Lyrics & Cape Verdean Kriolu Translations

Fika dretu (Stay well)
Kuida di bo (Take care of you)
Vida pa nu (Live for we)
Li é kurtu (Here is short)
Ka kunpridu (not long)
Oji é novu (Today is new)
Fika dretu (Stay Well)
Ti bu é bedja (Till you are old)

Stay well
Thank Heaven for the blessings cause we made through hell
Reminiscing on the lessons that I learned 
What I earned is I lived through to tell

Grateful that I stayed faithful
This game is insane it could take you and break you
Staying in your lane you don’t know where that could take you
Keeping it together while you're waiting on your breakthrough 
Knowing when that money really come it’s gone change you 
Trying to keep a straight face like it don’t phase you
But that root of evil ruins people, you ain’t safe you
Got to stay prayed up, you know it's all praise due
To the most high, most lie saying on God
But you don’t worry bout them people when you on your job
Taking shots with a soft touch going hard
I know my pops looking down on me going up
Them haters tried to hold me down cause they know wassup
I never seen a four leaf, I believe in luck
I’m showing love but I keep the pole loaded up
Hold it up

Fika dretu (Stay well)
Kuida di bo (Take care of you)
Vida pa nu (Live for we)
Li é kurtu (Here is short)
Ka kunpridu (not long)
Oji é novu (Today is new)
Fika dretu (Stay Well)
Ti bu é bedja (Till you are old)

Stay well
Thank Heaven for the blessings cause we made through hell
Reminiscing on the lessons that I learned 
What I earned is I lived through to tell

Thankful that I’m still graceful
This world is insane it could take you and you break you
If you don’t chase money then that money going to chase you
When you stand firm they gone come and try to shake you
When you make name for yourself they can’t erase you
I never did it for the critics or was in it for the gimmicks
In the front of something tinted, trying to push it to the limit
In the wind
Competing with my enemies, lost friends, trying to get the win
In my prime vetted headed to the finish line where do I begin
At the fork in the road 
Talking to corporate, I can’t forfeit what I'm owed 
They say the rich die young, I’ll be poor when I’m old
Before I let them auction off my soul

Fika dretu (Stay well)
Kuida di bo (Take care of you)
Vida pa nu (Live for we)
Li é kurtu (Here is short)
Ka kunpridu (not long)
Oji é novu (Today is new)
Fika dretu (Stay Well)
Ti bu é bedja (Till you are old)

Stay well
Thank Heaven for the blessings cause we made through hell
Reminiscing on the lessons that I learned 
What I earned is I lived through to tell