RapTranslations.com :: Translations :: Nelly - Grillz (feat. Paul Wall, Ali, & Gipp)

Translations

The following lyric translation has been translated by Brandon Rodriguez and may or may not completely convey the original message of the song's artist. The song's original lyrics are in normal text, translations are in italics.

Grillz (feat. Paul Wall, Ali, & Gipp)

Artist: Nelly
Album: Sweatsuit

Translation

Rob the jewelry store and tell 'em make me a grill.
Add da whole top diamond and the bottom rows gold.
One should most certainly take a jewelry store hostage and demand them to make you a custom piece of mouth jewelry. The top row of such a device should be full of diamonds while the lower portion should be the purest of gold.

Jermaine Dupri
Yo we 'bout to start an epidemic wit' dis one,
Ya'll know what dis is... So So Def.
This track will undoubtedly create a widespread disease, probably due to it's contagious subject matter and lyrics. In case you were unaware, my record label is So So Def records.

Nelly
Got 30 down at the bottom, 30 mo at the top,
All invisible set and little ice cube blocks.
My grill (mouth jewelry) has 30 columns of diamonds at the bottom, and 30 more on the upper section. One of its features is that it has an "invisible set," meaning that you cannot see outlines of the individual teeth and the diamonds run straight across the entire grill, and also that they all resemble tiny ice cube blocks.

If I could call it a drink, call it a smile on the rocks,
If I could call out a price, let's say I call out a lot.
If a person such as myself were to compare my grill to a beverage, I'd name it "smile on the rocks" due to the excessive presence of diamonds (rocks). In terms of price, I'm not going to reveal an exact figure but instead say it's in the ballpark of an extremely large amount.

I got like platinum and white gold, traditional gold,
I'm changin' grills err'day, like Jay change clothes.
My grill includes platinum and various types of gold as well. I also certainly have a surplus of grills because I'm able to change them on such a regular basis that one may compare it to fashionable rapper Jay-Z changing outfits.

I might be grilled out nicely (oh), in my white tee (oh),
Or on South Beach (oh), in my wife-b.
I might have an expensive grill while hanging out in my plain white T-shirt (popularized in the song "White Tee" by Dem Franchize Boyz), or perhaps I can be located on South Beach in my wife-beater white tank top.

V V and studded you can tell when they cut it,
Ya see my gran'mama hate it, but my lil' mama love it, 'cause when I...
My grandmother is not very fond of the current trend of "grills," however my current female wench finds them rather attractive because they continuously state...

Woman
Open up ya mouth, ya grill gleamin' (say what),
Eyes stay low from da chiefin'.
Whenever you reveal your grill, it illuminates brilliantly due to all the diamonds within it. Our eyes remain rather lazy looking from all the marijuana we previously smoked, however.

Nelly
I got a grill I call penny candy you know what that means,
It look like Now-N-Laters, gum drops, jelly beans.
One of my grills I named "Penny Candy," for it's array of multicolored diamonds resemble various sweets including Now-N-Laters, gum drops, and even jellybeans.

I wouldn't leave it for nothin', only a crazy man would,
So if you catch me in ya city, somewhere out in ya hood just say...
Being the self-proclaimed intelligent person I am, I choose to keep this grill for only a man of unstable mental condition would give it up. Anyway, if an individual sees me on the street, whether it be in an metropolitan or other urban locale, I suggest stating to me...

[Hook]
Smile fo' me daddy,
(What you lookin at?)
Lemme see ya grill,
(Let you see my what?)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill.
(Rob da jewelry store and tell em make me a grill.)
Could you please smile and show me your grill? (At what are you looking at, fine woman?) I wish to visually intake your grill. (You wish to view my what, ma'am?) Your grill. (Perhaps you should forcibly hold a jewelry store hostage and demand that a custom grill be made for you.)

Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
I want to see your grill
(You wanna see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Had a whole top diamonds and da bottom rows gold)
Could you please smile and show me your grill? (At what are you looking at, fine woman?) I wish to visually intake your grill. (You wish to view my what?) Your grill. (My grill's top row is nothing but diamonds while the bottom row consists of fine gold.)

Paul Wall
What it do baby, it's da ice man, Paul Wall,
I got my mouth lookin' somethin' like a disco ball.
Hello! It is I, Paul Wall. My personal moniker for myself is "the ice man" due to my frequent dealings with diamonds. The grill in my mouth causes my teeth to somewhat resemble a disco ball.

I got da diamonds and da ice all hand set,
I might cause a cold front if i take a deep breath.
The diamonds within my mouth are hand set, and I might theoretically create a weather phenomenon by taking a deep breath due to the surplus of diamonds (ice) that resides within it.

My teeth gleaming like I'm chewin' on aluminum foil,
Smilin' showin' off my diamonds sippin' on some potent noir.
The light reflection created by my grill is somewhat similar to the effects of chewing on a certain metallic cooking aide. Whenever I smile I show my grill's diamonds off while I simultaneously drink exceptionally strong alcoholic beverages.

I put my money where my mouth is, and bought a grill,
20 carots, 30 stacks, let 'em know I'm so fa real.
I took the symbolic phrase "to put your money where your mouth is" literally and purchased a several-thousand dollar piece of custom-fit mouth jewelry. With it are 20 carots of diamonds arranged in 30 stacks across the grill. This simply shows I am indeed, no fake when it comes to my monetary supply.

My motivation is them 30 pointers, VVS,
The frontage in my mouth piece simply symbolize success.
My personal motivation for the amount of grinding I do is the 30-point, VVS (VVS referring to the clarity grade of high-quality diamonds with "very very small" inclusions) diamonds. My grill is just one visible example of my overall success as a musician and overall financially successful hustler.

I got da wrist wear and neck wear dats captivatin,
But its my smile dats got these on-lookers spectatin.
Do not get me wrong, I also own several diamond bracelets and chains that are sure to entice strangers to embrace me. However, it is surely my grill that makes my mouth a spectacle and draws an audience.

My mouth piece simply certified a total package,
Open up my mouth and you see mo carots than a salad.
Once again, my mouth piece could be certified by a third-party appraiser as a "total package" when it comes to completeness and impressiveness. To put it metaphorically, upon opening my mouth you'd see more diamond carots than how many carrots one would potentially see in an average garden salad.

My teeth are mind blowin' givin' everybody chills,
Call me George foreman 'cause I'm sellin' everybody grills.
I will once again refer to the diamonds in my grill as ice becuase they are likely to give people "chills" as well as boggling their mind. Due to my custom diamond jewelry business, T.V. Jewelry, one could potentially mistake me for George Foreman since we are both in the business of selling grills (albeit mine are diamond mouth pieces and his are the Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machines).

[Hook]

Gipp
Gipp got them yellows, got them purples, got them reds,
Lights gon' hit ya and make you woozie in ya head.
I, Gipp, have a grill that includes such jewelry which illuminates in colors such as yellow, purple, and red. Once an external light source is shone upon them, the resulting glare will likely induce dizziness in the spectators.

You can catch me in my Too $hort drop,
Mouth got colors like a Froot Loop box.
One can locate my while riding in my vehicle which is similar to fellow rapper, Too $hort's ride. My mouth is so colorful you might be inclined to compare it to the box of the popular breakfast cereal Froot Loops.

Ali
Dis what it do when da lou,
Ice grill country grammar.
The previously mentioned activities and lifestyles are simply how things are accomplished here in the "The Lou," or St. Louis, Missouri. We have diamond-filled pieces of mouth jewelry and speak in distinct Southern dialects.

Where the hustlers move bricks,
and the gangstas bang hammas.
The hustlers make their income via selling bricks, or large brick-shaped quantities of drugs. The true gangsters on the other hand, act in a rather aggressive manner by operating firearms at their personal enemies.

Where I got 'em you can spot them,
On the top an' the bottom.
The diamonds in my mouth are quite visible, whether they be on the top or bottom row.

Gotta bill in my mouth like I'm Hillary Rodham.
I have a significant amount of currency worth in my mouth, which I will annotate as my "bill," similar to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton having another type of "Bill" (as in Clinton) in her mouth while presumably performing various orally-oriented activities.

Gipp
I ain't dissin' nobody but lets bring it to the light,
Gipp was the first with my mouth, bright white.
Please believe that I'm in no way trying to cause offense but I ask you to let us inspect the quality of your grill under a greater source of lighting. Were you aware that I was the first one to have this particular style of grill?

These hoes can't focus 'cause they eyesight blurry,
Tippin' on some 4's, you can see my mouth jewelry.
I do say that these women who currently accompany us can't possibly divert their full attention on us because they are simply star struck by looking at our mouths. You could perhaps view my grill while riding on 84s, which is described in greater detail in our Still Tippin' translation.

Ali
I got fo different sets its a fabolous thang,
One white, one yellow, like Fabolous chain.
I personally own four different grills, one being white-colored and yet another being yellow -- similar to fellow rapper's Fabolous habit of wearing one gold and one platinum chain.

And da otha set is same, got my name in da mold.
(Had a whole top diamond and da bottom rows gold)
Another set is similar to the last one, and my name, Ali, is obviously engraved into my grill's mold.

[Hook]

Woman
Boy how you getcha grill that way,
And how much did you pay?
Young man -- can I query you as to how you received such a customized and high-quality piece of mouth jewelry? My natural second question would be what was it's current value in U.S. dollars?

Every time I see you,
The first thing I'm gon' say hey.....
Being the gold-digger that I am, I'm quite likely to ask you to show your grill to me on every occasion of seeing you.

[Hook]

« Discuss this Translation

Contact the Translator

Comment on Translation »