{"id":53701,"date":"2022-11-02T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=53701"},"modified":"2022-11-02T23:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:24:02","slug":"women-in-the-rap-game-share-their-stories-in-cuban-hip-hop-cypher%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/women-in-the-rap-game-share-their-stories-in-cuban-hip-hop-cypher%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the rap game share their stories in Cuban hip-hop cypher\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hop-hop \u2014 in all its storied and complicated glory \u2014 has provided countless youth from many ignored corners of the world with the space to share their stories. And many of those stories belong to women.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet while today there seem to be more women in the rap game than ever before \u2014 in part, thanks to the commercial success of rappers Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, among others \u2014 the industry and greater culture is one that is still recovering from a legacy of misogyny and male domination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one collaboration that sprouted from the musical hotbed that is Cuba is trying to change that.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new hip-hop series #GuamparaCypher, a collaborative project of the first independent urban music label in Cuba Gu\u00e1mpara Music, made its debut on Nov. 3 and featured an ensemble of intergenerational women, all of who have contributed to the rich fabric of underground Cuban hip-hop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GUAMPARA CYPHER 001 \u203c\ufe0f Dj Leydis, Lof Mu, Briana Weapons, Queen Diago, La Real, La Mariana \u203c\ufe0f\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9v6_c_0PsE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen talking about Cypher, the first image that comes to mind is tough men, demonstrating their skills as rappers, it has a lot to do with the ideal image of what a rapper is, which is an image that has been built for years in the media,\u201d said Ained Cala, who is Gu\u00e1mpara Music\u2019s label manager. Ained is also married to the label\u2019s founder, Dj Jig\u00fce, who founded Gu\u00e1mpara in 2015. For Cala, the decision to feature five rappers and a DJ, all of who are Cuban women, was an essential first step in the label\u2019s goal of working with more women.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s revolutionary, at least from the Cuban context,\u201d Ained said. \u201cNot only because we are showing women rappers who are speaking from their perspectives, but also because in this first Cypher, through the protagonists, it connects the female trajectory within Cuba\u2019s urban scene, taking into account that we conceived this so that different generations would converge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That convergence is on full display in this first Cypher, showcasing the pioneering Oakland-based DJ Leydis and rappers La Mariana, Lof Mu, La Real, Queen Diago and Briana Weapons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the visionary Dj Jig\u00fce launched the label seven years ago, his goal wasn\u2019t just to nurture a space for groundbreaking music but to make sure it reverberated far beyond the Caribbean island.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are also creating this space because it contributes to one of the goals of the label, which is to promote the urban scene and its protagonists, whether they are the best known or just emerging,\u201d Dj Jig\u00fce said. \u201cAnd Gu\u00e1mpara Cypher serves this in a very peculiar way because the intention is to generate a series where rappers from different generations and different parts of the country are shown in each Cypher, which gives the project a sense of community because the artists are interacting and collaborating from different generations and places.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=1200%2C675&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?w=1200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=360%2C203&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=200%2C112&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CYPHER-001_web.jpeg?resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption> (From left) Cuban hip-hop music artists Lof Mu, Queen Diago, DJ Leydis, La Real, Briana Weapons and La Mariana were all part of the first Gu\u00e1mpara Cypher, a collaborative cypher series by Gu\u00e1mpara Music, meant to showcase the talent of women rappers in Cuba. Courtesy Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>A Hip-hop origin story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leydisvel Freire, known to the hip-hop world as DJ Leydis, was molded by that old-school brand of hip-hop that rose out of the Havana neighborhood of El Vedado 19 y 10. She left her home in Camag\u00fcey in 1998 and moved to Havana to study popular Cuban dance. But soon it was the beats and rhymes from the local hip-hop group Grandes Ligas that captivated her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt caught my attention. In Cuba, you can&#8217;t say what you feel, like political things. These people said it in their music,\u201d DJ Leydis said. \u201c[Hip-hop] stole my heart. I feel like I discovered the person I really wanted to be and what I wanted to represent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, Leydis wasn\u2019t just a hip-hop fan. She became an activist, an organizer, and began collaborating and organizing events with various groups, including Grandes Ligas. She then co-founded Omegas Kilay, a hip-hop theater collective comprised of women. They did graffiti, choreographed dance, and performed spoken word, theater and hip-hop. It was then that they realized that they didn\u2019t have a DJ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJ equipment was hard to come by in Cuba back then. And while some in Havana\u2019s hip-hop scene had turntables, many were hesitant to lend them to women who were just learning the trade. So in the spirit of Cuban ingenuity, Leydis made do with two Discman CD players, swapping out discs whenever a new sound was needed. In the meantime, she befriended a fellow DJ who began to show her various techniques. And thus DJ Leydis was born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was when she arrived in the Bay Area that she felt like she was DJing for the very first time. With the money she earned from her first gig \u2014 one she did with borrowed equipment \u2014 she bought the two turntables she had always dreamed about. DJ Leydis has been making her music mark in the Bay Area ever since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when DJ Jig\u00fce and Ained contacted her about their Cypher idea, featuring women MCs from different generations, DJ Leydis jumped at the chance to collaborate. It\u2019s her dream to open a bridge where there can be a cross-cultural musical exchange between Cuban and Bay Area women artists. Last year, she launched her own project, \u201cLa Voz Cuba Meets the Bay,\u201d where she hopes to make that cultural exchange a reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGu\u00e1mpara music is like family to me,\u201d DJ Leydis said. \u201cAfter seeing these women recording the Cypher, I said \u2018Oh my God. This has to go out into the world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those women on the Cypher is La Real, a member of the rap group La Reina y La Real. She was just 19 when she innocently stepped into the world of hip-hop. She grew familiar with the sounds of American and international hip-hop, but it wasn\u2019t until she was gifted a cassette that featured a track of rap in Spanish. Intrigued, she asked who the rappers were. They were Cuban.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was very surprised because I didn&#8217;t know that rap existed in Cuba,\u201d La Real said. \u201cAnd the person who lent me this cassette told me that they made that music themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before long, she became embedded in the local hip-hop scene, writing songs and rapping with La Reina y La Real.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor me, this Cypher was very important and it fills me with pride because I was able to partake with several generations of rap, such as Mariana and DJ Leydis, who were references for me at the beginning,\u201d La Real said. \u201cAnd also with this new generation of women who are doing it with tremendous strength and that is so important at this time when there are so few women representing Cuban rap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cypher, which is the first in a series of three, can be viewed on Nov. 3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U9v6_c_0PsE\">Gu\u00e1mpara Music&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a> and will be streaming on all digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hop-hop \u2014 in all its storied and complicated glory \u2014 has provided countless youth from many ignored corners of the world with the space to share their stories. 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