Resident has fun with Calle 13

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• Song This is Not America, by Residente and Ibeyi

comes out

and before saying hello he is already rapping, devouring the verses like a child hitting a piñata, pam, pam!

It doesn't seem like he's breathing, he drops everything like a madman and thus continues the eight minutes of his session with Bizarrap, which includes slapping "the stars of the digital platforms" and "the lie rappers", and between bar and bar, everything he throws at J Balvin, half a ton of expletives with which he ends and smiles and, hey, he already has the entire audience in his pocket.

"I do this for

fun," he repeats the chorus of his song with

, and that was the spirit of his entire performance.

The Puerto Rican artist, headliner this Saturday at the Madrid festival, dedicated most of his performance to the repertoire of Calle 13, the duo he led between 2004 and 2015 with his brother: 13 of the 16 songs they were from his old band, performed alongside a rock group that

, while emphasizing the cumbia base in other cases, or even Arabic sounds in

.

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Lots of electric guitar, more of a massive

and a rhythm section like an anvil in which the percussionist often became a second drummer, like in

.

"When I was younger ,

," Residente confessed to this newspaper two years ago, in a long interview.

"I actually have a song where I say I'm going to die at 40," he added, but later concluded, "Now I can easily see myself singing rap songs at 70."

Residente, during his concert in Río Babel.Patry MartínR.B.

So Residente no longer sings

like a reggaeton, but speeds it up, adds a lot of electric guitar and the syncopated rhythm sounds as if the drummer were hitting a punching bag.

At 44, has the king of Latin rap grown too old?

This week EL MUNDO published the piece

at 40: has the world queen of pop grown too old?

The headline was not to the liking of some readers and there was more than one tweeter who turned his trills into squawks, since they interpreted that it was not a rhetorical question, but a statement.

Actually, the question was answered in the text (negatively, of course), in which it is analyzed how the pop market, which is nothing more than a reflection of the tastes of its consumers,

. ;

In this context, the American star now faces the difficult transition to

maturity .

The Puerto Rican musician is in the same situation, who due to his commercial impact, artistic influence, abusive accumulation of Latin Grammy awards (more than 30) and creative power is

.

He is now facing maturity in a genre that rewards freshness but, like Beyoncé in her market, Residente can rap all he wants if he keeps doing it this way.

With the emotion with which he interpreted

, for example, or with which he chained

and

, pieces of Latin pride that found their culmination with the pulsating interpretation of

with the punk power of

;

with the lyricism of that beautiful love song that is

;

or with the contagious celebration that is

And, of course, if he ends his concerts with the big party that is

.

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