Residente - This Is Not America (official Video) Ft. Ibeyi -

Released on March 17, 2022, by Puerto Rican rapper Residente featuring the Afro-French Cuban duo Ibeyi is a blistering critique of U.S. cultural hegemony and a reclaim of Latin American identity. The song and its award-winning music video serve as a direct response to Childish Gambino's 2018 hit "This Is America," shifting the focus from internal U.S. racial violence to the broader history of imperialism, resistance, and erasure across the entire American continent. Reclaiming the Definition of "America"

The primary thesis of the track is that "America" is a continent, not a single country. Residente interrogates the hubris of the United States co-opting the name, rapping that the continent extends from . Residente - This is Not America (Official Video) ft. Ibeyi

The video opens with an image from Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar’s 1987 work "A Logo for America," which displayed the message "This is Not America" over a map of the U.S. to highlight this exact linguistic exclusion. Released on March 17, 2022, by Puerto Rican

Residente emphasizes that "the prints of our shoes were already here" long before colonizers arrived, citing the Mayan calendar and the Incan revolutionary Túpac Amaru (the namesake of 2Pac) as evidence of a pre-existing, sophisticated civilization. Symbolic & Historical References racial violence to the broader history of imperialism,