799) Xenia Rubinos - Mexican Chef

Thanks to her extremely wide range of influences, the music of Brooklyn-based Xenia Rubinos simply cannot be labeled. Drawing from her Cuban-Puerto Rican heritage, as well as the worlds of jazz, hip-hop, rock, funk, and Caribbean rhythms, Rubinos has a style characterized by upbeat, expressive melodies, spunky attitude, hard-hitting lyrics, and lots of humor. In this song, which includes her native Spanish, she reads America to filth for the way it treats its brown people and does it with heaps of charm. Xenia claims she is "just talking about real shit that’s happening around us" and doesn't want to be put in the "protest artist" box, but this is definitely one of her most political tracks, presenting (in an ironically bubbly manner) the harsh reality of minorities running everything behind the scenes of society and receiving violence and ignorance in return. "In a live show, I feel the weight of what I’m saying, but it’s fun", she told The Guardian. "I’m dancing and we’re all there together. I wish that’s what it could always be like, that we could have that conversation."
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Category:Funk
Category:Rock
Category:Experimental
Category:United States
Category:New York
Category:Connecticut
Category:Puerto Rico
Category:Cuba
Category:Foreign Language
Category:Mixed Language
Category:Spanish
Category:Sounds Like: Erykah Badu
Category:Sounds Like: Solange
Category:Sounds Like: Tune-Yards
Category:DiscoveredDecember
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