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Cuban Hip-Hop's Freshest New Face: Golpe Seko

Listen to the first single from the burgeoning hip-hop act's upcoming album.
Yisi Calibre (left) and Darwin El Independiente of the band Golpe Seko

One of the first things to understand about Cuban music is that for most of the last five decades, there has been no recording industry there.

The Cuban government nationalized the existing industry in 1964. From then on, it more or less controlled what was recorded in the famedin 2016.

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