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00:00Like my family, my culture is apparent. Outwardly, I definitely identify as a black woman. I will. But if you're going to ask further, I have more to tell.
00:08I mean, my identity or the way that I identify myself has evolved throughout the years.
00:13At some point, I was, you know, when I was in when I was in New York and growing up in the Bronx, since I was eight years old, I was Dominican.
00:21There was nothing else to tell. I was Dominican. That's the way that I was seen, racialized, whatever that my that my that conversation looked like.
00:27Through college, I ended up doing more research and focusing my thesis on Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Latinidad feminist theory.
00:37So I started identifying as Afro-Latina in the past, perhaps two years since moving to L.A. actually.
00:45I started identifying as a black Dominican, as an Afro-Caribeña, a black Caribeña, a black woman, a black Dominican woman, whatever that looks like.
00:52So for myself, I identify as Afro-Salvadoreña, Afro-Descendiente.
00:58And ever since I think for myself, since I was little, I've always been asked if, oh, pero you're Puerto Rican.
01:07Oh, you're Cuban. Oh, you know.
01:09So it was a little bit of like, no, I'm Salvadoreña because both of my parents are that.
01:14So it wasn't until now in my 40s that I actually learned my roots by seeing this one article that said Afro-Salvadorian.
01:24And I was thinking, well, wait a minute. Wait, what?
01:27My parents never spoke to me about that because I've been told we're indigenous.
01:31Like, that's what we are. Mom's side has, you know, Spaniard, but that's what we are.
01:35And so when I found out that in 1821, in the Pueblo de San Miguel, Departamento, which is where both my mom and dad are from, 95% of the population was of Afro-Descendants, I was like, oh, que la pues.
01:51You know, but it's like, it's evident in our food. It's evident in our music.
01:55Cumbia, que la marimba, que la sopa de pata. I mean, it's, it's there.
02:00The world knows of you, but doesn't really know about you that much.
02:05The two nationalities get confused pretty often. I think it's hilarious.
02:09Art in Haiti is ridiculous, man. They, they, that's the first time that I've seen a mural get done just for the culture of a mural getting done.
02:20It wasn't for clout. It wasn't for money. It was just literally to make the city pop and be beautiful and expressive.
02:28It's supposed to be doing. It's, it makes the place more comfortable, more fun.
02:33I knew art was my thing when I was surrounded by artists and didn't even understand how I got there.
02:38I cannot paint without music. Painters or visual artists and musicians go hand in hand because if you look at like older music from Marvin Gaye to Beatles to stylistics,
02:51everybody had those album covers that were like literally art pieces.
02:56They didn't know there wasn't just a photo or some Photoshop.
03:00Somebody took the time out to tell a story that would reflect this piece, a body of work.
03:04And it go hand in hand, man. Like art has definitely helped me evaluate and really address the traumas that I've had.
03:11There's times I write a song and I talk about something I've never talked about out loud until I hear it back.
03:18And I said, damn, I really said that on whack for people to hear.
03:20With tragedy comes really good art. So a lot of times where things are going left in my life, I get,
03:26I get pretty pissed off about it because everything feels like it's out of whack, offset, and balanced.
03:32But every time it happens, I make something unbelievable.
03:37Art Love Trap.
03:40I thought the name was cool at first, but as I kind of looked into it, I realized that my name really does reflect the things in my life that matter to me.
03:54That I need constant reminder of.
03:57I need constant reminder that art is the dominant portion of my life.
04:02I need a constant reminder that love is the mediator of everything that I'm involved in.
04:08And I cannot ignore the fact that this life, being a black man, feels like a trap.
04:16Once upon a time, in a faraway land, it's a story of a block that was disappearing.
04:24We had to assert our dignity in small ways.
04:28Hey, y'all. Good morning.
04:29In the Heights, I hang my flag on this land.
04:34Cheers.
04:36The best days of my life.
04:38And I built my little dream.
04:40Here.
04:41In Washington Heights.
04:43In the Heights.
04:43We're to PG-13.
04:44In theaters and on HBO Max, June 11th.
04:49Lucas!
04:50Pusa.
04:52Pusa essa bunda.
04:53Pusa.
04:53Pusa.
04:53Match, match, match, magic, match, magic, magic, magic.
05:00Let's dance all del MILF provide.
05:02Match.
05:04Yeah, yeah.
05:05Mae-t.
05:05Yay, et.
05:09Match, match, match, match, match, match, match, match.
05:14Let's dance all del POI VVADE.
05:17Match.
05:17Y-e-ch
05:18É, yeah.
05:20A-aah, e-eh-ah, e-ah, e-ah, e-ah.
05:22Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic
05:28It's a dance of happy by the day
05:32Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic, Magic
05:43It's a dance of happy by the day
05:46just like the city brings together different cultures we have a musical
06:12guest who fuses themes of black diaspora with thrasher metal straight from
06:18Brazil please give a huge digital applause for Black Pantera
06:25we are Black Pantera we are all AfroBucket
06:55get some power from my skin try to find solutions let me fall inside
07:14Rockin
07:18Rockin
07:22Bunker
07:29That's your degeneration
07:31My pride, my memory
07:33Is fair, my history
07:35There's no reason I hate
07:38Bunker
07:41Bunker
07:45Bunker
07:48Bunker
07:52It's really hard to hear, motherfucker
07:56Can you feel it?
08:03Bunker
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08:19Bunker
08:22And deathly
08:24A loader
08:26A loader
08:28And faster
08:30And faster
08:32Bulk
08:48Rocket
08:50Rocket
08:54Egon
08:56No
08:58This is it
09:04Rocket
09:06Rocket
09:08Egon
09:10No
09:12Okay
09:14Rocket
09:16Egon
09:18A loader
09:20Bastard
09:22Loader
09:24Bastard
09:26Loader
09:28Bastard
09:30Bastard
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11:06I'll see you next time.
15:10I can't breathe
15:14I can't breathe
15:20What?
15:25I can't breathe
15:40I can't breathe
15:50Alright, the songs for our brothers and sisters die every day in all the time on the streets, victims of violence, racism and oppression. Thank you so much Afropunk, obrigado, gracias Black Pantera do Brasil.
16:07And though it may have cost the weight of my body and bones
16:13And though the summer drowned me in patches of thick sap and sweat
16:18And though I had to teach my hips how to surfboard anxiety to dust
16:23And though waltzing to the temple of mangoes falling on tin roofs is shaky
16:28And though I have never properly played a guida
16:32Spoke the origin's tongue
16:34Wept at their altar or shook a Mufasa into song
16:38And if all I have is these goosebumps, smoke signals, and butterflies whispering bright green nothings of life as joy at the crown of my temple
16:47And if freedom never comes
16:49I settle in to rest as my sweet revenge
16:52My hallelujah
16:54My mercy
16:55My hammock
16:57Globally Afro-Latin artists are not only shaping the sounds and music of their countries
17:03They're also pushing culture and identity forward with their art and activism
17:06Especially in the LGBTQ community
17:09I'm so happy to have a barrier-breaking artist of enormous talent with us today
17:13Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do Bairro
17:17Please check out the Illidan Abroad
17:19Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do Bairro
17:20Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do Bairro
17:21Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do Bairro
17:22Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do C설
17:25civilizations, scorching,вед现在, Nor Francisco
17:27Ocampo band, Stanford
17:41Please check out, straight from Brazil, Camarena
17:42Please check out, straight from Brazil
17:43This is the foundation
17:45I've been to the foundation of my房
17:45Come in along with the stars
17:47No sufoco criado da minha própria mudança
17:57Uma mucosa com vazio e falsas esperanças
18:05No aperto do casulo da minha própria criação
18:13Pensando em morte inevitável
18:17Me preparo pra morrer na solidão
18:20Uma rachadura aparece, uma luz que me aquece
18:26Abre meus olhos desde então, tudo me entorpece
18:29O peso some, o corpo para, dispara
18:33Me deparo voando com um par de asas
18:36Paraliso com o som de um pulso fofo
18:40Descubro que a vida é possível
18:46Mais preciso do som
18:48Me deixa voar
18:52Me deixa voar
18:54Me deixa voar
19:00Me deixa voar
19:01Me deixa voar
19:07Me deixa voar
19:09E vou, vou longe
19:22Sem fazer parada
19:24Faço de flores e amores minhas curtas moradas
19:27Ter um corpo que transita e me faz enxergar
19:32Eu vou, eu sigo, estou onde eu sempre quis estar
19:35Se eu sinto cheiro no ar, sempre vou me entregar
19:39E o verde vem na mente sempre só pra agregar
19:43Lembro do medo da escuridão
19:45E vem ter vida
19:47Transgressão
19:50Me deixa voar
20:03Mideshavua, Mideshavua
20:11Mideshavua, Mideshavua
20:18Mideshavua, Mideshavua
20:33Let me go, let me go
21:03Let me go, let me go
21:33Let me go, let me go
22:03Let me go, let me go
22:33Let me go, let me go
23:03Let me go, let me go
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