Chicano rap tends to discuss themes of importance to young urban Chicanos.

Latin rap ( as well as its subgenre of Chicano rap ) has thrived along the West Coast, Southwest and Midwestern states with little promotion due to the large Latino populations of those regions.

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L. A .' s N. W. A., on their landmark 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, showed heavy influences from Tougher Than Leather-era Run – D. M. C., and Chicano rap act Cypress Hill were definitely influenced by Run – D. M. C.

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On their debut album " Wessisla ", they merged influences from G funk, Chicano rap and other Latin styles with their Sardinian and Italian rhymes.

Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop, Latin hip hop and gangsta rap that embodies aspects of West Coast and Southwest Mexican American ( Chicano ) culture and is typically performed by American rappers and musicians of Mexican descent.

Cypress Hill, of which Mellow Man Ace was a member before going solo, is sometimes considered Chicano rap due to their use of popular Chicano slang and because they often reference Chicano culture in their music and videos, along with the fact that the lead rapper, B-Real, is of half Mexican descent.

In the mid-90s, Eazy-E formed the group Brownside as a Chicano version of the rap group N. W. A .. During the 1990s, some Chicano rappers Sinful of the Mexicanz began using influences from Mexican music in their beats and delivery, although this subgenre of music is sometimes referred to today as " Urban Regional " and not always representative of Chicano Rap.

One of the most widely recognized Chicano rappers today is Lil Rob of San Diego, whose single " Summer Nights " was considered a major crossover and received heavy rotation on radio station and video programs not directly related to Chicano rap music.

* Chicano Rap – Source for Chicano rap news and interviews.

* Brown Pride A collection of texts and links about Chicano rap and culture.

There is ample literary evidence to further substantiate that " Chicano " is a self-declaration, as a large body of Chicano literature exists with publication dates far predating the 1950s.

There is also a substantial body of Chicano literature that predates both Raso and the Federal Census Bureau.

" Chicano " is considered to be a positive term of honor by many.

* Rubén Salazar: " A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself.

* Leo Limón: "... because that's what a Chicano is, an indigenous Mexican American ".

The term " Chicano " is widely known and used in Mexico.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

Since Chicanismo covers a wide array of political, religious and ethnic beliefs, and not everybody agrees with what exactly a Chicano is, most new Latino immigrants see it as a lost cause, as a lost culture, because Chicanos do not identify with Mexico or wherever their parents migrated from as new immigrants do.

As a result, Chicano identification is aligned with the idea of Aztlán, which extends to the Aztec period of Mexico, celebrating a time preceding land division.

The term Chicano is also used to describe the literary, artistic, and musical movements that emerged with the Chicano Movement.

Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales's " Yo Soy Joaquin " is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano / a novel.

Rasquache art is a unique style subset of the Chicano Arts movement.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

One of the most powerful and far-reaching cultural aspects of Chicano culture is the indigenous current that strongly roots Chicano culture to the American continent.

Lalo Guerrero is regarded as the " founder of Chicano music ".

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

Chicano rock is rock music performed by Chicano groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

This style of clothing became popular within the Chicano and African American community during the 1940s.

The pachuco subculture declined in the 1960s, evolving into the Chicano style.

Aspects of prose style in three Chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima, and The Road to Tamazunchale " In Jacob Ornstein-Galicia ( Ed.

El Chicano is an American chicano rock and brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporates various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa.

Also, Ronstadt has credited the late Mexican singer Lola Beltrán as an influence in her own singing style, and she recalls how a frequent guest to the Ronstadt home, Eduardo " Lalo " Guerrero, father of Chicano music, would often serenade her as child with these songs.

In 1990, the Chicano hip hop group A Lighter Shade of Brown released their album Brown & Proud, which included hits " On a Sunday Afternoon " ( a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 ) and " Latin Active ".

Chicano Rap is mainly enjoyed by hip hop listeners in the United States ; and has also established a cult fan base following in Japan, although its main audience consists of Hispanics / Latinos living on the West Coast, the Southwest and the Midwest.

Hip Hop music has expressed identity politics in the form of black and Chicano nationalism, while Homo hop has expressed Queer identity politics, much like queercore has in the punk and indie scene.

) has had a deep impact in Chicano muralism, graphic design, tattoo art ( flash ), poetry, music, and literature.

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a wave of Chicano pop music surfaced through innovative musicians Johnny Rodriguez, Ritchie Valens and Linda Ronstadt.

On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L. A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man Little Willie G, and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano.

The film's score is written and performed by the Los Angeles rock band, Los Lobos, performing Chicano rock and traditional Ranchera music.