You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.
It takes a community to start a revolution.
My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.
Just moving one keyboard or synth is a pain in the ass.
My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.
Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.