Chabos know who the babo is

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Chabos know who the babo is
arrest warrant
publication January 25, 2013
length 3:27
Genre (s) Hip hop
text arrest warrant
music Farhot, Lex Barkey
Label Azzlackz ( Groove Attack )
album Block platinum

Chabos know who the Babo is is a song by the German rapper Haftbefehl . It was released as a music video on October 21, 2012 and was released on January 25, 2013 as part of Haftbefehl's third album, Blockplatin . In the album version, arrest warrant is accompanied on the song by the rapper Farid Bang . In this version, the title reached number 30 in the German single charts and stayed there for 8 weeks. It is the first single with which Haftbefehl was able to place in the charts. The song is given a greater linguistic meaning , especially for the establishment of the words "Chabo" and " Babo ". The latter was voted youth word of the year in Germany in 2013 .

title

The word "Chabo" comes from the sociolect Rotwelsch ( tšabo ) and means "boy" or "pawn on the chessboard of life". In an interview, Haftbefehl described the original language for “Chabo” as “ Gypsy ” and the meaning as “boy”. (Compare Anglo-Romani chabbo, chábo , Romani čhavo "Junge" and Chav .) In the "Allstar-Remix" (see chapter "Versions") the rapper Crackaveli describes another translation variant: "We Berliners say to Chabo's brother".

" Babo " also comes from Romani (where it is only found in the Balkan varieties) and actually means "father". In street language, the word means "papa" or "boss". Arrest warrant means with the word “with us Kurds and also with the Turks” a “person of respect”. The word is also used in Bosnian and Zaza with the same sound , but the socio-cultural origin from the Roma and Yenish environment is more likely, as their terms often migrate into the language of the street scene via the so-called crooks language and there is a parallel to the word Chabo in the same song naturally suggests this.

content

Chabos know who the Babo is has elements of battle rap as well as gangsta rap : arrest warrant greatly enhances itself, stylizes itself as rich ("Hafti Abi is the one who sits in the Lambo and Ferrari", "Saudi Arabi money rich") and makes threats of violence against an indefinite "you" ("Before I come and break your nose", "Don't left behind, I'll hit you head-on, sakat").

Language, style and allusions

Examples from the text
Words / expression translation language
Reče čiča da me ženi,

Danas hoće, sutra neće

My uncle said he'll find a wife for me

Today or tomorrow

Bosnian
Hafti Abi Hafti (arrest warrant) big brother /
"older [r], to be treated respectfully [r] gentleman []" 		Turkish / Arabic
Harakets Fax / move from the Turkish word Haraket
Tokat Slap / bell Turkish
Atmış iki kurdî Zweiundsechziger
( Car area of Tunceli ) Kurde 		Turkish / Kurdish
Biji, biji Kurdistan Long live Kurdistan Kurdish

In his piece of music, Haftbefehl uses words and terms from different languages, a combination of German , English , French , Turkish , Kurdish and Arabic can be recognized. His expression was described as polyglot in Spiegel and the Stuttgarter Zeitung, among others . Arrest warrant actually wanted to enter a translation of the foreign words under his video, but this did not happen because of his manager.

The song contains some allusions from the fields of martial arts and martial arts . The line “Victim, you are Honda, I Sagat” describes two characters from the beat 'em-up game series Street Fighter . In addition, the arrest warrant mentions Mortal Kombat ("Tokat, head off - Mortal Kombat"). The line of text "Full contact à la Ong-Bak " mentions a Thai martial arts film. A few lines later the wrestler Yokozuna is mentioned: " I'll fuck your yokuzuna sumo with a pushkick". The martial arts Wing Chun and Kung Fu are mentioned in connection with Bruce Lee (“You can do Wing Chun and Kung Fu like Bruce Lee”).

Quote from classical music

At the beginning, the first bars of Crucifixus from the Petite Messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini can be heard in a recording with the Moldovan male soprano Radu Marian .

Music video

The music video begins with a scene in a restaurant with an arrest warrant and two other men. Classical music is playing in the background (see above ), and excerpts from the film The Godfather can be seen briefly . The people at the table talk for a while, until a scratch can be heard at minute 0:59 . Arrest warrant then complains that he does not understand his cell phone.

After 1:40 minutes, the actual piece of music begins, after the words “Azzlacks & Thug Life present” as well as album / song titles and artists have been faded in. The following shows how the arrest warrant's brother Capo gets into a sports car and drives away, later handing another person a car key. Passages in which arrest warrant raps in a parking garage are cut with scenes in which four men in sports cars drive up to a pub, mask themselves and attack a group of people with shotguns. The video ends with various shots in Bullet Time , where you can see the firing of the guns.

The music video was shot by Bugi within a day. Haftbefehl planned to shoot a music video for a total of nine songs (five from the “Platinum” CD, four from the “Block” CD) and each of them to tell their “own story”, although there is a connection should. After the music video for “Chabos know who the Babo is”, “Mann im Spiegel” (December 2, 2012, “Platinum” CD), “Generation Azzlack” (December 23, 2012, “Block” CD) have been released so far. "Azzlack Motherfuck" (February 22, 2013, "Block" CD).

The music video of the song had more than 16 million views on YouTube in September 2015 , and the remix version more than 12 million views.

Versions

The version released on October 21, 2012 differs from the version in the album, as the guest post by Farid Bang is missing in the music video . As a result, the piece is only about 2:53 minutes long, whereas the album version lasts 3:28 minutes. In addition to this version, there is also a remix version on the iTunes version of the album , which is called the Allstar Remix . This version is 8:23 minutes long and includes contributions from Veysel , Celo & Abdi , Mosh36 , Milonair , Habesha , Al-Gear , DOE , Crackaveli , 60/60 and Olexesh . The Allstar Remix is also on the EP Azzlack Kommandant , which was included with Juice # 149.

reception

Commercial win

The song entered the German single charts on February 11, 2013. It took 30th place. The title lasted only one week, but it stayed in the German charts for a total of 8 weeks before it left the Top 100 on April 7, 2013. After the title had been indexed as harmful to minors for five years and was removed from this list in December 2017, it was re-released including new remixes. The title then returned to 43rd place in March 2018.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 30th (13 weeks) 13

Awards for music sales

In April 2020, Chabos know who the Babo is in Germany was awarded a gold record for over 150,000 units sold.

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg gold 150,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg 1 × gold
 150,000

criticism

Chabos know who the Babo is and received mostly positive reviews. In a review for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Daniel Haas wrote: "'Chabos know who the Babo is' [...] could soon become a household word if you want to clarify power relations in one breath". Daniel Hackbarth and Ingmar Volkmann write for the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the title line has "long since become a catchphrase" . Tobias Rapp described the song in an article for Der Spiegel as a “terrific dull piece of gangsta rap ”.

The language that Haftbefehl uses in the song and in the album as a whole has received numerous praise: Daniel Haas from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called him an "artistic genius" because of his language. For Daniel Hackbarth and Ingmar Volkmann of the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the arrest warrant is an “important contribution to the discourse on the versatility of the German language” and, according to an article in Spiegel, an arrest warrant raises “polyglot messy talk about an art form”. The warrant phrase was also known as metalanguage .

The warrant's intonation was also frequently noted at meetings. In “Hafti” the “H” comes “deep in the throat”, which makes the word sound like “Chafti”, wrote Tobias Rapp. Til Biermann recognizes in an article for Die Welt an "H" that would "mostly come deep out of the throat", which would correspond to a "hard" ch "" and an "Arabic intonation ". This phonetic realization is called the voiceless velar fricative .

The guest contribution by Farid Bangs contained in the album version of the song was mostly rated negatively. Erich Unrau wrote for hiphop.de that the "street anthem [...] is convincing all along the line [knows]", but was bothered by the "usual ignorant [n] Farid Bang part". Florian Peking writes for rappers.in that Farid Bang manages to "destroy" the song. Both criticized that Farid Bang would talk into the hook . Max Brand from laut.de described the song as a “ meme hit”, which, however, would be feared in the “album version via feature”.

Til Biermann recognizes in the refrain a confirmation of Ernest Hemingway's iceberg model , as in “barren 16 words” “de [r] drug trafficking” or “de [r] drug consumption”, as well as “cash and the streets -Prestige that resulted from it "would be described.

Critic Awards

The e-zine laut.de placed Chabos know who the Babo is in its list of songs of the year 2013 as the best German-language title in 8th place. The hip-hop magazine Juice named Chabos know who the Babo is the best in its 2013 annual review Single national .

At the Hiphop.de Awards 2012, which were jointly determined by the German-language website of the same name through a reader vote and jury decision, Chabos know who the Babo is for the text line "Muck just not uff here, you Rudi" won the category Best Punchline . The title was also nominated in the categories Best Video National and Best Beat National , in which it could only place itself in second and third place respectively.

meaning

Linguistic aftermath

In November 2013, the term Babo was voted Youth Word of the Year in Germany.

Cover versions and parodies

The song caused numerous parodies and cover versions , especially on YouTube . The best-known videos include a swing / jazz version by web video producer Marti Fischer , which was viewed several million times on the YouTube video platform, and an opera cover with more than 1 million views. There is also a Bavarian parody of the rapper BBou , with the name Bazis who know who the BBou is , and a metal version.

The rap group Antilopen Gang played their title Fick die Uni as Chabos know who fucks the university during live performances in 2013 and underlayed the original text with the melody of Chabos know who the Babo is .

At the 2013 Rock im Park music festival , Fettes Brot played a medley of various German-language rap songs, including Chabos who know who the Babo is .

During an appearance at the 1 Live Krone 2013 award ceremony , Jan Delay integrated the chorus of Chabos know who the Babo is together with the melody of the Beastie Boys title (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) In a cover of the title Always tired in the morning of the Berlin singing group Laing . He did the same with the MC Fitti song Penn in the train , which was also inserted into the title on the melody of the Rage Against the Machine song Killing in the Name .

Canvassing

In February 2014, the CSU local politician Fabian Giersdorf used the phrase Chabos know who the Babo is! on an election poster, thereby triggering national media coverage.

Web links

Individual evidence

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