From (2025)

Coming in hot with the line “I'm an atheist, glad to meet ya”, King Kapisi's 'Reverse Resistance' is a punchy hip-hop track that won the Silver Scroll in 2000. The song comments on the colonial and Christian repression of Samoan people, including those who migrated to Aotearoa, as his own family did. The video is a family collaboration: King Kapisi (aka Bill Urale) enlisted his sister, award-winning director Sima Urale, to direct, and filmed in their home village of Savai’i. It features idyllic scenes of Samoa — lush crops, serene beaches, charming locals — undercut by an uneasy tone, with decaying Christian churches.