are the rhymes that accompany images alluding to social mobilizations, with uniforms of riot police officers, flags of Colombia and other countries. This is “This is not America”, the new song by René Pérez Joglar.
After the session of the award-winning rapper, bResidente, together with BZRP, where he strongly criticized J Balvin, it is again trending, mainly because of the references that are presented both in the lyrics and in the video, of his most recent song; which are very evident in the face of multiple events experienced in the region, for example, social protests in Colombia and their fatalities.
The release was made in the company of the Franco-Cuban duo Ibeyi, Naomi Díaz on percussion and Lisa Kaindé in the choirs, and the videpclip was directed by the Frenchman Gregory Ohrel. The song is related to a project of 3 years ago by Resident with Yale University and New York University.
This project studied Residente's brain waves together with brain patterns of mice, worms, monkeys and flies, whose purpose was that together with the experts, musical frequencies could be created and then converted into rhythms. This allowed him to develop emphatic waves of electronics, which the Puerto Rican mixed with rap, in conjunction with the voice and persecution of Ibeyi.
“This is not America” revalidates that America refers to a continent and not just the United States,
this conveys René's feeling of pain for what he considers to be the continental social divide between North and South America by the United States.
In addition, the lyrics have messages that have led many people to search and review these references. For example: “With hot blood, like Timbuktu. We're on the menu. Tupac is called Tupac after Tupac Amaru of Peru,” said this by the mother of the murdered American rapper, Afeni Shakur, who at the time said: “I wanted him to have the name of a revolutionary of the world's indigenous peoples. I wanted him to know that it was part of world culture and not just a neighborhood.”
This type of lyrics is a characteristic hallmark of Residente, a fact that has led to strong clashes and pronouncements. One of them, much remembered in Colombia, when at the 2009 MTV Latin America awards gala he wore a black t-shirt with the words Uribe, para, military, bases. This caused the mayor of Manizales at the time, Juan Llano, to forbid him to appear with his group, Calle 13, within the framework of the Caldas Capital Fair.
The song already has almost 5 million views on YouTube, and this one ends up giving rise to Childish Gambino, an American actor, singer-songwriter, writer, director and producer, who in 2018 published a song titled This is America, which, like the resident song, criticizes with a video full of many references to the racial struggle in the United States country and the police brutality experienced by the black community in that territory.
If you want to listen and see the full song you can find it below.
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