Los Cheles Lyrics in English by Akapellah

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I want the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

Everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

I’m still waiting for the day when the bucks just rain on me

I want the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

Everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

I’m still waiting for the day when the bucks just rain on me

Wanting cash ain’t bad, wanting cash ain’t bad

What’s bad is wanting cash and heading out to steal it

I’m from Venezuela and the dollar’s crazy high

You could get shot over an iPhone seven

Everybody here’s already thugged-out

Better to scam than to get scammed

They taught us that since we were tiny

It was the legacy they left us

Now the dumbest sh*t costs like five grand

An ice-cream with your babe is at least ten grand

With the prices at Polo, Zara and Pull&Bear

At the Sambil, anyone starts thinking of crime, this is real

The guilty ones never stop lying to us

The ones who should protect us aim their rifles at us

I don’t know who’s more gangster, the cop or the civilian

It’s the end, Venezuela already feels like Silent Hill

That’s why everybody’s out there hustling

Some with drugs and others flipping goods

The guys on bikes are out robbing

The ones on the border are smuggling

Making the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

’Cause everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

And I keep dreaming of the day when the bucks just rain on me

I want the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

Everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

And I keep dreaming of the day when the bucks just rain on me

As a kid I saw my mom super worried

’Cause she always went into debt and the paycheck wasn’t enough

Now that I’m grown I get what was happening

’Cause I’ve got a son and I don’t want him lacking a thing

If so many millionaires here have money they stole

Why the f*ck can’t I, when I earn it the honest way?

I’m not shaking people down on highways or checkpoints

Or secretly reselling subsidized goods

The hunger to be big and to crave having power

Makes many crash or, better yet, makes them level up

I’m crystal clear on that, bro, don’t know about you

I want euros, I want dollars and yen

I want the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

Everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

I’m still waiting for the day when the bucks just rain on me

I want the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks, the bucks

Everything in this world runs on those damn papers

I’ve got a list of things I want that I still can’t get

I’m still waiting for the day when the bucks just rain on me

Damn papers

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Trip, Alberto Jose Aguero Bianchi, Alfredo Jesus Izaguirre Carcui, Carlos Ariel Peralta, Jesus Gerardo Ablan Colina, Joseph Anthony Cartagena, Pedro Tomas De Aquino

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Akapellah raps this one like a guy doing the maths on his own life. Cheles is Venezuelan slang for money, and the hook is just him wanting it: "Quiero los cheles" [I want the cash], because "todo en el mundo se rige por esos malditos papeles" [everything in the world is ruled by those damn papers]. He's careful, though: "Querer rial no es malo... Malo es querer rial y sali' a robalo'" [wanting money (rial, slang for cash) isn't bad... what's bad is wanting money and going out to steal it].

The verses are a blunt snapshot of Venezuela: "Por un iPhone siete te dan un disparo" [for an iPhone 7 they'll shoot you], an ice cream with your girl (jeva) costs ten thousand, and people get by bachaqueando (reselling scarce goods on the black market) or smuggling at the border. He even says the country "ya parece Silent Hill" [already looks like Silent Hill], the horror video game. Then it turns personal: he remembers his mom stressed because "la quincena no alcanzaba" [the fortnightly paycheck didn't stretch], and now he has a son and wants him to lack nothing, earned "en forma honrada" [honestly].

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