Cuban rappers open festival with irreverent lyrics

Saturday, August 17, 2002

HAVANA -- Voicing the frustrations of Cuba's urban youth, local musicians followed the lead of American rap pioneers as they opened a festival slamming the police with an irreverence rarely expressed here publicly.

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