I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.
BOCAFLOJAI believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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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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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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A white leftist Mexican activist isn’t the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren’t worth the same.
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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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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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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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A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.
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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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