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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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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
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
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
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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Country Framer Latin Media Son
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
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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Antagonistic Believe Exercise Fighting Position
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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Believe Country Gangsta People Rap
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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Average Dependence Strong Thinking
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
Power, 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.
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Cutting Exercise Organization
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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Analysis Believe Profound
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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Expereience Gangsta Political Rap Systematic
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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Believe Historical Ideas
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
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
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America.
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Descendents Latin Race Struggle

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