There’s nothing extra trustworthy than PJ Sin Suela rapping about his island, Puerto Rico. From his early days competing in cyphers and internet hosting rap events in med faculty, he has used hip-hop as a car to specific each a love for his dwelling and his frustrations dwelling there.
PJ Sin Suela is one rapper in a protracted lineage from the island who’ve both overtly or subtly voiced ache factors from the island of their music.
This week PJ Sin Suela joined with Anamaria to stroll us by way of that historical past — hip-hop’s use as protest on the island — and the place it sits as compared to what’s now the island’s globally acknowledged export, reggaeton.
PJ with out sole Rolando Pérez Montes/Musician Disguise Caption
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PJ with out sole
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