The video highlights a growing tension between Hollywoodβs globalized casting and the demand for historical specificity in Black American narratives. It correctly identifies that shared racial identity is no substitute for the lived cultural nuances that define authentic storytelling.
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Druski DESTROYS Hollywood: Foreigners Stealing Black American Roles EXPOSED! π₯Added:
Ryan Jehovah >> [music] >> You are the truth.
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>> [singing] >> Ryan Jehovah [music] Man, what's going on my FBA family? How you doing? How you doing? First and foremost, man, I just want to thank everyone for the love and support. I thank y'all for subscribing to my channel, supporting my channel, sharing my videos, liking my videos, and commenting on my videos. I thank y'all so much for that and I will always be thankful. Always, always, always. Today is Friday. What do y'all have planned? I don't have any plans this weekend, but it is Mother's Day weekend. So, I just want to shout out to all the mothers, man. Without y'all, we wouldn't be here.
You know what I mean? So, shout out to y'all and happy Mother's Day to my mother, also. Now, before we get started, please hit that subscribe button for your boy.
Please hit that subscribe button for your boy. Druski. Have y'all seen the Druski skit? Now, for people that don't know who Druski is, he's like a social media influencer. He does comedy skits, you know, um mocking or making fun of what's hot right now, what's trending right now, even within our culture or in other cultures. He might mess with religion, sororities, fraternities. Uh what's that girl name?
Charlie Kirk's wife. I forgot her name.
He did a skit on that skit on her when wife faced. That was hilarious, but this particular skit he did was about black American actors and how these black foreigners come over here and get our roles, you know.
And we always talked about this. We always talked about how these foreigners be playing black our black American icons, certain black American roles, certain even roles that was meant for us, right?
And I'm so happy he did that, y'all. And we've been talking about this, but reason why I'm so happy because movies, TV shows just haven't been hitting lately. You know what I mean? Like I can't think of a good black show that I watched. And I give Black-ish its props, you know what I'm saying? Black-ish, I kind of like that. I think that was the last black all black TV show that I liked that I can stomach, you know? But besides that, it haven't been nothing good, man. There ain't been no My Wife and Kids lately, you know what I mean?
There ain't been no Moesha, you know?
There ain't been no In Living Color.
There ain't been no Living Single. There ain't been no even Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and they tried to remake Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And that wasn't good, you know what I mean? So movies just ain't been hitting, you know what I mean? Like especially when these Africans play black American roles, it just don't hit the same.
Um I don't know if y'all seen that movie Long Walk. Have y'all seen that movie Long Walk? Well, Long Walk was about It was a Stephen King movie, well, it's a book written by Stephen King.
And they made a movie about it. And basically it's about these young kids, well, I ain't going to say kids, but young adults, they doing a ma- they doing a walk, right? So basically whoever It's about the last person walking, basically. So if you stop walking, they going to blam, you know?
They going to take you out. They going to send you to the upper room. But the funny thing about it was they had these two Africans playing people from Louisiana. The the black man character, he was an African, I think he from Britain or something. Then there was another African, I think he from like the Congo or somewhere in Africa. But the one the main black African character, well, the main character that's from Britain or somewhere, but he's African, he was playing a person from New Orleans. And it just didn't hit to me. I remember I went to I was excited to see that movie. But anyway, that is another story. But it just didn't hit. Even he was trying to do Louisiana accent through the movie, you could tell he was going back and forth with his British accent and faking this Louisiana accent.
I just thought that was very disrespectful. Then they had another African. He didn't really have a big role, but he had a role in the movie.
He was a tall African by maybe he looked 7 ft or something like that. But you can look at this African and tell that he wasn't black American. I think he was supposed to be from Louisiana or somewhere Alabama or somewhere. But even he when he was playing that role, it just didn't match. And my thing is this, the people that was filming this movie, they didn't see that?
They didn't see like this don't really match a black southern person. Even on even it had to be at least a white person on set say, "Nah, this don't match."
But I will say and shout out to the people that was filming that movie that they had that tall African poop in the middle of the street. You know what I mean? If you saw that movie, that African pooped in the middle of the street twice. And that's how I knew I was like, "Okay, at least they put a little realism in it for the African, you know? Like even though you're playing a black American role, but we still got to put some African in you.
We're going to show you pooping in the middle of the street cuz that's what you do in your homeland. It's what you're used to. And we want to make sure that you catch it. We want to make sure that it's the essence of you playing this role." But he did poop in the middle of the street. But I felt a way about that. You know what I'm saying? I feel a way about a lot of these movies, TV shows these Africans, you know, do or destroy. Even we don't talk this we don't talk about this enough either, y'all.
The writers. A lot of these TV shows that we see are written by these black foreigners. These black foreigners don't have no type of personality. They don't have like no comedic style like the Americans have. It just don't hit the same. Even that show um The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I don't know if I tell the road or not, but just that just that TV show in itself, it was dark. It was kind of grimy, very evil like, you know what I'm saying? That's how those people are.
Keep in mind, you remember when we I did a video about what these people be worshipping and stuff like that, just how it all aligned with us as black Americans. You can see that through that Bel-Air show. And I just couldn't I just couldn't get jiggy with it, y'all. I just couldn't get jiggy with it, man.
You know, we don't have movies like Malcolm X when Denzel Washington played it. When you watch Malcolm X, Denzel made you want to be a Muslim. He made me want to join the Nation of Islam when I was like 9 or 10 years old. Man, I thought I was Malcolm X the whole time. I'm walking with my chest up, turning around, I'm practicing about-facing [Β __Β ] at the house and stuff. You felt that role.
You felt that. So, now you see these Malcolm X remakes in certain movies or you know, they you might have a person that played Malcolm X in a movie or something. Uh he might be a just had a role in it and it be a tell that it just don't hit the same, man.
It don't hit the same. Even the movie the Tina Turner movie What's Love Got to Do with It, where I Tina.
I forgot that lady name that quick. Her name just came across my but Laurence Fishburne and my Angela Bassett, they played that role, man.
You felt Tina in that movie. You felt Ike in that movie. You were mad at Ike.
Matter fact, people still mad at Ike to this day and he passed away. And Tina, you felt sorry for Tina. You get what I'm saying? You felt that because they played that role. Our African can't play that role, man. It's something about when a black American play our icon, man, it just hit different. And even 12 Years a Slave, I just saw I didn't watch it the movie.
>> [snorts] >> Oh, I didn't watch movie in in its in its entirety. But when I was watching it, I'm like, man, this don't feel right. It just didn't feel right to me.
You know what I'm saying? Like and and even though I hate slave movies, I hate movies where we're depicted as Um even though I hate movies like that, but it just didn't hit either, man. It just didn't hit either. And I hope Hollywood paying attention. I hope Hollywood paying attention cuz they're going to have to start putting more black Americans in these movies. Now, I'm about to say something that might make y'all mad and make y'all unsubscribe to me. But I got to say this.
The sinners movie.
I love Michael B. Jordan in that movie.
Michael B. Jordan played that role.
Cornbread played that role. And I'll even give a slight credit to the guy, I forgot his name, he played the harmonica that dude, even though he's not black American, he's Jamaican, but he's been around a long time. I give him it.
But I didn't really like that movie like a lot of people like that movie, man. I understand the hidden messages.
I understand certain practices that was going on in the movie, but I couldn't get past the acting. I'm sorry, y'all.
I'm just one of those people like I just couldn't I couldn't get past it. Michael B. Jordan carried that film. That's why I'm happy he won the awards that he won.
I'm just happy, man. I'm just happy.
You know what I'm saying? I'm happy about that cuz Michael B. Jordan remind me of the old school players in the Delta. But what what two things that pissed me off in that movie that just just made me infuriated, that made me want to walk out was Now, there were three parts.
The one, the boy. The boy the the singer dude, the young kid in the movie.
His singing didn't blues in Mississippi.
It just didn't match southern blues in my That's just in my opinion. My opinion, it just didn't match to me, so I didn't feel it. Even when we was in the movie, even me and my old lady said, "Where that boy from?" We looked him up, see where he from, and he's not one of us. He's not a black American. He just not. I'm sorry. He's not. You get what I'm saying? Even though he come from a background of church singing, woo woo woo, but he's not one of us. He just not. And that's why I didn't feel him in that movie, man. I just didn't, man. It was just something off with that dude.
And it just It was just disheartening, right? The second part was the hoodoo lady.
I When I first saw her, I said, "Oh, that's an African. That ain't Big Mama.
That ain't my big auntie. That ain't a aunt." You know what I'm saying? That ain't old Sally Mae.
That ain't Mae Mae. You get what I'm saying? That ain't no Ethel. You know what I mean? Like, I I I just couldn't feel it, y'all. And I And And I feel so much better that I'm getting this off my chest because I've been feeling so fake about it. And I understand the significance of the movie overall in its totality because we had a black American director. Shout out to that brother. He directed the hell out that movie. And shout out to Michael B. Jordan and Cornbread. They did their part. I felt them. Let me say that once again. I felt Michael B. Jordan in that movie, but it was just the people in the movie I just couldn't get with.
I just couldn't get with, man. I'm sorry, y'all. I'm sorry. I just had to get this off my chest. Then the last part of the movie that I Oh.
It hurt my soul was when they was doing like a um a rendition of music, right? You know, different eras of music doing throughout the century. And they had these got this African and Chinese and all that but they the African doing their little Do you know the African doing the thing with his legs and [Β __Β ] like my mind like what what what what what what?
Where was the African in Mississippi that looked like that?
Forget look what where was the African at in Mississippi?
Mhm?
Why had a African had to be placed in Now, once again, I understand Hollywood.
I understand that they had to do what they had to do. I get it, y'all. So, don't y'all jump on me in my comments.
But, I felt a way about it. I did. I really felt a way about it. [laughter] But, once again, I'mma say it again. So, don't y'all be in my comments talking about man, you hate, man. Listen, I understand our brother that directed it.
I understand Michael B. Jordan. I understand everything, y'all.
But, I'm just speaking on how I felt when I was watching the movie.
I just had to tell y'all, man. I >> [sighs] >> I feel better though. I ain't going to lie to you. I feel better just getting it off my spirit. I ain't going to lie to you. I did not like this. I like the movie.
I Out of five, I give it a three. You know what I'm saying? Three out of five. And that's just me being nice cuz I'm I'm faking the funk with y'all right now saying it's a three. And only reason why I'm giving it that much cuz of Michael B. Jordan. He killed that role, man. He did great in that role.
But, anyway, am I going too far?
Am I wrong for feeling how I feel? But, anyway, thank y'all so much for watching, man. Give me y'all take on the Drewski skit, how you feel about foundational black Americans, man, playing you know, not playing our roles like we should. And um I love y'all and peace out.
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