Guanabee To Go: Anti-Establishment Rap Music To Question Your Integrity In Manhattan

This Sunday, a four-act set of political hip-hop is bringing its soapbox and hot air to ethnically-minded Manhattan dinner club, S.O.B.’s. (Did we mention they’are all Latino?) So if you’re into waving banners and everything else that this emcee is into, be our guest:

“I speak about political issues, social concerns, anti-imperialist causes, the independence of Puerto Rico, class struggle,” says [Intifada MC Luis] Díaz, 32, who by day is a high school teacher. “I believe in the equitable distribution of wealth.”

Ah, the bitter irony of railing against the Man as a rapper only to follow his orders as a teacher. To be fair, we can relate to Díaz’s gig since we spend the day learnin’ the kids a thing or two within the limits of a well-defined system. (Then again, we get to crack jokes about porn.)
But don’t think for a second he’ll be cornering the market on all the revolution at this show, cuz one of the other acts has it in their blood:

Rebel Díaz was formed in Chicago by brothers RodStarz and G1 (Rodrigo Venegas, 26, and Gonzalo, 22, sons of Chilean exiles) and Lah Tere (Teresita Ayala, 22, the daughter of Puerto Ricans.) “We are the children of rebelliousness, which was our parents’ experience,” says Rodrigo Venegas.

We actually went to college with one of the Venegas brothers and have to admit we’re impressed to see how far he’s come. It’s funny to think that within a pot-dealing, shit-starting NYU freshman was the bleeding heart of a freedom fighter.

Political hip-hop at SOB’s [NY Daily News]
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