American Hears Dave - Black for the first time Reaction 

Was coming here to say exactly this

Yeah this guy was just rambling about something random, there was no backlash against Dave for talking about that. Why would there be?

@@kaivalyabhagat3214 he meant the entire topic

@@kaivalyabhagat3214 he did get backlash from your typical EDL, Britain first type people. But also with Mr L Boyd being a black man I am sure he has experienced back lash over wanting equal rights. i.e the BLM protests when they were protesting exactly what Dave was singing about.

Tears Thanks for context..

Absolutely totally agree

Agree too

On par with Tupac..Kendrick Lamar and all the truth speakers the list is large but small at the same time

@@CJ-ts4jm nah maybe thats abit to far but hes defo goat in the uk scene

@@michaelvu4349 nah bruv. He's too young to be considered a goat, let him release a couple more albums then say it. No doubt he's got the potential to be one, he's one of my favourite

I second this! Psychodrama is a master class

A must

Psycho live, please

Psycho first. The album is amazing, but is has to be listened from start to end. Dave is also extremly young, and I think he is channeling from ghosts. He started at age 16 you should also do his fire in the Booth. Young and beyond his age

Id start further back than psychodrama

He's 22 now

hard to think he played a maniac in topboy

@@Sam_Guevenne naar it’s not, he’s like his character in real life just not as violent no more, he did used to be tho when younger

Why The saddest songs what about - top boy - professor x - or funky Friday

@@danzgotjokes2809 The three Josh mentioned have more meaning & depth behind them. The ones you mentioned are more songs you get turnt to.

Add in Psycho & you're cooking with gas.

@@danzgotjokes2809 all good songs you’ve suggested mate, but I prefer to watch reactions to songs with more meaning

Panic attack and picture me

Its even more creepy than that - folk from the W'Indies and other ex colonies are members of the Commonwealth, so a) they didn't 'need' papers for residency as they were subjects of the crown already (this was true up until the 80s I think) so no such documents could have 'existed' b) additionally Theresa May pre-PM oversaw the shredding of landing cards from ships like the Windrush - the governments own records of the Commonwealth subjects they'd invited to move to the British Isles to staff the NHS, public transport, education - effectively rebuild the country after two world wars and the end of the Empire - they literally destroyed in 2010 and started a programme of deportation and the hostile environment (getting them fired, withholding health care, locking them up in detention centres.

@@firstsurname7099 Blimey. That's truly shocking. Thanks for the info. Appreciated

I’m part of the windrush generation and just to be clear it wasn’t just people from Caribbean country’s a lot of other commonwealth countries were invited over here at the same time. I was on a programme called who should get a British passport. My mother was part of the windrush generation came here and worked as a nurse.

actually there were documents for residency and citizenship which costed £10 and they tried to deport all the people who couldn’t pay for it back then

Why would you be so disingenuous? He was at the Brit awards, massive music production, the media was fawning all over him, millions of views on youtube! The song was basically a bunch of stereotypes of what it is to have a particular skin colour, like all black people are the same, just a monolith without any autonomy or ability to think for themselves. Shit like this does more harm to the 'black community' than help it. It used to be called racism...

@@Th31nf1d31 very interesting perspective. Too me as a observer of hip hop and also the Racial social climate of the UK for the last 30 odd years I saw how the media portrayed him. Priti Patel attacked him on the news and claimed that the Prime minister isn't racist. Dave then replied showing the pics of him talking about water melon smiles. The great thing is you are entitled to your own opinions as well as I. The more you research the more you realise that the system is a complete mess. Peace to you

@@funkr77 Thank you for your cordial reply, it gives me faith in humanity when people can agree to disagree rather than hurling insults. I will have a look into what you said. Take care, stay safe.

@@Th31nf1d31 I agree that he got in equal measure a lot of love and hate for this performance, but i disagree that the point of this was to lump people together. The wider message of the song is CALLING OUT how black people are grouped in society even today. Yes, he talks about cultural differences, but by no means does that explicitly mean that Dave portrays black people as lacking diversity in lieu of being "just a monolith without any autonomy".

@@Th31nf1d31 Even if true it was one of the most complained about things to Ofcom of the night so it wasn't as though it did not receive backlash

I never knew that. Lovely

Oh and I'm not 100% sure but dave probably did the art work too and composed the piano in this

Why should it? UK history is about history of the UK which is a majority white country

@@chrisklitou7573 just say your racist . We learn about the whole world in England u. I assume your from America

@@fibre2735 Im British and my grandparents were immigrants

@@chrisklitou7573 If you think English history means white history then you're a product of exactly what the original comment was referring to

@@Danny_LDS well if you're learning about the history of the UK a majority white country then of course it will be white history Or are you a idiot There were no black people in the UK before the 20th century

What did you think of him? He’s at the top of the UK hip hop game atm

@@zaydmulla7587 i’m canadian and first found dave from the thiago silva w alex at glasto video but this gave me a whole new appreciation for him. UK rap really is crazy though, oldies like dizzee giggs jme skepta stormzy and the younger gen w Aj tracey aitch ardee dave central cee and all them. Massive amount of top notch music getting pumped out!

Bet he felt hard..

I didn't know Johnson was there. That adds both courage and a bit of humour to this performance. (Humour as in, it's funny to imagine the look on his face ...)

@@scotty2hotty167 bet u sent in an email of complaint and got all angry inside when you was watching this performance

@@fuegobeats3383 ur wrong there, like the song, it was the "boris was there" comment. Who cares trying to make it more than it is......

that’s honestly one of my favourite things dave has ever done

Yeah it’s insane. It’s like a raw dark version of this Brits performance

@@bait1s yeah me too. Just oozes class, skill, pain and poetry all at the same time

@@zergnub7426 i love this track live but the live version of panic attack brings so much more to the track

Dave is the type of rapper the industry needs.

He already did a few days ago

I was thinking the exact same thing😭

fire doesnt do them justice. It's like having a phd forced into your brain.

@@dhamp_ ..... LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! 🤣

Akalas FITB 4 is an astounding work. The second part which was published as an illustrated, (poetic) book of reincarnation into both sides of conflict. The tragedy & depth of it had me on my knees. I bought my son and his global, cultural mix of friends tickets to see him live. He is a teacher for all & my introduction to UK Grime. Lowkey is another fantastic artist. ‘Obama Nation’ was banned in the USA but a superb piece with an insightful perspective.

Pahahah honestly, who is a fan of Charlie Sloth 🤣 I could abide him if he just stopped pressing buttons for sound effects and ruining the immersion of the profound stories being told on fire in the booth

I second this comment. Its a must watch!

And now the government is allowing all the people who rebuilt this country and paid their dues, and their offspring to be ripped away from everything they know and sending them to the Caribbean. They weren't born their, they have no home to go to and no money. Their pensions are stopped, even though they've worked hard to have money stopped from their wages to pay for it!! Theresa May calls it hostile and she started it as Home Secretary ... absolute racist politician!

They did not encourage masses of carribeans to come you have been sold a lie to cover up the truth. You need to learn about the British nationality act of 1948; In 1948 they passed the British nationality act which was only suppose to entice white people from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and richer non-whites, they thought poor Black and Asians would not be able to afford the traveling costs. When Windrush turned up Attlee's own Labour party turned against him with objections and his own MPs petitioned him, they even tried to send the ship to East Africa, in the end Attlee assured his MPs that the people would not last 1 winter in the UK. From 1948 until 1971 they kept changing the act making it more tighter and restricting on who could come, thats why theres such a problem now with anyone who entered before 1971. ..................................................................................................................................................... The act was intended to reaffirm what many in the late 1940s regarded as a “time-honoured principle”, the doctrine that all British subjects should have the automatic right to travel to and settle in the United Kingdom. But that noble and inclusive principle had been established in earlier decades, in the secure knowledge that poverty and the high cost of international travel would keep poor black and brown people far from Britain’s shores. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/windrush-story-not-a-rosy-one-even-before-ship-arrived Read The "Windrush generation" about a quarter of the way down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_people#The_.22Windrush_generation.22 Read the archives the truth is in there Letter from Prime Minister Attlee to an MP about immigration to the UK, 5 July 1948 nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/attlees-britain/empire-windrush-2/

@@pamsanby8506 I have a lot of sympathy for the Windrush generation but it was not just Caribbeans it was also Asians. You need to stick to facts they did not rebuild the country, Europeans were the first people to come here after WW2. In 1950 5 years after the war there was no more than 20,000 non-whites in the country, mass migration from the commonwealth did not happen until the late 50s then it was heavily restricted in 1971 then resumed again in 1997. Commonwealth immigration, made up largely of economic migrants, rose from 3,000 per year in 1953 to 46,800 in 1956 and 136,400 in 1961.[10] The heavy numbers of migrants resulted in the establishment of a Cabinet committee in June 1950 to find "ways which might be adopted to check the immigration into this country of coloured people from British colonial territories".[10] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom

Yeah, so the big ship most people came on was called Windrush but when everyone arrived they said "you don't need papers, you're members of the commonwealth" but now they're deporting people who came here at 2 or 3 with parents and sending them to Jamaica. It's disgusting. There's a BBC drama about it