Of Mexican Descent - All Turn Native

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Of Mexican Descent - "All Turn Native" from the 2006 self-released album Exitos Y Mas Exitos (Edicion De Lujo).

Of Mexican Descent is a collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists, rapper 2Mex (real name: Alejandro Ocana) and Xololanxinxo (real name: Daniel Rodriguez). They began the project in 1991, and quickly became an elemental part of the rising Los Angeles underground hip hop movement. Their debut EP Exitos y Mas Exitos was originally released in 1998, and was recently re-released digitally via 2Mex's Bandcamp page.

KEXP's DJ Gabriel Teodros says:

"Of Mexican Descent is the duo of 2Mex and Xololanxinxo, two legendary underground Los Angeles MC's who cut their teeth performing at the famed Good Life Cafe, as documented in Ava DuVernay's 2008 film This Is The Life. As I was just coming into making music myself in the late '90s, OMD's work found its way to my Walkman via dubbed cassettes that friends were passing around, as we were all big fans of the styles coming out of the Good Life and Project Blowed. This was in a time when independent hip-hop had to physically travel to reach you; the internet wasn't used to distribute music the way it is now. 2Mex and Xololanxinxo both had such a courageous vulnerability in their approach, they kept love at the center of everything they did, and they represented an Indigenous perspective in hip-hop I hadn't yet heard at that point. The impact their music had on me then is something you can still see and feel in everything I do today. It only felt right to help shine a light on my OGs.

"2Mex and Xololanxinxo are both very active today, Xololanxinxo has brand new music with The Psychic Temple you can listen to here and you can check the latest solo work from 2Mex here.

"There's rumors of a new Visionaries album coming soon, too!"

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0:00.0	The Sometimes I wake up and find myself walking on the cliff of moist soil love is what I do
0:25.5	breath is how I land there is no alternative when we all turn it up
0:30.3	sometimes I wake up and find myself walking on the cliff of moist soil
0:34.5	Loom is what I do.
0:36.2	Breath is how I live. There is no alternative when we all turn it up.
0:40.6	I believe in God. I just don't think he looks like that I don't need
0:44.4	Portrait to jury your tats pending this courts with I don't worship because in the
0:49.7	end all of that it worth shit loving a way out of war
0:53.2	Chancing away Lucifer
0:55.0	That's what the music's for and they cannot destiny
0:58.0	Hot maneuvers this industry and the synichamanists the ministry even if you think that were inferior and the world's material even if you control all of the aerials even if you build all over the burial
1:09.0	natural life could never be stopped LA hip-hop or openly one day hopefully when evil
1:15.2	less have a look on the public's slippery and God is no longer a trick question
1:19.1	but a quick answer yes yes yes beauty beauty existing dancers and personal styles
1:24.5	brought up in a million beautiful Mexican smile.
1:27.5	As long as I am within this biodegradable pill,
1:31.0	I feel that sometimes I wake up and find myself walking on a cliff of moist soil
1:36.4	love is what I do but that's how I there is no alternative when we all
1:41.5	turn it up sometimes I wake up and find myself alternative when we all turn native.
1:43.0	Sometimes I wake up and find myself walking on the cliff of moist soil.
1:47.0	Love is what I do.
1:48.0	Breath is how I live. There is no alternative when we are alternative.
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