level 6
The five-minute track ventures through at least eight beat changes, five different rap flows, and 10+ years of references.
2020年03月05日 01点03分
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level 6
Equal parts reggaetón symphony and perreo megamix, it wouldn’t be hyperbole to say that “Safaera” is a technical masterpiece. Featuring mid-2000s juggernauts Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow, the Bad Bunny track appears well into El Conejo Malo’s new album YHLQMDLG (an abbreviation for Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana, or I Do Whatever I Want). Appearing later on the 20-song album, “Safaera” proves Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio still has a couple sucker punches left in him, even as he tries to sustain the record’s momentum.
2020年03月05日 01点03分
4
level 6
The five-minute track ventures through at least eight beat changes, five different rap flows, and 10+ years of references. A selected catalog of some of its citations: the one-stringed tumbi sample from Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On”; the bassline from Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved”; the siren-like synths from DJ Nelson and DJ Goldy’s Xtassy Reggae tape; the opening hook from Cosculluela’s “Pa’ La Pared” featuring Jowell & Randy; the Jaws sample from Alexis y Fido’s “El Tiburón”–the list goes on. Producers Tainy and DJ Orma select riddims and references that, for many of us, will evoke memories of denim stains on basement walls, transferred via contra-la-pared perreo, or maybe humid summers spent dancing at marquesina parties when visiting our families back home.
2020年03月05日 01点03分
5