PanguiLef

Their passion for hip-hop was discovered both on the street and in different places. Jaas Newen in the dust and concrete desert of the metropolis of Santiago de Chile and Chilkatufe in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Both musicians have now united in Hamburg for a new project, PanguiLef, which in German means "skill of the puma".


  Jaas Newen and Incheta Chilkatufe, both with more than 20 years in the genre, address in their songs social inequality, oppression and discrimination from different perspectives, complementing and enriching their repertoire. PanguiLef brings a brilliant variation of the Concious Rap to the listener. Hip-hop, Jaas Newen opened a hitherto literally unknown world, which is hidden in the history books in the Chilean schools and which seemed condemned to oblivion. She began singing in 1994 with her group Tormenta Verbal and decided in 2000 to continue as a soloist. She attended a workshop by the legendary Chilean hip-hop group Panteras Negras, which supported her in her music. "I've always had my connection to nature, what I lacked was someone who introduced me to hip-hop, and when I got the chance to write a song and study mapudungun, my life and political thinking abruptly changed It still encourages me today to raise my voice in support of my people, "says Jaas Newen, adding," I have personally experienced social inequality and I have not stopped denouncing it in my songs. They are a way to acknowledge my identity, to stand up and be proud to say that I am a woman and a Mapuche and that concealing our names is not enough to silence my blood. "
                                       
Like many Mapuche who were condemned to a life of poverty in the periphery of the capital after their land was stolen from them, their grandparents decided to abandon their original names and adopt a Spanish name ,not to be the focus of the latent discrimination of Chilean society, which is primarily directed against the indigenous peoples of the country. Rap helped Jaas Newen rediscover her roots and open the door to the world of her ancestors. It turns rap into a powerful tool to condemn the repression that the Mapuche still face today In the Chilean and Argentine states. Has a Newen also addresses  the important role of women in the struggle for resistance. 

Chilkatufe also has a similar story. In 1998 he left the hills of his hometown Valparaiso to settle in Hamburg. There he learned that discrimination and racism was not a feature of an underdeveloped country at the end of the world, but an institutionalized mastery of domination to suppress and sort out anyone who looks different. As  Chiliscote he made his first steps in hip-hop in his hometown with LTL, one of the first hip-hop groups Valparaiso. Later, he founded the group Sindicato Latino with other Latin American rappers and profiled his songs early on political issues in which racism, police violence and the needs in the everyday life of a migrant ``are the central role. Music brought him to social issues and social issues to political activism. He rejects any norms imposed by society: "I do not see myself as Chilean, but as a dweller of this world. I'm not an artist either, because rap is an instrument for me to fight, "he says, his songs have the flow of an AK-47, they sound like one and are sometines uncomfortable, but they invite self-reflection. PanguiLef, the fusion between Jaas Newen and Incheta Chilkatufe, thus joins in the classic Conscious rap or rap combativo, which bores like a spearhead in the ear of the listener to condemn the injustice of the powerful. But PanguiLef is something more than that. It is the insatiable and existential attempt to recapture the world of origin - the world robbed by colonialism and capitalism. Their songs are an attempt to build a bridge into the past, the reconstruction of a path to the cosmos of their ancestors. The search for a genuine identity and a struggle for self-determination.