If he aims to amplify the voices of Mexican-Americans, Kap insists that he's also talking to everyone else: "I wanna go everywhere.
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But he don't got no license so every day he wakes up paranoid." Talking about a relative, he says, "He has a family here, he's started a whole life. illegally, too, but grants that his experiences with deportation have been largely secondhand: "I was the younger person in my family, so I was never the person who would be talking to the person who got deported - they would be older than me." A generation later, though, he acknowledges the emotional toll that non-citizenship can take. He talks about relatives that reside in the U.S. He talks about standing alongside immigrants outside Home Depot looking for work, says he has trouble trusting federal authorities, and brags that he's got a girl who makes him chorizo in the morning. Musicians like Miguel and Selena Gomez sometimes talk about the significance of Mexican culture in their lives, but Kap G unabashedly pushes his experience as the America-born kid of Mexico-born immigrants to the center of his mixtape, which is called Like A Mexican, an intentional flip of what's often a derogatory term. There's a story to tell that people haven't told yet, and I feel like it's very needed right now in hip-hop." I know some people don't understand that. But it's not like we just do all that for fun - there are reasons why. There's a lot of stereotypes about Mexicans, things like cutting grass, being trapped in the house or like being illegal, all that. "The things that mom and dad have been through, I just like talking about it. "When I got better, it got easy for me to talk about my life," he said. But as he practiced and developed skills, he began to push his Mexican identity to the foreground of his lyrics. When I tried I was like, this don't really sound cool and I know for a fact people are not gonna really like this," he said. But I never really spoke about it at first. "At first I was just talking about things like looking nice, girls, regular stuff. He started rapping when he was 14, putting together a makeshift studio with a neighbor from his apartment complex. Kap played basketball and met a lot of people who were into music. "But I was the one who was probably sitting with the black people." "It was always: Mexicans sit with the Mexicans, black people sit with the black people that was just how it was," Kap said, describing the Tri-Cities cafeteria. He recently graduated from Tri-Cities High School, the same neighborhood school attended by the members of OutKast, the rap duo who helped legitimize Southern rap nationwide and encouraged listeners to embrace being different in the '90s and '00s. Kap was born in Atlanta, and raised in the city's predominantly black College Park neighborhood. Kap isn't fluent in Spanish and his parents aren't fluent in English he says their support has been a crucial part of his success, but that they can't analyze his lyrics. Kap G's parents emigrated to Georgia from Mexico in the '90s, when the population of Mexican-born immigrants in Georgia and the U.S. "All this happened last night / I don't need your advice / I don't got my pistol on me / Quit flashing your flashlight," Kap raps, like a spokesperson for any kid who's ever been fed up with authority.
But the song's overall tone is one of general frustration and dissatisfaction, not tidy accusation. There's a lot of story packed into "Fuck La Policia." Kap charges cops with assuming he's not an American citizen, or that he sells drugs, or that his friends must be in gangs. "They didn't have no probable cause and I didn't like it. "They always pull people over," he told BuzzFeed last week. Kap wrote the song the morning after being pulled over in Atlanta suburb Forest Park. He tells a story about being young and mistreated by police - "I know what you thinking / Think I got no Green Card" - that's no less relatable because it comes specifically from the perspective of a Mexican-American. Over a pan flute-embellished beat that sounds like a day that's sunny and humid, but oppressively so, Kap sounds dejected but firm.
Kap's song "Fuck La Policia" isn't riotous or loud. At first glance, you might peg him as a kid that would want to take a nap on your couch and eat the snacks in your fridge, which is why it's so thrilling when, halfway into his debut mixtape, he confronts racist cops. 19-year-old Atlanta rapper Kap G looks like a high school homecoming king - tall and trim, his black hair dipped in blonde at its tips.
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