Rapper Anik Khan Blasts Xenophobia in Powerful Video ‘Came From’

Rapper Anik Khan Blasts Xenophobia in Powerful Video ‘Came From’

In a weighty new music video, “Came From,” Anik Khan – a rapper born in Bangladesh and raised in Queens, New York – recognizes the lives, journey, and impact of immigrants in America and elsewhere. “Do you know where we came from?” he raps. “Do you know what we had to get away from?/Do you know where this pain from?/Them boats we rode wasn’t vacation.” The video opens with a barrage of news and stand-up clips on anti-immigrant sentiments, foll…