residente the first time we met was in puerto rico your mother was in the room she took one look at me and said t tienes que ser nieto de wisin miranda i said that s right how did you know that she said pero nene tienes la misma cara mira tu abuelo wisin y mi mam eran primos hermanos you two are cousins primo t y yo descendimos de gilberto concepcin de gracia fundador del partido independentista de puerto rico abogado de pedro albizu campos en nueva york nacimos con revolucin en las venas entre ritmo de bomba y plena y estamos conectados en las malas y en las buenas now check it a little blood a sample of saliva send it to the lab and get it back and see them try to declassify a deoxyribonucleic acid just from one fiber scientists can separate a strand tell you what percentages descendants you long to understand send you to lands of ice dirt and sand a map of the world in the lines of your hand and you ll find what you planned isn t quite what you get you will cry in the rubble with children you met to remind you to struggle and strive that the trouble with life is that life isnt done with you yet and yet you will make music make something new from the rhythms and the fuses of chords beyond the images in the news if you can produce it your dreams are lucid then you spit keep the horizon siempre pa l frente open our eyes let your rhymes be the puente cambia este mundo profundamente as our global artists in residence dale primo2