Unshocking Revelation: A Popular Reggaetón Artist Can’t Stand Reggaetón
14 September 2007, 6:00 PM. By Guanabee Staff
If you were to look up ‘bitter irony’ in the encyclopedia, you’d find this guy’s well-known mug staring back at you. Tego Calderón, the reggaetón equivalent of Snoop Dogg since landing at least one movie role we know of, recently told reporters that he can’t sit through a whole CD of the musical genre he’s most widely associated with because he prefers “music with a message, with meaning, that shows that you sat down and racked your brain to write it.” Why the epiphany as of late? Apparently, having kids makes you extra-sensitive to the crap that’s blared on the radio:
…sometimes I hear my 6 year-old daughter singing songs with content that I don’t like. They’re things I did in studios in New York to brag, for the street. And now when I hear them come from the mouth of my little girl, I don’t like them. And she says to me “But that song is yours!”
We would call classify the whole turn of events as some sort of Puerto Rican tragedy, but the shit’s too funny. (That’s what he gets for making such an annoying brand of music so goddamn marketable. Thank God it has more or less subsided.)
Tego Calderón: “No soy capaz de escuchar un disco de reggaeton entero” [20 Minutos via Vivir Latino]
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If there’s anything I slept on and did not regret, it was reggaeton! On this one, I count my blessings for being a lazy pocho suspicious of the trends my well-intentioned hipster friends pushed my way.
Even my wannabe vato little brother hated this stuff. But then again, he’s on the opposite pole and opposite coast. Smoking way too much weed and fooling around with way too many chola girls. Besides, like all good sentimental vatos with a secret yen for being like abuelito, he likes oldies.
Tego Calderon se pone las botas
Cuando yo te fluyo a lo Tony Toca
Picando a los pequeños como pa sopa
Dejandote pegao como vida loca
Lean back
Aguanta esa boca
Te van a dar unos pocos por motherfucka
Echate pa tras changuetada gente mala
Levanta tu bandera con gana
Holla
Yo tambien tengo pistola
Y tambien pierdo la chola
Como pica se juntaron los boricuas
Si no te muere ahora te muere ahorita
LeaEsta liga ya no es pa cascaritas
Lean back, lean back mami rica
Dame de lo que te sobre hombre hey
Lean back, lean back calohondel (2x
You know what’s really tragic about this article? It’s your complete and utter ignorance of the artist you pretend to be mocking. A couple of things:
-Calderon considers himself and was first known as a hip hop artist, but you probably get your music news from US Weekly, so I don’t blame you for not knowing any better.
-In the interview, he follows the “I can’t listen to a reggaeton CD” remark with “that’s why my albums have other kinds of music in them.” As it turns out, he wasn’t lying….try listening to an album sometime
-He has always been known for socially aware music, as the interview implied and a 2 second wikipedia check would’ve made explicit.
Seriously, that was just embarrassing to read…..”if you were looking for ‘bitter irony’ in the encyclopedia”???? Is that your idea of wit? Pathetic.
In all seriousness, we pride ourselves on complete and utter ignornance of all things Reggaeton. Thanks!