I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won’t come from conscious rap.
BOCAFLOJAI 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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There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
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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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The whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, “I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself.”
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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
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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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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 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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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 can’t marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics.
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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 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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This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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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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European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, “Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US.
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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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