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Krishtine De Leon, aka Rocky Rivera, wears an indigenous Filipino Dugso dress during the music video shoot for the song \u201cUs.\u201d The dress is worn for a ceremonial maternity dance, celebrating the birth of a tribe\u2019s male heir. Photo: Gordon T Lim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/b>When Krishtine De Leon\u2014who is better known by her stage alias \u201cRocky Rivera\u201d\u2014was growing up in San Francisco\u2019s Excelsior District in the late 1990s, there weren\u2019t any rappers or MC\u2019s that looked quite like her.<\/p>\n

But Rivera, along with her other contemporary Pinay rappers, are changing that for future generations to come.<\/p>\n

On March 8 (International Women\u2019s Day), Rivera, fellow Bay Area Filipina MC Ruby Ibarra, Los Angeles-based MC Klassy and Pinay poet Faith Santilla released the music video to their single \u201cUs,\u201d an empowering track that reclaims and celebrates the role and resistance of women in FIlipino culture. The song\u2019s English-Tagalog hook, which starts \u201cIsland woman rise, walang makakatigil [nothing can stop you] \/ Brown, brown woman, rise, alamin ang yung ugat [learn your roots],\u201d sets the tone for an unapologetic four-and-a-half-minute lyrical assault on patriarchy and colonization.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just a collaboration track. It\u2019s about really having a stake in what we\u2019re talking about, wanting to make a different kind of future for our kids,\u201d Rivera, 35, told El Tecolote. \u201cI love music like that. It\u2019s very angry, very militant, very\u2026 not cute, which is the opposite of what people would think when they see three Pinays, that are all under 5-foot-4, on a microphone. I think that the edge, the hardness, the frustration, but also the camaraderie, the love, the respect for each other, it culminated in that song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUs\u201d is a fan favorite from Ruby Ibarra\u2019s latest album \u201cCirca91,\u201d which was released on Oct. 3, 2017. Ibarra, who was born in the Philippines but raised in San Lorenzo, was the creative force behind the video, doing an open call to recruit to dance troupes, Pinays of all ages as well as asking for indigenous Filipino dresses. The filming took place in Rivera\u2019s old neighborhood of the Excelsior.<\/p>\n

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Born at Clark Air Force Base in Angeles City in the Philippines, Rivera\u2019s Navy father moved the family to Naval Station on Treasure Island when she was four before moving to the Excelsior. But in moving to the U.S., Rivera lost her native Kapampangan language.<\/p>\n

Throughout the song, Ibarra and Klassy deliver blistering flows in the Filipino language of Tagalog, much to the appreciation of Rivera, who sees artists like Ibarra and Klassy as carrying the torch.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s the beauty of being a hyphenated American. If you are able to speak to both communities in that way with the same message, it\u2019s all the more impactful,\u201d Rivera said. \u201c[Our language] was usually a source of shame, like, \u2018You\u2019re a FOB [fresh off the boat], try to speak the most perfect English that you can.\u2019 Now that\u2019s really changed to, \u2018I\u2019m proud of where I come from, I\u2019m proud to speak this language.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A former journalist (she interviewed the likes of Wu-Tang Clan and Soulja Boy while was pregnant with her first child) and current youth educator in Oakland, Rivera has ancestral ties to the Katipunan, the Filipino revolutionaries who fought to gain independence from Spain. That revolutionary spirit is one that thrives in Rivera\u2019s music.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times when we immigrate, we tend to lose our culture. We tend to just look at the colonial side,\u201d said Rivera. \u201cA lot of the costumes that I remember were not Filipino costumes, they were Spaniard costumes that the Philippines adopted. And I was very opposed to wearing anything that any of the Spaniards wore.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the video shoot last month, Rivera\u2014who was six months pregnant at the time and is now on maternity leave\u2014wore a traditional Dugso dress, which is worn for a maternity dance celebrating the birth of a tribe\u2019s male heir.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about history, we\u2019re talking about post-colonialism, we\u2019re talking about war, and these are things that Pinays will constantly have to reconcile with in terms of who we are, our identity,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s why people got emotional watching it. Because it\u2019s not just the Tinikling [a dance from Philippine Spanish colonialism], the cute little colony dances that people do. This is our culture that we\u2019ve retained through oppressive colonialism through Spain and the U.S. And to be able survive that, the resiliency of that, I think is why minorities really felt something with that. It wasn\u2019t just for Filipinos, it was for anybody that has ever lost their culture through colonization and now gentrification.\u201d<\/p>\n

The response to the video has been overwhelmingly positive with only a few exceptions, such as the online commenter who took specific issue with Rivera\u2019s lyric: \u201cI kill a pig in a white hooded suit on the low \u2026 for my country,\u201d which takes obvious aim at White supremacy and its historical ties to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people want to catch feelings about it, then obviously my music is not for them,\u201d Rivera said \u201cBut to have it resonate with people emotionally, politically, ideologically, that\u2019s something that I don\u2019t think we intended…I knew it was going to be epic, but I didn\u2019t really understand how much the community would come together to help us shoot this video.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song closes with the lyrics \u201cIsang bagsak,\u201d which translates from Tagalog to, \u201cone down.\u201d It\u2019s a line that pays homage to the shared history between Filipino and Mexican farm workers in California\u2019s fields. When ending a work day in the fields or to signal the end of a UFW meeting, the two groups would do a unity clap, and end with saying \u201cIsang bagsak.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just shows that we all start together, we all end together,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cOne song down. On to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rivera\u2019s latest album is being sponsored by Women\u2019s Audio Mission, a San Francisco nonprofit that teaches young girls the art of audio engineering and recording. It\u2019s scheduled to release later this Fall. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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