Denise Carlos: It’s hard to talk about leadership and presidency in these times. And oftentimes I think we’re able to do a lot of critique to folks who make the rules. And we just were sitting around one day and were like, ‘What would we really do, in our neighborhoods? If we can’t make big policy changes, how is it up to us? And how do we write these songs that really connect with the youth of our neighborhoods, with our families? And what do we have access to? What is the power that we have access to?’
Hector Flores: Yeah, so—it’s actually an old-school song, Jarocho song. There’s an old-school song called "Señor Presidente.” And so we would play that old-school jam, but, you know, we’re Chicano kids, Chicana kids, from L.A., and so we would mix in hip-hop and cumbia. And just like Denise said, like we—a lot of it’s like—I think, in the left, we’re always talking about what we’re against. And for us, we really want to reimagine and really think what we’re for, because the day is coming and the day is here where we need to push forward an agenda of what we’re for. And that’s what this song was really about, like what would I do? You know, what would I push for? And, actually, three months leading up to the recording, I went to like Food 4 Less, and every time I went to go buy food, I would ask the workers, I’d say, “Hey, if you were president for a day, what was the first thing you would do?” And basically, their responses are the lyrics to—the lyrics that I wrote for my piece. They always said education. They said, “Man, you know, I’d get my cousin out of jail, because he shouldn’t be in there for weed.” And like, things like that. And that’s sort of what we put into the song.