KID FROST’ HISPANIC CAUSING PANIC 30 YEARS LATER
2020 marks the 30 year anniversary of Kid Frost’ seminal rap album, Hispanic Causing Panic. Its signature song, La Raza, serves as a touchstone for Mexican-American contributions to hip hop and pop culture. Behind the bass, bounce and thump, though, is a captivating look into Mexican-American youth culture of the late 1980’s and early ‘90’s.
On this 3-part podcast, multimedia producer Carlos “Bookworm Brown” Aguilar and Boston University professor Jonathan Calvillo, take listeners on a hunt for the story behind the album, unpacking history, exploring identity, banging hip hop and chasing down Kid Frost along the way. In the process, they launch the Mexican American Hip Hop Archive and convince Kid Frost to provide the inaugural artifact.