Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version)

**Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher Version)** — это шестой трек из первого альбома-сборника *Gorillaz*, *G-Sides*. Это оригинальная версия сингла *Clint Eastwood*, в записи которой участвовала британская хип-хоп-группа Phi Life Cypher.

## Информация

Изначально именно эта версия должна была появиться на дебютном альбоме *Gorillaz*, но Деймон Албарн предпочел использовать запись с Del The Funky Homosapien.

Именно эта версия исполнялась вживую наибольшее количество раз, например, на BBC Radio 1, на BRIT Awards, во время первого тура группы и на Live at the Forum, но с некоторыми изменениями, такими как включение припева 2-D и отсутствие последних куплетов.

## Текст

[Si Phili]

"Yo. Yo. Yo."

Cause I'm this, Gorillaz from the mist lyricist and my thoughts be twisted

I spit the wickedest rhymes from a time that's never existed

My futuristic linguistics turn fools into statistics

I'm a lyrical misfit with the sadistic characteristics

I perform murderous acts on my tracks with a single breath

And if a boy wanna phi test, then I be stampin' upon his chest

Done makin' a mess - Not a man could conceive the weed I'm consumin'

And I transform from my cartoon pseudonym, turn to a human

I spit words from my mouth that be turnin' you inside out

And I tie knots in intestines just like I'm a boy scout

That's workin' 'em out - Now rearrangin' your whole skeletal structure

Then I find some nine inch nails to perform some acupuncture

When I punch ya, I rupture one of your rib cage in a rage

And I turn you into a cartoon toon and erase the page

I take you back to the stone age with Barney and Fred Flintstone

Get Dino to tear your Moschinos and then force you to limp home

[Life]

I'mma take off like a jet pack with the get back, rather step back

I'mma make the crowd react and nod they heads until they neck snap

I can flip raps while riding a skateboard and doin' a tic-tac

And leave your head in a spin like starin' at turn table skid mats

I'm a concrete lion, big cat - this is real talk, not big-chat

Did ya get that, cause I ain't no small timer - I rhyme on big tracks

Now fell the vibes I create, this heavy weight, I'm about to detonate

And demonstrate how I generate lyrics that supernaturally levitate

To the top of my lyrics escalate, accelerate and leave you panickin'

Take the ground from beneath your feet, leave you Skywalk-in' like Anakin

I'm sharper than the tips of Zulu spears and Olympic javelins

My style is totally buckwild and most definitely happenin'

To your brains I be tappin' in, to computers I be hackin' in

To me, I be out of this world like aliens who were time travelin'

I'm dabblin' in the Fists of Fury technique when I speak

Forget Karate Kid and these wooden blocks, I chop through concrete

Concrete, concrete, concrete!

Wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha!

[Si Phili]

I been stoned; ever since the days of creation, I've been red

I'm a mad dread, causin' so much havoc in Russel's head

My lyricism is just like an aneurysm inside his brain

He plays the beat in a trance and he's never feeling no pain

I could never be a racist because I possess so many faces

I'm one of those beat-up bad wit' bags and a pair of braces

With lines longer than laces - I'm gracin' you with my presence

The lyrics went flippin', makin' ya bubble like effervescence

I pulverize and bamboozle, shake numb skulls like a boodle

I smashed the top of your head with a guitar I borrowed from Noodle

I'm as animated as Japanese animes causin' calamities

Some serious savory from my roarous rhymes of reality

At the speed of sound, I'm wanderin' around - The clown done tried to defeat us

Without tenacities it's an audacity that you ever thought you could beat us

Beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us

Beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us

Beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us, beat us...

## Интересные факты

* *Clint Eastwood* – первый трек (и один из немногих), чей текст ссылается на имя участника группы. В этой версии упоминаются Рассел и Нудл в строчках "*I'm a mad dred, causin' so much havoc in Russel's head*" и "*I smash the top of your head with a guitar I borrowed from Noodle*". Версия Дэла же отсылается только на Рассела, в строчке "*Through Russel, not his muscles but percussion he provides...*".
* Этот трек - одна из четырёх песен *Gorillaz*, содержащих отсылку к «*Звёздным войнамW*», другие – *The Sounder*, версия *Clint Eastwood* в исполнении The Last Emperor из *Demon Detour* и неизданная оригинальная версия *Starshine* в исполнении Phi Life Cypher.

## Примечания

1. ↑ Gorillaz: Song By Song: Clint Eastwood