Nas talks about why US artists don't perform in Africa much

[infox1000]

"Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans."

-W.E.B. Du Bois

[loonytoons1990]

This is why I love Nas.

[amma03]

Honestly, alot of Africans look down and dislike Blacks because of the way African American people regard us, talk to us and talk down to us. Honestly, when an African American calls an African person an " african booty scratcher" what kind of response do you expect to get? Why would Africans like people who regard and them in such a manner? Just something to think about

[eastgoast]

we are all distant relatives. big ups to Nas for this knowledge

[zone36gh]

i have nothing bt respect for this dude menh....like wayback being listen to his music....and also wen he said try and get SERIOU artiste here....thats wassup man.....akon caoulve get some artiste down dr bt thats anoda whites man nigger....NAS yu d realest men....RESPECT

[caliboy5100]

Peace to Nas, Godfather of Hip Hop and revolutionary activists. Keep spreading the message blood. Keep it up#Afrikan Love, I say 'Afrikan' because the name 'Africa' was derived from 'Afreek', which was a Roman province on the North end of the continent, everything from the name of the continent to the individual countries was given in the name of seperation#Love for the motherlan#Hetepu

[1nanaaa]

FUCK NIGERIA, FUCK GHANA, FUCK JAMAICA, FUCK AMERICA, FUCK UK, FUCK TRINIDAD, FUCK BRAZIL. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE ORIGINALLY STAY BLACK, NO1 CHANGES IT, ONLY GOD DOES. MOST 4GOT THE CODE OF HONOUR, BLINDED LOST SOULS. THAT ILLUMINATI DIVIDING TO CONQUER ENSLAVE FOR POWER N GREED, THE PEOPLE SUFFER AS A RESULT. YOU ARE GIVEN LOW RATE CURRENCY LOL, AS BLACK BRITISH, THEY EVEN WANT TO SEPARTE US BLACKS BORN N BREED HERE, HOW WHEN WE SHARE SAME IN COMMON OR EG DAD JAMAICAN N MUM GHANAIAN.. WTF? Y??

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@1nanaaa u didnt "fuck ghana" why ? lmao!!! comedy ..

[sabrom]

I f you can't go there why sing about it?

[gabrieltopson]

WE NIGERIANS LOVE AFRIVAN AMERICANS AND WE LOVE ALL THE RAPPERS ..I LIVE IN MALAYSIA AND MARRIED AN ASIAN WOMAN BUT

I STILL GET SHITS HERE RACISM IS VERY WHERE BUT WE LOVE OUR BLACK BROTHER BUT PASS THIS MESSAGE TO THEM THAT ...WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE BLACL NASA MEMBERS AND BLACK ASTRONAUTS IN THE SKYS....gabrieltopson@yahoo.co­m

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@gabrieltopson i think there are already black american astronauts .lol!

[gabrieltopson]

GREAT ONE ....

[bnunoo]

Nas come to Ghana and u will get 1million fans coming to watch you.we love you Nas.

[lalafricaine]

I love Nas! The greatest ever.

[TheBucksB]

"let me not shit on myself" lol

[46664lee]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm some AFRICANS DON'T LIKE AFRICANS AMERICANS,WHY??????

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

check out topix african american board where some dumb old bozo made a thread about african women dating whitemen .. apparently fifty six yr old men salivating on americas next top model is a role model for this idiot.. lol! check it out "african women=pathetic sellouts, this little runt is on there as both "revolutionst" and "wisdom01" and his dad is on there as "wise1" ... check out an south african guy "zew" who is always kicking his butt .. you will see his anger on there too.. very amusing.

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@8thH hahaha of course you are an angry dyck lol! hahaha you poor thing you put an anti nigeerian vid on yt cos you are so bitter and angry!! hahha you are always crying and screaming and what? have you not reported me to your protector yt yet? .. you cuss the whiteman but run to him to protect you all the time.. CRY BABY..

[HisBannerOverMe1]

@8thH Who says I'm angry? Why would I be?

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@HisBannerOverMe1 he is always angry he got so mad he put up a vid on his channel against nigerians cos we are always kicking his nasty butt where it belongs.. this half ghanian runt spend his time making up dumb channels to get into our channels he would have made up a couple of channels to get into yours so he can stalk your comments .. lol! he is a mixed up little runt his main pride is his little ghana hut he build on his 419 business.. infact if you want to know more about his activities

[HisBannerOverMe1]

We have enough African artistes in Africa, to perform for us,so if American singers don't want to come.......DON'T!

[iamsukafree]

Im african american & i use 2 be 4 all blacks untill i found out what africans really think about african americans.So now i feel like fuck africans from africa.dont call me african american,call me black american.Africans cant look down on african americans becuz africans liveing in the worst conditions.just becuz a person got black skin dont mean we on the same team.

[mrthe0]

@iamsukafree you are a crab in a bucket

[1nanaaa]

@iamsukafree I AGREE. THEY HAVE BEEN DIVIDED, IS A SHAME. PROPER COLONISED MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY BY ILLUMINATI (TV, SCHOOLS, MEDIA) DIVIDED INTO MALI, BENIN, CAMEROON, NIGERIA, GHANA, WORST THING IS MY PEOPLE DONT GET ON BECAUSE THEY FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. WHAT A SHAME. THE REAL BLACK WILL NEVER BE COLONISED OR SURRENDER, IM BLACK, RELATED TO ALL BLACK PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, NOT ONLY AFRICA. IS DISCUSTIN WHEN I HEAR THAT CARIBEANS VS AFRICANS VS BLACK AMERICANS. COPYING PAGINISM GREEDPIGS

[QuincyAD87]

African Americns are always looking to point the finger at someone else. Still blaming Whitey & Africans for the slave trade are we? I don't blame Africans for looking down on African Americans.

[Mrsirajabdullah71]

@QuincyAD87 filthy white troll and who gives a damn what some drunkass rotten teeth brit thinks? I think u r some fake ass troll hiding behind a bogus name freaking punk coward

[markhai2978]

The way I see it...Africans traded us to whitey for guns and other things and we were seen as dispensible to Africans because maybe we were from a lower caste. African countries cant be a super power because it doesnt treat its citizens with respect. A country that cant uplift its citizen must and will be destroyed (economically speaking of course). America is next to become a third world country.

[markhai2978]

Generally speaking..Black Africans do not care much for African Americans, Jamaicans, and other africans that have been contaminated by whitey...Black Africans, generally speaking, will never see westernized blacks as equal to them. They will befriend you if they need you for something and thats it.

[youngl098765]

i thought nas was smarter than this!

[TheBlackTraveler]

Some of the statements Nas is making are poorly thought . I don't accept the premise, Jay Z and Beyonce went to Lagos, Nigeria at 100 dollars a ticket to a sold out venue two years ago. A number of African American artist have performed in Africa but plenty more should.

[K1dDread]

Such a rightious man here, we can all takes notes from his wisdom and do our part as well to begin a new chapter in our history as he is clearly speaking of.

[tintsap]

Legend Nas

[Rockstafeller]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, HE ACTS LIKE A STEREOTYPICAL IGNORANT NEGRO, STOP IT!

[Mbanga2]

What is Bono? Nas ya mami hy boubou

[statisticianamuria]

That is true NAS...I respect you. I Live in Europe and what they say about Africa is 99% negative. What you hear about Africa in European Television, Articles, Magazines is Diseases, Famine, Poverty, Charity, Hunger, War, Corruption.....

I challenge anybody to ask an average youth in Europe anything good in Africa. The answer you get is ".......hhhhmmmm I don't know...hmmm Nothing.. There are poor people in Africa."

[101jesus]

nas we love you in ethiopia:)

[supervirtuouswoman]

Can anyone see that it is our time? We are coming together. I think nas would have mad a better Fela than Jay-z.

[Mbanga2]

@supervirtuouswoman JAY:Z IS JUST A BIG LIP MONKEY WHY NEED TO DIE; AND LET MJ LIVE

[RNU4Life]

We have to fix our home, but first we blacks around the globe gotta drop the way we talk about one another. Its like niggas don't know nothing but hate, when it doesn't have to be that way. We must unite cross the globe and go back home to take back whats ours. Neo-Colonialism is killing our birth mother, and we ain't doing nothing but looking down at one another further seperating ourselves from a great and prosperous destiny.

[K1dDread]

@RNU4Life

yup agreed. but also remember, so shall it be written, so shall it be done. we're beginning to step in the right direction it seems. Nothing will happen over night. but jah said he would see us through, and with patience we'll get there no doubt bruh.

~one~

[7Know7Thy7Enemy7]

@RNU4Life We do must unite blacks world wide, look how united and intelligent we are when we do unite, look at the 3 pyramids an ancient Egyptian, you see how we use to rule the world humbly when we are united?

[zvamada]

and africans know your lyrics inside out, oh well

[modjuye]

This guy is so deep , peoples of africans blood all over the world should unit , because europe neocolonialism is tearing africa apart

[bittercottoncandy]

@modjuye Don't you mean chinese colonialism?

[Leticya3008]

OMG can u please shut up?!?!!! no one of y'all went to africa so please just shut up! "africa is dangerous" WTF r y'all talking about? i mean it's not even as dangerous as one of ur ghetto in america! anyway im african and american i saw both side and i really think u should first go there nd c things on ur own before u can juge it! nd if u scared to go there, do it like 80 percent of americans nd let the tv tell u what u suposed to think! ANYWAY NaS is like whhoooa. l<3ve this brother!

[foreverflylove]

too real, nas is amazing, liberia, 1 love

[machokingwwf]

Nas been saying he wants to go to Africa for years. He was like the only rapper that always openly expressed that sentiment. I'm happy for him experiencing the journey.

[HipHopTerminator]

damn he said i don't care if they take my jewelry its theirs anyways,,, that fucking hit my hard honestly thats something my father would say.. nas is a great person

[Lorenzo312]

That was the realest shit ever told... Nas is taking this shit further than pac further than anyone Distant Relatives out verryy soon!

[Waryaa484]

i just want to tell everyone in here man Fuck this Nas he is lien man

we love african american because we all brothers and sister

I'm african and i come from africa i live here in U.S and we love each other Nas u just had some different wrong opinion man AFrican DOnt like AFrican Americans at all?!! that's not true bro it's lie we like we all brothers African unity One Heart bro BLack Power

[jc005e]

@HipHopTerminator qaulity of a virgo

[Cloudgatekeeper]

.......when you see someone go to africa it's an accomplishment of not only the actual journey but experience of the history, the present....and to see or vision a future.

[tirelo]

dont no body give a fuck about bono with all that white irsh crop music & thats coming real african

[bluecity043]

I respect Nas but Bono can get 100,000 people to a gig because hes spent countless years donating, organising events and advertising charities to help the people of Africa. Just because you have ancestors from the land, doesn't mean you deserve their recognition for your music. He should put effort into it but he won't. He will just go back to Queens and sit on his throne repeatedly saying to himself he is the Hip Hop savior. He talks the talk but until he justifies his talking I won't listen.

[Cloudgatekeeper]

aww c'mon man. Bono is so rich it's ridiculous. When you have money like it or not you have power. Alot of people probably don't know who nas is and would maybe treat him like any other and maybe just straight up kill ....him. Not saying all africans there do this but the crime rate is reall very high. Going to africa famous or not is a gamble. You could be killed or diseased.......yeah I made that up. diseased

[ebookat]

have you been to africa? no. case and point.

[Cloudgatekeeper]

You a prick? case and point. You missed the entire point of not only the video but my comment case and point.

[ebookat]

this reply was meant for someone else's comment

[Cloudgatekeeper]

oh.....I was just on defense mode you know how it goes on here. Certain people wanna diss and hate just inspite of being angry at somethin or them selves lol.

[MajorrBison]

so u think africans like bono, u must be ridiculous.....africans eat, dream, sleep, and drink their own music and if they want foreign music, it's mostly african american or carebean music, an average african teenager don't know who bono is but will tell u who nas is, i am AFRICAN, Nigerian and i know what i'm talking about. And i'm gonna make it clear, not all africa does ''a dollar a day can help'' ok? not NIGERIA OR SOUTH AFRICA WORD.

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@MajorrBison "bono ko, bono ni" eh? who has even heard of him in any african country apart from SA? yes, its true for popular music we have our own home grown talents which are all over yt and of course the foriegn elements mainly american music as its popular too.

[mrthe0]

@MajorrBison dont forget Botswana bruh

[sugarolle]

@MajorrBison I don't think he was saying that Africans like Bono. I think he was hinting to a conspiracy of why would Bono have a bigger turn out than him & how that in itself is not plausible. & I think it's deplorable how Africa is portrayed in the Western world because I know every country in Africa is not "A dollar a day". Hope you don't feel offended by my comment even though it's all late.

[bumisworld]

maybe not in your country, dont speak for everyone, most Africans have diverse music taste!

[VENOMM41394]

straight g

[twigman222]

I grew up in zimbabwe.I moved to holland when I was 8 thats when I came in thouch with the hip hop culture. nas has been my favorate rapper ever since. Its nice to see him care so much about africa.

[OPtimUzPRimO]

da dopest shyT he said was wen he was Like if they take My jewelery let em take it It's theres anyway

[alagbaranla]

Nas is real!  The last real Ni**ger alive, thats official.

[lilrog0909]

So ain't real?

[tryphene3]

real talk bro

[Breezo67]

haha pussy americans...play hard but cant come around here

[ridim2007]

I'm African from gambia...The more we accept each others culture the easier we become one culture and when we become one culture we will be able to be united

[ebookat]

yes and then we can prosper as a whole.

[Cloudgatekeeper]

shutup. People like you should die horribly. Your part of the reason negativity exists.

[sabreproductions]

nas is HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAARD!!!!!!!