Residente premieres ‘This is not America’, a song with which he criticizes the continental divide between North and South America

Award-winning Puerto Rican rapper and songwriter Resident released this Thursday its first official single in more than a year and a half, This is not Americawho, together with the Franco-Cuban twins Ibeyi, addresses the history of the colonization and slavery.

This is not America shares the message that all the cultures and countries of the American continent are one and urges “not to separate and create an evolution for unity,” according to a statement from the Sony Music company.

With this song and its video, Residente transmits his opinion and pain for what he considers is the social continental division between North and South America by the United States.

The video, Directed by French director Gregory Ohrelsymbolically mixes different cultures, portraying indigenous children sitting on disposable objects of global capitalism and placing pre-Columbian monuments in the middle of first world panoramas.

They accompany Residente in this new production the Ibeyi twins: Naomi Díaz on percussion and Lisa-Kaindé on backing vocals.

This is not America is related to a project from three years ago of Resident with professors at Yale University and New York University.

The experts studied the singer’s brain waves along with the brain patterns of worms, mice, monkeys and flies, among others, in order to create musical frequencies that would become rhythms.

For this song, Residente used his own brainwaves and those of worms to develop emphatic waves of electronica mixed with his rapIbeyi’s voice and Puerto Rican percussion.

The new song by René Pérez Joglar, Residente’s first name, comes shortly after the artist gave much to talk about after publishing a hard ‘tiraera’ against the Colombian J Balvinwhom he called “cowardly” and “racist”.