Chicano is an identity that comes out of our people's political and militant actions that were born in the 1960's. We referred to ourselves as Chicano as a form of defiance, as a way of rejecting Mexican-American, as a way of embracing our core Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) identity.

Chicano rap is a subgenre of hip hop music, rap that embodies aspects of West Coast and Chicano culture. The first widely recognized Chicano rap artist was Kid Frost, whose 1990 debut album driven by the hit single "La Raza" brought new attention to Chicano rappers in Hip Hop.