🎵 GHOSTS OF GRENFELL by LOWKEY ft. MAI KHALIL *American Reaction* 

My dad and niece were first on the scene. My niece was so shocked by it she became a London ambulance driver. She is 25 and she now saves people.

Akala & his close friend Lowkey will change your life. Peace & Love ✌🏾❤👊🏾

I don’t think I’ll ever get over that, the lives lost without reason, no matter how much time passes. Plenty of Londoners are still hurt and angry about this. RIP to those we lost.

I remember that night so vividly. I remember all the live videos of people screaming. I remember the woman that threw her child out the window. I randomly remember the singer Adele standing outside the building crying. The only silver lining is that it happened during Ramadan so the local Muslim boys were awake at 1.30am and saw the fire and ran over to wake people up. I'm sure many lives were saved thanks to them.

Reportedly the fire started due to a faulty electrical appliance in one of the apartments. The building was originally designed to contain fire in the section it started; due to that, fire service advice was to stay in your apartment in the event of a fire and not to evacuate. The cladding that was later added - to make the block (housing predominantly lower income families and a large number or immigrants, including refugees and asylum seekers) more aesthetically pleasing for the other residents of the wealthiest Borough of London (in which the block is located) - was not fire proof and caused the fire to spread and rendering the fire safety advice redundant. This (I believe) was highlighted by the local residents to the local council , in addition to many things like faulty fire alarms and other health and safety issues that came up in repeated independent inspections. Firstly raising them years prior. There's currently an investigation into why nothing was done when the questions were raised, and how the cladding (that didn't meet fire regulations) got onto the building in the first place. Who knew? Who ignored it? Who signed it off? This was a atrocious tragedy that occurred due to the neglect from many different parties. I really hope justice will be done for those whose lives were taken and their families.

Haven’t heard this since it came out, made me tear up all over again #justiceforgrenfell

Nailed it on capitalism. Pure savagery. And there are still lots of buildings with the same or similar cladding around the country and the government hasn't gotten round to changing it. Some residents are spending all their money on 24 fire wardens they're having to pay for themselves. Others have had their homes valued at £0 and are unable to move. The most heartbreaking thing is the Grenfell residents group warned about the dangers repeatedly and prophesised, in a blog, that it would take something like this to happen before anyone took notice.

“How does that happen in a 1st-world country....” How do ALL of us let this happen to any other human being? As lowkey said in another one of his songs: “Follow the dollar and swallow our humanity”.... Thumbs up for the reaction✊🏽👌🏽

9:22 when you mentioned the stairwell - there was only one stairwell which filled with smoke and fire - that was the ONLY way out. It got clogged up with dead bodies and people were having to trample over them on their way out including the firefighters

To give you an overview, this building is located in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea which is one of the wealthiest parts of London - houses there can sell in this area of the city for over £30M. Grenfelll tower is a building in this area - to make the building more pleasing to look at (for the rich neighbours) the building was re-clad but they did it in cheap material that was highly flammable. People complained for over 2 years about the condition of the building - so many things were not up to modern fire codes. When the building caught fire -the fire spread almost instantly trapping the people in the building. Since the fire all the people involved have passed the buck, the housing department blaming the people who refit the building, and so on. The point here is that when a building like this catches fire, the fire should be contained but because of the way the the building was refitted this didn’t happen. So far 3.5 years later no one has gone to prison, and the people still have had no compensation. You are correct that this basically happen because it was a building that housed poor and immigrant families - although people complained about the building no one cared. In the U.K. there is a crime of corporate manslaughter (usually very hard to prove) hopefully some of these people involved will go to prison for what they did.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Without any real understanding of the situation in Britain you have nailed it. I have used both of these songs in my lessons on the Anniversary, which was yesterday 14th June ( it happened in 2017). The building is still there, covered in clothe. This is a human rights issue that everyone needs to know about, all the people it has affected deserve justice 😢

There is a lot unanswered questions till this day.. The company who put the cladding on the side of the building are having a inquest the goverment have also fucked up by not rehousing the people who survived.. Its just sad

It was a council estate tower block that had been refurbished in the past few years but the builders used a cheep cladding that wasn't up to fire regulation standards. The builder saved 5k on this cladding. + when people called the fire brigade they were advised to stay inside!!!

Lowkey- Ahmed, is a real deep one too. The cladding they used for this building for cosmetic reasons is still on many many more blocks of flats in the most poor areas

Lowkey is truth 👍 there is a Ghost of Grenfell part 2 you guys should check out too, it was released a year later

Also the borough is the richest in the country but that particular area, which begins where grenfell tower is and goes on for little bit is where mostly poor or working class people live. Rappers like Digga D (CGM) are also from the area

As someone commented below, Dave mentions Grenfell in his live performance at the Brits in 2020, but actually he is also trying to follow on from Stormzy as he called out the government about Grenfell at the Brits in 2018. You should definitely react to that performance: Stormzy - Blinded by your grace Pt.2 & Big for your boots [live at the brits '18]. Very powerful and politically charged

The issue with grenfell is NOT just how the victims were handled, it's the fact that they had been warning the government housing bodies for years about the lack of safety in the building= no fire sprinklers, no fire exits & the 'renovation' of the outside of the building was done using highly flammable materials that were clearly unsafe (and cheap) but because they were working class and mostly immigrants they were ignored and neglected.

Lowkey lived right next to Grenfell Tower, and the people featured in the video are local residents and victims. He also made "Ghosts of Grenfell 2", which was recorded 1 year after this, and covers a bit more of the situation. It was social/council housing for poor working class families. The fire was so bad and spread so fast because of the cladding that was retrofitted to the outside of the building, which was highly flammable. The cladding was installed to make the building look nicer for the rich living near by, as it was in one of the richest areas of London. Additionally, there were no sprinklers, fire extinguishers were unmaintained and didn't work, water pressure wasn't high enough for fire hoses, and even London fire brigade lacked a ladder tall enough to properly fight the fire due to budget cuts, and had to wait hours for one to arrive. The government/councils response to the fire was awful as well, with lack of support for people who lost everything and having to sleep rough. People were still waiting for rehousing years later. Multiple companies and government agencies are to blame IMO, and the inquest is still on going. It still is a big talking point in UK because it epitomises the increasing class divide we have in this country. Also the English translation for the Arabic verse is: "Tell me where I can go, people are burning at the hour of Sahoor, I feel as if I'm in another world".

Being from london Grenfell can be seen as a horrible reminder of what happened and failure to give these people justice

When you reacted to Dave doing Black live at the Brits towards the end he mentioned Grenfell, just thought I'd let you know in case you ever hear it again

The people carrying on with their lives were the politicians. My dad and my niece who live in whitstable house silchester road were on the scene really quickly. They could not do anything. My niece then devoted her life to becoming an ambulance driver/paramedic. She was 24. The fire was caused by cheap dangerous cladding. That building was fine. The cladding was added so that the rich people had something more attractive to look at

What I remember from the UK I used to drive by the buildings everyday, but on the news the fire was started by a faulty fridge, but the council cut corners on budgets and put flammable cladding in. 15 minutes the whole structure was on fire and the cladding caused an oven effect the temperature of the fire was so strong some bodies were just ash piles, the fire brigade advised people to stay inside, to this day no one has been charged, I love diversity as a postman I love my fellow friends from different cultures I find people from other walks of life and religions much more beautiful in nature the hospitality they share is, amazing, so I'm all for bringing those guilty of killing the innocent to justice. R. I. P to those who lost your lives, and shame on you to the councils, government and corporate idiots, who resigned as soon as they found out shame on you.

Great reaction, will deffo look out for more. Britain has a lot of great conscious rappers

I dont think il ever get over what I witnessed that night watching events unfold live on TV. It was around 130 am and I was just checking the latest headlines before going to bed. I didn't sleep that night I stayed glued to the telly hoping people would be rescued. This incident showed how we rally together to help each other when it matters. Alot of people are still inside and unaccounted for, it was due to the cladding on the outside of the building not being up to code. Many buildings in the UK have this same cladding the government had and still has alot to answer for

You should check Ahmed out by lowkey.

If I remember correctly, the builders cut corners and used cheap materials, or skipped on the fireproofing materials altogether. The building went up in flames like that in before firemen could even get there. There was no way to go in to rescue people because of the flames.

There is a public inquiry going on today, to find out who is responsible for this tragedy. Was the company who provided the cladding, that covered Grenfell Tower, responsible for providing highly flammable cladding? Was the borough Kensington & Chelsea responsible? For ignoring complaints from Grenfell Tower residents, about the safety of the building.

the translation of the Arabic part of the song goes like this ( Tell me where to go, people are burning in Al-Sahoor time, I feel like I am in another world) ....Al-Sahoor is an Arabic word for the few minutes before the dawn time

Please can you do a reaction video to the following: 1. Lowkey - Ahmed (be prepared for this! Also Ahmed is symbolism of others in his shoes) 2. Akala - The Journey ft Mic Righteous (you'll enjoy this!) 3. Lowkey FTIB 4. Mic Righteous FITB 5. Lowkey - voices of the voiceless ft immortal technique 6. Lowkey - The Warning (chipmunk diss t 7. Lowkey - revolution ft Mic Righteous) 8. Mic Righteous - Acne (AJ Tracey Diss) 9. Mic Righteous - Interesting (AJ Tracey Diss)

Grenfell was basically what would be a 'project block' in america but beside a rich area. the government, to save money took a lot of shortcuts and used really cheap and unsafe material which was later the main reason for the deaths of god knows how many people. the padding and the lack of fire exits and fire alarms to name a few things they did. the firebrigade when called took a while to come and the people that were trapped were told to stay in the building basically advising them inti trapping themselves in the blaze. the media and government then underplayed it saying it was a small number of people that died etc.. there was a lot more to it but the government and whoever they used to do works on the building is to blame 100%. those lives basically werent worth much because they werent rich. now its supposeto be going through courts but sadly you know how that goes...

Lowkey "Ahmed" , great one.

Another lowkey song you should really check out is called Ahmed, its very deep but based around real events and the video is extremely well made

Folks who could have easily escaped were told to stay put by the Emergency Services based on the premise that each apartment was specifically designed to contain a fire. Sadly, the building had been "improved" aesthetically (mainly for the benefit of the wealthy neighbours it overlooked) using flammable cladding, if you can believe such a product even exists. The gap between the original structure and the additional cladding created an ideal conduit for the fire to quickly engulf the tower.

It was government housing. They had been warned time and time again that it was a fire hazard and unsafe. The government ignored it because they didn’t want to spend money. Those poor people still haven’t been compensated

Helps if you do some research on Grenfell. There are documentaries here on RU-vid about it. Residents had been complaining for years about safety issues in the building, including faulty electrics. The local (conservative) authority of Kensington and Chelsea ignored them. What they did instead was put this cladding on the building because wealthy people living in the borough thought the tower was an eyesore. The cladding was purely to pretty it up, no other reason. Make it look nicer for those wealthy residents who didn’t like the look of the tower before. What they never took into account was that the cladding was highly flammable and was already banned in a number of other countries. So when a man’s refrigerator shorted out and caught fire (remember the dodgy electrics), as soon as the fire reached the cladding it spread at a ridiculously rapid rate right up and around the entire tower. Many families on the floors above never got out. I saw the early footage on tv that night and on Twitter I saw people who were in that tower asking people to pray for them. Many of them had been told by the fire department to stay in their homes. Those same people never got out. In the intervening years the UK right wing dominated media has vilified the survivors, spreading bs stories of them demanding mansions and all kinds of lies, turning the sheep against the survivors. Because most of the residents were from ethnic minority groups, it was easier for the media to vilify them, suggest they were illegals or terrorists etc. Typical right wing media. But anyone believing that bs is doing so willingly. Welcome to Brexit Britain!

I live 5 minutes from there I remember bringing 100s of bottles of water to the survivors at 4am it was all I could think to do, Never will i Forget that or forgive what I saw

A firemen walked up the stairs to rescue some people and he came across a 5 year old and his unconscious mum and the firemen asked if there was anyone els in the room and the child siad only his brother but he's dead. I always find that sad

The worst part is people from other buildings could see people burning inside trying to escape 😩

Ahmed - Lowkey would be great to react to but it is really emotional!

I love it do another one of lowkey please

Definitely have a look at Lowkey fire in the booth part 2, that and Akala part 4 are the two best fitb of all time imo.

for a split second i thought you two were the peeps in the vid,only for a second but the thought was there lol

Great reaction guys and how have you not reacted to his fire in the booths yet Lowkey is a different breed

Grenfell still really hurts for many of us. The Council have millions in the bank and are one of the richest councils in England but they selected cheaper external cladding to increase the insulation for the building. Instead of being resistant to fire the cladding actually worked as an accelerant and should never have passed a safety test. When the cladding ignited it caused the fire to spread up the outside at a rapid rate meaning that the internal fire breaks were useless and the fire brigade didn’t stand a chance.

Anyone else still get goosebumps watching and listening to this song.

I seen footage of Akala down at Grenfell the next day trying to help the survivors. It took Theresa May nearly a week (& a lot of public pressure) before she showed up!😠😠😠

Very sad thing that happened in West London in the summer of 2017 I remember watching it on the TV as breaking news at 1:00 in the morning it was so unexpected nobody saw it coming thousands died

It was people being cheap because it’s housing for council property. The cladding wasn’t up to code because the people that built it cut costs

The lady alsang in Arabic at the end because the area in West London it happened has a large Arabic migrant Arab population mainly from Morocco in North Africa

Amazing empathetic reaction ♥️

The fire travels up the cladding of the building it was meant to be fire resistant

They used a seriously flammable material I forget what for and it made the fire spread extremely fast.

Also Voice of the Voiceless by Lowkey feat Immortal Technique

I love your reaction...

Extremely flammable cladding attached to the building, approved by the Conservative (govt) local council, at the request of the super-rich residents opposite who wanted it put on because the flat was an "EYE SORE" to them when they saw it out their windows. Govt still refused to acknowledge any blame, prosecute anybody, hold a proper inquiry into it, rehouse any of the victims, find all the missing people, and brush it under the carpet. It is a symptom of a much bigger problem our society has with social inequality, where the rich control society and govt and are basically immune from prosecution, and they don't give a fuck about the poor (especially non-white) people burning to death, or those who barely survived who are unable to get justice.

Years later, that same type of cladding is still on a ton of buildings up and down the country & the government won't replace it.

The cladding was sub par and flammable. The building was clad because the area has lots of rich people moving in and they didn’t want an ugly building in their view. So flammable cladding was installed and one persons fridge failed and it caused this fire. Plenty of non documented people living in the building but does that matter. You are asking the right questions. Here is the answer. Also, no they haven’t changed cladding in other dangerous buildings.

The housing contractors that approved the cladding which was highly flammable,fire authority etc no one has been charged for what happened or taken the blame.Months before this authority they have been taking up with the council that the claddings were dangerous and needed taking down but nothing was done to all the complaints and up until now some are still in hotels etc and still no reparation paid.The public raised £18+ million for the displaced victims etc and only £2 million of which was given to the victims

Please react to dave question time

My cousin was in this fire

They will never be forgotten 💚 #justiceforgrenfell #El-wahabi 🕊🤍

Lowkey ghost of Grenfell 2

Dave - question time. I think you guys would appreciate it.

@ 13:00 The sorted aware anti-capitalist American describes the negligent careless culpable RBKC former Head of Housing Rock Feilding Mellen to a tee and yet has never met him....spooky!

Gotta do more lowkey!

Try reacting to Ahmed and Obamanation by lowkey. He will open your eyes. Akala lowkey dave logic and mic righteous need to be protected

The night i lost everything all at once

#JusticeForThe72 #JusticeForGrenfell 💚

Grenfell and several other towers have been insolated with a very flamable agent for cheap insolatation on top of this they did not have a propper emergency exit nor enough fire extinguishers.the people responsible knew this and did not feel obligated to fix it since it would cost them too much money.And i bet it was done for insurance purposes (They claim the fire started from a faulty refrigirator. They are still calling for Justice.😠

Sn just recently they said the laptop that held the files of the tragedy was wiped by accident LOL

Check out 200 Bars of Power by Lowkey

3 years on and theyre still in progress of removing the cladding from buildings up and down the country. There are alot of "foreign sounding names" because london is a massive melting pot and even english people will have islamic names. The building was council housing, which is for lower class people and all the problems and illegal things were reported multiple times by the residents but nothing was done. 3 years on and they still havent arrested anybody for the illegal cladding. Alot of families realised they couldnt get out and decided to stay and die together, children refusing to leave their parents/grandparents/siblings. the fire brigade told people to stay in their flats too which led to alot of deaths. They also left alot of the survivors unhoused after the fire. My city has 3 tower blocks of similar size with the flammable cladding and a school and they have only just started removing it before covid hit and they stopped. Its so fucked up as we know the names of rhe companies and people responsible yet they havent faced any consequences.

Unfortunately, like most things, it comes down to money. Sprinklers and better fire proof cladding was recommended but it's always built to the cheapest quote. There should have been people charged with corporate manslaughter over this.

After this tragedy happened all buildings that had this cheap cladding were meant to change it after a ruling by the government. Well has it happened no...are people still at risk....yes...have there been any more fires to buildings with this type of cladding...yes just last month. People died and authorities still choose to be negligent

you need to listen to DAVE Question time

Its still a crime scene. It gonna be demolished 2022. NO one has to this Day been sentenced to prison, however the trial is ongoing. Someone will go down, lowkey was an eyewitness to this horror. Grenfell is in his neighborhood. PS my english is really bad 🤣 r.i p to all who lost there lives ❤😪

You should react to stormzy live at the Brit awards 2018 calling out the government with a extremely touching rap calling the government the true Criminals

Please react to the part 2! Of Lowkey Grenfell

Can I reccomend “Dave - black live at the brits 2020”

listen to Ghost of grenfell 2

The poor people in Britain have more in common with immigrants than they do with the rich and middle class, in America you have the divide between White and Black in the UK its the Rich and Poor. In some cases the poor white people experience racism against them being denied help because they were born white and English. i was homeless for 6 years asked for help many times and told unless i was on heroin or alcoholic im at the bottom of the list, Grenfell had illegal cladding on it to make it look smarter because the rich people didnt like the look of it, when it caught fire the plastic went up like petrol, all the residence were told to stay inside, they could of got out but was told to stay, also the fire exits were locked, i think it was a sacrifice its no secret the Elites practice the dark arts.

Lowkey- Ahmed, please react

This housing is owned by the government. The building burned down because of flammable insulation installed by a company appointed by the government. The building is in one of London’s richest areas. Very sad, all they have done now is cover it up and nothing else.

You should listen to ahmed.

The cladding on the outter building shouldn't of been on the building it wasn't health an safety registered!

Do Lowkey FITB part 2 and I’ll sub

Corporate manslaughter

React to the other Greenwell song by other artists

You can’t find out who was In that building because all that is inside is ashes

Another shame on our government, feckin list is epic.....

Low key - Islamophobic Lullabies

such a senseless tragedy.sp many innocent lives lost

Lords of War?

5tt

,was the government cutting corners sosial housing cheap cladding which still exists on some tower blocks the residents were more mixt than u think art students elderly etc the government were really to blame as this cheap material wasn't safe! Sad and horrible and nasty!

They were British 😢

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They put cladding on the building that they were warned about that had cionied and shit so fumes were mental burned 4 2 days the missing are obsily dead but the government cos there cremated I think they have b legallily bbmisding it's fucked up just to make a building look a bit btr 4 people who didint even live their and the say the government were to busy at war to look at this I'd b pissed that's wat o get from the songs but I'm Irish Dublin and I didint no only clean few days tho tragic

72 people who died That day and still no one taking responsibility disgusting