I've been watching brothers in Memphis do that jookin move for years before Burna Boy even had a career. I don't know why giving black Americans their respect for the styles they created is so hard.
It’s a dance…it’s not culture…what don’t y’all understand…wearing timbs is a NY thing, it isn’t black culture lol…you can’t have culture based on a zip code…😅😅😅 Folks don’t know what culture is….
You do know all these dances have bin done centuries ago in Africa right? Lmao. Don’t forget we only bin here 400 years, Africa bin there since the beginning of time
There’s animosity on both sides. Growing up I remember African Americans would give African immigrants hell before being Africans was “cool.” In addition, Africans can be very condescending as well with their superiority complex. Both sides are at fault and it’s really a result of centuries of colonialism.
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm Superior on education and antics. A lot of the Africans in the US are well educated with degrees and I am one of them but I don't stay in the US tho.
That what I'm saying like mf will be mad at you for being smart, having parents, living a crime free life, and now being African 😂. Didn't charlemagne just did the same thing to that other guy running for president for being republican. Being black in America be harder harder for no reason
Nah foundational black Americans have more to lose. We are one of the most influential groups of people in the world. We are literally the reason America is a cultural super power. Fbas can't let people eat off of the value we create through our culture while they bring nothing in return. That's not got business. They can't have FBA culture. On top of that the tethers have envy/jealousy issues and disrespect.
He never said african americans don’t have culture. He said they dont have a base. A japanese american can always go back to japan and has family there if anything happened in america. African Americans don’t have the same. He was just implying that if anything happened in the USA to AAs you have a ally and are welcomed in Africa. Can’t believe yall misinterpreting that
My brother I'm so happy that you eloquently wrote this because some people here just could not comprehend what he's talking about. That shows that some people are really not educated. And that they don't have passports 😂. Africa is our base point blank period
@@bigdre912bro how is he stepping on anybody? How was anything he said a diss? I am Caribbean, I can't trace my roots passed a certain point either. How is him encouraging us to tap in with the motherland a diss?
I love how the actual audio of him saying this can’t be found literally anywhere but for some reason it’s still being talked about. People are too quick to criticize and too slow to celebrate. It’s sad
The audio he played is all there is and we are still offended because he needed to stop telling us we don't know who we are while he is trying to be like us. We do know who we are better than Nigerians know who they are. Also this is only said about Americans what about the rest of the diaspora?
Please can you repeat what he said that was wrong You guys are just so demn unnecessarily emotional over everything even when you are being told the truth
@@jerrygraves6531how are my even sure you are a black person? You could be one of the pinks paid to keep the division. There are lots of you guys on internet paid to do this job
Burna said nothing wrong. He acknowledged that African-Americans are part of the diaspora and could benefit from really taking time to understand our roots ON TOP of being African-American. Knowledge of self and one’s history is powerful and that was his message. Anything else that people took from this is adding on to or projecting on what he was tryna say.
He shouldn’t speak on something he doesn’t know and vice versa. If Kendrick Lamar came out and started talking about how corrupt Nigeria is and how it’s people only identity is scamming and deceit it would be a story seven though he wouldn’t be saying anything wrong
@@mynoseisdirty1250 but your hypothetical is based on a false equivalency tho. When did Burna say that all African-Americans do is scam, shoot and steal? And if Kendrick made a true statement on Nigerian culture, I don’t think that it would be an indictment against him. Why do we as Black Americans get so offended when people who are still tapped into our culture enough make an observation, when if somebody like Jay-Z (who is undoubtedly FROM the culture) said this same thing we’d all agree as if it’s some profound wisdom?
@@FamilyFirstVez you said that I made a dumb statement then said that a black man talking about another black man’s culture would be like a white man telling us what nigga means 😂 no sir those are two very different things and like the comment above, is a false equivalency. Burna is speaking on a culture that’s embraced him and simply saying that learning our roots can help us is in NO WAY dismissive of our plight.
Yall be pushing we African like they look like us.. African phenotypes aren't limited to dark skin and big noses. Aboriginals look African, how about pacific islander? Ok😊
@@YungShadBeatz we aren’t the only ones to ever be sold into slavery, the world has been that way since the beginning. U gonna hold Burna Boy accountable for something that was done hundreds of years ago?
@@YungShadBeatz no that’s actually more like saying French people and German people are the same cuz they got the same skin color lol everyone on this planet has had their time to be the winners and their time to be the losers. Study world history
FBA culture birthed endless cultural clothes style, rock n roll, rnb music , Rap hip hop and all the styles of image and flows. Soul food. Every popular dance in the last 50 years. Worldwide impact let’s not talk about all the inventions during American slavery
@@hueyfreeman5509 FBA is Foundational Black American Culture which eliminates anyone that did not come from American chaddle slavery and is perfect to encompass who Black Americans are without someone of tether mind expressing what and how we move and politic. I can’t come to Jamaica and tell them people shit about who and what they culture is so we got the same respect and it will not be dismissed by someone who not one of us
@@hueyfreeman5509 you can believe what you want. All the talking point anti Tariq bias is yours to cherish but FBA is our code and it empowers us as a culture as Black Americans. We stand for empowerment and the world gotta bow down to what we proclaim. FBA not going anywhere and as the soul of the term permeates it will grow like hip hop influence has grown only it’s a specific group which absent of it we have been co-opted politically. Those days are over so feel how you feel but we not asking nobody permission to be who we are. God bless
@@hueyfreeman5509 that goofy cult gets to yapping like they speak for all Black Americans but you go outside and ask random people and youll go through hundreds of people before anyone knows what that is.
@@amenx why i would be jealous i defend real black american like micah Johnson everyday i just hate the 1 who hate african but are nice with white people
IDGAF me and the homies still listen to Burna and will continue to listen to him. I live in NYC and NYC don't own Timbs, we don't even be rocking that shit like anymore. 🔥
@@aniyax4023 Black american man and women revolutionized the entire world. We know its Jealousy and envy. We have been put against eachother long enough. Its all miseducation.
He has no right to speak on us as if his people have things together more than us when he's literally trying to copy and steal from fba excellence. He needed to be putting respect on our nameand watch three heights from which he speaks.
@@sacatracreoleoflouisiana8337why do you care about what others says instead using your brain to think for yourself. What was it he said that was wrong?
@@stevenwilliams3015 He said African Americans had no culture, and lost." Meaning we don't know culture. I bring up Gullah and Creoles and you still don't get it
@@stevenwilliams3015 and if you don't want a response get off the Internet, now what brain 🧠 you have to say what you want and nobody responds? Who you think you are?
I’m ashamed of how sensitive, divisive, with the victim mentality black people have. plus burna said the “fans” call it the afro moonwalk, like people are just brain dead.
It’s funny cuz he never said that, he was just speaking to black diaspora returning back to Africa to connect with their nativity, English not his first language so he was just misinterpreted. I understand why some artists choose not to be political.
So you guys don't want to be told the truth that could help every black person on earth. You prefer your democrat Party telling y'all lies, right? So strange
First of all, if an American is saying that blacks from the Caribbean didn’t experience the same practices in slavery is downright wrong. Also, Burna boy wasn’t wrong in what he was saying. He wasn’t discrediting African Americans; he just pointed out the fact that we don’t have that home base connection as other Americans, simple.
@@seńor_t007 You said they experienced the same practices I'm asking you if they experienced something we experienced... Are you saying there was a difference? Also, did Caribbeans experience jim crow? What's the caribbean jim crow?
@@seńor_t007 Jim Crow has everything to do with slavery... They used jim crow laws to force Black people back into chattel slavery by sentencing Black Americans. They forced them back on plantations but people ignored it because they was charged with a crime but in most cases they was unjustly convicted by an all white jury or charged with vagrancy which is homelessness. They released Black people into the America with no reparations after slavery and then criminalized homelessness and poverty to force us back onto plantations.
Much respect to AKK for helping us clarify all of these misconceptions. I have been saying it for ages: We are black, we are all Africans, no matter where we are from period. Bob Marley sang and preached this concern in his songs. Jamaicans, Black Americans, Nigerians, Ethiopians….we are all one.
Black American here , and burna boy that was shady AF. I hate when Africans and non black Americans throw shade and pretend it’s under the guise of black unity . Don’t diminish anyone else’s culture. Especially when you’re cosplaying it! Had he shown respect nobody would be upset with him being in the culture and embraced him
You right I'm African and I seen a lot of hip hop artist doing that shit before Burna boy. But you wrong African Americans be throwing shade at other blacks and other blacks throw shade back. It goes both way
Another Black American here and I gotta disagree. Burna never said “African Americans have no culture”, he said that our culture in the western world is diminished because we don’t have the same ties to our original roots whether that be from Africa, The Caribbean’s, etc. which is 100% true. He clearly acknowledges our culture, but says that we could be stronger if we reconnected with our roots on top of the culture we’ve created here, which I gotta agree with. Because of slavery you’ve got a lot of black folks who simply identify as “black” which is such a vague and broad spectrum that it really doesn’t narrow anything down. Knowing your culture empowers you, and that’s what I took from his message.
@@hueyfreeman5509 when he said that we didn’t “know where we came from” like DUH we was sold into slavery by other Africans . But in America we’ve built our own culture so that remark was stupid and clearly irrelevant considering he knows enough of our culture to sample our music and cosplay our fashion
Bravo to the gentleman who spoke on the Gullah Geechee culture. Unfortunately people don't understand how vast and massive the US is. Gullah Geechee culture is very similar to many Caribbean creole languages.
@@dominiquequajan7410I remember Beyonce n her dancers trying to emulate our dance moves, they only reached out to the dancers because they couldn't get the rythm lol
@@mikejones-wn1swtrue success? You must know nothing about Burna boy. He's been successful, rich, traveling the world, doing shows all over Europe, Caribbean, South America, way before he sampled one African American song. Just say, you are just now getting to know the African giant.
@@adelestears8298 he was born into money, that does not make you a successful individual. His album just dropped right? He sold 21k his first week. That is called a flop in America. To africans this may be what success looks like.
Because they either have short memories or do not know their history. There was once a famous Jamaican reggae artist who said..where ever you come from as long as you a black man you are an .....😊
If you want to be offended then just do that. But the information is there to NOT be offended. For one, he never said AA don’t have any culture (he said there isn’t a base for AA, so we should all unite so we can have utilize each other. Lastly he never said he named the dance, he said “The fans named it Afro Moonwalk”
Ebro said it, labels are not signing rap artists like they did before cuz all rap is doing is talk about murder and it’s not danceable. Afro and Latin music is the future
@anegroperspective1359delusional black American Music is at an all time low…Burna boy is a big artist only Drake , coke , Kendrick can pull more numbers in touring than Burna boy in America and internationally
@@HypeEvansBlack american music is still alive in ALL music. There's just different sub cultures that black american music influenced. Black Americans will always dominate everything we touch.
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm your music is trash at the moment…The Africans are making better music. It shows in touring not just only Burna boy but Rema , wizkid davido etc these guys will outsell durk and lil baby in Europe while touring
Where is this video where Burna boy says African-Americans have no culture? Because apparently no one can find it but we’re still here talking about it.
Burna boy ain’t say shjt wrong i thought it was some bs but i agree w him and i sensed no malice he seemed like he genuinely wanted represent for black folk while acknowledging how displaced we are
Nigerians around Burna’s age came up on 90s/00s Hip Hop, R&B and Dancehall. If anything Black Americans have inspired greatness in Burna, and the Man has paid homage implicitly and explicitly several times. Even the Gullah and Geechie acknowledge their West African roots. Let’s stop majoring in the minors!
Why don’t the Nigerians ask the Japanese why Japan love our melting pot of a culture(English,Spanish,black etc), when it comes to dancing, cars, clothes, music? Kinda like how we like their technology, clothes, cars clothes etc, everyone is a fan of every one. It’s all love at the end. Respect, you get respect when you give it. Not saying he’s disrespecting but I can see why someone would take it bad.
Why are Caribbeans and afro Latinos like AK talkin bout FBA don't know where they come from like they weren't sold as slaves and stripped of their original african cultures.
I think it was a sensitive question that he answered casually without carefully thinking about the delivery and the consequences from his wording 🤷🏾♀️. Even with a 🧬 test its a 1 in a million chance that you may actually be able to trace all of your ancestors from original place because you will be trace to multiple tribes due to the Atlantic trade and etc. I know because I took one and so far I’m traced to a lot of the tribes there.
Akedemics is aiding in the divide but selling it off as he’s trying to stop it. He’s now the biggest network to cover this small issue being disputed by internet trolls
Every one samples everyone man what’s the beef about lol, j cole samples old African music, Travis Scott just did it, you won’t see No African mad about that shit crazy to me
I think his mistake is as an African he sees culture different from how Black Americans see it.. He makes comparisons btwn Chinese and Italian Americans not taking into account the fact that these other people moved willingly from their own country and are still connected to their very own ppl and relatives back home. Which of the thousand strong cultures in Africa should the Black American connect to? I'm Nigerian and we have hundreds of cultures here.
He never said afro- Americans have no culture. HE SIMPLE WAS REFLECTING HOW Black's are viewed to the rest of the world and how Blacks as a whole should take back they Culture that was stolen. People of south, gonna have a diffrent culture shock than the north... He simply saying to not forget your roots and still go back to the original land. He just dint express it in the best way. We all share culture! The world emulates the black culture. We are all 1 in the same eye of your Beholder. We can't steal from our self nor should be fighting your own.
You don’t and that’s your problem. Do your research. I know where my great great great grandparents are from.. prime example of one person generalizing a whole community based off your singular experience.
@@aniyax4023How did you listen to what he said and think he doesn't like yall? Burna literally idolizes DMX. Do you honestly and genuinely think Burna Boy's intention was to diss or offend anybody by his comments?
@@aniyax4023Burna boy started ad a rapper before doing afrobeats, he idolizes DMX and Naughty by nature, do you think he'll ever make a comment dissing the culture he watched while growing up, y'all just looking for reasons to be angry
@@bingemobilecameras1444 Exactly... Burna even said that he himself loved DMX and hip hop culture even more than his own as a kid. It was only when he moved to the UK that he truly began to appreciate his own culture. These are his own words. People are making up a narrative and trying their hardest to be offended
I've been watching brothers in Memphis do that jookin move for years before Burna Boy even had a career. I don't know why giving black Americans their respect for the styles they created is so hard.
Maybe he just didnt know it.. Why are yall crying about it
@@Abdullah-vg1uclike fareal lmao
Bro Africans dance better than Americans stop it
It’s a dance…it’s not culture…what don’t y’all understand…wearing timbs is a NY thing, it isn’t black culture lol…you can’t have culture based on a zip code…😅😅😅
Folks don’t know what culture is….
You do know all these dances have bin done centuries ago in Africa right? Lmao. Don’t forget we only bin here 400 years, Africa bin there since the beginning of time
There’s animosity on both sides. Growing up I remember African Americans would give African immigrants hell before being Africans was “cool.” In addition, Africans can be very condescending as well with their superiority complex. Both sides are at fault and it’s really a result of centuries of colonialism.
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lol superiority complex
Superior at what??
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fact.
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm Superior on education and antics. A lot of the Africans in the US are well educated with degrees and I am one of them but I don't stay in the US tho.
This is wild to me. We all black. Lays ain’t Doritos but they boff chips 🤷🏿♂️
That what I'm saying like mf will be mad at you for being smart, having parents, living a crime free life, and now being African 😂. Didn't charlemagne just did the same thing to that other guy running for president for being republican. Being black in America be harder harder for no reason
@@hbb7528😂😂😂
Facts, only thing I have a problem with is the “African Americans don’t have culture” like that is obviously a lie.
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Nah foundational black Americans have more to lose. We are one of the most influential groups of people in the world. We are literally the reason America is a cultural super power. Fbas can't let people eat off of the value we create through our culture while they bring nothing in return.
That's not got business. They can't have FBA culture.
On top of that the tethers have envy/jealousy issues and disrespect.
He never said african americans don’t have culture. He said they dont have a base. A japanese american can always go back to japan and has family there if anything happened in america. African Americans don’t have the same. He was just implying that if anything happened in the USA to AAs you have a ally and are welcomed in Africa. Can’t believe yall misinterpreting that
😂 man at the end of the day no one f**** with us because they don’t feel we apart of them they make it clear
You keep thinking FBA have ppl that fuck with us. If the states were to crash everything will be exposed.
My brother I'm so happy that you eloquently wrote this because some people here just could not comprehend what he's talking about. That shows that some people are really not educated. And that they don't have passports 😂. Africa is our base point blank period
He's wrong.....the African American base is in the American South.
We have the south. Every state in the south has at least 30% African Americans. The culture lives there.
At the end of the day, do your homework as a community and implement unity beyond ignorance.💯
Burna didn’t even say AA don’t have culture 😢
Burna boy literally said "The fans called it the afro moonwalk" 😂😂, y'all tweaking fr
Yall acting like he said something with malicious intent. He was literally trying to unify people and yall are taking it as a diss
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How can you unify anything if you stepping on people who have the culture 😊
@@bigdre912what culture 😂
@@bigdre912bro how is he stepping on anybody? How was anything he said a diss? I am Caribbean, I can't trace my roots passed a certain point either. How is him encouraging us to tap in with the motherland a diss?
@@micahjohnson138 blues note was invented by African Americans
I love how the actual audio of him saying this can’t be found literally anywhere but for some reason it’s still being talked about.
People are too quick to criticize and too slow to celebrate. It’s sad
The audio he played is all there is and we are still offended because he needed to stop telling us we don't know who we are while he is trying to be like us.
We do know who we are better than Nigerians know who they are.
Also this is only said about Americans what about the rest of the diaspora?
Please can you repeat what he said that was wrong
You guys are just so demn unnecessarily emotional over everything even when you are being told the truth
@@jerrygraves6531how are my even sure you are a black person? You could be one of the pinks paid to keep the division. There are lots of you guys on internet paid to do this job
I think we’ve got bigger problems than tryna beef with Burna Boy
Burna said nothing wrong. He acknowledged that African-Americans are part of the diaspora and could benefit from really taking time to understand our roots ON TOP of being African-American. Knowledge of self and one’s history is powerful and that was his message. Anything else that people took from this is adding on to or projecting on what he was tryna say.
He shouldn’t speak on something he doesn’t know and vice versa. If Kendrick Lamar came out and started talking about how corrupt Nigeria is and how it’s people only identity is scamming and deceit it would be a story seven though he wouldn’t be saying anything wrong
@@mynoseisdirty1250 but your hypothetical is based on a false equivalency tho. When did Burna say that all African-Americans do is scam, shoot and steal? And if Kendrick made a true statement on Nigerian culture, I don’t think that it would be an indictment against him. Why do we as Black Americans get so offended when people who are still tapped into our culture enough make an observation, when if somebody like Jay-Z (who is undoubtedly FROM the culture) said this same thing we’d all agree as if it’s some profound wisdom?
@@FamilyFirstVez you said that I made a dumb statement then said that a black man talking about another black man’s culture would be like a white man telling us what nigga means 😂 no sir those are two very different things and like the comment above, is a false equivalency. Burna is speaking on a culture that’s embraced him and simply saying that learning our roots can help us is in NO WAY dismissive of our plight.
We not from Africa
Yall be pushing we African like they look like us.. African phenotypes aren't limited to dark skin and big noses. Aboriginals look African, how about pacific islander? Ok😊
As a Black American I agree with everything he said. We gotta stop acting like truth isn’t truth just because it hurt some feelings 🤦🏾♂️
You know we're the most Sensitive when it comes to acknowledging the TRUTH
Them people sold blacks into slavery, we got the same skin tone but we not the same people. Our ancestors are from the bloodline of the most high.
@@YungShadBeatz we aren’t the only ones to ever be sold into slavery, the world has been that way since the beginning. U gonna hold Burna Boy accountable for something that was done hundreds of years ago?
@@YungShadBeatz no that’s actually more like saying French people and German people are the same cuz they got the same skin color lol everyone on this planet has had their time to be the winners and their time to be the losers. Study world history
@@YungShadBeatz you think Africans care 😂😂😂😂
FBA culture birthed endless cultural clothes style, rock n roll, rnb music , Rap hip hop and all the styles of image and flows. Soul food. Every popular dance in the last 50 years. Worldwide impact let’s not talk about all the inventions during American slavery
Same soul food that big mama lost her arm from.
@@hueyfreeman5509 FBA is Foundational Black American Culture which eliminates anyone that did not come from American chaddle slavery and is perfect to encompass who Black Americans are without someone of tether mind expressing what and how we move and politic. I can’t come to Jamaica and tell them people shit about who and what they culture is so we got the same respect and it will not be dismissed by someone who not one of us
@@hueyfreeman5509 you can believe what you want. All the talking point anti Tariq bias is yours to cherish but FBA is our code and it empowers us as a culture as Black Americans. We stand for empowerment and the world gotta bow down to what we proclaim. FBA not going anywhere and as the soul of the term permeates it will grow like hip hop influence has grown only it’s a specific group which absent of it we have been co-opted politically. Those days are over so feel how you feel but we not asking nobody permission to be who we are. God bless
@@hueyfreeman5509 that goofy cult gets to yapping like they speak for all Black Americans but you go outside and ask random people and youll go through hundreds of people before anyone knows what that is.
@@hueyfreeman5509great … now back to the point . Stop arguing semantics ….
He is not lying
Burna boy tuff yo play that taliban remix burna boy killed that ish 😂😂😂😂
Saying burna is early in his career is crazy no cap…
Burna Boy is speaking facts can't get mad at that.
He’s NOT speaking Factz
@@amenxblack american think they are indian 😂
@@micahjohnson138 all of us originate from Africa. You sound jealous bro stop it it’s unhealthy
@@amenx why i would be jealous i defend real black american like micah Johnson everyday i just hate the 1 who hate african but are nice with white people
@@micahjohnson138 A lot are , Blks and Indians mixed.
IDGAF me and the homies still listen to Burna and will continue to listen to him. I live in NYC and NYC don't own Timbs, we don't even be rocking that shit like anymore. 🔥
Sounds like jealousy over afrobeats taking over 🤣🤣🤣
It’s taking over? I’ve never heard one afro beats song in my life. Just learned who he was.
Let Afro beats be African. Don’t copy black Americans
Taking over new York cause of all the African immigrants there but literally no one listens that shit
Grow up, you don't get any money from it
@@HenagaHblacks/African originated from Africa you fool 🤣 🤣
Burna is our brother. We rock with him👍🏾💪🏾
@@aniyax4023 Black american man and women revolutionized the entire world. We know its Jealousy and envy. We have been put against eachother long enough. Its all miseducation.
foh immigrant
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm revolutionized the world how please
@@tylergriffin2499 Do your research. I dont have the time to educate ignorance
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm tell me how I don’t need to tell me
When people want to get things twisted. Things will get twisted.
He has no right to speak on us as if his people have things together more than us when he's literally trying to copy and steal from fba excellence.
He needed to be putting respect on our nameand watch three heights from which he speaks.
Burna boy is not lying in his statement 💯💯
You must didn't hear when the guys said Gullah geechie and Creoles, that debunked everything he said.
@@sacatracreoleoflouisiana8337why do you care about what others says instead using your brain to think for yourself. What was it he said that was wrong?
@@stevenwilliams3015 He said African Americans had no culture, and lost." Meaning we don't know culture. I bring up Gullah and Creoles and you still don't get it
@@stevenwilliams3015 and if you don't want a response get off the Internet, now what brain 🧠 you have to say what you want and nobody responds? Who you think you are?
Still yet to find the video where he says it literally “black Americans have no culture” can someone share a link
@@lMcFlyylyeah still didn’t hear black Americans have no culture
Is no vidéo, just jalousy hahahhh
@@Lhoyte1the problem is that black Americans think their better than African and Caribbean blacks
@@lMcFlyylI did but still looking for the exact video he said AA don't have culture. Do you have it? If you do share me the link
I’m ashamed of how sensitive, divisive, with the victim mentality black people have. plus burna said the “fans” call it the afro moonwalk, like people are just brain dead.
We have a problem as a global black/African race.
Where your family from, I’m trying to see something??
@@MrSP5400 In other words, you want to know if i qualified to be a victim or not.
@@MrSP5400 sounds like you're trying to use your cognitive bias to judge him
@@basileejero3768Nope! Just trying to determine if he’s a tether. Fled his home country and trying to lecture Black Americans.
It’s funny cuz he never said that, he was just speaking to black diaspora returning back to Africa to connect with their nativity, English not his first language so he was just misinterpreted. I understand why some artists choose not to be political.
Burna Representing the WU, he’s aight with me #WuTangForever
No division. BurNa boy just got to watch his words when speaking about the people👊👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿 #onelove
So you guys don't want to be told the truth that could help every black person on earth. You prefer your democrat Party telling y'all lies, right? So strange
Why do some African Americans take exception to everything?? Even when you try to show them love they get offended real quick
First of all, if an American is saying that blacks from the Caribbean didn’t experience the same practices in slavery is downright wrong.
Also, Burna boy wasn’t wrong in what he was saying. He wasn’t discrediting African Americans; he just pointed out the fact that we don’t have that home base connection as other Americans, simple.
Was there breeding farms in the caribbean and did they experience having their private parts cutoff and ate as well?
@@down-b8197 now what makes you think there would be much of a difference? Use your head or read the history. SMH
@@seńor_t007
You said they experienced the same practices I'm asking you if they experienced something we experienced... Are you saying there was a difference? Also, did Caribbeans experience jim crow? What's the caribbean jim crow?
@@down-b8197 can you not read? And we’re talking about acts of slavery, Jim Crow has nothing to do with SLAVERY.
@@seńor_t007
Jim Crow has everything to do with slavery... They used jim crow laws to force Black people back into chattel slavery by sentencing Black Americans. They forced them back on plantations but people ignored it because they was charged with a crime but in most cases they was unjustly convicted by an all white jury or charged with vagrancy which is homelessness. They released Black people into the America with no reparations after slavery and then criminalized homelessness and poverty to force us back onto plantations.
Akademiks is right.
You can get mad but it's facts what he said.
When you are winning they have to hate it’s rules from the universe
If you don’t have any haters, make some new ones
😂mf just get mad over anything 😂🤣🤣
Bro fr
Black Americans don’t have the same smoke for the Hispanics. They always appropriate from black people.
Friend, many Hispanics are mestizos. That means we are a mixed race of indigenous, European & African. We cannot appropriate what is also our roots
@@scarletsletter4466 Yall only claim the African roots whenever its convenient
@@aniyax4023 what do you mean y’all “y’all emigrant to being around us”?
As a black man he ain’t lying
🦝
@@KThangcrazy me a coon..dats crazy..
@@KThangcrazylmaooooo 😂😂😂 nah coon is crazy.
@Roadrunnaracing that's the best you can do smh
@@KThangcrazyu thought u ate with this one right? Lmao
Much respect to AKK for helping us clarify all of these misconceptions. I have been saying it for ages: We are black, we are all Africans, no matter where we are from period.
Bob Marley sang and preached this concern in his songs.
Jamaicans, Black Americans, Nigerians, Ethiopians….we are all one.
Burna boy holding it down for london n africa 🔥
Black American here , and burna boy that was shady AF. I hate when Africans and non black Americans throw shade and pretend it’s under the guise of black unity . Don’t diminish anyone else’s culture. Especially when you’re cosplaying it! Had he shown respect nobody would be upset with him being in the culture and embraced him
They def be cosplayin our Shit. But I do think it’s time for black Americans to evolve our culture. Some of the Shit is played out.
You right I'm African and I seen a lot of hip hop artist doing that shit before Burna boy. But you wrong African Americans be throwing shade at other blacks and other blacks throw shade back. It goes both way
Another Black American here and I gotta disagree. Burna never said “African Americans have no culture”, he said that our culture in the western world is diminished because we don’t have the same ties to our original roots whether that be from Africa, The Caribbean’s, etc. which is 100% true. He clearly acknowledges our culture, but says that we could be stronger if we reconnected with our roots on top of the culture we’ve created here, which I gotta agree with.
Because of slavery you’ve got a lot of black folks who simply identify as “black” which is such a vague and broad spectrum that it really doesn’t narrow anything down. Knowing your culture empowers you, and that’s what I took from his message.
@@xaviercr92thank you for this comment.. I don’t see why folks are triggered… and before anyone yaps, I was BORN AND RAISED in the U.S.
@@hueyfreeman5509 when he said that we didn’t “know where we came from” like DUH we was sold into slavery by other Africans . But in America we’ve built our own culture so that remark was stupid and clearly irrelevant considering he knows enough of our culture to sample our music and cosplay our fashion
He sitting on top of the world
Actually isnt usher from Tennessee 😂😂
He's 10000% right
Bruh we can fight a better cause 😂
I hear black Americans say how Africa the motherland and everything came from Africa now they wana say they taking from Americans 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cause we Americans lol
@@mafamac4069bro those are Afrocentrists …. Stop conflating . Also why do you guys not build there ?
That dance move is called the " leg work" it populirized by a nigerian artist called zlatan many other Nigerian artist do it americans need to chill😂
The same people who talk about race non stop are also the ones who claim to hate it
People will complain about anything
nobody is giving burna boy heat, we love Burna Boy
Plus he said the fans called it the afro moonwalk
Bravo to the gentleman who spoke on the Gullah Geechee culture.
Unfortunately people don't understand how vast and massive the US is.
Gullah Geechee culture is very similar to many Caribbean creole languages.
Tru story I'm both , dad is Louisiana creole mom is Gullah geechie
As if Hip Hop ain't make their biggest hits from sampling music from other cultures outside America, AKA Scott Stotch biggest hits for rappers.
Stop making sense . They don't like that .
Lies and 🧢
Hip pop artists in America have also been sampling African music
@@dominiquequajan7410I remember Beyonce n her dancers trying to emulate our dance moves, they only reached out to the dancers because they couldn't get the rythm lol
Don't forget the big pimping sample and other world music sampled in hiphop
This is gangsta walking started in Memphis early 80's. facts
He never said he started it, he said what the fans call it
He's still a dope ass artist
Not really
@@vamoneygroupThe hate is oozing off of you
@@vamoneygroupyou’re definitely in denial
@@KingVerz16 I didn't say you can't like him. If I don't that's my view point.
@@vamoneygroup you have poor taste how can you deny that versatility, that voice, that creativity……. Smh
He didn't call it Afro Moonwalk, we his fans called it Afro moonwalk and he heard it
Who ever flipped that Jeremiah sample is dope.
Timberland is a white owned company lol what are we doing here😂
Everyone wants to be angry with someone make money and looking after your family. This is just distraction
News flash, if America doesnt want him he still has the rest of the world rocking with him😂
@mizzop sure but oddly he found true success when he came to our land and got on songs with our people
@@mikejones-wn1swtrue success? You must know nothing about Burna boy. He's been successful, rich, traveling the world, doing shows all over Europe, Caribbean, South America, way before he sampled one African American song. Just say, you are just now getting to know the African giant.
@@adelestears8298 he was born into money, that does not make you a successful individual. His album just dropped right? He sold 21k his first week. That is called a flop in America. To africans this may be what success looks like.
But he is 100% right tho. 🤷🏾♂️ next topic lol
He got the home base analogy from Dr Umar Johnson
I’m 🇯🇲 but born In America, but here my question why do Jamaicans feel like they ain’t from Africa too ?????
Because they either have short memories or do not know their history. There was once a famous Jamaican reggae artist who said..where ever you come from as long as you a black man you are an .....😊
If you want to be offended then just do that. But the information is there to NOT be offended. For one, he never said AA don’t have any culture (he said there isn’t a base for AA, so we should all unite so we can have utilize each other. Lastly he never said he named the dance, he said “The fans named it Afro Moonwalk”
Ebro said it, labels are not signing rap artists like they did before cuz all rap is doing is talk about murder and it’s not danceable. Afro and Latin music is the future
The they coincidentally found a reason to be upset at the 1 of the biggest Afro beats artist. Can’t make this shit up
@anegroperspective1359 I didn’t say it, Ebro did, but you go ahead brothers
@anegroperspective1359delusional black American Music is at an all time low…Burna boy is a big artist only Drake , coke , Kendrick can pull more numbers in touring than Burna boy in America and internationally
@@HypeEvansBlack american music is still alive in ALL music. There's just different sub cultures that black american music influenced. Black Americans will always dominate everything we touch.
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lm your music is trash at the moment…The Africans are making better music. It shows in touring not just only Burna boy but Rema , wizkid davido etc these guys will outsell durk and lil baby in Europe while touring
Where is this video where Burna boy says African-Americans have no culture? Because apparently no one can find it but we’re still here talking about it.
American be jealous hating on U.K. MUSIC doing better
I’m still trying to find where burna said American Africans have no culture.
Big up our tribes!!! No division
That’s why he got those hits everyone using the 2000s r&b sample that’s how you get a hit these days
He was way successful before the minimal samples he may do….you’ll just anger him and he’ll stop..then those mouth won’t get fed!
@@chiefpharoah he was not in america though
@@sammymobs3889 you’re arrogant..there is a whole world outside America you know…yes he was successful in USA,…he was ‘underground’
@@chiefpharoah do I have to spell it out that’s what I am saying!!! Man some people don’t get it mr ABE
@@chiefpharoah you must not have got the memo in class they really had to spell it out for you
The tethers gonna be heavy on this post.
@@hueyfreeman5509 a salted tether...
Burna boy ain’t say shjt wrong i thought it was some bs but i agree w him and i sensed no malice he seemed like he genuinely wanted represent for black folk while acknowledging how displaced we are
Nigerians around Burna’s age came up on 90s/00s Hip Hop, R&B and Dancehall. If anything Black Americans have inspired greatness in Burna, and the Man has paid homage implicitly and explicitly several times. Even the Gullah and Geechie acknowledge their West African roots. Let’s stop majoring in the minors!
Its easier for us to fight each other than to fight the yt man
He said in the interview he was influenced by New York rappers well I don’t blame him. When New York was running hip hop that’s when hip hop was good.
One word, Sisqo🐲
Drake and ASAP appropriating English Black culture then too?
Yupp
No his dads from Memphis
Why don’t the Nigerians ask the Japanese why Japan love our melting pot of a culture(English,Spanish,black etc), when it comes to dancing, cars, clothes, music? Kinda like how we like their technology, clothes, cars clothes etc, everyone is a fan of every one. It’s all love at the end. Respect, you get respect when you give it. Not saying he’s disrespecting but I can see why someone would take it bad.
Not everyone likes melting Pot.,
Bruh just typed a bunch of nothing
They like our clothes but who wears their culture? I can understand anime but that's more of a American thing not a Black thing.
“Nigerians” buddy this is burnaboy in this scenario the whole of nigeria didn’t say nothing
@@ZAZUtakiyaho but you guys have had bad energy as a whole you called us Akatas time is up for your bs
We have hella dance moves in Africa 🌍
It’s just a song of words just like rap & grime we all need to appreciate burna boys bangers just stop the jealousy Ameen
Why are Caribbeans and afro Latinos like AK talkin bout FBA don't know where they come from like they weren't sold as slaves and stripped of their original african cultures.
Judah, we are the leader tribe!!
Omg lol a lot of dances can be traced back to African dance from WAAAY back in the day 😂 it’s always some drama
We didn't get sh#t from Africa. FBAs aren't African none of our culture can be traded to Africa foh
I actually thought this was a good topic to speak on AK.
black Americans just tired of being disrespected by the ppl we get exploited by
You get exploited by Africans ?
THIS IS OUR HOMELAND...WE ARE 🚫 FROM AFRICA... WE'RE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS LAND....
#WEDAWORLD
#ALLHAIL
I think it was a sensitive question that he answered casually without carefully thinking about the delivery and the consequences from his wording 🤷🏾♀️. Even with a 🧬 test its a 1 in a million chance that you may actually be able to trace all of your ancestors from original place because you will be trace to multiple tribes due to the Atlantic trade and etc. I know because I took one and so far I’m traced to a lot of the tribes there.
Akedemics is aiding in the divide but selling it off as he’s trying to stop it. He’s now the biggest network to cover this small issue being disputed by internet trolls
These FBAs are MADDDDDDDDDDDDSSS JEALOUS OTS CRAZY
Flipping Black Samples, appropriating Black culture but disowning it is crazy
Every one samples everyone man what’s the beef about lol, j cole samples old African music, Travis Scott just did it, you won’t see No African mad about that shit crazy to me
@@Ten98astro j cole don't speak down on African Culture
@@Lhoyte1 say there's no Black Culture, everything he's doing right now is Black Culture.
It's just like all other non black Americans. They learn our culture and arts and then think their better than us at it.
Lol Michael Jackson been doing ts before I was born 😭😂😭😭
But Michael Jackson moves it’s different
Everything he is saying is facts.. ak stopping making up rubbish
Early in his career?? Please check him out he's been making music
Honestly, lets end this argument. What is an American Dish ?
I think his mistake is as an African he sees culture different from how Black Americans see it.. He makes comparisons btwn Chinese and Italian Americans not taking into account the fact that these other people moved willingly from their own country and are still connected to their very own ppl and relatives back home. Which of the thousand strong cultures in Africa should the Black American connect to? I'm Nigerian and we have hundreds of cultures here.
He never said afro- Americans have no culture. HE SIMPLE WAS REFLECTING HOW Black's are viewed to the rest of the world and how Blacks as a whole should take back they Culture that was stolen. People of south, gonna have a diffrent culture shock than the north... He simply saying to not forget your roots and still go back to the original land. He just dint express it in the best way. We all share culture! The world emulates the black culture. We are all 1 in the same eye of your Beholder. We can't steal from our self nor should be fighting your own.
Black American culture * no one imitates black immigrants
You can't find it anywhere simply because HE DIDN'T SAY IT.
Folks just assumed and ran with the assumption.
He saying facts most of us dont know our roots
You don’t and that’s your problem. Do your research. I know where my great great great grandparents are from.. prime example of one person generalizing a whole community based off your singular experience.
@@KThangcrazyhes talking about your roots from before the "boat ride"
The dance burna boy did is from South Africa,it was started in Durban
its part of a dance style called bhenga dance from durban
Facts
Did he say he started it?
you not smart at all.@@themarathoncontinues4211
Crying over burna boy while the southern border is wide open is crazy typical FBA mindset 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣
FACTS!!!
Wyte people are supposed to be handling that
@@Judahscattered4corners-ms4lmso what do you guys handling then ?
Black world , let's stay together ❤❤❤
americans want to be offended at everything
@@aniyax4023How did you listen to what he said and think he doesn't like yall? Burna literally idolizes DMX. Do you honestly and genuinely think Burna Boy's intention was to diss or offend anybody by his comments?
@@aniyax4023Burna boy started ad a rapper before doing afrobeats, he idolizes DMX and Naughty by nature, do you think he'll ever make a comment dissing the culture he watched while growing up, y'all just looking for reasons to be angry
@@bingemobilecameras1444 Exactly... Burna even said that he himself loved DMX and hip hop culture even more than his own as a kid. It was only when he moved to the UK that he truly began to appreciate his own culture. These are his own words. People are making up a narrative and trying their hardest to be offended
Out of the hundreds of signed rappers, we know like 3 Africans, and now they are claiming that they are taking over. That's why we don't like them.
But we all black😂
Seriously lol
Africans arent black they African
Shit crazy
@@Hendrixxthekid who gaf
So ? The world war was all white …. Wtf kinda reasoning . Guys stop the world war we all white …. Now that we’ve got that sorted ..