EZ Mil’s “Leon (Ka)” [You’re a Lion] a single teasing the upcoming his highly anticipated album under Shady Records album!
This leans heavily into EZ Mil’s death-metal roots. This is not a word for word translation. I tried to match EZ Mil’s street poetry. I fell short but I tried. I just hope it communicates the strength of his rhymes and message.
Check out the footnotes.
You Pinoy, ain’t you?
Then show me you can fight.
You a lion?
Let me see that savage in your eyes.
(Yuh)
Wrath of nature, hell on earth—I laughed right in its face.
Pinoy fire in my veins, beast mode, I own this lane.
Squeezed through the needle’s eye, y’all still couldn’t lock me down.
I ripped the whole game apart—and I ain’t done grinding now.
They looking up, huh? We lions on the hunt.
Shut the fuck up, lil’ bruh—keep it blunt.
Our hustle got teeth, only direction we know is up.
We the names they write legends ’bout. Hold your heads up.
Move. The Lions here.
Whole world feels the beast in you!
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
Bring out that Pinoy bite.
Never miss—we leave ’em all in the dust.
Let the world feel the beast in you!
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
You’re the king of your own story.
There’s a killer in you!
(Yeah, huh)
Since I was a kid I been built for war.
Grinding every day, never once hit the floor.
This world’s full of crocs, crabs, and scorpions—
Y’all too busy pullin’ each other down.
Loudest judgments come from useless clowns.
Been hustling since a youngin, putting racks on the ground.
Steel fangs, twelve chains— couldn’t hold me down
Biting down on my dreams, ’bout to show the whole…
World feel the beast in you! Brutality of a lion! (Lion!)
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
We don’t miss. Leave ’em all in the dust.
Let the world feel the beast in you!
Brutality of a lion! (Lion!)
You’re the king of your own story.
There’s a killer in you!
Rolled in with nothing but blood and sweat.
Stood solo waving that flag, no regrets.
Pain don’t phase me, scars don’t slow me down.
Like General Luna—bullets can’t take me out.
Kept walking, chasing honor through the dark.
For my country, fighting where the light gets lost.
They told me, “Take your destiny in your own hands.”
Hell yeah—I’ll use my feet too, stomp through every fake thug tryna block my path.
So…
World feel the beast in you! Brutality of a lion! (Lion!)
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
We don’t miss. Leave ’em all in the dust.
World feel the beast in you!
Brutality of a lion! (Lion!)
You’re the king of your own story.
There’s a killer in you!
World feel the beast in you! Brutality of a lion!
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
We don’t miss. Leave ’em all in the dust.
World feel the beast in you! Brutality of a lion!
You’re the king of your own story.
Pinoy brutality!
World feel the beast in you! Brutality of a lion!
Unleash that Pinoy brutality.
We’re beasts. We’re vicious.
World feel the beast in you!
Brutality of a lion!
You’re the king of your own story.
Listen… you the king of your own story.
*General Luna was one of the Philippines’ greatest military leaders and a national hero. He transformed an undisciplined revolutionary force into one of the Philippines’ first professionally organized armies, enforcing strict discipline regardless of rank.
*Crab mentality is a well-known Filipino expression describing the tendency to pull others down out of envy or resentment, much like crabs in a bucket preventing one another from escaping instead of climbing out together.
*Pinoy is the street equivalent of “Filipinos”
