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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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Different Signifies Space World
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
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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
They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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Add Articular Equalize Historical Process
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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Analysis Connect Critical Musically
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
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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Aesthetic Culture Industry Levels
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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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Disassociate End Practically Time Understand
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
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
It’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.
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Excessive Fight Like Operates Whiteness
MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren’t talking about ethical codes, they aren’t talking about forms of political organization, they don’t speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.
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Code Jails Mtv Organization Talking
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

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