8 | 15/04/2021 – 14:29 (GMT-4)
the Micha he acknowledges that he is more afraid of police in the United States than in Cuba, and says he takes some precautions in his encounters with U.S. law enforcement.
On a visit to the ‘ Carlucho show to talk about your topic a dream -recently released- in the final segment of the interview, before a comment from the presenter on the need to end the dictatorship in Cuba and the police stop beating sticks, the reggaeton player took the opportunity to confess “from the heart”, that he trembles when he sees the American police.
“I’m terribly afraid of the police here too”, Admitted L’Micha referring to the American police.
“One is afraid of the police wherever they want,” Carlucho commented. “You know, I (Cuba) wasn’t so afraid of the police there”, Said the reggaeton player, who has pointed out that since he arrived in the US three years ago, the first thing he saw on television was a policeman stepping on a black man’s face.
The reggaeton player, with the spontaneity that characterizes him, took the opportunity to explain one recent episode when a policeman stopped him on the road allegedly for speeding.
Micha recounts that when the policeman approached his car, he clung with both hands to the helmsman and although the license was in the “kangaroo” near him, when the officer required him to documentation to put a fine on him ($ 255), the first thing he did “just in case” was to ask the police if he could get his hands off the helmsman to give him his driver’s license.
Despite Micha’s opinion on U.S. police, much of the interview revolved around a dream, become one of the musical themes of the moment pel claim for political change in Cuba of which the letter of the song is carrier.
“I felt like the spokesperson for a reality, I felt that things were not right, that it was time and that it was up to me.”, Declared El Micha, for whom his song only portrays the truth of what is happening on the island.
“I don’t feel that they have to retaliate with mine, the song was made by me, it was my feeling, what a people thinks, the situation that is happening,” he replied when Carlucho asked him about the possibility that the Cuban regime retaliates with their families on the island.
On March 31, the reggaeton player released his new single, in which he denounced repression, lack of freedom of expression, food and medicine shortages, long queues and even currency exchange on the island .
“Change is needed even if it’s by chance. It’s getting worse every day, Havana can’t stand it anymore, the people are saying ‘It’s okay already!'”; “Now they changed the currency in the midst of a pandemic, freedom of speech, that speaking is a tragedy”; “Did you find out? There is no medicine to soothe the pain. The country needs a change, better times. Let the children eat, mothers stop eating” and “The suffering of mine, which is the repression, let it end. the abuse, let it end. the anguish of the cuban, let it end “, are some of the fragments in which the Micha charged against the situation that crosses the island.
“No one sent me, I’m just doing it. Telling the truth, telling what I’m seeing. Listen, that pa ‘improve people keep going. And in an empty room a mother is still suffering,” he says in a another moment of the song, in the video – filmed in black and white it appeared dressed in a guayabera and smoking tobacco.
The Micha joined with a dream to the political awakening that already starred People in the area in the second half of 2020. Until now the reggaeton player had preferred to ignore political issues, an attitude that earned him criticism.
A few days ago, El Micha publicly thanked the rapper and activist, Maykel Osorbo, per put your song on the street the day a group of urban artists walked crowded arteries of Old Havana while playing protest music, especially Homeland and Life and the mentioned premiere of the Cuban reggaeton player.