Musician Reacts: Residente - This is Not America (Reaction to Rap) (Official Video) ft. Ibeyi

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025

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  • @Javinathalia28
    @Javinathalia28 2 года назад +129

    The problem is when you say America to refer to the United States, since America is a continent, all the things that appear in the video are references to real things that happened in different Latin and Central American countries.

    • @bigsergio04mex
      @bigsergio04mex 2 года назад +6

      Bien dicho Javi...pero se me hace que este guerito no tiene ni idea de lo que se está hablando.

    • @janethelizabethblanco5487
      @janethelizabethblanco5487 2 года назад +13

      Real things that the U.S. Also played a role in. Very true.
      The US fails to acknowledge a lot of its own history.. but a big issue is that they fail to acknowledge that they are the United States OF America and claim the title American to be their own when its not.
      Rene makes an excellent point. The complex print, the fabric, the story and struggles of America is so much more than the U.S. issues brought up in that one Gambino song. Its intertwined from top to bottom and the imagery in the video are all historical references from our American history. I feel it is important to acknowledge that we are infact all 1. The rest of America does, why doesnt the U.S. when their role in the rest of the American countries has always been quite involved. (Just saying) .
      I hope many ppl retrain their mindset after hearing this song. 🙏🏼

    • @isaaccastro4846
      @isaaccastro4846 2 года назад +1

      @@bigsergio04mex normalmente el habla de teoria musical y asi, no se enfoca en letras y menos temas sociales

    • @Javinathalia28
      @Javinathalia28 2 года назад +2

      @@isaaccastro4846 Si, pero en sus comentario sobre el tema que sea sigue refiriéndose a Estados Unidos como America y ese es el problema principal el tema que toca la canción, la base

    • @jhohandrivas2560
      @jhohandrivas2560 4 месяца назад

      ​@janethelizabethblanco5487 since I had memorie... y'all thr white of the north...they be playing this gods game.. deciding who lives who dies.. and let's not forget about the millions of refugees you've created in Middle eats.. and yet y'all be bitchin about imigrants...

  • @HARRISONAYALA
    @HARRISONAYALA 2 года назад +56

    Some references: The song is in response to Childish Gambino for his song "This is America". America is a whole continent and not just the USA. The image at the beginning makes an apology for an artistic work by Chilean Alfredo Jaar exhibited on 5th Avenue in New York (This is not America). The woman who shoots is Lolita Lebron, (Puerto Rican activist who went to Congress in 1954 and demonstrated for the liberation of Puerto Rico, was imprisoned for 24 years). The essence of the video is to say that before the gringos ancestors came to invade, there were already cultures here, developed civilizations and they were exterminated, but even so, here we are, we did not leave, we do not leave. Now, the machete is a work tool that is linked to slavery but is also used as a symbol of uprising, of struggle and rebellion against the abuse of the boss, in this case of the governments of each Latin country. The woman who breastfeeds through the fence alludes to the families separated on the northern border of Mexico. The Peruvian revolutionary Túpac Amaru, an indigenous leader who rose up in times of Spanish colonization and was dismembered using horses, the missing students happened in Mexico 43 male students was taken by cops and were all murdered, also talks about the dead and disappeared during OPERATION CONDOR (state political and anti-communist repression campaign created by the United States that included intelligence operations and assassinations of opponents in almost all of America). The execution of Víctor Jara, a Chilean singer-songwriter who fought for the people and was tortured and murdered in 1973 by the Pinochet dictatorship. The women with balaclavas are from the Zapatista indigenous women's movement in the State of Chiapa (Mexico), The shirtless tattooed men are Central American gangs like "La Marasalvatrucha" emerged from the lack of opportunities in Central American countries. The one who wipes his mouth with the flag is the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (for the burning of the Amazon rainforest to turn it into pasture for cattle and crops). It mentions 5 presidents in 11 days, it happened in Argentina in 2001 (the banks kept the people's savings and there was a revolt that expelled the president), it also shows the protests in Venezuela against the dictatorial regime of Nicolas Maduro, including the protestant that they burned in the middle of the march, in the same way the mobilizations in Colombia in 2021 against the government of Iván Duque where the Police cruelly murdered young people, left others blind and raped protestant women. The black woman dressed in colors is a palenquera, a representative fruit seller of Cartagena Colombia. Throughout the video you see the presence of transnational brands that sell garbage to Latinos. Finally, the statue of liberty replaced by the figure of a native aboriginal chief and the Aztec temple in the middle of the city accentuate the idea of ​​the video, we were here first.

  • @janethelizabethblanco5487
    @janethelizabethblanco5487 2 года назад +49

    The US fails to acknowledge a lot of its own history.. but a big issue is that they fail to acknowledge that they are the United States OF America and claim the title American to be their own when its not. Even now in this reaction "in america, us americans" ...everyone else calls the U.S. the United States.
    Rene (RESIDENTE) makes an excellent point. The complex print, the fabric, the story and struggles of America is so much more than the U.S. issues brought up in that one Gambino song. Its intertwined from top to bottom and the imagery in the video are all historical references from our American history. I feel it is important to acknowledge that we are infact all 1. The rest of America does, why doesnt the U.S. when their role in the rest of the American countries has always been quite involved. (Alot of the Historical events that are scenes displayed in this video had U.S. involvement- Just saying) .
    I hope many ppl retrain their mindset after hearing this song

  • @antosilveira8776
    @antosilveira8776 2 года назад +18

    Does the USA care about their natives? Because this video also says a lot about how the natives were treated since the beggining... we're not the only ones with a "forgotten history", you know?!

  • @sebavhal6598
    @sebavhal6598 2 года назад +52

    america is a continent not a country..USA is not america

    • @USMERCENARYm4a1
      @USMERCENARYm4a1 2 года назад +3

      Just like the people from Africa are called Africans regardless of what country they are, the people from America are Americans regardless of what country they are from. and referring to the A in America, Its the United States**OF**America. implying its from the American continent.. your not an American.. You're an United Statesman from America..

    • @USMERCENARYm4a1
      @USMERCENARYm4a1 2 года назад

      @Crash Davis 👆👆

  • @1brickrow
    @1brickrow 2 года назад +37

    A small change you can do is not to refer the US as America. We are all in America. Greetings from Puerto Rico🇵🇷❤️

  • @Ale33810
    @Ale33810 2 года назад +15

    You said the "two continents". Here in Europe at school we learn that the continents are five: Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and America. Only one America.

  • @rosyoro1815
    @rosyoro1815 2 года назад +14

    It is a pity that many North Americans know almost nothing of what is shown in the video, after all it is also America, that is the message, we are also Americans and we have been since before you came here, we were here and here we continue, don't forget, someone could tell you that he is from Ecuador and they ask what part of Mexico he is in, and that is the problem, it is something to reflect on.
    By the way Haiti is also America, and there are more than 25 countries

  • @miacarr787
    @miacarr787 2 года назад +11

    Yes he is talking about that USA is not only “AMERICA”.. America includes Latinos too. That’s why he uses the reference of “this is not America” with the picture of USA.

  • @a_p_vox
    @a_p_vox 2 года назад +7

    5:20 that says everything.

  • @angievsantiago
    @angievsantiago 2 года назад +5

    In the U.S the majority not all are conditioned to think that America only consist of the U.S when in reality the whole continent of America is from Canada to the most southern tip of South America and the over 700 hundred islands in the Caribbean.

    • @angievsantiago
      @angievsantiago 2 года назад

      Did I touch a nerve Bubba?It's not a matter of what I want to believe. Are you seriously going to debate the fact that the continent of America does not only consist of the U.S? Do you even know what a continent is? Let me school you,there are 7.
      I'm guessing here that you failed geography too, instead of getting your undies in bunch read a book and educate yourself because from where I'm sitting you're coming across as an oaf.

  • @catndi
    @catndi 2 года назад +10

    The criticism of using "americans" as a gentilice??(denomyn?? Srry I don't remember the correct english word rn) of one country when it's the identity of a whole continent it's just the tip of the iceberg that englobes?? Or encompasses the importance of not forgetting us that are americans too, especially with how much harm was done to us by the usa, it's a shout out to not take and appropriate something that is also our identity, to not monopolize it because that is another form of imperialism. (That's why the anti-imperialism term "usanian" was created but never got popular enough. Smth just a bit similar, with a different result, happened with the change of a plural pronoun as they/them for a neutral pronoun for non-binary people. It was a long way to get there but y'all did and now we're trying to do the same in spanish for example) but anyway, the imperialism thing is what the song points out and gives it a closure doing a shout out to childish gambino for his song "This is america" that may have been better to be called "This is USA" bcs it is a valid song as well, but just for one country of the whole continent... The man with the guitar being shooted in that same scene is a representation of victor jara, a chilean artist that was tortured and shooted forty so times by the government's military force during pinochet's dictatorship (one of the many dictatorships financed by the usa during the 60/70/80s)
    You could google search about the condor operation. Or lolita lebron (the woman at the beginning of the video) It's a quick search if you're interested in understanding something of what you've just reacted.
    "One thing is to be ignorant and another thing is to choose to be an ignorant" I know it sounds hush and I don't mean it as an aggression nor do I refer to you directly with the phrase bcs It's understandable to not know about our history but USA is not an outsider when it comes to the tragedies that happened/are happening in latinoamérica and I guess what it hurts to us is the fact that no one teaches, and therefore neither do y'all know, HOW MUCH the usa influenced, directly and indirectly, the political and economic aspects of our region.
    I believe the important thing is always to not close our eyes once they've been opened, even if it was just a bit, and try to learn about it.
    And If you would like a deeper understanding "the open veins of Latin America" is a book that could put you in context with the video.
    There are too many reference of our history in this music video from mexico to brasil, argentina, chile, perú, puerto rico, colombia, venezuela an so on and they're from a very long time ago (and not so long too) so it'd be impossible for me to comment them all here but for instance, many of the protests shots of the video were actual references to well known pictures we for sure have seen on the news and that's what makes the video SO powerful (the one of the girl standing in front of the police almost nose to nose is of a girl from chile and the protester in flames is from venezuela) they're all too real and hit close home.
    Thanks for the genuine reaction but more important I hope you get to learn anything from it :)

    • @kjurpjdpihe9096
      @kjurpjdpihe9096 2 года назад +2

      It france we initially used the therm etats-uniens (etasunian for the prononciation) to refer to them but since they've proclaimed themselves americans now we call them americains... i hope this change

    • @kjurpjdpihe9096
      @kjurpjdpihe9096 2 года назад +2

      Idk theres si much words yhat could be used, such as : staters? Uniters? Everything but americans...

    • @laurainathunderstorm
      @laurainathunderstorm Год назад

      ​@@kjurpjdpihe9096 yes, in Spanish we have "estado unidenses" from Estados Unidos (United States), thankfully "americanos" hasn't stuck much and I barely hear it around.

  • @CarlosLopez-xf5ql
    @CarlosLopez-xf5ql 2 года назад +12

    You kind of right but yeah each scene represents something historical

  • @zekigpr
    @zekigpr 11 месяцев назад +2

    United States Imperialism in Latin America.... video starts with Lolita Lebron in her protest in Congress, 1954. If the Empire will not listen to us we will shoot their ears open, paraphrasing Pedro Albizu campos. She did indeed. A Puerto Rican National Heroine.

  • @art_ventrue
    @art_ventrue 2 года назад +11

    Dude, it's not so hard to understand, USA ≠ America.

    • @art_ventrue
      @art_ventrue 2 года назад

      @Crash Davis that's because many people is used to that word, which doesn't mean it's correct, also it's not about self esteem, it's just the misuse of the word, not everyone is like this rapper, he's a mmmm so resentful person many ways, example, I don't like this rapper, but objectively, he's saying something right, then the problem is the way he focus the problem xD, makes it look much bigger than it really is, and most people who follows him will cry and support his indisputable word blindly because he's overrated. That's what makes it look, like anyone is sooo interested in this topic, if he would say the opposite, result would be the same. But that doesn't mean he's saying something wrong, yes, USA ≠ America, it can be confusing for some people or can create a false perception of the whole continent, it's understandable knowing why the USA are called like that, because the history of the name and the popular adoption, but it's not right, anyways the problem is much smaller than this song makes it look, because everyone lives a normal life and even don't notice, what it's really a problem is that this guy can't understand a so simple and direct message haha because he doesn't look like a kid. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @Tomodachi91ve
    @Tomodachi91ve 2 года назад +4

    America is not "2 continents" is ONE continent named AMERICA, which goes from Chile to Canada. America is not USA only, and all of us from all the countries are AMERICANS.

  • @rosaalvarado7876
    @rosaalvarado7876 2 года назад +2

    Respect for this reaction!

  • @КорольМаньяковЧерноеСолнце

    Victor Jara - El Derecho De Vivir En Paz
    - Наше Право - строить мир Всегда.
    Наше Право - строить мир,
    Для всех, как для себя.
    Кем был ты это Война,
    О том забыть Нельзя.
    Сожжём оружье до тла,
    Сотрём ненависть из себя,
    Наше Право - строить мир Всегда.
    Если вновь обратят в раба,
    Сея ненависть в сердцах,
    Ложь иллюзий расцветёт,
    Воду превращая в напалм,
    Мы вспомним
    что мир не побежден
    Объединяющей
    песнью веков
    Наше Право - строить мир Всегда.

  • @ALEXPKQ
    @ALEXPKQ 2 года назад +2

    Because only in US teach you America is 2 continents and in the rest of "The Americas" in school teach us America is one continent. For you there is 7 continents North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antartida for us is only 5 continents America, Europa, Asia, Africa and Oceania. You dont have a name for your citizenship and thats why you named "Americans" but for us u have a real name, in spanish u r "Estadounidenses".

  • @isaaccastro4846
    @isaaccastro4846 2 года назад +1

    For all the americans, take it with a grain of salt, he likes to diss everyone.
    Also, that represented historical events that affected latin america in very deep ways here, even to this day

  • @oskool___
    @oskool___ 2 года назад

    6402 young people killed in colombia by the government and presented like strikes to guerrillas ,we call the false positives, to this black chapter of our beautiful country thank you residente for letting the world to know

  • @Rc7-19
    @Rc7-19 2 года назад +1

    Why do you call United States America? That's the point of the video! This is not America! America is a continent

  • @virginiamayorga1572
    @virginiamayorga1572 2 года назад +3

    Nicaragua is América

  • @juanheredia2293
    @juanheredia2293 2 года назад

    i get what you mean about being to comfortable to revolt but thats only some Americans. We dont have the worlds biggest prison population for no reason.

  • @angelicahernandezb
    @angelicahernandezb 3 месяца назад

    Another person who missed the point of this song, it's about the US not acknowledging that they are only one small part of AMERICA and not the whole

  • @ca.lunaaa
    @ca.lunaaa Год назад +4

    Sir there is no “both continents” America is one continent 😑

  • @КорольМаньяковЧерноеСолнце

    Residente - This is Not America ft. Ibeyi
    [Intro: Residente]
    Tamo' aquí
    Oye, que estamo' aquí
    'Perame, tamo' aquí
    [Verso 1: Residente]
    Desde hace rato, cuando uste' llegaron
    Ya estaban las huella' de nuestro' zapato'
    Se robaron hasta la comida 'e gato
    Y todavía se están lamiendo el plato
    Bien encabrona'o con estos ingrato'
    Hoy le doy duro a los tambore', hasta que me acusen de maltrato
    Si no entiendes el dato
    Pues te lo tiro en cumbia, bossa nova, tango o vallenato
    A lo calabó o bambú, bien frontú
    Con sangre caliente como Tombuctú
    Estamo' dentro del menú
    2Pac se llama 2Pac, por Túpac Amaru del Perú
    América no es solo USA, papá
    Esto es desde Tierra del Fuego hasta Canadá
    Hay que ser bien bruto, bien hueco
    Es como decir que África e' solo Marrueco'
    Estos canalla'
    Se les olvidó que el calendario que usan se lo inventaron lo' Mayas
    Con la Valdivia precolombina
    Desde hace tiempo, ah, este continente camina
    Pero ni con to'a la marina
    Pueden sacar de la vitrina la peste campesina
    Esto va pa'l capataz de la empresa
    El machete no es solo pa' cortar caña', también es pa' cortar cabeza'
    [Coro: Ibeyi]
    Aquí estamo', siempre estamo'
    No nos fuimo', no nos vamo'
    Aquí estamo' pa' que te recuerde
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde
    Aquí estamo', siempre estamo'
    No nos fuimo', no nos vamo'
    Aquí estamo' pa' que te recuerde
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Te muerde, ah, te muerde, ah
    [Verso 2: Residente]
    Los paramilitare', las guerrilla'
    Los hijos del conflicto, las pandilla'
    Las listas negra', los falsos positivo'
    Los periodista' asesinado', los desaparecidos
    Los narco-gobiernos, todo lo que robaron
    Los que se manifiestan y los que se olvidaron
    Las persecuciones, los golpes de estado
    El país en quiebra, los exiliados, el peso devaluado
    El tráfico de drogas, los carteles
    Las invasione', los emigrante' sin papele'
    Cinco presidente' en once días
    Disparo a quemarropa por parte de la policía
    Más de cien años de tortura
    La Nova Trova cantando en plena dictadura
    Somo' la sangre que sopla, la presión atmosférica
    Gambino, mi hermano, esto sí es América
    [Coro: Ibeyi]
    Aquí estamo', siempre estamo'
    No nos fuimo', no nos vamo'
    Aquí estamo' pa' que te recuerde
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde
    Aquí estamo', siempre estamo'
    No nos fuimo', no nos vamo'
    Aquí estamo' pa' que te recuerde
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Si quiere', mi machete te muerde, ah
    Te muerde, ah, te muerde, ah

  • @КорольМаньяковЧерноеСолнце

    Жизнь это Борьба. Да.
    Личность это Борьба. Да.
    Любовь это Борьба. Да.
    Будущее это дети Советов.

  • @GastonDavid-fn4zy
    @GastonDavid-fn4zy Месяц назад

    Hay 5 continentes en el planeta Asia, América, África, Antártida, Oceanía y Europa.. simple

  • @mariana621
    @mariana621 2 года назад

    El viejo y confiable "the system is broken" XD.

  • @santiagogonzalez8775
    @santiagogonzalez8775 2 года назад +1

    AMERICA is a continent!

  • @heymary6788
    @heymary6788 Месяц назад

    America is only one continent, not two.

  • @TnPzz
    @TnPzz 2 года назад +3

    HONDURAS IS AMERICA

  • @nataliameyer4947
    @nataliameyer4947 2 месяца назад

    You màde me think when you said ....i live comfortably...at least just enough , specially if you own your 🏠 you will not revault ✊✊✊✊

  • @jhohandrivas2560
    @jhohandrivas2560 4 месяца назад

    It's pretty simple... when y'all be talking about america.. you proly have forgotten.... that only 2 countries..can understand your language inside of america...... so.. learn this. America is more than Europeans callin themselves americans....

  • @indiorodriguez2188
    @indiorodriguez2188 2 года назад

    Not bad my dude ... 🔥🇵🇷

  • @seba.s5287
    @seba.s5287 2 года назад +1

    reacct to WAR of RESIDENTE!! its one of the best SONG with a deep instrumental, lyric and viedeo

  • @cristianramirez2609
    @cristianramirez2609 2 года назад +2

    The “forgotten history” 🤦‍♂️

    • @1brickrow
      @1brickrow 2 года назад +1

      the repressed history

  • @Kimloost
    @Kimloost 2 месяца назад

    WYM THE TWO CONTINENTS, There is only one America, it has SUB divisions but it is still ONE America... or is Africa not only one continent? Asia? Europe? be so fr

  • @jeanettebadilloorrego1861
    @jeanettebadilloorrego1861 2 года назад +2

    Residente siempre dando lo mejor y verdadero en sus videos y canciones

  • @20paito08
    @20paito08 2 года назад

    It’s one continent... the americas

    • @lunamoon203
      @lunamoon203 2 года назад +1

      It's one continent. América! In singular América! Why The Americas? Why?

  • @elpibe2020
    @elpibe2020 2 года назад

    what about "Staters"? The united Staters.

  • @КорольМаньяковЧерноеСолнце

    У Бесчестия Нет Будущего.

  • @Tatiana-ne8fc
    @Tatiana-ne8fc 2 года назад

    Centésima primera.

  • @CarlosLopez-xf5ql
    @CarlosLopez-xf5ql 2 года назад

    ????