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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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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
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
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Different Signifies Space World
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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Captures Community Speech Stop
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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Class Struggle Thinking Understand
I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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Belief Games Moving Politics
We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a “Panther Baby”.
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Baby Degree Gangsta Rap Rapper
There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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Exercises Greeting Laugh Racist Situations Smile
Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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Day Every Operates Racist Ways
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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Country Icons People Support
They don’t want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn’t offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.
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Against Dialogue Race Struggle Talk The Question
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
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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
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
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

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