Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

It takes a community to start a revolution.

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.

My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.