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Intro)((As the title suggests, the intro (and the hook) is from Seo Taiji and the Boys’ ‘Come Back Home’, a classic and a ‘gangster rap’ song that changed Korean pop music.))
What am I working hard for to find right now?
Where am I flowing to without a break right now?

Verse 1)
This is the reason why I have to say this
The reason why I always was alone in my school days
The reason why I do not fit into Itaewon((Note: area in Seoul where there are lots of foreigners.))
The reason why I am writing this in Korean

The reason why I do not go to Korean churches
The reason why I do not speak English with you
The reason why the gazes on me being like this are different
The reason why I am writing this in Korean

The same skin, the same hair color
How are we different? Still, they want to be different
Actually, they want to hide it, the yellow skin is a weakness
The place where my bones will be buried: the USA

Hook x4)
You must come back home

Verse 2)
The reason why they curse Korean rap, saying it sucks((Reference to what Keith Ape said in a recent interview with Complex (also on this track’s cover): “IN KOREA, THERE WAS NO CREW I’D WANT TO BE IN BESIDES THE COHORT. BECAUSE YOU KNOW, KOREAN RAP, IT SUCKS. BAD.”
—KEITH APE))
The reason why the other rappers all have their mouths closed
That is probably the reason why you mix in English((Reference to how Korean rappers tend to mix a lot of English into their lyrics))
The reason why I am writing this in Korean

Toadyism
Money does not determine who of us is superior to the other
Like out of habit we are still dividing ourselves into classes
As if it was human nature, we repeat mistakes of the past
and start to resemble [the people back then]

History repeats itself
To stand on top, we pull the fingernails of friends
We wanted to become Japanese,
our current goal are the USA

Hook x4)

Verse 3)
Korean hiphop! Korean hiphop!

Where did the rappers go who shouted “Korean hiphop”?
And Jay Allday who’s been talking about Korean hiphop all the time
This time he’s quiet, somehow I don’t know
These days, silence means admitting

B-Free who has been enjoying Instagram
is also keeping silent unlike usually((He refers to B-Free usually expressing his opinion on Instagram about any incidents in the scene.))
I saw it, the reality of kimchi rappers((= Korean rappers))
Not all of them are real, they are doing politics

The other rappers are silent
The other rappers are silent
The other rappers are silent