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"A year ago I was looking for bread as I could. Riding poker games, working in a beach bar ... Now I can live on this and, really, it's shocking." Raised in the Malaga neighborhood of El Palo , a modest area of ​​fishing tradition, Delaossa is gaining a place in the Spanish hip-hop scene. It makes it away from Latin sounds, with a classic rap that talks about the reality of the streets that have seen it grow.

He sings to the ladies of the square, to the old men who rest next to the boats but, above all, to those who, like him, feel they are trapped. " 'Wake up, little boy' is my motto. It's a message to try to help the kids, tell them: 'Get up!'. You can get out of the misery, as you say, of the mental loop of negativity . There's always escape for everything".

There was also a time when Daniel Martínez de la Ossa (1993), his real name, had nothing clear about his future. "I had a time that I didn't have a hard time, I didn't know what to do with my life , I was still in the neighborhood ..." But he bet all his letters to music. I was sure there was not going to be a plan B.

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And it didn't go wrong. In the last year he has done two tours in Latin America , has placed his name on the poster of several festivals (Viña Rock, Cabo de Plata, Madrid Salvaje or Mallorca Live) and has just begun a tour of Spain in which he has sold out with weeks in advance tickets for their concerts in Madrid ( Indendance Club ), releasing a second date, and Seville ( Fanatic ). " Everything is exceeding the expectations I had," he acknowledges.

"With so many movements of emotions you forget who you are"

Rap came to Delaossa's life when everyone listened to flamenco and reggaeton. It was through his brother, who discovered some records of Rage Against The Machine and Cypress Hill . He assures that he still remembers the sensation when he listens to them for the first time in his adolescence: "their content caught my attention, they were talking about things that others did not say ."

He began to sing influenced by the art of his father , a renowned Malaga painter who he considers “an“ absolute reference. ”But it was not until he was 20 when his work was professionalized through Space Hammu , a collective that He created with his partner Raggio and to which other rappers have subsequently joined as Easy-S .

In April 2019, the Andalusian dog arrived, his first album, and everything rushed. "In the presentation concert, in Malaga, we filled the room to the top. We had been doing concerts there all our lives and we didn't pay much attention to it. It was like consecration , saying 'this project, yes'," he recalls.

Tours, collaborations, moving to Madrid ... Delaossa's life has changed so much in a few months that in some moments between his answers the nerves emerge , the feeling that he has not fully assimilated his new situation.

He acknowledges that he looks back a lot so as not to lose his mind. " With so many events and so many emotions, you forget who you are . You have to be a little careful with that," he says. Above all, when writing: "sometimes I put on old songs to know who I am, so as not to forget what I have been doing, what I represent . "

Looking ahead, he says that "living on this the objective is met", although it does leave one thing clear: "I will do almost a bit of everything, sure. But I would like to stay as a person , which I think is the most important thing. No losing my values, my principles , knowing where you come from, what you stand for. That always has to remain. "

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