Photo by Mateo Zapataįuerza Regida reflects the duality that many children of Mexican immigrants experience-being proud of Mexican heritage and culture but at the same time identifying with the parallels of struggle illustrated by the Black experience through rap music. Just like rap songs, that that the rappers talk about, we talk about that in our corridos ,” he said.ĭuring Fuerza Regida’s set on Sunday, they played recently deceased Chicago drill rapper King Von’s “Crazy Story” in the middle of his set while lighting a joint, showing he is in tune with the music emerging from Chicago’s Black community, too. I’m going to write about what I see and what I live in the streets. “We grew up playing in backyards and quinceñeras for a hundred bucks an hour. Ortiz Paz also talked about the roots and motivation for his music. “It’s wild how our genre has grown this much.” We’re going to be bigger and stronger,” Ortiz Paz said. “To have a Mexican next to reggaeton artists is good because before people that listened to reggaeton wouldn’t be into Mexican music, and Mexicans used to be like, ‘I don’t like reggaeton’… now we’re coming together. The entire band had a clear understanding of the significance behind bringing powerhouses from both Mexican and Caribbean genres together. “For a Mexican to be on the same stage as J Balvin is crazy, but we’re here to stay.” “I’m Mexican, and to have us and our genre in this kind of festival is crazy,” said Jesus Ortiz Paz, the lead singer of Mexican band Fuerza Regida. Halfway through his set, he shouted out Mexico and made it clear that he loves every other Spanish-speaking country in the western hemisphere, but reiterated his awareness that the crowd was mostly of Mexican descent as he smiled and kept the fast-paced Dominican energy at an all-time high. Putting all the glam and glitz to the side, you can’t ever deny the hypnotic draw of hearing the mantra-like beginning to “La Mamá De La Mamá”. ” (Latinos, put your hands up, you have to feel it.)Įl Alfa’s energy was based heavily on sparks flying, flame effects, smoke machines and an enormous lighting system.
Ozuna also shouted out Mexico, right before bringing Saturday night to a fever pitch when he asked the audience to raise their hands: “ Manos arriba, Latinos, que se sienta. Myke Towers yelled “Viva México,” and Wisin of Wisin Y Yandel draped a Mexican flag on his back and shouted out Mexico on more than five occasions during his set. Right before Myke Towers performed, Mayor Lori Lightfoot made an appearance and got booed by many in the crowd of thousands of people shortly after she announced a citywide curfew in effect for people under eighteen-years-old. Having two Afro-Latino artists close out Saturday night in front of an audience of mostly Mexican descent illustrated how these moments connect different cultures and celebrate our diversity as a multiethnic group.
In her case, she’s an Afro-Latina challenging her homeland’s misogyny and heteronormative gender roles.ĭespite the 2020 Census having reported that Latinos are the largest ethnic group in Chicago, it feels like our presence has been overshadowed by a lack of representation and the anti-Black Chiraq narratives driven by establishment politicians. Her musical expression demonstrates the way oppressed communities have historically used art to liberate themselves. Tokischa has been vocal about her past as a sex worker in the Dominican Republic- the Dominican government has recently sanctioned and banned some of her songs. Halfway through her set, she unzipped the back of her pants and started to show off her body while breaking out into a semi-strip tease. Then she danced and rapped the entirety of her songs without the typical lip-syncing-over-studio-recorded-tracks that many artists do these days. Tokischa, a Dominican rapper who’s caused controversy for her sexually explicit lyrics as an openly bisexual woman, began her set by asking the crowd if they already had sex today. It’s midday Saturday, May 28, and people are calmly making their way onto the festival grounds without any real hassles or long lines.
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