Rapper Anik Khan blows xenophobia into a powerful video 'came from'

In a weighty new music video “Came From”, Anik Khan – a rapper, born in Bangladesh and grown up in Queens, New York – recognizes life, the journey and the effects of immigrants in America and elsewhere. “Do you know where we came from?” He raps. “Do you know what we had to go away?/Do you know where this pain from boats we drove from were not on vacation.”

The video begins with a flood of news and stand-up clips to feelings against immigrants, followed by a checkerboard of influential immigrants to the USA such as Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and the Minnesota Congress Member, Ilhan Omar. It develops into a striking collage of archive and modern film material and animation, including more shaky images, global protests, destruction and arrests of border patrols. Much of the video is also happy and rebellious and shows various ethnic kitchens, stars such as Lupita Nyong'o, athletes like Mohamed Salah from Liverpool FC and Young Black and Brown. Khan extends its solemn scope for people with color in a broader sense and rapped “Born with Gorillas, we not near Geiere/You could not understand my culture”, since a clip by Addison Rae, who moved Tikok, is made popular by black teenagers with Jimmy Fallon, is interrupted by a video by young black dancers.

The video comes when the Trump administration repeatedly terrorized immigrants with hasty deportations regardless of the status of citizenship. In a message to his followers on WhatsApp, Khan wrote: “Come from a celebration where we come and what we contributed – especially at a time when the word immigrants were twisted into something negative. It is about roots, victims, survival and pride. It is about remembering the grit, beauty and strength of our cultures.

Khan said he is planning to collect calls and messages on 917-300-9764 in the next few years. Khan examined the topics of immigration and assimilation in his music from the album for a long time Kite in 2017 for a double EP ,, Refused / approved in 2021. Refused / approved Chronte his own struggle for US citizenship. Approved Contains the song “Spill” with Dreamville Rapper Bas. In 2018 he published “Oh My” with Sango and Burna Boy.