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This could be the story of a kebab seller in Palma and a cleaner in Murcia. And it partly is. Because before looking at the city of Madrid from the heights of the 28th floor of the Eurostars Madrid Tower and bursting the world of urban music and makeup, Dollar Selmouni and Alana La Hija del Sheikh suckled the neighborhood and the street to get to where they are today.

"There's something about loving yourself more because you're from the street, you're humble and you've earned everything while others come with a loaf of bread under their arm," he says. "You take your chest, you are filled with pride because nobody has given you this. If you were a child with nothing, you earn it, your parents have not given it to you. On the contrary, I give everything to them. You feel your best," she adds.

Thus begins a conversation about life difficult to handle, like its protagonists, on the occasion of the premiere of Hasta el cielo, the Netflix series that works as a sequel to Daniel Calparsoro's film. The passage to the audiovisual of two kids who saw themselves with nothing, not even expectations, and now they are stars. "We are not so high, brother, that I am neither Pablo Alborán nor Aitana, that sometimes I do not even reach the two numbers in what I charge. About 8,000, I do not ask you for 15 or 20 but at least reach two numbers, "intervenes Dollar Selmouni.

P. A little bit of heaven yes you have already caught lately

D. Heaven is full of fakes, shit and political rot. If you don't pay, you don't do anything. When you get to heaven it's because you have power and power means money.

To. Heaven is to have my fucking house already paid on the beach to see the sunset and economic solvency so I do not have to worry about anything. That's my heaven as long as I'm still working on mine.

D. All I want is not to have to put my parents in a residence and to be able to have someone at home taking care of them.

There lie the earthly dreams of two twenty-year-olds who have known how to move in a world that did not correspond to them, as they are sometimes reminded of, and who came to feel abandoned in their childhood. "I haven't felt abandoned, I've felt like a dog. But they are stages of life, one day you are up and the next day you are nobody. We've only made noise, although I don't give a shit about social media. She is one of the ones who is making the most noise, "says Dollar. And her partner lowers the tone: "We have to know how to be when we want, when we feel like it. But I like that here we have been given the opportunity to real people. We are not actors playing bad guys. It's like when they take a woman to pretend to be trans, take a trans, pussy."

P. And, after all, in this moment that you are in, isn't there a fear of failure?

D. I'm afraid of not being able to pay and I'm not a kid who uses drugs or alcohol or I like to party or go whoring. That most of my colleagues were whores and like drugs. My fear of failure is to get garnished because I was working six years ago in a kebab with my parents earning 15 turkeys for eight hours.

To. I am not afraid because I have already seen myself running out of anything and I turned it around. I have worked cleaning houses of guiris, internal nanny, waitress ... I was already famous and a waitress, they came to ask me for pictures at the bar. What am I going to be afraid of? I love going through all that.

But in this talk there is no romanticization of emerging from nowhere, because both assume that their path has been more difficult than that of those who grew up in privileged environments. "My father is Algerian and came at the age of 16 to look for a life as a disgrace. But those things have helped me stay in place. I'm not a spender guy. I have humility, "details the rapper, who within urban music is one of the few who has given up autotune. "It costs a lot, they judge you all the time by how you speak or how you behave. And I feel that women are much more because we are supposed to be demure and we are not allowed to be such scoundrels. I've done what I always wanted," concludes the makeup artist, who has worked for Bad Gyal or La Zowi.

P. And on the positive side, what has it brought you?

D. It contributes a lot because people live in a bird and I am more serious and clearer. Where everyone else sees black and white at the same time, I arrive and know what white is. The multinationals missed us, but when one fell, they all came behind. Now this rapper gets on to sing and you don't have to pay him. I'm real, I don't care what anyone else thinks. In this life if you are not a scoundrel, you do not succeed.

To. The good thing is that they can not give you so many sticks anymore, we have received them before. We are not made of glass like many people who go out into the real world and shit alive. I have my house in my neighborhood, even though I live in Madrid, and I maintain it. When I'm not there, I put it on Airbnb, but when I can I leave and I'm with my old friends and it suits me.

  • Airbnb
  • Palma de Mallorca
  • Pablo Alboran
  • Netflix
  • Murcia

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