Colleague

• 1. There were many occasions of stolen electric cables by gypsies bands which later were sold of scrap metal because of the copper in them. I’m pretty sure the song is dedicated to another rapper who had used passages or melody from Upsurt’s songs and thus he have stolen their intellectual property
• 2. In 80’s there were portraits of Todor Jivkov in almost every public office
• 3. 24 hours was the most read newspaper in early 90’s
• 4. Very controversial pop-folk singer, behaving like a drag queen
• 5. May be someone can help me with this one - these are small pieces of special paper put on the caps of the liquor containing bottles
• 6. Referral to times where the drugs in Bulgaria were not so wide spread
• 7. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decare
• 8. The band from Slavi’s show. When they go on tours in Bulgaria the stadiums where they perform are full
• 9. When the communist party fall in the early 90’s there were rumors that there were given suitcases full of money to some people who later became the elite of Bulgaria
• 10. British car brand owned by BMW
• 11. Typical use of TV commercials which Upsurt implement in many of their songs. In this case “something dry” means money but in the commercial the guy was buying a salami prepared by method of drying
• 12. Literally Grandfather God. In Bulgaria the Christian god is described as an old man or grandfather
• 13. The currency in Bulgaria. Recently it is around 50 euro cents
• 14. Very popular commercial at the time. It was a wc disinfecting detergent called Domestos
• 15. Literally – scabies, but the meaning is doing something which you can’t control, like eating sunflower’s seeds
• 16. Opel Astra – very popular car in Europe.
• 17. Submissive and without own opinion
• 18. Many people left Bulgaria because of the hard life style and corruption
• 19. In the socialist era it was common to work without being paid, just for food and accommodation
• 20. Here the meaning is literal
• 21. The authors rights were not very well regulated at the time. You can download and listen every song without paying the author
• 22. A boulevard newspaper full of made up stories about famous people
• 23. ‘Bulgaria doesn’t love me then why should I love her?’ those were the words of one of the earliest rappers in Bulgaria – Misho the Slap. Absurd have dedicated the song Bai Huy to him
• 24. I think a whole their 3rd album was banned because of the uncensored lyrics but later the ban was removed
• 25. Model sneakers by Nike
• 26. These are the words of the former prime minister Ivan Kostov. In many of their songs they implement citation like this one – either political speeches or funny requests from radio listeners
• 27. Cocaine, the rich men narcotic
• 28. The cocaine