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Description
The return sounds like an air show: loud, dazzling and supremely confident. Here, the skyscrapers of New York, the heat of Miami, Formula 1 racing and the sand of Abu Dhabi are all mixed together, and the lines fly like sparks from a lighter. Every name, every reference is like a stamp of approval. The rhythm is sustained by repetition, and this repetition becomes a mantra: the world is big, but for true heroes, geography is always at hand. The result is not just a story about a trip, but the boastful diary of a traveller whose suitcase is filled not with souvenirs, but with victories.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Please welcome the one, the only, Wyclef Jean
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Look, I'm back from Abu Dhabi with Chappelle at the Firehouse
Ice on my neck, but the Haitians still showed out
From Al Ain to L.A., in a New York state of mind
God's Son, Illmatic, memorizing the lines
Sound clash like the UK Cup, Spice Army
I got ties with Jamaica like Bob Marley
Back from November, new perspective
Big John said, "Like Hov, finish your breakfast"
Back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Look, back from Abu Dhabi, I came fast like it's Ramadan
Told my man Somar, I'll be back before the summer come
Superhero, where I come from the real Wakanda
Española Toussaint, son of the Black Panther
A stick is a manch, the block is the bloc
A blòk is a brick, city where I'm from
Tèt frèt, keep it cool or ou pral konn gorge
I was Creole 101 before Rosetta Stone
Like I'm Angie, RIP to R\u0026B
No, legends never die, they just killed them softly
Moonwalk like Michael Jack, I'm kickin' it with Drogba
I'm nice with my hands, swing like Naomi Osaka
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, aye
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, aye
Back from Abu Dhabi, one love cah no man a die
Cah weh we bun, they be drillin' like a suicide (oh, yeah)
I'm in the Circle now, overlooking Wall Street (oh, yeah)
I got my coin stabled, back from Abu Dhabi
What up, though? (Yeah)
The rotten apple bears new fruit (oh, yeah)
Ceasefire, that's the world truce (oh, yeah)
E'rybody doing big business
I'm just tryin' to make a wish just before my bar finish
In Miami, throwing dollars with the Zoe (uh-huh)
Give me the guitar, I'll make it sing like L Boogie-woogie (uh-huh)
And I balance like a Libra, welcome back Carter (uh-huh)
Arrivederci with Bocelli, number 15 on the Carter
At the Bayo, drinking 1972
Reminiscin', college days when we listened to Wu, uh
We the culture, that's a open wave, yo
In BK at the Color Studio
From Port-au-Prince to Barranquilla
Shakira, Shakira
Back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dha-
Back
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, look, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
She like, "Habibi, don't leave me"
Montana
Ba, ba, ba (ah)
Goin' crazy, F1, Abu Dhabi
Young wepa, I be drippin' like a IV (whoo)
Mansoury black Phantom, call me Sheik Montana
Me and Clef pull strings like Santana
Park the yacht, watch the race, I just dodged a case
Count dollars marathon, I'm on the comma race (cash)
100 million M's, 100 million plaques, I went and got it
Never checked in, never got taxed like the Emirates
As-salamu alaykum, yo, habibi, I rep that CB
My dog fresh up out the can like graffiti
Sak pase, gotta sneak my Haitians back in the states
Bugatti's in the sand, Abu Dhabi, catchin' plays
(Maybach Music)
It's the biggest in the game, young nigga, what?
Big-body black Benz on the bandgate
G5 with tunnel vision on this cash chase
Big blunt, left ten grams in the ashtray
Rick Ross for President, I run the campaign
Black Trump, time to get a bigger airplane
White House, the Oval Office sippin' champagne
Dope boy, a hundred kilos in the man cave
Big guns, so ain't no need to get a Band-Aid
Playin' with numbers that these other nigga can't make
Abu Dhabi, 20 Lamborghinis, let's race
Hermès slippers, five million for the watch face
I gotta make a billion, billionaire mind state
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
I'm back from Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi)
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi)
She like, "Habibi, don't leave me"
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, I'm back
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, I'm back
English translation
Please welcome the one, the only, Wyclef Jean
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Look, I'm back from Abu Dhabi with Chappelle at the Firehouse
Ice on my neck, but the Haitians still showed out
From Al Ain to L.A., in a New York state of mind
God's Son, Illmatic, memorizing the lines
Sound clash like the UK Cup, Spice Army
I got ties with Jamaica like Bob Marley
Back from November, new perspective
Big John said, "Like Hov, finish your breakfast"
Back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi
Look, back from Abu Dhabi, I came fast like it's Ramadan
Told my man Somar, I'll be back before the summer come
Superhero, where I come from the real Wakanda
Española Toussaint, son of the Black Panther
A stick is a manch, the block is the bloc
A blòk is a brick, city where I'm from
Tèt frèt, keep it cool or ou pral konn gorge
I was Creole 101 before Rosetta Stone
Like I'm Angie, RIP to R\u0026B
No, legends never die, they just killed them softly
Moonwalk like Michael Jack, I'm kickin' it with Drogba
I'm nice with my hands, swing like Naomi Osaka
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, aye
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, aye
Back from Abu Dhabi, one love cah no man a die
Cah weh we bun, they be drillin' like a suicide (oh, yeah)
I'm in the Circle now, overlooking Wall Street (oh, yeah)
I got my coin stabled, back from Abu Dhabi
What up, though? (Yeah)
The rotten apple bears new fruit (oh, yeah)
Ceasefire, that's the world truce (oh, yeah)
E'rybody doing big business
I'm just tryin' to make a wish just before my bar finish
In Miami, throwing dollars with the Zoe (uh-huh)
Give me the guitar, I'll make it sing like L Boogie-woogie (uh-huh)
And I balance like a Libra, welcome back Carter (uh-huh)
Arrivederci with Bocelli, number 15 on the Carter
At the Bayo, drinking 1972
Reminiscin', college days when we listened to Wu, uh
We the culture, that's a open wave, yo
In BK at the Color Studio
From Port-au-Prince to Barranquilla
Shakira, Shakira
Back from Abu Dha-
Back, back from Abu Dha-
Back
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, look, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
She like, "Habibi, don't leave me"
Montana
Ba, ba, ba (ah)
Goin' crazy, F1, Abu Dhabi
Young wepa, I be drippin' like a IV (whoo)
Mansoury black Phantom, call me Sheik Montana
Me and Clef pull strings like Santana
Park the yacht, watch the race, I just dodged a case
Count dollars marathon, I'm on the comma race (cash)
100 million M's, 100 million plaques, I went and got it
Never checked in, never got taxed like the Emirates
As-salamu alaykum, yo, habibi, I rep that CB
My dog fresh up out the can like graffiti
Sak pase, gotta sneak my Haitians back in the states
Bugatti's in the sand, Abu Dhabi, catchin' plays
(Maybach Music)
It's the biggest in the game, young nigga, what?
Big-body black Benz on the bandgate
G5 with tunnel vision on this cash chase
Big blunt, left ten grams in the ashtray
Rick Ross for President, I run the campaign
Black Trump, time to get a bigger airplane
White House, the Oval Office sippin' champagne
Dope boy, a hundred kilos in the man cave
Big guns, so ain't no need to get a Band-Aid
Playin' with numbers that these other nigga can't make
Abu Dhabi, 20 Lamborghinis, let's race
Hermès slippers, five million for the watch face
I gotta make a billion, billionaire mind state
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi
I'm back from Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi)
Abu Dhabi, man, I'm back from Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi)
She like, "Habibi, don't leave me"
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, I'm back
Back from Abu Dhabi
Back, back from Abu Dhabi, I'm back