ABOUT

“ This Is Not America ” is the brainchild of Residente 's recent work three years ago with professors at Yale University and New York University, where they studied Residente 's brain waves along with the brain patterns of worms, mice, monkeys, flies and many more, to create musical frequencies that would become rhythms. Residente 's work with universities began with the creation of his second solo album. For this song, Residente used his own brainwaves and the brainwaves of worms to develop emphatic waves of electronica mixed with his rapping, Ibeyi 's vocals, and Puerto Rican percussion.