Rotimi on U.S. Blacks vs. African Immigrants: Being African Didn't Become Cool Until 2016 (Part 12)

[@darrellking7831]

They always want to separate us. Talk about Jewish people in Russia Vlad.

[@kolmood3798]

Right this foolery and the black ppl constantly on his platform engaging in this foolery is mind blowing.

[@richardsalmon8501]

Vlad platform can used for good. Like this man just did. Russians and jews aren't conflicting

[@darrellking7831]

@@richardsalmon8501 Your right, it can, but it most likely isn't. He doesn't talk about white issues.

[@loyalmoneytv8756]

facts

[@MegaMecoso]

He's talked about the difference between shepardic and Ashkenazi Jews

[@azitsallgood2514]

Vlad know exactly what he is doing trying to start diaspora war!

[@BlackRob1]

Tariq already started it

[@tpda1]

It's not a war..

[@jamaladem6142]

Black people over the world are doing that. We have to stop it ourselves first.

[@LilKray4556]

@@BlackRob1 Thank you. If anything this was a counter piece to what’s already going down.

[@_ElijahEarl]

@@LilKray4556it’s not a diaspora war it’s just defining your lineage separate from others.

[@mstyah]

We are all one people. The racists whites, Asians and others don’t see no difference in black people.

[@hueyfreeman5509]

Tell "fba" and tariq that, they seem to have forgotten

[@elliot2177]

I see all of us as one.Period

[@paulferguson2175]

We different culturally culture matters ​@hueyfreeman5509

[@paulferguson2175]

Japanese n Chinese are Asian but they will correct u if u mistake either cuz of CULTURE

[@coach6463]

That’s yall problem. Yall let them folk define us instead us defining ourselves. That’s a power move!

[@brandont3549]

I've been to Africa three times. And the divide and conquer plan really did a number on us. Me and one African brother and I traded information on what we were taught about each other's cultures. We both laughed when we found out that women in Africa and America all wanted a man with money😂😂😂.

[@adeezy617newonenation]

Lmaoo 😂😂😂😂

[@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC]

Bruh WOMAN EVERYWHERE 😂😂😂😂

[@Fourestgump]

There is a cultural difference between black people and Africans

[@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC]

Bruh there a cultural differences in AFRICA

[@richmoneycash1]

Vlad just starting shit once again. You ever speak about Jews vs Israelites vs Hebrews vs Russian Jews

[@thetruthsayer8347]

He is not making anything up. Tariq promotes the divisiveness and he has a large following

[@vicmantravel]

He should talk on his own people

[@JIGGAMAN186NY]

Talk to Tariq and stop blaming Vlad with your ignorant self. It is black people doing this not fcking Vlad. Take accountability for once goddamnit

[@1sicksteen6]

Tbh we dont wanna hear about them mfs we dont care

[@lmachf21]

Crazy I’m American but I always embraced my African brothers and sisters I don’t know exactly what part of Africa my roots come from but always been a fan of the culture

[@c.o.s_dre888]

We all embraced our African brothers….. we embraced them so much that we called ourselves African Americans

[@silentpapervision7039]

@@c.o.s_dre888white people called you African Americans. We accepted it like the term BLACK.

[@coach6463]

@@c.o.s_dre888lies we never wanted to be called that and it didn’t become a thing until 1988. Stop the 🧢

[@Mo1683]

The irony is, they’ve never embraced you.

[@Mo1683]

@@silentpapervision7039 👨🏾‍🏫FunFact: Jesse Jackson created..African-American term, that’s why white people called us that

[@nelsonsmash9668]

Its crazy how i see black americans treat Africans and Hatians in high school and acted disgusted by them😢 still goes on till this day!!

[@Neglakayliye]

The beef between the two never made sense

[@johnwilliam5689]

It’s not a beef they don’t like African Americans! African Americans don’t have problem with them but ofc African American is going to defend self

[@couptakeover]

@@johnwilliam5689What you are doing right now is making a generalization. He just spoke about how black American kids used to bully African immigrants. So to say that no black Americans had a problem with Africans is a lie. Also, there are many more Africans that embrace and love black American culture than those that don’t. The biggest reason for the misconception of ‘Africans don’t like black Americans and visa versa is because of media that neither black Americans or Africans control. Even in this interview, we have Vlad (a non African) asking questions that will cause people like you to make ignorant comments without understanding how this type of media content can cause a divide. Every black political activist whether from America or a country in Africa who tried to bring blacks worldwide together were either smeared in the media (that blacks don’t control), imprisoned or assassinated. You think this is a coincidence? Wake up brotha, do some research to really understand what is going on.

[@azitsallgood2514]

@@johnwilliam5689 its the other way around stop the 🧢

[@hueyfreeman5509]

@@johnwilliam5689 Thats a lie, Black americans have always gone at africans, try asking any african who grew up here. No different than light skin vs dark skin

[@johnwilliam5689]

@@hueyfreeman5509 lol idk where y’all from we always treat Africans good! It’s from an African where i learned about the Nigeria and Ghana beef. They told me they hate each other i didn’t know it was that serious. My old college roommate was a south Africa and he white. He hate all black Africans he said they bully his family in Africa. Do that sound like African American to you or do that sound like African going against African?

[@dwillwilliams1240]

Kool Herc may be Jamaican, but he said the black American ghetto influenced him to help create hip hop….not the Caribbean, they weren’t sampling Caribbean music. They weren’t sampling American black music.

[@juniormiles6773]

Facts

[@elliot2177]

Exactly

[@b9479]

Exactly, it was created in America, with influence from other American music

[@leeChubbard]

Yep

[@YUNGRC]

We have to get along together make the world a better place

[@wellingtonuzamere3511]

As a nigerian man, Rotimi is right when he says that being African was cool in 2016. The amount of bullying black Americans used to do on new African immigrants was brutal.

[@elliot2177]

He said he got the same over there.Both are wrong, brother.We are one

[@Snpiedog]

Yall Americans was ruthless, I still need my fade 😂

[@guyfromhr846]

You don't really see videos of these accounts, but I can find a ton of evidence showing black foreigners calling us slaves.

[@tonywingfield9701]

y’all started it tbh, y’all look down on us etc even tho the reason we here is cuz of yall

[@Snpiedog]

@@tonywingfield9701 stfu, go get mad at the English white boy. In the mean time I want my fade.

[@7300Marlo]

The reason he is HERE because FBA EMBRACED AFRICA

[@Validtruth-u8u]

Your ancestors did not you. Understand the difference he never said Melcombe x or MLK discriminated him

[@Chiraqfan.]

@@Validtruth-u8ufacts

[@LilKray4556]

I agree being the son of a black American woman and a Nigerian father, I caught a lot of jokes because of it. I remember my dad showing up to my Elementary school in an African garb and the kids lit me up. This conflict between us needs to stop and I don't subscribe to Foundational Black American or anything like that. "As long as you're a black man, you are an African" - Peter Tosh

[@coach6463]

😂😂😂

[@LilKray4556]

@@coach6463 I ain’t lying. I had to learn to snap real quick. Lol

[@coach6463]

Problem is we have a very specific lineage just like everyone else but we’re not allowed to say that. We have to include everyone and everything and those days are coming to an end.

[@PoliticallyCorrectUsername]

@@coach6463Says who? You guys always act like someone is stopping you guys from calling yourselves FBA. Just don’t disrespect the continent your ancestors came from

[@coach6463]

@@PoliticallyCorrectUsernamesays all yall that cosplay us. Prime example of cosplaying FBA Kamammy Harris and Hussein Obama! There you go.

[@drfluker6773]

hip-hop/rap is a black american invention... JS

[@yasinjohnson4687]

Vlad is such a talented man. It's a shame he uses his talent to cause division & start beefs amongst people, especially Black people. He gets Tariq on his platform, squashes the beef then turns around and tries to get other guests to talk -ish about him.

[@clyderobinson3475]

💯 I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed.

[@oteliadavid7507]

This just made my day better!

[@marshajohnson6360]

You don't even have the right please VLAD you always have to bring devices in a conversation.

[@sonjahomer5381]

The best thing that occurred is social media. Once social media painstakingly broke down the hidden history that was hidden or manipulated for so very long . Each of us can freely make our own determinations as to precede in connecting to our history.

[@inigo9000]

Social media is the worst thing that ever happend when it comes to misinformation & manipulating history, now every idiot with too much time and imagination can convince can convince whole groups of whatever they willin to believe because of some half truths and out of context images

[@1zparker]

What business does Vlad have talking about “tethers?” Stay out of our race relations

[@jamescameron4735]

Anybody can talk about any race. If you don't like it don't watch. Ain't nobody finna stop vlad from talking about black shit get over it

[@kgkg4118]

​@@jamescameron4735if you believe anyone can talk about any race talk to Kanye or Kyrie

[@JIGGAMAN186NY]

Considering you blacks are the biggest gossipers of every other race, anyone can talk about anything

[@1zparker]

@@jamescameron4735 🦝

[@BoscoeAlbert]

Being an African has BEEN on point!

[@mjjones1045]

You must be African lol

[@hueyfreeman5509]

Na it wasn't until black panther fr

[@kingsaw5282]

@@hueyfreeman5509 *One Dance by Drake and Wizkid

[@hueyfreeman5509]

@@kingsaw5282 Good point, but the visuals of black panther were more impactful imo

[@lu-bo6yh]

Not all black Americans do the FBA shit. Africans and black americans need to focus on asian monopoly in their countries and for black Americans their neighborhoods

[@7300Marlo]

You can’t help hit it’s a LINEAGE not a thing if your family and from the killing fields of American south you are FBA not some generic African

[@adeezy617newonenation]

Exactly

[@guyfromhr846]

Indians run Jamaican and Trinidad. Plus, the Chinese run Africa. However, black Americans like Dennis Rodman are worshipped in N. Korea.

[@tcmyric4978]

It’s literally one word in front of Black American and that’s Foundational. It’s a lineage it’s not something you do . “Do the Fba shit “ it’s not a adjective

[@lucianp2616]

If a Black American goes to Africa, do they get any land or are they treated as foreigners? If you want to change this, change tribalism in Africa.

[@katoukey]

The fact that jollof comes from wollof says everything you need to know about tiep bou dien 🇸🇳🇸🇳🇸🇳

[@SandraWatson-k4r]

No matter where you come from ,as long as you are a black man or a woman, you are an African. EAST,WEST,NORTH OR SOUTH.

[@tcmyric4978]

That’s not true. The Mani in Thailand , the negritos in phillipines, Solomon Islands , aborigines etc . Are not from Africa . Not all the blacks in America are from africa either

[@tcmyric4978]

Tell that to the Mani tribe in Thailand .

[@Mo1683]

Are any Black Americans w/no lineage to Africa, allowed to own land & resources in Africa?

[@Alan_GA]

Land, like in most places across the globe is willing buyer, willing seller terms. They are definitely distinctions in terms of land law in any country. But if you got the dollar & meet the legal requirements nothing prevents anyone from owing land in Africa or anywhere else.

[@Mo1683]

@@Alan_GA “Meet the legal”..”requirements”? Like..extortion?

[@lucianp2616]

Good question.

[@Alan_GA]

@@Mo1683 nope, all nations including America have laws related to land acquisition & sale.

[@WEGOTODOBETTER4]

Dude you must have been under a rock,, We've always been holding Africa down it's not our fault they didn't have any pride. Africans coming to America need to realize we paved the way for them to come here,they need to realize they are one of us when they get here

[@georgelhannon7845]

Love the Conversation.

[@JH-D4075]

Here is DJ Vlad trying to start drama again

[@MK-ch5uh]

As an African everything Rotimi said is correct.

[@TheKreator98]

What's crazy is that when I was in high-school other black people used to make fun of me for being a child of Ghanaian parents. Said my darker skin color was "undesirable". Edit: For those who think I'm capping and try to handwave and dismiss actual experiences of what people like me had to go through (very typical) but we MADE jokes, we all cracked on each other. But there was a different side to it where certain black folk ostracized me and said I was ugly specifically because I was darker skinned. Light-skinned people were attractive, dark-skinned people weren't. Stuff like that. It was far beyond some "b00ty scratcher" jokes. Let a white person do the same things I mentioned and y'all would jump high for some answers lmao

[@Cuddy83]

Undesirable isn’t even in a black kids vocabulary stop with the lies

[@ptahdivine3123]

Goofy everybody got made fun of. Y’all just took the shit personal. Get over it and stop be insecure

[@whoisexaberri]

@@Cuddy83 I'm not African but he's not lying. The African kids did get bullied crazy for being African. African jokes was puttin up prime Jordan numbers back then

[@rebel1k792]

@@Cuddy83facts that’s js how he felt niggas prolly called him a African booty scratcher or some

[@TheKreator98]

​@Cuddy83 Well I was paraphrasing what they said, what they really did say was: "ew, he dark as hell." A lot of black people I had to go to school with were downright ignorant lmao

[@warsame2245]

I don't like how vlad always bring this topic up to stir trouble, I got nothing but love for my black american brothers and sisters and real life is different than online 'beef', for all we know those nameless accounts can be 'anyone'.

[@Curling_Rack]

Rotimi & Jidenna are going to go after Vlad after this video goes viral lol

[@lawrencegodfreypaul9772]

One of the most important topics Vlad has done. 👏👏

[@trzmak3977]

All people come from Africa. But anyway I definitely don’t agree that Caribbean peoples are different than Black Americans we were all slaves and when slavery was abolished some of us were on the mainland and other were left in the Caribbean. Period. We are the same people

[@adeezy617newonenation]

Sum ninjas feel like they get white girl pregnant now the mixes kids hate full black men 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️ wat i see going on

[@Alan_GA]

Exactly, the only difference was the final destination of the slave ships. Don't forget that some where destined to South America, case in point Brazil has the highest number of individuals with African ancestry outside the African continent.

[@CruzzzControl1984]

Kendrick dropped TPAB (2015) and made everyone want to wear a dashiki

[@davidmurray6949]

Vlads best interview this year! 🔥💯💯

[@silverlining2756]

This was a great great interview series

[@PK-eq8cn]

Rotimi spitting facts

[@HI-DEF100]

He reacted and said EXACTLY how a tether would. Black Americans made it cool to be African.

[@Elcapitan91]

Dumbass

[@dwillwilliams1240]

Some of us were already here

[@lu-bo6yh]

You are from africa. You arent native. Youre great grandma was r8ped by natives when they were their slaves

[@larrysingleton5536]

Dope interview

[@mile215]

Swear to God thought this is Orlando Brown just using an alter ego for a second

[@Alan_GA]

😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@rawrick01]

Its these interviews that keep me coming back to your channel vlad. He is a good dude and its a good look 4 him and you good job.

[@loyalmoneytv8756]

See what Tariq started, now a YT man separating us

[@hueyfreeman5509]

It's tariqs fault though. He used to be cool now he spends 95% of his time dissing the diaspora

[@coach6463]

We were never together to separate. We just have an embracing culture but now the ranks are being closed and ppl getting tight.

[@loyalmoneytv8756]

@@hueyfreeman5509 he found a niche and he going to eat. What he doing is not strengthening FBA it’s strengthening the immigrants. They going to keep coming and grouping together and away from FBA

[@loyalmoneytv8756]

@@coach6463 We all a family just arguing but once the yt man see he will use it against us all

[@hueyfreeman5509]

@@coach6463 "ranks getting close" lol foh you'd just rather bicker with ppl who look like you because you surrender to ws

[@Bobby.B.]

Were all from the Same Place Earth❗

[@elliot2177]

I have always embraced my carribean(Jamaican) side of my fmaily and proud of it.I get mistaken for everything but what I actually am which is Jamaican.

[@hdeniro1106]

Africans are just so foreign to me. I dont understand their cultures so i just stick to my own lol.

[@alphabet43211]

Nigerian Jollof rules Vlad!!!

[@cdog5664]

Vlad made that word up

[@Octane44]

Damn even your own people disowned you?! C'mon man FBAs always embraced African culture, especially during the Nelson Mandela era.

[@parishkennedy3528]

Vlad tried to start some shit between blacks but bro stayed positive....

[@daytimedee1957]

I noticed how Vlad saying “not having an older brother to put you on”. … is that a low-key shot to Marlon????…lol

[@teddylumidi]

African Americans need to understand that if you come to Africa, you'll be so privileged here, you'd be shocked to realize that social media is not a reflection of society. Maje use of that American passport

[@kalipooh3388]

Stop it

[@JIGGAMAN186NY]

American Blacks keep finding new reasons to keep themselves divided. It is unreal.

[@mindovermatter1462]

We're Black Americans, Not U.S. Blacks.

[@azitsallgood2514]

Foh stop trying to play smart!

[@mindovermatter1462]

@@azitsallgood2514 immigrant go back to your country and stop commenting on me.

[@kolmood3798]

Stop it! You never see Caucasian’s doing this foolery outwardly amazingly each other. Y’all are all black that’s how you are seen, no one is seeing any of you different because of country of origin. Jay Z said it best.. light skinned, dark skinned, broke, rich -still ninjas.

[@shaunthomas3826]

​@@azitsallgood2514😂😂😂😂

[@olaoluwaola-williams7530]

What's the difference lol?

[@703blakmavrik]

Kool Herc was born in America, dont twist the narrative. His parents are Jamaican, he was born in America.

[@dnyce8224]

He’s talking about children teasing one another. That happens in America to students who were different and even to people who were the same. For example, people from Down South got teased in schools UP North. Anyone wearing church shoes and white sweat socks to school got teased unfortunately. I got teased every time I changed schools or neighborhoods until I would punch a kid in the face. My older cousin from Chicago would get laughed at when he visited us in New York City sporting a Jeri curl and leather pants. That’s the American way unfortunately. By the way, we always thought we were African until the Africans told us we weren’t. As adolescents, we wore African medallions, boycotted English products over SA, referred to Africa as the Motherland, adopted the name African American, listened to pro-African rap, etc. etc.

[@LookingForHighBrid]

😂it was cool until he said that about the food..

[@aliyumohammed9173]

Even London that accepted Africans earlier than the U.S. dey accepted Jamaican culture 1st. Used to go for holiday. Went to uni there b4 I went to dubai to finish up. Am in nigeria and I still say wagwan

[@von260]

True as a naija boy, it’s true, I was also treated the same way.

[@jamaaldaynitelong8367]

It's unfortunate but that's how all people act...English hate the French and vice versa..Chinese v Japanese...and unfortunately us.

[@PskoolKamwatah]

Both Africans and African Americans they dummied each other but we are only one people

[@adeezy617newonenation]

Exactly they dnt want hear that there are native Americans indians etc😂😂🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

[@tcmyric4978]

No we not . A Black American 🇺🇸 is from America not Africa stop trying to minimize my culture and history

[@PskoolKamwatah]

@@tcmyric4978 we have same blood

[@tcmyric4978]

No we don’t

[@kevinl8604]

This is where Vlad is starting to piss me off! This isn't a discussion he needs to be starting or trying to spark flames.

[@aaliyahImpersonator]

Kinda looks like Orlando Brown 😳

[@maropolo007]

Its been cool to be african brother and im from VA

[@DB3TheOriginal]

He low key threw Larenz Tate under the bus 🤣🤣🤣

[@KIrvin_The_Scholar]

Bro look like he's ready to pop off in every thumbnail. He got that Dre in him

[@MsLulu200]

It was like you had a death sentence on your back for being African in America. Now the death sentence is lifted off your back now you can be a free African. 🤔❤️‍🩹

[@d.c.4lifeking602]

Senegal definitely got the best Jollof

[@donovanmarcus289]

I love all my people, but "African booty scratcher" will always be one of the funniest combination of words in history!

[@Chiraqfan.]

It’s funny till it’s you

[@awilliams4755]

Most Jamaicans always considered themselves African

[@malikkhalid2941]

Them Africans be mean asf

[@rasjahson6261]

Hip Hop was heavily influenced by the Jamaican Dancehall genre at the very beginning. I’m an African so happened to be born in America and there is nothing more to that. You have to understand we here in America have been robbed of our history and heritage and politicians are still trying to keep it from us. The new term is critical race theory. A new term from what was used back in the 60’s.

[@coach6463]

We don’t follow or aspire to be nothing Jamaican and this is why delineation was a must. We have a very rich history and heritage that can’t be hidden idk what you babbling about.

[@tcmyric4978]

🧢

[@josborne1981able]

Black Americans always embrace being African. Ranking is part of our culture and we first did it to ourselves. I remember growing up in the 80's we had our African wooden necklaces etc. Stop the miseducation vlad. We have the receipts.

[@Chiraqfan.]

Cap 🧢 y’all don’t even see Africans as humans

[@dirtylaundrymedia]

Did he ask him what Akata means? They've had that word for a long time.

[@absolute7250]

There are rap records recorded before herc even came to America. 😂😂😂. Here comes the judge. Pigmeat markham. 1968 Millie Jackson. “The rap”. Released 1974. 😂😂 How herc create something before he got in America 😂

[@coach6463]

FACTZ!

[@travelandeats8518]

American black and African is two completely different things. Completely different. I’m American black. But one day I hope to go to Africa. I know it’s luxury and poor there. Like any in world haha

[@sainttrunks1982]

Looks like Orlando Brown- Errol Spence fusion

[@projectrepentance2432]

Ro is 100% correct.

[@mdi3024]

Calling someone a booty scratcher who is smarter than you and richer than is wild,but hey chains and grills is alright for them,no one taught them to invest in real estate or anything

[@mdi3024]

Only complaining about white people

[@manifestdreams5157]

You’re not smarter nor richer than most black Americans pipe down but keep feeding into the nonsense propaganda you’ll soon find out the truth 😉

[@elliot2177]

Not sure about smarter or richer.Lets not play that game,brother.

What makes you think you richer than me ?

[@StreetsAintNoMyth5]

Smarter how?

[@jaecashjc]

This is proof that the black professor was right 😅

[@elliot2177]

We are all one.Divison is our Downfall at the end of the day.We have to stop this shit and more powerful together.We don't care where you are from on this planet, we are the same.Shout out to ally brothers and sisters from all over the globe.

[@adeezy617newonenation]

Never gonna happen im outta town out the city n its looking bad for us full black brothers brainwashed to the fullest i just stay on my journey n stat to myself

[@mayiborrowadollar]

Vlad sneaky asf but tbh I agree with the FBA sentiment. Yes, genetically I'm African, culturally I'm not.

[@obeda91]

Its True. Senegal has the best jellof and im talking as a Cameroonian and we have fire jellof too

[@agmcroom2374]

Yeah glad back to his usual tactics trying to start drama 😂😂

[@senecapv4555]

vlad you are right Senegal has the best jolof rice lol

[@joemadison5527]

4:31 Man, I want to know why do a lot of Africans look down on Black Americans.🤦🏾🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@seannapper9029]

Rotimi is going to Club Shay Shay sooner than later. The Nigerian connection with Shay Shay! Coming soon!

[@youuheardd780]

Senegal and Sierra Leone has the best jollof rice ..

[@joojoobaw]

This dude looks so pissed off in every thumbnail pic

[@justsomeguywithlonghair6595]

I already what’s about to happen here oh boy here we go! 😂😂😂 wonder what Tommy Sotomayor will think of this?

[@lucianp2616]

Why is Vlad the one talking about this? Vlad what is your agenda with triggering a discussion which you don't understand? Let's talk about Israel and Palestine.

[@ygb7898]

Psalm 24:1-2: "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters"

[@DarrellRone]

Kool herc might be Jamaican but hip-hop was created in the United States don't get it twisted

[@tcmyric4978]

Hip hop been going on wayyy before kool herc

[@marrrrquesdarrrrrling]

Apparently The whole world (everyone) is from Africa

[@IgboHeritageTV]

One day....Una go still japa come back to Africa

[@Mo1683]

Can any Africans in a nutshell, explain what tf is..”jollof” rice?

[@blazinghot99]

It's similar to what black Americans would call "Jambalaya".

[@Mo1683]

@@blazinghot99 So basically..sausages & tomato sauce?

[@NewJackCity1988]

Tariq you decided to go back on Vlad lol

[@Bighomey103]

Kool Herc did not create any part of Hip Hop. He only played records that FBA had created. He was not the first to play records!

[@juniormiles6773]

Tell me a DJ started flow stop the cap they were playing Black American music

[@Convo_starters]

Stop tryna throw shade cuz y didn’t get the Marlon interview