Hip-hop song becomes drumbeat for Cuban protest movement. July 16, 2021 / 9:06 AM EDT / CBS News ... protesters have been chanting words from a hip-hop song released earlier this year, ...

In honor of its 25-year trajectory, Gente de Zona also released its tenth studio album called Reparto, with the hopes of ...

They also ended up compromising Cuba's vibrant hip-hop culture — which has produced some of the hardest-hitting grassroots criticism since Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.

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At first, the hip-hop operation was run in Cuba by Serbian contractor Rajko Bozic. His project was inspired by the protest concerts of the student movement that helped undermine former Serbian ...

Cuban hip hop artists Las Krudas perform at SXSW in Austin, Texas, 2012. Credit: austin tx/Alan on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0) (WOMENSENEWS)–Black Cubans have long been told by Cuban ...

On broiling summer days more than a decade ago, teenagers here spent hours watching breakdancing on “Soul Train” and listening to American rap floating across the radio waves from Florida ...

A U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop movement, ... the Cuban hip-hop scene that peaked with Los Aldeanos has faded. Aldo, now 31, moved to Tampa. He still performs, ...

Since arriving in Havana several weeks before to investigate Cuba’s work to eliminate racism, I had discovered a collaborative, tight-knit movement that’s gone largely unpublicized in the U.S ...

A U.S. agency's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was "reckless" and "stupid," Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The ...

In Cuba, hip-hop is known simply as el rap, ... "This movement earned a space," he said. "It was able to grow on its own to a point where it could no longer be ignored." Advertisement.

During the biggest anti-government protests on the island of Cuba in decades, protesters have been chanting words from a hip-hop song released earlier this year, calling for the end to Cuba's ...