Davido Reveals What He'll Teach His Son About Being Black In American

David Adeleke aka Davido, the afrobeat star shared his thought on racism and fear for his son who's an American citizen in the America soil in an interview. He also opened up on his experience with racism in school.

Speaking to the organizers of the Grammy Awards, Recording Academy from Los Angeles, Davido talked about his music, the pandemic and Black Live Matters.

"It's crazy, because I'm from both America and Africa, so I know how both sides think. I went to school in Alabama. I went to college at 15. I was very young. And Alabama was a predominantly white state," Davido said.

"So being an African kid in a university where it's 13% black people, it's amazing. It's not easy. I had to learn a lot of things when I was like, "Yo, why you look at me like that?" And not just being black, being African.

They used to ask me questions like, "Yo how'd you get to America?" I'm like, "What you mean? I came on plane." Oh, y'all got airports?"

It's crazy, because like I said, I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, this was when I was 15, 16, so I've always understood like, yo, this is going to happen. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes just because of the color of your skin. You might not get a lot of honestly from somebody. You feel me? So it was just crazy.

Davido revealed his fear and what he'll teach his son about being black in American .

"I just had a son and he is an American citizen. So imagine my son telling me, "Yo, dad, I want to go to the mall." And I have to explain to him like, "You the police stop you...." It's crazy how we have to tell them that part. I don't think growing up my dad ever sat me down and was like, "Oh, this is going to happen. "But I have to it for my son. I have to teach him as a Blackman. As a Blackman, you have to be to defend yourself, number one. You're not going to get your way all the time and you just have to be a man and be strong. The other way I look at it, we're screaming Black Live Matters right? But we killing ourselves too. So the conservation is both sided, it goes both ways."