To the 2500+ folks who pulled up to
@AdoboDMV
yesterday: thank you 💙
Never did I think we’d get here this quickly, but it’s all thanks to y’all in the DMV 🙏🏽
Bad Bunny knew EXACTLY what he was doing with that 4-bar break in Safaera after Randy finishes his rant about el culo que merece to’
He was giving the clappas a 10-second break to tie their hair before throwing it tf back for the last 2 minutes of the song. In this essay I will
Fun Fact: horchata originates from Africa, specifically present-day Nigeria and Mali 🇳🇬🇲🇱
Just another reminder of how there’s a ton of African influence in Latin culture.
Lots of Latinos love to rush to the dance floor when “Rebelion” by Joe Arroyo comes on at the function, but are silent when it’s time to speak out on police brutality against Black people.
25 years ago all reggaeton artists wanted to be was Jamaican, and they’ve since been successful in completely excluding dancehall artists from el género.
Now mf is mad people are doing to reggaeton what reggaeton artists did with dancehall. Exploitation is cyclical.
Without Jamaica, reggaeton would have zero sauce.
Why do I say this? Look at the majority of it rn…30 years of Black erasure culminates into what we have today.
A Category 4 hurricane hit the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua yesterday 😢🇳🇮
If anyone knows of any mutual aid groups servicing the Afro + indigenous communities down there, lemme know!
Today’s a sad day for my family. This morning we lost our greatest treasure: my grandma.
When we last saw each other in Nicaragua 3 yrs ago I promised I’d return to see you...I’m sorry I wasn’t able to make it happen 😭 siempre te llevare en mi corazon Mita, le quiero mucho!! 💔
Latin content creators:
We need to come up with an informative video in Spanish to explain what’s going on to our parents and family members. We can’t let them continue to get propaganda from Univision + Telemundo.
Thoughts?
@_danalvarenga
@shotbyblanco
@luzchavezg
We’re in the process of making an Adobo Radio program in DC.
Expect to hear Afro-Latin rhythms, sounds of the DMV, and music from up-and-coming artists.
Last night,
@telemundo47
cut off a Black man talking about the protests as he started to delve into its context of police brutality and state violence against Black folks.
The silencing of Black voices and narratives has been too commonplace to maintain anti-Black narratives.
If y’all think the US is fumbling the COVID pandemic, allow me to present Nicaragua. 🇳🇮
This is a gov’t-sponsored demonstration by the Ortega regime scheduled for the 19th.
The flyer claims that coronavirus is a bourgeoise disease that doesn’t exist. Also directs: “MASK OFF” 🤦🏽♂️
No student debt relief, no gun control, no immigration reform, no new infrastructure…instead of any or all of this our gov’t is out here twerking for Meta and Microsoft.
Interesting to see Adobo losing some followers after our posts about
#GeorgeFloyd
and
#BLM
.
When we were raising money and awareness for immigrants y’all had no issues. But when it comes to speaking out against cops killing black people, y’all draw the line there?
Ok
@Apple
called and said they wanted a Nicaraguan from Montgomery Village to come and DJ at their downtown Carnegie Library store this Friday July 7 at 6pm — so that’s what we’re doing tomorrow 🤝👨🏽💻
Yesterday someone requested bad bunny…I told her no. She was shocked, asked why — I told her “respectfully…I don’t want to.” Never seen a person look more confused in my life
I’m dj’ing a wedding tomorrow for 300 people in MD — bride is Mexican, groom is Black
They said they want their reception to feel like an
@AdoboDMV
🥹🙏🏽
If you identify as being from:
BELIZE 🇧🇿
GUATEMALA 🇬🇹
EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻
HONDURAS 🇭🇳
NICARAGUA 🇳🇮
COSTA RICA 🇨🇷
PANAMA 🇵🇦
I need you to report to DC on Sept 11th at
@AdoboDMV
, it’s a Central American Bar Crawl!
So far, Orcas started disabling boats around Europe, then there was an "unprecedented gathering" of Orcas, whales, and dolphins off the coast of Nantucket, and now there's another large gathering in Monterey Bay.
They're spreading the word. The revolution is going global.
My heart is beyond broken….today we lost my best friend and the last matriarch of my family 😢💔 Mimi I miss you so much already…until we meet again..
Que brille para ella la luz perpetua…así sea..
— siempre, tu chavalo feo 😭
Please stop asking when the next Adobo is ☺️ to be quite honest we have no fuckin idea 😌
Let’s worry less about the party and focus on more important things: justice for the Black community, the health of our family and friends, and getting Trump outta office.
-
@AdoboDMV
mgmt
Do y’all DJ’s know y’all worth is how many people y’all can bring out. Y’all keep thinking it’s just about talent or skill when the main factor is how many people wanna see you.