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”.
BOCAFLOJAWe 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”.
BOCAFLOJAPower, 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.
BOCAFLOJAI believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
BOCAFLOJAThere are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
BOCAFLOJAIt’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.
BOCAFLOJAThe 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.
BOCAFLOJAIf 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.
BOCAFLOJAI am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
BOCAFLOJAAnalyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don’t necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.
BOCAFLOJAOn the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
BOCAFLOJAI 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.
BOCAFLOJAI believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
BOCAFLOJAThey have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
BOCAFLOJAThe racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time.
BOCAFLOJALike Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.
BOCAFLOJAI think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.
BOCAFLOJA