On the eve of the release of the album “La 167”, the Puerto Rican Farruko released the video for the song “El incomprendido”, in which he has as a guest DJ Adoni, from the Dominican Republic, who is heard saying his popular phrases.
"Attention gossipers, whoever wants to waste their time to advise me, that I am blunt, but ugly and today you have to give me band … "Attention neighbor …", are expressions that are heard in the new video.
The audiovisual was filmed in the Luis Llorens Torres residential complex, a group where there are crime problems but also good street parties. It also includes scenes filmed in Colombia with Víctor Cárdenas.
“The song is very rich, it is a song made to enjoy, to jump, for the disco,” said Farruko, who pointed out that he hopes to continue filming more videos of “La 167” according to the popularity of each song among his fans.
“The public is deciding which one they like and I am going to adapt to that and I am going to give priority to it,” he commented.
Farruko pays tribute to his Puerto Rican roots and salsa on his album “La 167”, which includes his international hit “Pepas” and guests like Pedro Capó, Myke Towers and Jay Wheeler.
Since its launch at the end of June, the party anthem “Pepas” has reached major Billboard charts: it entered the top 10 of the Global 200 chart; it made the top 50 on the Hot 100 chart, and topped the Hot Latin Songs and Hot Dance / Electronic Songs charts. It has almost 300 million views on Spotify, while its video, released in early August, has more than 111 million views on YouTube. The song already has a remix by David Guetta.
“Everything happened suddenly, it is crazy what is happening with the subject, but I am extremely happy,” said the reggaeton player in a recent interview by video call from Puerto Rico about the launch of his new album last Friday under the Sony label. Music Latin.
“It has fulfilled more than my expectations. I have felt that (the fans) have a genuine affinity, organically, with the song of ‘Pepas’. It is something incredible ”, added.
The Colombian producer Víctor Cárdenas participated in “Pepas” and in “El incomprendido”, another of the songs on “La 167” in which they make a kind of homage to the classic dance song of the 90’s “Better Off Alone” by Alice DJ and to the late Puerto Rican salsa singer Ismael Rivera, whose theme “The misunderstood” included some verses.
“He is one of the icons of salsa here and he is a teacher, I am a very fan of him and I wanted as a fan to pay him that little tribute,” said Farruko about Rivera.
Another of the salseros he honors is Héctor Lavoe, whose “Juanito Alimaña” is present in the song that gives title to the album, while in “Cucaracha” he sampled Paquita la del Barrio, who recently received the Billboard Artistic Career at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, singing his classic “Two-legged Rat ”.
“She is a revolutionary,” Farruko said. “Is a teacher. She was the first woman to leave Mexico … so strong of character against men, defending feminism. It is an icon, you have to respect it and I love it ”.
“Baja Cali” is a song with touches of a northern Mexican corrido in which Farruko mentions marijuana by the term used in the local slang: speck.
“I am not Mexican, but I try that the little dialect that I have picked up from my visits to Mexico, from my Mexican friends, I tried to do something similar, a tribute to these corridos,” he said.
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In the 25-track album Farruko has enough space to tell stories. “La perla”, track 10, in which a girl points to a toxic man for a relationship, is complementary to “La Toxica”, track 2, where a jilted girl comes out of a bad relationship.
“This is like the revenge of women against men and mainly because of that stereotype that women are toxic, but in this case I wanted to oppose them and go for the women’s side,” he said on both issues.
After reaching the international popularity charts as a guest of Pedro Capó on the remix of “Calma,” Capó returned the favor to Farruko for “Jíbaro,” named after the way they call the peasants of the mountains of Puerto Rico. It is for Farruko a song of pride for their land in which he included the Puerto Rican cuatro, a string instrument.
“Pedro, who has an incredible voice, interpreted the song as if he were a real jíbaro, like a troubadour,” said Farruko. “It is an issue that I know that the one who is Puerto Rican is going to inflate his chest and take it to his heart.”
A song titled “$” (spelled like this, with the dollar sign) would seem to be materially presumptuous, but it is actually a song in which Farruko opens his heart to how difficult fame can be.
“I dedicated this album to my life, to my principles, I dedicated it to what my story is, what I’m living, what I feel. I wanted to bring the fans into my world, ”he said. “I didn’t wear a mask, I was totally honest.”
The title of “La 167” It comes from a road near where he grew up and lives. The cover of the album has the image of a gas station that belonged to his grandfather and was on that road that crosses Bayamón, Puerto Rico. But the song is not an idealization; He talks about strong issues like the violence in the streets that has been getting worse. According to Farruko, even the criminals had codes that have now been broken.
“They are songs that nobody dares to touch,” said the musician. “They think that I am promoting crime, but in reality it was that before there was a kind of code and values, it is not like now that there is no conscience.”
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