Bocafloja

I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that…

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I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

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The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin…

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I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it…

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I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself…

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I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn'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. I…

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It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to…

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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…

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What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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. And it…

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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…

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MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking…

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We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the…

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I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms…

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It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is…

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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…

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