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I'm Flores from and, and these are our vibes.
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I sometimes rap, rap, rap and I love making words rhyme.
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You know, I wasn't born in Tijuana but Mexico is my mama and
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I'm working every day for a better tomorrow.
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And those are my vibes.
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I am Denise Carlos from South East L A.
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My vibes are cha cha fears mixed with emo girl mixed with but
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I play the, I do vocals, I dance and I sing my heart out for s were
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a group of six Chicanos.
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Most of us have parents who are undocumented.
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We were born in the States but we got this close connection
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and roots to Mexico and to Latino America.
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And for us, you know, we have this firm belief to know who you
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are, you gotta know who you were because to know where you're
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going, you gotta know where you at.
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It's all connected, right?
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And a part of us in our journey is becoming young, you know,
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really asserting and affirming our identities is really
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understanding like who we are and where we come from and how
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do we tell our stories?
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So that 400 years from now, people will actually know who we
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are and who we were as brown kids, mixed kids kids growing up
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in the urban jungle of Los Angeles, close your eyes.
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So we you close your eyes and listen for us.
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We had to ask ourselves what is our role as artists?
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Our role is not to tour like our identity is not about going
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Our identity is really rooted in creating and reflecting
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the world as we see it.
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And so a long time coming was a response to the murder of Ahmad
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Arry Brianna Taylor George Floyd.
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And to say that Raza as brown kids, kids, we understand what
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it is to be marginalized.
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We understand what it means to be disenfranchised, to be oppressed
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And we stand with our brothers and sisters who are Afro Latino
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Afro Latinx Black in the United States and all over the world
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And this song, long time coming is about the change that we've
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It's been a long time coming, you know, long time coming is
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like, OK, you know, with the oppression, with the, with the
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pain of our people, we're gonna use that to fuel us.
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We're gonna build a different world for us, right?
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Where we can be joyful, where we can love each other and ourselves
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when we can be our full selves everywhere we go.
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And that's gonna be embraced, inspired by Sam Cooke's song
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chain is gonna come.
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Long time coming is a jump from what the music we were playing
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like everything else.
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Man, we have to evolve.
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A long time coming was shot in Heights.
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It's one of the, in a bar called, which is a bar founded by some
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of our friends, Goria and Gabriel, who are the co owners and
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we wanted to film it there on the East Side because that's for
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We, we came up there, our organizing, our consciousness,
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our political activism was in the east side of L A and we wanted
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to pay homage to that and to a business that's, you know, people
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of color owned and the video there, the whole idea was Election
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What would it look like if we were winning?
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What did it look like?
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How would it feel like?
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How would it smell like?
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How would you move if we were actually winning?
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And so what does that mean?
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That means something different for everybody?
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And we didn't want to interpret that.
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We wanted to leave it open.
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The video was brought to light by the song.
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The song was a collaboration an L A collab.
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We have just a plethora of artists here in L A and a lot of times
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we, we don't see the talent and so these dancers came, they
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did it in such a beautiful and powerful way.
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We're not trying to paint what the world looks like today,
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we're trying to paint the world that we're trying to create
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you know, and that's very different from the quarantine
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We're not gonna be in quarantine forever, right?
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And we have to see and create the world we want to see in the future
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And when we come out of quarantine, we want to be even more fierce
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even more creative, even more collaborative, you know,
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and that was the idea of long time come everybody and my name
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is Flores with and I follow us at, we got two big projects coming
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in 2021 on the week of inauguration.
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We have a song called If I was president the remix and that one's
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And we also have this incredible fifties rock and roll.
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Mexican inspired uh jam called Oaxaca Love song number two
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That's gonna be coming out in 2021.
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So stay up, you guys meet through for sharing our vibes and
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We have a long time coming, coming up.
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