Tyrone José González Oramas, known to everyone as Canserbero, was a rap and hip-hop singer of Venezuelan origin whose lyrics focus on the country’s social problems and other issues of life in general.
This artist became one of the most influential singers of these genres in Latin America thanks to the power of his lyrics and the passion in his voice, which gave the sensation of relief, awareness and learning from mistakes and bad moments in life. . Unfortunately, he died in 2015 after taking his own life (or at least that is the official statement since there are still strange circumstances surrounding it).
In the following lines you will find a compilation of the best phrases of Canserbero commented.
12. You can lie to few people for a long time. You can lie to many in a short time. But you can’t lie to everyone all the time.
Lies never last long.
13. Time heals wounds in obvious ways… although no wound heals without leaving a scar.
Healing does not imply erasing our memory.
14. We know people when we last see them.
It is in the worst moments when we discover what people are like.
15. I don’t know if there is a God, but if there is, I am almost sure that it is not a big tiger with a mane but rather that voice that most of us ignore and listen to when we get into trouble.
Reference to a Supreme Being, one of Canserbero’s phrases with religious themes.
16. Take care of your course without judging what I chose. And before changing the world, first change yourself.
No one has the right to judge the path we choose.
17. I admit that sometimes I get tired of fighting and I would like to sleep, never to wake up, but I remember those moments that several times gave me encouragement and that make me grateful when I wake up.
Tiredness can be tempting, so we have to find reasons to get up.
18. Let him who believes in no one raise his hand and if no one raises his hand, I will raise it.
About the disappointment we have in some people.
19. At the end of the day, being happy is what I must demand of you and if you are already happy without me I cannot contradict you.
20. I hate when this happens, having a dream and feeling like it was true even when you’re already awake.
Dreams that we wish were real.
21. The only thing I can admire about you is that being so false you can sleep peacefully.
Sometimes we wonder how bad people can be so calm.
22. I live in fear of doing the right thing with the wrong person, or doing the wrong thing with the right person.
A very real fear that sometimes limits us.
23. All we need is love.
Love fills us.
24. Trusting who you love, I don’t know if it is a virtue or a defect, but even knowing that nothing is eternal or perfect, that is why we are illiterate in our thoughts, so as not to read fragments that would kill feelings.
Trust is an act of faith.
25. Females like her were born to inspire wars.
The impact that some women cause.
26. It takes more than courage to face death. You can run but you can’t hide.
Death must be seen as an inherent part of life ; a reflection on the finitude of the human being.
27. Laugh in sadness, cry with joy and do not forget that each day that passes your life is shortened.
Enjoy the good and bad moments of life.
28. I have a cynical appearance, a dysphonic voice, an empirical talent and an unusual desire to rap, a magnificent brain and atomic rhymes.
A possible reference to his talent.
29. Heart and body do not speak the same language.
It seems that these two are going in different directions.
30. In the end, death is so sure to win that it gives you an advantage over a lifetime.
Death is a certain thing.
31. The human mind is strange, it helps and builds, but sometimes it harms us and even destroys us.
The mind can be our ally or enemy.
32. Where the hell have our dreams gone? Without dreaming we will never be able to change… I know that success is achieved with determination, but sometimes you also need to dream.
As he says, sometimes we need to dream more.
33. I invite you to dance, Mrs. Solitude, on the planet. And I’m sorry if I step on it, but this heart squeezes me.
Welcoming solitude.
34. Like the bare skin of your partner in your arms, like providing help to your child when taking their first step.
Those comforting moments that are everything.
35. There is no doubt that ignorance rises more than foam, and if you calculate serious people, we are more in that sum.
Ignorance can be destructive, it is not just a lack of knowledge.
36. You should never let a comment complicate you, because even if you improve the world, someone will still criticize you.
Stop paying attention to the harmful comments of others.
37. If one day I tell you that I believe you, don’t believe me that I believe you because now, I don’t even believe in my reflection.
When mistrust takes over your being.
38. Try to save what is worth it, and throw away what is no longer useful, throw it away even if it hurts you.
A great phrase to reflect on what weighs us down and needs to be let go.
39. Of this desire to forget and at the same time to be with you.
A state of melancholy that is very common, which leads us to psychological states based on contradiction
40. I would like to go back in time and see rectified those mistakes made that cost me dearly today.
Many of us want to go to the past to correct our mistakes.
41. The hatred I feel is so much sometimes that I hide it behind a smile.
Smiles don’t always mean joy.
42. My mind is my worst enemy… it told me “I’ll tell you what’s a lie” without thinking about the damage it would do to me.
Talking about when our mind plays tricks on us.
43. I kissed your feet to be in your footprints.
about wanting to be with someone at all times.
44. When I die, throw a pencil in the wooden box and don’t let go what I don’t want in life.
A reflection about giving importance to the valuable things in life.
45. I am so confused, I don’t know whether to cry, get upset or sit down and think, look for you or just wait. I still doubt that praying is of any use and I have come to think that God does not exist or is bipolar.
That state of confusion and anger that leaves us paralyzed.
46. I want them to invent the vaccine against racism now, and for the planet to accept that deep down we are all the same.
We all want racism to go extinct.
47. Happiness is not about having everything, but rather wanting nothing.
A very valuable phrase.
48. I want to open the zoo door to the animals, and lock all the criminal officers there
The corrupt are the ones who should be behind bars.
49. Like a parachutist who forgot his parachute, this love collapsed.
Talking about a painful breakup ; Heartbreak is a theme that often emerges in rap lyrics, as it is an almost universal experience.
50. We walked without looking for each other although knowing that we were walking to find each other.
Those coincidences that generate a great romance.
51. Changing the world does not depend on those puppets that steal from the people and that the people call leaders, changing the world depends only on you and watching your path.
We should not depend on someone to change.
52. Before changing the world, first change yourself.
Big changes start with small individual steps.
53. Excuse the rudeness but damn the day when sensitivity came into my life.
Not everyone sees sensitivity as a strength.
54. They can never send me to areas where hypocrites must pay for their torment.
If there is something that Canserbero was not, it was being a hypocrite.
55. Well, my only defense is to explain this misunderstanding to you, give me another chance and I swear that you will want to grow old with me.
Misunderstandings can cause irremediable misfortunes.
56. And how right he was to warn me about this pig life. Don’t raise crows, or they will tear your eyes out of their sockets.
There will always be someone who disappoints you.
57. There is no point in reminding yourself of the closed-eye kisses, hugs and smiles of the past.
The things of the past will never return.
58. I hope those who always lie drown… and once in hell they burn forever.
There is nothing worse than falling for someone’s lies.
59. If this is not love then I am crazy for no reason.
Many things are done for love.
60. I am in those times when drop by drop the mind is exhausted.
Society has become a difficult challenge.
61. Never say always, forever, or forever if every time I turn around you stop being loyal to me.
We don’t know how long things will last.
62. The injustice that causes me to suffer already drives me crazy, but I still don’t ignore the news before going to sleep.
Although we are tired of the world, we cannot remain oblivious to the news
63. I think it’s time to forget about your kisses.
The moment when we realize that we have to leave the old moments behind.
64. Someone once said that trust is in danger of extinction and the balance is against the heart. We live in pursuit of fictitious Fidelity, bonds of greed, circles that addict you.
Trust seems to be losing.
65. My arm tells me that love will take me far but hate taught me to be a lynx and not an asshole.
Distrust can keep us from good times.
66. And I don’t care how many years pass, how many children you have, I will be waiting for you.
An eternal promise.
67. What would it have been like if I had allowed you to love us?
Questions that continue to torment the present.
68. We live training to make money or studying things that sometimes we don’t even want, sculpting our bodies to be good and good because we know that to see hearts everyone is blind.
We tend to focus on things that don’t give us true happiness.
69. And if we die and there is a heaven I will escape hell and make love to you on a cloud in honor of our memories.
Love beyond death.
70. You should close your eyes to a good smell, and slowly enjoy every good flavor.
Enjoy the little things in life.
71. We have always lived in a cowardly society, where no one assumes their failures and others are always to blame for what happens.
The failure of society that no one wants to assume.
72. Admirable is he who dies for his ideals. Respectable is that man who respected his like.
Stay with your ideals until the end.
73. It is Machiavellian to meditate alone where you lived everything with her.
Loneliness can bring complicated thoughts.
74. Thank you for teaching me what I should improve and knowing that not everyone should apologize.
There are criticisms that help us grow.
75. I would like to be less complicated and more understood, so that the public understands more clearly what I write and say.
Talking about his cryptic phrases.
76. I have realized that the truth is so relative. And the reality is such a lie.
Many times socially established truths may not be socially established and vice versa.
77. Welcome everyone to a mental world. Created by me, and for today I plan to let them pass.
In his lyrics he created his own world in which he could express everything he had inside.
78. One more year without you physically but in my mind you always don’t know how much I love you.
Canserbero expressed all kinds of autobiographical experiences in his lyrics.
79. Your heart is made of stone. My heart is made of stone. We all livin’ in a stone world
The chorus of the song “Mundo de piedra” can be translated as “Your body is made of stone, my body is made of stone, we live in a world of stone.”
80. You may have the most traitor in front of you. Drinking your cold ones, or sharing your hot dinner.
We must be wary of false friends.
81. Fernando is the one who drives the neighborhood. His merchandise is selling like hot cakes. And tonight they go to those in the opposite alley. To settle a couple of pending accounts.
The song “Llovía” tells a gruesome story of Latin American violence and crime.
82. Nailing more rhymes than Jordan balls in basketball hoops
His passion for basketball was evident.
83. Sometimes I think that the dates where the holidays appear in every corner everywhere were all made to make people sad.
Family celebrations generate great nostalgia and sadness in some people.
84. Like the second that has already passed, like the one in which you heard my previous sentence.
And now my previous sentence is previous sentence, and now, they are both memories.
This great artist’s ability and mental quickness to rap was legendary.
85. The first drink for the ground
and a look at the sky.
In his lyrics we find references to traditional Latin American culture.
86. And the bullets rained, rained, rained. And the peace was clearing, clearing, clearing
The violence of his country, Venezuela, was also reflected in many of his songs.
87. I want people to check for seconds. That the world can change by fighting for what you want, yes
Only by fighting collectively, with determination and commitment, will we be able to change things.
88. Perhaps because of the loneliness that accompanied me, only interrupted by a father who was drowning in alcohol.
Disrupted families generate a lot of pain and anguish in their children.
89. The thing is, fighting in a queue, buying a gun, living alone. And what about happiness?
Most of his lyrics present us with everyday and crude situations in Latin American life.
90. I try to look for reasons that explain why we are alive and after many sleepless nights I have understood that…
Canserbero’s work is full of lyrics that inspire suffering, depression and unease.
91. Today I dream of a world infested with ideas. Ideas that change the poverty that stones us.
The denunciation of social injustice and progressive ideas were a constant in this artist’s work.
92. I still believe that opium is religion. And the television that numbs minds in my nation
Canserbero includes many references to popular culture and social criticism of his native country in his work.
93. My songs are getting more and more boring. For ordinary minds, well I long for a way out
Analyzing his lyrics we can guess a constant discomfort, anguish or suffering in the artist.
94. We say everything is so bad, and when we are old we complain and talk about the good old years
Sometimes we value the good things in life when we no longer have them.
95. Today I want a telescope where you can see the future
And in this there is peace and a safe world.
A plea in favor of building a better world, in peace and without injustice.
96. First of all apologies for those who seek and do not see. In this new album themes that incite good.
Canserbero held the opinions of his fans and followers in high esteem.
97. They die with lyrics that I wrote years ago. Lyrics that now by the way I read and they make me want to laugh
His style became more and more refined, and his lyrics became better as the years went by.
98. It is because of injustice that I am losing faith. Watching the news means I’m losing faith.
Religion is undoubtedly another of the leitmotifs of Canserbero’s work.
99. I spend days without writing and I think that my talent is over and then I get verses saying no.
The constant internal struggle that this artist had to deal with marked a good part of his professional career.
100. And if I am wrong, I apologize. Because deep down I want to trust you. But if you exist, I don’t think you’re with me.
Religion, society and crisis of faith, some of the topics that this Venezuelan artist most addressed.
