"Ghetto" is a word that conveys violence, marginalization, space, confinement, (dis)placement from power and a radical geography to challenge. Based on the social conditions of the speaker, that word conveys an archive of historical knowledge, traumas, and coding of language, on the lips of coloniality "ghetto" has been turned into an adjective meaning at "best" (i.e. liberal bigots*) the poor and destitute in need of civilizing and saving, at worst it conveys the complete and total dehumanization of brown bodies, a need to be protected by force from this criminal element of society. In the rhythm and response of the subaltern, the reclaiming and renaming of the ghetto, sensing of space and finding meaning in place. I use Cambio's track as both juxtaposition and mirror to Marc 7's "Ghetto Streets". It inverts imagery and word to reflect coloniality's distorted face, the communicating of image to cortex, the complicit violence created on black and brown bodies who are blamed for their social conditions.


Tracks on this mix are my use of sonic devices to transcommunicate my understanding of social conditions (mostly rooted in monetizing systems). In decolonizing hip hop form, this mix is my attempt to reclaim the narrative of value through human dignity. The counter hegemonic cultural producers on these tracks offer challenges to the coloniality of knowledge and power through overt aggression, decolonial love (of self), reframing of history and social conditions and healing of diasporic traumas....the sowing of liberatory seeds. 

Begin this path

1. Global Flows 4-Sonic Archive as relational field

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