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Intressant, maar de beste man had niet veel monotoner kunnen praten
I think Molly should wear a turtleneck just to piss all the pervs off.
And this video was really sweet
@CasperXNL
LOL.
I was like WTF! Dutch? Then I looked at the video and was like YEAAH!!!
Possessed demon child down near the bottom at 0:52
lol i know its terrible but i cant help but laugh at all of insensitive comments.
but this video was very inspirational thanks molly
0:21 It’s like he’s playing a soundtrack to his life
It touches him inside… I’ve a dark mind
Why is it that the only poor black people who want to learn and better themselves only live in 3rd world countries?
Good for them. I’m glad that inferiority complex is falling.
@capsfan37
What’s wrong with 240p ?
Some people need to watch in 240p.
I watch everything in 240p.
@calebfrederick Haha! I find this kinda funny. But you can’t exactly prove he was white, can you Frederick?
This video was inspiring! Very cool~
Much better than teaching them terrible pop music. <3
@Itsooz omg that’s creepy D:
@calebfrederick why the hell would he be white? he was from the middle east if anything he would be olive, he was a jew after all
@EpicFknBrutality i chuckled
Jesus was from Nazareth, Israel, he couldn’t be black
@calebfrederick Hate to break it to you, but that’s more accurate than the average depiction, he lived in the middle east, not Britain.
@calebfrederick Jesus did have that color of skin. If you really believe he was white with blue eyes you’re fucking high.
Guys guys calm down, he just loled at it, he never said it was a false depiction.
Everyone Type “Won” Before youtube.com
@xsrxd3vlstheory: He was Jewish, semantic. Not a black. If you believe Jesus was black you’re retarded. Africans didn’t really penetrate into Asia ever.
Semitic*
@calebfrederick is there any verse in the bible that says jesus was white?
but they dont have food
I think this is good and all, but tbh, he can’t play that for shit xD I do feel for him, but yeah. :/
made my heart feel fuzzy
wow, now i can play the tuba a little but can i have water plz?
@bie5436 jesus never existed
@calebfrederick Jesus was a black hebrew, didn’t you know???
wtf is this,
0:54 ..Woah.. awkward kid on the bottom.. o-O
@bie5436 Jesus was an Israeli Jew. Therefore, white. Not that his color mattered, I’m just giving the facts.
As a classical musician, this made me really happy. Bringing classical musics message to those who are suffering. Nothing wakes you up to realize your feelings than playing a beautiful piece of music yourself. I really allows you to examine yourself!
inb4racism.. owait nevermind
Why is this in Dutch ?
2:11 listen closely
He was touched inside!
why dont the do stuff like carpentry or some thing that would help make the slums a better place
i’m thinking molly has a dutch informant or something, or secretly she might be dutch herself
Its true that they should focus on things that will help their community as a whole.
but is it what it is and its good nonetheless
All that garbage is mostly from us!!! Mostly from europe and US, because we don´t want to spent extra money to dispose it.
it gives a happy feeling knowing that under privileged kids can grow up to be epic sax guy
molly i love your hair
Why all the stuff about Jesus in this video’s comments?
Ontopic though, this video is inspiring, thank you.
@Onthealmond that makes him middle eastern more arabic in descent and looks. the reason why today’s isrealis are white is because most of them are europeans and russian jews that either fled europe during the holocaust or immigrated to isreal when it became isreal
Maybe they should spend some time picking up the rubbish…
i wonder what would happen if i just walked down that street with an ipad
Liked this a lot. Good to see nice programs like that in this world available for the underprivileged.
@calebfrederick Yes, Jesus is usually depicted as “one of us”. In Europe he looks European, in Asia he looks Asian, in Africa he looks African etc.
dam they suck
omg, he plays horrible…
but sister is a hottieeee !!:)
@TommyKirbyFTW
LOL! Mean but LOL!
@TarEldamir but they are all wrong about one thing that is that he exists at all
I don’t think they needed to tell us he only practices every other week.
@CasperXNL DEFINITELY racist
it’s not nairobi it’s na irobi a native from the place told me so.
I wonder why a lot of the kind of short documentarys are in Dutch (: I think it’s funny though, cause I’m Dutch, but really nice video, glad they’re doing something ^^
America…Where 99% are still douchebags
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(judging by the comments here)
@CasperXNL
way to be xenophobic. Even though I am not a fan of it, I know that rap, like all genres of music, can be poetic and enrich a culture.
Hij moet nog wel veel oefenen zo te horen, maar ik wens hem heel veel succes! Wat zielig trouwens van die stank, want ik vind 1 vuilniszak al stinken!
Molly XD
Nen hollander op rocketboom, It’s ruined
I can’t believe some of the comments these people are posting.
Yes, he’s no Mozart, but my gosh, all this young man has is his dream! I hope he continues to practice and enjoy classical music. God bless him and all those who are learning with him!
@frankp4 . Not a problem if you can read.
@StinkyWater28 . Kenya is not short of food. They even export food to other countries including the UK.
@PalkaSvechi . How do you know that? There would have been plenty of black people in Israel in those days. But there again, he probably never existed, as there is no reference to him in ancient writings outside of the books of the bible. The Roman empire that ruled Israel was seemingly oblivious of his existence. The story of the virgin birth of the son of a god exists in several old religions that predate Jesus by thousands of years, and strangely they all have similar names.
I bet the camera they interveiwed him cost more than half the village.
I was so hoping for an epic Ocarina solo…
@CasperXNL shut up biggot.
wow, i freaking love ur accent..
I’m not even going to read the comments cause I know it nothing but racial slander…
@Schmidtah Where did i say he was black? i said he had that color of skin, which he did. You can have a dark skin tone and not be black ignorant asshole.
@CasperXNL You’re an idiot.
@eezee83 I wish I hadn’t.
give the guy a fuckin’ guitar baby
Jesus was white, not black. Get it right you cotton pickers!
@DemonicSymphonic Really I thought he was Arabic… You know him being born in the Middle East and stuff. Popular imagery isn’t always accurate depictions of how things/people probably looked like.
@Skimaskkass wooord u took the words right out of my mouth
0:53 to 0:56 the kid at the bottoms face is terrifying
@DemonicSymphonic actually jesus was brown. he is only portrayed white because the most famous paintings of him are by Davinci, who wouldn’t dare paint jesus as a brown man back in those times. so you get it right, dumbass redneck
@TheJamMan69 DaVinci’s portrayal is accurate. You worship a white god. Its time you got it right asshole. Yes you deserve to die and I hope you burn in hell!
@DemonicSymphonic lol read those last two words of my reply again, then reread what you just said.
About time Rocketboom got back to reporting rather than that Save the Date shit.
@DemonicSymphonic
Jesus was middle eastern. Meaning he’s not white.
Also if we’re all created in God’s image then he can’t be exclusively white.
@TheJamMan69 You owned that bitch!
@neoconkergirl
I’m a Mormon, your comment offends me, god is white.
as a musician this make me very happy
filthy niggers
@neoconkergirl God made the white man in his image, the black man is from the devil!
@DemonicSymphonic
Actually seeing how the white man has suppressed many africans, pacific asians and middle easterns whites are the devil really. Also the reason why black people are black is beacuase in Africa it’s reaaaaaaally hot so it’s an adaption to prevent them from getting burned severly.
@bradmanthethird
And I’m an atheist, so I don’t give two shits.
@Taggerung81 hes more talented than your ass
@neoconkergirl
Actually sir, if you continue to offend me with your blatantly anti-god and anti-family comments then I will have to call the police. My great grandpa didn’t fight the Nazis so that you could go around making fantastical claims about non-white gods.
that is awesome.
he may not be overly great now, but he has the passion to do it. and with passion, you can pretty much accomplish anything you want.
wow………that´s all I can say
I smell some trolls hidden in this comment section
@bradmanthethird
Troll harder buddy.
Since when does being atheist mean being anti-god of anti-family? I can’t be anti-god if I don’t believe such a thing exists in the first place and also I do want children. Oh and guess what you grandpa died for our country and our country’s laws and rights and one of those rights happens to be freedom of speech and freedom of religion (including not having one).
You say god is white? Well then I can say he’s a flying spaghetti monster.
@neoconkergirl
That’s offensive, the police are on their way, I will see my religious freedom respected, and that means the freedom not to be offended.
@bradmanthethird
Freedom of religion means no one can force you into a religion and that you have the right to practice a religion or not practice one at all it doesn’t mean no one can criticize it. I also don’t respect your religion especially since more people have been killed in the name christianity than any other religion. In the history of the world.
I wonder if we take some boats over there and say “hey guys, we’ll provide you with food and shelter if you will work on our farms… the only catch is that we own you” how many of them would say “it’s a deal! just get me the hell outta here!”
GET BETTER MAKE UP!! YOU HAVE SHINEEEEE
@TheKonkaman
thumbs down, jews are white and they live in florida not the holy land.
dutch narrator ftw
Simon playing a euphonium same instrument I played in high school. I’m glad to see these kids getting a chance to do things in their lives involving the arts.
Hate chains… anime_rox3…i shouldnt of read that sorry, but i don’t want to take any chances, if you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 24 hours ❤ sorry x10
Wish we could hear and see a full performance by these young musicians.
Seems like a fine dude . I admire him . / Lay off dese stoopid racist comments , ok !!!
1:16 Oh my god- black Jesus. The better to shove down black people’s throats.
@bradmanthethird Jews are not white, they are Asiatic Semites.
@xsrxd3vlstheory: The boy next to him has an afro. In that image he is a Black African. Rastafarians even believe so.
@bie5436:He was obviously native American. You base it on the geographic location of Israel dumbass. Black Africa is hundreds of miles away.
@Schmidtah Regardless. I was refering to the skin tone, not the origin of the people in the picture. I couldn’t care less of what Rastafarians believe.
I wonder why classical music–the church’s preference? Tin whistles and harmonicas and handmade percussion would be a lot cheaper. Of course there’s a lot of great African world music this flies in the face of…
missed you molly
Yay! More crappy news from niggerland.
LMAO
I lo’d so hard at 0:15
@NeoLeafProductions
Ear rape.
@safari444
Not exactly hidden…..NIGGER
@DemonicSymphonic
He was a Paki.
@beastiedesigns
NIGGER! LOL
@ellnino
AIDS
I wouldn’t hit it with 20 condoms.
@wrangleroooo
You just went full retarded.
So you’re saying we ship our garbage over to Africa and dump it there?
@Marictdude
Rap promotes killing, rape, and disrespect of women.
MOLLYTITS
@gameguru42392
Fuck you
@shesdoinit
You’re the idiot.
LOL there’s Mozarts Requiem in the related video section! Talk about irony.
RB should pay me for responding to all the idiots here and bumping them up in the ratings.
@GmasterRED wrong go back to school and look at the map
@GmasterRED Get a life you bum.
0:52
bit[dot]ly/g7frhb
Thumbs up so others can see.
8 people are assholes
yay, I dont have to read the subtitles
@DemonDash ty kind sir!
I wonder why HumanWire is always in Dutch. Isn’t it specifically for RB? I haven’t seen it air locally. Maybe Ruud’s English is just terrible
@GmasterRED go jerk off to molly like the rest of these 12 year olds you failure of a troll.
@Johnismybestfriend my wife and I are thinking of visiting holland soon! is it cool?
@shesdoinit Why am I? I was serious actually, teaching them about bitches and ho’s would be bad, right?
@AreaQNH870 it depends what you’re looking for and where you’re going. Amsterdam is a completely different experience than the rest of Holland.. like an enclave of tourists.. hehe. It can also be quite serene, relaxed.. the people are (mostly) happy and friendly, the food is good although maybe a little expensive.
There’s alot to see, a lot to do. I’ve actually been in Amsterdam 20+ times in my life myself and it never gets me bored
Funny how the Dutchare making these documentaries. The Dutch were among those who colonised Africa and brought misery to its people. Take South Africa for example.
@maksphoto78 Yeah, we were… But then again, are we really still the ones we were back then? Not really…
Yeah, let your son bring the money in, lazy bitch. My mum raised 2 kids and would then ride 6 miles to start a night shift in a plastics factory.
And stop having fukin kids..use a condom!
@maksphoto78 Yeah but so are most other European countries. I suggest you read the Wikipedia article Colonization_of_Africa or at least look at it’s map.
Anyway making this documentary is probably more help full than not doing so, even if it is ironic.
good report… unseen, as there is not much to do physically over those problems, such spiritual and psychological way is just something growing just over and higher flower than solidarity or charity. thats quite science as it should be, or philosophy
1:20 BLACK JESUS
My cultural school is helping a project like this in Africa, I’m not sure it is this one but what these people do is fantastic.
@SakuraEfreet He needs a government that supports private property rights, and upholds the rule of law.
Otherwise, he has no right to his dreams, and he has no protection from those who care to take it from him.
They need a better standard of living, houses, income, food, services and outdoor facilities, not your bloody classical music culture. Fucking hypocrites.
@CasperXNL
The problem was the word ‘them’. And the word ‘letting’.
But I forgive you.
@doodool101
First you need hope. With hope, anything is possible. Without it, nothing is.
@GmasterRED
Uhhhh, what’s with the personal attacks?
Be angry at the idea of towns and schools and dumps built side-by-side.
@GmasterRED
Great.
Way to prove beastie’s point.
@SakuraEfreet trolls they are
@GmasterRED
The First Amendment was written to allow people like GmasterRED to expose themselves for who they really are.
Pull your pants back up. It’s embarrassing.
this is an excellent video. Very inspiring
and for once, people arent talking about molly
not that that’s a bad thing though
@ReliableInsider
Trolled hard. It’s so easy, I only have to say one word. NIGGER.
@GmasterRED
You are
air pollution.
I like that it’s dutch commentary and very it’s interesting.
my god!!! i’m not watching to see starving kids in africa, i’m watching to see the blond chick get naked!!!!!!!!!!
Humanwire correspondent Black mcblack brings us an lot’kar story of classical cooking a turd lessons in the slums of trolls
we should capture them. and bring them to america to be slaves………… o wait
molly
Geen ondertiteling nodig <3
@bradmanthethird How do you know God is white? Have you ever seen him? Is it sead so in the bible?
Eh? he used to work for the dutch TV why is he working for rocketboom now? Did he get fired? O.o
hmm whaat more taking Dutch television pieces and sending them out? that’s a bit easy now molly is it?
@movieshaque because youtube would be the place for her to do that?
did she say…. KENYA???
/watch?v=bvAAASZlCmM
how can people dislike this video?
In England, they play classical music over loud speakers near shopping centres to disperse gangs of youths from congregating nearby!!
@Skimaskkass yup, jesus was a palestinian jew
They should have them make a rap song about how hard it is in their streets.
@Skimaskkass jesus was a Hebrew.
@Skimaskkass The Jews were Arabs back then.
@mrteemumilto So, until there are roads and plumbing, they shouldn’t be allowed to have music?
@yerk3 They are not being rendered free to have classical music, they are thought be better with classical music. That’s the mistake. Thank you!
@yerk3 And it is an arrogant presumption, just because they are poor, they couldn’t ask for more.
@ElGrandeBanana
I personally experienced the ethnically pure power of the lord.
@yerk3 It proves how this charity rubbish is actually just further denying them the quality of life that they need.
Charity is rubbish because it doesn’t reach the people properly and when it does it usually doesn’t make a long term difference.
even a lot of scholars from Africa and other problem zones say its probably best to stop sending aid.
all this exact charity is doing is creating false hope lol.
@pryonisys
like they fucking need arts.
they live in conditions that were around at 17th century europe etc, if we are going to help them we need to build africa up like we built ourselves up. from the ground up.
Arts isnt important when your friends die of dysintery.
Ruud = the only RB contributor with a cooler accent than Molly or Ella.
OMG black jesus!!!!!!
Teach them how to drill for clean potable water and build a sewer system.
Martin Wambua = Tay Zonday
@alexicon89 So when our ancestors lived in these conditions they had no music?
@bradmanthethird And by that you know the man(Or woman, I dont know) is a whiteman and not some random pile of spagetie with balls?
And, uh, You are a real good troll. Some troll that knows the facts and eats the trolls who react to it. Nice work
hou op met nederlands af te spelen, HET IS EEN KUTTAAL!!!
Shit, the vuvuzela has evolved.
WOw what the shit??? send kids from kenya to a western religion’s church to play western instruments. Imperialistic much?
@alexicon89
Mozart and Shakespeare come to mind when talking about arts from the 16th-18th century. You’re seriously undervaluing the arts and their importance. It’s ironic how you talk about “building up africa” yet dismiss art.
Art is instrumental in “building up” a society. As the kid himself said, it’s inspiration.
@pryonisys im proud… i actually play that instrument now as a senior in highschool!
In case you all don’t know, let me be the FIRST to tell you… Ellie is leaving RocketBoom.
Time to step up, Leah!
@MrJubblegum ja ik snap ook niet helemaal waarom ze het eronder plakke
this is really inspiring, makes me feel like going out there and really making a difference in people’s lives like they are
you guys are fucking retards if you think this truly helps to improve their living conditions.
ofc you had music when we had these conditions but its useless to focus on music when your family is starving.
HE CANT MAKE MONEY WITH THIS.
He dreams of performing across seas etc, how fucking naive is that.
if you had any real ambitions in music you’d know its an extermely long shot.
so suck my dick you naive ignorant fucks who think this helps.
This was heartwarming, I really like these correspondences from Africa on RB, keep them coming!
@MrJubblegum still i rather read then having to listen to his voice :S
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(niet nodig nee
@pryonisys i’m pretty sure they have an art culture of their own.
i can understaaaand omg im dutch! its a miracle
No.
only 13 seconds of mememolly!? boo!
This should really get more attention.
what horrible creatures humans are … we know so much better and yet we let such things exist
Anyone who doubts this kind of program go look up El Sistema in Venezuela.
@alexicon89 of course this doesnt help money wise. but it helps to raise his spirit. this helps in a different way, but it still helps. of course it isnt the only thing that needs to be done. bitterness certainly doesnt help anything either.
@stefdijksman Its the marijuana
They’ll be making fresh two note beats before they know it!
Enjoy this more than soap operas about facebook
“I feel like I was touched inside…”
LOL
Looks like a very good program.
oh i recognise that song he’s playing in the end it goes duh duh duuuh du duu duud duuu duu du duu duu duuuuuuuuu. it’s really nice what they’re doing? =3
By “classical” instruments, they mean “Western” classical instruments. Why don’t they teach instruments that are classical in Nairobi, that have more cultural significance to the people there?
Fuck Africa, I want to hear Molly talk about shit I care about
@spunkypuppy totally agree, there are over 27 different dialects in kenya alone, yet they have not been documented or furthered.. imagine if all the languages were free to be learned at schools or universities, then it would lead to better understanding of each of the tribes, thus reformatting tribalism… oh and each of those 27 different tribes have their own instruments and they are taught in schools as part of the curriculum. would be cool if there were a african instrument orchestra.
he this is Dutch, the person who talkes
he this is Dutch, the person who talks
@RectalExaminationBot get a life