Abstract
The Los Angeles riots of 1992 are never far from the minds and rhymes of emcees Kiwi and Bambu. Arguably the best-known Filipino American rappers in the United States today, Kiwi (Jack DeJesus) and Bambu (Jonah Deocampo) started rapping as teenagers growing up in the inner-city Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The two came together to establish the group Native Guns in 2002 and, together with their Chinese American DJ Phatrick (Patrick Huang), produced the critically acclaimed full-length album Barrel Men (2006) and two lauded “mixtapes”: Stray Bullets Mixtape Volume I (2004) and Stray Bullets Mixtape Volume II (2007). Native Guns official disbanded in 2007 for principals to resume their solo careers, but in 2010, the group reunited to record the song “Handcuffs,” a song shaped in large part by their experience of the Los Angeles insurrection of 1992.
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