From the results of the 2012 Presidential Election,we can see that our country is diversifying.
I feel that is a good thing because it is always positive to walk in another man's shoes.
You begin to challenge your own thought processes and you obtain a basic appreciation for what is about you.
As always,I like to tie everything into music.
So for here, I'd like to know how you connect to other races,creeds,religions,ways of life
WITHIN your love for diggin or music in general.
For me, I had different challenges throughout my life.
I grew up in the South Bronx during the infancy of Hip Hop,when we were all separatist.
You had to affiliate yourself with one group in order to survive in the mean streets of
the economically down trodden,disaster zone we called the South Bronx.
My mother is Black,so was my Step-father who raised me, (god bless)
so goes my affiliation...but my biological was Puerto Rican/Dominican.
Thanks to that ancestry website for a couple of bucks at the time I found out in 2009 that I had
great-grandparents that came over from Salvador,Bahia(Brazil) and Ghana.
I know....epic,right.
So unbeknowing to me back when I was a kid, the
percussion instruments was always in the blood.
Henceforth,my love for the breakbeats.The non-english language records in my history, was my grail during my big beatdiggin' days way long ago.The records were very cheap, always in the non descript areas of the stores with usually no one around except a local Salsa DJ or two.For years,I caught tons of beats that no one had took the time
to explore due to the language barrier.
Where there is drums and congas there are beats..where there is bass, there is usually grooves.
I had learned the basic premise that almost everything African or Carribean in nature had percussive elements.
Also the Brazilian soul movement in the 70s was underground because most of that country was still feeling
Bossa Nova.This inturn was a breakbeat supermarket for me and my boys at the time in New York.
So for the convo aspect,I'd just like to ask everyone
What is your connection to the world within the music you listen to or the vibe that you get down
with in your daily travels? Do you dig other genres of music from the other parts of the world?
Do you feel the styles form other parts of the world? do you incorporate it in your life somehow, etc....
Peace.
