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One Down: Filipina MC’s unite, slay colonial patriarchy on track

When Krishtine De Leon—who is better known by her stage alias “Rocky Rivera”—was growing up in San Francisco’s Excelsior District in the late 1990s, there weren’t any rappers or MC’s that looked quite like her. But Rivera, along with her other contemporary Pinay rappers, are changing that for future generations to come. On March 8 […]