Tea & Converse

When I reached to Montez Press Radio to see how I could contribute to their monthly radio programming, I wanted to use the space and platform to to talk about things and explore topics that I couldn’t with my current Tea & Converse set up or non-set up for that matter. Fresh on my mind at the time was the Latino MC. I’d just not too long before taken in a showing of Evolution Of A Sonero, a one man show in which Flaco Navaja uses his musical influences to weave together an autobiographical coming of age tale. In addition to that, around the same time I came across a cover of Industry Insider Magazine that contained a feature titled, Hip Hop’s Minority: Latino Artists Unite & Speak Out. And the cover was just a beautiful collection and show of solidarity of a great deal of the Latino MCs that were active at the time. Seeing that cover inspired me and I thought to myself that I’d like to do an updated version in podcast form. So with that, I reached out to CRIMEAPPLE & UFO Fev & Radamiz and we discussed language and ethnicity and stereotypes and expectations and appearance and business and their respective forthcoming releases among other things in front of a live studio audience for almost two hours on a day in May 2019 at Montez Press Radio. Artwork by Tony Coppin.