lo que le queda a este cuetazo de budo
LETS YOU GET AT THIS DANGEROUS BIG GUN
Pierde puro verde o pierdes el culo
LOSE THE GREEN OR LOSE YOUR ASS
Tu di
YOU GAVE IT UP
Ahí esta la otra que te decía loco
HERE'S THE OTHER ONE WHO CALLED YOU CRAZY
Estos vatos tienen más feria
THOSE NIGGAS HAVE MORE CASH
Aquí vamos a chingar, listo?
YOU GONNA FUCK THEM TOO YOU READY?
Vámonos pues
LETS GO

It's difficult to translate - some words are slang or phrases that have a particular meaning in the particular language/culture and it's hsrd to find the English equivalent - a literal word filor word translation will often not make sense so you often have to find other English words in order to come closer to conveying the desired meaning

Yeah that is my main issue, is not fluent enough to know what they are really saying.

This one is pretty easy though

Sometimes in Youtube I've seen Spanish songs with English subtitles.

Have you tried searching in YouTube "<song name> English lyrics"

Shit - I used angle brackets in my last post and TUSCL cuts it off.

Meant to say search in YouTube:

"(Song name) English lyrics"

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Spanglish has few rules and many variations and the guys from cypress hills are of Cuban descent in a Mexican environment and totally baked with the loser leaf so you have to try to get the message they are trying to send, that sometimes they don even know themselves because of the loser leaf effects.

Anyhow this is what the Spanish portion of the song is talking about:

CYPRESS HILL – LOCOS LYRICS

Spanish portion:

The song has two conversations/dialogues/stories going on about the heists of cannabis dispensaries the one that Sick Jacken is telling is in the one in Spanish and starts with Jack talking to his accomplice to get ready for the first heist:

Orale loco
Orale loco, Ponte las pilas wey e?
Aquí se va a hacer el jale ahorita de volada
Estos vatos tienen un chingo de feria
Listo? ponte la máscara, vámonos...

Get ready man
Get ready man, (put batteries on) be ready/alert Ok?
This job takes place now and fast
These guys have a lot of cash
Ready? Put the sky mask on, let’s go

Then is the conversation between Jack and the victim; the dispensary employee:

Amonos, dámelo, caete con ese paquetón
Yo no quiero usar el cuete no
Es muy baqueton
El bote no me asusta a mi
Es como vacación
Pero yo te asusto a ti
Miados en el pantalón
5, 4, 3 y 2 y 1
Yo quiero la hierba y el nudo
Es lo que le queda a este cuetazo de budo
Pierde puro verde o pierdes el culo
Tu di

Let’s go, give it to me, give up the package
I don’t want to use the gun/firearm, no
Is too much for this situation.
Going to prison doesn’t scare me
Is like a vacation
But I scare you
You pissed your pants
5, 4, 3 y 2 y 1
I want the grass/cannabis and the money
It is all is left, this gun/firearm
Lose the money or lose your ass/life
You tell me.

Of course the employee is going to give up the merchandise and the money rather than lose his life.

They talk about going to the next dispensary:

Ahí esta la otra que te decía loco
Estos vatos tienen más feria
Aquí vamos a chingar, ¿listo?
Vámonos pues...

This I the other place I told you about
These guys have more cash
Here we are going to Fuck them, ready?
Let’s go now...

The song repeats one verse at the end as a chorus.

Again I don’t know why people glorify criminals but it is what it is.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments or opinions or...

I believe at my University we have the best Chicano Studies professors in the Nation, probably the World.

You pretty much have to be a native speaker to understand.

Bote is slang for jail.
Feria is slang for money