On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
BOCAFLOJAWhat 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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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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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I can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.
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We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily.
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The whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, “I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself.”
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In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.
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I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
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Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism.
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So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.
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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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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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