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As we get down to some business. - beautiful. - amazing. - so good. - all right, y'all, i'm so glad you made it here to the special restaurant home. i brought you here because you all represent different aspects of my life, and i wanted to share because you know, latin people, we don't get our flowers. we don't get our dues like we deserve. to me, sergio represents broadway. and legendary rapper fat joe and tony, they're all about hip-hop. and aida, she's the comedy world. we dive in, starting with something that seems like it's pretty basic-- what we call ourselves. but it's not that simple. ...

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They were promised homes, [speaks spanish], community. - brown kids, it's like-- it's like their first exposure to something-- - that's people who look like them, talk like them. - exactly. - talk about things that they're interested in that is culturally theirs. - yeah. - i was a part of other ensembles, but i didn't get the stage time i deserved because they weren't doing shows that had roles for me. - yeah. - that's when i started writing even more because i was like, i'm gonna just write my own stuff. i wanna see stories that i know my story's on stage. - that's how i started, too, 'cause ...

Everybody's competing 'cause there's too many turntables around, and that's how rap begins. it's incredible. - like i said, we couldn't afford the equipment, and as soon as the lights went out-- - everybody had equipment. - we went right for their dj equipment, bro. - hmm. imagine that. ♪ [beatboxing] - you know what hip hop did, bro, it brought us all together, kept a lot of kids off the street. and it gave kids, like, an interest, a hobby. - right, right. - it was art, or-- - something to rechannel all that young energy, yeah. - yeah, you know. - in a positive way. - kids had nothing to do...

Were all by joe conzo. - joe conzo, man. - yeah, so what were the early records that influenced you? - ooh, man. so many. you know what? rather than tell you the records, i'd rather play it for you than show you. - oh, yeah, yeah. please. - let's go upstairs. so this is the first time i heard a spanish rap on a hip-hop record. so this guy, mr. schick, was in a group called the mean machine. - all right. - and this is sugar hill records, bro. [hip-hop music playing] - oh. oh. - ♪ we got something we want y'all to hear ♪ [singing in spanish] - wepa, wepa. - [rapping in spanish] ♪ - ooh. - ...