Bay Area hip-hoppers Lyrics Born, Cutso call out Asian hate on new single
Todd Inoue April 1, 2021Updated: April 2, 2021, 11:48 am Lyrics Born and DJ Cutso Photo: Eugene Kim In the past year, the pandemic permanently upended our lives. And for Asian Americans like Tom Shimura and Paolo Bello, escalating anti-Asian violence agitated by a churning political landscape compounded what was already a tragic and worrisome year. “That adds an entirely new, extremely heavy layer of burden on us,” said Shimura, better known as rapper Lyrics Born. Following increasing reports of hate crimes toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the Bay A...
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