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What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence.
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Country Gangsta Mtv People Rap
Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can’t grow further in the barrio.
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Cutting Exercise Organization
I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world.
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Happened History Marginalized World
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won’t come from conscious rap.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country.
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Changed Country Independent Latin Owner
I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America.
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Country Latin Race Thinking
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
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Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways
And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren’t.
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It’s like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.
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Excessive Fight Like Operates Whiteness
European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, “Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US.
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If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn’t, doesn’t, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.
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The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
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The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
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Descendents Latin Race Struggle
I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say “I don’t like whites” for the simple fact of not liking white people.
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I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.
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Functions Game Pieces Play Spectrum Strategy

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