Rapper Anik Khan Blasts Xenophobia in powerful video ‘came from’

In a weighty new music video, “came from”, “,” Anik Khan – A rapper born in Bangladesh and raised in Queens, New York – recognizes the lives, journey and impact of immigrants In America and elsewhere. “Do you know where we came from?” He raps. “Do you know what to get away from?/Do you know where this pain came from?/Those boats where we were not on vacation.”

The video opens with a barrage of news and stand-up clips about anti-immigrant sentiments, followed by a checkerboard of influential immigrants to the US like Rihanna” Nicki Minajand Congressman of Minnesota Ilhan Omar. It evolves into a striking collage of archive and modern images and animation, including harrowing images, global protests, destruction and arrests of border patrol. Much of the video is also joyful and rebellious, with different ethnic cuisines, stars such as Lupita Nyong’o, athletes such as Mohamed Salah by Liverpool FC and young black and brown graduates. Khan broadens his festive scope to people of color wider, rapping “with gorillas, we were not around vultures/they could not understand my culture”, if a clip of addison rae who makes ticking movements popular by black teenagers with Jimmy Fallon is interrupted by a video of young black dancers.

The video comes when the Trump administration terrorizes immigrants with hasty deportations, repeatedly, regardless of citizenship Status. In a message to his followers on WhatsApp, Khan wrote: “Comes from it is a celebration of where we come from and what we have contributed – especially at a time when the word immigrant is twisted in something negative. It is about roots, sacrifice, survival and pride. It is about the honor of the grit, blinds and power and power and power and and power and and power and and power and and strength and and power and strength and and power and power and power and power and power and power and power and power.

Khan said he is planning to collect immigrant stories in the coming years through calls and messages to 917-300-9764. Khan has long had the subjects of immigration and assimilation in his music, from the album Flyers in 2017 to a double EP, Refused / approved in 2021. Refused / approved Wrote his own struggle for our citizenship. Approved Contains the number “Spill“With Dreamville -rapper Bas. In 2018 he released”Oh mine‘With Sango and Burna Boy.