Jarfaiter: "I've done a lot of bad things, I don't want to be an example for anyone"

• Ergo Pro & Ill Pekeño "We are talking about a reality that gentlemen from Malasaña cannot talk about"

• Jordi Wild "I am very afraid of those who are moralists because they are the ones with the most corpses in the closet"

• Idols All the interviews of the series

He makes music, appears in movies and, above all, he knows how to look for life.

(1994) is not cut and we like that.

For a decade, he has been one of the best-known faces in the Madrid

.

A figure who has always been linked to the label "rap quinqui" although, he defends, his "goes much further".

Born in Piedralaves, a municipality of just over 2,000 inhabitants in Ávila, he moved to Tetuán as a teenager.

An area that has marked him both personally and professionally.

," he points out.

He confesses that he has lived off his art for a while, but that he finally takes it as a serious job.

This March 18 he fills the Sala Paqui (formerly But) in Madrid.

QUESTION - What is the first memory you have related to music?

ANSWER -

Holy shit!

Wow, it's hard because my parents have always liked it a lot and I have memories from a very young age of listening to music in the car, dancing, being silly... Music has always been very present in my life.

My father has a lot of musical culture and he has instilled it in me.

Q.- What kind of music was heard in your house?

A.-

Well, my father has listened to a wide variety of music: a lot of rock, punk, singer-songwriters, Celtic music, flamenco... Everything, really.

And then my mother liked heavy or rumbitas more.

Everything more scoundrel.

The rap thing came to me later as a result of friends or friends of my older sister.

Q.- And when did you start making music?

R.-

When I was little I already wrote lyrics.

Then my father enrolled me in some drumming classes and, as he saw that I liked it, he bought me such a trinket.

Then I started playing in a punk band with some kid from my town and, when I arrived in Madrid, at 16, that's when I started to write more rap and record.

But it was all as a form of leisure.

At that time I did not imagine that I would make a living from music, far from it.

Doing that style you thought you weren't going to get very far, it wasn't like now.

It has not been until practically after the quarantine when I have started to take this seriously and see it as a real job.

Q.- Until you could make a living from music, what did you work on?

R.-

(He stays blank and laughs) The truth is that I have never worked.

I was looking for life as I could.

Q.- Why didn't you see music as something serious before and now you do?

Your name has been known in the world for a decade.

R.-

It is true that I have wasted many years being known but without being able to make a living from it.

It has reached a point where my manager has told me: "look, if you get serious and do things like this instead of being a crazy goat you can live on this and live well."

It was when I thought of paying attention to him.

Q.- Has it frustrated you at any time to be someone popular but make a living from it?

A.-

No, I wasn't frustrated because I wasn't having a bad time either.

I have spent many years being known but without being able to make a living from it.

In addition, I know that I make a type of music that, due to its content, cannot sell much or very well.

It cannot be commercial.

I couldn't get frustrated because I was making my move like a bighead.

Q.- Anyway, the word was not frustration.

R.-

I have never had that "I want to be a millionaire" or "I want to be number one in sales" thing.

I have always done what I liked.

I wanted to give a message and make very personal music, that was everything the way I liked it.

And, yes, I know that it is something that is not going to work as a commercial product but I am happy because I do what I like.

Q.- What is that message you wanted to give?

How do you understand music?

A.-

Perhaps it is not so much a message as such, but a music of sensations, of moods.

I want to do what I like.

Something a little bizarre, just as politically incorrect, without limits... And everything a little violent.

It's that roll.

Q.- And as for the objective, what are you looking for?

A.-

I think what I'm looking for with my music is to leave a legacy.

When I think about it, it is to the conclusion that I arrive.

When I die I want people to say "ah, look at what he was doing".

I would also like to give a message or change things, but it is true that I do not think that in today's society a singer is going to change anything.

And less me with the trajectory that I have.

I am a person to whom they will always be able to say "you say this but then you do that".

I've done a lot of bad things so I also don't want to be an example of what's right or wrong.

I prefer to leave my experiences, my moods, my things.

And whoever likes it, enjoy it.

Q.- Perhaps it is not possible to achieve a big change, but some small ones.

A.-

Yes, although my music is not very political, I have always thought of getting the kids a little bit of conscience within all the chaos and destruction that it entails.

Always without giving the sheet of grandfather chives.

But it's very badass, that's a very small percentage in my lyrics.

Q.- Do you think you are valued well?

A.-

I think that I am beginning to be valued now.

I think I've been underestimated all these years that I've been making music, really.

But people are beginning to realize the weight of what I do.

At first, perhaps they saw it as more distant because my music is like the soundtrack of the apocalypse, as Alberto, my manager, says.

So they said to me "what does this madman say?!"

Now many people begin to live the reality that some of us already lived and have the same problems under their houses.

That's why now there are more people who understand my music and think I'm right.

Q.- What problems are those?

A.-

Well, unemployment, poverty, corruption, how the police work, how the issue of immigration and integration is organized... There are many small ghetto areas that are getting bigger and bigger and it is going to start there will be more problems.

In ten years things will change a lot.

Q.- So, do you think that now they experience it in the first person and thanks to this they identify with and consume your music more?

A.-

Sure.

When I arrived in my neighborhood ten or twelve years ago, it was a very troubled area.

There were a lot of gangs, a lot of crime and all this.

I wrote my songs and people said "he thinks he lives in South America."

And it's not that I believed it, it's that I live in the neighborhood with the most Dominicans in all of Europe.

What's happening?

That today people turn on the news and see a shooting or that a kid has been killed.

Now it is a reality for the whole world and they no longer think that what I sing is a movie.

That is the change that has occurred since I started.

Now what I sing is a reality that touches many more people.

Q.- Apart from that, how has living in Madrid influenced you? Do you feel more like yourself here or in Ávila?

A.-

I think I am the same person, but I have absorbed and changed many things while being here, of course.

It's weird because when I'm in Madrid I always want to go to town.

I don't go as much as I would like.

But when I go there and I stay a little long, I always want to go back.

I get a little bored there and I need some more fuss.

Q.- Are you tired of being asked all the time about rap quinqui?

A.-

It's just that I've always been labeled and it's not something I've said.

It was funny at first, but my music is so much broader.

Q.- What leads a kid to make that kind of music?

A.-

Well, mainly I think it's because it was something I liked and at that time I didn't see quinqui music being made in Spain.

People were copying a lot of the American vibe with the theme and everything.

In the end I was a very fond of quinqui cinema and a bit of a delinquent, I couldn't have done anything else.

Q.- Why do you think the figure of the bandit is so popular in Spain?

R.-

We have always liked that scoundrel, that little golf or crime without going as far as evil.

It's like the antihero who likes.

I do not know why would that be.

Perhaps he comes from the time of the end of the Franco regime with that desire that the whole world had for freedom.

It was that "anything goes now" explosion.

In Spain that picaresque, which is the name of one of my albums, has always been well liked.

Q.- What is your opinion of politics and politicians?

A.-

I am very disappointed.

I think that politicians do not care about the real problems that exist in the country and that the people have.

They worry about sensational things that still only affect minorities in order to win votes and hold on to the seat.

They are doing politics as if it were a soccer game or a Sálvame Deluxe.

Q.- Do you think that youth, who may also be disenchanted, can pay more attention to what an influencer, actor or musician says rather than a politician?

A.-

Yes, it may be that young people are now choking on politics a bit.

But it is also true that a young person does not need to be interested in politics to fuck and vote.

They can be more affected by the opinion of an influencer, a musician or whatever.

Of course.

Another thing is that they put even worse ideas into them.

Q.- As a singer and reference, does this condition you?

R.-

No. I say what I want when I want.

Q.- Where would you like to see your musical project in a few years?

A.-

I hope to continue growing.

I have already succeeded.

If I die tomorrow I'm happy because many people already know who I am.

I have already left a mark.

But the more it grows, the firmer that is going to be.

Q.- And your facet as an actor?

You have already appeared in two films (

R.-

Well, a bit of a miracle happened because they contacted me for a casting, I tried and they took me.

I would love to continue doing things.

Cinema is something that I see myself doing at 50 or 60 years old and music is not the same.

I could put on a show but I don't see myself putting out video clips or saying the things I do now.

I see a more long-term future for the cinema.

It is true that it does not fill me as much as music, but I like it a lot.

Q.- Finally, we were talking about your parents at the beginning, what do they think of what you do?

A.-

At the beginning of everything it was different with each one.

My mother has always supported me.

One day I came home and was listening to a song of mine and I didn't even know that she knew that she sang!

My father was very shocked at first because he didn't see it as something realistic and he didn't like the theme or the things he talked about.

Think that I come from a small town and there people immediately listen to everything and it's the talk.

But hey, with time everything has worked out and I'm looking for a good life.

I think that they don't tell me much because it is our way of being but that they are happy.

They have to be happy!

In the end I am doing something that not everyone does.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

• music

• idols