Eptos Uno On Performing For The Cartel, Helping Popularize Hip-Hop In Mexico, & More

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Eptos Uno talks about coming to America, learning English with hip hop, Mexico, freestyle, battle rap and more! ------ 00:00 Intro 0:45 Eptos' introduction to hip-hop 2:38 Coming to America and adjusting to a new culture and language 6:04 Effects of the Sonora Cartel 7:45 Eptos getting booked by some gang members while performing 9:20 Big market in Mexico for music right now 11:00 Dizaster and Aczino, rap battling 12:40 Eptos on freestyling for the first time ever 13:42 Differences in graffiti in Mexico vs. America 14:26 The real hip-hop boom in Mexico 16:50 Can rappers really support themselves in Mexico? 19:20 Red Bull sponsoring the culture and rap battles 20:16 American battle rappers that Eptos likes 22:20 Music expanding into the Latin Community 27:12 Eptos' Chicano Rap Influences 28:12 South Park Mexican's impact in the Chicano and Mexico music scene 32:00 Mexico City's craziest Earthquakes 35:08 Mainstream mexican artists 43:19 Do rappers need to have a YouTube presence? 44:49 Freestyle vs. Battle Rappers 48:00 What's next for Eptos? 49:52 Eptos raps in Spanish ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Live and direct with the full five in the tech your boy lush. How you at start your interviews?
0:05.4	I just did right now. Yeah, what's up? Is your boy Duno a Sissy Luss my guy? It's Uno and Duno
0:13.2	My dog
0:14.7	Epto's Uno if you don't know one of the most decorated MCs from South of the border
0:21.2	You know, I'm saying
0:22.7	Not just in the world of music, but battle rap as well and
0:26.5	He's a really dope guy. I'm glad you hear man. Oh, thanks for inviting me man
0:31.4	I've seen you guys in the in the podcast before and it feels great to be here. Oh my god. I appreciate you
0:37.2	so
0:39.2	I want to hear about your early life where you from what brought you into the world of hip hop all that shit
0:46.4	Yeah, I'm from Sonora. That's the state on their Arizona. I was born there. So when I was like
0:51.7	My first approach to hip to hip hop. I was always like an artistic kind of kid like I used to draw on everything
0:58.6	So I got into graffiti. I wasn't really writing when I was like
1:02.4	910 or whatever I used to look at it. I used to love it and shit
1:05.5	So at that time we moved to Arizona
1:08.0	That's where I started like really doing graffiti and stuff on God and to listen to hip hop
1:13.2	So I had some cousins over there. They got they put me into the the gangster West Coast shit
1:19.0	Everything like the classic shit and one of my cousins put me into knives who think and that shit kind of blew my mind a little more
1:26.5	You know cuz I I was like oh this is this like the shit I want to do like some miracle shit
1:31.4	so
1:32.6	My graffiti homies they used to
1:35.5	Put me into music too, and that's how I started like
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