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We're here with Alejo.
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Are they nice to meet you?
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm the intruder,
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the intruder here to take the freaking mic and like,
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hey, I'm gonna do the show,
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man. Well, thank you for coming out,
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dude. Thank you for having me here.
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Honestly. Yeah, for sure.
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I live in L A doing a couple of things I
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can't say right now,
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to do them and for people to see them.
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something you can't talk about,
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you just got back from tour.
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Where were you? I was in Spain in Spain specifically.
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Like, what's the craziest thing?
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Like I feel like the culture is like,
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I'm sure different. Like it was the most like my opening
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thing going to Spain is always super cool because it's a totally
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different culture. Even though they speak Spanish,
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I guess it's totally different things and like the food,
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like everything like the streets,
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the people. It's just amazing and honestly like the fans there
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hardcore. I love it.
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I love it. I love it.
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And you've always left your mark.
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On the reggaeton world.
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But like which reggaeton inspired you growing up?
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I mean, I've always said that *** yam,
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I feel like I can listen to like all *** yum songs
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and it still sounds fresh.
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And also those are my favorites.
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I love them. I heard the mainstream stuff going up.
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So we grew up with Lup Rivera and then even I'm not
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going to lie radio Disney,
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bro. I was a little kid.
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And so my mom's music,
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she liked menudo and stuff like that.
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Manuel is I in Puerto Rico.
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Like my mom used to listen to Manuel a lot.
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So yeah, I think it was,
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that's like a Latino culture thing.
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OK? So I got a little bit of mix but like
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theon stuff, I kind of just got the mainstream.
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So I wanted to see if you had any,
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you know, deep cuts.
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I feel like reggaeton like became like worldwide probably like 10 years
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ago or less. So like,
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Puerto Rico was a very local thing,
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like maybe Colombia was a winner but it was like pretty
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local. Then Balvin came up and then a lot of
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recon and he spoke about Balvin,
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we actually spoke to him recently and like,
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he's always chill dude.
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but I want to talk to you about your collapse because you've
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done like with Caro G you collab with fade.
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Like what's like the craziest collapse story that you have?
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Like, so I was doing premise un too was doing
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like, I think it was the first time doing their
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their, their awards in Puerto Rico.
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So they did like UMA Manoe,
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two legends Dono Man Dan do Aleon with a Y and guess
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which artist they picked me to do with Yandel.
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So I had to sing Sexy E Mio Rata.
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But my version and Janel was there and after the la the
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premis ava I posted a story like me performing that and John
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there was her dancing the song to me singing to it.
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So I tagged him and he was like,
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I love what you did.
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Let's do something. I was like,
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yeah, send me something.
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so I went to the studio and like there are like six
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songs sent it to him and he was like,
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bro, come, come out to Miami,
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let's do the video and everything.
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So I mean that was crazy when I think about it.
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let's take a straight out of a movie.
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Like let me see what happen and you talking about IG and
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then all my collaboration,
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my big collaborations were crazy story like fade was my preview
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went viral on tiktok Le Panico and he was like,
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he reacted to it and I hit him up on Instagram
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like we did a song in like two weeks and the song
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was the number one in the world when it released.
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It was crazy. And KD the same thing like f called
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it's like someone legendary is gonna be on the song.
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and the next day he calls me,
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he's like the, the song's done,
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It's Caro to Colombia.
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We're gonna do the video,
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bro. Crazy. And the power of social media.
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I feel like people are ah social media is all like shitty
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and negative. I'm like,
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it, it can work in your benefit.
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That's Yeah, I mean that,
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that easy ad me next day you like on the plane that
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the ring hit the table like what's up with the,
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with the jewelry, bro?
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Like I like, I like it.
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So this Shane, the people that don't know.
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I did an original album called Fele.
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I had a cat called Cosmo.
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This is the cat called Cosmo.
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He died but he died like a year prior to the release
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of the album. And every time I do an album,
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like an object that identifies the album and I was like,
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it has to be Cosmo and I haven't like,
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I'm not an artist that I used to like open up to
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personal stuff. So when I did this album,
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I had the, the intro super personal and I called it
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Cosmo and I was like,
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I have to do the shame.
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and the idea of the Shane too was because of this album
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a lot of info of like,
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og reggaeton artists, a Father Can De Laredo.
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And they, they all have this big,
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big change. So I was like,
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if I'm gonna do that,
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with that flow and more on the album,
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I wanna like, you know,
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put people on Alejo,
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like what song from this album or in general from your whole
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like library are like,
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listen to this and you know who I am.
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So from this album maybe if you wanna get to
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know me and know what I've been through Cosmo,
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definitely, that's the intro of the album.
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That's why I wanted to start the album with,
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if you wanna know what type of music like I feel like
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represents Alejo from this album.
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Definitely Rodon, Casa del Rao,
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la Roche wiki wiki with Joel,
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you know Joel and Iran.
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So I love that song.
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And I mean, I asked you earlier what you're doing in
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what do you think of L A so far?
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Like, have you had a lot of spots or like,
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I have a couple of days here?
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very cool. It's not compared to New York.
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Maybe it's all like the same vibe per mundo gorio mundo like
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you know, like high speed but here's like you get
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you get to choose what you wanna do here.
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Well, you're welcome back here.
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Any time specific to the studio.
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Thank you for your time.
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Thank you. And what happened in my English here?
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No, man, you're good.
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I went to Spanish but like no English is fine,
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like perfect. And where can people find you on social
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Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter and la di da Alejo Ale
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and Alejo signing off.
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