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Off The Record: Anthony's Trip to South Africa! (ft. Shapel Lacey)

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0:00 thank you [Music] that's pretty so Anthony you're in South Africa go ahead Ryan go ahead tell us about your trip to Africa um so uh I'll just I'm waiting for him yeah tell us about it man yeah tell us this is cool beautiful my friend was born in South Africa and um would that make him African-American because he's Chinese I didn't know I was going to be this confused at the beginning I mean he should be right wait he was born in Africa yeah he's born in Africa but he's Chinese he's Chinese and then

0:50 he came to the U.S got a citizenship here so does that make him African-American yes but he's Chinese yeah I'll give him that actively Chinese yeah he go hang out on Crenshaw yeah tell them that he's like hey hey look at me guys what are you [Laughter] everything did you know the the highest um uh population of mixed marriages in the last couple of years is Chinese and black I'm telling you in Africa well because population there's so much dangerous you know I will say Malaysian Blasian beauties that did ████ me up because um so um just to catch all of our amazing viewers up uh I recently just went to South Africa we were Ken just was invited to perform at the Red Bull

1:40 dancer style World Finals so it's just like this giant uh type of uh battle type of competition where every yeah every country has a dancer style champion and then the Champions come together for the world final yeah it's huge huge events it's not break dancing no breakdowns is BC One so Rel bc1 is for the for the B boys B girls and then dance your Styles basically for almost every other Street Dance written Styles they all got it okay does this happen too yes it does okay yeah and the concept of it too yeah that's pretty good it takes you over the concept and the the theme or the underlying themes of it too are to make it way more relatable so the DJs are playing like you know relatable pop songs or top 40 things and then it's um fan voting so everybody's given a electronic bracelet and then it's either blue or red so when you watch the battle

2:30 at the end of it the host tells you like who you vote for you put up your bracelet or your hand and it shows light you triggered which light you want so which means that like dancers perspective sometimes you might choose something else but if the audience happens to Just Vibe with somebody then they're just choosing that winner which uh it's cool concept it's different right do dancers get mad like you don't know what the ████ you're voting on you stupid ass you don't even understand dance yes but they're like but that guy did a backflip and you didn't so you don't ████ know how to do ████ yeah that's right a bunch of jokes in the audience is dangerous for the dancers but yes it does happen but it's also the part of the concept which makes it dope you know what I mean um there's like a thousand jams in the world you want to have certain things that are just different you don't want to participate in the same competition um but we got invited out uh and we performed there and and it did trip me out because the second we landed there were ████ Chinese people

3:21 everywhere I shoot you not and we went to jail I like Johannesburg China China like as in like Chinese families were speaking Chinese and welcoming Chinese people coming off of the plane like welcome to Africa yeah more like welcome back welcome back hey welcome back to Africa do China in Africa like what are you think is it like it feels like a Chinese tourist group is letting like guiding all these new tourists do they live there Johannesburg in Johannesburg um and you know I this is my first time in Africa in general and so my ignorant ass was literally like uh I was asking the person who was kind of picking us up

4:11 for the bus and stuff and I was like um what's the main language spoken here Chinese that's funny they go you speaking it brother you don't know doesn't that mean blm's doing a bad job because they're getting taken over from the inside out man oh ████ over here ████ parading with picket signs you're gonna take it over by Chinese ████ what do you say Anthony all right guys I'm just asking questions well the point is the main language spoken there's English um and second you didn't know that second Point don't be yelling at me I know right

5:02 one of us man what's the other one that they speak they speak like 11 other languages even just in Johannesburg from like Zulu all the way to ████ I can't pronounce and I'm not gonna even try it you have 11 tries wow that's good but yeah it's I think they're the fun they're dangerous boy probably like um Zulu probably Swahili oh yeah go ahead you go ahead carry on brother carry on Big D antwerth that's the only thing we know from South Africa yeah like you were saying it's like especially jealousy it's super freaking westernized

5:53 like we we didn't even we were there only four days we had a s███████ of work to do so we didn't go on ████ like safaris or anything yeah we stayed in like the compound that they had us at which basically looked like Little Italy or some ████ there was a casino Italian restaurants everywhere and there was a bunch of like really stayed at the Venetian in South Africa and he goes man it sounds like this Little Italy chocolate I know right yeah but for real it was just so uh modernized and westernized in that way and they did what if he was just in Vegas wow this is crazy this looks like McCarran right yeah Africa there's a lot of Chinese people here it's Macau it's not even ████ Vegas

6:43 what do you expect we in Africa that's crazy there's a lot of Chinese people there there's a lot of lives I wasn't expecting that trip yeah holy ████ was not expecting it myself like Bart said blm's doing a bad job but I do understand now when people have said before and obviously again just not even because I've never been there African Americans and Africans are very different people they're very different they're totally different upbringing they're totally different like perspectives on stuff and and the vibe is just different listen Africans go hard on black people hard do tell do tell oh man like uh I've worked with quite a few African dudes you know before like like straight up like from Africa and they go hard on like black people like they're like I don't I don't get what they're so lazy I

7:34 don't I'll tell you I forget what they just come to work and they don't do yeah I swear like they just talk bad ████ yeah and I'm like because they come here and they they do yeah everything yeah they do a lot they're they're the number one um ethnic group like getting into Ivy Leagues and ████ they're like they're crushing over Asians and everybody yeah yeah alms doing your back job but the way I look at it the way that Africans go hard on like black people is like like it's like a like anything with like traditional cultures like you know like that's how I look at it it's like oh oh yeah that's true I think about it like you know in Asian cultures like school and like that s███'s important to you guys and you know certain things where it's like these are the the things

8:24 you have to do you have to you know what what else is important you you guys numbers I mean oh ████ Orange [Music] [Laughter] dude growing up my mom would always tell me she's like you guys have you guys have it so good in American school if you guys went to school in Singapore you guys were all flunked out you guys could never that's true though wait really Singapore is Hardcore schools in Asia is just teachers hit in ████ Asia too they'll beat your ass yeah they're giving ████ weapons it's like in America like they're trying to help you succeed and in Asia they're trying to like suss you out that you

9:15 suck no really like they're trying to find the garbage what makes this school more difficult over there I don't know well first of all it's from like seven to five like yeah it's like it's it's that's already ████ up and the next thing is the teachers ████ hit you and ████ damn yeah it's tough man I mean I was I mean I mean that actually that's not a bad deal really you get beaten to being smart that's tight I have to go everywhere right I love the moment he's like wait a minute yeah your benefit yeah it's like an assembly line where you just gotta check the quality of things and if something sucks you just do this yeah but then like here it's like no it's okay if you're dented it's fine there's a place for you over here it's a thrift shop in a vintage shop so is there literally something

10:05 specific with with Asian cultures where it's like you're gonna get this kind of job or anything like that is there a thing like that I think it depends on the country yeah it depends on the country but I think that there is something that ties all the Asians together when it comes to the way they do school the way they do teaching so everyone is kind of similar across the board it's pretty well some is more strict than others the shame is universal the Shameless Universe yeah the shame is like built in but here there's not it's not that shameful like I would say the tropical Asians in the jungle Asians they like to party more they have a lot more fun it's a balance like yeah they were the tropical in general all the ones by the equator the Vietnamese people but they still go hard at school and like whatever but they also have a balance I think like they know how to have a good time where the the cold climate Asians the North Korea

10:55 Japanese all that ████ like it's literally just ████ work till you die That's The Stereotype That's The Stereotype That's The Stereotype yeah yeah they just they just do everything precisely on time some in that situation in the Asian culture get the ████ out of here it's a stereotype but it's also a statistic though like the suicide rate in Japan and Korea are ████ high yeah yeah so if they miss a test yeah the pressure it's the structure of how their schooling works so like let's say um so for example let's say there's only like five universities that are the top schools right and then so like you're you're talking about a country that has like 100 million people so then like these tests that you take in high school determine if you could get into those top schools or not if you could get into those top schools then you could work for the biggest companies like Sony

11:46 Toyota whatever and then but if you can't though then you're probably not gonna so that test determines and where you're gonna be in life and they're all about class uh to break out of your middle class the middle class is huge but the middle class to break out of that break out of it it didn't they're also a lot about like Saving Face though and like pride in that way so it's not always just like you need to like get this position or you need to like go to this school um for your success that's obviously the The Superficial element but there's also like you need to do this or you'll bring Dishonored to our family you need to be able to do this otherwise yeah there's a lot of pressure yeah that ████ sucks okay you get a lot of benefits you like Asian chicks though

12:38 your eyes are really small that's pretty convenient your eyes are pretty small yeah smaller than I feel like when I look at them I feel like they live life 95 work and obligations and five percent fun that's how I see there and I feel like Americans they they they work like night like five percent of the time and 95 percent of the time they're having fun yeah that's what it looks like to me wait were you guys as parents harming you guys my parents are pretty hard yeah pretty hard not by Asian standards yeah but it's that's what I'm saying but I guess my age American Standards but it's my parents were losing that's true yeah earlier though about like Africans and African-Americans same thing like the Asian American experience and the Asian experience are also very very different we're lazy too yeah okay okay yeah yeah very different yeah oh yeah I think

13:29 we're all bums dude yeah isn't that crazy my cousin's schedule is starting in like Middle School was seven till five and then you have like a quick 30 minute on your bike you ████ grab a snack and then you have to go to tutor or Academy because the testing is so important like the test Joe was talking about it's not just that what gets you into college it's what's going to determine your quality of life for the rest of your life so it's almost like testing into a cast system so you can't like in in America you have so many like lateral moves you can do you know I used to be a chef but now I do this or I do whatever over there you count you they don't have that kind of Mobility so it's like if you become a doctor you're ████ set if you don't then you're ████ that's how they view it squid games imagine yeah yeah imagine if your essay imagine if your SAT scores determine your future yeah that's what it's like so my cousin would

14:20 ████ right go to school at 5 2 Academy from six to nine and then after he has to do homework for the school and for the Academy a lot of homework and you better fall in love with the right family too you know I mean if you're gonna get married to somebody or something like that like it better be with the right family with the right upbringing or the right class you always got to climb up the ladder right like that's why I think the birth rate in Japan and Korea is so bad like they're not popping out enough kids and people aren't getting married and ████ yeah what's happening yeah yeah yeah they spill them they put in man hey what's that place in Japan where they live people gonna do suicide oh that horse yeah it's not where they left oh yeah

15:13 we got three trees over here wow also suicide's not like a sin you know that's very Christian oh that's true oh yeah yeah so like if you kill yourself you're a thou shall not kill you there's some water in that too yeah that's well because it's in the Asian culture well Japanese Japanese because other Asians don't suicide all day maybe Korean it's not up it's not a Pastime sport so like so it's like um you know like have you heard of the Samurais cutting their own guts yes yes yeah so that's like an honor thing they don't do that anymore but killing yourself giving the honor to do that killing yourself is like oh um I'm a burden so let me get out of here and I'm not gonna deal with this ████ so like

16:03 um the mentality is different so like let's say uh so back then right let's say like your your village is getting raided and then so um the women what they'll do is they'll be like ████ we're gonna get taken for hostage so I'm just gonna kill my kids and kill myself before those guys can rape me and then use me as a hostage with the with the guys yeah or let's say a soldier kind of failed his ████ or he he he and then everyone's just talking about like what a little ████ he is and he goes oh yeah and he'll spill his guts and be like check this out ████ oh you know I'm sorry and then they're like whoa they're he's too hardcore oh you think I'm a little ████ they're like damn he really so they're like he ain't no ████ well they did that in the long in the ancient times it's like they don't do that anymore right but then but then just you know what you know what I

16:53 love I love how much you guys know about your culture wait wait I love that this is another classic ████ Joe video where we go from South African Vibes of feudal Japan I was just thinking that I'm like how do we end up with people in Japan I love it I love it there's like a gravity basically I'm trying to explain the the the evolution then fast forward to 100 more years later right like if people off themselves it's not really like the same way that Americans it's still sad but it's not the same way that they look at it over there it's it's still ████ up and it's like why but then at the same time like you get it yeah all I'm saying is a fever I got jungle fever Honeys was ████ thick and amazing it was amazing you with a black girl am I with one yeah no

17:45 currently no no oh I said currently as if I had offices no definitely not no um but um they are you ever been to a club like out here right and you know really yeah I've never been to a clubhouse in L.A how about Europe no okay point is you know you know when you go to the club and then like you walk in there's like smug ████ over here sitting at this table or some people are like on drugs or like some people don't know what they're doing and ████ it's awkward and people just standing around trying to ████ measure all right okay L.A clubs suck I went to one ████ club out there and everybody just had the vibe everybody just had oh like I was dancing the whole time and we weren't freestyle you were just vibing with people you were like either sharing steps or like everybody just caught a mood or you would dance by somebody you dance in the bathroom you

18:36 know what I'm saying and things everybody had some sort of Swag you know what I'm saying probably because you're at a dance convention everyone's guessing this ████ why you gotta be a hater with those eyebrows that's like me going to ████ like the Arnold Classic dude everyone was just bus y like he came over and said wait what ████ bam your dog the way he looked at you was like yeah yeah you're shooting down African Vibes I can't imagine the place where everyone's just ████ perfectly just ████ in Sinking oh I don't know you but we doing this together like that's what he was talking about

19:27 why they call it bouncing yeah why would he understand all right why wouldn't he you know what I mean one of us have you ever been to anywhere else in Africa or just South Africa was your first experience that was my first time because I heard it's just like America but in Africa what does that mean you mean South Africa specifically yeah wow no it's like it's it's a it's Western like it's super Western yeah yes you know what I mean like it has a similar history to us yeah you know what's sick though I will say the currency exchange right and especially being at a casino oh my god did you play casino you always play craps for hours you know why why because like what's the minimum on a craft stable in Vegas like five at least that's but that's like off strip oh yeah yeah like 20. 25 bucks like if you go like Bellagio you

20:17 go to win it's like 25 if you go to a cheap place on strip maybe 10 yeah bro they had it was they go buy a currency Rand right and I I asked I was like what's the minimum they're like 50 red then I did the calculation I was like that's two dollars and seventy cents wow so I was playing for hours and I was up and I was a big a big means I took on 15 bucks let's go a lot of game huh yo you but the food is actually you can buy a ████ filet steak for ████ thirteen dollars I'll drink 18 because it cost me 14 bucks let me ask you did you try the grilled chicken there like uh my friend was telling me that they have this chicken in Africa they have they the way that they do chicken they said that the way that they do too it's like hey what do you mean like grilled chicken just right off the

21:09 street like and then they have it's like Perry pay or something it's like really ████ bomb and they don't have that here in the states the Peri-Peri sauce is definitely ████ Bond there I will say that but I need to see no ████ chickens walking around on the street uh and then being done like like that yeah wait so they just they have chicken on the street yeah and then so my friend was saying like like that's a really popular thing to do it's like their version of like just barbecue chicken but then depending on where you're on in Africa they have different seasonings and he goes that's all he ate it's just like every single time he finds like a like a grilled chicken this place was so westernized that there was no African food there the only time I had African food the entire time is when I went to a lounge on the airport on my way home and I have the body that makes sense and baboti was bombed what's up

21:59 uh minced beef or whatever with like an egg layer on top with like African spices and you eat it with rice and it's like ████ delicious delicious that was the only time I made African food because Africans ████ with rice yeah yeah it was butter you know what one of us you know is it [Music]

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