- The album includes 13 songs, some of them in collaboration with other rappers such as Lil Supa and Canserbero | Main photo: EFE
Venezuelan rapper Pedro Elías Aquino, better known as Akapellah, presented his album on Friday, July 12 Peter Elias at the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) in New York, United States.
Akapellah, 32 years old, has been heard in Latin American neighborhoods and even in the United States and Europe for more than a decade, with one hit that has led him to be nominated six times for the Latin Grammys.
“With my music, I prefer to tell my story. I rap regarding who I am, without selling a political ideology or the typical image of the gangster. Rappers are stigmatized, I was never a thug or had weapons,” the artist told the EFE news agency..
Akapellah is a creative whirlwind who captivates fans there with a very varied style capable of throwing in classic rap, more melodic rhythms or more social lyrics.
Behind his tattoos and his aesthetics, in the purest style rapper American, there is an artist who managed to bring together friends and references from different styles in his new album under what he calls “a roller coaster of emotions.”
“It’s my most honest version of Akapellah in these last 15 years. There’s no embellishment, I just flowed and that’s why so many sounds come out. The name even came to me at the end, I thought: ‘What better than Pedro Elías?’” Akapellah revealed.
Collaborations with the Hispanic rap universe
He tells it naturally, but within that work of 13 songs there are collaborations with names as reputable in the circuit as the Cuban AL2 El Aldeano, the Chilean group Movimiento Original, the Mexican urban figure Gera MX, the Spanish of different generations Nach and Fernandocosta, the Colombian Ryan Castro or the producer Afromak.
Another of his great contributions, and with which he says he has fulfilled “the dream of any rapper”, is La Sabia Escuela; a collaboration that features Marlon Morales, better known as Lil Supa, -another of the hip hop references in his country- and with a posthumous and unpublished recording by his compatriot and legend Tirone González (Canserbero).
“It is very difficult to know, but I believe that if Canserbero were alive, he would keep his essence and might be as viral or mainstream Like Bad Bunny (…) He would have surely understood the power he had and would have taken his message to Pluto,” Akapellah said regarding the man who many consider to be the best Spanish-speaking rapper in history.
And in this amalgam there is also a song, entitled “Podcast”, which unexpectedly became one of his anthems. In part, he admits, because of the video clip, in which he ironically acts as an interviewee and a journalist for “some tabloid media”.
Akapellah criticised a section of the press that, in his opinion, is dedicated to manipulating and distorting information: “There are objective and professional journalists, but there are other sensationalists,” the singer said.
Transparency and originality
“Transparency” and “originality,” he said, are some of the values that the artist most defends, stating that – “like everyone” – he has changed his mind over the years and also in the way he understands what it means to be ‘underground’ (making music for the love of art and on a low budget).
“I stay ‘underground’ with my lifestyle and how I live rap, but not with my way of working. I would be lying to you if I said otherwise because I distribute my music with a multinational or I do advertising campaigns,” concluded the artist who originally founded OBG Nation, his own record label.
Akapellah will perform today in a joint show – in which the Mexican Bellakath will also play, among others – held in the mythical Central Park (New York) and sponsored by Warner Music.
With information from EFE
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2024-07-13 03:23:54