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Tags: blog, Cuba, Dominican Republic, newspaper, radio
Knowledge is Power!
“What’s remarkable about Saldana and Cabrera is that they met while working as menial laborers (one a dishwasher, one a line cook) at…Harvard University. Yup. And, thus far, Luny Tunes have been essentially ignored by both the Boston Globe and the NY Times, newspapers populated primarily by Harvard grads (and wannabes) with bow ties and suspenders.
Many of the reggaeton hits you’re familiar with, including “Gasolina” and “Rakata,” were produced by these two jovenes Dominicanos - which means, of course, that at the very same time the pinche NY Times claims the Dominican Republic has no “real” culture or music of its own compared to Cuba (bunch of assholes working at that paper, I swear to GOD) the face of American popular radio is being singlehandedly transformed by a couple of Dominican tigeres - who at one point probably washed the Brahmin babas off the dirty dishes of the very people so aggressively ignoring them….”
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