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Part of the cultural resistance to hip-hop has to do with the music's do-it-yourself style. Musicianship in Cuba is traditionally measured purely by formal skill. Even the players working the lounges of Havana hotels are stunningly accomplished. Older Cubans, accustomed to salsa, have difficulty accepting rap as music...
...average Cuban, who takes home about $20 a month. Even the prices for a boom box and a 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...
...able to persuade the Ministry of Culture to provide a turntable, drum machine, sampler and keyboard for the studio in his aging Spanish-style home in Havana. Thus equipped, he has promoted, produced or managed a dozen or so hip-hop acts, including Cuba's founding fathers of rap, Amenaza, which later reformed as Orishas. Herrera also produced the U.S.-released CD Cuban Hip-Hop All Stars Vol. 1 (Papaya Records), one of the first compilations to capture the new wave of raperos. "Cuba is one of the last places in the world where hip-hop arrived, and that actually...
Once again this summer, Alamar will be the site of Cuba's rap festival, which organizers predict will draw 3,000 to 4,000 listeners and a dozen musicians. Alfonso plans to attend. Even if the electricity cuts off, as it did last year, Cuba's raperos will still find a way to have their...
Every so often, when catchy music, clever marketing and the right timing come together, one record company captures prevailing tastes in a way that enables it to define the musical essence of an era. Motown did so in the 1960s with soul; Def Jam followed in the '80s with rap; and Interscope ruled the mid-'90s by mixing rap and metal...