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Snow Tha Product pulled up to Genius to break down her track “Sabado.” Produced by DJ Pumba and Snow herself, where she takes aim at people who act “too good” and out of touch, off her upcoming project Before I Crashout. On today’s episode of Verified, the Bay Area native opens up about the inspiration behind the song, challenges within her own Latin community, embracing her sexuality, and more.

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00:00I guess the confusion within our community, that's where the infighting happens, right?

00:03It's like every single one has just this different route of dealing with their own

00:07past trauma, life, whatever. And instead of talking about it, we just kind of like,

00:12I don't know, drink through it.

00:20This one to me was like more of a silly song. Like I was like, okay, they're going to get it

00:24one way or another, you know, like either you can listen to my hard, aggressive rap songs,

00:28or you can listen to, you know, a little silly corrido trying, you know, being funny about it.

00:32I remember just telling my producer, I was like, find me a little loop. I was like, I just need

00:35something really like kind of quirky, like kind of like the cartoonish type vibe. And then I was

00:40like, and then we're going to speed it up. And as we're speeding it up, and then we go into like

00:43even some Jersey drums in there. I was like, we're going to like, I'm going to tell a story.

00:47And it just kind of keeps getting dramatic until there's a fight.

00:58You know, opening up with someone did it, who did it, and just start throwing accusations

01:06all over the place. I think it's very significant to be like, I'm coming into like our little

01:11get together, but I'm addressing things because I know that like sometimes we don't address

01:15things and then we just show up to that party and then you just try to keep it cool as long

01:18as you can. Sometimes in our families, there's so much infighting, there's so many problems,

01:22there's so many whatever. And the only time you do see each other is at that bautizo.

01:25It's the only time you see each other is at that holiday, you know? So it's like, I

01:27showed up with a big accusation. It was a very guess who, like I want it to kind of be

01:31like murder mystery, but like who voted for Trump type shit.

01:48I've rapped for a long time. I was rapping in New York with the Puerto Ricans and the

01:52Dominicans 15 years ago. You feel me? Like I've been, I'm from the Bay. Like I, in the

01:57Bay, I get it in NorCal. I've lived in Texas. Like I've, I've been in all the places that

02:00everyone tries to go. It's just cultural. You don't get it.

02:03My position on this is within our own community, a lot of you little motherfuckers are not even

02:08educated enough to be able to help the situations we have going on. You're not addressing them.

02:13You're not giving a fuck about them. You're, you're, you're watching your, your aunts, your

02:17uncles, your grandparents, be literally terrorized by them being able to be chased down the street

02:21right now. And you are more worried about whether or not you can say it, somebody, like

02:27another word or use somebody else's culture to shield yourself in or acceptance in some,

02:34bro, lava los trapos at home type shit. Like take care of that. And also know the history.

02:39With me, cause I already know that if you clip this motherfuckers are going to start coming

02:42at me, like, well, I want to, like you stand so tall trying to fight someone telling you

02:47like, bro, like, is that really like what you are fighting for right now? Like in this

02:51time, day and age, look at your face. If you are indigenous features, if you are brown,

02:55if you are, this is what you are, this is the hill you're dying on. It's just more of like,

03:03just get perspective.

03:04I do think it's really funny that I made the song, dropped the video. I have that line

03:15in there. And then immediately, like, I started seeing all these videos popping up about down

03:18low, you know, Mexican men and them being, you know, our tios, our uncles, our brothers,

03:24whatever, different, different people. I think it's about that time to just bring it all to

03:28the light. Like it is very true. You know, you get raised being told that if you are gay,

03:32you are going to hell. It happened to me. Mind you, I was an altar girl, choir, like everything

03:37you can think of being deep in the Catholic church, that was me. So I lived my life with

03:42that heteronormative, you know, kind of like, okay, well then I guess, you know, like you're

03:46only going to win in life if you get married, have babies, have the house, blah blah. I did

03:50it. And it took me getting educated and realizing and understanding and everything that like, you know,

03:55when we got a divorce, I was like, I met a girl, took that chance. And I was like, holy

03:59shit. Like, I think I'm gay. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is what it is. As much

04:02as some people try to like shame that, it's like some of your uncles and aunts and dads

04:06and whatever, like if they actually wanted to be happy in their life, they would probably

04:10go through that same journey. And it's actually beautiful to finally realize like, oh my God,

04:13I can be free.

04:25No matter what, no matter what we're going through, we're going to work. But if it's

04:31Sábado and you got the day off, you know, and everybody has the fiesta, the bautizo,

04:35the boda, whatever they got going on, that's usually their like free, their off time, you

04:40know, their time that everybody gets together and drinks. And so I think showing up on that

04:46day and talking about this stuff was important. I think it was very significant because you

04:51could have done it any other day while everybody did that work. But I wanted to do it when everyone's

04:54together, when all the archetypes are together and be like, who was it? Like, because it

04:58could be any of y'all because at this point we're all hiding something. When everybody

05:02could say they didn't do it, but it's like, there's a big percentage of Latinos that did

05:06vote for Trump. So, which one of y'all motherfuckers was it?

05:09I think our love for chisme probably also comes from the fact that we are very community-driven,

05:27very family-oriented. And when you have a lot of different people that are in your immediate

05:32network, you're going to kind of always want the update. I mean, there's a dopamine hit

05:37for gossip. You know, there really is. So a lot of times for families or for whatever,

05:41the criticizing, the gossiping, the whatever, un cafecito, un pan dulce, when you get to

05:46gossip, you get together and you get to talk about everybody. I don't know. It feels good,

05:51I guess. And yeah, maybe that's why people don't want to get rid of everybody's traumas

05:54because then they're not going to have no gossip. But when it's a tough topic and you may

05:59be involved, people don't want to talk about it. So to me, it was just kind of indicative

06:03of like, you know, if you like gossip, then let's talk about it.

06:06No, por nada, si la fiesta. Para, pero no me echen la culpa porque no fui yo.

06:10Yo creo fue la prima que pa tener hijos güeros con un güero americano. Se casó. Dice que

06:14solo habla inglés. Que si quiere chiquen. Dice que yes. Pinche trauma de ella crecer.

06:18Entre mis tías con su pendejes. Que pa mejorar la raza. Ojo azul. Que si fuck you me, no fuck

06:23you you. I like my brown skin. Fuck you fools. Do you even watch history or watch the news?

06:27I have so much family that's like that. We're trying to conceive and we're literally looking

06:31at fertility and we go to Mexico and all the donors are just white. Canadian, American,

06:37European, Argentinian. And I'm just like, what about those of us that want to be brown?

06:42She's Dominican. I'm Mexican. What about we want our baby to look like us? They're like,

06:46well, I don't know. This is what people want. And it's like, why? Why is that what people want?

06:50Why are our features not seen as beautiful? It took me a lot of learning, a lot of healing,

06:55a lot of loving myself, a lot of walking away from people that made me second guess myself to

07:00finally be in a place where it's like, I'm showing my son. I'm being like, this is who you are.

07:03You are not. You know what I'm saying? It's beautiful. I know hate because I know nowadays

07:07everybody is offended and they think that reverse racism exists, so whatever. But to me,

07:12I think loving ourselves, celebrating ourselves and valuing our culture is a beautiful thing.

07:18I'm trying to be as understanding as possible. I've gone through my trying to beef with people

07:25or like, if you don't agree with me, blah, blah, blah. So I do come from an understanding place,

07:30right? So I try to just be like, okay, how can I communicate with you so that we can just as a

07:35community try to improve? Because I know that just beating each other's ass is not going to work right

07:39now.

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