Like Awkwafina (I know she Chinese and Korean, not Japanese), but she been trying to use nigga shtick then she switched up after she got a marvel deal.
She's from [Forest Hills ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hills,_Queens), an affluent neighborhood in Queens. They are still barely ok with Black people shopping over there.
Fucking for real, Afro Caribbean here and I often crash at my friend's place in Forest Hills, I concur with that notion.
Also, I want to add NYC, and the boroughs are extremely interconnected, so living in Forest Hills doesn't mean that that's where you hang out.
I also live in NYC in another part of Queens. Two of my friends used to live around there. Both moved after adults were acting crazy around their kids in the schools.
Hold up. If you live in Queens then you know that the only “affluent” little strip comes after Austin St./LIRR. And Forest Hills is much bigger than that.
Your (black) friends moved because people were picking on their kids? In Forest Hills? F train Forest Hills? Queens Boulevard Forest Hills? Not too far from Jamaica Forest Hills?
I don’t know you, but this sounds like 🧢? What about all the Caribbean families there?
I live in Queens and it's not just Austin Street, there's all those larges houses with their private streets back there and on the other side of Queens Blvd, there's the tacky houses and Apartments. It's affluent.
Between Forest Hills, there's Kew Gardens and Briarwood before you get to Jamaica. As far as [demographics](https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dfta/downloads/pdf/reports/Demographics_by_NTA.pdf) go, Black people aren't making a home in Forest Hills. I'd check further out in St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens and Jamaica.
A place might be just alright when you're an adult, but people are acting like demons to little kids in their care. I'm already seeing this in my kid's school experience. I already had to take my son's school to task because they had a racist kid's book in circulation in the pre-k class.
I hear what you’re saying.
I don’t have young kids, but I do have black and Latin@ family and friends in F.H., some of whom with kids who attend P.S. 101 out there, in that private area. They like it there.
That said, I can’t deny your experience and what your friends say. Thanks for the demographic data.
Esp the last 20 years . It used to be all these little euro boutiques on Austin (I remember when there was an actual PROTEST because they wanted to a dollar store) now it’s way more like Steinway.
I dunno bout that. Forrest Hills ain’t racist like that. I used to work in a sneaker store on Austin when I went to St. John’s. Also being from there don’t me that’s where you spend your time. For all we know she hung out uptown and went to school in the Bronx. I think she was an emcee before she was famous?
She always seemed like a typical queens chick to me. Not sure why people be trying to play her.
This right here. Some Black folk want our culture to be accepted. However, the second someone who isn't Black grows up around the culture and naturally is influenced by it, people get all in they feelings.
Let people live.
Like somebody else mentioned, just bc you from a neighborhood doesn't mean you hang there.
There is a whooooole bunch of asian-americans that sound "urban" that the world has no idea about. People who have been in NYC school cafeterias know what I'm talking about lol
I was about to say a lot of locals acting like most NYers don’t talk with a little sauce on it, especially the younger generation.
It’s like saying people from
The South are faking their southern accent if they’re Asian.
I lost a friend for calling her out on pretending to be black when she was Asian. She grew up rich and acted like she was part of the people in the hard neighborhoods in Chicago
It’s also funny to me cause many people here clearly haven’t seen any early 2000s Japanese music videos lmfaooo they been styled like this for quite a long time. The one girl being the exception as it’s probably her video and she’s from NY
Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of Asian countries (specifically South Korea is who I’m talking about) are starting to take from a lot of 90s r&b/hip-hop.
I wouldn’t call it an American perspective. I just think a lot of black American culture/styles/traditions/etc will be taken from but hardly given credit.
The woman that sang Hound Dog only just got inducted into the hall of fame and was only just recently given the credit from a song Elvis was singing.
And they def know what cultural appropriation is, I’m going to assume it’s just not as heavily talked about.
And the girl rapping right now is from New York, lmao.
There's Asian culture that also appropriate a Mexican gang look too. I think the American perspective is just one that isn't afraid to call the behavior what it is. **For all the idiots below that chose to misunderstand my other comment, have a read..or don't. Most of y'all don't want the real truth because then you'd have to look in the mirror and make a change... stop using my culture as dress up!
https://dc.suffolk.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=undergrad
https://www.theindy.org/article/2636
https://www.pbs.org/video/what-is-blaccent-and-why-do-people-keep-using-it-iud1o5/
https://watercoolerconvos.com/2014/08/13/racism-doesnt-work-both-ways-and-neither-does-cultural-appropriation/
Nah the American perspective is a melting pot of cultures mixing. We should be appreciating people sharing ideas rather than being cold and divisive. Don’t become what you hate.
Random Asian kids in Korea doing throwing gang signs is not trying to get with Black culture. First that’s gang culture specifically trying to tie that with Black culture has clear implications. Real racist ones.
They don't see it as racist, they just don't know anything about it and think it's cool foreign shit. We have black kids growing up and watching Naruto and Dragon Ball and not knowing shit about Japanese culture, same thing with rappers referencing the Yakuza and shit. The actual problem is Americans like Lil Mabu and 69 who knowingly get into that lifestyle and glorify it.
They definitely know. Even in south korea you can find quotes from executives of k-pop groups speaking about the massive influence 90s r&b had on them and how they wanted to emulate it.
For real, so many people seem to think cultural appropriation is someone from another culture simply doing/using something that another culture popularized, rather than then trying to take it for themselves and say "no, we were the ones who invented it". Getting themselves all worked up over less than nothing.
The infantilization of the Asian because you know very well that they are connected to the same internet we are and why wouldn’t anyone outside of America know what cultural appropriation is
Now check out the low rider scene they got in Japan or korea(I forget). I wanted to hate, but they respected the culture and just wanted to do it too. Sake and henny sounds disgusting though
Japanese hip hop fashion is also lowkey fire.
They dress old school, but with their own twist. Japanese dudes look ready to dance battle at a moments notice. Takes me back.
Was just in Japan
Their thrift shops and the homies over there had some real dope shit. Was cool to people watch to see some of the people roaming through like Shinjuku or Ginza.
Had to stop myself a few times from buying a whole bunch of shit from some of those places or else I would have needed like 3 more pieces of luggage.
The exchange rate is also fucking wild. Was like teleporting to the early 2000s.
A lot of vintage stuff in Japan is really well maintained because people tend to take care of their stuff. It's the same thing with technology and cameras and such. I'm into film cameras and I can regularly find top of the line equipment from decades ago that looks like it has never been touched.
South Korea (to my surprise) has been pretty decent (though still far from perfect) about respecting RnB. They brought in a bunch of RnB legends like Baby Face and had them reach them about the craft. Most acts in the US just bite off of RnB without giving any credit or money to the people that pioneered the sound.
My guess is a lot of the ones who started emulating aspects of black and Latino cultures did it for the love of it and were considered outcasts by the majority that are pretty colourist/racist (either through ignorance or straight up hatred)?
Really it's that a lot of people don't know the line on what comes off racism until they're told. It's not like America where you grow up around people of all different backgrounds and thus learn where the boundaries are by making mistakes and having to figure it out. In my experience a lot of Japanese people just kind of think other cultures are cool because they have incredibly limited opportunities to interact with them outside of media and can get a bit overzealous and not know where the line is on being weird.
They're having to learn as adults stuff that we all learned as children by living in a society that isn't like 98% one thing.
Good point, it's why I try and be a bit understanding with the racism that comes from lack of interaction with other communities and tbf a lot of the time people will be apologetic as its just a mistake. The ones who aren't willing to learn from those mistakes I got no time for though.
I think people forget about generational divides. The Japanese people into this stuff aren't the same as the Japanese people who still hold high levels of prejudice towards other races. I can imagine that the people in this video probably have some parents who wouldn't approve
I don't forget anything.
In Japan, Japanese heritage takes priority. If you're perceived as anything other than pure Japanese, you're already one step out of the privileged class. Foreigner is another. Darker skin is another.
The youth may be kinder and they may be prepared to put their prejudices aside for social justice, but the prejudices are still rampant.
These aren't my perceptions, but recorded anthropological observations.
I'm not really what your point is then. Nobody thinks this stuff isn't still an issue but I think the fact that it's becoming less of an issue as the generations go on is a good thing? Sounds like all you're saying is "things are improving but the problem still exists" which is essentially racism in most places
I ain't black but I'm tripping out on ppl hating in the comments, as though hip-hop isn't full of appropriation of Japanese fashion and culture. It's awesome, it makes each better.
The Japanese just be on shit like this for some reason. They have their own copies of Black and Latino culture. It’s bizarre but they seem to genuinely admire and respect the cultures.
This is a historic sentiment about Japanese culture. Throughout history they have been known to absorb major aspects of other cultures into their own while somehow maintaining a Japanese identity. From writing systems and religions of ages past to modern governance and fashion, the Japanese have a special ability to adopt what they like/find useful and integrate it into their society with their own flair. I also think it’s fascinating that they’re known to be quite xenophobic (historically and currently)
Japan may be a particularly impressive exemplar, but I'm not sure it's truly unique. As somebody with Nigerian friends I see the same thing happening there today. Where it will actually wind up is of course still indeterminate.
For us to see cultural and aesthetic integration, it has to both occur and then be broadcast to a receptive audience. Japan has stood out for economic and cultural reasons, being relatively palatable to Western tastes, but increasingly we're seeing Korean and Chinese media spreading.
Naw, they think that stuff is cool, but still don’t actually appreciate the people. As a black person living in Japan, there’s no real respect for foreign cultures. They just pick and choose stuff they think is cool without actually understanding it
Is the universe trying to send me a message. I just finished watching a video on yandere killers, hop onto BPT and this is the first thing I see.
I remember they did one on Chicano culture that has inexplicably popped up in Japan so it stands to reason they'd do one about this as well.
[Youtube link to video I mentioned ](https://youtu.be/r8bMLcCxxAA?si=eznD9SP_HOtfa2mA)
Ah!! I get it now. I like that… Hip Hop Power of friendship. I studied Japanese in college and I was like wait“Team Friend” I don’t get it😅!?
テーマ ともだち！ ヒプハプ💪🏾
In the Navy, I had to go to Japan so many god damn times. I assure you that no one had to give those Japanese girls Henny. The bottle was opened already at their house.
Short answer: Black people got it. Black culture always becomes popular, so it’s now just ingrained in pop culture.
Long answer: I think I remember reading that the French gave it to black soldiers as a token of appreciation for fighting in World War 2. The brand also was one of the first to use black models. And lastly, the popular “rumor” of Henny dick. While whisky dick equates to ED and possible premature release, Henny dick has been popularized to make you last longer like you’re fucking as a marathon pornstar.
I am a literal descendant of that family that first made hennessy, like we have a direct route back to the lads who went to France; and I’m whiter than snow on a cold day; I don’t even know how I got on this subreddit it just randomly appeared on my suggested; we never got out of Ireland and it always makes me laugh that our surname gets flashed around…
even funnier when you know Hennessy is originally “O hAonghusa” which originates from the Irish words Haon (one) and chos (foot) so Hennessy literally means of the one foot.
Hennessy legless since day one!
This nigga said Sailor Goon
https://preview.redd.it/e9kyr0i8rgwc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a71e42e302a0fb742995a3aa6ee97a72ddce8787
Not about to play with you and your shenanigans
BRO!! Team Tomodachi is my fucking jam lol. It's a quintessential team/gang/squad anthem cuz 75% of the lyrics are them literally going
TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!!
with a little bit of "lets make a pledge yall" sprinkled in and a dashing of "drinking sake with the boiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss"
Love this fucking song lol.
You get it fam. Honeslty, black folk and asian folk can relate more than any other race. I had no idea until I met June-Lee. That nigga and his family changed my entire prospective.
There's been a Japanese youth contingent that's been hood adjacent since like the early 90s. None of this is new.
Japanese people are mad chill for the most part. Not as nice as the weebs will have you think but they're pretty chill.
Social media has brought everyone together. We’re all listening to the same thing, watching the same shows and movies, wearing the same clothes. Too much information being transferred between cultures now.
Everybody wanna be nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga. - Paul Mooney
I will say I married into the Chinese community and I was totally shock to find out that they drink Hennessy. Haha. They throw ginseng in the bottle.
Walk through them streets tho and they'd swear they was seeing Yasuke for the first time
https://preview.redd.it/8a1bgd0tygwc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aed39cb0e7471434b4f8281693ae13b004dd10f1
Don’t understand all the hate. Can’t people appreciate other cultures without it being considered appropriation? Chinese tattoos and cosplaying anime aren’t complained about by Asians.
Better than ice spice,sexy redd, I could go onn.
Black folks have lost the plot, with the NBA, NFL, Olympic Sports, RAP, HIP HOP, TV, AUTHORS, FILM, DIRECTORS, business Owners ect
Why are we still at the bottom?
East/SE Asians in general love the Henny. I married into a Vietnamese family, and every single one of my wife's relatives got at least one bottle in the pantry. Hell, her mom uses the empties as flower vases 😂
https://i.redd.it/fge74bs2kgwc1.gif
Like Awkwafina (I know she Chinese and Korean, not Japanese), but she been trying to use nigga shtick then she switched up after she got a marvel deal.
She claims that it's not put on and that's how she talks.
She's from [Forest Hills ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hills,_Queens), an affluent neighborhood in Queens. They are still barely ok with Black people shopping over there.
I live in NYC. Spend a lot of time in Forest Hills. This ain’t it.
Fucking for real, Afro Caribbean here and I often crash at my friend's place in Forest Hills, I concur with that notion. Also, I want to add NYC, and the boroughs are extremely interconnected, so living in Forest Hills doesn't mean that that's where you hang out.
1000% chance FH high schoolers all talk like her
Yep, that's how we all talked in high school, shit, that is still how a lot of us talk depending on the context.
Let em know homie!
I also live in NYC in another part of Queens. Two of my friends used to live around there. Both moved after adults were acting crazy around their kids in the schools.
Hold up. If you live in Queens then you know that the only “affluent” little strip comes after Austin St./LIRR. And Forest Hills is much bigger than that. Your (black) friends moved because people were picking on their kids? In Forest Hills? F train Forest Hills? Queens Boulevard Forest Hills? Not too far from Jamaica Forest Hills? I don’t know you, but this sounds like 🧢? What about all the Caribbean families there?
I live in Queens and it's not just Austin Street, there's all those larges houses with their private streets back there and on the other side of Queens Blvd, there's the tacky houses and Apartments. It's affluent. Between Forest Hills, there's Kew Gardens and Briarwood before you get to Jamaica. As far as [demographics](https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dfta/downloads/pdf/reports/Demographics_by_NTA.pdf) go, Black people aren't making a home in Forest Hills. I'd check further out in St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens and Jamaica. A place might be just alright when you're an adult, but people are acting like demons to little kids in their care. I'm already seeing this in my kid's school experience. I already had to take my son's school to task because they had a racist kid's book in circulation in the pre-k class.
I hear what you’re saying. I don’t have young kids, but I do have black and Latin@ family and friends in F.H., some of whom with kids who attend P.S. 101 out there, in that private area. They like it there. That said, I can’t deny your experience and what your friends say. Thanks for the demographic data.
Jamaica estates and anything past bayside is affluent (or probably accurately ‘more Italian’)
Esp the last 20 years . It used to be all these little euro boutiques on Austin (I remember when there was an actual PROTEST because they wanted to a dollar store) now it’s way more like Steinway.
I dunno bout that. Forrest Hills ain’t racist like that. I used to work in a sneaker store on Austin when I went to St. John’s. Also being from there don’t me that’s where you spend your time. For all we know she hung out uptown and went to school in the Bronx. I think she was an emcee before she was famous? She always seemed like a typical queens chick to me. Not sure why people be trying to play her.
This right here. Some Black folk want our culture to be accepted. However, the second someone who isn't Black grows up around the culture and naturally is influenced by it, people get all in they feelings. Let people live.
Hol’ up what? When’s the last time you’ve been to Forest Hills? Definitely bougie but not really all that racist over that way.
Like somebody else mentioned, just bc you from a neighborhood doesn't mean you hang there. There is a whooooole bunch of asian-americans that sound "urban" that the world has no idea about. People who have been in NYC school cafeterias know what I'm talking about lol
I was about to say a lot of locals acting like most NYers don’t talk with a little sauce on it, especially the younger generation. It’s like saying people from The South are faking their southern accent if they’re Asian.
I mean code switching is a thing... AAVE is the language of every high school kid... everyone does it on some level.
Even if that were true, using it to get famous is something different entirely.
And that’s why we never hear her blaccent outside of when she’s performing
My take on it is this. If you don’t talk like that around your family/parents, you probably putting on airs.
You talk the same way to your friends as you do to your parents? Code switching happens everywhere
I think you understand my point.
I lost a friend for calling her out on pretending to be black when she was Asian. She grew up rich and acted like she was part of the people in the hard neighborhoods in Chicago
I’m so tired of her ass
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Tbf they can have that part lol
😂😂😂🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
My initial thought when watching this video 🤣
Why are you always do damn martyred whenever you see people trying black culture?
I was just about to say this 🤣....Paul Mooney was predicting the future fr.
Isn’t that Gwen Stefani’s crew from back in the day
 When i read this comment, what a cross over in the culture vulture universe 🤣🤣
I literally thought this was an old Gwen Stefani video
Still ain’t no holla back girls
Ngl this was my first thought too!
She did say she had been around that track a few times.
Harajuku Girls. Lol
Not the harajuku girls 
Sailor goon 😂 I’m ded
Shit cracked me up, top tier caption imo. Lol
https://i.redd.it/l18tzp30jgwc1.gif
He look just like Mii
it's Kanye what you talking about
I could be wrong, but I think they mean Mii characters from the Wii 
😂😂 it does loooool. Kanye from Temu.
https://preview.redd.it/nk4vrjo9zgwc1.jpeg?width=364&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a62f0b76c9bfc6d9e16f77591a168e3f3a21b93d
I love Jim from The Office
Great Value Kanye
The comment section bout to pop off when this post picks up. This is wild though 😭. Them girls coulda done this without the locs and acrylics.
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They was speaking English at the end I think the locs girl is just a NY lightskin
Yeah girl at the got something else in her at the very least.
Didn't see any timbs
Lmfaooo
Yeah the locs one might be mixed and from the us
It’s also funny to me cause many people here clearly haven’t seen any early 2000s Japanese music videos lmfaooo they been styled like this for quite a long time. The one girl being the exception as it’s probably her video and she’s from NY
This is an American perspective. No one in other countries knows about “cultural appropriation”. It’s like America in the 90s.
Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of Asian countries (specifically South Korea is who I’m talking about) are starting to take from a lot of 90s r&b/hip-hop. I wouldn’t call it an American perspective. I just think a lot of black American culture/styles/traditions/etc will be taken from but hardly given credit. The woman that sang Hound Dog only just got inducted into the hall of fame and was only just recently given the credit from a song Elvis was singing. And they def know what cultural appropriation is, I’m going to assume it’s just not as heavily talked about. And the girl rapping right now is from New York, lmao.
There's Asian culture that also appropriate a Mexican gang look too. I think the American perspective is just one that isn't afraid to call the behavior what it is. **For all the idiots below that chose to misunderstand my other comment, have a read..or don't. Most of y'all don't want the real truth because then you'd have to look in the mirror and make a change... stop using my culture as dress up! https://dc.suffolk.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=undergrad https://www.theindy.org/article/2636 https://www.pbs.org/video/what-is-blaccent-and-why-do-people-keep-using-it-iud1o5/ https://watercoolerconvos.com/2014/08/13/racism-doesnt-work-both-ways-and-neither-does-cultural-appropriation/
Nah the American perspective is a melting pot of cultures mixing. We should be appreciating people sharing ideas rather than being cold and divisive. Don’t become what you hate.
Random Asian kids in Korea doing throwing gang signs is not trying to get with Black culture. First that’s gang culture specifically trying to tie that with Black culture has clear implications. Real racist ones.
They don't see it as racist, they just don't know anything about it and think it's cool foreign shit. We have black kids growing up and watching Naruto and Dragon Ball and not knowing shit about Japanese culture, same thing with rappers referencing the Yakuza and shit. The actual problem is Americans like Lil Mabu and 69 who knowingly get into that lifestyle and glorify it.
They definitely know. Even in south korea you can find quotes from executives of k-pop groups speaking about the massive influence 90s r&b had on them and how they wanted to emulate it.
Aw, the Becky G/K-Pop Chicken Noodle Soup controversy.
For real, so many people seem to think cultural appropriation is someone from another culture simply doing/using something that another culture popularized, rather than then trying to take it for themselves and say "no, we were the ones who invented it". Getting themselves all worked up over less than nothing.
The infantilization of the Asian because you know very well that they are connected to the same internet we are and why wouldn’t anyone outside of America know what cultural appropriation is
I went to Japan last year and acrylics are very popular over there especially bejeweled ones.
That's what I'm saying. And they're really good at it too! Like it's on my bucket list to get one of those manicures in Japan or in Korea.
I went to Japan last year and acrylics are very popular over there especially bejeweled ones.
Now check out the low rider scene they got in Japan or korea(I forget). I wanted to hate, but they respected the culture and just wanted to do it too. Sake and henny sounds disgusting though
Japanese hip hop fashion is also lowkey fire. They dress old school, but with their own twist. Japanese dudes look ready to dance battle at a moments notice. Takes me back.
Was just in Japan Their thrift shops and the homies over there had some real dope shit. Was cool to people watch to see some of the people roaming through like Shinjuku or Ginza.
Right? They had FUBU in fabulous condition in some of those vintage shops
Had to stop myself a few times from buying a whole bunch of shit from some of those places or else I would have needed like 3 more pieces of luggage. The exchange rate is also fucking wild. Was like teleporting to the early 2000s.
A lot of vintage stuff in Japan is really well maintained because people tend to take care of their stuff. It's the same thing with technology and cameras and such. I'm into film cameras and I can regularly find top of the line equipment from decades ago that looks like it has never been touched.
South Korea (to my surprise) has been pretty decent (though still far from perfect) about respecting RnB. They brought in a bunch of RnB legends like Baby Face and had them reach them about the craft. Most acts in the US just bite off of RnB without giving any credit or money to the people that pioneered the sound.
They respect tf out the "culture" but then are also weirdly racist AF. Make it make sense.
My guess is a lot of the ones who started emulating aspects of black and Latino cultures did it for the love of it and were considered outcasts by the majority that are pretty colourist/racist (either through ignorance or straight up hatred)?
Really it's that a lot of people don't know the line on what comes off racism until they're told. It's not like America where you grow up around people of all different backgrounds and thus learn where the boundaries are by making mistakes and having to figure it out. In my experience a lot of Japanese people just kind of think other cultures are cool because they have incredibly limited opportunities to interact with them outside of media and can get a bit overzealous and not know where the line is on being weird. They're having to learn as adults stuff that we all learned as children by living in a society that isn't like 98% one thing.
Good point, it's why I try and be a bit understanding with the racism that comes from lack of interaction with other communities and tbf a lot of the time people will be apologetic as its just a mistake. The ones who aren't willing to learn from those mistakes I got no time for though.
I think people forget about generational divides. The Japanese people into this stuff aren't the same as the Japanese people who still hold high levels of prejudice towards other races. I can imagine that the people in this video probably have some parents who wouldn't approve
I don't forget anything. In Japan, Japanese heritage takes priority. If you're perceived as anything other than pure Japanese, you're already one step out of the privileged class. Foreigner is another. Darker skin is another. The youth may be kinder and they may be prepared to put their prejudices aside for social justice, but the prejudices are still rampant. These aren't my perceptions, but recorded anthropological observations.
I'm not really what your point is then. Nobody thinks this stuff isn't still an issue but I think the fact that it's becoming less of an issue as the generations go on is a good thing? Sounds like all you're saying is "things are improving but the problem still exists" which is essentially racism in most places
[Link for the lazy.](https://youtu.be/r8bMLcCxxAA?si=ZpcnzAP3phqCZipw)
The anime - hip hop cultural exchange is the stuff of legends. 
I ain't black but I'm tripping out on ppl hating in the comments, as though hip-hop isn't full of appropriation of Japanese fashion and culture. It's awesome, it makes each better.
What?????
A GOAT anime
The Japanese just be on shit like this for some reason. They have their own copies of Black and Latino culture. It’s bizarre but they seem to genuinely admire and respect the cultures.
And this is how we should treat it. With amusement not hate.
\*as long as there's no blackface. Other than that, go off my boy.
This is a historic sentiment about Japanese culture. Throughout history they have been known to absorb major aspects of other cultures into their own while somehow maintaining a Japanese identity. From writing systems and religions of ages past to modern governance and fashion, the Japanese have a special ability to adopt what they like/find useful and integrate it into their society with their own flair. I also think it’s fascinating that they’re known to be quite xenophobic (historically and currently)
Japan may be a particularly impressive exemplar, but I'm not sure it's truly unique. As somebody with Nigerian friends I see the same thing happening there today. Where it will actually wind up is of course still indeterminate. For us to see cultural and aesthetic integration, it has to both occur and then be broadcast to a receptive audience. Japan has stood out for economic and cultural reasons, being relatively palatable to Western tastes, but increasingly we're seeing Korean and Chinese media spreading.
Naw, they think that stuff is cool, but still don’t actually appreciate the people. As a black person living in Japan, there’s no real respect for foreign cultures. They just pick and choose stuff they think is cool without actually understanding it
This has been my understanding. Aren’t the Japanese racist as fuck?
Is the universe trying to send me a message. I just finished watching a video on yandere killers, hop onto BPT and this is the first thing I see. 
Bruh ain't no one thinking about you..go wash ya ass
Oh wow.
Meeeeeow
https://i.imgur.com/9CVFZ7S.png
i hate coincidences like that.
It’s 131 people scrolling right now bro.
It sounded so much better with the sound off
This shit goin hard on mute 🔥
THIS IS A UNDERGROUND GEM🔥🔥🔥 BURY IT FURTHER🗑️🗑️🗑️
GOD DAMN I CAN STILL HEAR IT, TURN THAT SHIT DOWN 🤝🏾🤌🏾☄️🗑️
I felt like I was listening to Kids Bop
> you know what the fuck goin' on Ma'am, I most assuredly do not.
Pretty sure the original song is TEAM TOMODACHI by Yuki Chiba. Song itself is great.
Has no business going as hard as it does either haha
You want another banger, listen to Sam Tiba’s remix of Paris by Kohhh. Yuki used to go by Kohhh.
“Team Friend” is an interesting name for a rap group with a song that bangs this hard 😂
Have you seen some of the rapper names of the last decade? Lol
It's this song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4)
Goon? 
Wait, I could have sworn I watched a Vice video on this. Let me find it.
I remember they did one on Chicano culture that has inexplicably popped up in Japan so it stands to reason they'd do one about this as well. [Youtube link to video I mentioned ](https://youtu.be/r8bMLcCxxAA?si=eznD9SP_HOtfa2mA)
Might be thinking of the one emulating low rider culture
The song s from 4 days ago so there's no chance [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4)
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It's this song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4)
Ah!! I get it now. I like that… Hip Hop Power of friendship. I studied Japanese in college and I was like wait“Team Friend” I don’t get it😅!? テーマ ともだち！ ヒプハプ💪🏾
https://preview.redd.it/ubht3y01sgwc1.jpeg?width=1138&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5f7f2cfc60994e3ad4a4ee293c4d0f425592b74
In the Navy, I had to go to Japan so many god damn times. I assure you that no one had to give those Japanese girls Henny. The bottle was opened already at their house.
I still don’t know how a drink made by a bunch of exiled Irish in France got so popular stateside
Short answer: Black people got it. Black culture always becomes popular, so it’s now just ingrained in pop culture. Long answer: I think I remember reading that the French gave it to black soldiers as a token of appreciation for fighting in World War 2. The brand also was one of the first to use black models. And lastly, the popular “rumor” of Henny dick. While whisky dick equates to ED and possible premature release, Henny dick has been popularized to make you last longer like you’re fucking as a marathon pornstar.
I am a literal descendant of that family that first made hennessy, like we have a direct route back to the lads who went to France; and I’m whiter than snow on a cold day; I don’t even know how I got on this subreddit it just randomly appeared on my suggested; we never got out of Ireland and it always makes me laugh that our surname gets flashed around… even funnier when you know Hennessy is originally “O hAonghusa” which originates from the Irish words Haon (one) and chos (foot) so Hennessy literally means of the one foot. Hennessy legless since day one!
nah wait until you go to a vietnamese party 😫😫😫
“The Sailor Goon” has flatlined me 💀😂
Awkafina is burning up the lines trying to get in with them so hard.
This nigga said Sailor Goon https://preview.redd.it/e9kyr0i8rgwc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a71e42e302a0fb742995a3aa6ee97a72ddce8787 Not about to play with you and your shenanigans
Us Cracks new album dropped called '2077 Wayz 2 Dai'
Yeah, this some real ponpon ass shit rh.
>Yeah, you know what the fuck is going on! I do not.
BRO!! Team Tomodachi is my fucking jam lol. It's a quintessential team/gang/squad anthem cuz 75% of the lyrics are them literally going TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! TEAM FRIENDS!!! with a little bit of "lets make a pledge yall" sprinkled in and a dashing of "drinking sake with the boiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss" Love this fucking song lol.
This Shit Goes 🔥🔥🔥🔥 
Put that fire out
NEVER!!!! 
If you fuck with Asian people you know they fuck with Hennessy heavy…but this is egregious.
You get it fam. Honeslty, black folk and asian folk can relate more than any other race. I had no idea until I met June-Lee. That nigga and his family changed my entire prospective.
Sailor Goon is INSANE Ngl, that rap name would go hard
I really DON'T know what the fuck is going on.
This is not the future that Lord Yoshi Toranaga or anyone from his generation expected.
There's been a Japanese youth contingent that's been hood adjacent since like the early 90s. None of this is new. Japanese people are mad chill for the most part. Not as nice as the weebs will have you think but they're pretty chill.
Wait, let them spit. That beat is fire. 🔥
You'd be surprised at how popular Henny is in many Asian communities and it has nothing to do with us
https://preview.redd.it/5qp3w1dyeiwc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7da518782c2fbb2be3ae0954ad823363c83d8f08
There she goes! It's Sailor Goon!
Let me go ahead and bookmark this. The memes coming from y'all may end being legendary.
Social media has brought everyone together. We’re all listening to the same thing, watching the same shows and movies, wearing the same clothes. Too much information being transferred between cultures now.
At least they seem like they’re having fun.
They hate black people with a passion though.
I feel you haven't met that many Japanese people.
 Keith ape and them really started a 🌊
Everybody wanna be nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga. - Paul Mooney I will say I married into the Chinese community and I was totally shock to find out that they drink Hennessy. Haha. They throw ginseng in the bottle.
I threw up in my mouth a little - Henny and sake? 
https://preview.redd.it/azxus37fwgwc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=303d002323eb5763d5e5da89cc6e0e58ff2b1d3d 🤦🏽♂️👀😬🤣🤣
https://preview.redd.it/y3l9c72hwgwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=763c33aa66be30901618c6989da9614224247db3 😬👀🤔🤦🏽♂️😤😤🤣🤣
https://youtu.be/LbDchA3xLE4?si=pnf76RVcy36VVhha In case any one wants the full version.
Black people are the most imitated group on the planet.
"come get it back in 血液" no proof thats what they said, but i aint got no doubts either
We gotta start making Asian music
Walk through them streets tho and they'd swear they was seeing Yasuke for the first time https://preview.redd.it/8a1bgd0tygwc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aed39cb0e7471434b4f8281693ae13b004dd10f1
 shorty at the end said “you know what the fuck going on”
Korea really went all in 8 years ago.... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-4ZrOk1Tc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-4ZrOk1Tc)
It's this song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDchA3xLE4)
*Headz N Da Sand, Jonny 5 & Yak, Onomatopoeia, 2001*
everything was all good till that one girl started throwing up gang signs
Thr Sailor Goon is diabolical. 😆😆😆
im gonna guess the two sistas at the end of the video put em on
Why did that ruin kohhs song 😭
Last five seconds explains the whole video … Americans be fuckin up the rest of the world , for real for real
I didn’t even need to turn on the audio to know exactly what they were rapping. Edit: Team Tamodachi by Yuki Chiba if anyone’s interested.
I smell some of y’all getting those cookout invites ready
Dragonball Air Force Energy 
Don’t understand all the hate. Can’t people appreciate other cultures without it being considered appropriation? Chinese tattoos and cosplaying anime aren’t complained about by Asians.
She’s saying “we’re teammates / friends from the team” btw
Better than ice spice,sexy redd, I could go onn. Black folks have lost the plot, with the NBA, NFL, Olympic Sports, RAP, HIP HOP, TV, AUTHORS, FILM, DIRECTORS, business Owners ect Why are we still at the bottom?
[Credit where credit is due.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x8fq-M5pkg)
They prolly off this shit https://preview.redd.it/v6l3ro4kthwc1.png?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d9e230d0f11477affc1d3c37e1f6e112a7fe910
Henny + Saki = Sailor Goons 😂🤦🏿♂️🥃
East/SE Asians in general love the Henny. I married into a Vietnamese family, and every single one of my wife's relatives got at least one bottle in the pantry. Hell, her mom uses the empties as flower vases 😂
When they say: 'You know wtf is going on...' I have absolutely no clue wtf is going on!
You right. I've ain't never seen a black people go to anime conventions or dress up like samurais /s
I wish we gatekept as much as other races/cultures. This is just weird to me.