Puerto Rican rapper Residente has set fire on social media with his new song and video called “This Is Not America”, a contrast and wordplay to Childish Gamino’s song and video “This Is America”. The Calle 13 rapper has always been outspoken on behalf of Latin America, empowering and promoting the multicultural endeavors of its citizens.
You think that you’re the center of the world and that’s why you’re ‘America.’ Anything that’s outside, you don’t care
Residente started playing in the rap duo Calle 13, with politically charged lyricism, heavy Latin American beats and playful orchestration with some strokes of reggeaton. With the duo Resident and his brother won 27 Latin Grammys, more than anyone ever, He then started his solo career in 2017, he took a DNA test to find out about his heritage and then went on to record an album with musicians from each part of the world where he has blood from.
Residente claims that he sees it as an egocentric thing
Recently Residente made headlines when got in a media feud with reggaeton artist J Balvin when Balvin wanted to boycott the Grammys because of apparent disparage from the awards towards Reggeaton and Urban genres, to which Residente responded by making a video questioning him why wasn’t Balvin boycotting them last year when he was nominated several times. He then released an 8-minute song about the feud.
The song is called This is not America
According to the rapper, by US Citizens calling themselves Americans erases all of the rest of the countries that make the entire continent, during the powerful song he sings that Tupac is called that because of Tupac Amaru from Perú, that before the European settlers came here there were already nations, he also addresses that when people from the United States call themselves Americans, it’s like if Morroco would call itself Africa or Fance calling itself Europe.
Tupac is called that because of Tupac Amaru from Perú
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