Oakland-via-Panama’s Los Rakas make their NYC return at Webster Hall with some of New York City’s finest and freshest acts, THEiLLUZiON and TECLA. Joined by DJs Nenas Rudas and Big Nito. You’re not going to want to miss this one! Tickets here.

LOS RAKAS Live! With special guests
THEiLLUZiON + Tecla

DJ Sets by:
Las Nenas Rudas (Azucar)
Big Nito (Hot Radio NYC)

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Event is 19+
Doors 8pm
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LOS RAKAS
Cousins Raka Rich & Raka Dun are Los Rakas – pioneering Panamanians by way of California’s Bay Area on the frontier of a new Latin urban sound. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with both Spanish and English lyricism, Los Rakas represent the cutting edge of Pan-American flows. Taking their name from the Panamanian word “Rakataka” – a negative slur used to describe someone from the ghetto – Los Rakas have set out to both inspire fellow “Rakas” by empowering them to become successful despite their circumstances, turning the current Latin hip-hop world on its head. Across their 7 years building their international Raka movement, the group have a slew of mixtapes, EPs and singles out, collaborating most recently with Blondie on her album “Ghost of Download” on the song “I Screwed Up.” Their debut album on Universal Latino, “El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo” is out now. Listen to it on SPOTIFY: http://bit.ly/1obhcR8
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THEiLLUZiON
Ferocious artists and urban cultural hybrids, NYC lyricists Salomon Faye (@SalomonFaye) and Enasni Leber (@EnasniLeber) connect as THEiLLUZiON – a multi-media production base that specializes in MUSIC, FILM & ART – repping that raw city flavor of now – from Brooklyn to the Bronx across all of New York City. Salomon Faye is featured on fellow NYC hip-hop revivalists – Ratking’s debut effort on XL Recordings, “So It Goes”: http://youtu.be/_urhiwZk-dY
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TECLA
TECLA is a first-generation NYC-native (Hell’s Kitchen) born of Italian and Haitian immigrants. She has gone from being a classically trained child pianist prodigy to versatile performer in hip-hop, reggae, punk-rock, electronic, & funk bands. Exploring her talents on a variety of synth keyboards, she developed her own modern musical sound, understood and known for her genre-mixing melodic compositions, danceable afro/funk/Caribbean/tropical/pop production style, and boundary-breaking songwriting and rap lyricism. TECLA has been described as “the new freak Lauryn Hill”, “SWV on acid”, “the Rocktronica Black Cinderella”, “Ritchie Valens meets Pagliacci.” Visit: http://iamtecla.com/
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DJ SETS BY:
LAS NENAS RUDAS
Residents of NYC’s “Azucar: A Queer Latin Dance Party,” Precolumbian out of Philly and Brooklyn’s very own I$LA are, according to Remezcla.com: “Creating a Safe Space to Wine Yuh Waist” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/precolumbian
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BIG NITO
Founder of www.hotradionyc.com, Big Nito is a radio personality, DJ, hype man and #RakaInNYC of Afro-Panamanian descent from Brooklyn.