Sunday 10 July 2011
Me gusta el hip hop de Puerto Rico
I grew up with hip hop - everything from A Tribe Called Quest, Big Daddy Kane, ODB, KRS-One to Mos Def - but as the genre morphed in to something more commercial and less raw, my affiliations started turning towards hip hop of other languages. Different instruments, beats and samples....and a whole new lot of lyrics to get to grips with. Ironic really given that my language skills stretch to Spanglish and Franglais :) So I went to see Puerto Ricans Calle 13 at Hackney Empire last week, and while I understood 20% of the lyrics (I also had a reliable Latin source providing subtitles), me gusta, me gusta!!!
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Oh no - I need a crash course in Puerto Rican spanish - the only words I think I heard were:
karate, Coldplay, salsa de tomate... oh and abdominal???
Puerto Rican hip hop's a tough teacher!
Oh no - I need a crash course in Puerto Rican spanish - the only words I think I heard were:
karate, Coldplay, salsa de tomate... oh and abdominal???
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