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@Andy98 @WoodyMKC the lyrics are translated for Nique Les Clones here if you're interested
This dude put in work bruh
"Nique les clones/**** Followers" translated (so far):
Chorus
I can only see clones now, it started at school
Who do you give you head to go through it
Here everyone plays roles dreaming about millions of euros
I grew up as a rose in the middle of nettles
X2
I promised you once you would remember our faces
I'm not ready to stay quiet
From elementary to college, depressed, I was feeling captive
Because teachers always wanted to rate me
However I loved lessons
I was different from those who were saying "you hit or you get hurt"
Me, I was dreaming of adventures, I was drawing on storefronts
I was attacking what was forbidden
I don't give a **** about all those noob TV shows
I wanted to see the world before god calls me back
I used to secretly read, not to be mocked
While the kids of my age were talking about cars
One of the guys I used to know was stealing codes
Once he came at school with a gun
I was shocked to see him with a weapon
I don't give a **** about your ****ing codes
I was scared, I say it
But I had a heart, I say it
I say it but I'm still here for my ****ing friends
Today, for him, the bullet sound is printed on the skull
Those who used to hang out in the building took him down
Never give in to the group pressure
When you hurt, deep inside you feel the doubt
Never give in to the group pressure
Chorus (translated yesterday)
I'm a nomad, don't tell me we're just good enough to stay
Get out, I don't give my money/ I don't feel like a loner
Don't tell me to settle in
When you're different they want to beat you
You're unhappy when you have a dream your parents do not believe in
The rest:
Traîner vers le bas, t’inquiète, je te promets de me battre
You worry you're getting dragged down, I promise to fight your corner
Non, je n'aime pas quand je me promène et que je vois
No, I don't like what I see when I walk around
Ce petit qui se fait traquer pour des problèmes de poids
Like the child who is picked on for his weight problem
Mais pour qui se prend-on ? De tristes pantins
But for who (???)? They are sad puppets.
J'écris c'te pensée pour que Le Christ m'entende
I'm writing these thoughts so that Christ hears me,
Et, dans nos cœur, on est à l'ère de L'Age de Glace
And in our hearts, we're living in the Ice Age
Aymé ? C'est plus qu'un personnage de H
Aymé is not just a character from 'H '[a French TV show about incompetent doctors]
On n'est pas des codes barres
We aren't barcodes
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part, nan
You are registered on the system then your value drops
On n'est pas des codes barres
No, we aren't barcodes.
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part
You are registered on the system then your value drops.
Le regard des gens t'amènera devant le mirage du miroir
People's opinion/look(?) might lead you to the mirage in the mirror
Mais, moi, j'ai la rage, ma vision du Rap, elle est rare
But me, I am angry, and my rap vision is rare.
Tant qu'un misérable s'endormira dans la rame
Like a miserable person who sleeps in a train (station)
Pendant que le rat se réchauffera sur les rails
While a rat warms itself next to the tracks. [possible play on words: 'rechauffera sur les rails' an expression meaning 'warming yourself up with some lines (of cocaine)]
[Pont 2] ×2
Vu qu'on forme des copies conformes
When we make ourselves into copies
Qui ne pensent qu'à leur petit confort
Who think of nothing except their own comforts.
[Refrain] ×2
Je ne vois plus que des clones, ça a commencé à l'école
I see nothing but clones, it started in school
À qui tu donnes de l'épaule pour t'en sortir ?
Who will you help out to get you through?
Ici, tout l'monde joue des rôles en rêvant du million d'euros
Everyone here is is playing their role, while they dream of a million euros
Et j'ai poussé comme une rose parmi les orties
And I pushed [them] aside like a rose among nettles.
[Pont 3] ×2
J'éduque ma peine en leur parlant de nous
I educate my pain by telling them about us,
Je décuple mes sens comme un handicapé
I increase my senses like a blind person
Comment trouver le chemin qu'on m'indique à peine ?
How do I find a path that is barely shown to me?
J'me sens comme Andy Kaufman dans Man on the Moon
I feel like Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.
[Outro]
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les faux
**** deceivers
« Ceux qui ont pris tout le plat dans leur assiette
Those who ate all the food on their own plate,
Laissant les assiettes des autres vides et qui, ayant tout
But left the plates of others empty, and who, whilst they have everything,
Disent, avec une bonne figure, une bonne conscience "Nous, nous qui avons
tout, on est pour la paix !"
Say with a straight face, and a clean conscience "We, who have everything, only want peace!"
Tu sais c'que j'dois leur crier, à ceux-là ?
You want to know what I want to shout at those people?
"Les premiers violents, les provocateurs de toute violence, c'est vous ! Et
The ones who started the violence, the ones who provoke all violence, are you!
quand, le soir, dans vos belles maisons, vous allez embrasser vos p'tits enfants,
And when you hug your little children in the evening, in your nice house,
avec votre bonne conscience, au regard de Dieu, vous avez probablement plus
in good conscience, before the eyes of God, you probably
de sang sur vos mains d'inconscients que n'en aura jamais le désespéré qui a
unknowingly have more blood on your hands than the desperate person who
pris des armes pour essayer de sortir de son désespoir."»
takes up arms to try to get out of their hopeless state ever will.
Fin/end
This dude put in work bruh
"Nique les clones/**** Followers" translated (so far):
Chorus
I can only see clones now, it started at school
Who do you give you head to go through it
Here everyone plays roles dreaming about millions of euros
I grew up as a rose in the middle of nettles
X2
I promised you once you would remember our faces
I'm not ready to stay quiet
From elementary to college, depressed, I was feeling captive
Because teachers always wanted to rate me
However I loved lessons
I was different from those who were saying "you hit or you get hurt"
Me, I was dreaming of adventures, I was drawing on storefronts
I was attacking what was forbidden
I don't give a **** about all those noob TV shows
I wanted to see the world before god calls me back
I used to secretly read, not to be mocked
While the kids of my age were talking about cars
One of the guys I used to know was stealing codes
Once he came at school with a gun
I was shocked to see him with a weapon
I don't give a **** about your ****ing codes
I was scared, I say it
But I had a heart, I say it
I say it but I'm still here for my ****ing friends
Today, for him, the bullet sound is printed on the skull
Those who used to hang out in the building took him down
Never give in to the group pressure
When you hurt, deep inside you feel the doubt
Never give in to the group pressure
Chorus (translated yesterday)
I'm a nomad, don't tell me we're just good enough to stay
Get out, I don't give my money/ I don't feel like a loner
Don't tell me to settle in
When you're different they want to beat you
You're unhappy when you have a dream your parents do not believe in
The rest:
Traîner vers le bas, t’inquiète, je te promets de me battre
You worry you're getting dragged down, I promise to fight your corner
Non, je n'aime pas quand je me promène et que je vois
No, I don't like what I see when I walk around
Ce petit qui se fait traquer pour des problèmes de poids
Like the child who is picked on for his weight problem
Mais pour qui se prend-on ? De tristes pantins
But for who (???)? They are sad puppets.
J'écris c'te pensée pour que Le Christ m'entende
I'm writing these thoughts so that Christ hears me,
Et, dans nos cœur, on est à l'ère de L'Age de Glace
And in our hearts, we're living in the Ice Age
Aymé ? C'est plus qu'un personnage de H
Aymé is not just a character from 'H '[a French TV show about incompetent doctors]
On n'est pas des codes barres
We aren't barcodes
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part, nan
You are registered on the system then your value drops
On n'est pas des codes barres
No, we aren't barcodes.
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part
You are registered on the system then your value drops.
Le regard des gens t'amènera devant le mirage du miroir
People's opinion/look(?) might lead you to the mirage in the mirror
Mais, moi, j'ai la rage, ma vision du Rap, elle est rare
But me, I am angry, and my rap vision is rare.
Tant qu'un misérable s'endormira dans la rame
Like a miserable person who sleeps in a train (station)
Pendant que le rat se réchauffera sur les rails
While a rat warms itself next to the tracks. [possible play on words: 'rechauffera sur les rails' an expression meaning 'warming yourself up with some lines (of cocaine)]
[Pont 2] ×2
Vu qu'on forme des copies conformes
When we make ourselves into copies
Qui ne pensent qu'à leur petit confort
Who think of nothing except their own comforts.
[Refrain] ×2
Je ne vois plus que des clones, ça a commencé à l'école
I see nothing but clones, it started in school
À qui tu donnes de l'épaule pour t'en sortir ?
Who will you help out to get you through?
Ici, tout l'monde joue des rôles en rêvant du million d'euros
Everyone here is is playing their role, while they dream of a million euros
Et j'ai poussé comme une rose parmi les orties
And I pushed [them] aside like a rose among nettles.
[Pont 3] ×2
J'éduque ma peine en leur parlant de nous
I educate my pain by telling them about us,
Je décuple mes sens comme un handicapé
I increase my senses like a blind person
Comment trouver le chemin qu'on m'indique à peine ?
How do I find a path that is barely shown to me?
J'me sens comme Andy Kaufman dans Man on the Moon
I feel like Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon.
[Outro]
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les clones
**** clones
Nique les faux
**** deceivers
« Ceux qui ont pris tout le plat dans leur assiette
Those who ate all the food on their own plate,
Laissant les assiettes des autres vides et qui, ayant tout
But left the plates of others empty, and who, whilst they have everything,
Disent, avec une bonne figure, une bonne conscience "Nous, nous qui avons
tout, on est pour la paix !"
Say with a straight face, and a clean conscience "We, who have everything, only want peace!"
Tu sais c'que j'dois leur crier, à ceux-là ?
You want to know what I want to shout at those people?
"Les premiers violents, les provocateurs de toute violence, c'est vous ! Et
The ones who started the violence, the ones who provoke all violence, are you!
quand, le soir, dans vos belles maisons, vous allez embrasser vos p'tits enfants,
And when you hug your little children in the evening, in your nice house,
avec votre bonne conscience, au regard de Dieu, vous avez probablement plus
in good conscience, before the eyes of God, you probably
de sang sur vos mains d'inconscients que n'en aura jamais le désespéré qui a
unknowingly have more blood on your hands than the desperate person who
pris des armes pour essayer de sortir de son désespoir."»
takes up arms to try to get out of their hopeless state ever will.
Fin/end
What counts as 'a lick'? How can you quantify somebody's fluency in a language? Can I too speak 'a lick' as I know how to say bonjour? ANSWER ME
@Marie-Antoinette The song La Femme on page 1 please.
Original post by 0to100
The rats warming on the rail and the pun about warming up coke lines when you cook it down
brilliant I mean to compare cokeheads and losers to rats warming on the rails while making the connection about the actual coke they use is
...damn. Haha. I knew I liked this guy.
brilliant I mean to compare cokeheads and losers to rats warming on the rails while making the connection about the actual coke they use is
...damn. Haha. I knew I liked this guy.
I admit that was not my own observation, it was on Rap Genius. What the guy actually said is:
'Le rat qui se réchauffe sur les rails fait plutot référence aux riches radins qui s'envoient des rails de coke alors que d'autre crèvent de faim.'
'The rat who warms himself on train lines seems to be a reference to stingy rich people who do lines of coke while others die of hunger.'
But don't take that as gospel, if the average French person on Rap Genius is anything like the average English speaker, they have some pretty far-fetched interpretations.
Original post by 0to100
On n'est pas des codes barres
We aren't barcodes
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part, nan
You are registered on the system then your value drops
This makes a lot of sense! Nice under meaning, that people just go along like they're programmed and lose themselves overtime!
We aren't barcodes
T'as la cote sur les réseaux puis ta cote part, nan
You are registered on the system then your value drops
This makes a lot of sense! Nice under meaning, that people just go along like they're programmed and lose themselves overtime!
Again, don't take that as 100% correct, that was the part I found the most difficult because I missed the idiom 'avoir la cote'. I think it's another play on words though: the primary meaning is what Marie said but there is an element of my version, playing on the sense of scanning bar codes.
@Copperknickers cheers, Idk where you got the lyrics but whoever it is kiss em for me haha. If it was you I mean cheers boy!
It was me alright, hence the numerous mistakes!
Original post by Copperknickers
I admit that was not my own observation, it was on Rap Genius. What the guy actually said is:
'Le rat qui se réchauffe sur les rails fait plutot référence aux riches radins qui s'envoient des rails de coke alors que d'autre crèvent de faim.'
'The rat who warms himself on train lines seems to be a reference to stingy rich people who do lines of coke while others die of hunger.'
But don't take that as gospel, if the average French person on Rap Genius is anything like the average English speaker, they have some pretty far-fetched interpretations.
Again, don't take that as 100% correct, that was the part I found the most difficult because I missed the idiom 'avoir la cote'. I think it's another play on words though: the primary meaning is what Marie said but there is an element of my version, playing on the sense of scanning bar codes.
It was me alright, hence the numerous mistakes!
'Le rat qui se réchauffe sur les rails fait plutot référence aux riches radins qui s'envoient des rails de coke alors que d'autre crèvent de faim.'
'The rat who warms himself on train lines seems to be a reference to stingy rich people who do lines of coke while others die of hunger.'
But don't take that as gospel, if the average French person on Rap Genius is anything like the average English speaker, they have some pretty far-fetched interpretations.
Again, don't take that as 100% correct, that was the part I found the most difficult because I missed the idiom 'avoir la cote'. I think it's another play on words though: the primary meaning is what Marie said but there is an element of my version, playing on the sense of scanning bar codes.
It was me alright, hence the numerous mistakes!
Never thought of rap genius...
Pas d'erreur 
!
You're right ! @Marie-Antoinette
!Original post by nomnomnomm
(btw Mais pour qui se prend-on ? i think is Who do they think they are?)
You're right ! @Marie-Antoinette
Damn I do French at school and can usually understand a lot of a French song's lyrics but he speaks so fast 
You've got me hooked on "nique les clones" tho lol
You've got me hooked on "nique les clones" tho lol
Original post by 0to100
@Marie-Antoinette The song La Femme on page 1 please.
First part (1:22)
Spoiler
(edited 7 years ago)
Original post by george_c00per
Damn I do French at school and can usually understand a lot of a French song's lyrics but he speaks so fast You've got me hooked on "nique les clones" tho lol
You've got me hooked on "nique les clones" tho lolMental right?
Original post by Marie-Antoinette
First part (1:22)
Spoiler
Ta, bab I'll try and keep up with the verses.
Original post by 0to100
Mental right?
It's crazy! It sounds like he has recording him rapping then sped it up
Original post by george_c00per
It's crazy! It sounds like he has recording him rapping then sped it up
Nah he's just a genius like french is hard as **** and yea he's a native speaker but like...this speed and the words he uses are a bit advanced even for French...like the vowel blends. Idk anyone who can't rate this. He's a legend on youtube as well like as many views as American pop stars.
Original post by 0to100
Nah he's just a genius like french is hard as **** and yea he's a native speaker but like...this speed and the words he uses are a bit advanced even for French...like the vowel blends. Idk anyone who can't rate this. He's a legend on youtube as well like as many views as American pop stars.
Yeah, I mean I struggle to keep up with English rap so this French rap is hard enough.. I think he deserves to be as big as American pop stars, his music seems to have meaning behind it when I look at the translations.
Original post by george_c00per
Yeah, I mean I struggle to keep up with English rap so this French rap is hard enough.. I think he deserves to be as big as American pop stars, his music seems to have meaning behind it when I look at the translations.
Yep, yep.
Original post by 0to100
Nah he's just a genius like french is hard as **** and yea he's a native speaker but like...this speed and the words he uses are a bit advanced even for French...like the vowel blends. Idk anyone who can't rate this. He's a legend on youtube as well like as many views as American pop stars.
Well, France has a larger population than the UK, and there are French speakers in Canada and Africa plus Belgium and Switzerland, so French music can rack up the views pretty fast. Plus rap music is much more popular in France than it is in the UK: nobody really listens to British rap/grime music outside London but it's popular in various parts of France.
Right now in fact there are only 2 French language songs in the French music Top 20 (the rest are American the same as in Britain): both are rap songs, by Maitre Gims, the former frontman of Sexion D'Assaut, France's royal family of rap. I can easily imagine that the top French rappers: Sexion, Sniper, MC Solaar, La Fouine, Nekfeu, Soprano etc would be more popular than any British artist or mid-ranking American artist.
@Marie-Antoinette
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Original post by Reachin4TheStars
The title = tempete means storm.
The title of the second song means picnic clones apparently. But sorry that's all I understand cuz the song is like a no-no too fast for me
The title of the second song means picnic clones apparently. But sorry that's all I understand cuz the song is like a no-no too fast for me
oi babby how're yaaaaa
Original post by 0to100
oi babby how're yaaaaa
Heyaaaaaa
I'm ok-ish, tired, bored, stressed, and pissed lol, wbu? & You made me soo happy rn, my face just lit up 
Original post by Reachin4TheStars
Heyaaaaaa I'm ok-ish, tired, bored, stressed, and pissed lol, wbu? & You made me soo happy rn, my face just lit up
I'm ok-ish, tired, bored, stressed, and pissed lol, wbu? & You made me soo happy rn, my face just lit up lool that smiley. Why bored, why stressed, why pissed? These aren't good emotions...
I'm good enjoying my time off, except the daily **** that tests me I'm blessed.
Original post by 0to100
lool that smiley. Why bored, why stressed, why pissed? These aren't good emotions...
I'm good enjoying my time off, except the daily **** that tests me I'm blessed.
I'm good enjoying my time off, except the daily **** that tests me I'm blessed.
x'DD Ikr, I'm bored cuz like got nothing to do, been revising since 12:30, stressed cuz I got history exam monday morning, 2 hrs long. & pissed cuz mum and dad had an argument, swore at each other and now are not talking, and I'm like the middle man, the mediator, it's like they talk indirectly through me, and I find it so annoying.
That's good, I've got about 2 weeks left of school too, and I'll be a goner. Same s**t everyday, trust me, and your extremely lucky to be blessed mann. Ain't got no-one to bless me man.
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