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before that. But, musically I just like people who are sincere like Le Tigre. Le Tigre is just so innovative and they put so much into it and there are so many dimensions to it. I immerse myself into all kinds of music and I am open to anyone who is coming from a real sincere place. So that is anyone from Le Tigre to Elzhi (slum village). Detroit is where techno started, so Underground Resistance. I might have never really listened to techno as much, but when I hear somebody who is doing it innovatively like UR, I know that that is what sincere music is about. Coming from a really personal place, that you can`t express any other way than through music in a way that can be universally understood.

In a world a without emotional and monetary barriers, what would you like to do, musically?

Music you can't disconnect from the real work that needs to be done. It is amazing to me how much art is inseparable from movement building allover the world. The way Hip Hop is in Palestine, there is a dope documentary I want you all to check out called slingshot hip hop: the palestinian lyrical front - www. slingshotHip Hop.com and also the way Hip Hop is in Brazil.

I saw that where I was in Salvador, which is in the North-East of Brazil. There is so much Hip Hop when you go to the outskirts

of the city, they call it the periferia, when we played at jams in schoolyards or put on our own parties. There are so many rappers out there, because you need only a microphone and maybe a pen to copy your lines down.

Exactly, and what would people talk about there?

In Rio it is more like party lyrics, gang lyrics, take your shirt off, sex. In Salvador it is more about minimal wages, violence in their communities, basically their daily struggle.

Exactly, my friend just went there and told me they have nucleos, hip hop crews. And not only do they make music, they also work in their favelas to improve life in their communities.

You know what my friends in Salvador say? They say the fifth element of Hip Hop is social work.

Exactly, well you don't need to call it social work.

What do you call it?

Well the movement. Social work is one way to put it. When originally the elements were created, the fifth element was knowledge. Now a lot of the work that has been done through Hip Hop is bringing self-awareness to people.
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