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		<title>MC Solaar on &#8220;Les Colonies&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent Dubois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, on the first day of class, we&#8217;ll be discussing the song &#8220;Les Colonies&#8221; by MC Solaar. You can download the song on i-tunes, and can also hear it in the video below, accompanied by images of the slave trading fort in Gorée island, near Dakar, Senegal. The song early on evokes the &#8220;paysage de [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tomorrow, on the first day of class, we&#8217;ll be discussing the song &#8220;Les  Colonies&#8221; by MC Solaar. You can download the song on i-tunes, and can also  hear it in the video below, accompanied by images of the slave trading  fort in Gorée island, near Dakar, Senegal. The song early on evokes the  &#8220;paysage de Gorée,&#8221; and evokes its history: the island was a major  departure point for French slavers departing for the trans-Atlantic  slave trade, and the fort is famous for a doorway leading out to the  water, known as the &#8220;door of no retun.&#8221; <a href="http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/fr/index.shtml" target="_blank">Click here for a virtual visit of the island prepared by UNESCO, which has declared it a World Heritage Site. </a></p>
<p><iframe width="500" height="375" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bRM_2MeeLx0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>MC Solaar makes a connection in the song between the past of slavery  and contemporary forms of exploitation and migration linking Europe and  Africa.<a href="http://fr.lyrics-copy.com/mc-solaar/les-colonies.htm" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://fr.lyrics-copy.com/mc-solaar/les-colonies.htm" target="_blank"></a>Below are the lyrics in French, and a translation of the first verse. Please share your thoughts and comments about the song in the comments section below.</p>
<h3><strong>MC Solaar, “Les Colonies” (2001) </strong></h3>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>On a connu les colonies, l’anthropophage économie</p>
<p>La félonie la traite d’esclaves, la dette, le F.M.I.</p>
<p>Bruno, Jean-Marie, si j’cours j’ai mes raisons</p>
<p>Les mêmes que les deux nègres maigres sous un avion</p>
<p>Avant c’était déjà grave de voir des fers qui entravent</p>
<p>Paysage de Gorée, Maisons des esclaves</p>
<p>Cave sans amour, sans retour ni recours</p>
<p>Sans cours de cassation, sans oreille pour entendre “au secours”</p>
<p>Où sont passés les baobabs et les hordes de gosses</p>
<p>Dans cette ère de négoce où ne vivent que le big boss</p>
<p>Rentablité &#8211; instabilité &#8211; imbécilité</p>
<p>N’ont fait qu’augmenter les taux de mortalité</p>
<p>Ce sont des larmes qui coulent dans nos artères</p>
<p>Psychose séculaire j’ai peur quand j’entends charter</p>
<p>Parfois je rêve de mettre un gun dans un paquet d’chips</p>
<p>De braquer la Banque Mondiale. Pour tout donner au townships.</p>
<p>C’est trop complexe. Où sont les droits de l’Homme?</p>
<p>L&#8217;Homme laisse l&#8217;Homeless homeless zigzague et slalome</p>
<p>Donc shalom à tous les gens qui ont connu la haine</p>
<p>Aux enfants de Bohême, Solaar Mamadou Cohen</p>
<p>En soliloque je développe des antidotes non-stop</p>
<p>F**k la parlotte et démenotte les brainlocks.</p>
<p>Je suis socio-poétique sur mike ou sur cahier</p>
<p>Sans brailler. On n&#8217;est pas frileux. Pas peur de cailler.</p>
<p>On a connu les colonies</p>
<p>Par le passé, y a beaucoup d&#8217;actes qui nous ont mis les nerfs</p>
<p>Frères et sœurs c&#8217;est l&#8217;heure du pacte pour ce millénaire</p>
<p>L&#8217;enfer gère la Terre Mère, Lucifer et Faust</p>
<p>Entrent dans leurs têtes dans le but de refaire l&#8217;Holocauste</p>
<p>J&#8217;ai vu des mecs parler de haine à la tribune</p>
<p>D&#8217;une façon scientifique. Élimination par l&#8217;urne !</p>
<p>Donc j&#8217;donne la paix à ceux qui me suivent dans l&#8217;OPA.</p>
<p>Face à la barbarie, cela sans mea culpa</p>
<p>Si on est là c&#8217;est pour toujours pousser l&#8217;amour</p>
<p>Pour que nos parcours, chaque jour, coupent la route aux vautours</p>
<p>Et va pas croire cette fois qu&#8217;ce sont des bavures</p>
<p>Je t&#8217;assure. S&#8217;ils ont la haine, on a la bravoure.</p>
<p>Une petite fille vient de naître, elle s&#8217;appelle Mélissa</p>
<p>Et si j&#8217;opte pour le vote, c&#8217;est pour pas qu&#8217;elle vive ça.</p>
<p>La vie est belle petite, malgré ces quelques pitres</p>
<p>Fin d&#8217;chapitre pour tous les gosses dès l&#8217;âge du pupitre.</p>
<p>On a connu les colonies &#8230;</p>
<h3>Translation of First Verse:</h3>
<p>We’ve known colonies, cannibal economies</p>
<p>Felony, the slave trade, debt, the I.M.F.</p>
<p>Bruno, Jean-Marie, if I run I’ve got my reasons</p>
<p>The same as those two skinny kids under the airplane</p>
<p>Before it was already sad to see the chains that locked up</p>
<p>The landscape of Gorée, the Maison des Esclaves</p>
<p>Caves without love, without return or recourse</p>
<p>Without a court of justice, with no ears to hear “help”</p>
<p>Where have the baobabs and crowds of kids gone</p>
<p>In this era of business only the big boss lives</p>
<p>Profit – instability – stupidity</p>
<p>Have only increased mortality</p>
<p>There are tears running through our arteries</p>
<p>A secular psychosis, I’m scared when I hear “charter”</p>
<p>Sometimes I dream of putting a gun in a bag of chips</p>
<p>Holding up the World Bank to give everything to the townships</p>
<p>It’s too complex, where are the Rights of Man?</p>
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		<title>MC Solaar, &#8220;Les Colonies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sites.duke.edu/globalfrance/2009/12/17/mc-solaar-les-colonies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurent Dubois</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the first day of class, we&#8217;ll be discussing the song &#8220;Les Colonies&#8221; by MC Solaar. You download the song on i-tunes, and can also hear it in the video below, accompanied by images of the slave trading fort in Gorée island, near Dakar, Senegal. The song early on evokes the &#8220;paysage de Gorée,&#8221; and evokes its history: the island was a major departure point for French slavers departing for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the fort is famous for a doorway leading out to the water, known as the &#8220;door of no retun.&#8221; <a href="http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/fr/index.shtml" target="_blank">Click here for a virtual visit of the island prepared by UNESCO, which has declared it a World Heritage Site. </a></p>
<p><iframe width="500" height="375" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bRM_2MeeLx0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>MC Solaar makes a connection in the song between the past of slavery and contemporary forms of exploitation and migration linking Europe and Africa.<a href="http://fr.lyrics-copy.com/mc-solaar/les-colonies.htm" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p><a href="http://fr.lyrics-copy.com/mc-solaar/les-colonies.htm" target="_blank">You can get the full lyrics of the song in French here.</a> And here are the lyrics of the first verse, with my translation of it into English below:</p>
<h3><strong>MC Solaar, “Les Colonies” (2002) </strong></h3>
<p><strong>Lyrics to First Verse</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>On a connu les colonies, l’anthropophage économie</p>
<p>La félonie la traite d’esclaves, la dette, le F.M.I.</p>
<p>Bruno, Jean-Marie, si j’cours j’ai mes raisons</p>
<p>Les mêmes que les deux nègres maigres sous un avion</p>
<p>Avant c’était déjà grave de voir des fers qui entravent</p>
<p>Paysage de Gorée, Maisons des esclaves</p>
<p>Cave sans amour, sans retour ni recours</p>
<p>Sans cours de cassation, sans oreille pour entendre “au secours”</p>
<p>Où sont passés les baobabs et les hordes de gosses</p>
<p>Dans cette ère de négoce où ne vivent que le big boss</p>
<p>Rentablité &#8211; instabilité &#8211; imbécilité</p>
<p>N’ont fait qu’augmenter les taux de mortalité</p>
<p>Ce sont des larmes qui coulent dans nos artères</p>
<p>Psychose séculaire j’ai peur quand j’entends charter</p>
<p>Parfois je rêve de mettre un gun dans un paquet d’chips</p>
<p>De braquer la Banque Mondiale. Pour tout donner au townships.</p>
<p>C’est trop complexe. Où sont les droits de l’Homme?<strong> </strong></p>
<h3>Translation:</h3>
<p>We’ve known colonies, cannibal economies</p>
<p>Felony, the slave trade, debt, the I.M.F.</p>
<p>Bruno, Jean-Marie, if I run I’ve got my reasons</p>
<p>The same as those two skinny kids under the airplane</p>
<p>Before it was already sad to see the chains that locked up</p>
<p>The landscape of Gorée, the Maison des Esclaves</p>
<p>Caves without love, without return or recourse</p>
<p>Without a court of justice, with no ears to hear “help”</p>
<p>Where have the baobabs and crowds of kids gone</p>
<p>In this era of business only the big boss lives</p>
<p>Profit – instability – stupidity</p>
<p>Have only increased mortality</p>
<p>There are tears running through our arteries</p>
<p>A secular psychosis, I’m scared when I hear “charter”</p>
<p>Sometimes I dream of putting a gun in a bag of chips</p>
<p>Holding up the World Bank to give everything to the townships</p>
<p>It’s too complex, where are the Rights of Man?</p>
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