ENGLISH GUY REACTS TO FRENCH RAP!! | OrelSan - Suicide Social [VIDÉO OFFICIELLE] [Patreon Request] 

With this song you really have to keep in mind that it's not Orelsan talking. It's a suicidal man how attack literally everyone in the society before he go.

1:41 "Aujourd'hui je ne mettrai ni ma chemise ni ma cravate" (Today I won't put my shirt on, nor will I put my tie on) → He's basically saying won't get ready for work (because he's tired of the society, as he explains throughout the song) 2:24 "Adieu les représentants grassouillets qui ne boivent jamais d'eau comme s'ils ne voulaient pas se mouiller" (Goodbye chubby reps who never drink water like they don't want to get their hands dirty) → Se mouiller = to get wet (literally), but here it means "to get one's hands dirty" 5:41 "(...) qui grattent les RTT pour payer leurs vacances d'été" (...who are working overtime to pay for their summer holidays) → So the bosses Orelsan is talking about are working overtime (and get paid for that) to pay for their summer holidays. That's basically what RTT is. 8:25 "Leur seul but dans la vie, c'est la troisième mi-temps" (Their only life goal is the 3rd half-time) → In France (and probably other french-speaking countries), the 3rd half-time is the drinking time after the end of a football match in the refreshment bar 9:22 (starts at 9:11 actually) Orelsan is talking about the current fascists who are imitating the SS because their life sucks (and they couldn't find anything else to do with their life but to make other people's life shit as well); that's why he tells them to find a hobby (occupation) (SS stands for Schutzstaffel, a nazi organisation which was originally meant to protect Hitler, and then got more and more repressive against the Jews) I hope it helped you understand better this masterpiece. Orelsan is saying a lot of things like always.

Défenestré is a very specific verb that means being thrown out of a window No parachute for you

The third half is a rugby tradition, it's when both teams go eat and drink together at the end of a match, as a sign of mutual respect

Wear a shirt and a tie isn't an expression But "get wet" is , it means getting involved into something, having a responsability.

When I'm watching your videos I realize how French expressions are very hard to translate. I mean, Orelsan has very difficult lyrics for people that doesn't know French or French traditions. Especially in this song where he is talking about French social problems

“Ne pas se mouiller” is basically a French way saying “not getting your hands dirty”, the translation is a bit confusing since it’s the exact translation of mouiller is wet

I quote orelsan about the song "it's a lot of cliché said by a depressed man who just want to kill himself", "the song is like a movie" (POV), "the guy just hates himself and all the cliché he said are about the way he sees his own person"

A lot of people got really offended by that song. Many wanted to cancel Orelsan's concerts. They didn't understand that he is playing a role in that song. A character that is hating every part of the society and who write a letter in rage before ending himself.

10:11 when he says "they're 12", he's not referring to their age, he's talking about their number (they're agressive when they're 12 on 1, but when they're on their own they don't do shit)

The Schutzstaffel or just "SS" was the personal military organization of @dolf Hitler during the WW2, the soldiers of this personal army were the highest ranking of the Nazi military system

Few years ago, when I was at the worst I listened to that song and when it ended, as I heard the bullet sound, I just stoud there on my chair and watched the wall for minutes. As I was realising that all he was saying I was thinking the same and that all his hate and sadness I was feeling the same, I ended up admitting I needed help if I didn't want to take a bullet I would draw myself. This song send me to therapy and damn how happy i am now :)

guys from the south of France (especially around Marseille) have the reputation to drink a lot third half basically means that after seeing a football or rugby match, you drink a lot with a bunch of friends in a pub or at home

damn this song is nostalgic af... it used to depress me, and it still does the same effect lol, Orelsan really is one of the french rapper that talks about some of the Realest subjects the most and in the greatest ways

When Orelsan wrote it, he was thinking about "The 25th Hour" with Edouard Norton and his famous monologue. The guy wants to commits suicide because he hates himself deeply (Orelsan even said in an interview he had taken off a part of the song where he admits the character hates himself because he finds a little bit of him in everyone he speaks of). The character hates himself so much and he's so desperate that he transfers his hatred on everyone by using clichés, just to justify his act. Even though he doesn't really think that way. A really powerful song that sadly was misunderstood by a lot of people who took it as it is without trying to understand the meaning. Thanks for your videos :) ! I'm just discovering what you do and it's great !

Third half refers to the time after a match (rugby,foot) where everyone drink a lot it’s a french expression

Also "défenestrer" in French means throwing someone through a window (in the case of CEOs, stereotype oblige they work in huge skyscrappers, thus making them fall from great heights, hence the golden parachute image)

Damn I was frustrated at times. I wanted to explain everything to you in my own words 😅 Also, that song is one of the hardest to review for someone who doesn't live in France. Anyway, you did a good job ^^

This is where I realize that French conscious rap cannot be exported as easily as English-speaking rap, we use a lot of metaphors and cultural references in our texts, unlike Americans.

OMG honestly whoever translates these literally does it on Google translate and barely corrects a few things, you need somebody that can properly do that so you can be less confused 😂

This song should be take with all the context, he is speaking about a person who can't take anymore about society and he's pushing everyone to make people think about how we act, it doesn't mean he's really convinced about all ideas. He want to provoke. I'm speaking French, hope that i don't make too much mistakes.

Man is tough watching this, cuz you know I'm French, and I see you miss so much of the little things that makes this song such a masterpiece. But overall nice video, more power to you 💪🏼

A masterpiece of french rap !

once again the translation you're working with is too literal and incomplete sometimes but you got the gist of it lol

Pls can you do "Paradis" and "Notes pour trop tard" from Orelsan ^-^

Orelsan plays a suicidal man. In an interview, he explains that this character screams clichés before dying and that the day when all these clichés will be true, the world will be definitively dead.

Damnnn i was waiting for this one !

Side note from a french guys : 2:54 : in french language " se mouiller " means getting wet by sweat : to be hardly involved in a work 3:46 défenestrer : being throw out by a window ( so obviouly a golden parachute wont work from preventing you to hit the ground ) 5:46 RTT : Recuperatin de Temps de Travail = work time recovery : since french worker do 35h of work in a week instead oh 39h some industrie had keep the old schedule and the 4h of overtime is given to the worker as RTT so it can be use for days off . And thy don't scrape RTT in the Text , they stacks RTT. 8:26 Third half : reference to soccer who have 2 half time/peridode of game , the third one is celebration of the suporters ( with lot of alcool ) 9:53 : SS : SchutzStaffe : Political Police of the third Reich 12:30: SGT french equivalence for the SEIU in US or the UNISON in UK. 14:44 Orelsan just saying that he is anoyed by people how think their sexuality is wat definied their all personne and dat is no pride of dancing like clown in a parade to claim at the world they are gay

This song is a tribute to Edward Norton tirade in "25th hour" from Spike Lee. Orelsan tell the story of a guy who wants to speak his truth to everyone, every community take a hit, so obviously he upsets friends,colleagues and family: he's commiting a social suicide, and at the end we can ear a gun shot: the guy commit suicide. Everybody can agree with some of this lines and also feel targeted by some others. Orelsan doesn't tell at loud what everyone think, he enunciates the clichés that an instable man think, mad against the entire world, but madder against himself: he hates him so much to feel like that, he takes his own life. Anyone will say that Spike Lee or Edward Norton wish death to all those communities discribed in their movie, it's the same with Orelsan, he is not that angry guy described here. PS: In "Try to open your golden parachute when you defenestred" defenestred stand for thrown through the window or for someone who jumped through a window (window is fenêtre in french and fenestre in old french (in french forêt is forest in english and in old french^^)). So this line can be a warning for bosses who don't respect the rights of their employees, and keeps push them to make more money, employees who might retaliate by throwing their boss from the windows of their high towers. It refers also to a scandal wich happened a year or two before the song came out, 35 suicides in total in the public telecom compagny who was about to became private: Orange. Employees were bullied and psychologicaly harassed, some of them jumped from their office window, golden parachutes were given to some executives despite this. A few sentences after "and play cowardly virgins when they get sequestred" same period they were riots in compagnies (Air France, Goodyear...) angry employees kidnapped their bosses to get the medias attention. Then "those small bosses... who scrape the RTT to pay for holidays" those bosses miscount intentionally the overtime of their employees to make more profits (half an hour here half an hour there on a douzen employees you can go to St Tropez's beach instead of Brighton's)

4:18 to defenestrate is to throw out of a window orelsan is using the expression "golden parachute" in a literal way, like in some sort of pun, as a way to say 'try to use your golden parachute when the angry workers you've been exploiting for decades will throw you out of a window'

The expression "Se mouiller " would be translated "To compromise themself" it's rather hard to translate. Also here Defenestrated is use in it's primal meaning. Which is getting thrown off a window.

RTT stands for "réduction du temps de travail" ("reduction of working time" in English). In France, the legal working time is 35 hours a week since 2000 (before it was 39h). Orelsan says CEOs force their employees to work harder so that they (CEOs) can earn more money and have great holidays.

I don't know if anyone already explained this, but I haven't seen it anywhere so : At 09:04, the "third half" you didn't understand is a reference to a football match. The game has 2 half, the 3rd one is usually the time when we drink and celebrate after the game (we call that in french "La troisième mi-temps", but I'm sure there must be a word in english for that, because drinking after a game isn't reserved to french people ahah). That's why there is a bottle at that moment on the video. People from the South of France are known for their love of Football and Pastis 51 (the alcohol shown in the video), and they love to drink that for the "3rd half"

Just to let you know a funny fact. This song is pretty old now. But I was at the first concert of the last Orelsan album, and he stills sing this one. This is an iconic song from him, with basically references to all the social class in france. Very hard song for people who don't live here. This is the song of someone who's just disappointed by the system and who's critisizing the France he lives in. By the way, just discover your channel and really like the way you comment Orelsan's songs (i only look at these videos at the moment). Orelsan is one of the best french rapper I think. You can check as well BigFlo et Oli, and maybe the Orelsan's side kick Gringe (whith whom they have a group name Casseur Flowteur) :)

The thing with this song is that half of the lyrics are plays on words mixing french puns/expressions within the lyrics, along with a good dose of stereotypes about all different parts of france and their people. So it's pretty hard to get the full value of each punchline with a simple translation, it goes way deeper than that.

Breaking Bars GOAT 🐐 Thank you for listening Orelsan

i had the chance to go to one of his concert years ago and he sang that song, it was incredibly intense, one of the best live performance i've seen/heard in my life so far.

11:40 The CGT was the biggest and one of the oldest (1895) union in france, nowaday there's an other one on par, the CFDT, but essentially if you think union in france, you think CGT. And indeed what he's criticizing is that rather than actually making changes, they're content just complaining, posing, and drinking ("transforming protests into parties"). 14:03 Here it's more of a meta commentary on the situation, it's not about disliking or liking the community, but rather about how some of its members express themselves, in particular how aggressive feminists groups like femen are or how asking to be treated equally as normal people seems at odds with some of the imagery they're going with, you might remember Key & Peele's "Office Homophobe" episode for a similar take 18:11 It's not just a gambling company, at the time he wrote that song it was a government owned gambling company with a monopoly on most types of gambling, in france and its territories, so he's blaming the government for creating this situation at the same time.

J'adore la façon que vous avez a écouter le rap français car elle est différente des autres pays.

Nobody speak about the great movie with Edward norton « 24 hour » who speak about this song

The "CGT" is the 1st of the 5 main French confederations of trade unions (it is reaaallllyyyy powerful and you can find CGT flags in almost every strike in France). It defends workers all the time.

His best song for me.

I interrupted the video but i wanted to point something out : at 3:25 you say "is he putting himself in the shoes of someone who..." and you go on. The following words are important for the video but the beginning of the sentence itself is even more important. I'm very glad that someone would really consider this "a character" and not Orelsan's personnal point of view. You see, for a long time (and by that i mean 10 years), Orelsan was attacked by french journalists for being a prick in every way, because of what he wrote in his songs. They were always making a link between the violence of his words and his personnal thoughts. That always triggered me hard, so i thank you for being lucid.

Third hald, 3eme mi-temps in french, it's a reference to rugby : there are two halves in the game, and the "third half" in rugby or football is when the game is over and people drink too much

RTT ("Réduction du Temps de Travail" - Working Time reduction) is when employees did extra hours of work regarding the max. amount of working time defined by their contract. They can cumulate those extra hours in order to get extra days of paid holidays. So yes some people really "cheat" their working time in order to get those extra paid days, particularly in higher positions where they can just be there at their desk doing strictly nothing but cumulate those extra hours.

So many subtleties in this song that can only be grasped if you understand the double meaning, or polysemy, of the words Orelsan uses. Only 2 examples : 9:16 : "becoming neo-nazi because you had no passion, instead of playing the SS, find an occupation". SS is how nazi soldiers are commonly called in France, and occupation surely means to find a job, but it is also the name of the period when France was occupied by Germany during WWII. 13:18 : "adieu à la ménagère [...] prête à gober la merde qu'on lui vend, qui pose pas de question tant qu'elle consomme". "Ménagère" is another word for "femme au foyer" in French, so housewife. But is is used mostly in one marketing concept called "Ménagère de moins de 50 ans", which is considered the main target by the advertisement industry (because they are doing the family shopping, so buying for more than one). The whole section here, using this marketing-related word for housewife, talking about the shit that is "sold" to them is all pointing at consumer society. A great text for a very disturbing song, but this was the intention.

You didn't get 60% of the lyrics, you should record with a french guy who can explain the french expression.

the third half is when they drink alcohol after both halves of a football match

Comment c'est possible de ne pas connaitre les SS il y a vraiment un gros problème dans le système éducatif

The translation for RTT was a bit confusing, it's when an employee takes a day / half a day off from their job If I'm not mistaken you have a set number of RTTs you can take in a year (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

I think the best title of Orelsan. This guy is a genius. You should know that when the title came out (2010/2011) it was super unwelcome by the general public. Orelsan has been charged with carrying hate messages. However, he explained in an interview that this song is a succession of clichés about French society. He explained that he himself finds it ridiculous to reduce people to a group, a cliché. Basically, the title is the perfect example of what not to do. Regarding the end of the song, here is what Orelsan said in an interview: «Je vais te dire, au début j’avais rajouté un p’tit huit mesures qui disait “Et tous ces gens dans lesquels je retrouve une partie de moi-même, et qui font que je me déteste bla bla bla”, et puis après je me suis dit que l’explication c’est la balle dans la tête du personnage à la fin du titre, c’est tout. Tout est dit, y’a pas besoin d’en rajouter ou de se justifier.» Basically he says that the narrator also finds himself a little in these clichés and that's what drives him to suicide. He wanted to add an explanation at the end of the title but for him the fact that the guy shoots himself is explicit. intrld.com/paragraphe-supprime-orelsan-suicide-social/

As a french guy loving rap, let me help you getting the translation/commentary, it's so frustrating seeing you trying to understand with nothing xD

4:30 défenestré means that you are pushed out the window. In French window is said "fenêtre". defenestrated (throw someone out of a window) is rather the word to be used here I think.

"The third half" is the after-party people does after a soccer match, which is split in two halves of 45 minutes. People would go and do the third half at home drinking alcohol, this is why there's a bottle of liquor in the written text.

8:50 the third half is a reference to the football haltimes. In the small football clubs there were everytimes aperitif time after the match, the first halftime is the normal break in a match, the second one is for the end of the match and the third one is for the aperitif time. French southerners are reputed to be notorious alcoholics and any pretext is good to drink an aperitif. So in the Orelsan's song, the expression "third half" therefore means that southerners have the sole purpose in life of drinking an aperitif. I hope that my english with the google translate help are understandable ^^.

the criticism that orelsan carries here is the fact that there are problems everywhere, so he criticizes everything that is open to criticism to show that there is an element of idiot in everything that exists and that there is no point in choosing a camp (examples with lgbt communities which are therefore not directly attacked by orelsan). In m'y opinion. Good vidéo liked it

Oh woaw I love Orelsan but I didn't know that he did this song 😮 thank you for that 👌🏼 the lyrics are so true

this song is too hard to translate in english if you don' t speak french, sorry bro. you miss a lot.

"Their only Goal In life Is the third half"= the third half id a break in the game of soccer. At the third half, it's time to drink some alcohol. During the third half of a game of soccer it's time to serve an alcohol name : Riccard (who are really strong. we dilute this alcohol with water).

Third half in France is like a tradition to say drinking alcohol after a game of Rugby...Or Football of course...😑 We could say that it's a part of the game!!! 😁

in an interview he said while writing the song heh ad a last verse that kinda gave off more obviously that it was a role and not really him speaking but then he removed it cause he said "dont assume people are idiots they'll get it" well guess what a lot didnt. Lol

"A Golden Parachute" is money that allows rich people to have financial security in case of money problems. It also allows you to have social security because of the influence you can have thanks to it.

i think that this song is so powerful , and because we have some expression in france difficult to translate , you cannot understand very well this song as a foreigner

His best song i think, along with maybe Rêves bizarres, la petite marchande de porte-clefs and Jimmy Punchline

French Canadian rap !!! You need to listen Souldia FT Mb - le bonheur des autres Pure poetry

Défenestrer means, in fact, throw trough a window... You have the link with the golden parachute😉

He also said in an interiex that he committed suicide at the end because he found himself a little in each person he spoke of

• I won't wear my shirt or my tie simply means that he's not going to work👌🏼 • SS are a division of Nazi Soldiers • Gg for the video dude🇫🇷🇬🇧 (And defenestred is more like being thrown by the window to be killed, angry workers threw their boss through the window in history, at least in France when they have been over-exploited [especially in the mines] 😬😂)

"Se mouiller" is an expression to say "engage yourself", your money, your words or something else. You can't trust someone who doesn't want to "se mouiller"

défenestré : falling out by the window

genuine reactions ! i like it !

"I don't want to offend any one." while listening to a song called social suicide. the character here doesn't give a fuck about being offensive and it's the best part of the song.

Third half is a reference around soccer or rugby. One game is split in two halves time. So the third half is when the athletes are partying in the locker room. It´s usually a way to define a party after a hard day job for example.

3eme mi-temps (third half) refers to football, where a third round is played if the score is equal.

3:48 Brake your window's class by throwing you through it XD

Defenestrate means to remove smbd from a position of power, but also in this case, it means when you jump off a window (fenêtre is a window in french) to kill youself, or you get pushed and be killed. Like if somebody pushed you on a window to kill you, its called "defenestrate" its a game word with the golden parachute, which is ofc not a real parachute so it wont open if you just "defenestrate" them. My english sucks, so I hope it's clear. Also, when he speaks about sequestration, it actually happened in France, a company was closing and the employees did not agree with that so they sequestrated the HRD and the CEO I think, and they were so scared you cannot imagine lmao And commme ooooonn, it's not Gucci, its Burberry, you should know that as an English guy :D you should also know what SS are as UK declared the war against Germany in 1939 :P

"RTT" is Réduction de Temps de Travail (Reduction of Working Time)

Qui ne boivent jamais d'eau comme s'ils ne voulaient pas se mouiller. "Se mouiller" , to get wet ( litterally translated ) . "Se mouiller" is an expression that means "to get involved". So these sales representatives ( ces commerciaux ) drink water to avoid alcohol so as to stay in the strait way, to behave. They don't want to get involved in any way and they fear of being labelled as people who would speak/act again establishment. This song , partly, is against woke culture and was written before the impact of woke debate in France.

The 3rd half : is a reference to a little party after a Football match. You can see it like that : 1st Half [break] 2nd Half [End of the match] 3rd Half (let's get drunk)

In French amateur Ruggby, after the match, every boddy goes to drink toogether , it's called "la troisième mi_temps" badly traducted by "the third half". Thanks for your vidéo!

Shirt and tie 👔 Refers to bureau workers Sad lifes Getting wet in means getting implicated Similar to Getting heads dirty Defenistrate means throwing someone out of a window Golden parachute is a term to describe very wealthy managers and superiors Parachute Jumping is a rich people activity and if you add gold in the parachute in accentuates the difference between them and the middle class salary man

Third half is a rugby term that means the time you spend drinking after the match

the third half is a traditional drinking time after a football or rugby match we name it 3eme mi-temps

"se mouiller" or getting wet, means getting involved. The image is like "jumping into boiling water".

The "defenestrated" bit is an attempt at translating the french word "défenestré", literally "un-windowed"; which means, to be physically thrown out / to jump out of a window

the third half is a french rugby expression which means a party between both teams with a lot of alcool. As the south of france is famous to love drinking, the mean goal of their lives is to be drunk all the time

This text is written in the style of Edward Norton's monologue in the 25th Hour by Spike Lee. He's shouting his anger to the world, everybody's despised. You should watch it it's good stuff and Orelsan said in an interview that the scene inspired him for this song.

The CGT is the main syndicate for workers in France

React to "Youssoupha - Menace de Mort" please

For those who are wondering at 8:36 when he says "Thrid half" It means after a soccer game there is the third half where you spend the rest of the night drinking.

SS were a kind of protection squadron for Hitler himself ^^' 9:34 Nice vid btw !

RTT are free days that are still paid by your work they are not holidays but break days that most French workers can get but seems to be reduced more and more just like holidays so the « superiors » can get more money and free days off the workers back. Third half is actually just a soccer/football term where some supporter got the habits to drink. SS were literally Nazi soldier. It’s self explanatory.

Ss : hitlerian stormtrooper (1939-1945), occupation in french two significations : hobby and Land possession (war time) the France was occupated by Germany in ww2. Orelsan is using word play in this song... With word that have many significatio

"se mouiller" means to get involved.. "se mouiller la chemise" means to break a sweat...

The Best Word that describe the World!

Hey mate, really like the way you analyse the lyrics, not only this one but all of them ! Seen you did a few NF reactions from his new mixtape, are you gonna react to the Story Clip? You earned a sub, keep the good work 🙏🏼

I have the impression that in England, you don't work a lot on history of Germany during the 2nd world war! It could be normal but in France, we learn a lot about 2nd WW at school... In another video, you didn't know anything else about Germany in this time...Not your fault i think! And in England, Churchill was a great great man!!!✌

Great reaction like always !

To be short, this clip emphasize the life of 99% people in France (or in every other country in the world I guess) He express something that a lot of people in depression experiences today... The fact that the rich people or low moral human being would roll on you if they could for profite, or to get your place if possible. It's pretty dark, but really accurate of the world we live in today. At some point I used to think like the lyrics of this song. Like... "what is the point of anything?"

"Le seul but de leur vie c'est la troisième mi-temps" the 3rd half refers to people after football matches which reunite to drink alcohol, it's a cliché usually used to talk about people that would have "few passions other than football and alcohol"