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

[@YSuniverse856]

Shout out to all my Nigerians and Liberians brothers and sisters. Grenadians and all my island brothers and sisters we are all one.

[@Lawrence-mv8dw]

Love to all my Aboriginal American brothers! Scripture said that all the nations will be against you! Let the spirit bear witness!!!

[@ExposedDworld]

Fuq Africa

[@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.

[@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

[@1flyguy6]

Tbh we dont wanna hear about them mfs we dont care

[@NobodyHasToAgreeAllTheTime]

@@thetruthsayer8347yall mad because Tariq is giving it back to you. Africans and Caribbeans been mocking us online for YEARS, now they play the victim when they hear it back

[@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 😂😂😂😂

[@bigoso404]

All cultures of women are hypergamous

[@aviatedviewssound4798]

She see it as a way for you to compensate if you're not physically attractive. That's why you date wimen in your bracket.

[@shawnstone1164]

​@@aviatedviewssound4798The women in your bracket still want a man with money. They just can't get one 😅

[@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

[@blackacresofthegambia]

That’s why it’s important that our children learn the history, on both sides

[@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

[@wood1441]

Cool herc said he didn't created hip hop there was dj before him dj flowers and dj Mario started hip hop

[@katoukey]

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

[@Ibraishim544]

Yeah it comes from the Jollof empire and was spread in other countries by Mandinka traders.

[@Fourestgump]

There is a cultural difference between black people and Africans

[@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC]

Bruh there a cultural differences in AFRICA

[@Enma1990]

Black people are african 😂😂

[@thatGuyQuincy]

​@OXHAMMERSTONE_NYC you get it lol...people within same nation throughout Africa have different cultures...same way all black american from New york culture is different from a black american from let's say texas or mississippi

[@ianditwin7443]

There is a cultural difference in every group. Come again!

[@misterhappy5462]

...and there are cultural differences between blk people from nyc and louisiana. what's your point?? 🤦🏽‍♂😂

[@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!

[@awilliams4755]

Most Jamaicans always considered themselves African

[@principtounenmondesir]

Most true always acknowledged they Africa origin like a Haitian

[@alansolomon2863]

💯👍

[@ianditwin7443]

As a Jamaican, I consider myself black. It's the common word that connects us throughout the diaspora. Is everybody in South Africa or North Africa black?

[@inthewaytv1]

We’re all from africa but they say Jamaican first

[@Soufside_Slim]

@@principtounenmondesir dude we are literally labeled “African” American… I’ve never heard of African Haitian

[@dreezy2286]

Black Americans and Nigerians are two different people. Black Americans are indigenous to America

[@danieltaylor211]

LIES

[@dreezy2286]

@@danieltaylor211 facts

[@PakandeKebe]

@@danieltaylor211 it's not a lie Africans and black Americans are completely two different people that's why most of the ones that come to the continent end up going back because most Africans relate more to nationality than skin tone while some black Americans is all about race, what black Americans don't know is in most African countries as long as you are not a citizen of a particular African country you referred to as a foreigner no matter your skin tone

[@ronm4385]

​@@PakandeKebeBro I am not going to even try and pull you out of the gutter, I can sense that you are way too far gone in your deliberate ignorance. My only regret is that you may have kids already or one day and you are going to pass on this nonsense/burden onto them. May God forbid it.

[@danieltaylor211]

@@PakandeKebe I'm not indigenous to West Africa or America

[@drfluker6773]

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

[@logicalblackman8228]

Just like R&B and jazz and funk and soul and blues and gospel. ALL of it!

[@george8136]

These fools know this

[@Jeff-xv6gk]

Exactly 👍🏽

[@quentindillon8381]

​@@logicalblackman8228Don't forget country also

[@logicalblackman8228]

@@quentindillon8381 i’m not so sure about that one. The little bit of reading I’ve done, suggests that it comes from white people.

[@oteliadavid7507]

This just made my day better!

[@MK-ch5uh]

As an African everything Rotimi said is correct.

[@slimboss]

We love y'all my brother us vs the world 🤞🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

You getting roasted for not dressing well is not bullying.

[@wambokodavid7109]

Go troll some place else..wannabe arab​@@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865

[@christophedjama]

@@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865”well” = 150$ jordans?? 😭😂 African parents don’t have the same values when it comes to materialistic shit

[@mrkendrickenoma9780]

@@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865 how do you dress well?

[@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

[@Isiejeme0829]

@@hueyfreeman5509 It wasn't to you, your likes. In Africa (Nigeria specifically) it's always been cool to be African.

[@mikelegacyTV]

Vlad is so disingenuous!! Hip hop derives from Black American culture. (Music, slang, style, dance!, etc..) Kool Herc participated, emulated and embraced our culture not Jamaican culture. Period. He just happens to come from Jamaica like so many other old school guya that hid their caribbean background because it wasn't fashionable in the 70's. Herc has said this in interviews that are on KZbin.

[@deebee2893]

The fact that your comment can’t be debated or debunked, speaks VOLUMES!!!! 🇺🇸🤝🏾🇺🇸

[@civildiscourse7626]

But hip hop wasn’t created then so ultimately a founder was still Jamaican

[@kaizatengoku3893]

​@@civildiscourse7626Um yes it was and the founded isnt Jamaican

[@civildiscourse7626]

@@kaizatengoku3893 kool herc is Jamaica

[@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

[@Christsword]

Exacly.

[@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.

[@khalielmatthews8788]

Vlad boutta ask every black immigrant how they feel about fba now 😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@deebee2893]

We’re use too it! Our very existence has and will forever be stamped into Modern Day Global Culture History! For such a small majority in a predominantly white dominated society, we’ve continually created our own culture ,while Also transcending our own FBA culture.

[@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.

[@humblewon5156]

He's another agent of chaos.

[@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.

[@NorthKoreanComedian]

@@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]

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

[@karldef892]

Vlad is not lying. Senegal has the best jellof rice and I'm Cameroonian!🇨🇲

[@SwillChapo]

So that's it rice 😂😂😂😂 why yall don't fight back yall don't own nothing lol yall weak

[@ahmentv7042]

BLACK AMERICANS CREATED RAP/HIP HOP SOLELY !!! KOOL HERC WAS COPYING BLACK AMERICAN STYLE & MUSIC NOT JAMAICAN MUSIC

[@illijah]

It was a blend of styles, but mainly Jamaican and American. There's a reason Hip Hop wasn't created in Birmingham Alabama or Charleston South Carolina, it had to be in the Bronx where there was a heavy Jamaican presence.

[@enochw3012]

@@illijahthere’s no Jamaican or Spanish music in early hip hop. It’s all soul, blues, rock, and other American born genres of black music. Wasn’t no hip hop in Jamaica before NY. Herc was immersed in American culture and he was doing American music.

[@ahmentv7042]

@@illijah WRONG!!!! FALSE!!! THAT IS 100% INCORRECT BLACK AMERICANS CREATED RAP, JAZZ RAGTIME, DISCO.SOUL,BLUES,COUNTRY, ROCK & ROLL & R&B AND OTHER GROUPS HAD ZERO TO DO WITH IT!!! OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE ONLY WANT TO LATCH ON BECAUSE OUR MUSIC IS POPULAR!!!! THATS ALL!!! I REMEMBER WHEN RAP/HIP HOP STARTED!!!

[@botbat9645]

​@@ahmentv7042is that what you call it culture? Some music and artists?

[@ahmentv7042]

@@botbat9645 NO THAT IS APART OF OUR AMERICAN CULTURE!!! AMERICAN CULTURE IS BLACK CULTURE

[@dirtylaundrymedia]

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

[@Endsomniac]

In fact, they’ve been using that word FAR longer than we’ve been using “tether”. That word is one of the reasons we started saying tether.

[@Sanele1246]

thats a Nigerian wrd. you think all 54 African countries be speaking the same language and gathering in tribal circles just to come up wit new words to offend fba? Wild imagination. Let’s be real-Black Americans have been calling Africans ‘booty scratchers’ and ‘spear chuckers’ since the 90s, long before this diaspora war nonsense kicked off. I’ve never even been to the USA but I know the average Black American will ask the dumbest questions like, 'Do you speak African?' or 'Do y'all have running water?'

[@PakandeKebe]

Akata is a Yoruba word used by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria and most people in Africa are not from Nigeria so we don't speak Yoruba, Africa has 54 countries with different cultures and languages and it's not a country.He should have asked him about what black Americans did to the locals Liberians and history can teach you there was segregation between Liberians and black Americans that were repatriated to Liberia because black Americans think they were superior

[@dirtylaundrymedia]

@@PakandeKebe he's Nigerian so he would surely know about that slur they use to refer to Black Americans. You thought you cooked? Smh. Nigerians amd other West Africans were also slave traders who sold many Africans into the slave trade.

[@okeyumeano4464]

​@@PakandeKebe There is no such word in yoruba. I am Nigerian and the only word we use to describe white people or black foreigners is Oyigbo or JJC and they are not derogatory

[@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?

[@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

[@JIGGAMAN186NY]

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

[@1zparker]

@@jamescameron4735 🦝

[@Michael7-l7d]

These discussions need to be on our own platforms .

[@xavierwilliams4119]

​@@Michael7-l7dso start your own platform so you can start these discussions

[@stevenpowelljr4356]

we are not Africans... we are Americans, its disrespectful to our Ancestors and real Africans for FBA to claim that... these people are very distant relatives but we are not the same, we don't know if they are defendants of our African Ancestors or the Africans that cast us into slavery....... I am 70% african 15% euro and 5% indigenous, there are 50mill FBA with same, we are our own race of people......... Africans are 100 percent African... right?

[@dennisndirangu2536]

You talk as if you're important to Africans, we are not claiming you. And for your info you ignorant fools Transatlantic slave trade only happened in West Africa so keep Southern Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, North Africa countries out off your bitter ("you sold us) rants

[@PakandeKebe]

@@stevenpowelljr4356 there is only one black race

[@botbat9645]

​@@dennisndirangu2536hey don't be mean to them they are African as much as anyone else living in Africa they don't need your claiming

[@yawos9024]

Nonsense! You know there are whites in Africa who call themselves 'African' - in Zimbabwe and South Africa. I don't see them as Africans. They may have African nationality as you have American nationality, but they are not Africa as in the negro race.

[@down-b8197]

@@dennisndirangu2536 I guess yall don't know about the mecca slave trade which directly ties into the transatlantic slave trade?

[@ogmont]

Bro, took that question well. Shout out to him for not letting his opinion change.

[@marshajohnson6360]

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

[@pelumi4942]

This argument is not actually a divide it's something we laugh about. If I met a Ghanian I want to be friends with I could just bring up the argument and It's that easy

[@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.

[@calaragazza3556]

He needs to focus on his own war torn country who is getting beat by Russia!

[@MULATTO_RIGHTS_ACTIVIST]

KOOL HERC DIDN’T CREATE HIP HOP. KOOL HERC DIDN’T HOLD THE FIRST HIP HOP PARTY.

[@I.SolemnlySwear]

So who did? And prove it or don't say anything at all.

[@MULATTO_RIGHTS_ACTIVIST]

@@I.SolemnlySwear AN ADOSFBA GROUP NAMED THE JUBALAIRES ARE CREDITED AS CREATING THE FIRST RAP RECORD IN 1946. THE RECORD WAS NAMED “NOAH” AND THE GENRE PREDATES THE RECORD. CHECKMATE. STOP TRYNA STEAL MY CULTURE, TETHER.

[@MULATTO_RIGHTS_ACTIVIST]

@@I.SolemnlySwear AN ADOSFBA GROUP NAMED THE JUBALAIRES CREATED THE FIRST RAP RECORDING IN 1946 AND THE GENRE PREDATES THE RECORD.

[@down-b8197]

@@I.SolemnlySwear Kool herc himself said hip hop was going on before he became a DJ. Why don't yall ever listen to that mans interviews or his speeches?

[@Octane44]

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

[@logicalblackman8228]

Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Stetsasonic have a song about Africa? A.F.R.I.C.A… Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe. Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. So let us speak about the MOTHERLAND!”

[@Sanele1246]

"‘FBA always embraced Africa", right? Sure so u were cheering from the couches while we fought for our own freedom and you’re expecting us to bow down in gratitude? Mandela was on the U.S. terrorist list until 2013, but I guess you were too busy ‘embracing’ Africa from afar to notice. We dont need no fake support handouts from fba. But hey, keep thinking Africa’s a single country and pat yourselves on the back for your ‘embrace.’ You’ve never done a thing for Africans

[@focused4841]

i want to acknowledge the brothers and sisters from all African countries about the "African booty scratcher" comment/insult. I'm Black American and yall don't understand. ANYONE who was darker skinned was called that. Including black americans. But it's kid stuff. No adult has ever called me an African booty scratcher lmao

[@down-b8197]

I was called that and I'm not even dark skin.

[@focused4841]

@down-b8197 ok what's your point

[@down-b8197]

@@focused4841 My point is we all was called it, it had nothing to do with colorism as you insinuated. said, "ok what's ya point" like a female lol.

[@focused4841]

@@down-b8197 And my point in askin you whats your point, is don't ever dismiss anything I say that I experienced. It's a well known fact that the term was commonly used against darker skinned blacks. Maybe in YOUR special case they were calling u unintelligent. Which isn't hard to believe

[@down-b8197]

@@focused4841 If it was commonly used against darker skinned "blacks" why was I called it when I ain't a darker skinned "black"? You acting like a female thinking it was a colorist thing when it was just a childish joke that wasn't even used like that. Matter of fact... where ya people from? You sound like ya peoples arrived after 1965 being this emotional.

[@onlyh8720]

Not Vlad still mad at Marlon Wayans and throwing shade 😂😂😂😂

[@JH-D4075]

Here is DJ Vlad trying to start drama again

[@geminate3997]

The “we got teased in grade school” narrative is whiney

[@mile215]

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

[@Alan_GA]

😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@mainagakere7305]

Bruh...haha

[@proudfba3803]

Kool Herc did not create anything in hip hop. What’s so funny about that? He copied other Black American DJ’s that were before him. Even Herc admitted this. So stop the cap.

[@illijah]

He never admitted that LOL. Y'all so mad he's Jamaican and credited as the godfather of hip hop. You gunna die mad tho.

[@studentoflife3501]

Stop lying 😂 you big mad

[@danieltaylor211]

​@@illijahHe actually did admit it, I didn't believe it at first until I saw a video where he actually said it himself. He just gave respect where it was due

[@down-b8197]

@@illijah In a documentary he said he borrowed DJ'ing techniques from disco DJs and he also stated multiple times that hip hop really started in 70/71 while he was in the graffiti scene. He's on video saying it...

[@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.

[@BakerMills7]

​​@@Alan_GAyou are wrong! There alot of AA doing well in Africa, Nigeria is an example! 💯

[@YUNGRC]

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

[@humblewon5156]

Not wit the input of people like Vlad, an agent of chaos.

[@StacksSats]

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

[@davidmurray6949]

Vlads best interview this year! 🔥💯💯

[@Soufside_Slim]

People still whining about getting picked on in Elementary is pathetic. Everybody who smelled or couldn’t dress got picked on, regardless of who you were.

[@PakandeKebe]

@@Soufside_Slim it's not about just getting picked on in elementary school some black Americans don't like African the same goes for some Africans we just have to accept reality that we are not the same people each with it's own culture which is fine, just because we share the same skin tone doesn't mean we should get along

[@Bloodhound-wu3up]

Right lol sad asf n they think we gonna feel some sort of guilt, mfs aint even from this country 😅

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

@@PakandeKebethen get out of their hbcus, d9 and legacy groups.

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

@@PakandeKebeyou are a whiny baby. Stop being mad at americos for stopping the business of slavery.

[@Petals234-w2s]

And you are still winning about slavery which you never experienced. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@glxsports323]

This conversation is above both of their pay grades. Especially Vlad. Rotimi has his experience but it’s so much deeper. It was cool to be African in the 60’s and 70’s but the US government did the divide and conquer with the newer immigrants and they bit. We were in America for 20,000 years (from Africa of course). Check the Folsom people. Native (Mongolians) been here for 6,000 years. Therefore we’re more American than anyone.

[@jackman435]

No he's wrong Being African became cool during the late 1980s, early 1990s... By the time 2016 came about Black Americans started to drop the "African" term and is now embracing being Indigenous to the Americas!

[@Christsword]

with them danshiki but then they switched up again when Wesley Snipes did a movie and said akata lol in one of his movies .

[@SitooE]

Vlad what you know about that jollof rice son? 😂😂 made my day

[@7300Marlo]

The reason he is HERE because FBA EMBRACED AFRICA

[@Validtruth-u8u]

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

[@Chiraqfan.]

@@Validtruth-u8ufacts

[@7300Marlo]

@@Validtruth-u8u I am my ancestors And my grand mother 97 and father 101mother and father are still here WE. Clown

[@Michael7-l7d]

​@@Validtruth-u8u its MALCOLM X

[@Validtruth-u8u]

@@7300Marlo sir your mom and dad is not the reason anyone go to usa.

[@SitooE]

I 100% agree I’m Dominican and Haitian and men let me tell you the bs I delt with growing up

[@inmythoughts718]

I AM BLACK AMERICAN AND I HAD TO FIGHT EVERY SINGLE DAY, SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

[@SitooE]

@ having to fight everyday and being discriminated against for being from another country (being called African booty scratcher, being called kunta kinte, being mock of how you speak, being told your not black because you sound and or look different. Bullying happens everyday, people fight everyday, but being treated like shit because you sound and or look slightly different, by your own ppl who looks like you hit different especially when it’s made clear it’s because your racial backgroundThese two different realms my brother with all due respect.

[@jeanroger8863]

Im 1st generation haitian American and i agree with Rotimi. I use to get teased in school. I'm in my 40's now but I believe the shift of not being teased was when the Fugees came out with their 2nd album. People started hearing about the Zoe's in Florida. When Bad Boys 2 came out with the Haitians we got more respect

[@bootnazz1786]

Everybody gets teased.grow up

[@jeanroger8863]

@bootnazz1786 very true but it was different as a carribean

[@bootnazz1786]

@@jeanroger8863 how,they don't tease people in carribean?dam y'all weak.

[@Cahluvca]

The country people leave isn't automatically welcoming

[@lordschild673]

He’s biased af, why didn’t he talk about how the diaspora feels about us??? They have derogatory names for us as well, Akata, yanks, lazy, I could go on and on but yea make it look one sided…

[@willizokhae8974]

Why are you lazy😂

[@lordschild673]

@ why y’all eat mud pies???

[@Eziopct]

Hmm, what does akata and yanks mean? Is it Nigerian? I’m curious, I’ve never heard of it and I’m west African.

[@lordschild673]

@ you need to do more research, but in a nutshell they’re basically derogatory terms for black Americans…

[@Cahluvca]

No one believes it's just one big get along on the continent of Africa. The world is very homogeneous, and people put their own tribe/ethnicity 1st

[@parishkennedy3528]

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

[@ryanlox]

Half the people in Africa don’t know there history nor where they are originally from , the fact that we act like there hasn’t been a ethnicity, genesis , and black folks were here before the slave trade it’s well documented

[@PakandeKebe]

@@ryanlox most Africans know exactly where they from and their history

[@botbat9645]

You have bold claims to prove all those Africans know their history very well but im sure you can't name three African countries to begin with

[@botbat9645]

​@@PakandeKebethank you those guys speak from pure ignorance they think because we got colonized we forgot our history and language and culture and started to speak English and french honestly my people don't respect those borders we are nomadic 😂

[@down-b8197]

@@PakandeKebe There's videos of nigerians being asked what continent they're on and they said nigeria... they was asked what planet they're on and they said nigeria...

[@down-b8197]

@@botbat9645 oral history aren't real documents bro.

[@xclvsif]

Senegal definitely got the best Jollof 🤣 and I’m Gabonese

[@larrysingleton5536]

Dope interview

[@eastpreps]

Rotimi has good vibes. We are One!

[@adamdavis7314]

Tariq explained the Hip Hop/ Big Herc....vlad is very sneaky

[@ecbc900]

Kool Herc did not create hip hop. He threw the first hip hop party. The burn was there. The rapping and talking jive was there. The breaks was there. He threw a party that was reflective of what was going on in his neighborhood. WE INFLUENCED THE WORLD

[@alphabet43211]

Nigerian Jollof rules Vlad!!!

[@BakerMills7]

Tell em! ✌

[@cathomasz]

VLAD is very dangerous! Damn

[@PK-eq8cn]

Rotimi spitting facts

[@thegreatslimsleek1]

Rotimi was a great guest. Vlad, thank you for this one.

[@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

[@Michael7-l7d]

And how america has the highest black g*y population worldwide i also find hilariousss

[@PakandeKebe]

@@donovanmarcus289 for me it's akata

[@roybabineaux5353]

​@PakandeKebe, for me, it's bushmeat

[@PakandeKebe]

@@roybabineaux5353 it's still akata which means stray animals without a home 😀😀😀

[@georgelhannon7845]

Love the Conversation.

[@JIGGAMAN186NY]

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

[@fourstars5270]

You must didn't hear him say how he was treated in Nigeria by Nigerians because they thought he was an American

[@BakerMills7]

​@@fourstars5270and how come did you not heard him the part where he mentioned "In his Village"? Villagers in african reacts by what they see. As for the cities, in Nigeria to be precise,no body cares about how looks,clothing,dress, hair do,the kinda car you drive, why is becus, the city life is cosmopolitan and metropolitan,and above all there are exotic cars everywhere and fanfare life is bubbling. Until you visit the motherland you won't know. ✌!

[@washonmontgomery946]

Africans, Caribbeans show disrespect towards Black Americans

[@misterhappy5462]

...which they learned from american whites. the irony.🤷🏽‍♂

[@logicalblackman8228]

You should read up on the history of Africa. They kill each other all the time over there.

[@timeless.media1116]

Ghana Jollof rice ever 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

[@slaydog5102]

Jollof created by french

[@KIrvin_The_Scholar]

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

[@Aaliyah_reloaded2024]

Kinda looks like Orlando Brown 😳

[@kyshac81]

This is not VLAD business.

[@Benzo-ko9hn]

Happy to be African❤

[@stoicallure]

I understand Rotimi! Growing up i was never dark enough to be black or light enough to be white! I was so happy when that bubble busted!!!

[@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!

[@beeburner5685]

The main thing is since we arrived from africa.. Africans want to come to America to try to take over that black strength but tariq is basically saying FBA did there own thing and deserve that respect for the new modern way of nlack existence.. black americans are the one who were kept down by WS. Other blacks were kept down by there own kind.. so of course people will feel a way. Its only right.

[@PakandeKebe]

You are absolutely wrong black Americans that repatriated to Liberia treated the local Liberians like sla*es and they even brought segregation to Liberia, segregation in Liberia by black Americans was the same as in the United States

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

@@PakandeKebeno they didn’t. You are mad that americos ended the business of slave trading.

[@PakandeKebe]

@@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865 haha a Somali talking about slavery your people are the worst in committing atrocities , you should be ashamed of your people look at how your country is,i know your people very well just go to Alberta ,canada and see how violence has destroyed the somali community

[@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865]

@@PakandeKebeyou whine about americos when they brought civilization and most natives went with them. You destroyed your own nation due to jealousy. Now you are paying the consequences.

[@PakandeKebe]

@@somaliagainstpanafricanism4865 ignorance is a disease you should know better because you are Somali and your country is beyond repairs, even Saudis don't want you in their country

[@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!

[@yawos9024]

Rap was in Africa long before.

[@absolute7250]

@ rhymes was in Africa. Not rap. Rap is a black American street term that came from hustlers and pimps. As in let me rap to you. Or a pimps rap. You don’t even have to be rhyming words to rap. For instance listen to a song by Millie Jackson called the rap. We started rhyming our rap.

[@yawos9024]

@@absolute7250 Whatever you call it, it is in the DNA of Africans. In Africa traditional circles, it is referred to as Dirges.

[@absolute7250]

@ no it’s not. Dirges in Africa are songs, poems, or dances performed to mourn the death of someone well-known in society. Rap is a slang term developed in the street. It is not a poem or poetry. That would be a group called the last poets which was the Segway to rap.

[@osirisasar2392]

My uncle is from Africa. My first cousins were born way before 2016. They been cool, we as people just notice differences. That's the psychology of people. Hes talking about notable differences that people everywhere do. Black panther been a comic before 2016. We have jolof rice in America in my mom's side. We call it red rice, and we've been eating it since before we got off the ships. My mom's side broke down the tribes and countries theyre from. It's just not taught. They still make fun of my mom's side because we have a super African culture and language in America since we got here

[@Exposingthe]

Vlad proves kanye west right without doing it on purpose. Never mistakes American jokes for other black people like Nigerian as we don’t accept them

[@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.

[@humblewon5156]

😑 okay bot

[@Commentor-e1k]

Vlad knows what "tether" is but doesn't know what "akata" is.

[@sarahjackson1897]

Everybody wasn't apart of the beef that goes on within the black diaspora some of us got along very well despite cultural differences and still do.

[@LorenzoWaters-v1u]

Burna boy can’t sell more than 70k in any of his albums but to Africans that’s worldwide takeover

[@K.wealth1823]

Go to hell with your negative

[@coach6463]

@@LorenzoWaters-v1u 😂😂😂 Facts I still can’t name just one of his songs

[@knowheartbeats]

He has 2 albums that have done almost double that, what are you talking about ?

[@northofeden1802]

Tether - as I’ve heard it used is meant to refer to offspring of immigrants of “any” foreign nation who are born in America and thus are a way of “tethering” the parents to America. I haven’t heard Vlads divisive definition till today.

[@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

[@daytimedee1957]

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

[@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

[@Trethedream1k]

@@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

[@josiahdrums1941]

It's interesting when I reflect on these experiences. When I first came to America, I naturally gravitated toward Black Americans because, in many ways, I felt a sense of shared identity-they looked like me. However, I quickly realized that many of them did not respect me as an African. Instead, I often encountered disdain or even hostility. Almost every African American I met seemed to look down on me, expressing negativity toward my African heritage. As time went on, I decided to engage more with white Americans, despite being told that they harbored racism and hatred toward Black people. To my surprise, my experiences were quite the opposite. White Americans welcomed me warmly, offered me support, and treated me with kindness and humanity, without any evident discrimination. This journey has been an eye-opening lesson in understanding that individual actions and attitudes often transcend stereotypes and generalizations.

[@kaizatengoku3893]

White americans dont like black american aka black people not african and do not try to gravitate towards us because we share nothing in common.

[@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 criticizing 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?

[@bushman9251]

Facts fam, all from Africa 🌍 🙌

[@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

[@josborne1981able]

@Chiraqfan. with a name like that we see who you admire 🤣

[@Chiraqfan.]

@@josborne1981able never said I ain’t admire black American culture or people I’m just saying y’all look down on us

[@josborne1981able]

@Chiraqfan. you are projecting what you were brainwashed to believe. You discredit my first statement because of the hate displacement you have inside your heart. Your mind is too far gone, so no matter, you'll feel how you do.

[@josborne1981able]

@@Chiraqfan. Why do you only post FBA on your page? Why do you only promote negative black images on your page? Are you trying to be the next vlad?

[@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.

[@corymack6669]

You're talking about young kids in elementary, middle and high school making stupid jokes, not any kinda serious political separation. And the American Black kids told just as many jokes about each other. Gotta stand up to piss and quit talking family business with jew outsiders.

[@okeyodeola]

Vlad stay out of jollof conversation 😂😂

[@igweogba6774]

Actually well educated African Americans have always been pro African. This anti-African behaviour is a mostly lower class issue

[@Cahluvca]

No reciprocity.. the African Union doesn't even advocate for American Freedmen.

[@WeWereKingPodcast]

There no beef between us it’s all love for all black peoples 🫶🏾

[@dupesonlyanddrugstores7421]

😂😂😂😂 he’s talking all of us now but when you American and you wanna move to Nigeria or any part of Africa, they treat you differently. They are a little bit thinking that you have money and it is a difference, but like I said a lot of Africans specially women are very insecure and they always try to act like the American women. They always wanna be like us, especially like the celebrities, he’s never talk about the skin bleaching issues which started in Nigeria

[@jeanpeter6391]

My wife is senegalese. At my wedding, they put raisins in the jollof.. I was so goddamn mad. That shit was hella good though.

[@mrsurprise2294]

😂

[@SwillChapo]

Nobody doesn't even thinks Africans cool we just like they women

[@yawos9024]

Cool Africans are sophisticated because they are often well traveled and knowledgeable. They may speak more than one language. They travel and understand other Black cultures. They can discuss American football, soccer, basketball, track and field, and much more global politics. Above all, they know Black American music, Jamaican music. Black British music, Latin music, and definitely African music. Often, they are so smart. And you know what? They can win Black American sisters as well.

[@down-b8197]

@@yawos9024 Nothing you mention has anything to do with cool gang.

[@kaizatengoku3893]

​@@yawos9024Theres no other black cultures. Black americans are the only one.

[@kaizatengoku3893]

​black British music not even black British but ok we let them think they made it.

[@inmythoughts718]

I don't think he knows what he's talking about, I'm 60 and have always been proud to be of my African heritage forget 2016, just because you know a few not well-informed people, doesn't mean all African Americans are not knowledgeable. On the flip side, Rotimi is from Nigeria, when has the Nigerian Government ever said welcome home to any African Americans - at least of 80% of us have Nigerian DNA - I have presently have a home in Nigeria for the past 12 years.

[@Cahluvca]

Bingo...the African Union has never advocated for American Freedmen

[@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. To add onto what you pointed out t some were destined to South America, case in point Brazil has the highest number of individuals with African ancestry outside the African continent.

[@kazspa27]

One people my ass

[@trzmak3977]

@@kazspa27 not my fault you don’t know better. U can actually just look it up. You do know Marcus Garvey was Jamaican right? Or maybe you don’t know who that is.

[@coach6463]

@@trzmak3977 Jamaicans hated Garvey hence why he had to come around us FBA to get anything poppin. Yall sold him out. We don’t have the same spirit or culture at all. We don’t want anything from your culture but yall continue to cosplay FBA. Yall not like us!

[@mickyfoo773]

Great interview fr gave me some motivation for my dreams