Or the whole world, or nothing. Dellafuente gave this Friday the departure pistol to its premiere in the Metropolitan of Madrid with a remix (already classic in its repertoire) of The world or nothing PNL. Thus, the native of Granada presents itself in the first of its two nights at the Atlético stadium with a hymn about the isolation in the Marginal neighborhoods of France, while deploying the metaphor of its triumph with an overture after which the anthem of the UEFA Champions League sounds: gathering some 130,000 attendees in two consecutive days, today he is the world in His fist.
At times, it seems that the singer’s career, historically linked to its own mystique, has been premonitory: there is some shirt of the local football team and others of the rojiblanco Granada CF, although almost all of its followers are uniformed with their own equipment: Dellafuente FC, the fictional football club that the rapper has invented to design its merchandising. They wave their scarves in a committed audience that poetically fits very well with the place of the celebration: they are true fans and, as in any great community, the feeling of belonging is more intense to greater longevity. “Who is here listened to me before Consented (2016)? And from Warrior (2017)? ”Asks the Granada in the first pause of his concert.
Without getting too biographical, the mass event that takes place this weekend is a car tribute to its entire discography. Both concerts, which were actually going to be one inside Santiago Bernabéu, put the final touch to a decade in the record path of Pablo Enoch Bayo, one of the maximum champions of urban music in Spain. He describes the concert as “the closure of a chapter”, because after this weekend an artistic break will be taken: “I am a very different person from what it was when I started,” he says, adding that many of the songs that could be heard no longer represent him so much.
It is difficult for us to do it difficult: in 2015, Yung Beef formed part of PXXR GVNG and C. Tangana was a member of Agorazein. Everything that is now known as urban music was called Trap and, with the pejorative component involved in the term itself (due to its strong sexual component or formal codes away from interpretive excellence), the scene was reduced to a niche. Dellafuente mixed in his proposal the sounds of the genre from Atlanta with an Andalusian aesthetic: at the same time, it was much more metaphorical than his classmates and just some of his songs has an explicit content filter within the streaming platforms. Nor does he boast like his guild colleagues: it is difficult for him to grant an interview and care about covering his face with a cap and glasses whenever he has an event. Its codes have permeated more easily in the massive musical current, and now it is the living representation of the triumph of urban music. Lola Indigo, who acted in the same place a week ago, has also flirted with the genre now that she has merged with the mainstreambut Dellafuente has the respect he gives to be from the beginning: he has seen the genre be born and has begun from his neighborhood. That determines the realize in a sphere in which authenticity is so important.
In his case, that authenticity is determined by the love for his land. Enoch mixes the rumba with the autotune, the house or reggaeton. On a gigantic source in the form of a tartsic star, the singer walks and shapes the blocks with which he presents his discography: in the first one, more focused on the presentation of Torii Yama (His latest record launch) Judeline and Lía Kali were taken to perform to interpret Holy Romero y Phosphoryrespectively. Romea and Julieto had his own kiss cam And, to bring the stadium format (often imported from the American leisure model) to its place of origin, even this was adorned with a tile design of the city of the Alhambra. Pepe and Vizio sang Flores y Flowers for your hairclosing a first part that gave way to a fire show.
Dellafuente has also agreed from Taifa Yallah, his project in the parallel of Flamenco-Rock and Islamic Inspiration, for which he has had a live music band. Even relas b, which has appeared to sing Good genes, driven by a platform that rose from the ground to the pure style of the Super Bowl, has made it sitting on a Moroccan design bank that also housed a hooka. Paradoxically, the greatest musical show that Granada has given to date is also in which it seeks to approach its origins, in a constant contradiction about fitting markedly street codes in the overestimulatory blockbuster of a show of this caliber. The second half of the concert has approached an electronic spectrum more in which, together with DJ Antonio Narváez in the Epicenter of the star, Amore has also been uploaded with Malice and RVFV with Tell me.
The final block, of course, was for Morad (the guest most held by the audience) and his Broken handsthe last great hit of both artists. The last song, however, was Consentedhis first great success, or the first stone of a path that has not only taken him here, but also to a whole generation of artists who were created on the margins to define the sound of a whole generation. With that first hymn, it closes a circle: this weekend an era is over, but tonight it is the second (and last) assault.