Los Orishas!

I read about these guys in a Time ( Maybe Newseek?...whatever) Magazine Article. I couldn't find their music to buy, but on a trip to London, my homeboy had a burn, so I took it and since then I've been a fan. My favorite song to date is 357 with a tribute to Compay Segundo of the Buena Vista Social Club: R.I.P. Compay! ...but this is one of their most appealing videos.

Ahem, from Wikipedia: Orishas is a hip-hop group whose members had emigrated from Cuba. They were first called the “Amenaza” [1] meaning "menace" and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for American pop culture which consisted of hip hop and rap. The Orishas delved into a realm of music in which they challenged “Castro’s ideal of a colorless society” and created a black identity that the younger generations could relate to. They tackled important and obvious issues that dark skinned Cubans faced everyday though the government refused to recognize. [2] Their music describes social problems on the peripheries of Havana which were largely a result of the end of Soviet subsidies to Cuba in the early 1990s.[3]