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"A lot of people don’t like me for the very reason some people love me—I made it out of the ghetto,” she replies. “[My critics] are usually the people who didn’t grow up in the hood, who think that there should be no intermixing between Mexican and American ideas. But you know what? I’m tired of uppity people who try to sing banda and corridos. They don’t even know what it is being in the hood, what it is growing up poor. They don’t realize that that’s how my generation grew up. And my generation is the majority [of Latinos] in this country."
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