the concept Dream in Porto Rican is straight up old school hardcore in the best tradition of the Bad Brains and Black Flag. The lyrics talk about surviving the modern day genocide of people of color in the ghettos of this country called amerikkka. Inspiration is drawn from the early hip-hop pioneers like Afrikabambatta, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, KRSONE and Public Enemy. An odl school ghetto hip-hop video done with a hardcore punk band is essentially what it comes down to. the story The video was shot on an abandoned lot on 117th street in El Barrio, NY. In a true anarcho-punk stylee we built a small stage the afternoon before, without asking permission from whoever owned the lot. This whole concept of buying and selling and owning and renting and leasing rubs us wrong, so asking permission was out of the question. Crazy Horse said it best “One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk” and Chief Seattle asked the white man “How can you buy and sell the sky?” and 500 years later these questions still remain unanswered while rents go up like eviction notices. The lyrics make plenty of reference to this and in keeping true to our beliefs we did as we pleased. The people next door in the community garden looked out for the stage until we shot the next day. An open invitation went out to our co-horts and community to come down and participate and we wound up having a conscious party. At the end of the day we took apart the stage and gave it to the …