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The Rise of Los Rakas

NPR
Published January 1, 2016 at 1:08 PM MST

Members of the hip-hop and dancehall group, Los Rakas, share their thoughts growing up poor, Afro-Latino and undocumented in one of the country's toughest cities.

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