Album Notes

Revolucionario Volumen UNO. This CD is Pure Latin Hip Hop to the Fullest! Latin Hip Hop from the open veins of Latin America and from Latinos in the U.S. This CD brings you the Real Latin Hip Hop Movement with Raw and uncut Latin Hip Hop in Spanish, English and Spanglish. From L.A. to South America, From Mexico and Centro America to New York and The Bay Area this Mix Tape is a Latin Hip Hop Revolution! Too Good for the Radio! Esta es Musica con filo de Machete! Este es Hip Hop Underground Independiente que la Gente quiere Escuchar pero las Radios le tienen Miedo y no lo quieren tocar. Esto es Hip Hop Revolucion!

Somos Hip Hop R@DiO / SomosHipHop.com / Mission Statement

Somos Hip Hop R@DiO started as an online Latin Hip Hop Radio in 2003, the main reason for Somos hip hop to surface on the internet was the lack of variety of Latin Hip Hop on the radio stations and the lack of support for local and independent rap artists among other things. Somos Hip Hop R@DiO was founded with the intention to give independent rap artists from all Latin America and the U.S. a platform to broadcast their art and to gather the Independent Latin hip hop scattered all over the world to showcase it online with the following goal of finding a way thru the FM and the radio airwaves.

Today just like Hip Hop in the English language, Latin Hip Hop is in a state of decadence, (Note: "Reggaeton" IS NOT Latin Hip Hop) at least the “Latin Hip Hop” the media, radio stations and TV Channels try to give us, (Lean Like a Cholo for example, Garbage) for the most part Latin Hip Hop that major labels put out on a massive scale lack the essence of hip hop and contribute in nothing to the growth and advancement of our people. Promoting violence, addictions, stupidity and disrespect among us is NOT what Hip Hop is all about. All of this while thousand of real Hip Hop artists working on an independent level for the most part lacking the funds needed to produce their material stay in the dark and unknown for the simple fact that their hip hop is actually an instrument of mental elevation education and growth and also include all the elements of Hip Hop. For the big corporations that own the mayor record labels stupidity and ignorance is a commodity, Education and elevation is not.

For the past 5 years Somos hip hop radio has been broadcasting and streaming Latin Hip Hop from all Latin America and from Latinos living in the united states reaching thousands of people from California to New York, from Mexico and Guatemala to South America, Europe, Asia and Africa to places like Japan, Spain, Russia and countries as far as the middle and far east like India. All tuned in to SomosHipHop.com. The majority of the audience of Somos hip hop resides in the American continent but the mention of those other countries in other continents is just to show how powerful and magnetic Independent or Underground Latin Hip Hop is and how much is overlooked by the media and radio stations not only in the united states but in Latino America as well.

Is for this and many more reasons that Somos Hip Hop R@DiO keep fighting on the struggle to reach the people with real Latin Hip Hop that actually represent us, talk about the situations that we live in our Latin American countries and the U.S. and that we as a people can relate to. In 2007 Somos Hip Hop Radio started working in a project with 94.1 FM KPFA That brought Independent / Underground Latin Hip Hop to the FM airwaves for the first time in History. Note that this is Hip Hop from Independent artists, regular people with regular jobs with daily ambitions and struggles like anybody else not mayor label acts sponsored by corporations. In light of the mentioned above Somos Hip Hop R@DiO mission continues to further its goals, never ending never stopping. Hasta La Victoria Siempre! “Let’s be realistic, let’s do the impossible” Che Guevara.