I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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.
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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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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 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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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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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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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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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Analyses 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.
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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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