MIXED!: Rapper Guap on Growing Up Black and Filipino in Oakland

MIXED!: Rapper Guap on Growing Up Black and Filipino in Oakland

Even if he’s not always recognized as part of the Asian-American community, Oakland-born rapper Guap is fiercely proud of his Filipino roots. On the last track of his 2021 album, 1176, he tells an origin story spanning decades and continents. His grandfather, a Black merchant marine, stationed in Subic Bay in the Philippines, found himself with a rip in the pocket of his uniform. He found a young Filipina seamstress to repair the pocket and fell in love. When his time in Subic Bay came to an end, the two married and moved to a one-story house in West Oakland, where they would eventually raise their grandchild Guap, the first born child of their youngest daughter. 1176, created in collaboration with Filipino-American producer !llmind, is Guap’s most personal work to date. It’s the culmination of a circuitous path into the music industry, from first getting recognition as a scam rapper to being featured on a Marvel movie soundtrack. For the series Mixed: Stories of Mixed Race Californians, hosts Sasha Khokha and Marisa Lagos spoke to Guap about growing up Black and Filipino, the cultural impact his Lola had on him, and how his mixed identity shows up in his music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Thin Place

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A paramedic and ER nurse from Northern California may himself be a conduit between the living and the dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Special Ed for California’s Black Students Was Supposed to Be Fixed by This Landmark Case. It Wasn’t

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Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy

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How Heat Threatens California’s Most Vulnerable

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Climate change is making it hotter everywhere in California. And heat can be a sneaky threat to our health and safety. It’s getting more dangerous, and deadly - even in parts of California you wouldn’t expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Spicing Up Seniors’ Sex Lives – and Getting a Second Chance at the California Dream

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Author and Dance Teacher’s Mission to Redefine Aging, Rocky Road Ice Cream’s Bumpy History, Singer Mike Marshall’s Second Chance, Letter to My California Dreamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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