friday means rap music
all this fidel stuff gets me thinking a bit. really about two things. maybe three. one is that there is a widely spread rumor in cuba that raul is gay and that fidel has lingered in power so long, even under failing health, because the macho perception of cuban government would fail with raul in power. i think that having a blanket of poverty in a nation where the literacy rate and aids rate is the same as the US is a lot worse than having someone gay in office. maybe that is just me. well me and . hey, at least everyone can wear a che guevara shirt until the day where the cuba as we x, y, and thumb-generationers know it, becomes the vegas of the caribbean. do people still wear che guevara shirts? i'm still looking for the homer-simpson-che-style one. it seems like that che guevara shirts were a hip sort of thing, along with that snake headed zach de la rocha and his guitar scratchy rap rock to pump in your cd walkman sport. yes, the yellow one. as long as there is a hot topic in your local mall, there will be che guevara shirts, no? and wwe wrestling shirts as well. third point? well, still really working on one solid one, but didn't it seem like everyone knew someone at rawkus records in college? sure, maybe it was just one person, who didn't even go to your school, but just went around pushing medina green or sir men-i-lick cd singles and stickers outside of your local j5 concert and seemed to have some sort of underground creedence since he was the poster man with a backpack stuffed with rawkus gear and unreleased mixtapes thumping out of headphones. if you could actually get him to give up one of his t-shirts in the bag, that was like gold. i am sure i was behind the times, as i often am, but the first reflection eternal i heard was this:
from soundbombing uno.
the last pic i took leaving cuba, was this:
1 comments:
cuba...how i miss thee. i remember trying to get free stuff from every rappy showi went too. ol' rap shows!
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