Fous ta cagoule

Infobox Single
Name = Fous ta cagoule


Artist = Fatal Bazooka
from Album = T'As Vu ?
A-side =
B-side = Playmobitch dirty south remix
Released = November 18 2006
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Rap, Parody
Format = CD single, Digital download
Writer = Dominique Gauriaud, William Geslin, Jurij Prette, Nicolas Brisson, V. Desagnat, B. Morgaine, M. Balanca, Michaël Youn
Producer = Dominique Gauriaud, William Geslin, Jurij Prette, Michaël Youn
Label = Warner Music
Chronology = Michael Youn singles
Last single = "Iznogoud" (2005)
This single = "Fous ta cagoule" (2006)
Next single = "Mauvaise Foi Nocturne" (2007)

Fous ta cagoule is a song of humorous 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.

Background and writing

The group has fun to transpose the urban style within the framework of the snow-covered mountains of Savoy, and caricatures certain French rappeurs there. The clip was produced by Nicolas Benamou.

The single peaked at #1 in France [ [http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Fatal-Bazooka/Fous-Ta-Cagoule-singlecharts23.html Top single] Fatal-Bazooka] in January 2007.

Having gained one big hit, it was sold with more than 550,000 copies in France.

Description

Two rappeurs are cold whereas they are evolving/moving in the Country of Savoy. To avoid catching diseases, they put a hood and intimate to the others to make in the same way.

References

* A sequence of the song shows a man sitting with the toilets, suffering of gastro-enteritis because of the cold. It is a parody of the French slammor Grand Corps Malade. It starts with “"I would like to throw a slam on this disease…"” (reference to its "Saint-Denis" song) and finishes by “"the next time, I will put my hood."” (reference to his song "Les Voyages en train" which finishes by “"the next time, you will take drank."”) This character reappears in the song "Crêpes au froment" and it is named there “Large Sick Bottom”.
* Another sequence shows rappeurs of Marseilles and one starts to quickly sing nonsense with a very strong Marseille accent. It is called “Fonky Profanation”, and it is supposed being a parody of Fonky Family, in particular of the song "Bad Boys de Marseilles" (the passage of the Rat Luciano and Don Choa). Its logorrhée is so incomprehensible that a friend says to him “But Ho, are to you with the current which one includes/understands nothing so that you say?” 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 rappeurs 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" d' Ideal J, where one hears “Insane your hood already!” [ [http://www.liberation.fr/culture/tentations/250342.FR.php Article dans Libération] ] .
* The piece takes again a sample of "Woman to Woman" of Joe Cocker (already used by Dr. DRE for the tube of Tupac "California Love").
* A sequence at the beginning of the clip shows a thermometer which goes down, parodying the "Température" clip of Sean Paul (one one sees also a thermometer who climbs).
* “"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 them-even parodies of artists and groups of hip-hop ("“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".

Cover versions and parodies

This song, by its big hit and its broad diffusion on the music channels and Internet, was the subject of several parodies:

* Christmas 2006, the firemen of the International airport of Geneva turned on the tarmac and in the general headquarter a clip with the song "Fous ta cagoule", when their chief was not there. This video, entitled "Fatal SA, Fou ta cagoule" (also known under "Fous ta cagoule, pompier"), met a great success on Internet. The men involved in the video were later reprimanded for unauthorized use of fire equipment and degrading the image of the fire department.
* The organizers of the “Morning” of radio operator Le Mouv' have creates a parody of the song, "Fous ta capote", at the time of Sidaction 2007.
* At the beginning of 2007, Romano, organizer of radio operator Skyrock which animates at the sides of Difool the "Radio Libre" the evening and "Morning" of the morning, carried out a parody of "Fous ta cagoule" entitled "Fous ta perruque" in featuring with a listener who had composed the words of this one.
* A true Savoyard group of rap, Poses 33, turned a clip in answer of the tube of Fatal Bazooka: "J'fous ma cagoule", where they criticize in particular Michael Youn to make fun of them.
* Fatal Bazooka itself did to a diversion of its own song in the album "T'As Vu ?": "Crêpes au froment", where the hood is replaced by crepes with wheat of Brittany, to cure the malbouffe.
* In 2008, the song was covered by Gérard Jugnot, Lââm, Michèle Laroque, Marc Lavoine, Nolwenn Leroy, Christophe Maé and Jean-Baptiste Maunier and included in a medley available on Les Enfoirés' album "Les Secrets des Enfoirés".

Track listings

; CD single
# "Fous ta cagoule" (radio edit) — 3:28
# "Fous ta cagoule" (Playmobitch dirty south remix) — 3:07
# "Fous ta cagoule" (extended Dedikass mix) — 5:09
# "Fous ta cagoule" (instrumental mix) — 3:28

; Digital download
# "Fous ta cagoule" (radio edit) — 3:28

Certifications and sales

References