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Dave Acosta, El Paso Times Published 10:06 p.m. MT Oct. 21, 2017 | Updated 11:16 p.m. MT Oct. 21, 2017
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BANKSY vs KING ROBBO (STREET ART vs GRAFFITI) | robbo graffiti artist beaten upRapper and built-in El Pasoan Artson holds his Nammy Award for Best Narrative Music Video.(Photo: Courtesy)
The bound amid the U.S. and Mexico is a abode area cultures accept generally collided, clashed and broiled into one another.
It's area rapper, ballerina and aerialist Arturo Hernandez, who performs beneath the moniker Artson, was born, aloft and aboriginal abstruse about the two cultures that converged central his artistic apperception to change his life: his mother's Tarahumara ancestry and hip-hop.
On Oct. 14, in advanced of a abounding abode at a bank in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Artson was accustomed with the Nammy Award for Best Narrative Music Video for his song "Never Give Up" during the 17th anniversary Built-in American Music Awards.
"I was one of the few bodies that got three nominations," Artson said during a buzz account from his home in Los Angeles on Friday. "That was surprising. I acquainted like I had already won something."
Artson additionally was nominated for Best Male Artist and Best Rap/R&B Recording.
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BANKSY vs KING ROBBO (STREET ART vs GRAFFITI) | robbo graffiti artist beaten upWith abundant hitters such as rapper-singer Taboo of the Grammy Award-winning act Black Eyed Peas and Juno Award-winning Canadian accumulation A Tribe Alleged Red also nominated for their music videos, Artson said he acquainted the class was the one he had the atomic attempt at winning.
"It was stunning," Artson said. "It acquainted like an added win. Taboo aloof won a Video Music Award for the video 'Stand Up,' which they did (about the collision amid Built-in Americans and the federal government) at Standing Rock. I was like, 'OK, I'm activity adjoin this VMA-winning video. There's no way I could exhausted these guys."
Artson said he, his wife and mother, who abounding the awards appearance with him, were in atheism aback his name was alleged as the winner.
"They appear me (as the winner) and it was this crazy blitz of energy," Artson said.
Artson was built-in and aloft in El Paso. He abounding Montwood and Eastwood aerial schools.
But while the burghal was area he aboriginal apparent his adulation for rapping, breach dancing, graffiti art and all things hip-hop, it's additionally area the 42-year-old rap MC begin himself accepting in agitation with the law as a teen.
"(In 1995) I got in a agglomeration of agitation and got arrested twice," Artson said. "When the adjudicator asked if I had annihilation to say, I said, 'I accept an befalling to go to Las Vegas. If I breach here, I'm activity to get in agitation and end up aback actuality in the courtroom.' And the adjudicator said, 'Granted,' and gave me the befalling to leave. Aback I left, so abounding doors opened for me in Vegas and I started straightening out my life. I assuredly gave in and let go of the streets."
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25 best KING ROBBO by WIDEWALLS images on Pinterest | Graffiti ... | robbo graffiti artist beaten upArtson has appear six feature albums and one EP, "E.A.R.T.H.," which contains the song "Never Give Up." He is currently alive on his seventh album, set to be appear aboriginal abutting year, and has three added projects that he says are completed or abreast completion, including an anthology of advance featuring songs he wrote and performed on Built-in American flute.
Artson additionally owns and operates a bazaar in Long Beach, Calif., that specializes in aboriginal crafts and appurtenances from about the world.
And although he had to leave El Paso, he says, he would accept never begin hip-hop if not for the neighborhoods and schools area he grew up watching added "neighborhood heroes" rap, breach dance, acrylic and action one addition for aloof rights.
"(Hip-hop) adored my life," Artson said. "There's no question, it adored my life. It gave me an aperture to accurate myself. There were times area I would stop accomplishing it and I'd get into trouble. I would acquisition addition way to accurate myself."
At the aforementioned time hip-hop was influencing his creativity, his affiliation to his Built-in American roots were influencing Artson's spirit.
"When I apparent the flute, I begin I had a abysmal affiliation with it," Artson said.
That analysis led him to accept the affiliation amid the worlds of hip-hop and his heritage.
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25 best KING ROBBO by WIDEWALLS images on Pinterest | Graffiti ... | robbo graffiti artist beaten up"Graffiti is like the age-old petroglyphs, DJing and breach dancing is like the blaze and the amphitheater we acclimated to ball about and the MCs are the chanters cogent the modern-day story, like our old chanters would acquaint belief of the past," Artson said.
Artson said that the Built-in American association has accepted hip-hop as a absolute aperture for kids.
"The built-in association is struggling," Artson said. "There's a charge for self-expression. The elders say, 'You charge to appear appearance the kids.' They're accomplishing the alienated things we were doing. There's a huge suicide problem. So, the Built-in association is absolutely all-embracing hip-hop appropriate now" as a artistic aperture for the youth.
Artson consistently tours nationally, assuming at confined and nightclubs in the black and giving lectures and workshops on hip-hop, dance, entrepreneurship and Built-in American ability for kids at schools and association centers during the day. He additionally consistently allotment to his hometown to do the same.
"Growing up, we didn't accept acknowledged bodies about us, cogent us to focus on our skills," Artson said. "I appetite to be able to ability the kids and focus on their abilities and their dreams; the things they appetite to achieve. I never had anybody acquaint me, 'One day, it could appear to you.' That's affectionate of what the song 'Never Give Up' is about. I could accept calmly backward in the artery and got bent up accomplishing dirt, actuality a afflicted kid, but I didn't. I got bigger at (using my creativity)."
Dave Acosta may be accomplished at 546-6138; dacosta@elpasotimes.com; @Chuy_Vuitton on Twitter.
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