The Original forbiden Dance, "Batuko' of Cabo Verde

[riba2krika]

@riba2krika

BATUKU DY MERDA

100% samPa

[MrScothern1]

she cannot sing 

[mrsboston909]

sorry meant to say some of our family is medium and dark skinned

[budyssiner]

portuguese cruelties? evil colonialists? forbidden dance? poor slaves? J'ses, it was church policy, Portuguese had nothing to do with it. Wanna complain? write to Holy See...

I wonder why you must write these craps...if you don't have something useful to say, be quiet...and listen to music!

[helenaramos1963]

batuku is also an expression of social and personal criticism... singers explores gossip and ironies amonge their peers... one of the resons it has been banished...

[wamwaneriri]

Africans and ass go hand in hand. If we don't use our asses to dance we haven't danced. I believe this also applies to most if not all black people in the world

[hathor261]

I am Portuguese descent, and im am not colored, but im sure i have some color in me cuz i do have an ass and definately CAN do this dance in a heart beat.

I believe as we the portuguese ppl only used cruelties only to ban certain things that were considered unappropriate in their catholic times, as u know how catholics are very strict and i believe it was part of religious reasons.

But i heard a lot of stories of how we did the slaves better than the spanish, for they were worse.

[jayjbee]

@hathor261 We ruled 800 years over the Iberian peninsular prior to you folks er... discover (our maps and books so you could discover) our planet was round. You burned our books, our scientists and spiritual leaders (called them witches). Since then the world refuses to look into THE DARK AGES before(!) you darkened the ages.

[hathor261]

@jayjbee um ya...explain to me why Haiti still does Voodoo til this day? and is very well known country for it and also passed down to Jamaica. They have their books and kept it, but now is undergoing strife with what God gave them. They had very bad mother nature weather. look it up, they are still known for it. We might as well been right if a place close to brazil had these things.

[jayjbee]

@hathor261 LMBAO (not)

1- Go to the bohemian grove and look what your head of state is doing there every year. (look it up. I gave you search terms)

2- You roaches always turn to spooky stuff about VooDoo that others do (you are still in the inquisition killing wiches with cholera (to take Haiti as tourist heaven))

3- "Mother nature"... you sound like someone who respects nature. But you still haven't shaken off your fair monkey hair and are just coming out of a cave. So you confuse things.

[caboeder1]

so caboverdiano

[1MaRiSs1]

so what do you guys think of this... ime ghanian and a boy from my class bullies (at least he tries) me of being african, gues what the boy is Cabo Verdean! i laugh at him and tell him how stupid he is, he goes: noo ime portugese!

LMAO

[wamwaneriri]

@1MaRiSs1 he's not only stupid, but ignorant too, anyway, I will not want such a person to claim to be African because he can make us all look stupid.

[MrScothern1]

@wamwaneriri what about the south african boares

[Amerikasnxt]

Stephanie lopes is hot stuff!! espicy lol

[1981vicbelize]

I am not even from capo verde, I am from Belize a british colony in the caribbean and already learned how to dance this music, might not be an expert but really love dancing to it, in Belize we dance to punta music, imagine I just close my eyes and feel the beat of the drums go through my body and wala just start dancing. Thanks to our african ancestors.

[armando2953]

en Brail se llama batucada....

[mizzpoetrics]

The drums sound very similar to the drums played for Haitian voodoo, and some folkloric music. Also other islands in the Carribean have music that sounds like this, too. It's all part of our African ancestery. The African Americans fared the worst in terms of what they lost during slavery for tradition. Regardless, we're one. We have different cultures, but we're one!

[anitaralambo]

Une culture capverdienne riche de tradition et de danse, c'est beau. Il n'y a rien à dire de plus

[yeyobb]

Why called this dance FORBIDEN ? Who is the one to say it is a forbiden dance. This is what we called TRADITION !! and we have to be proud of it. This is also a kind of dance we have in the caribbean, netherlands antilles, Curacao, there is dance what named Tambu it is not a forbiden dance, but a dance that remembers our tradition, culture and especially where we came from and what makes us unites. So dont trow it away and never even called it FORBIDEN.

[VeraDonna]

@yeyobb Forbidden, because it used to be forbidden by colonial authorities and the Church. My mom never got to dance batuko because it was forbidden in her village, just 40 years ago. Didn't you hear the description?

[miklops]

Português de nascimento, Cabo-verdeano de alma! :)

Viva nos terra!

[chalalita]

cada bia mi ta keda sorprende kuantu e lenga i e dansanan di cabo verde i Angola ta parse dansa nan di Caribe ku tambe tin nan origen nan Africa, bunita. Na curacaou nos ta jama e musica aki tambu

[soucounjan]

of course the church has always been afraid of this because when a woman begins to shake her booty like this everybody get a good idea of deity.

there is something awsome about the feminine essenz that come out and we get

a glimpse of what a real god could be.

think of hula, bellydance, gwoka soukouss soca bomba....joie de vivre

[ryanmoguel]

the host looks familiar

[flakazexii899]

ii lOve thiis dance

[SexyDevine]

I loooooove this. Damnnnn. It reminds me of my village. All the runaway slave have (almost) the same tradition. I had to cry seeing this. We have this in Suriname, the village I'm from. Only we call it Banamba. I miss my place. Love the ladies on the drums. This is tradition. I feel free!

[Stimpy243]

Cabo Verde

[002Tchiputu]

beautiful very much african , cool I wanna visit caboverde.

[bsdomingos45]

bonitu musica

[angliaruskin]

Forbiden Dance ??? Why that

[yviva]

@angliaruskin

racism. many countries that enslaved africans forbid african culture to suppress the people. even cuba used to forbid african drumming...

[jenemartins]

The girl in the red top singing is entirely cute with her girlish face and her baby voice. She is so adorable, really!

[jenemartins]

You know, all Cape Verdeans have something in common, African ancestry. It doesnt matter if a slaver raped our great grandmother and he happened to be Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British, Arab or Jew (and they were allthere, TRUST THAT) There is an old saying, "Mommy's baby and Daddy's a maybe". Meaning that the enslaving countries took advantage of defenseless women, but our mothers never left us. No matter what color her babies were, they all love their African Mothers. Viva CV!

[chsn09]

@jenemartins

Exactly! This is true, this is how it was in African and Jewish and Native American cultures was! You never know who the father is but it is the mother that you are linked to throughout life!

[miojo6]

HATS OFF for these AMAZING WOMEN and DANCERS... I love it!!!

Silvia

[jenemartins]

You gotta love this. To respond to a few of you, I am Cape Verdean and very very fair, my whole family is. We are from Brava and Fogo. I we are still PROUD DESCENDENTS of slaves, smart enough to survive Portuguese cruelties. Love your people and YOURSELF

[CVNHOUSTON]

@jenemartins

100% Cosign

[mrsboston909]

@jenemartins thank you for speaking for fair skinned people! people think all african descendents have to be dark that so no true my uncle in law white and he was born in Cabo Verde, im lite my grandma is lite and her brother and one of sisters is lite but yet some our is medium to dark skinned we come in all shades not just one. We have African and PORTUGUES ancestors!

[jayjbee]

@mrsboston909 What does this phrase tell you: "Who's your daddy, boy?!?". Either split personalities split or they recognize reality. The Catholic war against huemanity is not over. You are the present armor or you are African. There is nothing in between.

[giltedged]

The one with the black thong is the winner.

[todelx1]

if you let me i'll shake iy

t vfor you

[thuggy05]

this bitch voice is so annoying

this aitn got shit on mapouka

[anissa13011]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa CABO VERDE ES NOS Kiii TA MANDA !!!!!!!!!!!!

[DuttyGyal718]

I wish I could shake my bottom like deh do.

:-D

[todelx1]

if you let me i''l shake it for you

[Mainoutputs]

This is roots and culture ..

Love & respect

[sophiekea]

I've never heard of this dance. Thanks for the education. My mother's family is from Cabo Verde and I grew up with the food and culture but never heard of this. Maybe we werent African enough. From the look of the audience they dont look typical CV to me. Maybe the mainland african immigrants are reviving this dance in CV? Just a thought.

[nelsexybrown]

Why do think that they dont look like typical CV because they are dark skinned so just regard them? How ignorant of you. You would be prejudice of your own people because they are darker than you. If wasnt for them you would not be here. Get your head out of your ass and appreciate all blacks. Remember a white person would let your ass know what you are real quick and give your ass a reality check. If slavery still here, you would be in the feilds right along with the blacks.

[sophiekea]

You are ignorant. You cant even understand my comment. My brother is extremely dark, I said I never heard of this dance. They dont look like my Cape Verdean family and my family is huge. The only people who are racist towards me are blacks, not whites. I dont look black enough for them. Whos predjudice?

[nelsexybrown]

I apologize I took youre words out of context. If some blacks feel that way towards you they are ignorant.

[fulani31]

What do you mean you never heard of this dance? Are you living in mars are you kidding me?

[SOLOMON493]

I just love being cape verdean we are so unique. Just being on Youtube i learn about my culture.

[joandry16]

can u speak the creole language of capo verde??

[SOLOMON493]

Yes i can

[AFRIKANU33]

fidjus di AMILICAR CABRAL. BLACK POWER!

[kalimbaGARCIA1234]

she says that when you think of forbidden dance brazil,and africa come to mind,so does this mena that cape verde is not an african country.?

[cvvision]

kalimbaGarcia1234

It should've been said various Country in the main land of Africa comes to mind, expression mistake, Cape Verde is one of the African Country

thank you for notecing

[thugsteph1122]

@kalimbaGARCIA1234

I did not say various countries in Africa as to exclude CV as an African country, just that in general various countries in Africa may come to mind..

[Diangelcriolinha]

TEMO MUITO ORGULHO DE SER CABOVERDIANA

lembro me quando era bem pequena que o meu avo nos punha a dancar batuko eu e as minhas irmas em troca de gelado meu Deus aquilo era uma competicao rsrs me emociono muito so de ouvir o toque muitas saudades desses tempos.

Sim senhora criolas continuem sempre assim bjs

[GLOCKdiTB]

porra kel menina ki ta começa canta na 08:10

ela si ke mudjer di verdadi...ela ta dam ti manchi

Mo n'ta cre hahaha

[cbreeze123]

Im proud of our Afro culture! Look how they move!

[ackjlo]

Lopes is a 2 syllable word, exactly as Lopez

[ASoleil]

this dance and music reminds of that of the Garifuna people of Central America

[angryoreos]

wtf this is a ghetto dance

[hamshow]

It's a dance that white girls with flat asses can't do.

[budyssiner]

@hamshow

i don't think that flat asses are some sign of "white" girls ;-)

[jaseila12]

@budyssiner you tell them:) .. l0l

[caps972]

aie batuko c sa meme rien a dire de plus

[meforme10]

umm the girl is speaking creolu not portuguese....

[cvsexiest]

Nothing like Badia

I loved this, and I love that it's just as I remember it as a kid.

[noydigina]

Ayam!!! Mip´ropi ki é Noydigina; pé fincadu naxom Nhor Dés na Céu ta dam Bençom. Nhos ruspetas moças, sinom, mi Noydigina ta corta dum lado pa ótu!!!!

[zambianidiot]

This is beautiful!

the dance is 99.99% exactly like the traditional dances performed by some ethnic groups in Zambia today dating from when the Portuguese came inland for slaves 100s of years ago. i'm stunned, the manner the women serenades to the crowd, and then they dance away, with the wrap around their waist, and the setup, the sound and style of the drummers; is just LIKE in Zambia. this is very interesting.

Magnifico Cabo Verde! obrigada pela video!

[penzitele]

very similar to a ugandan dance i watched.its a beautiful dance.cant take the dance out of the people no matter where you ship them

[algim1]

The dance should be a mandotory part of the school curriculum starting in elementary school, just like a belly dancing!

algim

[jubiraca666]

wash your mouth before you speak of portuguese people you stupid gringo

[HeBrEwBybLoOd]

the Portugeese were faggots, how could they not want to look at women shaking they asses, and dancing?

[putoxota]

i´m portuguese but i understand what you saying ahahahaa

[raptorica]

tradiçon di nôs terra! santiago stã ku nhôs!!

[kerepakupai]

felicidades por colocar videos de cultura africana en la red!! nos sirve para identificar lo cerca que estamos culturalmente..

[caboverdeana123]

Doodles....Very well spoken!! Tell em girl!!! We all gotta get together and dance like back in the day!

[kingofculture]

not so forbiden and still practised in west africa!!sergio from Tours France

[regi989]

i wanna try that dance but i don't really know where to begin lol.

black folks are the best dancers in the world.

[ktilik]

respect the ladies!

[HOLLYWOODFAVIO]

ARE U FROM PROVIDENCE ...........RI

[copicanola]

kel-li é cau-berdi...kel-li é batuko!!!

batukaderas continua firmi!! bazá-s di lumi!!!

wun..

[Nnfefe]

Batuko attaches importance to butt gyration as soukouss, girls mostly invovled. You women really know how to shake the thing!