Havana, CU – The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was pronounced dead yesterday (November 25) in an official announcement made by his brother and predecessor, Raul Castro, on the country’s state television. The iconic leader was 90 years old.
Hip Hop responded by celebrating the leader’s life as a revolutionary. Besides bringing a new regime to communist Cuba, he was known for meeting with Malcolm X and other leaders of the movement against systemic racism in the United States.
Castro was also known by many as a feared dictator for his reign that spanned from 1959 to 2008, the amount of time 10 United States presidents served in office. Despite a reported literacy rate of 99 percent and a strong healthcare system, he caused millions to flee the island country because of oppression.
While Nas, Rapsody and Paris reflected on Castro’s role as a revolutionary, Eskeerdo — a Miamian of Cuban descent — and Uncle Luke expressed joy at the dictator’s passing.
Check it out below.
RIP KING FIDEL CASTRO #revolutionary only 5% understand. Im not Cuban, I don't fully know how he effected my Cuban family, so I'm sending strength and power for your pains. But lots Of us, as Black people, n some others in the USA, we saw him as Ally in the Struggle.✊🏾
#RIP Fidel Castro. I met him in Cuba in '91 while on tour there (also w/Assata Shakur). Warring w/the Beast. #AllPowerToThePeople #BPP #BLM
— PARIS (@paris_gfr) November 26, 2016
R.I.P. Fidel Castro. The honorable Minister @louisfarrakhan has stories of how you wanted to empower people. Thank You.
"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating…it causes war, hypocrisy and competition"- Rip Fidel Castro ❤️✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/QVsVkZH3eq
— Ric (@RicWilson) November 26, 2016
….I wonder now what lies in #Cuba's future now that #FidelIsDead
Fidel Castro has died. Beloved and despised. A symbol of resistance against western imperialist oppression and labeled an oppressor himself
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) November 26, 2016
Fuck Castro.. ill piss on his grave @kanyewest voice #cubalibre
— Eskeerdo (@Eskeerdo) November 26, 2016
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