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IS ALL ABOUT INSPIRED BY
PUERTO RICAN MOVEMENT MUSIC CULTURE, SKATEBOARD, SURF AND FASHION STYLE.

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MAMAKUSA WORD MEANING in the 1950s and 60s and evolving from Western influences (like Latin jazz and instruments), and Pan-African influences (like the claps and chants of kossa dancing).

A decade after dancers shook their booties to “Soul Makossa”, Michael Jackson ‘borrowed’ the refrain for his Thriller track “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’”. The chant underwent minor pronunciation changes probably due to Jackson’s unique writing process until it became the scat-like mumbo-jumbo we remember today.