Magnum Opus Lyrics (English Translation) – Kollegah

Read the full Magnum Opus (English Translation) lyrics by Kollegah along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Kollegah’s music, you can also explore Sidequest and Rappe wie Rakeem, two other songs by Kollegah.

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When silence falls and the rain stops falling
When the mist disappears and the crows stop crowing
When you recognize him by his silhouette while he’s crying
Then that implies: The boss is back one last time
Do you know what it’s like when you come from nothing? (Do you know what it’s like?)
Do you know what it’s like when you get platinum? (Do you know what it’s like?)
Do you know what it’s like when all the success (Loneliness in the business?)
But you’ve always gone your own way anyway, you know what it’s like
When you’re just ten and need pocket money and paint garden fences for it
And you’re already twenty, you’re thrown into criminally delusional adventures
Blink once and you’re thirty, a lot of sick stuff has happened
And at forty you’ve understood the meaning of the tragedy of false friends
What do you know about Düsseldorf? About crossing a street with a broken arm?
Saving the Somali outnumbered who’s just been brutally punched by a few people?, yeah
Six years later he visits me on my King tour, says to me full of joy
“Because of you, I decided to stop taking hard stuff back then”
What do you know about having a numb nose all the way to your brain? What do you know about defeating addiction? The feeling when you gradually lose the paranoia that you have accepted for years?, yeah
Because if you have money and fame, you are always the one being attacked
What do you know about being on the alert in case the situation escalates again? If you only make a handful of conciliatory works over a twenty-year career
Because you learn early on: “Don’t let anyone see your cards”, combine smart German brain
Act with street smarts, like a shop robber wearing a mask
Until your enemies destroy themselves and you don’t even feel malicious joy
No, I don’t settle beef over the phone, I don’t settle anything over the internet like John McEnroe
Talk in that cheeky tone (speech), I’ve been in battle mode since the beginning of the Legacy
Made a wave, everything flowed away like a natural catastrophe, go get your lifeboat
I’m going to raise the level again, yeah, realest s*it that I ever wrote, yeah
So that there’s always a benchmark here, freshest colleague since ZHT 1
Last time lines, last time rhymes, last album, one last goodbye
Because the balancing act between being a rap star and a religious person is a rollercoaster
For about sixteen years now, your soul has been slowly, slowly, but surely ripping to shreds
Look at my fellow rappers, man, I was basically like you, just less embarrassing
And not such a dog, I mean, the punchline density was almost scary
I was like the young Michelangelo, who was just drawing the fresco of the Sistine Chapel in color, art was sacred to me
Some called me an image rapper, some called me real as f*k
Some said: “Lyrics are crazy, but the flow is monotonous and the message is hate”
I’m telling you that this is going to be a pure fu*k-up, that’s putting it nicely

Magnum Opus, Still King, curtain up for the last act
[Hook]
Magnum Opus, Magnum Opus
No time for (shhh) small talk, please no paparazzi photos
In the spotlight because the status raises expectations
Magnum Opus, Magnum Opus, Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus, Magnum Opus
Aura mafioso, no paparazzi photos, please stop the nonsense
Pluralis Majestatis because the status raises expectations
Magnum Opus, Magnum Opus