Category Archives: Hip-Hop

Calle 13: The Ayotzinapa Case Is a Disgrace

“All social causes are important, but it seems to me that the case of Ayotzinapa[1] goes beyond politics: it moves into the field of human rights. It [also] goes beyond Mexico: it is something much bigger…, it is a disgrace!” … Continue reading

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¡Viva Calle 13!

Hero worshipping can take away our own feelings of responsibility or personal worth, so it’s important never to place others up on a pedestal as if they were some sort of untouchable. All humans are fallible, though degrees of fallibility … Continue reading

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CUBA: Los Aldeanos – ‘Aldito El Gusanito’ (Lyrical Translation)

I would be a gusano               if I exploited my position, To steal from my people,         and still avoid prison, If I repressed and silenced     a whole generation, And cut, at the root,                their wings of imagination, … Continue reading

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