Mi Barrio Lyrics in English Morad

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Mi Barrio by Morad from Spanish to English.

As a kid I always busted my a*ss just for a polo

I've gone hungry and I swear that I never ate alone

I got into this and thought, 'how the f*ck do I sneak in?'

I've been down, I've been in the middle, I've been in the sky

As a kid I could never afford the crocodile

Patches on knees, sewn with tiny threads

I'm no model, I've never even had style

But if you want, I'll show you how to wear a kilo

I started young with picala robberies

You chug a vodka Red Bull and you've never had wings

Us, clubbing in tracksuits, me in sandals

We're from the L, he says, the organized one

If you take drugs, it doesn't mean you sell drugs

If he throws a package, it doesn't mean they're drowning

If they use a walkie with you, it's not because there's no data left

If someone throws at me, it's to see if the others stick

He says, living craziness, stuck all day in the hood

They talk nonsense, but I'm always in my hood

Life is hard, but less so in my hood

Where's Morad? He's always holed up in his hood

Living madness, always stuck in the hood

They talk crap, but I'm always in my hood

Life is hard, but less so in my hood

Where's Morad? He's always holed up in his hood

You come down to the block and Mr. Daddy greets you

They talk about the street, but they never soak in crimes

We're from the L, the ones that don't run from trouble

We're from the L, the ones that slap a lapa on your engines

In getaways they catch the one who runs slow, slow

I'm a loner, I drop to my hood and they call me, 'crazy, crazy'

The commissioner comes down and tells me, 'Morad, you haven't got long, not long'

I tell him, 'So little that everything I touch blows up, blows up'

This is in the clouds, clouds

Seems it bothers them that Morad rises, rises

In the street with wickedness, I didn't waste time, time

Nobody knows what I went through, nor ever what I had, had

And I know what I had, had

This is in the clouds, clouds

Seems it bothers them that Morad rises, rises

In the street with wickedness, I didn't waste time, time

Nobody knows what I went through, nor ever what I had, had

And I know what I had, had

Li-living craziness, locked in the hood all day

They talk nonsense, but I'm always in my hood

Life is hard, but less so in my hood

Where's Morad? He's always holed up in his hood

Living madness, always stuck in the hood

They talk crap, but I'm always in my hood

Life is hard, but less so in my hood

Where's Morad? He's always holed up in his hood

It's just that that's my hood

It's that it's my hood

I am in my hood

Always in my hood

I am in my hood

Always in my hood

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SONG MEANING

Mi Barrio is Morad’s love letter to the streets that raised him. Over a driving beat, the Catalan-Moroccan rapper rewinds to his childhood of patched-up jeans, empty stomachs, and sly hustles to afford a simple ice pop. He paints vivid snapshots of nights in sandals outside the club, running from trouble with a walkie-talkie, and the constant grind of turning “nothing” into musical gold. Each line drips with swagger and wit, but underneath the bravado you feel the hunger—both literal and creative—that pushed him from the bottom “to the clouds.”

The chorus hammers home the heart of the track: the barrio is everything. No matter how high his career climbs, Morad insists he is “always in my neighborhood,” protected by its loyalty and unspoken codes. The streets may be rough, yet they are a softer place for him than the wider world. “Mi Barrio” is at once a gritty diary and a victory anthem, reminding listeners that true success is measured not just by escaping your roots, but by lifting them up with you.

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