Flavia Beaka, 35, from Vallecas in Madrid, has been rapping for more than 20 years. She does not consider herself a veteran, although she remembers well how at 12 or 13 she began to write her verses and the shame she felt when she wanted to sing them in public. "When I started, yes, at some point I felt discriminated against, questioned. Then they made groups in the street to sing and when I was 14 or 15 years old I wanted to join a group, they didn't see me capable and they asked me: Oh, but do you sing? "Referring to the fact that I could sing soul, reggae, but not rap. In that sense, I felt a bit displaced," she confesses to RTVE.
Over the years, he says he feels the respect of those who dedicate themselves to this musical style born in the 70s in the Bronx and Harlem neighborhoods of New York City, within an urban culture called Hip Hop that includes also breaking dance and graffiti.
"Rap means rhythm and poetry, and that's what it's all about", explains Flavia Beaka: "It's a way of making music following rhythmic patterns to link the phrases always with a meaning, always to claim something".
“My rap claims above all freedom. I consider myself a free person as to what to do, as to what to think. I claim my roots because I am bicultural and I have to mention that in music I have never felt discriminated against for being black, but in sports, at work, at school... in those places, yes", says Flavia Beaka, who In addition to being a rapper, she is a futsal player and coach.
07.00 minRappers: women looking to make their voices heard in freedomThe space for women in this musical genre is complicated. It is a very masculinized industry, led by men. “You only have to see the posters of the most important festivals, 90 or 95% are always men. You rarely see a woman. And if you look on the internet, men always come out first and women rarely come out and if women come out we always come out last, that's when we appear," explains Beaka, who adds that "all this" happens "despite the fact that there are many women doing it very good". "I don't know why they talk about female rap and never male rap," asks this rapper, who is about to release her sixth album under the name of Alétheia.
“Strict” (2021) Flavia Beaka
Eskarnia started back in the year 2000 in underground rap. Now 35 years old, she is preparing his second album: Con K by EsKarnia. For this transdisciplinary rapper and actress, being a woman is a sensation, which is why she says: "It's hard to be a woman, not only in rap but in life."
Direct and forceful, she remembers how when she started at the age of 15 they told her: "Come on, if you don't rap like a girl" and that threw her off. She then surprised her and now she continues to normalize the presence of women in rap, she assures her. "The benchmarks have changed, but not so many things have changed. Back then we drew a lot of attention, today society is opening up more, but it is still just as difficult to move up," he explains.
“My songs are feminist because they talk about me. I am a woman, I suffer and live certain things, so since I believe in feminism, my lyrics are impregnated, naturally. However, I do not use political words, although I know that there is a very strong current of feminist and trans feminist rap in Spain", tells us this artist interested in fusion who has dared to cover Quevedo, Marifé de Triana or Gloria Fuertes. "I am interested in rescuing some speeches, giving them another nuance, filtering them and bringing them to the 21st century," explains Eskarnia.
In her role as a music producer and facilitator of rap workshops, Eskarnia is behind the collective 'Hip Hop por mujeres', with which more than 60 artists from the national and international scene want to make urban art made by women visible, make rap a tool for social transformation.
"Gilead" Dan Shiva and Eskarnia
Come together to rap
The Free Sis Mafía collective is a group of friends with a common musical project. Laura Siyahamba, Duku, Salvia, Candela Cuore and Huda have different but similar styles. That is why they have joined their voices to enjoy music and to record their first single, Codeine Love, which will be released before the end of the year.
Madrilenas and those under 26 say they don't make music for women, although they admit that their audience is female. Allergic to labels, they deny that because they are rappers they have to do a feminist rap. "Because you are a woman, they often try to pigeonhole you. Our group tries to get out of that cliché, you are a woman you do rap, because it will be feminist. My speech is feminist because I am a feminist," Huda declares forcefully. Duku insists: "We are feminists, we are citizens, we are sisters, our discourse is not focused on making a feminist political discourse, however, any phrase of ours is feminist because we are."
Laura Siyahamba acknowledges that many people are still surprised that I rap being a "girl" and explains that there is still a lot of discrimination in a style of music that, like society itself, is highly masculinized. "What has happened to us is That they want us on a poster for the fact that we are women, without knowing if they like what we do, if they have listened to us. It seems as if it were the way to give visibility to women, a kind of quota", these young rappers say.
49.27 minFull transcriptionMusic or art is a means, not an end in itself.
The end in itself is education.
The means is to use music and use
anything we have in our hands
to achieve our objectives. Educate.
Art and music to educate. We talk about non-formal education,
the one that is outside the classrooms regulated by law,
compulsory subjects, homework and exams.
Social education sometimes achieves
what educational centers cannot or do not achieve,
motivate and approach young people in another way.
In short, make them feel good.
And why not do it through the music they like,
#I sing what I feel to escape this abyss.
First my principles without ceasing to be myself.
My motives are the same as everyone else's.
I sing what I want because it's what I want, period.
Second, a turning point in each topic.
The desire to write and let go if something burns me.
I seek to produce letters that reach others.
Let me rise to Eden and screw the problems.
Go further than you can go
Let no one or nothing spend your desire to exist.
And every time you feel afraid remember that you are strong
and that with everything you can always go out#.
For me, rap is a way of expressing myself.
It's an escape route.
It's a way I have to express things,
when I don't know how to do it any other way.
It is closing in on myself, getting to know myself better,
tell what I feel and
It's a day to day. Rap is a day to day.
You have your girlfriend, your rap, your friends.
#My time, my talent, my money, my respect, my fear
my suffering, my challenge, my restless ass
my commitment, my duel, my genius, my hell, my heaven
I still listen to a lot of rap
It is a source of inspiration for me.
All Spanish poetry there are some centuries that is pure rap
that they are really telling you what was happening at the time
and I think it's essential that boys and girls
let them tell, let them express themselves, if not, what are they going to do?
If not, what are we going to do?
#That you are not alone that there are many like you
fighting for the same story
that this idea is from your time and there is nothing stronger than that
The truth accompanies you with all its weight.
For social and animal justice,
for all the rights they want to trample on.
There you are, you go with your own fight
in your inner selffeeding that inner fire
that strength, that splendor#.
In adolescence, rap is a way to unload a little
all the anger I carried inside
of counting all the things I didn't understand.
Then, I went through another stage of more ego
to show that I was strong too, that I was worth it.
Right now for me I think rap is a tool for change
in which, not only can things be demonstrated that are wrong,
but also give alternatives, talk about more positive things,
#That walking is a constant memory.
Torrejón is hip hop and that is how his people live it.
Ask for the American baseask for Stoners
funky, fucking 80s hip hop
when there were no naparques and tape
streets and rappers
their feeling was quite
There is still a school that represents the neighborhood
respecting the new and keeping it high#.
Rap is born from the suburbs and ghettos
and since then it has been conceptualized as a music of marginal origin
What we do is try to teach people
that rap can be used in a way
much more socially positive
without having to be showing or showing a marginal part
even though it's in the origin seed, that's obviously where it came from.
#The city breathes in a vacuum that I can't qualify.
Cut off my hope, chisel away my truth.
Whip brush strokes my innocent ashes
and their blindness and wickedness do not cease.
Sad reality.
Greys in the sky that bathe me and purge me of all the darkness.
Go away, solitude. Leave me alone.
But leave here the verses that give me my freedom.
I won't lie to you, I'm sad.
Lonelier than one because there is one, but it no longer exists.
Where did you go I ask my inner self
On the inside I'm winter, on the outside I'm a joke.
You open the window, you see yourself alone and you don't care
You look where it was, but it won't be anymore.
I have to shut up because there are no silent words.
You can call me crazy, hell pain heals me#.
We see rap as a form of expression,
How can it be-A relief. -Clear.
Anyone who paints a picture, well, it's with music.
I think that little by little this country is evolving prejudices
and it looks like another type of music.
A music focused as it has many people in plan or delinquency
or start protesting or disrespecting anyone.
I think it's something more than a form of expression
and what's here.
The reality is that today
the new values burst in with great force
and above all there is a real bond
among the boys and girls we work with,
adolescents between 14 and 17,18 and 19 years old
who feel very identified with these new values.
that are somehow rebuilding a bit
the national hip hop scene, the national rap scene
anchored for many years.
An almost unique proposal and always the same faces.
Good morning.-Hello.
The philosophy of the association Garages work
where there is a need,
as educators who are part of the entity
the claim when addressing educational projects,
basically go through developing projects that give us freedom,
who create free people,
that are not conditioned or mediated by the Administration
and that they let us do it because we are firm and fervent followers
that the social intervention and our educational proposal we believe
that can make all the sense in the world
and can be productive and meaningful
for the boys and girls we work with,
which is the fundamental part.
Music or art is a means, not an end in itself.
The end in itself is education
The means is to use music as an educational instrument
tool for communication and social transformation.
Use whatever we have in our hands
to achieve our goal, which is to educate.
At the time we started working with rap
because we worked in Torrejón de Ardoz,
in collaboration with the social services of Torrejón de Ardoz,
and due to the influence of the American base, it was the cradle,
It was the nerve center of hip-hop culture in Spain.
Then I could brag that it was a birth,
but it really was something of a truism
Well, if people here like this,
we'll have to start working on this.
#Nothing better than knowing that a job well done
get home, little light, something cold from the fridge
and hit that button that says
Only progress after Guinness record rap job
hunch I called him from the beginning.
To this precipice that has no fixed home.
Hard pillow, curse of another look
He walked just to walk and without knowing where he was, he screwed up.
Vinyl records outshone me.
Rap studies with rappers of those I dreamed of#
We are in one of the mythical and classic places
of the hip hop scene in Torrejón
It is the bridge of the San José neighborhood.
Here we used to get together with the cars, with the music,
with large speakers, to listen to instrumentals
for pretty impromptu rapping
with letters that you brought from home.
Well, it's not random that the site was the bridge,
because it is a place where all the neighborhoods converged
and all the young people from the neighborhoods who liked culture
or the hip hop movement and especially rap.
#Today I live rap from my angle I configure the triangle
you bring out with a sharp, raw sense, I'm not dumb,
I came into the world in another hard winter
I swear I luvis them and shut up, give me a beat
lend me another image
I write from the margin of this sea of coincidences#.
Always taking as an axis what would be the train track
we can find all the people who were going around the tracks
or by the tracks walking to San Fernando
or to Alcalá
Occupying the walls, painting graffiti.
#Sleep self-conscious
I am another adjective for them, for them another lazy,
and I have never wanted to know myself cautious
and be the result of the broken spreadsheet#.
For many, Torrejón means the beginning of a stage,
the well-known history of the americans with the air base
who settled in Torrejón, began to open up socially,
and they also open their businesses
and among them one of the live music clubs
that open in Torrejón which is Stones
The Americans even came with their convertible cars
they came with stunning women
and there were always DJ sessions that played the songs
that even here in Spain it was very difficult for them to arrive.
We're talking about the mid to late 80's.
#I see the others from here and pass.
I am a believer in this religion of triumphs and failures.
I die in a lunge a day after another job.
I lose youth and I don't care if I relax#.
I remember in this second generation that I have lived
and I've been lucky enough to work at Stones
that no radio, no television, no one beyond listened to rap
if it wasn't at Stones.
For us it was a meeting place
and a place where we could share that passion for rap
that was beginning to be born.
I realize that the educational, social
is the one that really interests me to work with these types of sectors
of young people in situations of social exclusion
makes me as a musician deal with a social issue
that really interests me much more than maybe maybe
in mainstream rap
where the ego has a much more leading role
and with this aspect of Arteseducador social
because I explore other types of activities, which above all as an artist
It fills me up so much more.
#How to forget the welcome, the music in the neighborhood of La Vega
There are always those who are happy to see you,
There is never a lack of someone who hugs you tight and enriches you
It drives you crazy, the love they give you, without asking for anything in return
That's the only truth.
While you see good or evil with your gaze.
We put a lot of art against social exclusion#.
La Vega Barrio Visible is a project
that we want to give visibility to the neighborhood of La Vega
within the municipality of Mejorada del Campo,
because it is somehow a “forgotten” neighborhood
well, we tried to put the light or focus on that neighborhood
for people to see
that all those prejudices people have about La Vega,
and I repeat, especially in the municipality of Mejorada they are more than anything
Fruit of ignorance of the people who live there.
#And no, I don't need anything else to fly
if I have your friendship, I already have security
My family and little else to dream about.
There are no borders wherever you want to go.
It's a forgotten slum below when Mejorada ends
the neighborhood of La Vega in la vega
but nevertheless we want to show the world that we really
what is the neighborhood of La Vega is a great family.
I have something already written.
Collect all that artistic influence that there is in La Vega
It was another of our needs.
There are many boys and girls who play instruments,
many who sing
and making sense of all that inside the neighborhood was something
which was a priority for us.
In the end, another of the keys to non-formal education happens
for taking advantage of the centers of interest of the boys and girls
and from there turn it into your methodology or your way of doing things
#Because rain no longer saddens the soul nor does calm suffer alone
pain always reaches its point, neither the alarm nor warnings
shadow of a young shadow, believe me it feels
how those who can't see feel#.
I felt the artistic need to go on that excursion
between flamenco and rap, especially with them,
with Isra and Vicente who are true unknown artists
inside the neighborhood of La Vega are banners of a message
and the idea that it is broadcast in the La Vega neighborhood.
#The engines that generate smiles where I live
and where can I.
I look up at the sky believing that if I ask it will give me what I want
and I just look for your look and my song in your nothingness
and I never find anything.
I just look for your look and I never find anything.
And I never find anything#.
For us Interraption is that final event
where young people will also have their leading role
And we also worked with the idea that Interrapción is the stage,
be an opportunity,
a peephole through which the world will be able to see them
And they are going to feel like the main artists, well, for a while.
#To think that you didn't leave and that it doesn't matter what I think
and I just look for your look
and i never find anythingand i never find anything.
I just look for your look and I never find anything
and I never find anything#
Interrapción is a project that this year celebrates its tenth edition
it's a rap music festival that in a way what it's done
for many years is to amplify the message of Garaje
and take it to a stage and a mass audience.
In addition, Interraption is a space in which we are going to allow
that boys and girls who participate in Garage projects
A lot of art in Mejorada del Campo as well as in the neighborhood of La Fortuna
act on this stage
that in some way for them and for them it is still a prize
being on a big stage.
A big round of applause for them.
Vicente and Israel on guitar and cajón
from the Garage Association project
a lot of art against social exclusion.
In Interrapción 2016 this year the leitmotiv is young people.
Youth for Interraption.
The fundamental objective has been to bring together very young artists on the bill
together with boys and girls who organize the Festival
and generate the ideal environment for young people to stop being
that group constantly vilified and criticized
for his way of doing things, for his way of understanding life.
How are we here?
#I'm looking for my lifeI can't find a way out
The future will bring what you decide,
what you decide is the game and what to fight for#.
As much as your songs are known
You can't stop being amazed every day.
Every day you get on any side to sing
and someone sings, a person sings a song and it's already amazing.
There's no way to explain it.
It's a feeling that can't be explained. -It's very complicated.
I tell you to start anything that right now you feel everything
There's an impressive change.
The first impression it gives is that you have created another world apart
within your own world.
The moment a person,
only one person out of all the people in the world
I thank you for what you're doing,
you realize you're actually doing it right
and that you have let off steam with what you are doing
and managed to see someone else not drown
what he was living in.
#I'm the same guy from a few years ago
but I am very clear that nothing in life
It's going to stop me when I want to do something.
I follow my way along with rap
I'm looking for my life
I'm looking for my life, I can't find a way out
the future doesn't matter what it decides#.
I think to change the world with rap you have to try
reach the head and heart
to many people who are willing to want to change it, that is,
you have to know where to put your hand,
the little finger in the sore
and above all be aware of what you sing
and be okay with it,
don't sing it because you know people will like it,
that is, not to be hypocritical, not to be anything like that.
You don't have to be a liar, you have to tell the truth.
And whoever likes it will join the cause and will be with you
If you don't like it, thank you and see you again.
#I'm looking for my lifeI can't find a way out
the future will bring.
Whatever you decide in the game
there's always something to fight for#.
I think the motivation in these types of projects
is very important.
We already knew certain people, certain kids
who had worked with us before,
what we knew about the La Vega neighborhood
and that what it has done to us has been an effect called
within the youth of the La Vega neighborhood
and they are young people who really exude a lot of enthusiasm
and who always want to do a thousand things,
so we have created different activities, different workshops,
such as photography, music workshops
what we have been doing has been guiding these workshops always
to the experimentation and search for the talent of these young people
when it comes to your artistic creativity
#Oh, oh, oh, you will be for me
oh, oh, oh, you will be for me,
oh, oh, oh, they will be for me#.
There were mostly a couple of projects that we created and one was
from clothes that we have forgotten at home
or clothes that other people are willing to throw away,
we are going to do a clothing recovery workshop
and then with those clothes we wanted them to have an image
or simulate an image of a musical group.
We did a photo session
in which the young women wore the clothes they had customized
with the motivation that this entails
they made those photos
The greatest joy we have given those parents when they have seen it.
Matt!
Maite, do you know who the artist is coming up with now? -No.
But do you know who's coming?-No.
Besides, we wanted that within the Interraption scenario
also had a place and what we have done has been
that the girls themselves are going to be presenters with me
by certain artists
and they'll get a chance to tell the world
we are here, we have worked,
and here we are before five or six thousand people
presenting Interraptionwith the Garage Association
and with Much Art against social exclusion.
Do you know who I'm talking about?
With all of you Woyza.
For me it means being here a fortune
that they count on me again
and more at an event related to the social movement
and trying to change something
and that has to do with my music, it represents me.
So I couldn't be happier.
#Everyone is free to express their opinion
everyone says what they think one should think.
Tell me how much I owe, is what I have to put up with,
Happiness I pursue, no and no, it will not harm me.
I know the family cares
and his discomfort is partly part of this my discomfort.
Also that friends wonder
Where is Sofía?, in the photograph, I'm never usually there#.
It is an opportunity to meet new artists,
to better understand what these young people think and what interests they have
because they're not the same ones I had ten years ago.
Something has changed,
the way we communicate is totally different,
they are virtual I still believe in the CD,
I still believe in vinyl
and see how they work, after all it is a renovation
but that is quite unrelated
of the generation that raised hip hop in this country.
#If it's what your soul asks for,
If she's the only one that calms you down,
You don't let it go for nothing.
That's why I need it the most
To vent part of my emotional intimacy#
Making music opens curiosity, opens the head
It helps you to understand, to empathize.
And yes, the language that has been used has been sexist,
but as in so many other things
hip hop continues to be another more macho culture
as well as other musical genres
What's up? that doesn't matter,
as it is a protest music, revolutionary in many aspects
they won't play it on the radio,
but we have to vindicate
we have to really talk about what we feel, where we are
and put everything in its place.
#They expected me for being a woman
that she learn to be submissive, delivered and willing to obey
that would never stand out, that would accommodate me in a second role
in the background that I already got over yesterday#.
I think right now the role of women in rap
is to get noticed.
Because it is true that there are several Spanish artists in rap
and worldwide consecrated,
but it is true that they are fewer
and it's not because there aren't women who do rap,
but because they are not given the same possibilities,
as in many other areas of life.
Then success is simply arriving
and fight to be there and to show that we are worth it.
Then if the message was feminist it would be perfect.
But once I got there, I think it would be a success.
#And I'm sorry to tell you that the other thing is friendly dependency.
No, don't expect that from me, I'm going to let you down,
I plan to disappoint you with all your gifts
I'm going to rebel, I'm going to rebel.
They waited because it's a slum and raised without a father
that I had no dreams and let me fall#.
I started listening to rap long before I knew
who wanted to be an educator,
in fact, I did high school as if I were going to do architecture
but when I had to decide I thought
I want to study something that is related to being with people
and I started to investigate and saw what pedagogy I liked
It was later that I realized that music and rap
it was also a way to communicate problems
and try to change things a bit through art.
#Don't let other people's ideas limit you
get rid of everything you are that you haven't chosen
only then can you say
that you and no one else is the one who walks your path.
No, don't expect that from me
I plan to let you down, I plan to let you down
of all your gifts I'm going to rebel, I'm going to rebel#.
Besides that my family has lived in Fortuna
and I still have family in Fortuna
I had worked here in a school
and then I met Garage in a bit of a haphazard way
and they told me there was a project in La Fortuna
and everything began to fall into place.
You and you are going to dedicate yourselves to being
sociocultural animators, educators
if tomorrow you are going to work with a group of boys and girls
and it turns out that there is a boy who has very low self-esteem
and that this generates insecurity, sadness and isolation,
what do you think is the reason?
Fear of relating to others due to
because he sees himself in a negative way
and then he is afraid of others judging him
and before those things happen, he isolates himself to protect himself.
And since I don't know you well, you don't know how to express yourself either
and be sociable.
That's why they always isolate themselves, they're sad, they're withered.
When I started dancing too, boys and girls, it was very bad
de, I don't want to see it, please, no.
I started with low self esteem
but instead of taking them negative comments
of the people who want to see you worse
Well, inside me I said: Well, I'm going to get over myself.
And then the people who called me Joel, but if you're not good,
now they tell me: Crazy, can you teach me a little step please?
And everything changes.
And you feel better.
And that's when your self-esteem multiplies
and you can encourage other people to tell them:
Hey! I teach you to dance uncle, I used to be like you,
but look at me nowyou have to pay to see me.
For Garaje the courses of monitors and free time monitors
They are more than just training courses.
What people don't know when they sign up is that what we're looking for
is to generate lovers of social education.
Obviously it is a profession
which is regulated in the Community of Madrid,
also has a specific degree
that opens work doors for you.
But, for our part, what interests us most about that formation
is that people have the opportunity on the one hand to realize
that education is the most important profession
and prettier than there is,
There is no other that will generate more changes
and by another who begins a journey of self-learning
and self-awareness.
And we try to generate little windows that people open
randomly based on your needs, your rhythms
of their desire, of their interests
and show small possible worlds.
Children also sometimes need to be told:
Whoa, you did very well even if it's a horrible doodle
you have to tell him because it's very good
because that way you reinforce their self-esteem
you reinforce that, well, I don't know how to draw,
but i'm gonna try harder and i'm gonna do better
because if you let it go for that child it's still
a doodle he has done in his spare time.
Okay, we need to do self-esteem
from a multidimensional perspective
and that, tomorrow when you go to work you don't have to forget it.
Of course don't judge by what it seems to the naked eye,
for this it is essential to maintain respectful relations
and trustworthy with people
so that person is willing to talk to you
not just in terms of what's bothering you and what's wrong with you
but also in terms of what might not be so good
of my personality, right?
And you have to try to generate that from the first moment.
Currently several of the people who are part of the Garage team
they are also part of social education projects
of social intervention that we carry out.
For example in Buscando Fortuna there are people
who are forming an active part of the team as interns
who have gone through our training courses
The recording studio is run by people who,
in their day, as children, they took part in rap workshops
And, to this day, they are educators of the entity.
#Hanged with the sheetsno one kills me.
I come with the past on my shoulders, pride and hunger.
And fuck laziness and my fucking mother.
When I start crying I'm unstoppable.
More or less in this life, I'm getting by.
The shit that surrounds me with so much talk.
I give everything for the family, the close one, and the one who saw me grow
and tucked me in bed#
This all started as a result of a hip hop workshop
that was taught in my town, in Velilla de San Antonio,
The people who gave that workshop were the Garage Association.
Then, that same year the first edition of the Festival was held
and we went as a public, flat out to enjoy the festival that had
then we were invited backstage to meet the artists
And then you are already taking part in the process, and you are getting involved
and you learn how to work, what actions are performed,
what each person does, and, well, you learn.
And, until the tenth edition of this year, which is the Anniversary,
we've gone from just being public,
kids who saw it from below, well, to be an active part
Well, we have a recruitment team, a press team,
and we are a team of ten people, carrying out
everything that is the process of the Festival
I have grown up with the work of Garaje,
because I have grown as a person and artistic growth has been seen
social growth.
And apart from working as a sound technician,
I also have ten years of musical career
And that helps me a lot to empathize with the people who come
to record in the studio.
Okay guys, the studio is big though
but we fill it up,
what we will do is that three will enter,
two will be seated and silent
while the one who has to record records,
the rest, the other three wait here, okay?
We recorded as before, first the main voices,
then the choruses
and once all the voices are there we record the chorus, okay?
-Okay.
La Fortuna is a small neighborhood, so it is very manageable,
everyone knows each other, it's easy to get to the boys and girls.
The economic level is lower than in other places.
The crisis is raging.
In addition, the lack of formation of families is higher
than in other neighborhoods,
and that prevents them from accessing better-paid jobs
and also that many of the families live off the underground economy.
#I want to make one thing clear
so much stupidity and few things settle
Let them say what they want, everything is a stampede
of bad ideas and lies.
Let them say what they want, I mean
that this neighborhood is good because it fights for you.
Everything is exactly the same to me
I'll only believe what's true.
Fortune, Fortune, Fortune
from your sidewalks that the moon shines brighter
and like your people I didn't know any in Fortuna.
Fortune, Fortune, Fortune
from your sidewalks that the moon shines brighter
and like your people I didn't know any in Fortuna#.
What there is in general is a lack of motivation for academics,
which often leads to abandonment very early.
Boys and girls are little motivated by formal education
and they don't get enough training either
To enter the labor market in conditions.
#Good influences, good people
you have six friends, but five leave you
One thing happens to the companies in my neighborhood
they don't get up
In my neighborhood few schools, but good students
They say we're poor, but we're elegant.
If a rapper is good, then they said it before.
You listen to this song so that your flow is scared.
And through things they like like rap,
you can try to influence aspects
that from formal education it is not possible
for that early abandonment.
Anto, how are you doing? I can't complain.
what do you want to be when you grow up?
I'd like to be a private detective or a lawyer or...
Hey, you don't have to be a virus for society either.
Let's see, the dream of each one
One thing is what you fulfill
I want to fly, you're not going to get it (jaleíllo)
School is useful, but people see it as useless.
When I start the class itself I feel comfortable
because when I come I'm with friends and stuff
but soon after I'm in class I get bored.
Let's see, in the classes, in the Institute you have a good time,
because there is someone who always messes it up and is funny
Doing homework and such
what doesn't seem like goods to me why does he punish me.
You, for whatever reason you forget,
anything of these duties.
Studying seems very good to me because it is something that is needed
but, you don't have to be so picky either.
If I study I know I'm going to get a better job and that
Because every more career you have and all that,
First I have to study and then I'll get a good job.
I prefer to get a degree first
because if I leave like this at the age of 16 from the Institute
I don't know if I'm going to find a job.
Thousands of people who have a resume with 20 pages
and they still don't have a job-yes that's true
There are people who study and get nothing,
well it's better to have it there just in case, you know?
The question is that they are many years and over time you get tired
That's what happens to most people, you know.
In elementary school you can be very good, excellent
and then in ESO, as happens to many people,
so you say now
But keep in mind brother that it's 12 years of your life like this
you have to finish school for six years
and then, if you want to do up to Baccalaureate, another six,
and wait until you don't repeat yourself.
Better work
because studying, after all, is not going to do you any good.
To have a better resume. But if they don't hire you, what?
Better work.
#Let the ink spilldark color
You've stumbled upon a wizarding quarter, I swear
Fortune has bad people and a bad reputation,
but I remind you that there are all over the world
Nine, ten and seven, we don't live on the fringes
why lie we don't wear suits
there is no direction or air
stop commenting before seeing the landscape.
In the beginning when we started
we wanted to do a topic about the neighborhood
and the idea was to show that it was a super bad neighborhood
that no one could get close because they were the baddest
and if people came from outside they were going to hit them.
and stuff like that that's not really true then
because they are beautiful people.
And now, however, over time, we return to that idea
when we see that it is already possible,
and from them without further ado it comes out that we must demonstrate
that the neighborhood has very good, very positive things,
that not everything is what it is painted,
that it is a neighborhood that is worth it
In other words, they have changed the perspective of things a bit.
What do you think?
Do you think children are taken into account when decisions are made?
For example, in politics. All: No.
Because if they make a park why don't they ask me what I want in the park
if the park is for me.
Basically a soccer field...
At the beginning it was very difficult for us and there were very hard days
because the relationship they have built with adults
who are not from your family
is totally mistrustful
In addition, everything that has to do with education,
either directly or indirectly it grates on them
It makes their hair stand on end, they don't want to know anything.
Come on, focus.
Let's write some verses, okay?
Now?-Yes, now.
Little by little we have built, I think, healthy relationships
in which we are all comfortable
that we still have a lot to work on,
but at least there are no insults, we are happy
The boys come very happy.
The day I have and let me comment
in my brain I have a lot of capacity
and things I could contribute,
but the others know how to tell me to shut up.
They don't care about my work or that I try hard
I didn't waste the day studying without stopping.
Very good!
The first thing we had to do was deconstruct a bit
the idea they had of rap.
Well, today we find
that there are many different ways to rap
and many different styles.
And to the one they have the most affinity for their way of life
and because they are in their teens at that moment of egos,
because they have more to do with rap than demonstrate
that one is the best, the toughest, the strongest
so even though that's very respectable
even if we don't share it,
because this is an educational project and you have to understand
that people come here to do things, but as long as
respect others.
They are talented and know,
what happens is there are days that are better
and there are days when they don't feel like it so much.
But they alone write, they alone listen to the songs
and they alone rehearse it
the ideas they want they put on paper
which I think is the most beautiful.
Put your thoughts down on paper.
I started because I found out there was an instructor course
leisure and free time
and it caught my attention
And as a result of the course I did the internship with Asociación Garaje
and here in La Fortuna.
And I chose this branch because I think it's needed, it doesn't help,
but motivation in our neighborhood.
And have someone do things in our neighborhood.
This group is called Large Caliber
Please, I want you to make a very big noise,
and hot, hot, hot for Blake and Shark
#Fucking hand in the air, everyone...
Come on, the moñada is over and let's vibrate!
#Laugh at night, cry to me tomorrow.
Suck on the wound like a dog and see if it heals.
Take me with you to the universe where you live,
and where love is cured with another cock in bed.
Life doesn't give you what you want,
It takes away what hurts and gives you back more memories than pleasures.
That's the shit we got unfortunately.
Love does not satisfy me,
and I lie to myself hoping that one day it will slip through.
I've seen so many words fly.
I touch wood and at the moment only my boards save me.
They talk but say little and don't show shit.
I shoot because I shoot, but I always shoot down#
Gran Caliber already is, it's like a way of living, of doing things.
We started making music very soon
and he just had one group and I had another
and we agreed on a vacation in the Canary Islands.
And we were there by the beach,
I remember Las Canteras, in Gran Canaria.
And we decided to say, come on, let's write a theme
that we have nothing.
Do you remember, a girl left you, me too
We were 16 years old-We were there like hurt,
in our world.
And it was that, we wanted to release it,
We did the song, we took it out, people liked it
We said: we're going to do three more songs or something like that.
Without means or any kind of anything.
So, what I like about this group is that
Besides that we collaborate together, we are like brothers.
We're good friends.
Anything that crosses your mind or me,
can be translated into music. And then it always works.
#You want some advice, okay? Shut up.
Silence says everything, listen to it
You know what you feel when you know what hurts
and if you don't feel the pain, talking about love is nonsense.
I live in love by distance,
Music loves me because I give it importance.
I treat her with the care of a hug from your childhood.
I don't make great songs, I do magic#.
For me, what my music and ours represents is that process
in which you are silent, thinking, scratching yourself, that, putting words to it.
That is, I do not represent with words a situation that has happened to me
but silence.
What goes through your head try to put words to it
because, after all, the way we make music
is that, something that everyone understands,
because we don't think we're special.
It's what happens to everyone.
So, that's why I think it reaches people.
# don't go, I'm just missing your lips.
And you're not here anymore,
looking for you yesterday and todayI just cross off the calendar#.
When we told the kids their idols were coming
like Dante or Blake, they jumped.
They jumped for joy.
It was telling him and jumping for joy.
They were like 5 minutes of clock jumping across the middle of the street
they're coming, they're coming, I already want the day to come!
What to do in snuff music
for any message, whatever you feel.
Battles have to be a show of skill
it is nothing else.-Do not confuse that with saying
hey! We are the best, no.
Rap is also about respect.
At first it's a little impressive
because it is not something that has normally happened to us either
It gave me a lot of nostalgia with the boys. -Yeah.
I identified a little with them
because when I was his age we all listened to rap
and we saw people we liked a lot and such
what happens is that you never think about it like
I'll be someone someday than a kid this age
can come to feel so identified.
Don't mistake the fact that you suddenly now start doing things
you start giving concerts or whatever,
have your head, although it is difficult because of how old you are
but you have to keep her calm.
You should be aware that life is not being a rapper
You have to work.
There are more important things.
Be very clear.
There are people who just because you are a rapper already take you for a thief,
bad people and all that.
But your life doesn't have to revolve around that.
I mean, you're not rappers, you're people.
And being people, you rap.
That kids can express themselves like that seems important to me.
Everyone has problems at any age,
more important or less important
but 13-year-old kids are looking for relief,
they want to feel that there are people who have the same problems as them.
They get hooked on this kind of music
and the moment they discover they can do it too
with their own capacity when participating in workshops
in the neighborhoods and that they be helped with rap schools and movements of these
free enough.
Makes you feel like I'm not alone at home doing I don't know,
It gives them a commitment, a continuity when it comes to doing these things.
#We have different tastes, but who cares
You can match the people of La Fortunano.
And I'm going to tell you one thing:
that La Fortuna for me is the capital of the country
Fortune, Fortune, Fortune
from your sidewalks the moon shines brighter
and like your people I didn't know any in La Fortuna
Fortune, Fortune, Fortune.
From your sidewalks that the moon shines brighter
and like your people I didn't know any in Fortune
I've been freaking out with the kids.
You are, how old are you? Boys: Thirteen
You already rap better than me when I was 18
It's true, huh
To death with the neighborhood, which is where you grew up
and where do you have to say, we come from here
and let people say.
#Oh mother, oh mother, I'm still waiting for the rain to stop.
My mother, his mother.
If you leave the door will be locked,
That's why I don't want this to end.
This idea of making the theme of mothers arises
to change the perspective that they had a bit of rap
as a tool to show you're the toughest,
that is the strongest
try to smooth that out a bit and see,
talking about something more positive, how things changed.
#You are the best mother. You seek your life for me.
You keep her from looking at me and fill the fridge with food.
You take me to school and also to the river.
You make me not cold at night.
I could be right. My heart beats for you.
You'll take care of me until I die. You make me have everything I want.
What they say about me doesn't matter a damn.
I believe that with you I am no longer afraid#.
My son, I don't want him to go down the street or to the parks,
because La Fortuna is very bad
and I said yes,
that I was fine with him going to rap school.
And, day by day, I saw how the boy became interested,
and he'd go into his room, get his pen, write songs
He would go out, read the sentences to me
he told me, mom, what do you think of this phrase
And I said oh, very good
But at first I didn't really know what I was writing about
I mean, well, that will be for school.
Because everything turns out well, you have put so much effort
Not even with the rain in my heart will your steps be erased
In you, flow, it comes with the light
And if it weren't for my dear mother,
I would never ever have this virtue.
I will always love my mother,
she has taken away my hunger,
and if anyone hurts him, I'll swear revenge.
And one day, well, he told me that at the school he was at,
he was learning to make sentences,
and to make a song that was special and was a gift.
She seems very good to me, of course, as a mother.
I was proud of my son.
That I'm doing something and something good.
To me it's a good thing for him.
This theme, especially for our mothers
The mother who gave birth to us.
#You've always taken care of me. Thank you mom.
I also thank you that you will surely take care of me.
I'm not asking you to do anything else.
Now it's my turn to take care of you day by day.
And all this I do for you,
because every morning you cheer me up#.
We believe that education does not consist of transmitting knowledge,
education is not about telling you what you need to know
and how do you know.
Among other things, because knowledge is endless
and I can't know everything about everything.
It seems to us that a monolithic system,
responsive only and exclusively
to a law that sets academic objectives,
cannot meet people's needs;
of any kind of person
and even less of people in social difficulties.
What we try is that people have a space
where they think about themselves,
where they think about their needs,
where they look at the world with different eyes,
where they see other forms of relationship,
and where above all they feel loved and loved.
The motivation factor is one of the keys to education,
and this is a reality, isn't it?
We have to accompany their lives,
It's not up to us to decide what they have to do,
And we probably haven't invented anything since Garage either
other than loving people.
#To shine you don't need to have an audience.
To shine you need to believe in yourself.
To shine, just think that you are unique and that you are an icon
and this is how it's going to go.
I don't leave behind what I have, what I live, what I really think.
Time will pass, we'll be in this,
dying and fighting for and for rap
I don't leave behind what I have, what I live,
what I really think.
And what comes will be welcome because I always enjoy
and what has to come will come#
#I'm in the movement. And I keep moving forward.
This is rap. That's why I'm talking to you#.
Crónicas - Crónicas de rap - watch now"Right now being intercultural, being open, being a feminist or anti-racist sells, and many companies use it to whiten their image. Sometimes we see it as the label, as the percentage that there is to comply", sums up Duku. In addition, they think that an image of a beautiful, sexy woman is commodified with which they do not agree. "The industry tries to use us, although we try to work freely. We work with whoever gives us a good vibe, with whoever really likes our work and not because we are girls, boys or whatever," confirms Salvia.
Female references
When you ask the women who do rap now for their references, they always come up with the same names. "The day I heard La Mala Rodríguez for the first time, I thought: who is that powerful lady who rubs shoulders with all men? Could I do that? Maybe if I hadn't listened to her, I wouldn't be dedicating myself to this now." , reflects Duku.
Eskarnia vividly remembers her experience listening to Ariadna Puello: “She had a record, The Perfect Hook, that she kept listening to. She identified me with her lyrics, she spoke of the street, of the struggle, with a force, with some phrases that went through me. He even cried with his songs. I want to do that, I thought, I want to be a musician, I want to make music so that others can be moved."
Ariadna Puello, Mala Rodríguez, Lady Yaco, Mefe, Gata Cattana Shuga Wuga are some of the names of female rappers who are now rapping. Strong voices that have inspired women willing to give up the battle of verse and perhaps also become benchmarks for the youngest.
