How can hip-hop, poetry, and fragmented storytelling dismantle the colonial gaze —and propose new ways of knowing from the Global South?
Bocafloja is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist whose work spans music, literature, photography, and documentary film. An Afro-Indigenous descendant born in Mexico and based in the U.S. for the past 17 years, he has become one of the most influential voices in Spanish-speaking hip-hop. His recent book, Del mondongo al Ojalá, combines short fiction, poetry, micro-narratives, and images in a bold, non-linear exploration of memory, resistance, and anti-colonial epistemologies rooted in racialized experience.
Over a career spanning more than two decades, Bocafloja has performed in over 35 countries, sharing stages with artists such as Bahamadia, Dead Prez, Brother Ali, Kool Herc, and Dilated Peoples. His work —reviewed by outlets including Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, BBC, and Okayafrica— uses the rhythms of rap to address systemic racism, colonialism, and social justice across the Americas. A founding member of collectives like Lifestyle and Microphonk, his solo albums have left an indelible mark on Latin American music and political thought.
This conversation invites audiences into Bocafloja’s immersive creative world —where sound, text, and image converge as radical acts of memory and liberation.
