Panas is Latin American slang for close friends, especially people you share trust and camaraderie with. In the lyric "Recuerda mis panas" ("Remember my friends"), it gives the song a distinctly community-minded, street-culture feel and is more colorful than the everyday word amigos.
Ana Tijoux and Talib Kweli throw a party for hip-hop's fiftieth birthday. The opening keeps pulling you onto the floor, "Ven, ven, pégate" (Come, come, get close), and "Somos cinco décadas" (We are five decades) counts the years since the bass drum, the snare, the graffiti and the DJs of the 70s. Tijoux raps about carving rhymes "puliendo cada detalle" (polishing every detail), while Kweli's English verses tie the culture to black and brown unity in the neighborhoods.
The hook "TĂș sae, sae" (You know, know) is street Spanish for "tĂș sabes", and "Con las manos en el aire" (With hands in the air) is the instruction: "BĂĄilalo, siĂ©ntelo, vĂvelo" (Dance it, feel it, live it).