The track is Residente’s first official single in a year and a half. With This is Not Americahe signs a collaboration with the Franco-Cuban twins Ibeyi.
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The title and the clip, directed by the French Gregory Ohrel, to whom we already owe several clips of Orelsan, Booba or Jain, lead a charge against the pride of the United States which has appropriated the word ” America”, while the term brings together two continents: “America is not just the United States, he sings, it extends from Tierra del Fuego to Canada. »
He also denounces US imperialism, which has eradicated entire populations from Latin America to the Caribbean, referring to the history of colonization and slavery: “When you arrived, it had already been a while since imprint of our shoes were already there. “he launches in his rap.
At last, This is Not America highlights the inequalities that so many Latin Americans have faced for centuries. The title is also an echo of the Childish Gambino clip This is America where the singer denounced in particular urban and police violence, racism and the chaos in which the United States is plunged.
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