Case by Diljit Dosanjh Explained

I come full speed, my car’s tyres screeching
These young boys can’t find their friends or a place to hide
The police keeps looking for me, tired out of their minds
Your photo is on my car’s dashboard, my lucky charm
This revolutionary Jatt is coming to meet you
Keep the gate unlocked

The song starts will throttle with Diljit letting his lover know that he is on his way. The influential gangster that he is, he goes full speed through the streets, and wherever he goes, these young thugs look to hide. The police can’t track him, they are tired looking for him. He keeps his lover’s photo on his car’s dashboard as a lucky charm. Now this revolutionary Jatt is on his way to her, so she better keep the door unlocked.

Vocabulary:
• Chobar (चोबर) - a young man
• Bhaldi (भालदी) - looking (for something or someone)
• Baagi (बाग़ी) - a revolutionary ↩︎

O the bass goes boom boom in my car, boom boom in my car
I go full speed vroom vroom in my car, vroom vroom in my car
They found some afeem on me, afeem on me
Now they’re trynna put a lock on me, lock on me

The cops found some afeem on Diljit, so now he has a police/court case running. I mean, fair on the coppers, Diljit shouldn’t be carrying illegal narcotics.

Vocabulary:
• Afeem (अफ़ीम) - an opium derivative consumed in large parts on both sides of the Indo-Pak border ↩︎

Oh, you’re a super model, six foot tall
If anyone tries to approach you, I’ll make them fall
Keep your sights on the top, leave the rest behind
If you’ve got any doubts, just ask, I’ll ease your mind ↩︎

Your hair blows in the wind, with the bass booming
I keep flying down the streets, despite a case looming ↩︎

The BBC is talking ‘bout the ruckus I caused in your town
Whoever tried to pop up, Jatt made sure to sit his ass down
I am always driving behind you, through summer and the frost
Now I’m tight with Shiv, his poetry’s time never lost

This one is tough to understand on face value. The last line tends to throw people off. The first three lines are in line with the song’s main character: he is telling his lover know that he is been out and about thrashing everyone who tried to come in his way to her, so much so that the BBC is reporting on it. He says he is on duty as her bodyguard-lover 365 days a year. In the last line, however, is about Raj Ranjodh, the song’s lyricist. He says that he is now good friends with Shiv (Kumar Batalvi, a legendary Punjabi poet) and is thus ready to take on Shiv’s eternal takhallus (nom de plumme) which is derived from his hometown - Batala. But he says it poetically and mixes it up with the “case” that Diljit is singing about. By calling it peshi shehar Batale di, he literally says that he now has a hearing in the city of Batala. ↩︎

Here the mix-up of the two “cases” from the previus stanza becomes one in the first line: The judge will rule in Raj’s favour. The judge ruling in favour of Raj (Ranjodh, the lyricist) also implies that the case about carrying afeem that Diljit was fighting is also ruled in his favour. And the mega-gangster that he is, he continues to go full pace in his ride with the bass booming. ↩︎