Superstar - Solaar Mc

J'avais jadis un pote qui ne pensait qu'a ses groupies

[formerly, I had a friend who used to think to noone but his groupies]

Une fois dans le show-biz il a tourne comme une toupie

[once in show business, he turned like a top]

Il a sorti un disque et s'est pris pour une superstar

[he released a record and took himself for a superstar]

Oubliant ses amis et les traitant comme des clochards

[forgetting his friends and treating them like tramps]

Sa vie n'etait faite que de bluff et de meufs (1)

[his life was made of nothing but bluff and women]

Pour lui c'etait routine il n'y avait rien de neuf

[for him it was routine, there was nothing new]

Vivant sur la gloire au lieu de vivre sur la qualite

[living on glory instead of living on quality]

Pendant quelques semaines il s'est pris pour une sommite

[for a few weeks he took himself for a leading light]

De la rime et des mots dans l'art d'arrimer les mots

[rhyme and words in the art of binding words together]

Mais je sais que son album n'etait qu'une demo

[but I know his album was nothing but a demo-tape]

Je n'etais pas le seul mais j'ai ferme ma gueule

[I was not the only one but I shut up]

Parceque ses groupies ne voulaient pas le laisser seul

[because his groupies didn't want to leave him alone]

Autour de lui se creait un monde hors monde

[around him an out-of-the-world world created itself]

Fait de rousses, de chatain de brunes et de blondes

[made with read-headed, chestnut, brown-haired and blonde girls]

Ce sont ces points de detail qui flattent son ego

[these are points of detail that flatter his ego]

Il en oublie le texte, il joue au gigolo

[and makes him forget his text, he plays the gigolo]

'Disrespect' les femmes et frime

[disr