let's try this again... Residente ft. Ibeyi - This is Not America with a SUBSCRIBER! 

Shoutout to Alejandro for coming on the channel and helping me understand everything for a 2nd time! 🐨

The fact the u took ur time to go back and understand the message speaks a lot about you. Thank you for re doing this video and to the person who took time to explain it

That FIRST image of the outline of the United States saying This is not America was part of an art piece by Alfredo Jaar in Times Square in the '80s. Of course it was highly criticized.

For reference: the lady with the basket at the end of the video is a palenquera, a women from Palenque in Colombia, the first free African town in America; it's really important the reference because her represents freedom and the right to live with dignity and she's looking what's going on now using a traditional dress who have the Colombian flag colors (yellow, blue & red) but the colors are upside down, a recent symbol that was generated in the last protests to say "you are killing us!" because the red means the blood of heroes and innocent people who died for our liberty

A famous quote from Lolita Lebron on the attack on the congress is “ I dint come here to kill anyone, I came here to die for Puerto Rico”

The person being shot is Victor Jara, a Chilean musician and political activist that was tortured and killed for his work by the Pinochet dictatorship in the 70s. He has become a symbol of resistance and protest, particularly for artists in Latin America.

Actually the tango part can go a little bit further because of it’s history. The tango was originally called the dance of sorrow and it was created to represent the frustration and the anger of the people.

Outstanding job Sr, you are the only american who actually tryed to understand the whole concept and the history behind the video. I dont usually subscribe to reacting channles cos many of them are just exaggerated, but you deserve it. Thank you very much!

On the Victor Jarra part, it's important to point out the he was protesting against was the military goverment of Pinochet in Chile, which still has 24,000 people reported as "missing". Also Jara was tortured b4 shot. The broke his hands a told Jarra, a guitarist "play now u damn communist"

This is fuckin amazing because even though I am learning Spanish, I am a white English girl and do not know any of the history of America (not USA). So sincere gratitude for this

Machete es el símbolo de defensa del obrero rural , no sólo para trabajar .. representa los movimientos sin tierras, de las revoluciones agrarias.. en la historia latinoamericana. Excelente reacción 👌😎🎵💃

I'm so glad to see young people trying to understand and learn. As a 40 year old Latino, it gives me hope that new generations are going to be more informed and will have the tools so they are not longer going to be fooled by corrupt governments and companies without honor and respect. Another person subscribed.God bless you and protect you.

Hi there! The woman at the end of the music video is a Palenquera Woman from the northern Colombian coast. Palenquera women are always smiling and sharing positive energy, so seeing her walk through the scene at the end with a serious and sad expresion is very impactful. I believe that even the order of the colors of the dress has meaning. During last year's protests in Colombia, it was common to see Colombians share images of the Colombian flag upside down and the color red bolder than the blue and yellow. The red in the Colombian represents the blood shed all throughout Colombian history (among other things), so people would edit the flag this way to recognize the increase of deaths.

When he mentions the fact that 2Pac is named after Tupac Amaru, the leader of the largest Inca uprising against the Spanish colonizers, they show an indigenous child being suspended on the air being held by his arms and legs. That is part of how Tupac Amaru was tortured and killed. They tied his extremities to horses, kind of like they are holding that child, and dismembered him having the horses pull his body in different directions.

The reference to the students is to the "43 de Ayotzinapa," 43 students that "disappeared" that were kidnapped on a bus never to be seen again in Mexico until they found their bodies in a mass grave. The reality being they were taken by the narcos and the government covered it up. The reasons behind their kidnappings and murders have never been known, it isn't so much about them being students and learning, though that metaphor makes sense in the video in reference to students in general in an oppressive government. The key to our freedom is knowledge and it is the biggest weapon against oppressors, so it would make sense that in the video they are trying to make that connection.

They torture Víctor jara, broke all the fingers, "how you are going to play now" then cut his tongue, "sing now" they shoot 1 bullet to the head and 44 in the rest of his body, he died playing his guitar in the national stadium. Chile

Thank you for trying to get to know a bit of Latin American culture. That is the beginning of change, knowing others. Understand that there are other people and countries in America, in the world; who think differently, who also suffer, is the only way to achieve peace: TOGETHER. Really thank you very much.

The man who was shooting at the video is VICTOR JARA from CHILE

El indígena representado en la estatua de la libertad se refiere a los pieles rojas, una forma despectiva de generalizar a las diferentes tribus aborígenes en Estados Unidos y Canadá.

10:00. I believe the statue is about the native american, like maybe a Navajo or Cherokee Chief, stating the same thing happens in the USA as is Latin America, where colonizers & settlers stole the land from natives that were already there.

Your efforts to go deeper and understand this story are immensely appreciated, what you are doing has much more value than you probably think, informing regular people in the US that have no idea of this, not because they are dumb or indifferent but because they have been lied to. Great job done by your guest, not much to add other than most of the violence and destabilization happening in Latin America is a result of US foreign policy and the Monroe Doctrine. People like Victor Jara were assassinated by dictatorships put in place and approved by the US government. Democratically elected presidents have been removed by the US to be replaced by corrupt governments that follow the US directive. The largest Mexican drug cartel is in fact the DEA and CIA. Just my two cents here, Great work!

Bro your the best reactor out there. Foreal not many people would do what you just did. I love that you went and got someone to help break it down.

I've never seen a " do over" reaction video before. I have to give it to you. 🇵🇷👏

Best review so far, and big shout out to Alejandro, he gave the perspective we all wanted to be heard

Some documentaries that I recommend watching that are on Netflix are: "The three deaths of Marisela Escobedo" (one of many cases about narco governments) and "Break everything, the history of rock in Latin America." I love that you took the time to understand a little more of everything that Rene communicates in his song. Greetings from Argentina.

36:00 he isn´t kissing the flag, he is using it as a napkin

Hi KoalaKam! Thanks for taking the time trying to understand the message behind this music video. It really means something. Residente always tries to tell some of the latinoamerican history in his music to visibilize the people without voice, precisely to the people in other countries with other languages who maybe doesn't have the opportunity to understand what really happens here further the prejudiced news.

Thank you for the second video bro. thank you for invited Alejandro. You are going to be famous in America... remember... the whole continent.

The woman in bright clothes walking by the end is a Palenquera from Colombia's Caribbean area and she is wearing the colors from the flag backwards, which was used during protests in Colombia against the government recently. My guess is Residente is placing that scene in a context but also showing how both things live together in America, the bright colors and culture and the oppression and violence.

It's just not a song, it's our voice. Thanks for re-react. Awesome.

El otro día tu reacción me entristeció, pero hoy me ha salido este react y te aplaudo por lo que has hecho. Dice mucho de ti. Bravo!

I love how he broke it down!!!!!!! Legit even as an Hispanic American we still have a lot of fact we have to learn!!!!

Congratulations on being humble and open to learn, there’s much more in the lyrics and video but great job. The song did it’s purpose to awake your concern and of many others ❤️ Much love and success. Gracias Residente por este himno 🔥🙌🏻

The title of the song and the artwork with the map of the US and the "THIS IS NOT AMERICA" text is in reference to a the work of Alfredo Jaar who back in 1987 displayed that image in a large LED sign up in a building in NYC. You can look up his name and the text, they call it the This is Not America logo, just wanted to add that bc you were asking about the colors and why it looked like that at the beginning. The video really is full of references from start to finish.

So different that he is going deeper in the meaning of the song, I'm really grateful for that

Por eso René nos emociona y nos representa tanto a los latinos, porque sin artistas como él, casi ningún estadounidense o europeo se tomaría el tiempo de reaccionar las veces que sea necesario, estudiar, entender, escuchar. Muchos igualmente deciden no hacerlo, pero los que si, se enriquecen de conocimiento y se nutren de empatía y eso es lo que necesita nuestra hermosa América para progresar. Gracias René por tanto, que viva nuestra patria grande. 💞

What this boy does not tell you is the responsibility that the US Government has in all these situations. Review, for example, what was the CONDOR Plan.

I applauded your commitment for a job well done. This is above and beyond 💜

Thank u Alejandro for putting the people 1st & doing this. For those who don't understand, there is so much being said & shown in this video, that he couldn't tell u everything that is in the video because he can loose his job and even his life. That how serious this masterpiece of a video & song are. Residente had enormous balls to do this, it may cause him everything, but it had to be done.

40:20 it wasn't a government, it was a dictatorship, people from Chile didn't choose that "leader" .

Mad respect to you for trying to understand and giving it another shot. This song speaks closely to our hearts cuz it’s not just showing history of our countries but realities that we have to endure daily. Thanks you for doing this! Shout out to Alejandro too

Una de las mejores reacciones que he visto...👍 Saludos desde Cuba🇨🇺

Not everything in the video is a direct reference to history, like the Statue of Liberty being replaced by an indigenous figure. It is more so to make you think and provide striking imagery. He is being bold and doing something not many would dare, provided how even sacred Lady Liberty is considered in the US. It is another form of protest to elevate an indigenous figure to that level.

The first couple of frames where you see the US map with the title of the song is based on an art installation by a Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar which has the same message as the song. The fact that you wanted to get a deeper understanding of this video shows character, I respect it, sir.

This song, like many from Residente, has in such a short time become a like a hymn, an anthem, a point of pride and inspiration of resistance and union for many Latin Americans that feel the story it tells and connect to it across borders. The references and metaphors are so many, I don't think most of us catch all of them. Thank you for making the effort to learn about our history and better understand the message of the song. There is a depth to it that I'm still trying to sink into. Even being familiar with a lot of the history and understanding the language, I continue to learn and discover more the more I watch it. The song opens up a lot of discussion and interconnects Latin Americans with the history of violence against the black community and other oppressed communities in the US that Gambino alludes to in his song, the difference is that a lot of the violence in Latin America is a result of outside influence, the US being one of the biggest perpetrators. There are so many layers and history that maybe even a semester of college would begin to graze over much of what the song references, bc this is history that runs deep and spreads over centuries and an entire continent 😅

You have my respect man! Congratulations for your content.

Major props for putting the extra effort in to gain even a deeper understanding of this video. Most creators just pump out videos for the content without putting much thought into it. But you're actually taking the time to learn more about it and grow as a person. I don't agree with the way people criticized you in the comments because you didn't know any better, but the fact that you had the humility to reach out for some help to make a follow-up video is very admirable. There are so many more meanings in every image, there could be an entire college course on this. The only thing that I'll point out since it's such a main component is that the opening photo that says "This Is Not America" in front of the outline of the U.S. is actually from a campaign by Chilean artist and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar. He displayed that on the giant LED screen in Times Square in 1987 and it was displayed again in 2014. There was also another image displayed that said "This Is Not America's Flag" in front of a U.S. flag.

Sublime!!! Cuanto interés sobre los significados sobre conciencia social en toda América!!! Desde Argentina un fuerte abrazo de gol, genio!!!

Respect dude, u real bro, u ain’t out here reacting just to react, that says a lot about u my man, shout out from Georgia, US

with the simple fact that you have been interested in the video says a lot about you tysm, our history is hard but at the same time most of the world don't know about it, even if alejandro didn't tell you the whole thing he gave you so much of context, you have a new follower!

Wow, that’s AMAZING that you actually went back and revisited. I commend you my brother

En el transfondo de esta cancion (y sabiendo un poquito de historia ) se destaca que las dictaduras como la de chile que fusila a Victor Jara fueron organizadas y apoyadas militar y economicamente por EU. Eso paso en toda latinoamerica. Y creo que a veces se acusa facil y simplificadamente a los gobernantes pero tenemos que comenzar a hablar de los poderes economicos ( Fondos de inversion/empresas/ organismis de crédito internacionales ) que por décadas se benefician del hambre y la marginalidad de los pueblos.

thank you for taking the time and find someone for help to undestand the references on the video, for real

thank you for recording this again!! it's better to understand it and share it c:

Thank you and Alejandro. This is what I was looking for. Awesome!!!

I really respect that you were willing and took your time to really understand the message and history behind this song and music video, there's a lot that not even us as latinos can catch every detail the first time we listen to the song and watch the video, Residente really put us all to study and do some research to understand it better, to see that you did this, it is very much appreciated, also shoutouts to your guest for helping you out 👍

Something very important about this song is that Residente himself claims that in this times of rethinking the names and meaning of the words of all the languages all over the world, the people from the US and from all over the world that refers to the US citizens and their country as Americans and America respectively should start using a different nationality for them and themselves, as we in Spanish call people from the US, "estadounidenses". Also. he claims and shows with the images, his and our nuisance about all this identity misconceptions and the lack of consciences of some people about the invisible hand of all the past century governments in the US in almost all of the dictatorships in the rest a America. Peace

Thanks for having an open mind, and accept a new perspective! Really enjoyed the video!

Props to you my friend. Revisiting the vid shows a willingness to know more. A curiosity that i appreciate. It’s understandable you not getting a lot of the video cause you dont know spanish. Believe me a lot of people that speak Spanish don’t understand a lot of references he makes.

Chile: Víctor Jara was also tortured. After that, they broke his fingers and cut his tongue, precisely because he was a singer who played the guitar. The black lady at the end of the video in Colombian colors is using typical clothing from a certain part of Colombia, traditional clothing used for selling specific food products (in Afro-Colombian communities in the Caribbean part of the country, where I come from). There are a LOT of references to Colombia: the "false positives" scandal was a mass murder done by the military in our country, randomly killing innocent peasants in order to show their bodies as guerrilla soldiers. You can even read it in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22False_positives%22_scandal

Thank you for this reaction! For showing respect to our people. Kisses from Argentina.

Por fin una reacción con la explicación debida, sin ser un experto el amigo que tradujo la lírica, se nota la diferencia cultural entre los dos jóvenes, los chicos de U.S. nisiquiera tienen idea del mundo real, viven en Disneylandia y Barbylandia, comiendo macdonalds, bebiendo Starbucks, y esperando comprar el siguiente iPhone, dónde al buscar en Google Maps, la palabra América , aparece U.S. terrible

I'm very happy to see that you took the time to come back and asked for help to understand the video 👍

I respect you so much for taking the time to understand the message ✊🏽 new subscriber

The Brazil reference is about how the government let/help the cattle raisers cut the trees in the Amazon forest while the original residents lose their homes and die from starvation.

Amazing video, thank you and also Alejandro, there were some details that I didn't even know and I'm from Mexico, well done!!!

Bravo My dude,gain a subscriber right here from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 ,Educación is Power. ✊

By the way the Brazilian president was not kissing the flag, he was wiping his mouth after eating his steak and drinking his wine.

#Respect for doing this again and trying to understand better yourself and for others the meaning of this message for us and our latinamerican history being a part of America as well as you guys are. By the way the map of USA in the beginning is a wink to what the chilean artist artist Alfredo Jaar displayed in a billboard in Time Square originally back in 1987, so as you see this is not the first time someone has talked about the subject abd the relationship between US and the Latin community when we're all part of thr same land. Thanks again for taking the time to share and try to understand this magnificent piece of art in the whole concept! Cheers from Colombia man (not Columbia by the way hehe as some people call my country) and God Bless you, Enjoy! 🇨🇴😇👍🏽

Muy buena la reacción! Lo más completa que se puede ver, aporto lo que leí de que la niña en brazos con su padre yendo al mar es lo que pasó a un Salvadoreño para cruzar el muro pero terminaron muriendo para un futuro mejor. Lo de tuparamac del Perú lo mataron de la misma forma que se ve en el video pero con caballos atados en cada uno de sus extremidades hasta descuartizarlo por defender su tierra. Ya me suscribí. Gracias a ambos por tomarse el tiempo de explicar. Saludos desde Argentina

Sr. You just another subscriber, the fact that you did all this work to understand the behind and meaning of this IMPORTANT SONG... Americans don't relate to our culture, and we are neighbors. THANK YOU AND OUTSTANDING JOB ❤

Thank you for your reaction and genuine interest in knowing the meaning of the video. Some precisions: Please, don't call them communities, be more respectful, they are ancient highly advanced cultures! The indigene as the Statue of the Liberty might be a local north American local, there exist a lot you know? until British massacred them. Drums came a great influence in music, from African slaves Spanish brought. Latin America has a young population, many students all over the continent have been raising their voices to stop violence, poverty and intrusion from the USA for decades. By the way, CIA, FBI, NGOs are pushing and manipulating at their convenience. They don't care to place dictators, killing people, etc. Also, drug consumption has increase exponentially in the USA proportionally yo the weapons purchases and violence in Latino America coincidence? The politician is not kissing the flag, is cleaning his mouth with it. Regarding corporations, all of them sell their products predominantly, affecting the local customs, and nutritional habits, predating natural resources, and many times stealing territories and polluting the environment.

Resisdente is an artist that you need to take your time to understand his lyrics. Great reaction man 🔥

The guns are pointing at him bc he is a target, but the metaphor extends to not only him being a target, but anyone that dares to protest and speak against our governments, as we can see through the rest of the video. He isn't the only target, but everyone is.

Your reaction videos are great, but you took it to a whole new level by really taking the time to understand the message and meaning of Residente's song. You have my respect.

As a first generation Mexican-American, who frequently visited my families home country Mexico, I always thought it was weird that people called me Estadounidense ( a person of the Unites States) instead of “American” because that’s what I was taught in school here, it wasn’t until I took it upon myself to learn more about where I come from that I finally understood why! This video is a masterpiece and a way of protest to erase what the word “America” means to others and even to ourselves! Thank you so much not only for reacting but also trying to understand what this amazing artist has always been trying to do through his entire musical career which is to educate others and give voice to the oppressed!

RESPECT to you to react to this again, trying to make more sense and gain perspective of our latinamerican history. Gracias por las reacciones, ya soy tu fan

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤ for go frame by frame in this video. This part of the reason we can see all this people waking towards the USA border beginning enter 😢😢

Wow! The plain fact that you even cared to understand means so much to me❤. New subscriber here just for that, respect!

Actually dude if you go further, Lady Liberty as an iconic image of US culture its something ironic cause it was builded in France so how something created by our colonizers (Europe in general) can represent freedom when they actually enslaved our ancestors, so that is what I believed he's trying to say

Dang, you really outdid yourself this time 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 dissecting the video so everyone understands the meaning of all the visuals 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 dope, dope, dope, great job, thank you, because you’re helping our voices be heard. Sorry I’m just in my feelings right now. Wow 💪🏼

Thank you very much! I appreciate you for doing this.

A concretion on the smiling soldiers posing with the boot on the corpses (28:12). It's true that, since they wear red berets, it's a reference to militarism in Venezuela. But I've no doubt that an analogy is also made with the US abuses and torture in Iraq, in the Abu Ghraib prison, of which there are photos very similar to the scene mounted here. Something that Residente also wants to denounce in this song is the habitual interventionism of the USA in other countries, supporting governments (including dictatorships) or helping to overthrow them according to their geopolitical interests. That said, congratulations to Alejandro for such a detailed and accurate analysis of the video. And to Koalacam for that interest in learning and understanding beyond what is taught in the USA about the history of the continent.

WOW Gran trabajo, gracias por esto, saludos desde Ecuador, soy de Venezuela.

shoutout to u for remaking this, says a lot about u man, i didn't watch the previous video but i respect u for doing this

You have a new subscriber just because you took time to fully understand the deep meaning of the song and you seemed genuinely interested to learn more about it. Congrats, good luck with your channel and many more subscribers!!!!

I always laugh and have fun in your videos, but this one was serious and I listened to it from start to finish. Tupac Amaru, extreme sad story. Greetings from Peru.

Thank you for the brake down. I saw this video but couldn’t bring my self to watch it. I’m from Central America and grow up in the middle of the civil war that lasted 36 years. Thanks to my parents I didn’t experience the hardships of the time. It really saddens me to see all the atrocities in my beautiful continent.

My man just went and made a 58 minute reaction video, now this is good content!

Just subscribed after watching this vid. Thank you for taking the time. I loved your observations 🤗 and more specially at the end after seeing the person being covered with that country's flag. I liked your interpretation better than even my own and I am from Latinoamerica familiar with the reference! btw Thank you to Alejandro too.

This video / song has sooooo many layers. Between the lyrics and the visuals... it's just a work of art. The wording that he uses on this song... he's not just rapping in Spanish, there's slang here (he's from Puerto Rico) there are words here that can't be translated back to english that have so much weight, fury, power: right off the bat he starts "Estamos aquí (we're here) and then he says "mérame! (mírame), which is something we say to call someone's attention, not just literally saying look at me, but it's more like -pay attention, hear me out, listen to me" ..."encabronau'- doesn't mean just upset, it means he's effin pissed, he's done, he's angry to another level..."frontú' " , is like an -in your face- attitude - Both the lyrics AND the video can be broken down individually because they're both deep. So powerful, so much depth. The more you watch it the more details you keep discovering. On the part when he mentions Tupac's name, y'all noticed how they were holding an indigenous man on his limbs?? That's what they actually tried to do with the real Tupac Amaru, the indigenous leader. They tied his limbs to horses so he could be ripped apart and failed, so he was killed afterwards, if I'm not mistaken. Residente is brilliant, whether the haters want to accept it or not. 🤣 Thank you for taking the time to go deeper and and trying to really understand this message. 🙏

Im not versed well enough about the other countries to give context, but I can for Peru, that part when he is talking about 2Pac being named after a peruvian, hes talking about Tupac Amaru, and hispanic-indigenous who rebelled against the Spanish crown, tou can say he was the head of the revolution agains them, the thing is, he was betrayed, emprisoned, tortured, he was forced along with his wife to watch how the hang all his family and close friends, how they cut their tongues, after that he witness also the execution of his wife (who actually played a major part in this revolution), and after all of that, they attached all his limbs to horses to dismember him, witch somehow didnt work, so they cut all his limbs with an axe, they say his screams in agony were so hearthbreaking that there was no coming back to being under the Spanish command, that's what it's shown in the video.

This is amazing. I really admire that you are so interested in learning about the culture and the history behind it. Says a lot about you.

The man who got in the video shot is Victor Jara, he was a musicia who was tortured and then murdered in the late 70's during pinochet's dicatorship here inChile. He sang for the people and their well being and for what was actually fair, that is why he got arrested. As a musician, the way he was tortured was he got his fingers cut off and later he got shot. Amazing that you took the time to do this man, greetings from chile.

Durísimo residente como todo lo que ace y es la realidad todos somos América 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😍👏👏👏❤️

La mujer en la reja amamantando hace referencia a una situación y una fotografía que pasó en Argentina, pero también aplica a bordes en general

@KoalaCam had watched a couple of your videos b4, but defenetly subscribed after u came back with this 2nd video trying to understand what was going on & getting someone to help u do so. & thanks for understanding & taking in just a bit of all that was going on in Latin America represented in this video. We appreciate that man. Looking foward to your next videos

I loved this video and your eagerness to understand what the song was about. Respect!

Respect bro the fact you taking your time to understand the song and vid is dope! Salute kam 👏 its always good to pause to learn and expand the mind and see shit from other cultures and races perspective! U got me bro new subcriber 💯🔥

Excellent video, almost at the end the boy who caught fire was during the harsh protests in Venezuela in clashes with the forces of the government, There is information on the internet. This has happened in many Latin American countries.