8 15/04/2021 – 2:29 PM (GMT-4)
The Micah He admits that he is more afraid of the police in the United States than in Cuba, and assures that he takes some precautions in his meetings with US law enforcement officials.
During a visit to the Carlucho’s show to talk about your topic A dream – recently released – in the last part of the interview, for a comment by the presenter about the need for the dictatorship in Cuba to end and for the police to stop beating, the reggaeton player took the opportunity to confess “from the heart” that he trembles when he sees the North American police officers.
“I am also terribly afraid of the police here”El Micha admitted to referring to the US police.
“You’re afraid of the police wherever you want,” said Carlucho. “You know, I there (Cuba) wasn’t that scared of the police”said the reggaeton, who indicated that since arriving in the United States three years ago, the first thing he saw on television was a police officer stepping on the face of a black man.
Reggaeton, with the spontaneity that characterizes it, took the opportunity to create a recent episode where a police officer stopped him on the road for allegedly speeding.
El Micha says that as the police officer approached his car, he clung to the steering wheel with both hands and although the driver’s license in ‘the kangaroo’ was near him, when the officer needed the documentation to get him a fine ( of $ 255), what The first thing he did “just in case” was to ask the policeman if he could take his hands off the wheel and give him a driver’s license.
Despite El Micha’s opinion of the US police, much of the interview turned around A dream has become one of the musical themes of the moment for him demand for a political change in Cuba of which the lyrics of the song are the carrier.
“I felt that I was the spokesperson for a reality, I felt that things were not right, that it was time and that it was my turn”declared El Micha, for whom his song reflects only the truth of what is happening on the island.
“I don’t feel like they should get revenge with mine, the song was made by me, it was my feeling, what a people think, the situation that arises,” he replied when Carlucho asked him if the Cuban regime is possible would be. would retaliate with his family on the island.
On March 31, the reggaeton singer released his new single, in which he denounced the repression, the lack of freedom of expression, the shortage of food and medicine, the long queues and even the exchange of currencies on the island.
“A change is needed, even by coincidence. Every day it gets worse, Havana can’t take it anymore, people say: ‘It’s okay now!'”; “Now they changed the currency in the middle of a pandemic, freedom of speech, that speaking is a tragedy”; Did you find out? There is no medicine to relieve the pain. The country needs a change, better times. So that the children eat, mothers stop eating ‘and’ The suffering of me, make it stop. The oppression, let it end. The abuse, let it end. Cuban’s fear, let it end, “are some of the fragments where El Micha attacked the situation the island is going through.
“Nobody sent me, I just do it. Tell the truth, say what I see. Hey, people keep leaving to get better. And in an empty room a mother continues to suffer,” he says at another point in the song , in whose music video – filmed in black and white – he appeared dressed in a guayabera and smoked tobacco.
The Micah participated A dream until the political awakening that Gente de Zona already played in the second half of 2020. Until now, the reggaeton player had preferred to ignore political issues, an attitude that brought him criticism.
A few days ago, El Micha publicly thanked the rapper and activist, Maykel Osorbo in front of put your song on the street the day when a group of urban artists walked the busy streets of Old Havana playing mostly rebellious music Homeland and Life and the aforementioned premiere of Cuban reggaeton.