Burna Boy said black Americans have no culture  

Lol you just proved my point

East Africans have more respect for us than West Africans

everyone has a culture.. afterall culture is man made..

I am a 3rd west African(Nigeria) but raised as African American. My father always told me we were from Africa. I’ve always felt a strong connection, can’t wait to visit.

Literally every culture in the world emulates Americans black culture

He sure did. Instead of saying "I never said that".....he danced all over the universe

​@@kynshiiIn the full interview he actually says he never said that. Don't let these shorts mislead you

@@IkesLionsDen I saw the original clip that he was referring to. He said that we didn't know our culture or where we come from. It's documented that we've been here in America centuries before slavery and even after, we made our culture. We see other people capitalize and mimic us daily

​@@kynshiiand even if that's true, now, how did that translate to you people have no culture?

@@davidolanrewaju1846 dude lol that's literally what it means

😂😂😂

You call that culture? 😂😂

@@unrulykash3830 Fashion and music is a part of culture.

Was Burna Boy talking about himself when he said that people are stupid? Because that was a stupid thing to say, ngl...🤔🤷🏾‍♀️

@@unrulykash3830idiot spotted.

Y’all stupid. Who designed most of the stuff hip hop uses? Hip hop samples are from were? Timberland was designed by who? Y’all just come here ignorant

It’s not a culture

@@tecumseh4095yes it is. you’re not educated

That’s not culture babes n I’m black American

Hip hop is very toxic, nothing to be proud of

That there is hate talk; and that's the agenda he or anyone who's got their vision set don't need to feed on. Ignored!!!! Is the best option

He London pretending to be Nigerian

@tylersmith8038 So he's a double teather... smh

@@remilekunwilliams1402 So Beyoncé, Shaccari Richardson , Aaliiya, Farrakhan ,Malcom x ,Chubb rock, and on and on are straight up AA Americans only in there roots not Caribbean’s also and not Africans…Thank god that the Hatians and the Jamaicans know who they are and that they are not indigenous to those new lands…Some AA Americans are truly lost and are lacking culture.

@@Goodtogo-jj4skwhat?

i noticed

Listen to the whole interview, he never said that, the poster just cut off where he answered the question, but hater’s will be hater’s

erichall1199 💯 that’s because people just chat to chat the when questions arise they don’t have an answer. Much love for you Bruh but Like think 🧠 before you open that trap of yours🤔😏🤷🏽‍♀️

He was telling BA to come home and look into Africa because that's where their history is

​@@jsaintil They've erased our His-story. Black Americans Amaru Khans Niji were already in North America. Truth will come to the LIGHT.

Exactly!

You wouldn't believe how many ppl don't understand this concept. We had a very distinct culture until white America commercialized it and claimed all of it - food, music, clothes, dialect as "pop."

Brilliantly said ! ✊🏿

Black American are not from African there were there thousand of years before these sailors discovered it .. They were indigenous to the Americas.. same in the Caribbean please stop saying that they are Africans Americans...Stop it !!!

@@ryanrichbees2514 is there any proof to corroborate the things you saying ? Not only the Atlantic Slave Trade, but global slavery is well documented. My guess is, you probably got your info from RU-vid or TikTok videos. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but RU-vid and TikTok aren't always credible sources. I'm all for freedom of speech, but you at least need to fact check and clarify the statements you make.

Like a true scamming Nigerian. Yes.

@@love_1st138 My point exactly! One thing us Nigerians know how to do is dodge a question. 😭 smh… he should hAve just said he was dead wrong and moved on.

He did answer. He said people that says that are stupid and they have their own agenda which is basically denying it.

That answer was pure bs and he knows it.

@@ollybees I hear them call us stupid a lot smh I don’t see how they don’t think that’s insulting. I use to listen to Afro beats but never again.

Every race in America is using our culture especially this new generation respectfully 💯

Plenty of Africans and Caribbeans say that dumb ish

I feel like if you’re not black, you shouldn’t be commenting on this because you have no idea what the hell you’re talking about Black people in America don’t have any culture most of them can’t even tell you where they came from or their actual nationality what people steal from us is style and fashion not culture

@@Jasmin-rn6vxwhat are y’all even talking bout seriously. Like if you really want to have a conversation or look up some things as far as what African Americans have contributed society at large , from educational value , buying power ( that’s all the capitalist care about ) , the BEAUTY of the plight of people who been thru something even more devastating then genoicide, CAN STILL DANCE AND HAVE THEIRE SPIRIT. Let me say this I don’t know a lot about this but I do know African American ancestors before they were slaves and even during that heinous time THEY DANCED EVEN THO THEY WAS SUFFERING. all these jokes about black peoples liking chicken comes from PEOPLE HAVING TO ADAPT TO ALL THEY HAD. I really get sad when I think about how being IGNORANT + APATHY mixed together breeds a very interesting POV : twerking , wigs and weaves , ghetto , too masculine for a woman , black boys are seen as men before they become a man. Trying to boil down a whole culture itself is NUANCED. All these words I wrote all I’m trying to say is yes African American have culture , sadly I HAVE HEARD THIS STATEMENT ALOT FROM AFRICANS THEN I EVER HEARD FROM LETS SAY “ the us usual suspects “white liberals “ or racist people. IT HITS HARD BECAUSE ALOT OF US HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE TO THAT AFRICANS THINK AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE DIFFERENT, THAT THEY HAVE MORALS ETC AS IF AFRICAN AMERICANS DONT. I KNOW THERES IS ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE PERSPECTIVE BUT IF ANYONE IS TALKING BOUT UNITY , HOW THE HELL CAN U SPEAK UP SEPARATION IN THE FIRST PLACE. Makes me sad a lot of people not only see the beauty and even the uglyness within the African American culture , BUT THEY ALSO DISREGARD every POSTIVE aspect of culture and use it as they please. Imagine cashing in on a culture u don’t understand or care to or criticize but the very reason ur successful besides your hard work is THE FACT U WAS ABLE TO APPEAL TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MASSES WITH THE VERY THING THAT IS CULUTALLY Tied To African Americans. Sorry for this long paragraph

@@Jasmin-rn6vxSo sorry you don’t know what Black American culture is, I do apologize to say all representatives are busy and no one is here to educate you.

Black folks had established civilizations atleast 4,000 before Europeans even existed

Just say African Americans are the fathers of American modern popular music.

@jermaineyoung1214, you north Americans distinguish yourselves, but as a non American, when I see aspects of black American culture, I view it simply as part of American culture overall. Am I mistaken? I genuinely don't know. If black American culture does indeed exist, does white American culture also exist? And if it does, what are some examples?

@@intra93 black American Culture: soul food, hiphop and street fashion White American culture : gathering around a tree sipping tea watching a black man get lynched

What? Africans in general have been here long before white people were a piece of sperm.

Facts as much as ppl don’t like to admit while physically and vocally using thing from our culture

😂

Selling drugs and gangbanging are not culture.

Worldwide literally

Well ironically, African culture influenced African American culture, which influenced modern African culture. At the end of the day, the credit goes back to the ancestors who we all have in common 🤷🏾‍♀️

He sound ungreaful I tel all of these new artist now adays ungreatful and dunce and feel there brighter than any one but they are the dunce teachers dnt teach history these days so them is the dunce🤔🤔🤔

African American paved way for him, you must be joking, he worked his way to where he is, maybe the British might say this too

Exactly 👍🏾

" He said what he meant"

And he is right

He need to stop biting off our culture sampling songs from the same ppl he think nothing of.

​@@Dezaraebritneygirl you look so fine I like your skin

@@Goodtogo-jj4skTHAT MEANS A LOT COMING FROM A DIRTY DUSTY THIRD WORLD FAILURE SUCH AS YOURSELF!!

Louis Vuitton was designed by a african dude & off white was created by a african dude which Americans wear all the time😱😱😱😱😱😱never wear those again because your American, see how dumb that sounds buddy😂😂😂😂

@@mway5413viringo was stealing his fashion ideas from Kanye, Kanye the reason off white blew up, Kanye is the reason Virgil got the job as men’s fashion director at Louis Vuitton, if he didn’t have Kanye, he would’ve just been another immigrant trying to make it

Ibsr and what???

Grew up in London

@@jenrolaaluko8549 And black people from the UK copy black American style and fashion, clown.

Really?

​@@marcusakinbiYes really. Afrobeats is nothing but Africans copying Americans and Jamaicans. They are being CHARACTERS of iconic Black people. There is no African icon. The rappers are Americans The legends are Jamaicans from Reggae to Dancehall that he and everyone else in "Afrobeat" rips off of. It's a fact not an opinion or assertion. The world KNOWS Jay-Z, 2Pac, Bob Marley, Beenie Man, Sizzla, etc. There is NO AFRICAN POP CULTURE ICON. The closest thing to that would be BurnaBoy who only copied American and Jamaican stars. So he has no business talking shxt about Americans or anyone else's culture.

Bro you don’t know shit. You meant Americans found Afro-beats? Hahaha! Bro do you how long the continent Africa been living don’t make laugh young boy

⁠​⁠@@GloryIgbayisemore-lk9xnAfro beats is the Temu version of Hip Hop. Y’all sold us, gave us degrading names (Akata), mocked our culture because you didn’t understand and you’re talking about justification 🤣🤣🤣 if it wasn’t for us fighting racism and getting laws passed AFRICANS wouldn’t be able to seek refuge in our homeland. We paved the way for y’all after all the disrespect and we still haven’t got anything in return but more disrespect

@@jumpingonoffthejet9377 If you are black a black African, whether you like it or not, Africa is your homeland. Have you heard of highlife? Have you heard of fela kuti. Go and do your research.

That is like saying the US is not a true country. We have our original culture because we built it with the circumstances surrounding us.

You have your culture and its original. What you call "original culture" is an almagamation of various people from West and Central Africa who were not culturally united at the beginning anyway . The interactions between these people in the Americas is part of what contributed to your current "culture" so it’s not "lost" either.

@@kobab4270 Thank you for the insight

And the foundation is Aboriginal American Indians so called colored negro black artists are the creators of the Culture

@gtparker2317 Nah you got it backwards we as black people in the west emulate African culture because it’s ours also and that’s were everything comes from …Get that through your thick skull ☠️ homeboy…SMH

Majority of his hits have been samples from African Americans? LMAO. Mention 5 that were such samples if you truly know what you're saying. I can bet you won't come back to reply me.🤦‍♂️

This guy sings afrobeats totally different.

​@@agb3762the cross over hits do have American samples. America as a whole ain't care about his music til LAST LAST

​@@agb3762sitting on top of the world. Last last. And city Boyz all have Black American samples. I probably can find 2 more if I look

@@agb3762you can be prideful of Afro beats and your culture and still acknowledge that we all influence eachother his Afro beats is different because he’s creative and he also sample from many different genres of music.

Preach!

Facts

He didn’t

He did though, he said he never said anything like that and they should show him where​@@yusefnegao

Of course not

Not at all.

Not even a little 🥴

Lol the whole time I’m like what did the brotha say?

He dodged that question like Neo did bullets in the Matrix.

​@@Daron7181😂

​@@Daron7181WELL THERE GOES YOUR RECORD SALES ..YOU JUST LOST MY DOLLARS BUDDY

That smart approach to answering validates his derogative intention in saying that crap before. We are not lacking intelligence nor culture, and he just called us stupid.🤦🏾‍♂️

Absolutely true. We must understand that and act accordingly. Remember Akon and his BS

And foreigners have accepted all the crap Artists from America. We love better. And you are not saying his music is exclusively supported by black organisations. We should all Quit thinking that we made people. Make your own kids

@aleenazahir this makes no sense. What are you talking about making people etc and what crap artist have yall accepted and accepted them doing what?

@@TheYakora All the crap Musicians singing filth are celebrated all over Africa you need to be in Africa to know that. Africans are not asking those Artists to please us as your petty selves are asking Barna to please you

@@aleenazahir pleasing someone? No one is asking to please us. Not talking bad about A GROUP is not pleasing them its being respectful. You need to get it together. IF PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO CRAP MUSIC ITS THEIR OWN PERSONAL PREFRENCE THEY OBVIOUSLY DONT THIBK IS CRAP IF THEY ARE LISTENING TO IT. YOU DONT MAKE NO SENSE

😂😂😂

The culture of no culture

💯 this is what i respect

Don't like unity ? I better be quiet 🤫

I totally agree 👍🏾

@@ENE380yea u better , us and everyone around you thinks it better if u be quiet

@@etx_jay 👀😯 you see you think right away something negative...but that's ok . I'm for what is right I'm nothing like you or ppl you want me to compare too ... I wish you love for this new year 🎊 and happyness and everything you ask and wish for ... anything negative I won't even response!

I conquer

He gets away with so much ignorance just cos he's famous.I like his music but he's very ignorant on a lot of topics.

He needs to go back to his village where he comes from

He needs security

Right here....need to be pinned. We been the culture

@@dryinkdryink675 Facts 💯

Add Black Americans Inventions to the long list as well

I'm not American, so take with a grain of salt my statement. Given the diversity of your country with many races and communities, wouldn't all aspects of black American culture inherently be influenced by American culture overall? Shouldn't it all be considered just American culture?

@@intra93 No....Black people have a different culture. There was no blending of cultures in the US. We still to this day are very much segregated. In some places of copurse black people live among white people. We developed our own food culture and music. Its American ,but Black American. Non Blacks do things different than Black people.

But it's a sad truth that Africans tend to copy how you speak and dress,..

Who told you that afro-beats were founded off of AA culture? If anything it's influenced by Black-British culture as many Afrobeats artists are from the UK

@@noirlily3413 nope. It's African music. Just because most of these artists relocate to the UK doesn't mean it was influenced anyway by the British..even if they were born there, they derive such influences from Africa.

@Rosinah-eq5bv I know this. It's folks saying that afro-beats saying that it was influenced by American music. If there's any external influence, it's from the Black British folks. We came heavy with the Azonto movement on the 2010's - influenced by house and funky in the UK. You're arguing the toss my dear...

So true my brother, Everyone Copies our styles and always will including him

Most of them are ignorant

Also we paved the way for people like him to turn around and spit in our face.

those first 2 sentences are the most explanatory that the uninformed have zero concept of how deep that orchestrated strategy goes.

He definitely did and homeboy didn’t even know how to go back and get that answer forget that I would have swerved right back to that question like ummm ok that’s all good and all but again what did you mean by what what u said forget that lol 😂

Maybe u have only heard Nigerian music other African countries sing in there own languages

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You tot u did sumtin

Today they just use Amapiano sound. Nigerians have never came up with a genre, they always copy others and sing in their accent that's it. They the once who lack culture because it would have helped them to create their own sound that's it

Lol that's because you listen to Afrobeat that was made from the Nigerian Artists only. There are other genres of African music that were never influenced by caribbean music, hip hop, or Rnb like you claim. There's ndombolo, rumba, and soukous from Congo which is influenced by African sounds. And there's also Makossa from Cameroon. Alloucou and Zoblazo from Ivory Coast all influenced by African sounds. And other genres from so many other African countries that sing in their own languages. Afrobeat is not the only genre that we Africans have.

Whats the name of the interview

You sound Caucasian. Please leave black business alone ✋🏿

Aye that’s facts I know some Kids that parents were straight from Nigeria, and they act just like black folks. Grew up in a decent community but act like they got it out the mud. Plus one of them is a rapper now 😂.

Black culture is same around the world, respect,love and unity...our mama thought us that with sticks and strong hands YA all need to listen, Burner Boy never said shit, ❤❤❤❤❤❤ to all black around the world!

​@@BessieTaylor44that's how it was for me growing up in Washington DC learning my friend was a Jamaican descent and other friends for African I was like what the hell my people are from here LOL my grandma grew up and said y'all are acting like you're from here

Yeah ignorant black people always love hanging around people that hate them and envy them. Nothing new. Go in Asian salons and get disrespected go in Asian and African eateries and get disrespected go to stores and spend their hard earned money with folks that hate them, what else is new.

FBAs do have culture which is also African because we are Africans from the Diaspora. Jazz, Blues, Gospel, RocknRoll, Rhythm n' blues, Soul music, Hip Hop, House Music are all Black American Creations. We are Africans of the Diaspora💯

i think you never been to africa, we not follow you

@alitidda4752 Not true, you partake in our rap and our dress 😆 that's a fact, and I'm not interested in going to Africa where white colonizers are running the continent

I honestly feel like yall want any excuse to be xenophobic and it's actually hilarious

They don't really follow but yes your music has influenced them not much after at. So only music is your culture

​@@jenrolaaluko8549 Modern fashion as well

@Cierra and those are just some of the African American accomplishments.

Head banging is traditional Ethiopian dance truth is people are making a lot of emotional comments with no educational value. As long as they keep buying Timberland forgetting it has the same history as Levi. A product for work turned into a fashion item. If it makes the buyers happy and the manufacturer smile to the Bank that's great. I bet it's the same reason the question makes no sense.

We ARE NOT AFRICAN!!!!!!!!

Amen 😅

Exactly 💯 ppl are not paying attention to the conversation from the begging of the interview..

They can connect with us. we've done our share and then some. Bb can come here and eat. Can we go to Africa and eat?

@@KingofgraceSARAActually we could I’ve done it

Amd black Americans breed themselves out and give their assets to non black people. At least the Africans stick together just the like the other immigrants: Asians, Indians etc...

Goals have nothing to do with culture. You don’t even know what it is.

@@Lie4whatt I mean…my culture is in america…you ask me my goal it’s to better my people starting with myself…Africans obviously don’t think the same because they NEVER return home…because they have no culture to return to. Africans have no sense of unity either…the only time they come together is to speak bad about FBAs

Extremely stupid comment ...we are such a immaure race ,i swear , you self haters on both sides make me sick

true bro he does not understand what is goal and what is culture so that is the reason I can say burna boy is right to say they need more education cause they are so confused seriously u need more education

That’s not his mission, he is here to make money and try to replace BA.

Just European man? Your in for a shock.

💯

culture isn't consumerism

Huh you have some culture but I can see outside of food n music. What is the Black American culture. When you look at culture deeply there's so much to it. Yes the black American music culture is a hit but Africans prefer their food to black American food to ne honest I've only tasted it in my adult life. Rice was a staple in my home.

What makes you think Africans don’t have fashion? It’s like you are in your own bubble 🫧

​@@sisi5444 Even an herbalist goes to market😂 We were setting trends from the slave ship😂

He did and more,he called them stupid 😂

he answered the question, ya'll stupid!

He didn’t answer the question, so he didn’t stand on his statement. He just called ppl stupid. I’m not sure who this guy is but I am a Black American who has shown support (music wise) to other Black ppl from other countries…I won’t be in a rush to search for this guy or his music

@@VaLEriE-en8xl you’re 1 out of over 7 billion. Let that sink in🈲

@@RDK97 I really don’t care enough to. I don’t know dude, and that’s that. Y let anything concerning him “sink in”. Byeee 😊

Foh Africans was dissing first

Good it won’t stop

Uhm...Do more research on that. Sure it's influential but do some research on that. Others would say you might be high on something

- Exactly, no brainer 🙄👍!

That part!!!

He didn't say it, so he's not going to pander to rumors. Anyone with an iota of common sense knows that many aspect of African culture was stripped from Black Americans and they have their own special and varied culture. This is Burna who embraces Jamaican culture more than any African artist since he was an underaged teen, so how would he be obtuse to think Black Americans have no culture?

@KaeMaiden I'm not talking about african culture I'm talking about our own culture so please, go elsewhere with your assumptions and I stand on what I said Burna boy is always saying some ish that people don't like!

@@KaeMaiden father more I made that statement for reason unknown to you and to make it clear that he sound not try it high key!

"He once said or alluded to". He didn't say it, so there's no need to pander.

literally he stays sampling black American music, dressing like black Americans in his videos yet had the audacity to say people are "stupid" for calling it out. And they still praise him saying he's elevating Nigerian culture. It seems more like Africans are just really dumb and naive.

He sampled one song and brought it back from the dead. The richest Black musicians West Africa didn't need to come to the US like he did. They are way richer than he is without leaving the continent. He loves unity like he said, but not everyone does. I'm glad he didn't pander or he would've been disowned by the whole of Africa.

@@KaeMaidenhe has more than one song that is sampled using black American music are u serious?

@@KaeMaiden Africans artist are not richer then black american artist.

And I will wait for that answer 🤩🤣🤣🫱🏾‍🫲🏿🔥🦅

It’s not our brand but we popularized it

Through our street wear fashion

Since we drove the stocks in timberland higher than it ever has been or will ever be.

@@KingofgraceSARA So hiphop is white music then

No it wasn't

@@fire418 Make Google your best friend and look it up. Fool.

You are over simplifying a lot of shi in the end saying something inaccurate

​@@fire418Clash and battling culture comes from 🇯🇲

@@JaydenLynch-ds6eo No it didn't, that doesn't matter anyway because black Americans didn't get it from Jamaicans, they had their own thing going on and own timeline that didn't have Jamaicans present. You're no different than the hundreds of other ethnic groups who have the same dumb claims because they don't have nothing to be proud of in their culture.

1. Watch the whole video 2. Not really. Everybody knows he's Nigerian he doesn't try to hide it, so move around.

@subnx4763 Suuuuure. When can you give me a historical reference for the dress, slang, etc. Then talk to me. You bite off the West and then trash their culture's. Clowns

Come on with that weak ideology. We were stripped, robbed, and anything else wicked you can dream of but oh at us, still trendsetting, still rising, and everyone on this planet even they want to be like us.

Most black foreigners you meet come from slavery as well. Caribbean and South Americans. They lost stuff too. Do ur homework

But every one is angry he said so

He is wrong even though we made our culture out of pain, it's ours. Also a lot of other people follow it too and it has changed a lot in the world. Our pain opened doors for a lot of people.

I am sorry but after 700 years you cannot say we do not have our own distinct cultures (in the colonies) which only derives from them but is also influenced by European, Asian cultures this is pure ignorance!

What is teaching African culture going to do for black americans? They have their own culture completely separate from African cultures. Black americans created and innovated most institutions out of all black/African groups.

​@@jayjones251 It's going to bridge the gap that some African-Americans have created between themselves and Africa. Also influence them to do a DNA test to find out what region in Africa do they originate from. Ludacris and Erykah Badu did that and found out that they are from the Gabon region. They were immediately given Gabon passports and citizenship. BLACK PEOPLE MUST UNITE.🤎

So… Caribbeans don’t suffer that same loss of culture awareness as descendants of slaves?

We don’t want funky boy to teach us that shit, we already have a culture.

@@JimastaJCaribbeans are delusional.