If Rayden’s career stands out for anything, this is it. breaking stereotypes “I love being the front guard,” he admits with a laugh, long accompaniment of urban genres. “Prejudices were already something more empty and vestigial than anything else, their disappearance was imminentand proposals like mine or Residente’s serve to build bridges,” he adds.
As he explains it, it’s a mix with other styles, which in no case is born as something “aesthetic”, but was born out of his own musical interests, which led him to dream of “impossible collaborations”.. He claims that time has finally proven him right: “That’s what music is all about, it’s nice to see how exciting sounds can be produced that haven’t been proposed before”.
It’s an evolution that isn’t exclusive to rap, because “everything else mutates,” except for deeply rooted styles. However, the case of rap has been one of the most obvious. In this sense, Rayden “You can’t ask for hermeticism when the genre drinks from sampling. It would be very narcissistic to believe that rap was dormant when born from fusion”. Therefore, something that would never mean losing its essence.
anti-democratic rap
Rayden’s music career meteoric since he realized that he could live from his verses. “In a documentary about Spanish rap, at one of the urban music temples in Mexico, I saw the clerk do our A3Bandas demo. That’s when I just realized that maybe we have something to say”says the singer.
Despite his beginnings in a group, the Madrid artist realized his job was to rap solo. “My head is an uninhabitable place. It would confuse me if I had to bring democracy to a group, I like to come up with crazy ideas and be adventurous. Less pressure in a group, but I wouldn’t have felt so satisfied”Rayden, who defines rap as “rebellion, indecency, and disrespect for anything prejudiced,” says.
Likewise, the man from Madrid The future of the genre is ‘more clear than ever’, and “pleased” to be able to live “without too many prejudices in these times”. Rayden believes teen playlists are the best example: “A person can be on their own list. Fernandito Skip Costa and from there to Vetusta Morla or the Rolling Stones. It’s something that scares me.” The rapper isn’t afraid to take it to his own ground, emphasizing the truth. “Even the most orthodox rap mainstream”.
As for his own future, Rayden has announced that he is already working on his future. New album scheduled for release in Novemberand in a broadcast The novel to be released in February 2023. But now he says he’s focused on finishing the current tour with up to 35 gigs and a landing, including the Southern Pyrenees, in the summer. Latin America in autumn.