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- ♪ no more rolling with an entourage ♪ ♪ unless it's pun and the terror squad ♪ ♪ - i got something here. mellow man ace had this record. - oh, i know that record. [hip-hop playing] - ♪ check this out, baby [rapping in spanish] - yo. - ♪ last night, you didn't go - [rapping in spanish] - that was hot, yo, when that song came out, it was revolutionary to my ears because it was like, oh, my god. there are latin words and latin artists. - yeah. - it's hip-hop. you just felt included. - that record hit. - you felt like, oh, my god, i have value. i'm important. i don't know. it was b...

And brown communities. i'm about to meet up with raul lopez, brooklyn native and designer behind luar, who is taking street style back and finally getting the recognition he deserves. what's up, raul? - hey. how are you? - good, good, good. [both speaking spanish] - good. good. - how cool is this place? oh, these are the famous purses, huh? - yeah, man. deemed "it" bag. - the "it" bag. dua lipa had one, or something? - dua had one, solange. - solange had one, too? luar has been featured on the vogue runway, as well as in the pages of its prestigious magazine. luar designs focus on universal, n...

And i got jumped by this kid named johnny. he had my same name. anyway, that was my life growing up, but it made me who i am today, right? ♪ manhattan was like oz, you know. it was there. it was something to achieve. it was something better. you know, it was someplace-- but it was close enough. you know what i mean? you could always dip your toe into what wealthy people and people who had privilege-- you saw it. and you could smell it and taste it and go, god, you wanted it so bad because you could mingle with it. you just couldn't, you know, get into it. ♪ now, jackson heights was not an ...

- 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. - ooh! and we can never forget big punisher...

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. and then all of a sudden, they see somebody ...