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...circled the globe during the mid-1990s. Why did it take so long to get a foothold in Cuba, the richly musical culture that gave the world rumba and mambo? "Hip-hop everywhere else has one reality. We have another," explains Ariel Fernandez, 24, a DJ, organizer of Alamar's annual summer rap festival and a central figure in Havana hip-hop. Fernandez couldn't be more right: Cuba's record industry is entirely government run, from the recording studios to the record stores. Which means that raperos, like bus drivers, hotel clerks and doctors and lawyers, work...
...turntable--the two launching pads of the U.S. hip-hop explosion--are prohibitively high. So only a few raperos have had the privilege of actually making a CD. Cuban rap thus evolved first as a live art form. "Hip-hop is not a good business here yet," admits Fernandez. "Very few people can afford to buy the CDs, and most of the clubs can only charge a $1 cover, which doesn't yield enough to pay a rapper and stay in business long." The rappers of Grandes Ligas make ends meet by living at home with their parents...
...Staff writer Daniel E. Fernandez can be reached at dfernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...already: "I loooove Okinawa. Why? The ladies, they're all beee-yooo-tiful." There's a difference between viewing the ladies as delectable temptations, though, and seeing them as a free buffet course. "A young, dumb guy can get to thinking they're there for the taking," says Ray Fernandez, 33, a black former serviceman with 15 years in Okinawa...
...already: "I loooove Okinawa. Why? The ladies, they're all beee-auuu-tiful." There's a difference between viewing the ladies as delectable temptations, though, and viewing them as a free buffet course. "A young, dumb guy can get to thinking they're there for the taking," says Ray Fernandez, 33, a black former serviceman with 15 years in Okinawa...