Iñaki Domínguez Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-08:07

El Coleta

is a rapper from

Moratalaz

who always draws on cultural elements – many of them iconic – linked to the street, quinqui cinema, rumba and urban mythology in general.

How has Madrid changed in terms of gangsterism since your youth? As I increasingly act as a father, I see less and less of gangsterism as such. But what do I know, the thugs today are a bit like

Bad Bunnies

and

Anueles

[reggaeton and Latin trap singers]. Right now everything is more global. We no longer have a native thug. There are also the MDLR or street kids. The MDLR was born as a movement of Moroccans, [and comes from the French] "Mecs de la rue", street kids, but a street kid has always existed. But today they have changed their aesthetic: they all have the same haircut, the same tracksuits. Now those pints are more international. Before we had some more local pints. But hey, another badass will be generated, just as at the time the badass slang had to do with the fact that there was a lot of internal immigration and words from internal immigration were used, because now the badass slang is influenced by words from Latin America. At some point the thug will hybridize, which is what is interesting from the anthropological aspect. Now the kids say: "Devil!" As if they were from the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico. Just like you say "kid", that's Argentine, but in the end it has become something super Madrid. What do you miss about the Madrid of your adolescence?

Manuel Becerra's hot dogs for seventy cents

[laughs]. And that Madrid was a more traditional city. Something that remains more in the neighborhoods. Because the neighborhoods are islands that remain. But in the center it's all too much of a shopping mall. It's all globalized, globalized, globalized. And apart from that, now smash Burger hamburgers appear on Instagram and everyone starts making smash Burger [a type of hamburger]. I miss a little more personality in Madrid. What is your neighborhood like in that sense? I live in

Valdebernardo

, which is on the outskirts of Moratalaz. It is a fairly new neighborhood, it dates back to 2000. There are several plots that are for relocation, in which there is a large majority of gypsy ethnic groups, but there are also many payos, Latinos and Moroccans. In general, due to the way that the gypsy people live (generally, because each gypsy is different) that vibe is preserved a bit. The whole group knows each other by name... Gypsies are people who live on the streets, who don't go from house to car and from work to home... So, I know a lot of people, they know my son , they congratulate you on the holidays, and yes there is a bit of a vibe. Solidarity roll? I also don't think there was much solidarity before. There are always small gestures of solidarity. Tell me about your song

Fräulein

, dedicated to Froilán. It talks about how the Salic law is outdated, especially in a country that we say is one of the most feminist in Europe. It is assumed that the most important position, which is that of Head of State, is held by an uncle ahead of his sisters, who are older than him [referring to FelipeVI]. This clashes greatly with the prevailing feminism in the Spanish State. It seems disgraceful to me. If

Felipe

separates

from

Letizia

and has a male child with another woman, a la Leonor... Today a variation of the Salic Law dominates. The woman can govern, but if a man appears in the same line, he will be screwed. In the post-Franco era it made some sense for Felipe to be heir to the Crown, but 30 years later that could have been fixed. Now Froilán should be the king because he corresponds to him through the dynastic line. My topic claims that the

Salic Law

and its substitutes are very wrong. The video is a tribute to

Muchachada Nui

, which is a humorous space in this historical country. Muchachada Nui is already retro. I didn't catch it at the time, but then I saw it on YouTube and I was blown away by

Celebrities

[when they imitate famous people like Bunbury,

Pérez Reverte

, etc].

Are you doing live shows in Madrid? Well, I have a gig on February 3 at the Sala Copérnico. It will be one of the last concerts I will do with the live show that I have now configured because I will also release an album, in mid-March. The album is going to be called Chunda Rumba, which is a mix of bakalao with rumba. Regarding the badass, they are two very badass styles of music. And, although they did not mix, because they were like oil and water, the kids who were partiers and bakalas often also listened to the Chichos. Although things were already done at the time, because whenever I make an album, I document myself and, for example, Azuquita [combines both styles]. In fact, my album starts with Azuquita samples. We sampled her song

De ella Rumbakalao

».