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00:00:01All right, y'all. It is hot as hell.
00:00:03So it's time to get up on this bus, get some food,
00:00:05and have some bomb conversation over at Solution Sessions and Art & Times.
00:00:09Come with us.
00:00:15Peace, guys. We are here in beautiful Naomi's garden in little Haiti.
00:00:19And I'm here with half of Masisi.
00:00:21I have Akaya here and Ashley Venom,
00:00:23who happens to be Haitian-American, so it's a very fitting background.
00:00:26So, Akaya, Masisi.
00:00:29Yes.
00:00:30What does it mean, literally, and what does it mean for you guys?
00:00:33Why did you name yourselves that? I would love to hear that.
00:00:36So, Masisi is Haitian Creole for faggot.
00:00:39So it was honestly our political act in reclaiming something that has brought a lot of harm to our community
00:00:46and taking a spin on it and making it something to be proud of.
00:00:49One of the reasons why we came together was because we were a bunch of queer Caribbean people
00:00:54who were like, there aren't any spaces for us where we feel safe,
00:00:57we feel that we're reclaiming our own joy and not doing it for the sake of entertaining people
00:01:03or for the sake of being props.
00:01:05And so, Akaya actually came with the idea of the party
00:01:09and picked a few of us from Fem Power to come together and make it together.
00:01:13I know that trans lives and trans identities and trans existence is a big part of what Masisi does.
00:01:19Or Masisi, or Masisi, got you.
00:01:21So, how does Masisi prioritize highlighting trans issues?
00:01:30And what are you doing around that here in your organization?
00:01:34So, for us, one of our members is actually a trans woman.
00:01:39Okay.
00:01:40So, we are trying our best to make sure that there's at least some type of trans, just leadership in general.
00:01:48Because I think, like, I can only speak from being a cis, queer, black man.
00:01:52And I have a completely different experience.
00:01:54But what I can do is use my privilege as someone to be able to speak for them when they're not in the room.
00:02:00Right.
00:02:01So, that's what we want to share with the world.
00:02:03That everyone has a stake within trans, especially if you are talking about black liberation.
00:02:09You cannot talk about freeing black people if you are excluding black trans people and black queer people.
00:02:15Of course.
00:02:16Of course.
00:02:17So, specifically, at least from my point of view, it seems like in the Caribbean,
00:02:21it's just like there's this very anti, and it's so embedded in the culture.
00:02:26Is that something that you guys talk about as being part of the Caribbean diaspora?
00:02:32Is that something that's like, you know, educating parents, grandparents?
00:02:36I mean, I know that can be very difficult.
00:02:37It can be a huge challenge.
00:02:38It's a generational thing.
00:02:39But do you all do work around that?
00:02:41Are those topics of conversations that you have?
00:02:43I have a trans sister.
00:02:45I'm queer in myself.
00:02:47So, I think having those conversations with my family and always constantly trying to make space for us in general to feel at home with our home.
00:02:55Do you have those conversations at home?
00:02:56Yeah.
00:02:57Oh, I have to.
00:02:58If I'm trying to still keep a relationship with my family, that is the biggest part of that.
00:03:02Personally, I don't have those conversations.
00:03:04I feel like my own sexual orientation is my own business.
00:03:08None of your damn business.
00:03:09So, it's like, what my mom doesn't know, like, isn't going to hurt her.
00:03:12Hi, mom!
00:03:13So, personally, like, you know, I don't have those conversations at home.
00:03:17But if I'm in a setting with other people who are being homophobic, transphobic, whatever the case may be, then for sure it's definitely those conversations.
00:03:24Shut it down.
00:03:25Yeah.
00:03:26I will say that even within the name MA-CC, MA stands for masculine. CC stands for feminine.
00:03:31So, it's literally the transition of a masculine to feminine.
00:03:35Wow.
00:03:36So, the root of the word, which actually is a, you said, is a derogatory.
00:03:39Yes.
00:03:40A derogatory term that.
00:03:41Oh, okay.
00:03:42That was our aim at reclaiming.
00:03:44Just look how black people, we did it with the word nigger.
00:03:47We're reclaiming something that has ruined us, that has, like, killed off our people.
00:03:52And turning it into some, and this will happen to be a sexy word, too.
00:03:55It is!
00:03:56Like, when I said it, I was like, oh my god, I can't believe I'm saying that.
00:03:58I'm sorry.
00:03:59But it's a dope, it's a dope name.
00:04:00I really like it.
00:04:01Is there anything you want the people out there to know that may never even make it to Miami,
00:04:06that are watching in a whole other country?
00:04:09What do you want them to know about the queer community, the queer black community in Miami as we close this thing out?
00:04:15We are making space for everyone within our community that is black, not just black cis people, not just black straight people.
00:04:24If you are a black person trying to thrive in a world under white supremacy, there is space here for you here at MaCC.
00:04:33I love that.
00:04:34Thank you so much.
00:04:36You guys are making me want to cry.
00:04:37I'm supposed to cry, baby.
00:04:38Okay.
00:04:39Thank you so much for being with you guys.
00:04:40This is beautiful, and I'm very honored.
00:04:42Hey, what's up, it's your girl Aida Rodriguez.
00:05:04Welcome to Entrenos.
00:05:06We are having a conversation about cultural identity.
00:05:10And there are some amazing voices and human beings here who are joining me.
00:05:15And we're going to get this conversation started.
00:05:18So, you know what?
00:05:19Let's just start it off with how do you identify and why?
00:05:24And I'm going to start with you, Jess.
00:05:26Absolutely.
00:05:27So, probably over like the last year, 18 months, I've been real intentional about saying I'm a black Dominican American.
00:05:35Because those three things for me are important and really shape my lived experience.
00:05:39I am a black woman, first and foremost.
00:05:41You know, having roots in Latin America, being of parents who are Dominican, that's super important to me.
00:05:45We're hella proud.
00:05:46But also the American factor is important, too, because I grew up here, right?
00:05:50So, there are cultural differences in how I grew up and who I was exposed to and food I ate and music I listened to that my folks back on the island haven't had.
00:05:59It's just very different.
00:06:00So, for me, it's important to be very clear on that.
00:06:03As you said as well, I do identify as black only because I'm my parents' first born American child.
00:06:08So, that's very important to me to identify as a black woman.
00:06:11Outwardly, obviously, I'm a black woman.
00:06:14When it comes to cultural identity, I see myself fitting in where it makes sense.
00:06:20Do I outwardly go out and say I'm XYZ? No.
00:06:22If it comes out in conversation, of course.
00:06:24But when it comes to like my family and my culture as a parent.
00:06:26Outwardly, I definitely identify as a black woman.
00:06:29I will.
00:06:30But if you're going to ask further, I have more to tell.
00:06:33I mean, my identity or the way that I identify myself has evolved throughout the years.
00:06:38At some point, I was, you know, when I was in New York and growing up in the Bronx, since I was eight years old, I was Dominican.
00:06:46There was nothing else to tell.
00:06:47I was Dominican.
00:06:48That's the way that I was seen, racialized, whatever that conversation looked like.
00:06:53Through college, I ended up doing more research and focusing my thesis on Afro-Latinidad
00:06:59and Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Latinidad, feminist theory.
00:07:02So I started identifying as Afro-Latina.
00:07:04In the past, perhaps, two years, since moving to LA, actually, I started identifying as a black Dominican.
00:07:12As an Afro-Caribeña, a black Caribeña, a black woman, a black Dominican woman, whatever it looks like.
00:07:17So for myself, I identify as Afro-Salvadoreña, Afro-Descendiente.
00:07:22And ever since I think for myself, since I was little, I've always been asked if, oh, pero, you're Puerto Rican.
00:07:31Oh, you're Cuban.
00:07:32Oh, you know.
00:07:33So it was a little bit of like, no, I'm Salvadoreña because both of my parents are that.
00:07:39So it wasn't until now in my 40s that I actually learned my roots by seeing this one article that said Afro-Salvadorian.
00:07:49And I was thinking, well, wait a minute.
00:07:51Wait, what?
00:07:52My parents never spoke to me about that because I've been told we're indigenous.
00:07:55Like, that's what we are.
00:07:57Mom's side has, you know, Spaniard, but that's what we are.
00:08:00And 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.
00:08:12I was like, oh, que la pues.
00:08:15You know, but it's like, it's evident in our food.
00:08:18It's evident in our music.
00:08:20Cumbia, que la marimba, que la sopa de pata.
00:08:23I mean, it's there.
00:08:25But people still want to have that denial.
00:08:27And yet there's a lot of people that look like me and are of darker skin, too.
00:08:31But yet there's, no hay negro en El Salvador.
00:08:34That's literally what we hear all the time.
00:08:45Jamaican Haitian visual artist and musician from Miami, Art Love Trap.
00:08:52I'm Art Love Trap.
00:08:54I'm a visual artist and musician from South Florida, Miami to be exact.
00:08:58And I do art for therapy.
00:09:00But, you know, I've been doing it more professional lately.
00:09:04Being Jamaican and Haitian is fun because, you know, the whole world knows of you but doesn't really know about you that much.
00:09:15The two nationalities get confused pretty often.
00:09:19I think it's hilarious.
00:09:20Art in Haiti is ridiculous, man.
00:09:22They, they, that's the first time that I've seen a mural get done just for the culture of a mural getting done.
00:09:30It wasn't for clout.
00:09:32It wasn't for money.
00:09:33It was just literally to make the city pop and be beautiful and expressive and give people reason to go to work and not feel like they're not doing something they aren't supposed to be doing.
00:09:44It makes the place more comfortable, more fun.
00:09:48I knew art was my thing when I was surrounded by artists and didn't even understand how I got there.
00:09:53I cannot paint without music.
00:09:55Painters or visual artists and musicians go hand in hand because if you look at like older music from Marvin Gaye to Beatles to stylistics, everybody had those album covers that were like literally art pieces.
00:10:11They, no, there wasn't just a photo or some Photoshop.
00:10:15Somebody took the time out to tell a story that would reflect this piece, a body of work.
00:10:20And it go hand in hand, man.
00:10:21Like art has definitely helped me evaluate and really address the traumas that I've had.
00:10:27There's times I write a song and I talk about something I've never talked about out loud.
00:10:32So I hear it back and I said, damn, I really said that on whack for people to hear.
00:10:36With tragedy comes really good art.
00:10:38So a lot of times when things are going left in my life, I get, I get pretty pissed off about it because everything feels like it's out of whack, offset and balanced.
00:10:48But every time it happens, I make something unbelievable.
00:10:52Art Love Trap.
00:10:55I thought the name was cool at first.
00:10:59But as I kind of looked into it, I realized that my name really does reflect the things in my life that matter to me, that I need constant reminder of.
00:11:13I need constant reminder that art is the dominant portion of my life.
00:11:17I need a constant reminder that love is the mediator of everything that I'm involved in.
00:11:23And I cannot ignore the fact that this life, being a black man feels like a trap.
00:11:29Once upon a time, in a far away land, it's a story of a block that was disappearing.
00:11:39We had to assert our dignity in small ways.
00:11:43Hey y'all, good morning.
00:11:45In the Heights, I hang my flag on this land.
00:11:49Cheers.
00:11:51The best days of my life.
00:11:53And I built my little dream.
00:11:55Here.
00:11:57In Washington Heights.
00:11:58In the Heights.
00:11:59Rated PG-13.
00:12:00In theaters and on HBO Max.
00:12:01June 11th.
00:12:02Um clássico!
00:12:03Pulsa.
00:12:04Pulsa essa bunda.
00:12:05Pulsa.
00:12:06Pulsa.
00:12:07Pulsa essa bunda.
00:12:08Pulsa.
00:12:09Pulsa.
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00:13:21Just like the city brings together different cultures,
00:13:26we have a musical guest who fuses themes of Black Diaspora with Thrasher Metal.
00:13:33Straight from Brazil, please give a huge digital applause for Black Pantera.
00:13:51Black Pantera
00:14:21It's a couple of men, its tough on my valmy skin,
00:14:27try to find solutions, I'm never inside.
00:14:30Woman!
00:14:32Woman!
00:14:33Man!
00:14:35Woman!
00:14:35Woman!,
00:14:37You idiot!
00:14:40Jeg!
00:14:41Jeg!
00:14:42Detektivats
00:14:43Was Chandler
00:14:45Tirt River
00:14:47Waiting
00:14:4818
00:14:48Vem
00:14:49Delegat
00:14:50Delegat
00:14:51Where's the paper?
00:14:54Barking!
00:14:57Barking!
00:15:01Eegah!
00:15:04No!
00:15:08It's really hard to kill, motherfucker!
00:15:12Can you feel it?
00:15:13You're all alone!
00:15:16I'm broken!
00:15:18You're all alone!
00:15:23You're all alone!
00:15:28You're all alone!
00:15:33I'm alone!
00:15:37I'm alone!
00:15:39I'm innocent!
00:15:40I'm alone!
00:15:43O'rloider and faster
00:15:46E.E.R.D.
00:16:03Bunket
00:16:06Rocket
00:16:09E.E.R.D.
00:16:13No. This is it.
00:16:21Mocker. Mocker. Ega. No.
00:16:27Mocker. Mocker. Ega. No.
00:16:34I'm louder. Faster. Louder.
00:16:39Fisting. Louder. Fisting. Louder. Fisting. Gettish.
00:16:59No man with strength. No man with strength.
00:17:08I hope you understand, motherfucker.
00:17:16See ya.
00:17:21Hello, you guys. Hello, hello, hello again. We are Black Pantera from Uberaba, Brazil.
00:17:25Thank you so much for another opportunity to stay with you playing this beautiful festival Afropunk Miami Black Springs.
00:17:33Salve, salve, família. É um prazer estar aqui.
00:17:35Um evento totalmente voltado para a comunidade afro-latina e afro-americana.
00:17:39Vários artistas. É um prazer a gente estar aqui representando o Brasil.
00:17:42É isso aí. Afropunk, família. Tamo junto.
00:17:45Hello, Afropunk, Miami. Black Spring. Black Pantera do Brasil.
00:17:53Usando as palavras para a comunidade afro-americana.
00:17:55A comunidade afro-americana.
00:17:56A comunidade afro-americana.
00:17:57A comunidade afro-americana.
00:17:59É FOURA!
00:18:05Adeus indALLAD
00:18:11I don't think I'm going to do anything
00:18:21Like if I didn't do anything
00:18:23I'm talking about my life
00:18:24I'm looking at my face
00:18:26No! No!
00:18:28I'm looking at me
00:18:30I'm looking at a shot
00:18:33I'm going to die
00:18:34I'm going to die
00:18:35I'm going to die
00:18:36I'm going to die
00:18:38I'm not here
00:18:41To be here
00:18:43To do anything
00:18:44I can't do anything
00:18:45When I'm dying
00:18:46I'm not here
00:18:47What I've done
00:18:49So!
00:18:50Go!
00:18:51You're out there
00:18:53I'm going to die
00:18:55You're out there
00:18:57You're out there
00:18:59I'm going to die
00:19:08I can't do that
00:19:12I can't do it
00:19:16I can't do it
00:19:21I can't do it
00:19:23I can't do it
00:19:27I don't know it's all, I don't know it's all
00:19:57No shit
00:20:06I don't know it's all
00:20:08I don't know it's all
00:20:12So Vocal
00:20:15Your whole whole world
00:20:17Your whole 문제가
00:20:21You've lost it
00:20:23Don't fall
00:20:26I can't breathe
00:20:55George Floyd
00:20:57I can't breathe
00:20:58Marielle Campos
00:20:59I can't breathe
00:21:01Breonna Taylor
00:21:02I can't breathe
00:21:03Edmondo Santos
00:21:04I can't breathe
00:21:06Irina Agatha
00:21:07I can't breathe
00:21:08Menino João Pedro
00:21:10I can't breathe
00:21:11Todas as vítimas da violência racial
00:21:25There's nothing in the same story
00:21:28Black men died for a racist story
00:21:31And she did this
00:21:32On the internet
00:21:33That's how fucking it happened
00:21:35To death
00:21:36Calling police
00:21:37Fucking police
00:21:38Stop killing my people
00:21:40Out in the streets
00:21:41For all these kids
00:21:42For all the smugs
00:21:43Raise up this
00:21:45Puget machine
00:21:46Why?
00:21:47Why?
00:21:48Tell me why
00:21:51Why?
00:21:54Tell me why
00:21:56Why?
00:21:58Tell me why
00:22:02Why?
00:22:04Tell me why
00:22:08I can breathe
00:22:18Black lives matter
00:22:30I can breathe
00:22:32Black lives matter
00:22:34I can breathe
00:22:36Black lives import!
00:22:38I can breathe!
00:23:01I can breathe!
00:23:06I can breathe!
00:23:11What?
00:23:16I can breathe!
00:23:31I can breathe!
00:23:38I can breathe!
00:23:42All right!
00:23:43Songs for our brothers and sisters die every day in all the time on the streets.
00:23:48Victims of violence, races and oppression.
00:23:52Thank you so much Afrofunk!
00:23:54Obrigado!
00:23:55Gracias Black Pantera do Brasil!
00:23:59And though it may have cost the weight of my body and bones, and though the summer drowned me in patches of thick sap and sweat, and though I had to teach my hips how to surfboard anxiety,
00:24:14to dust, and though waltzing to the temple of mangoes falling on tin roofs is shaky, and though I have never properly played a guira, spoke the origin's tongue, wept at their altar, or shook a Mufasa into my heart.
00:24:29And though it may have cost the weight of my body and bones, and though the summer drowned me in patches of thick sap and sweat, and though I had to teach my hips how to surfboard anxiety to dust, and though waltzing to the temple of mangoes falling on tin roofs is shaky,
00:24:36And though I have never properly played a guira, spoke the origin's tongue, wept at their altar, or shook a Mufasa into song.
00:24:45And 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.
00:24:54And if freedom never comes, I settle in to rest as my sweet revenge.
00:25:00Mahalelujah, my mercy, my hammock.
00:25:06Globally, Afro-Latin artists are not only shaping the sounds and music of their countries, they're also pushing culture and identity forward with their art and activism, especially in the LGBTQ community.
00:25:16I'm so happy to have a barrier-breaking artist of enormous talent with us today.
00:25:21Please check out, straight from Brazil, Jupe do Bairro.
00:25:36Please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out.
00:25:40Please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out, please check out.
00:25:46No sufoco criado da minha própria mudança
00:26:04Uma mucosa com vazio e falsas esperanças
00:26:13No aperto do casulo da minha própria criação
00:26:20Pensando em morte inevitável, me preparo pra morrer na solidão
00:26:28Uma rachadura aparece, uma luz que me aquece
00:26:33Abre meus olhos desde então, tudo me entorpece
00:26:36O peso some, o corpo para, dispara
00:26:40Me deparo voando com um par de asas
00:26:44Paraliso com o som de um pulso forte
00:26:48Descubro que a vida é possível
00:26:53Mas preciso do som
00:26:56Me deixa voar
00:27:00Me deixa voar
00:27:28I'm going far away without making a mistake
00:27:31I'm going to flowers and love my curtas-moradas
00:27:35I have a body that transita and makes me feel
00:27:39I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, where I always wanted to be
00:27:43If I feel the smell in the air, I always will give me a gift
00:27:46And the green comes in mind, always just to add
00:27:50I remember the fear of darkness and I have a life
00:27:54Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:28:19Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:28:22Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:28:30Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:28:45Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:28:52Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:00Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:07Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:14Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:22Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:29Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:31Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:39Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:41Me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:48Meus olhos cansados se abrem pra um novo dia
00:29:52Me deixar voar, me deixar voar, me deixar voar
00:29:59É que minhas correntes foram soltas
00:30:00Antes de eu me expressar
00:30:02Tardia, e sinto que aqui não posso caminhar
00:30:06Meu corre é longo, mas não pulo
00:30:08Chego onde quero chegar
00:30:09Por onde quero, posso até chegar numa ilusão
00:30:13Mas sigo em frente e nem sempre ouço meu coração
00:30:17Anoitece, o sol já desce, pedidos em forma de prece
00:30:20De uma gente que só ajuda a outra, se julga, se merece
00:30:23Ninguém quer conhecer, se preocupar pra quê?
00:30:27Nesse caminho falho eu não ganho que eu mereço receber
00:30:31É como estar diante da morte, permanecer imortal
00:30:34É como lançar a própria sorte e não ter direito igual
00:30:38Mas eu resisto, eu insisto, eu existo
00:30:41Não quero o controle de todo esse corpo sem juízo
00:30:45Um corpo sem juízo que não quer saber do paraíso
00:30:49Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:30:52Um corpo sem juízo que não quer saber do paraíso
00:30:56Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:30:59Um corpo sem juízo que não quer saber do paraíso
00:31:03Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:31:06Um corpo sem juízo que não quer saber do paraíso
00:31:10Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:31:15E é isso, eu decidi demonstrar a potência do meu corpo
00:31:17Por isso, milho, cabelo e tal, tal, tal
00:31:19Explorando a potência do meu corpo eu fiz esse trabalho
00:31:22De acordo com toda a violência que eu sofri
00:31:25Relacionado a minha mão, a gesticular e ser fiado mesmo
00:31:28E...
00:31:30É isso, é sobre bichice, é sobre ser quem eu quero ser
00:31:34É sobre liberdade, é sobre...
00:31:36Isso é uma referência de bichas, né?
00:31:39As bichas referências são bichas
00:31:40Meus olhos cansados se abrem para um novo dia
00:31:45Engula a saliva da minha própria rebeldia
00:31:49E quem diria que um dia você me ouviria falar
00:31:52É que minhas correntes foram soltas antes de eu me expressar
00:31:56Tardear e sinto que aqui não posso caminhar
00:31:59Meu corre é longo, mas num pulo chego onde quero chegar
00:32:03Por onde quero posso até chegar numa ilusão
00:32:06Mas sigo em frente e nem sempre ouço meu coração
00:32:10Anoitece, o sol já desce, fetiço em forma de prece
00:32:13De uma gente que só ajuda a outra, se julga, se merece
00:32:17Ninguém quer conhecer, se preocupar pra quê?
00:32:21Nesse caminho falho, não ganho o que eu mereço receber
00:32:24É como estar diante da morte, permanecer imortal
00:32:28É como lançar a própria sorte, não ter direito igual
00:32:31Mas eu resisto, eu insisto, eu existo
00:32:34Não quero o controle de todo esse corpo sem juízo
00:32:38Um corpo sem juízo, que não quer saber do paraíso
00:32:42Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:32:45Um corpo sem juízo, que não quer saber do paraíso
00:32:49Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:32:52Um corpo sem juízo, que não quer saber do paraíso
00:32:56Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:32:59Um corpo sem juízo, que não quer saber do paraíso
00:33:03Mas sabe que mudar o destino é o seu compromisso
00:33:15uh
00:33:31ah
00:33:45All you need is love
00:34:08Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:10Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:11Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:13All you need is love
00:34:15Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:17Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:18Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:20All you need is love
00:34:22Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:34:23Só não sei se é amor
00:34:25Eu não sei o que é amar
00:34:27Tenta coisa pra dizer
00:34:29Mas soltou o vocabulário
00:34:30O que eu sinto é por você
00:34:32Não tá no dicionário
00:34:34De tantas qualidades
00:34:36A que eu mais valorizo
00:34:37É seu jeito de deixar meu corpo
00:34:39Centro, sem juízo
00:34:41Vou colocar uma música
00:34:43Espero que não se importe
00:34:44Vamo ouvir Sampa, Krio
00:34:47Talvez Bjork
00:34:48Embalando com suspiros
00:34:50E beijos teus
00:34:51Falou no seu ouvido
00:34:53Sou eu, sou eu
00:34:55Troquei a roupa de cama
00:34:56Pode deitar sem vergonha
00:34:58Prepara o maxilar
00:34:59Que cê vai morder a fronha
00:35:01E é tão gostoso
00:35:03Pede de novo
00:35:04É tão gostoso
00:35:05É tão gostoso
00:35:07Tão gostoso
00:35:07Tão gostoso
00:35:08Você gemendo
00:35:09É tão gostoso
00:35:10Pede de novo
00:35:11É tão gostoso
00:35:12Só mais um pouco
00:35:13Pede de novo
00:35:14Pede de novo
00:35:16All Ineed is love
00:35:17Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:35:19Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:35:20Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:35:22All Ineed is love
00:35:24Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:35:25Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:35:29Pode botar tudo bota
00:35:31Bota tudo que é novo
00:35:33Bota logo tudo bota
00:35:34Bota bota
00:35:34Bota, bota, e me deixo mordido And me arranca valido
00:35:38Pop, pop, with love Bota ouvindo lana, ouvindo lana
00:35:43All, nisse, love And me arranca valido
00:35:46And pop, pop, with love Bota ouvindo lana, ouvindo lana
00:35:53Bota logo tudo bota Bota, bota
00:35:55Bota, bota Bota, bota, e atendi meu pedido
00:35:59Bota todo que eu não greito Bota logo tudo bota
00:35:59Bota logo outro do bota E atende meu pedido
00:36:03All you need is love Tenho tanto pra te dar
00:36:19Só não sei se é amor Eu não sei o que é amar
00:36:23Vou colar na sua quebrada Te provar que eu aguento
00:36:27Com tudo que eu tenho Te mostrar o meu talento
00:36:30A sua cama é boxe Ela vai pular bem forte
00:36:33Você vai até achar Que tá no show do sleep night
00:36:37Desmagar seus compromissos Fica só mais um pouquinho
00:36:40Vou acabar com a sua raça E vou bolar mais um fininho
00:36:44E é tão gostoso Pede de novo
00:36:47É tão gostoso, tão gostoso, tão gostoso
00:36:51Você gemendo é tão gostoso, tão gostoso
00:36:54É tão gostoso, tão gostoso, tão gostoso
00:36:57All you need is love Tem tanto pra te dar
00:37:00Tem tanto pra te dar
00:37:03Tem tanto pra te dar
00:37:05All you need is love
00:37:06Tem tanto pra te dar
00:37:11All you need is love
00:37:15Ten tanto pra te dar, ten tanto pra te dar, all you need is love.
00:37:21Ten tanto pra te dar, ten tanto pra te dar, ten tanto pra te dar, all you need is love.
00:37:34And now, a story of a Haitian Dominican boxer finding his true strength.
00:37:39I know who I am. Do you?
00:37:41Inside the ring, I couldn't hide fear. I had to embrace it.
00:37:51I was scared of being nobody.
00:37:55It allowed me to see who I am.
00:38:00In the ring, you can't be fake.
00:38:06Being in the ring brought back what my grandfather once told me.
00:38:11I was going to be someone.
00:38:19So I had to win.
00:38:20It's important to look back and reflect just because you can see where you started and where you're at so you could appreciate.
00:38:38I never really appreciated all that I had just because I just expected it.
00:38:44But then where I came from to where I am now, I'm out of the, not even the ghetto, I'm out of the slums.
00:38:53Growing up in the Dominican Republic was very difficult because being black felt like it was a crime.
00:39:00I started working bare feet out in the sugar cane field, working with my grandfather when I was five years old.
00:39:07It was a crime being Haitian because you were not permitted to be in the Dominican Republic because they automatically assumed that you didn't have your papers.
00:39:18People know that you're Haitian because you're dark.
00:39:20Coming from the Dominican Republic to America, I thought that it was going to be easier to identify myself.
00:39:33It just got worse.
00:39:34My grandfather gave me a sense of value that I'm more than what people see.
00:39:45I'm more than a color.
00:39:49I'm more than being Haitian.
00:39:51I'm more than being Dominican.
00:39:53I'm more than being African American.
00:39:55I'm more than, you know, I'm God made, you know.
00:39:59So he instilled that in me.
00:40:01He instilled in me that I'm better.
00:40:04When you saw the ring, it broke a lot of different labels just because either you're good or you're bad.
00:40:10Either you're a showman or you're not.
00:40:12And I was good and I was a showman.
00:40:16People forgot all about my skin, forgot all about my actions or whatever.
00:40:24They just saw me perform.
00:40:28I lost my first world title fight and my grandfather died.
00:40:34Those two losses cut me down to my roots.
00:40:39Who am I?
00:40:40Who am I when I don't win?
00:40:41I thought that I was going to go to Haiti one day with my grandfather.
00:40:45But once when he passed, I had to travel that journey with my father.
00:40:49Being home on the beach, it felt like I had no borders.
00:40:54I started to know that my grandparents, my fathers, I came from presidents and this and that.
00:41:00I had so much land.
00:41:01I started to appreciate of the person that I was trying to run from.
00:41:06Being a winner to me is not your do, it's your who, who you are.
00:41:11You know, it's not what you do.
00:41:13Music has always had the ability to transcend cultural barriers.
00:41:41We're all connected by invisible tethers that we can use to transfer energy, power, love, and healing.
00:41:50In Afrocentric cultures, music is more of a way of life.
00:41:53It's something everyone can participate in actively or passively.
00:41:57It's part of the gravity of their community.
00:41:59It's time for all that's around us.
00:42:09Oh, the truth coming to me clear.
00:42:13Now I'm hoping to meet you.
00:42:15You said that you'd be here, so I'll just wait, dear.
00:42:20Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:42:24This new album is about my own personal growth over the last few years.
00:42:32Learning to love myself and facing challenges in the form of personal relationships and getting older in general.
00:42:40The human experience is unique and special for every individual, but we're able to relate to one another through shared experiences.
00:42:48One of my goals as an artist is to create a space where people can be connected to one another through those shared experiences
00:42:55and find freedom and a sense of community in spite of whatever box society tries to put them in.
00:43:02Panamanian icons created reggae in Spanish, an emphasis of the expression of their dignity.
00:43:10These Afro-Antillian Panamanians, or chombos, as they were named in insult and reclaimed as a source of pride,
00:43:17were the only Latinos able to translate the political essences evident in Jamaican potwa.
00:43:23The word chombo, growing up, it was more like a turn of a tear, man.
00:43:28Chomba, woo-woo-woo.
00:43:30You call people like my skin color chombo, you know what I mean?
00:43:33That's what the Spaniards used to call us.
00:43:35We took the word and reclaimed it.
00:43:39Afro-Buricua Spanish has the source of Taino and African roots.
00:43:43And these same diasporic roots exist in culturally specific jargon, palabreo, street code, slang, and dialect in the Dominican Republic.
00:43:53Dominican vernacular is often highlighted and celebrated in Dominican Dembeau.
00:43:58The terms and usage have been historically discriminated against in the music industry internationally,
00:44:05beating artists of El Movimiento to water down their lyrics to make a commercial.
00:44:09But the underground Dembeau movement is keeping La Jerga en Código alive.
00:44:15Oye, nosotros somos universales, ya.
00:44:17Ponganse claro.
00:44:19True life.
00:44:19Spawned from ancestral movements, the dance, el baile, exists at the core of El Movimiento,
00:44:28a central part of the culture and essential to its survival.
00:44:32Los pies, or footwork, twerk, or perreo, meneando la cintura, or winding the waist,
00:44:40were a combination of all three, are ancestral.
00:44:44And as was its intention, the traditions have been kept alive.
00:44:53Reggaeton is not dead.
00:44:55Because perreo is its lifeline.
00:44:59Ancestral and black at its center.
00:45:01Black is always the new black.
00:45:04And because of this, it's important to remember, all perreo is reggaeton.
00:45:11But all reggaeton isn't perreo.
00:45:13Africa gave birth to an array of sounds created so that we may forever stay in tune with our ancestry,
00:45:21to bask in the beauty that is our collective creations, and to celebrate our existence.
00:45:28Reggaeton, dembow, hip-hop, and their sister genres, as they dominate globally,
00:45:37it's necessary to understand the root, evolution, and parallels of these diasporic, transnational genres.
00:45:47It's black, it's survival, it's resistance, it's liberation, it's one singular movement.
00:45:57Windaways for liberation.
00:45:59Everybody sitting here has had some pushback from somebody, right?
00:46:26Because when you talk about blackness within the Latino spectrum, American black people are saying,
00:46:33y'all not like us.
00:46:34You are non-foundational black people.
00:46:36So tell me, Christina, have you had any experiences with that?
00:46:41And let's have a conversation about that.
00:46:45Absolutely.
00:46:45I feel, honestly, it stems a lot in the black American community where they feel like I didn't fit in.
00:46:51Because I didn't go through the traditional black American experiences.
00:46:54I think a lot of the, I guess like a little bit of an identity crisis, where I just like,
00:46:59I felt like I didn't fit in, but I loved the part.
00:47:01So it's kind of just like I'm a poser.
00:47:03So it took a little bit to kind of just like tap into what exactly, you know, a black woman is.
00:47:08Now that I'm 28, I totally understand what that is.
00:47:10And it doesn't have anything to do with where I fit in, where I don't.
00:47:14It's more so like what I experience and what I identify as and what I can contribute to the black community.
00:47:18At some point, I felt very insecure about even calling myself a black woman, right?
00:47:23Because it felt like I was taking away from like darker skinned black women who like have
00:47:29definitely been racialized in a completely different way than I have, especially like
00:47:33black Dominican women.
00:47:34So I think now I feel more comfortable in where I identify and I can push back now because
00:47:40now I got receipts.
00:47:41It even goes as far as region.
00:47:47Like I grew up in Virginia.
00:47:48I'm born and raised in Virginia.
00:47:50So where I was born and raised in Virginia, you were either black, white, or you were Filipino.
00:47:56That was it.
00:47:56That was all you had to offer.
00:47:58So like I kind of, you know, let me just get in with the black folks.
00:48:01Let me just fit in right here.
00:48:03Yeah.
00:48:03And as children?
00:48:04Are you really black?
00:48:05Like, you know, I'm just kind of like you get that pushback depending on what region you're
00:48:09from versus if I grew up in New York, it wouldn't be a problem.
00:48:12Growing up, as I mentioned, you know, I didn't really identify anything else but salvadoreña
00:48:16because especially in El Salvador, like they will see me and they'll be like, oh, la morena.
00:48:22Oh, la trigueña.
00:48:24Trigueña is what, all the time, trigueña.
00:48:26So, but here it's like I was seen as salvadoreña.
00:48:30So for me, it wasn't the pushback until now.
00:48:33And my upbringing, my mom, she's the youngest of her siblings.
00:48:36She came here when she was 17, you know, speaks English, all the things.
00:48:41And my dad who raised me was a black American man.
00:48:45So growing up in my household, my mom never said we're black, but I grew up with black
00:48:49culture, right?
00:48:50So I never, and also I didn't have a lot of Dominican friends growing up.
00:48:54My Dominican friends were my cousins.
00:48:56I gravitated more towards my Puerto Rican and my black friends.
00:48:59Also growing up in the Bronx, depending on where you live, you know, that's what's around
00:49:02you, right?
00:49:02I wasn't, that's the other thing too.
00:49:04I'm not like the typical Dominican who grew up in the Heights.
00:49:06Like that, that was not my lived experience.
00:49:08I would go see my cousins maybe, but like I lived in the Bronx.
00:49:11So for me, the biggest pushback here is always Latinos.
00:49:15Oh, you speak Spanish so well.
00:49:17Yeah.
00:49:17Cause I know how to speak it.
00:49:18Like, why would I, why would I not speak it well?
00:49:20You don't say that when I speak English because you see me and you see my hair, you see how
00:49:25I like, how I feel like all the things.
00:49:27Cause it's like, Oh, you automatically assume.
00:49:29So
00:49:40Gangue, ele diz que é gangue, de corto de prata e bermuda se clone.
00:50:04Gangue, ele é gangueiro, paga de CG e diz que tem dinheiro.
00:50:09Vacilão, ele é vacilão.
00:50:12Vacilão, ele é vacilão.
00:50:15Vacilão, ele é vacilão.
00:50:17Vacilão, ele é vacilão.
00:50:20But that's not all we've been serving up on this block.
00:50:42We're rocking out with Mijente Sudamericana, with another group, this time from Colombia.
00:50:47They infuse the rich Afro heritage from Cali with their unique sounds.
00:50:51We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:17We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:21We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:25We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:27We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:29We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:31We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:33We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:35We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:37We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:39We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:41We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:43We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:45We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:47We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:48We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:49We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:50We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:51We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:52We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:53We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:54We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:55We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:56We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:57We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:58We have Choc Quip Town.
00:51:59We have Choc Quip Town.
00:52:00El mundo quiere irse de aquí, pero ninguno lo ha logrado.
00:52:04¿De dónde vengo yo?
00:52:06La cosa no es fácil pero siempre igual sobrevivimos.
00:52:10Vengo yo, ¿cómo?
00:52:12Que tanto lucha siempre, con la nuestra no salimos.
00:52:15Vengo yo, de aquí se habla mal pero todo está mucho mejor.
00:52:20Oye, tenemos la lluvia, el frío, el calor.
00:52:24¿De dónde vengo yo?
00:52:26Yo.
00:52:26Si mi señor se bailan verbenas con gorra y con chor.
00:52:30Con raros peinados o con extensión
00:52:32Critiqueme a mí, o lo criticó yo
00:52:35Si tomo cerveza no tengo el botín
00:52:37Y si tomo whisky, ay chavo y bling bling
00:52:40Y si tengo oro en el cuello colgado
00:52:43Ay, ay, ay, ay, ¿de por qué he costado?
00:52:45Todo el mundo toma whisky
00:52:47Ajá
00:52:48Todo el mundo anda en moto
00:52:50Ajá
00:52:50Todo el mundo tiene carro
00:52:52Ajá
00:52:53Oye, menos nosotros
00:52:55Ajá
00:52:56Todo el mundo come pollo
00:52:57Ajá
00:52:58Todo el mundo está embambao
00:53:00Ajá
00:53:01Todo el mundo quiere irse de aquí
00:53:02Ajá
00:53:03Ajá
00:53:04Ajá
00:53:05¿De dónde vengo yo?
00:53:07La cosa no es fácil pero siempre igual sobrevivimos
00:53:10Vengo yo
00:53:12De tanto luchar siempre con la nuestra no salimos
00:53:15Vengo yo
00:53:17De aquí se habla mal pero todo está mucho mejor
00:53:20Vengo yo
00:53:22Tenemos la lluvia, el frío, el calor
00:53:25Acá tomamos agua de coco, lavamos en moto
00:53:28Todo el que no tiene andar en rap y moto
00:53:30Carretera de esta papaya
00:53:32Y plato pa' comer, ey, pero si pa' chupar
00:53:35Característica general
00:53:37Alegría total y visibilidad
00:53:38Nacional e internacional
00:53:40Autodiscriminación sin razón
00:53:42Racismo
00:53:43Racismo
00:53:44Si hay mucha corrupción
00:53:46Mante tu lebra
00:53:47Máquina de guerra
00:53:48Desplazamientos por intereses en la tierra
00:53:51Subiendo algo pescado
00:53:52Agua por todos lados
00:53:53Salve espesa que ni el disco vería flotado
00:53:56Minas llenas de oro en platino
00:53:58Reyes en la biodiversidad
00:54:00Cochinche entre todos los vecinos
00:54:03Y en deportes ni hablar
00:54:05De donde vengo yo
00:54:06La cosa no es fácil pero siempre igual sobrevivimos
00:54:10Vengo yo
00:54:12De tanto luchar siempre con la nuestra no salimos
00:54:15Vengo yo
00:54:16De aquí se habla mal pero todo está mucho mejor
00:54:20Mucho mejor
00:54:21Tengo yo
00:54:22Tenemos las luchas
00:54:24Vivo el calor
00:54:25Yeah
00:54:28Tú sabes
00:54:31Chalk it down
00:54:50Sé que llegué tarde
00:54:57Y por eso me toca aceptar que
00:55:00Le diste tu amor a ese cobarde
00:55:02Que solo te trata mal
00:55:04No te sabe valorar
00:55:06Si te hubiera visto antes
00:55:09De seguro fuera diferente
00:55:11No estuviera con ese cobarde
00:55:14Que solo te trata mal
00:55:16No te sabe valorar
00:55:18Que lastima
00:55:20Sabes que soy para ti
00:55:21Pero prefieres estar con el que te lastima
00:55:25Y yo queriéndote a ti
00:55:27Esperando que quieras pasar de página
00:55:31No quiero ser paño de lágrima
00:55:33Quiero que seas mía y de nadie más
00:55:36Quédate conmigo y verás que no vas a extrañarlo
00:55:40Sé que llegué tarde
00:55:42Y por eso me toca aceptar que
00:55:45Le diste tu amor a ese cobarde
00:55:47Que solo te trata mal
00:55:49No te sabe valorar
00:55:51Si te hubiera visto antes
00:55:53De seguro fuera diferente
00:55:56No estuviera con ese cobarde
00:55:58Que solo te trata mal
00:56:00No te sabe valorar
00:56:02Hoy te toca aceptar
00:56:04Hoy te toca aceptar
00:56:05Que todo puede mejorar
00:56:06Que puedes volver a comenzar
00:56:08Una vida diferente
00:56:09Sin los comentarios de la gente
00:56:11Sin nadar contra la corriente
00:56:13Con alguien que te quiera
00:56:14Si, si, en verdad te quiera
00:56:16Y en su lista siempre de primera
00:56:18Yo estoy dispuesto a todo
00:56:20Así que arriesgate y caminemos juntos
00:56:22Dándole la vuelta al mundo
00:56:24Dándole la vuelta al mundo
00:56:25Voy a ser el que te quiera
00:56:26Si, si, en verdad te quiera
00:56:28Y en mi lista siempre de primera
00:56:30Así que eso te sientes, baby
00:56:32Por favor, déjalo fluir
00:56:34Juro no te vas a arrepentir
00:56:35No, no, no
00:56:36Sé que llegué tarde
00:56:38Y por eso me toca aceptarte
00:56:40Le diste tu amor a ese cobarde
00:56:43Que solo te trata mal
00:56:45No te sabe valorar
00:56:47Y si te hubiera visto antes
00:56:49Que seguro fuera diferente
00:56:52No estuviera con ese cobarde
00:56:54Que solo te trata mal
00:56:56No te sabe valorar
00:56:58Y le acabara esa quedarse solo
00:57:00Por todo lo malo que te hizo
00:57:03Por hacerte la vida a pedazos
00:57:06El tiempo a su lado fue un fracaso
00:57:08Vete sin permiso
00:57:10Déjalo solo
00:57:12Por todo lo malo que te hizo
00:57:14Por hacerte la vida a pedazos
00:57:17El tiempo a su lado fue un fracaso
00:57:19Vete sin permiso
00:57:21Hello, hey, hello, my
00:57:23Oh, oh, oh, oh
00:57:25Talk it up, talk it up
00:57:26Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:57:29Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:57:32Que last year
00:57:33Sabes que estoy para ti
00:57:35Pero prefieres estar con el que te lastima
00:57:39Y yo queriéndote a ti
00:57:41Esperando que quieras pasar de página
00:57:44No quiero ser baño de lágrima
00:57:47Quiero que seas mía y de nadie más
00:57:50Quédate conmigo y verás
00:57:52Que no vas a extrañarlo
00:57:54Chucky Town en Afropom, baby
00:58:00Enjoy the music
00:58:02Music, music, music
00:58:04Si tú supieras cuantas veces soñado con que regreses seguro que estuvieras aquí
00:58:20Es que no verte me enloquece y aceptar que otra te besé no estaba en el libretto, baby
00:58:25A veces tomo por olvidarte
00:58:27Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
00:58:29Si tú no estás en la soledad
00:58:31Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
00:58:32La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
00:58:35Por eso yo tomo por olvidarte
00:58:37Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
00:58:39Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
00:58:42La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
00:58:47Yo sé que estoy bajo el efecto correcto
00:58:50Pero es para olvidarte eres el único pretexto
00:58:52Por supuesto
00:58:53Yo soy un hombre con cien mil defectos
00:58:55Pero mal o bien te cogí aspecto
00:58:57Y acepto que no fui lo mejor para ti
00:59:00Pero desde que te vi en tus ojos me perdí
00:59:03Te lo prometí
00:59:04Yo contigo fui lo que nunca fui
00:59:06Los ojitos rojos son por llorar y no por el win
00:59:08A veces tomo por olvidarte
00:59:10Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
00:59:12Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
00:59:15La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
00:59:18Por eso yo tomo por olvidarte
00:59:20Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
00:59:23Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
00:59:26La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
00:59:30Tomo para no saber y pa' desaparecer
00:59:33De la realidad y así matar tu ausencia
00:59:36Tengo que reconocer por dentro me desdose
00:59:38Ahora sé lo que es vivir en abstinencia
00:59:41Le di mi amor pero usted no lo valoro
00:59:44Que aún así te extraño y no sé
00:59:46Si este tiempo fue en vano
00:59:48El alcohol me dibujó tu mano agarrando mi mano
00:59:51Si no supieras cuántas veces he soñado con que regreses
00:59:54Seguro que estuvieras aquí
00:59:56Es que no verte mal lo que sé y aceptar que otras de veces
00:59:59No estaba en el libreto baby
01:00:01A veces tomo por olvidarte
01:00:03Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
01:00:05Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
01:00:08La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
01:00:11Por eso yo tomo pa' olvidarte
01:00:13Por eso yo tomo pa' olvidarte
01:00:14Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
01:00:16Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
01:00:19La luna no sale si no te vuelvo a ver
01:00:23Y acepto que no fui lo mejor para ti
01:00:25Pero desde que te vi en tus ojos me perdí
01:00:27Te lo prometí
01:00:29Yo contigo fui lo que nunca fui
01:00:31Los ojitos rojos son por llorar dinos por Luis
01:00:33A veces tomo por olvidarte
01:00:34Porque sinceramente duele recordarte
01:00:35Si tú no estás en la soledad dano el combate
01:00:36Y yo no te vuelvo a ver
01:00:38No me voy a ver
01:00:39No hice el nuevo sonido
01:00:40No hice el nuevo sonido
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01:01:30What's up guys, I'm standing outside of super well known and very loved, Les Jardins.
01:01:40I think I'm saying that right, my mind wants to do the Spanish thing and say Les Jardins,
01:01:44but Miss Fran here, she's correcting me, she is a local, she is Haitian, she's been coming
01:01:49here for how many years?
01:01:51Almost 17 years now.
01:01:52And this is your spot?
01:01:53This is definitely my spot.
01:01:55Okay, and would you say that like, we're in little Haiti by the way, if you couldn't
01:01:59tell.
01:02:00Out of all the Haitian restaurants, do you think this is the most we love?
01:02:02I love this restaurant, I love the fried pork, I love the fried turkey, oh my god, fish,
01:02:09and sauce.
01:02:10Everything.
01:02:11Fried chicken.
01:02:12Okay, let's get up in there.
01:02:13Let's go.
01:02:14Let's go.
01:02:15Okay, so we have Rani right here, she's going to start with a soup, it's called Jumus soup.
01:02:25Say hi, mommy.
01:02:26Hi.
01:02:27Hi.
01:02:28And with the Jumus soup, it's basically squash.
01:02:31So she's cutting the squash right now, so she can actually boil it.
01:02:37You have potatoes, you have plantains, you have yams that's placed inside of it.
01:02:44So it's like a sancocho that you would call?
01:02:46Yeah, spinach.
01:02:47Yeah.
01:02:48Well, bouillon is on Sunday, so she's actually preparing it for Sunday.
01:02:52Oh, okay.
01:02:53So we're going to go to the kitchen.
01:02:55When I stepped in the kitchen, the first thing I realized, like, this is a legit kitchen.
01:02:59Like, you have women here throwing down big pots, things boiling on the stove.
01:03:02So we're going to find out what's in the pot.
01:03:04This is taco.
01:03:06Basically, taco is turkey, fried turkey.
01:03:09She's boiling the turkey right now, and then they're going to actually fry it.
01:03:13You know, they want to, they like to boil it first and then put it in an épis.
01:03:19Épis is like parsley, onion, uh, what is it?
01:03:23Like a flavor pack, like a satchel of herb.
01:03:25Yeah.
01:03:26It's like, um, sofrito.
01:03:29I like to get it.
01:03:30So this is your pork.
01:03:32It's clean, and they're steaming it now.
01:03:34Yeah.
01:03:35So this is going to be called griot.
01:03:37Everybody loves griot.
01:03:39Oh, that's my favorite.
01:03:40If you don't eat griot, then...
01:03:41I don't got none for you.
01:03:42Sausage chicken.
01:03:43Sausage chicken.
01:03:44Sausage rice.
01:03:45Yeah, you got to have rice.
01:03:46You got to eat that all day long.
01:03:47Ragu.
01:03:48Ragu.
01:03:49Ragu.
01:03:50Ragu.
01:03:51Ragu.
01:03:52Ragu.
01:03:53Ragu.
01:03:54Cab wheat.
01:03:55Black ones.
01:03:56Rice and peas.
01:03:57Susteki.
01:03:58Calano.
01:03:59This looks bomb.
01:04:01This looks exactly like carne frita in Puerto Rico.
01:04:04Although the difference is that in Puerto Rico, we don't boil the pork first.
01:04:09We just fry it outright.
01:04:11And they've boiled it so it's like tender, it's soft, but it's also crispy.
01:04:15Got to have rice.
01:04:16Oh, beans.
01:04:17Mmm.
01:04:18The connection is here on the plate.
01:04:19It's super obvious.
01:04:20Anyone that knows the way our foods connect us will tell you, we'll prepare things.
01:04:22So it's like tender, it's soft, but it's also crispy.
01:04:24Mmm.
01:04:25So it's like tender, it's soft, but it's also crispy.
01:04:27Mmm.
01:04:28Got to have rice.
01:04:29Mmm.
01:04:30Mmm.
01:04:31Mmm.
01:04:32Mmm.
01:04:33Mmm.
01:04:34Mmm.
01:04:35Mmm.
01:04:36Mmm.
01:04:37Mmm.
01:04:38Mmm.
01:04:39Mmm.
01:04:40Mmm.
01:04:41Mmm.
01:04:42Mmm.
01:04:43Mmm.
01:04:44Mmm.
01:04:45Mmm.
01:04:46Mmm.
01:04:47Mmm.
01:04:48Mmm.
01:04:49Mmm.
01:04:50Mmm.
01:04:51Mmm.
01:04:53Mmm.
01:04:54connection. I want to thank Les Jardins. I hope I'm saying that right. No, Les Jardins.
01:04:58That's the Spanish in my mind for having us out here and allow us in their
01:05:02beautiful kitchen. And if you're in Miami, you've got to get to Little Haiti and you
01:05:06gotta check this spot out. Peace y'all. You don't really need too many ingredients to
01:05:11make this, but I was missing a lot of the produce that I needed. So back home, got
01:05:16everything I need and let's get started on this meal.
01:05:21First things first. Caribbeans clean their meat. I just use regular distilled vinegar.
01:05:26It's very common here to use limes and lemons. I put salt down and that
01:05:32prevents the garlic from flying all over the place. I used about 10 garlic cloves.
01:05:51It's cool to drop it to medium high. You don't want these to burn or go round. These are supposed to be golden.
01:06:07These are supposed to be golden and crispy, right?
01:06:13Baby, I want you, I want you, I want you.
01:06:17Baby, I want you, I want you, I want you, I want you.
01:06:21So is this from Haiti or from Puerto Rico?
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