I’m a fluent Spanish speaker thanks to school, Ricky Martin, and living in California. My friend’s first language was Spanish, but we cannot figure out a part from this (very dirty) song “Gasolina”. I have an idea what he’s saying, but I can’t figure out exactly what he’s saying. Help!
*Sumale mambo pa’ que mi gata prenda los motores,
Sumale el mambo pa’ que mi gata prenda los motores,
Sumale el mambo pa’ que mi gata prenda los motores,
Que se preparen que lo que viene es pa q le den, Duro! *
er…It seems to be about a cat pledging to do something with motors, and some people prepared to give him what he’s got coming. hard. Either the lyrics are nonsense, or they touch on idioms I never learned.
Forgive the vulgarity, but I believe he’s means “pussy” and not cat. And he’s going to give her what she’s got coming…hard. We think the beginning is him telling her/someone? to start their motors. Not sure though. The chorus goes:
Ella la gusta la gasolina
(her) Dame mas gasolina
Which, translates to something like:
She likes my “gasoline”
Give me more “gasoline”
Obviously they don’t mean gasoline. What amazes me is that they play this on the English rap stations, but don’t edit this song…at all. Simply amazing.
In Puertorrican slang (this is reggaeton from Puerto Rico), gata means girl.
And I think it’s not súmale, but súbele (raise it higher)… Mambo is generic for dance/music. Prenda los motores is “start the engine”. As in… “raise the music more, so that my girl can dance (shake her booty)”. That’s the clean, simple translation. And the last line is saying that indeed, dancing will just be the start.
And hey, they don’t edit this song much in Puerto Rico, either. But it’s because it’s all double meaning, he’s not cursing (again, gata means girl, not pussy).
Reggaeton music/song is from Puerto Rico, mostly. Hence the slang and pronunciation
Heh, I love me some Prince too, but I wouldn’t go comparing reggaeton with Prince… Think of reggaeton more like hip-hop (that’s why they have the remixes now).
As in… “raise the music more, so that my girl can dance (shake her booty)”. That’s the clean, simple translation. And the last line is saying that indeed, dancing will just be the start.