I'm recording the audio right now. I just started, thank you for reminding me.

So I got so excited to see DJ I went and I just like, so yeah.

From NPR music, this is Alt Latino.

I'm Felix Contheras.

This week, we're going to talk about music and film.

In fact, it's a film about music.

It's called Baco So, Afro beats of Cuba.

And to help me do that, I sat down with Eli Jacob Fonauter. I'm the producer-director of Baco-So Afrobeats of Cuba.

Cahill Jacobs-Fernousy.

I'm a producer and I'm the brother of Eli.

We made our first film called Inventos, Hipokubano, about the Cuban rap movement.

That's director Eli Jacobs Fanocci.

And my second film that I did with Khalil was in Ghana, West Africa, and it's called Homegrown,

Hip Life in Ghana. So that was the fusion between high life music and hip hop.

And when I went back to Cuba and I showed Kiway the film, he said, wow, you know, they're

doing this back in my part of town in Santiago de Cuba. And he played Oscar those songs for me.

And it sounded like that new Afro beat. It sounded

you heard the clave and we decided together, yo, let's go down there and document the genre

being born. Here's a producer, Cahill Jacobs Finalsi. It goes back like Eli, to Inventus Hip-Hubano when we met Amenasa before they became Orisha,

and in Deb Prez and Tony Chutch, and all these radical, these radical musicians were coming to the International Hip-Hop Festival in Cuba.

And that was kind of, you know, what we started with. But when I met DJ

Hewe, he was actually a community organizer and was organizing hip hop groups in Santiago at that time.

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