Mexico’s Indigenous rappers find rare spotlight – on Wakanda soundtrack

Indigenous rapper Pat Boy in Mexico in 2019. Photograph: Agencia EFE/Handout

The journey from a quiet Mexican village to being billed on the soundtrack of an Oscar-nominated film has been an epic one for Indigenous rapper Pat Boy.

Born Jesús Pat Chablé, Pat Boy grew up speaking only Mayan until he started primary school; his parents still speak no Spanish.