AMERICAN REACTS TO DAVE- BLACK (LIVE AT THE BRITS) [GAVE ME THE CHILLS] [ALL FACTS!] 

Hey man! Another guy from Glasgow agreeing with your sentiments wholeheartedly. ♥️

As a Black Scottish person I agree.

Love from London🇬🇧🇺🇸

Peace from Bristol

Always love from Scotland, be brave and stand free 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Adding a bit more to this: - Dave knew Jack Merrit personally because Jack had worked with Dave's brother who is in prison. UK politicians tried to use Jack's death to push for longer mandatory sentences and Dave is trying to say that Jack wouldn't have stood for that at all. Jack's family also spoke out against it. - Grenfell was worse than just lack of funding, they put cladding on the outside of the council flat tower to make it look nicer for people in the buildings nearby, and they chose a cheaper material to save a few thousand pounds, and that material was highly flammable. The fire department didn't know about the cladding so they told people in Grenfell to stay were they were because the building was meant to contain fires, but the cladding made it worse.

Wow thanks for this 🙏🏾

Julian D'Souza oh wow i didnt know dave knew jack thanks. You’re 100% right about Grenfell too

@@JDS8 Yeah his dad speaking out against it was touching. Boris Johnson's attempts at using his sons death for political gain was disgusting. Jack was completely against all of that, such a shame he's no longer with us and that most of us were unfamiliar with him before he died.

Mic drop 🙌🏻

Also to note he has really popular "chart" songs like Thiago Silva, Location, Streatham etc. He chose instead to perform a song with a message thats not as popular.

His lowest charting single from the album...

@@Thatgirl96. can you imagine? ahah what's wrong with people?

Riri Webb yet so powerful and was a great decision

This award show is the the UK version of the AMA awards

Look up the sbtv freestyle he dropped at 16 he's wise way beyond his years

22

@@Flixzsy he was 21 when performing this. he's only recently turned 22.

Dave is one of the most woke artists that do have a voice

The fact he’s my age makes me reconsider what I’m doing with my life

Why do Americans sleep on British rappers

White British guy here - this song helped me empathise so much with black people and their experiences. “If you don’t want to get it then you’re never going to get it.”

SmithyD86 wasnt Jack killed in the Nov. 2019 London Bridge attack?

@@tomg3657 possible I have the date wrong yeah! Either way, sad story.

I was lucky. I had a black history teacher and she taught us about slavery, civil rights, MLK and malcom X. she couldn't teach us all of it cause it wasn't in the curriculum so we didn't get black panthers or anything on the actual bill of civil rights or anything that happened in the UK where we live. but Im so thankful that she did cause if it weren't for her no one in my school would have had any lessons on black history unless they took history for GCSE and A-level which wasnt very popular

Same

Really? I was taught all that and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. We also have the Slavery Museum up here in Liverpool and my Dad took me there as a child.

Babywilko same. but i think it depends on the school. they’re given a big list of what they can cover pre GCSE and pick what they want to teach. i’m not entirely sure if that’s the case but i remember our teacher saying something like that when we asked why we learned about some things and not others

I didn't go to school in Britain so I don't know exactly what you do and don't learn but my dad has told me that he learned very little about British imperialism. I definitely think the education curriculum should have to include this kind of history. It seams you also learn very little about how Ireland was treated by the British and the issues we still face today because of it. Again I don't know if the curriculum is more updated now I only know from what my dad has told me from when he went to school. But when my cousin from England came to visit us here in Ireland he didn't seem to know much about the British Irish history at all. Just think stuff like this should be prioritised in our education

Amber Ellis *3 year anniversary

Thanks for the support, it may not seem like a lot but trust me we do appreciate it

Me too. I think the words are so painful, especially when you didn’t even realise this is the suffering people have just because of their skin colour. It’s disgusting. The stories recently have been so eye opening and it’s absolutely devastating the more you learn

Same, man. Everytime :/

I duno how many times I've watched it and I'll still be crying by the end. It's so powerful

Because it’s eye opening to how racist a lot of people are.

@Zoe Spivey is it not? The original was played and considered controversial and radios stopped playing it due to backlash. Its fucking dumb

@Zoe Spivey Then explain why Akala has had almost 0 radio play, despite being one of the most respected people in the game?

Thats bullshit. Most radios don't play anything remotely political because its not that marketable. Why would this be banned?

Bro it depends what radio your listening to it’s Been all over the place for time, garage was the thing that was controversial musically before rap in the uk and rock was, there’s always tunes and backlash on a tune that gets radio play

Many were asked to come to England as well

And they where a British. They'd grown up in UK colonies as British subjects and then they arrived here to a lifetime of racism

Sooo true !

Whut

Fehesh Gshsjs it’s a lyric from the song we have all just watched..

I didn't miss it. I picked up on it straightaway when I watched it live back then, and my reaction on Facebook at the time confirms it.

The same way how people in other countries don't know some American rappers.

Can't believe they let that talentless piece of trash stand on the same stage as a genius like Dave

That billie girl 😂😂😂 I dont know why I'm laughing

Oh yes there is. Boris isn't racist, he is a libertarian. The only reason labour supporters call conservatives racists is because their socialist policies constantly lose the argument.

I’m the same age and I didn’t learn about slavery in school either. My first knowledge of it was Mansfield Park, and my parents explained to me what was happening. Nothing from the teachers though.

I'm from UK and nearly 60, we were taught about the slave trade and the American Civil rights movement. It saddens and angers me that all these years later not much has changed. Hope BLM is the turning point, we (as a white woman) need to educate ourselves and each other on how to be an effective ally. And get this racist, elitest government out! 'No one is free until we are all free'

Depends on the school you go to I guess. I learned about it

im an american and while i do like american rap more, british rap is insanely overhated and underappreciated

Bro who cares about quality and competition, not the right place for it

@@Jigzawman What you going on about lol

I'm a black American, and I loved the heck out of this song----I only found out about when this clip was shown on the Late Show with James Corden last week. Since he's British, he showcases a lot of British acts that are unknown here in the U.S., and he was addressing the BLM protests, and played this clip. I was like "Whoa, this song is speaking so much damn truth, it's so for real", he's showing a whole lot of black pride in different ways throughout the song. British rappers rarely receive any hype here in the U.S., which is a shame because there are some really talented rappers coming from there, like "Lil Sims, Slowthai, Lowkey, Akala, and others.

@DS Beats It's not a competition. Ultimately with globalization we are all discovering more of one another but UK rappers are still speaking in the context of what they know. That goes for rappers worldwide. This also goes for American rappers but since American culture is force fed globally it is more prominent not to mention American media is strongly controlled so i'm tired of people coming for rappers here and saying they lack quality and content when on reality some of the best do not get recognition because of their content. Rap is far from what it originally was which was very political and it has branched off into many sub genres within itself and unfortunately mainstream popular rap is now what you see the majority off lacking substance and quality. They bury the important messages & messengers but if you are seeking you will find them. D smoke is pretty popular but also seems to put A LOT into his craft from he visuals to the lyrics check him out and start from there

Same in ireland, the colour purple &even at that it was given as English lit not even history class🙈.......Im blessed to have a dad who wasn't having none of that shit tho, he raised us on history&facts....hell I'm only 30 there's still parts of my own country i can't walk into without being attacked even murdered simply because of my accent, where I live&my religion....ppl claim that's all BS& in the past i can promise you its not!!!! All because the English invaded our land for no reason really other than they wanted it.....centuries of civil war here, still no peace💔 this song makes me ashamed of our white ancestors yet so proud of my dad&the fact he was seeing this whilst raising us&opened our eyes to all that was wrong not only in our land but in every land & race!!! If your white & these lyrics don't make you uncomfortable something is wrong with your thinking!!! I hope my son grows to be half the man this 21yr absolute legend is.... Only we can change the future generation.... Now more than ever we needed this&hats off to dave💚💚💚

As a mixed black kid here in England (Manchester) the only black history I got was in primary school, thanks to mostly my teachers of colour who knew it was important, once I got to high school I agree the only history we had was ww1 and 2. Bizarre education system :(

Simone Staunton my grandmother is from Northern Ireland and is currently living in Ireland again after being in England for years and is one of the most horrible, racist people I have ever met and when I challenged her about it after she was rude to my then boyfriend (he was black South African). He walked into my mothers house and greeted her politely and my mum asked if he wanted a drink, twenty minutes later my grandmother arrived, took one look at my boyfriend and left without saying a word and then had the nerve to tell my mother off for having ‘him’ in the house. We knew what she meant. Me and him eventually broke up and I got a new boyfriend and the first thing she asked me was ‘is he black?’ We haven’t spoken since and it’s been over 16 years now. My auntie has tried to justify it as ‘she grew up in a different generation’ and ‘she’s catholic and really religious’.......BULLS**T. She’s just downright rude and it’s attitudes like hers that make problems. It made me feel so ashamed to even be related to her. I don’t know how many times I have listened to Daves song now and really done my best to understand and educate myself with the lyrics and things he is saying as well as doing my own research. I have a 9 year old daughter and a 16 year old son. This is not the world I want them growing up in. P.S your dad sounds awesome xxx

Angie Larrier completely. Like I said I was only taught the colour purple in English literature and I was talking with my sister yesterday and I can only remember ever having one teacher who was Jewish and he was by far my favourite teacher and I still adore him now but I don’t ever recall having a person of colour as a teacher which is so sad. Even now thinking about my daughters school I think there is only 2/3 black children in a school of about 650-700 students.

Nathaniel Roberts I think that’s so wrong. I think it really should be diversified and black history taught in schools. For example why can’t we learn about WW2 and then be taught about how the windrush generation came to the U.K. to help us rebuild after the War was finished.

Also it’s the uk version on the Grammy! (From the UK)