Tassez-vous de d'là
"Tassez-vous de d'là" is a song by the Quebec band Les Colocs. The lyrics were written by Dédé Fortin, with a chorus in Wolof written by Senegalese immigrant El Hadji Diouf;[1] the music was written by Dédé Fortin and André "Vander" Vanderbiest.
Tassez won the 1999 SOCAN award for best popular song of the year.[2] It was the first single off their last album Dehors Novembre.
Meaning
The song is written in the Quebec joual dialect. The title, loosely translated, means "get out of the way"; the song describes the narrator's guilt at having abandoned a friend who had overdosed, and his desire to see his friend again.
The music video was shot in Montreal, more specifically on Emery Street between Sanguinet and St-Denis streets.
gollark: I also pick up the most averagely-warm rock there.
gollark: Oh, good, good.
gollark: Okay, we must repeatedly approach the generic monster #1, and hand-to-hand-combat it.
gollark: Is this considered a cool rock™?
gollark: You can just kick it, which does some damage.
References
- Singer André "Dédé" Fortin at HistoryWire
- Radio-Canada: Les frères Diouf - Espace musique
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