Fatal Bazooka - Fous ta cagoule - 2007
Comedy Rap, Pop Rap, French Hip Hop
Album: T'as vu ?
Wikipédia:
Fatal Bazooka is a French spoof rap group consisting of Michaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine. The act originated in a 2002 TV show which its members hosted at the time. Fatal Bazooka is also the name of the fictitious singer of the group, played by Youn himself.
"Fous ta cagoule" (French for "Put your balaclava on") is a song by the comedy rap group Fatal Bazooka with Michaël Youn, the first single from its album T'As Vu ? released in 2007. This song achieved a huge success in France and Belgium.
The group transposes the urban style into the setting of the snow-covered mountains of Savoy, and caricatures certain French rappers there. The music video was produced by Nicolas Benamou.
The single peaked at #1 in France in January 2007. As of August 2014, the song was the 31st best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 488,500 units sold.
References
A sequence of the song shows a man sitting on the toilet, suffering from gastro-enteritis because of the cold. It is a parody of the French slammer Grand Corps Malade. It starts with "I would like to throw out a slam on this disease…" (reference to its Saint-Denis song) and finishes by "the next time, I will put on my hoodie." (reference to his song Les Voyages en train which finishes by "next time, you'll take the bus.") This character reappears in the song Crêpes au froment and it is named there "Large Sick Bottom".
Another sequence shows rappers from Marseille. One starts to quickly sing nonsense with a very strong Marseille accent. He is called "Fonky Profanation", and is a parody of Fonky Family, in particular of the song Bad Boys de Marseille (the passage of the Rat Luciano and Don Choa). Its logorrhée is so incomprehensible that a friend says to him "But Ho, don't you understand; no-one understands what you're saying?" to specify "… it to him is not that, but there is a precise message, you see…" what is supposed to parody the "reasons" for many rappers who say to pass a "message" through their songs sometimes badly received. Profanation Fonky will remake a small appearance in Mauvaise Foi Nocturne and Crêpes au froment.
The refrain is inspired by the introduction of the song Hardcore by Ideal J, where one hears "Insane your hood already!".[3]
The piece takes again a sample of Woman to Woman of Joe Cocker (already used by Dr. Dre for Tupac's California Love).
A sequence at the beginning of the clip shows a thermometer which goes down, parodying the Température clip of Sean Paul (where one sees also a thermometer that rises).
"Ouais Gros" of the beginning of the song are a reference to group 113, while the "dedications" of the end are current in the pieces of rep.
The names of the list of dedications are themselves parodies of artists and hip-hop groups ("Pandi-Panda" for Booba, "Pitbull de Flipper" for Pit Baccardi…) One finds a list even more complete of parodies of artists in the song Crêpes au froment.
Ouais gros ! (ouais gros !)
C'est Fatal Bazooka (Fatal Bazooka)
Quand c'est l'hiver, quand ça fait froid (froid, froid)
Qu'une chose à faire, gars ! Ecoute ça !
Représente le hardcore des montagnes
En direct de la Savoie
- Savoie ou bien ?
- Non ça va pas
Mec c'est l'pôle nord, on s'gèle les grelots
Bordel y fait plus froid qu'dans ton frigo
Un pied dehors direct, c'est la pharyngite
La morve au nez, les microbes qui s'agitent
Alors écoute avant qu'y s'ra trop tard
Avant que tu s'ras tout dur comme un surgelé Picard
On est pas v'nus pour jouer les papas-poules,
Mais un conseil, mon gars, fous ta cagoule !
[Refrain] :
Fous ta cagoule !
Fous ta cagoule !
Ou t'auras froid, t'auras les glandes, t'auras les boules
Fous ta cagoule, ouais !
Fous ta cagoule !
La chair de poule, le nez qui coule, fous ta cagoule !
Fous ta cagoule !
Fous ta cagoule !
Du nord au sud, de l'est à l'ouest, même à Vesoul
Fous ta cagoule, ouais !
Fous ta cagoule !
Sauf à Kaboul, sauf à Kaboul !
Ouais dis-leur toi aussi, Profanation Fonky
En direct des quartiers de Marseille
Dans ma ville, on craint dégun
Fracasse les estrasses sur instru du rat frère
En même temps toujours froid aux mains
Contrebande, façon 90 dans la légende
Mange du cagnard !
Ici on joue au foot et pas au hand !
Franchement, j'serre les dents
Comme Yves Montand
Y r'pousse le pousse-mousse du mistral dans le vent
Planète Mars, représente la cagoule, sans un franc,
Cinq francs trente et deux qui nous font cent
- Hé mais oh mais, t'es au courant qu'on comprend rien à ce que tu
dis ?
- Qu'est-ce qu'y a ? qu'est-ce qu'y a toi ? tu m'engrènes ?
- Non mais c'est pas ça, mais on a message précis, tu vois, c'est
euh
[Refrain]
J'voudrais jeter un slam
Pour cette maladie qui, l'hiver, l'anus m'irrite
Un virus venu du froid, qu'on appelle gastro-entérite
La prochaine fois, j'mettrai ma cagoule
J'mettrai ma cagoule sur l'(bip)
Pour pas me geler les (bip)
Espèce de fils de (bip)
Qu'est-ce qui faut que j'foute ?
Ça fait quinze fois qu'j'te l'dis pauv' (bip)
Fous ta cagoule !
Mais qu'est-ce que tu (bip)
T'es en train de (bip) dans ma cagoule !
Elle me gratte commme un frottis dans la (bip) à ta mère
Elle me donne de l'érythème, j'ai les (bip) qui saignent
J'aurais pu faire "fous ton bonnet ! fous ton bonnet !"
Mais c'est moins cool que ce putain d'slogan
Fous ta cagoule !
[Refrain]
Ouais gars, c'est l'Bazooka, B.A.Z. euh...
En tout cas respect à Porte Blindée,
Menstruations douloureuses,
Pandi-Panda ainsi que Pitbull de flipper
Coups de couteau dans la glotte
Et bien sur Canon à Neige, Bang Bang !
Yeah buddy! (yeah buddy!)
This is Fatal Bazooka singing (Fatal Bazooka)
When it's winter time, when it's cold (cold, cold)
This is the one thing to do, man! Listen up!
I speak for the mountain hardcore,
straight from Savoie1
- Are you OK?2
- No I'm not
This is the polar cap, man, our balls are freezing.
Dammit it's colder than in your fridge here.
Put a toe outside and you'll catch a flu right away,
nose dripping, germs squirming.
So listen up before it were3 too late,
before you were3 as stiff as a Picard4 frozen dish.
We're not here to pamper5 you,
but still a word of advice, man, put your damned hood on!
(chorus)
Put your damned hood on!
Put your damned hood on!
or else you'll be cold, depressed, frustrated.
Put your damned hood on, yeah!
Put your damned hood on!
The goosebumps, the dripping nose, Put your damned hood on!
Put your damned hood on!
Put your damned hood on!
From North to South, from East to West, even in Vesoul6
Put your damned hood on, yeah!
Put your damned hood on!
Except in Kabul, except in Kabul!
Yeah, you tell them too, Profanation Fonky7
straight from the Marseille suburbs.
In my city we fear noone8
Give the bums9 a beating on the music of our rat bro10
Still our hands are cold
Smuggling, legendary 90's style
Eat some hot duck!11
Here we play soccer, not handball!12
Frankly, I grit my teeth
like Yves Montand13
He sends the ?dick?14 of the Mistral15 reeling
Mars Planet is a representative of the hood, pennyless,
that will be 5.30 FF16, here are 2 FF for your change on 100.
- Wait a sec, do you realize we can't understand a word of what you say?
- Wassup? Watcha matter with you? Looking for trouble?
- Not at all, but we have a message to deliver, you know
that's
errr...
(chorus)
I would like to say a slam17
for this disease which, in the winter, my anus irritates.
A virus that came from the cold, which is called gastroenteritis.
Next time, I'll put my hood on.
I'll put my hood on the (beep)
to avoid freezing my (beep) off
You son of a (beep)
what the hell should I do?
I said it like a dozen times, you lousy (beep)
Put your damned hood on!
Now what the (beep) are you doing,
you're (beep)ing into my hood!
The hood is scratchy like a smear test in the (beep) of your mother
It gives me erythema, my (beep) are bleeding.
Could have said "put your damned bonnet on"
but that's not as cool as this fucking motto
Put your damned hood on!
(chorus)
Yeah man, it's Bazooka B.A.Z... err..
Well anyway, salute to Security Door18
Painful Menstruations,
Pandi-Panda19 and Pitball20
Stabs In The Troat
and of course Snow Cannon, bang bang!
(chorus)
1. a region in the French Alps on the Swiss and Italy borders
2. a miserable pun on "Savoie" and "ça va?"
3.a. b. the usual French would be "avant qu'il soit" and "avant que tu sois". As a social worker I never heard suburb kids talk that way, but still the the song does its best to depict rap singers as illiterate retards
4. a most successfull brand of frozen food in France
5. lit. "to play the pampering dads"
6. A town in Franche-Comté, an eastern region of France reputed to enjoy the coldest weather in the country
7. a parody of the Fonky Family, known for very long and obscure lyrics
8. this verse uses a lot of Marseille slang
9. "estrasse" literally means "mopping cloth" and can be used to describe a bum or a lowlife
10. a parody of "le rat Luciano", a member of the Fonky Family
11. a pun on "cagnard" (hot weather) and "canard" (duck)
12. Marseille's chauvinism about their soccer team is only second to the infamous Paris Saint-Germain hooligans, while some cities in Savoie have successful handball teams
13. a famous French actor of the 50-80's of Italian origin. Although he could speak a very neutral French, he used a rather unnatural southern accent in a few roles
14. "pousse mousse" is a brand of liquid soap. Serge Gainsbourg made a song where he uses a pun on "pousser" (push) and "mousser" (foam) as a metaphor for masturbation
15. a strong wind blowing in the Marseille region
16. pre-euro French currency
17. this verse is a weak parody of Grand Corps Malade, replacing poetic licence with yoda-style word order
18. parodies of supposedly typical rap artist names, some might refer to actual bands I don't know
19.Booba
20. miserable pun on "pitbull" and "boule de flipper" (pinball ball).
Thanks to Tan anonymous translator on LyricsTrasnlate.