Rebel Diaz-North
Rebel Diaz are a hip hop duo who currently reside in the Bronx. Sampled from their bio on their website, they describe themselves as "Fronted by MC’s Rodstarz, and MC/Producer G1, Rebel Diaz shows us the true global power of Hip-Hop. After first performing at an immigrant rights march in New York City in 2006 in front of a half million people, the bilingual crew has taken the international community by storm with their explosive live shows. With influences ranging from Chicago house to South American folk, Rebel Diaz combines classic boom bap tradition with Hip-Hop’s global impact. "
More information about Rebel Diaz can be found at their personal website, Rebel Diaz
In my understanding of global migrancy their track North, is a decolonizing narrative about the global flow of migrates from the global "south" to the "north" focusing on the complicity of violences perpetrated through the coloniality of power. It tackles specifically the flow of people into the United States focusing on narrative a tool to convey experience of migrancy, while critiquing labor precarity, criminalization, and the United States' role in creating instability through the war on drugs. Noam Leven (pp 32) in "We are Everywhere" argues, "We had crossed walls, broke down fences, and claimed this land as ours. Our bodies had trespassed, our feet had walked across the line that separates private from public", while these poetics speak of direct action these words highlight the resistance transcommunicated through the condition of migrancy. Migrants do not make such dangerous journeys unless pushed (i.e. forced) (Marfleet 2005). While immigration policies/policing are restricting movement more everyday, the (il)legality of the act does not deter people, the body of the condition (migrancy)-the act of existence is resistance, migrants' bodies trespass.
More information about Rebel Diaz can be found at their personal website, Rebel Diaz
In my understanding of global migrancy their track North, is a decolonizing narrative about the global flow of migrates from the global "south" to the "north" focusing on the complicity of violences perpetrated through the coloniality of power. It tackles specifically the flow of people into the United States focusing on narrative a tool to convey experience of migrancy, while critiquing labor precarity, criminalization, and the United States' role in creating instability through the war on drugs. Noam Leven (pp 32) in "We are Everywhere" argues, "We had crossed walls, broke down fences, and claimed this land as ours. Our bodies had trespassed, our feet had walked across the line that separates private from public", while these poetics speak of direct action these words highlight the resistance transcommunicated through the condition of migrancy. Migrants do not make such dangerous journeys unless pushed (i.e. forced) (Marfleet 2005). While immigration policies/policing are restricting movement more everyday, the (il)legality of the act does not deter people, the body of the condition (migrancy)-the act of existence is resistance, migrants' bodies trespass.
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