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Manal - منال

Slay - سلاي

Release date: 11th November 2018

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About This Track

Manal and ElGrandeToto navigate the gap between public performance and private exhaustion on 'Slay'. The track moves between French and Darija, its speakers rejecting the curated artifice of social media celebrity. Where Instagram offers only fragments, the song insists on a fuller self; where fame demands emotional labour, these artists withhold it. The refrain is blunt about the arithmetic of influence: detractors will never match their scale, so why waste energy on their noise. What emerges is less a boast than a boundary. Manal shifts between languages and registers, mixing swagger with weariness. She names the machinery of imitation and the toll of being watched, then pivots to indifference. The production by Soufiane Az sits tight around this tension, letting the vocals breathe without ornament. It's a song about the cost of visibility that refuses to perform gratitude for being seen.

"Slay - سلاي" is a track by Manal - منال, released 11th November 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

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Manal - منال

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Lyrics

Slay - سلاي

[Paroles de "Slay" ft. ElGrandeToto]

[Pré-refrain : Manal, ElGrandeToto, ensemble]

(Brrra) En vérité, je veux pas de cette vie là trop maquillée trop loin de la réalité

Resta sur insta, foire un petit instant personne ne saura qui t'es

Trop de choses qui font mal, faut pas verser de larmes quand t'es une célébrité

Quand je vois que je me fais imiter par la majorité

[Refrain : Manal & ElGrandeToto]

De ces tasse-pés qui m'offensent sans arrêt qui n'ont rien dans leur petite life

Je vous laisse même quelques dizaines d'années vous n'aurez jamais la même taille

J'aurais tant aimé leur faire la guerre, à ces cons mais j'ai même pas le time

Je préfère laisser les haineux parler, pendant qu'on m'appelle pour de la maille

[Couplet 1 : Manal]

Bnadem khassou gha fin ihder

Lfer9 li bini ou binhoum fin iban

Gouli daba ch7al men wehda galssa tsift lia des pics men cellulaire

Kay3amlouni bhal chi criminel

Kanbanlihoum bouhdi phénomène

Bghaw iteyhouni iherssouni sans résultat basta ghir goulihoum

No-no, na-na

Mal Manal dayra hala

No-no, na-na

Bouhdi west l'Empire

No-no, j'suis ailleurs

Je passe au niveau supérieur

J'ai pas le temps de me soucier de leur boycott

No-no, je te dis jsuis ailleurs

[Pré-refrain : Manal, ElGrandeToto & Manal]

En vérité, je veux pas de cette vie là trop maquillée trop loin de la réalité

Resta sur insta, foire un petit instant personne ne saura qui t'es

Trop de choses qui font mal, faut pas verser de larmes quand t'es une célébrité

Quand je vois que je me fais imiter par la majorité

[Refrain : Manal & ElGrandeToto]

De ces tasse-pés qui m'offensent sans arrêt qui n'ont rien dans leur petite life

Je vous laisse même quelques dizaines d'années vous n'aurez jamais la même taille

J'aurais tant aimé leur faire la guerre, à ces cons mais j'ai même pas le time

Je préfère laisser les haineux parler, pendant qu'on m'appelle pour de la maille

[Couplet 2 : Manal]

Flow latino ram-pam-pam-pam

Men Marrakech htal London-don

Baghi showcase jbed le montant paye moi en comptant 3ad on va s'entendre eh

Ça ne fait que toc toc sur les réseaux

Chacun son monde chacun son vaisseau

Koula wechnou 3endou frassou

Ta rah ga3 mab9at fle masso

Mab9it fahma walou fhad nass ou mab9itch 3arfa ala chnou ki9elbou Kaydehkou lia fach kantla9ahoum ou ghir kanfouthoum dehri kiderbou

C'est pas que je me la pète ou le sang m'est monté à la tête

Mais j'en peux plus de leurs mots

Je veux juste faire la fête, débloquer les casses tête

Pour leur montrer qu'il n y a qu'une seule Go

[Pont : Manal]

Ta Mal Manal, Manal Manal Manal Manal kadir hakka

Ta Mal Manal, Manal Manal Manal Manal chab3a 3ya9a

Ta malha, tal9aha 3lina shab rassha diva

3emri ma hmeltha ma9beltha

Madayzach lia

[Outro : ElGrandeToto, Manal, ensemble]

Maintenant je veux voir toutes les mains en l'air

2019 c'est ma nouvelle ère

Hna kanbedlou lgame everyday

Hit it papapapa kan9etlou lgame everyday, eh, eh

Maintenant je veux voir toutes les mains en l'air, eh, eh

2019 c'est ma nouvelle ère, eh, eh

Hna kanbedlou lgame everyday, eh, eh

Hit it papapapa kan9etlou lgame everyday

(Maintenant je veux voir toutes les mains en l'air)

(2019 c'est ma nouvelle ère)

(Hna kanbedlou lgame everyday)

Hit it papapapa kan9etlou lgame everyday

Track details

Slay - سلاي

2018
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Big Data, ElGrandeToto, Manal - منال
Producer
Soufiane Az
A&R
Lbandy
Mastering Engineer
XCEP
Mixing Engineer
XCEP
Recording Engineer
XCEP
Video Director
Saïd C. Naciri
Video Production Company
Corner Films
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