Roberto Carlos Lange, a.k.a. Helado Negro, is from Brooklyn, New York. His new album, Private Energy, is available now.
This is the first election that I'm voting in. I've never followed an election so closely. I feel the need to participate. I'm not voting for Trump.
This song was written as a message of encouragement to myself. A me that was younger, growing up around all of the noise about who you should be or how you should be as a young man, a brown boy, a Latino person. It's weird and can feel uncomfortable lots of times. The song falls in between whispering and shouting. It's me telling myself that it's okay to be all of these different things.
And you can only view you with what you got you don’t have to pretend that you got to know more cause you are young latin and proud young latin and proud young latin and proud young latin and proud Cause you woke up feeling like this you woke up knowing that you'll be you for the rest of your life for the rest of your life for the rest of your life cause you are young latin and proud young latin and proud young latin and proud young latin and proud and we are young latin and proud young latin and proud we are young latin and proud we are young latin and proud And you grow older knowing that you'll always be this one thing and you'll have this to be you and the people who'll be here waiting for you always will be one with you and you'll be one with me Young latin and proud Young latin and proud Young latin and proud Young latin and proud Tu abuela es Young latin and proud Tus padres son Young latin and proud Tu hermana es Young latin and proud Tus primos son Young latin and proud Young latin and proud Young latin and proud one day you'll be old latin and proud old latin and proud old latin and proud old latin and proud