EL TIEMPO TUYO YA PASO
Miami rapper Pitbull wrote this song nearly 2 years ago, and Castro hasn’t left the planet yet.
Regardless of how you feel about Fidel Castro, Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, totalitarianism, 24-hr supermarkets, “boat people”, neoliberal economic policies, santería, neoconservative economic policies, cigars, Coke vs. Pepsi televisual democracy, and/or crunked up salacious Pitbull, this beat = pure Afro hypen madness and he is spitting political on it.
Nu World Club Syncretics stand up!
March 4, 2008
i linked to an img-based video for this bit of anti-castro afro-cubist agitprop, incl interview footage of pitbull pronouncing cuba “la opresión más grande del mundo,” back when i reviewed el mariel –
March 6, 2008
“Cuba! Libre!”
What a great track. I love the percs and the spacey production. Everything is really open and reverby. Such a contrast to his dense club collabs with Lil Jon.
Someone even gave it a Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_se_acabo
March 6, 2008
awesome track as usual…
do you know the track with the chorus “no mas”… it’s a political joint in spanish against all that shit… gentrification, globalism, plan colombia…
and it’s not this…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSajMtusOk&feature=related
but you might as well watch it anyway to see young latin rappers. (on the tip of the young flamenco kids recently)
April 25, 2008
i loveeeeeeee he needs to make more songs about cuba and how che guevara is not a person to be idled that should be spitted on and some more songs talk sh*t about fidel castro