Over the last few years, there’s been huge personal growth that’s inevitable, for me and for my whole team.
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This album is full of songs that are politically and socially motivated. Interview has been translated and condensed for clarity. I wanted to symbolize that and connect parts of the continent.” “We’re a community of Latin Americans, and the realities we live in Argentina are sometimes similar to the realties people in other countries live, in Brazil, in Venezuela, in Peru, and the rest of America.
I went to places in Europe that are thousands and thousands of kilometers from where I’m from, and I learned I’m not just from my neighborhood and Argentina,” he says. He went on to release his first album, Atrevido, a year later, and says the process of touring and getting to know new countries helped him evolve as an artist. Trueno honed his talent in Buenos Aires’ freestyle battle circuit, refining his skills and eventually winning the famed Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos competition in 2019, when he was just 17. He was born into Argentina’s hip-hop traditions his father is the Uruguay-born rapper Pedro “Peligro” Palacios, a staple in Argentina’s rap and hardcore scene in the Nineties. While the project is strikingly mature for an artist so young, it’s not altogether surprising coming from Trueno. “It’s the idea of protesting into a celebration.” “I wanted include these two sides to have this conceptual through-line between the bad first and then the good,” he says. Splitting the tracks between two sides, “The Bad” and “The Good,” Trueno raps about dictatorships, economic hardships, crime, and inequality across 14 songs, all while urging people to stand up and rise together. It’s also a deeply politically and socially engaged LP that outlines struggles happening across the continent. while celebrating traditions from Argentina and Latin America. Then, last Friday, Trueno put out his new album, Bien o Mal, a project that takes inspiration from old-school hip-hop from the U.S. “I grew up listening to Gorillaz, and it means a lot to me to be able to showcase Argentinean rap at that level.” “It was incredible,” he says on a recent Zoom call in Spanish.
First, the 20-year-old Argentinean rapper was singled out by Damon Albarn, who brought him onstage at the Quilmes Rock in Buenos Aires earlier this month and had him freestyle to “Clint Eastwood” for thousands of people. The last couple of weeks have marked some of the most gigantic, game-changing moments in Trueno’s career.