WOAH IM SHOOK!!! CHILDISH GAMBINO - THIS IS AMERICA REACTION!!!

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  • @matthemic6258
    @matthemic6258 3 роки тому +5774

    My favorite use of symbolism in the video, which has so many, is after both times he shoots people the gun is carefully placed in a silk scarf and the people are just dragged away like they are garbage. Powerful af.

    • @kcoup1626
      @kcoup1626 3 роки тому +313

      It's a red scarf ... symbolic of how republicans are the apologetics of the NRA and sweep up and cover up gun violence in the US.

    • @annerison
      @annerison 3 роки тому +190

      Symbolism for Republicans valuing guns over human life.

    • @JudeMalachi
      @JudeMalachi 2 роки тому +3

      @@kcoup1626 Yea, that's why it's red because Danny Glover is a Democrat? Are you serious? Wait, I know you are and seriously that's a real problem we have here in the U.S. education-or the lack of it within the system that goes by that name. People here can get advanced degrees and still not know anything real. This video and the problems it speaks about transcends your idiotic identity politics.

    • @Visitant69
      @Visitant69 2 роки тому +5

      @@JudeMalachi Everytime people get shot up at a school or something Democrats say we should deal with the problem and Republicans say nows not the time to deal with the problem. Then they use their political power to block any possible change. So while the Democrats have a lot problems they need to fix about themselves for sure. You acting like they're equal problems is why nothing changes.
      If my house was on fire and the garage door needed to be fixed. I would focus on the fire first, then fix the garage door.

    • @theboringowl9473
      @theboringowl9473 2 роки тому +4

      @@Visitant69
      fact

  • @SuperBustyEva
    @SuperBustyEva 3 роки тому +7179

    The entire song is a protest against racism and the fascist agenda of society. Its really a genius song.

    • @travisscott3050
      @travisscott3050 3 роки тому +101

      It's not all of that but you are right

    • @darkx6869
      @darkx6869 3 роки тому +231

      @@user-my1cz1ne4u why wouldn’t someone hate racism.

    • @user-yb7si1nw7k
      @user-yb7si1nw7k 3 роки тому +40

      @@darkx6869 in fact he’s a chinese and saying that racism is right 😂

    • @olfens
      @olfens 3 роки тому +5

      Since it is based entirely on fiction it's the opposite of genius.

    • @olfens
      @olfens 3 роки тому +2

      @@darkx6869 Ask the entire left, racist to the bone but to narcissistic to realize.

  • @TheBlomberFactory
    @TheBlomberFactory 3 роки тому +8199

    I dont care what anybody thinks. His dance moves are revolutionary

    • @TheBlomberFactory
      @TheBlomberFactory 3 роки тому +86

      @@Thomas-bs4tv hm maybe there is a call to that. Everything seems to be very deliberate in this video

    • @k.j3564
      @k.j3564 3 роки тому +9

      True

    • @BennyNegroFromQueens
      @BennyNegroFromQueens 3 роки тому +171

      He was choreographed and the dance moves come from south africa.

    • @muhammadelwan
      @muhammadelwan 3 роки тому +3

      @@TheBlomberFactory 👍👍

    • @emilypalumbo20
      @emilypalumbo20 3 роки тому +18

      This Dance have a sense. Euphoria and not controll to himself

  • @Imac7065
    @Imac7065 Рік тому +723

    He made this song shortly after the Parkland Shooting in 2018.... one of the most subtle things he does in the video is just completely stop mid way through and go completely silent... he does this for exactly 17 seconds... for the 17 victims of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. As an MSD alumni.. it shook me to my core when I realized that's what he was doing.

    • @Nevereverwhoever
      @Nevereverwhoever 9 місяців тому +34

      And the screams right after the beat stops are giving me beasts

    • @curtiszyr
      @curtiszyr Місяць тому

      The song is a drake diss track lol😂

    • @Vr_man687
      @Vr_man687 Місяць тому +5

      @@curtiszyrit was supposed to be, but it’s not.

  • @pattymesagal2654
    @pattymesagal2654 6 років тому +4150

    • My thoughts: this is a commentary on gun violence in America and all the shootings that happen and how we get distracted by all the singing and dancing. We watch him and the kids dance instead of all the horrible things that are happening around them. When he lifts his hands at the end with nothing in them all the people run away because of their fear. A statement about people being shot when all they are holding is a phone or equipment. the silence after lasts 17 seconds for the 17 people killed at Parkland school. Notice how the guns are placed in a red cloth. We have respect for guns but not for the people who are shot that get dragged away. When he dances on the cars the one he is dancing on is like the car Rodney King drove in LA. The other cars are representing the other people who were shot/beaten by authorities. The cars are left with the doors open and the blinkers on. . We are all running from what is happening in America. The question is where and what should we run to?

    • @antonenow
      @antonenow 3 роки тому +78

      woah

    • @anirbasnomil9332
      @anirbasnomil9332 3 роки тому +155

      I agree. I also think the cars being old and abandoned is like nothing changed from then to now. No real progress.

    • @FranK-fq6cm
      @FranK-fq6cm 3 роки тому +2

      @ZacTheDerpling except for the spiders xd

    • @DoNotTrustHorses
      @DoNotTrustHorses 3 роки тому +38

      Where or what COULD we run to? There is no good option, just the lesser of 2 evils. I like the way you broke that down, I took the same thing away from the video. Its 2021 now and this is still relevant, even more so now it seems.

    • @DoNotTrustHorses
      @DoNotTrustHorses 3 роки тому +15

      @@anirbasnomil9332 WOW. I didnt pick up on that while watching it the first time. After I read your comment I watched it again and you are right on point.

  • @TheConnonedrum
    @TheConnonedrum 6 років тому +2016

    I believe the message is that we are way too easily distracted and so quick to forget everything that has happened and more willing to move on to the next thing. We will dance, sing, and act a fool as if someone hasn't died or that we are in a melting pot with us on the menu to get preyed upon.

    • @tdavenport3387
      @tdavenport3387 3 роки тому +6

      Facts all day ! Thank you for you're post. Peace and blessings.

    • @Zeldarw104
      @Zeldarw104 3 роки тому +11

      Well said your interpretation is spot on! 🙋🏾‍♀️

    • @FCLoquendo
      @FCLoquendo 2 роки тому +5

      "We laugh at the sun, we laugh at the guns, we laugh at all. And when they told us to go, will pay with no mind, like any other time, but little did we know"
      -LP -A line in the sand

    • @b2nik907
      @b2nik907 Рік тому

      Fucking this.

  • @may8043
    @may8043 3 роки тому +793

    The scene with the kids on their cellphones is a reference to how cellphone have become a tool use to record wrongdoing.

    • @etaquince5220
      @etaquince5220 3 роки тому +37

      Not necessarly wrongdoing. Just filming stuff while doing nothing while the world is burning.

    • @radioactive_baby0706
      @radioactive_baby0706 3 роки тому +29

      But to be honest I'm grateful for the fact that cellphones exist, because if they didn't. George Floyd's death wouldn'tve been really known. Same with a lot of other people dying at the hands of police brutality

    • @grey7823
      @grey7823 3 роки тому +2

      @@radioactive_baby0706 True

    • @JudeMalachi
      @JudeMalachi 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe, but it also could be a reference to the spiritually destructive quality of social media. That's the thing about a magnificent symbol, it's not literal. It doesn't just mean only one thing or even definitely any particular one thing. It's layered, suggestive but not definitive. It brings you into contact with a new reality, not just reflects the reality you already know. Obviously a cell phone can be used to record "wrongdoing" - even then who's wrong doing? Wrong doing is a value judgement based on a perspective that even for that person is subject to change over time or due to new context. Cell phones are also used to objectify ourselves and others. But to limit it to just this or tie it down to in any other way to such a concrete association is a form of illiteracy in being able to read the world around you. But here's something else it could mean: a celly is a cellmate, which you obviously get in prison. And these cellies, often become either your best friend or worst enemy (and sometimes both, since that cell is so small). So maybe cell phones suggest the reality that this technology has locked us into socially constructed prisons, not unlike how the gold chain that drug dealers use to wear that the rappers then made a fashion, can represent a chain of slavery to consumerist culture and bondage to materialism more gernerally. And how would the objectification of such a consumerist culture then feed back into the other social constructs like racism (both institutional and internalized) and inform the behaviors that you might feel are so wrong that you're happy you had a cell phone as to be able to document them?

    • @ibroplatin4915
      @ibroplatin4915 2 роки тому +3

      @@radioactive_baby0706 George Floyd isn't an angel

  • @HXERkYJclMcKLAWwQW
    @HXERkYJclMcKLAWwQW 3 роки тому +402

    Truth is hard to swallow .

  • @MiigsMusic
    @MiigsMusic 3 роки тому +1899

    As a German white dude I don't have a lot of cultural insight into the subject of course but what stands out to me is that he is basicly getting through/away with all of it just as long as he is smiling and dancing for the camera. When he is done playing the clown he just gets hunted like the rest.

    • @akimtavares2992
      @akimtavares2992 3 роки тому +48

      Er redert über razismus und waffen in amerika.. wie die Schwarzen behandelt werden Usw

    • @jarianharris8240
      @jarianharris8240 3 роки тому +121

      Wow. You're right! I missed that. Thought he was running for a different reason.

    • @JudeMalachi
      @JudeMalachi 2 роки тому +42

      @@jarianharris8240 you missed that even though the lyrics repeat "Get your money black man" like a dozen times?

    • @jarianharris8240
      @jarianharris8240 2 роки тому +16

      @@JudeMalachi Yes. I thought that was about him. And I thought that was being said in a parody, goofy way to add some humor

    • @eeverett8878
      @eeverett8878 2 роки тому +13

      Dude, it didn’t even compute in my mind that HE was the one murdering everyone…wow, wtf

  • @DSchae2165
    @DSchae2165 3 роки тому +331

    everything he does is a symbol from history - even the dance moves and what he's wearing.

    • @chashubokchoy8999
      @chashubokchoy8999 3 роки тому +23

      jim crow right?

    • @rypsterhc8673
      @rypsterhc8673 2 роки тому

      Stand comedy

    • @kirstbrennan4456
      @kirstbrennan4456 2 роки тому +7

      Exactly. It's history symbolism. Well done Donald 👏

    • @DSchae2165
      @DSchae2165 2 роки тому +6

      @Idk well I guess you don't have to watch anything now with a nasty dirty monitor

    • @gigiarmany4332
      @gigiarmany4332 Рік тому +1

      @Idk your comment makes me wanna throw up, the sheer deranged ignorance is very nausciating🤮

  • @marcoapinedajr
    @marcoapinedajr 3 роки тому +429

    I think it’s about the black experience in America. Music, dance, beauty, art are the mainstay but also being surrounded by murder/death, fear, running and feeling scared. My take on it

    • @doobrikter2969
      @doobrikter2969 3 роки тому +9

      Agreed. Well put.

    • @vojacked305
      @vojacked305 3 роки тому +2

      Amen.

    • @JudeMalachi
      @JudeMalachi 2 роки тому +23

      The black expereince in America? The black experience _is_ the American experience. Even the title of the video is _This is America_ and not "This happens in American".

    • @rypsterhc8673
      @rypsterhc8673 2 роки тому

      @@JudeMalachi tf

    • @gigiarmany4332
      @gigiarmany4332 Рік тому

      perfectly put👍🏾

  • @savannahlangley2576
    @savannahlangley2576 3 роки тому +549

    This music video gave me chills every 5 seconds. This song makes me wanna shout. Imma listen to this everyday now

  • @Flo-tz2mx
    @Flo-tz2mx 3 роки тому +683

    His last Micheal Jackson type dance on the car roof whilst the lyrics "black get your money" referring to black artists being abused by record companies, the guy with the guitar, sack over his head referring to again black music being stolen and killing of slaves. I am mesmerised with this, Gambino is the man. What does the white horse represent?

    • @face2face78
      @face2face78 3 роки тому +98

      A pale rider named death and white was his horse. It's an apocalyptical figure

    • @Flo-tz2mx
      @Flo-tz2mx 3 роки тому +28

      @@face2face78 Thank you, I did wonder if it could be reference to the KKK on their white horses. What I do know is, it is an amazing piece of work,

    • @face2face78
      @face2face78 3 роки тому +13

      @@Flo-tz2mx it's catchy song and a brutally honest video. There are many who has commented most of the meanings. I now recognize some but it's a complex video

    • @Flo-tz2mx
      @Flo-tz2mx 3 роки тому +5

      @@face2face78 Totally agree, it scares me a little but i love it at the same time. I will enjoy forever analysing it .

    • @face2face78
      @face2face78 3 роки тому +10

      @@Flo-tz2mx it's a little like the Simpsons old episodes. The more you know the better you understand and enjoy the experience

  • @MateoKupstysChica
    @MateoKupstysChica 3 роки тому +156

    amazing how in minute 1:20 you see suddenly how everybody's body language changed abruptly. This song has such a powerful effect of cognitive dissonance, that expresses every day's anxiety.

    • @KhronicD
      @KhronicD Рік тому +6

      Yeah, this is why I love watching reaction videos. At the start it was all "lets see Gambino do his thing" and everyone was hyped. Then the realization of what they were seeing kicked in and they all started paying real attention to the video. Always fun to see when people really start thinking about something they weren't expecting to have to think about.

  • @samanthiavallery2679
    @samanthiavallery2679 3 роки тому +74

    I was just watching another reaction video about this and I just now realized that when he shot the choir it may be have been in reference to that guy who shot those nine people at that church.

  • @taiss5613
    @taiss5613 3 роки тому +62

    The ending was him snapping out of it and running from the darkness to the light and running from the distractions

  • @funnystuff9998
    @funnystuff9998 3 роки тому +382

    Black American artists are very talented and deep. Unfortunately, it's the suffering that makes it so. This song and video message is chilling and brings about an emotion and feeling that America, with all it's wealth and opportunity, is balanced with poverty, oppression and violence.

    • @tdavenport3387
      @tdavenport3387 3 роки тому +6

      Yes ! You get it.

    • @mamaziha79
      @mamaziha79 2 роки тому +1

      👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

    • @1533TodaVida
      @1533TodaVida Рік тому +1

      You Americans are complaining about how there is “poverty” in the USA, and gang violence, sure there is SOME poverty in the USA, but compare that to Brazils dangerous Favelas that I used to live in, sure there is a lot of violence in the USA, but compare that to the 60,000 homicides in Brazil, Mexico, and El Salvador, put South America, and Central Latin America, Latin Caribbean in general that’s about 193,000 Homicides per year, sure my neighborhood in the US that I’m living in had a shoot out 1 killed last month, so what? That’s not compared to the 40 minors teenage kids being killed each day, and the GORE VIDEOS that were filmed because of gang violence in the Favela that I used to live in Brazil where Police Nation guard army raids would be performed every week or everyday it’s a warzone where cops get ambushed by big cartel gangs, unlike the USA where gangs commit a crime, and run from the police instead of killing them. Why else you think why so many people from those countries moved here to the USA to have a better safer life for? Because they know USA violence is nothing compared to the violence in the country where they came from. Their are literally Mexican migrants escaping cartel life or execution from the Cartel that would usually be filmed like getting skinned alive on camera or head decapitated, that’s called a GORE VIDEO and that type of gore video RARELY HAPPENS IN THE USA, the usuals times of those gore videos filmed in the USA were usually performed by a Hispanic gang like MS-13 or Latin Kings. So think twice again because to me the USA is the most safest country I’ve been to despite some violence that occur because the “This is America” song is just over exaggeration complained by the American soft people.

    • @aarongottfried5595
      @aarongottfried5595 Рік тому

      Deep name fucking one? No suffering just ignorance. Suffering is facing self and truth exactly what they avoid. Lets go fucker

    • @CHRISANDREOU4199
      @CHRISANDREOU4199 Рік тому

      You think black men are oppressed 😂
      Get back up on that nipple fool

  • @christinedanisi8729
    @christinedanisi8729 3 роки тому +94

    I think this is the most powerful message of disfunction in America a song could present.
    Glover is a genius.
    At this point in time this country is at its tipping point🥺
    Got to get our act together 🤨
    Have a blessed day.

  • @alexmad9377
    @alexmad9377 2 роки тому +20

    when this song came out it almost broke the net. one of the greatest tunes of all time. one of the greatest video clips of all time. keepin things Real Mr. Gambino to all

  • @aaronmullins1993
    @aaronmullins1993 3 роки тому +26

    This song is so conscious!!! I love the depths and details of this song and video, it’s straight inspired! Please do another react video on this now that some time has gone by and we have a better understanding of the genius, especially since we are in 2021

  • @rogerbonds523
    @rogerbonds523 3 роки тому +167

    We need more black people like you around! And we also need more black people paying attention to these videos! Point thank you my brothers!

    • @tdavenport3387
      @tdavenport3387 3 роки тому

      Facts! Peace and blessings.

    • @thisismyname1296
      @thisismyname1296 Рік тому

      You mean that black doing moat of the killing, that message? Ywah you right, take notes!

  • @Mr3quilibrium
    @Mr3quilibrium 2 роки тому +8

    A fantastic social statement, great song and brilliant dance moves, all in one beautiful package. One of my favourite songs/music videos.

  • @mbabe7777
    @mbabe7777 2 роки тому +11

    This is so well done. He straight snapped! It’s a call to action..a plea for all people to wake up and come together and stop allowing this in our world.

  • @joncook5535
    @joncook5535 2 роки тому +9

    Few will be truly awake to appreciate the message of this song to the core.

  • @silverpurkat
    @silverpurkat 3 роки тому +6

    2:44
    I have seen this music video so many times probably around 20 and this is the first time I realized in one of his dance scenes the people running in front of them and not so focus on what is happening in the background. This video was amazingly put together as you always seem to find something new every time you watch it. 😮

  • @yvetterene
    @yvetterene 3 роки тому +8

    I needed this song when I was doing my Senior Practicum paper at Howard. African American Studies. The symbolism is nuts.

  • @quintonmckimm
    @quintonmckimm Рік тому +4

    4 years later, still so powerful

  • @HIDE-oj6ps
    @HIDE-oj6ps 3 роки тому +10

    A deep message is clearly shown in this video

  • @arungopinath913
    @arungopinath913 3 роки тому +61

    That guy at 3:15 : is he asleep?
    The MCU guys watching the video be like : No, I am pretty sure he's dead 😂

  • @kathyd2595
    @kathyd2595 3 роки тому +23

    There is so much symbolism in this video. After watching a video explaining Glover's dancing, movement, even the pants he wears from the Confederacy all has meaning. Watch it several times and watch just what is going on around him. There's a lot to digest. The guy is a genius.

  • @inkoinfinity2
    @inkoinfinity2 Рік тому +2

    One of the most genius music videos of a generation

  • @kellygray7711
    @kellygray7711 3 роки тому +3

    Much talent and much respect. 🤟🏻 Talent. Being real.

  • @kcoup1626
    @kcoup1626 3 роки тому +12

    The pause at 3:15 is 17 seconds for the 17 murdered Parkland students.

  • @cedriclaracampos9452
    @cedriclaracampos9452 3 роки тому +19

    once people are hurt in the black community, it's like they're forgotten; they're faceless" wow...speechless

    • @mrt2734
      @mrt2734 2 роки тому

      100% Buffalo New York, Tops Grocery Store.

  • @AngelicaEstherxo
    @AngelicaEstherxo 3 місяці тому +1

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched his video, along with video reactions.

  • @jennifercain6900
    @jennifercain6900 2 роки тому +1

    There's so much symbolism in this video it takes more than one watching to catch it all. From first scene to last!

  • @desireegerber
    @desireegerber 2 роки тому +7

    Your reactions were almost exactly like mine. This is an awesome reaction. I've never enjoyed a reaction before. Idk why. This just feels really honest, like me and my friends watching a deep ass video and talking about it. Nicely done. Def subscribin

  • @twaktwin14
    @twaktwin14 3 роки тому +6

    Top 3 artistic socially relevant music videos ever made. WOW. EVERYTHING FROM THE CLOTHES TO THE CARS TO THE MOVES meaningful hand picked meticulously planed masterpiece

  • @kendallfleming5858
    @kendallfleming5858 3 роки тому +7

    Great Artisitc Expression, I think hom, Kanye and Kendrick have some of the greatest artistic expressions in their videos

  • @ozarklisa1199
    @ozarklisa1199 3 роки тому

    Powerful piece of performance art. Lots to think about. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @lightnin3971
    @lightnin3971 3 роки тому +2

    I know this old but looking at that video now make sense to everybody. This is America before, then, now, and future.

  • @jonathonallen9449
    @jonathonallen9449 Рік тому

    The video reminded me of how we have good life promoted to us while in the background there are people hurting and when tragedy is put in front of us it is quickly moved away with more things that take our mind away from more important issues

  • @javianjohnson8746
    @javianjohnson8746 Рік тому +1

    Haven't seen this music video in probably 4 years. Its still so good

  • @kevininforks
    @kevininforks 3 роки тому +5

    I think this video was needed...the music video. Iv always like the song and the video, but after listening to your breakdown Its even better. Love the fact I'm not the only one that realizes the links to how we are distracted by bullshit media while history, life, and atrocities happen all around us. Glad I saw this thanks guys.

  • @thespeaker5312
    @thespeaker5312 Рік тому +1

    "The background is the crazy stuff and the foreground is the dude dancing..." Now you are finally getting it. WAKE UP!🙏🇺🇸❤️🦋

  • @LadyVenomWay
    @LadyVenomWay 8 місяців тому +2

    No music video has ever been this deep since!

  • @fiveapart
    @fiveapart 2 роки тому +2

    Epitome of an artist. Hands down.

  • @katstarczan8415
    @katstarczan8415 3 роки тому +4

    From Europe. One of the smartest videos i've seen.

  • @East17A
    @East17A 2 роки тому +1

    This is by far one of the best song clip ever and yes THIS IS AMERICA exactly how real life is like!!!

  • @glowgirl8171
    @glowgirl8171 25 днів тому

    Brilliant song and performance by Childish Bambino.

  • @Carlaisms
    @Carlaisms 2 роки тому +54

    To me it seemed to be a run down of American history of systematic racism up to this present day. Artistically it was done so well with the disturbing bits of “this is America …”.
    Such an authentic voice, some damn fine work, from the song, performance and visual language matched with the moving music and lyric.
    I’ve been watching it over and over … getting more layers of meaning each time. Great Art gets you thinking and this vid/song certainly does that.

    • @boersmabutt6055
      @boersmabutt6055 2 роки тому +3

      I’m in my mid 50’s and this will be the most relevant song and video of my lifetime . I’m amazed

  • @saracampbell2861
    @saracampbell2861 2 роки тому

    This song truly moved me! I think people were definitely sleeping on this song/video!

  • @a.t.6322
    @a.t.6322 3 роки тому +7

    The juxtaposition of entertainment and horrifying murders as the world around us descends into chaos...this is America.

  • @Dolanlol1984
    @Dolanlol1984 3 роки тому +3

    DEEEEEEP MAN.gambino is an ARTIST! X

  • @ProfessorRevell
    @ProfessorRevell Рік тому

    Love seeing your reactions which were very similar to mine the first time I watched it. I had to watch it five or six times to really grasp most of it.

  • @Andretti420
    @Andretti420 3 роки тому

    Yo, having real brothers comment on it, is useful. thank you brothers! keep up the fight!

  • @djinx296
    @djinx296 Рік тому

    The background is where it's all happening. I had to watch this vid a dozen times and think like crazy (and read lol) to get it all down. This is art.

  • @mariachiaradidedda
    @mariachiaradidedda Рік тому

    I still get the chills when I watch it from the beginning. It’s a massive slap in the face dressed with a. silk glove. 😱

  • @iamdrew6324
    @iamdrew6324 Рік тому +1

    Its been 4yrs but that gunshot still hits different. Freaks my shit out.

  • @Caercutta30
    @Caercutta30 3 роки тому +3

    First time I saw this I felt wounded. Like waking up after a knockout. I couldn't even sleep that night.

  • @kerrywoodward8339
    @kerrywoodward8339 2 роки тому

    Love everything this stands for ❤️

  • @Dolanlol1984
    @Dolanlol1984 3 роки тому +76

    Why is everyone shocked? This is how everyone thinks America is like . Thats why we never visit. Love Australia. Btw mad moves mr gambino you rock x

    • @simi6152
      @simi6152 3 роки тому +4

      That's sad to see. We are not all like this!

    • @devonishigh
      @devonishigh 3 роки тому +7

      @@simi6152 just 40% of our cops

    • @simi6152
      @simi6152 3 роки тому +2

      @@devonishigh That may be true unfortunately!

    • @oblivionreaper9307
      @oblivionreaper9307 3 роки тому +6

      @@devonishigh not just cops dont blame the entire fuckery of USA on cops its everything from media censoring ppl with different opinion to black on black violence shattering the roof

    • @massoudkamal5155
      @massoudkamal5155 3 роки тому

      @@devonishigh nice numbers bro, wonder how you got them

  • @rockymountainmt2378
    @rockymountainmt2378 Рік тому +3

    Dude at the front nailed it. "This is America" people are getting shot and killed in mass murders, but don't look at the chaos, look at the entertainment.. rinse and repeat..
    I'm Canadian and this song and video always illicit dark and heavy emotions in me. I feel for my Southern neighbours.

  • @drew5753
    @drew5753 Рік тому +1

    the Jim Crow depiction in his posture before he shoots the first black man, is the most artistic aspect in this video. pure genius

  • @dustyfausnaugh1313
    @dustyfausnaugh1313 Рік тому +18

    As a white person, I dont think i'll ever be able to truly understand Gambino's art. As a human, I feel like I understand it as a commentary on the violence of systemic racism and the ways black people are portrayed to distract us all from the violent nature of our country's racism. That's what I got from it.
    That being said, I am here to uphold the voice of my brothers and sisters of color. Your voice is the only one that really matters here.

  • @genegade
    @genegade Рік тому

    I love this reaction video. That first gunshot, the eyes 👀

  • @sonnasolod.9406
    @sonnasolod.9406 3 роки тому +64

    Look at America now.
    Did you notice the kids in the scaffolding with cells and masks on like we are in Covid-19!

    • @callumpeers2806
      @callumpeers2806 3 роки тому +15

      the masks in this video has nothing to do with covid 19 it has to do with gangs

    • @iAsked900
      @iAsked900 3 роки тому +10

      @@callumpeers2806 I think its symbolise how the recorder of events are anonymous. People who are recorded are the one we see, who got the bad stuffs. But people who are recording the events are always unknown and safe, just like wearing a mask, people dont know who you are.

    • @callumpeers2806
      @callumpeers2806 3 роки тому +4

      @@iAsked900 well I wore a mask before covid because my job means thst I have to does that mean I can tell the future

  • @jamierdebus325
    @jamierdebus325 2 роки тому

    Blessed love, my lords. Im thinking EVERY the same you all are thinking. Especially with pulling out the joint. But, yeah all of it I think the same as all of you.
    Plus I just watched. very good metaphysical analysis video about it that brought I things I and I guess other people didn't notice it realize

  • @anju21sejo
    @anju21sejo 3 роки тому

    I'm in tears. Like literal.

  • @josephp8712
    @josephp8712 3 роки тому +28

    This country was built with blood. Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Asian Americans. Other countries are the same ie Philippines, Africa, Europe. I consider myself well educated . Knowing that, Because we (America) are so diverse, Ido not understand or fathom how we all have been getting along at all with everyone’s opinion and point of views and faith or non faith. I’m boggled to this day. But I still try to be the best person I can be without offending other people. But institutions change that.

    • @NcYte707
      @NcYte707 3 роки тому

      ....... Yikes

    • @oblivionreaper9307
      @oblivionreaper9307 3 роки тому +1

      america is censoring other ppl opinions

    • @oblitusunum6979
      @oblitusunum6979 2 роки тому

      You conveniently left out the Irish and all the whites that died. But, like so many other things, I guess it didn't go with the narrative.

  • @nickhaladouglas4991
    @nickhaladouglas4991 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing message

  • @robertoramos1299
    @robertoramos1299 3 роки тому +1

    Love this song

  • @d3dromantics
    @d3dromantics 2 роки тому +1

    This song is a masterpiece

  • @TanyaQueen182
    @TanyaQueen182 Рік тому +1

    This is a great song and great video.

  • @effteeaitch6121
    @effteeaitch6121 Місяць тому

    Not the guy in 2:42 just blinking with one eye. Damn peripheral vision must be doing God's job

  • @Bohemecrochet
    @Bohemecrochet 2 роки тому

    When I first saw this, and that was just about a month ago... I was shocked... But I think I got the symbolic in this...

  • @GANGSTA2285
    @GANGSTA2285 3 роки тому +17

    The symbolism i react too most is first its the artists, then the church, then the children. Systematically attacking each part of the culture. He only pretends to pull a gun on the children. It's like a warning. Where it's gonna go next. Then he reflects like 'this world is fucked up' then lights a joint to calm his nerves lol.

    • @ariadne0w1
      @ariadne0w1 2 роки тому

      Or - first African culture, the violent erasure of that during slavery and beyond. Then reference to a hate-crime shooting at a black church, then pulling the "gun" on the kids followed by 17 seconds of silence to represent the 17 Parkland victims. All emphasizing the sacred treatment guns get in America, compared to human lives, especially Black lives. I like your reading, but the references are also much more intentional and specific.

  • @ashleycostta
    @ashleycostta 3 роки тому +2

    Até hoje eu não consigo sorrir em quando assisto, a simbologia é muito forte. Triste .

  • @ebadkhan7649
    @ebadkhan7649 Рік тому

    I think yall nailed it 100% tbh

  • @jesuischerie224
    @jesuischerie224 3 роки тому +7

    It also means Black America isn't really WOKE as it should be.

  • @SantiNilson
    @SantiNilson 2 роки тому +2

    Some references:
    (The song is in response to Childish Gambino for his song "This is America" ​​spreading it to all of America and not just the USA)
    The image at the beginning criticizes an advertisement for Alfredo Jaar´s (This is América)
    Lolita Lebron, (Puerto Rican activist who in 1954 went to Congress and demonstrated for the liberation of Puerto Rico, was imprisoned for 24 years).
    Families separated on the northern border of Mexico,
    The Peruvian revolutionary Tupac Amaru in times of the Spanish colonization,-
    The part were he says cut heads the people in the scene represents Bolivians indigenas fight for their rigts
    The Wowan giving breath to his chiild hapen in Argentina a woman has to give his chid trhoug the wall
    It speaks of the dead and disappeared during OPERATION CONDOR (campaign of political repression and State terrorism supported by the United States that included intelligence operations and assassinations of opponents in almost all of America)
    The execution of Víctor Jara, a Chilean singer-songwriter who fought for the people and was tortured and murdered in 1973 by the Pinochet dictatorship
    The Zapatista indigenous women's movement formed in the State of Chiapa (Mexico)
    Central American gangs like "La Marasalvatrucha"
    The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (for the burning of the Amazon rainforest),
    It mentions 5 presidents in 11 days, it happened in Argentina in 2001 (the banks kept the people's savings and there was a revolt that expelled the president)
    The protests in Venezuela, including the protestant who burned in full march
    The mobilizations in Colombia against the government of Iván Duque and Police shoot and kill people just for ask for their rights
    The presence of transnational brands,
    He cites Eduardo Galeano, the political prisoners of the Valdivia culture who were in Ecuador.
    And so there are endless references that are part of our American history

  • @thefuonk1351
    @thefuonk1351 3 роки тому

    I like this format of just a room of dudes reacting to a video.

  • @janrashit7727
    @janrashit7727 3 роки тому

    Чайлдиш Гамбино, несколько часов назад я услышал его имя и вот уже я смотрю реакцию на его клип. Давно такой связки у меня не было...🙂

  • @VettaBoop
    @VettaBoop 2 роки тому +2

    "is he sleep?" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @skalmortis
    @skalmortis 9 місяців тому

    Big dude watched it straight up without flinching, he's a G.

  • @WelcomeTooo
    @WelcomeTooo 2 роки тому +3

    As a 50 year old white guy I was raised to respect all people …… all.
    Respect me and I’ll respect you right back.

  • @ceesno9955
    @ceesno9955 2 роки тому

    Dancing will set you free ✨ 🎶 😉 💕

  • @DarkReapersGrim1
    @DarkReapersGrim1 3 роки тому +3

    Wow, you guys have me seeing it in a wiser (as in wise) lens on two fronts: 1) The background is the crazy stuff and the guy dancing is the distraction and 2) "This is how you see us" add to that the people with the camera phones just recording, smoked his blunt and went about his day. I didn't even pick up on the messages.

    • @madisondunn6607
      @madisondunn6607 2 роки тому

      The silence was to honor the 17 people murdered in the Parkland Shooting

  • @gilgograboid8244
    @gilgograboid8244 2 місяці тому +2

    Trying to have fun and be silly, then guns ruin it. This is America.

  • @ma.khristinefayeagan645
    @ma.khristinefayeagan645 Місяць тому

    it was 6 yrs ago but still song hits different 😔

  • @df6145
    @df6145 2 роки тому

    Love

  • @nathanielhinton5320
    @nathanielhinton5320 3 роки тому +8

    I dont know if you guys noticed, (and i know this is a very late comment) but in the beginnning, the way he is standing resembles Jim crow, a form of entertainment in teh 19th and 20th century, which was an act for entertainment making fun of african americans

    • @dwightcarter9219
      @dwightcarter9219 3 роки тому

      Exactly my comment was very similar to your statement.

  • @schiacciatrollo
    @schiacciatrollo 9 місяців тому

    this is america is even better with your reaction(s)

  • @jeffreyabelson7171
    @jeffreyabelson7171 Місяць тому

    a very powerful video

  • @Jokerdan76
    @Jokerdan76 2 місяці тому

    what are you guys on a lunch break or something, DAMN!

  • @thesmilegame
    @thesmilegame Рік тому

    I was here!

  • @AmplifyDat
    @AmplifyDat Рік тому

    masterpiece!

  • @gays8289
    @gays8289 3 роки тому +1

    Hello my friend I'm from Iraq l like this is much ❤☦️🇮🇶

  • @greatboredompineappl
    @greatboredompineappl 3 роки тому +1

    I’ve heard the dance he was doing was based on a minstrel show dance from Jim Crow times

  • @podarogue8428
    @podarogue8428 Рік тому

    2018. such amazing times