I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
BOCAFLOJAI 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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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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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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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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They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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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 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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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.
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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example.
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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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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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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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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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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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