Nathanael Cano in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images)
If Nathanael Cano owes Pepe Aguilar anything, it’s for putting him on the map, even as the young corrido performer, who is “laying down,” describes the media brawl they’ve had for months as “a war.” , but it was one he did that many of us heard about Cano for the first time, and that kind of publicity doesn’t come with anything.
In a recent interview with the controversial Gustavo Adolfo Infante, Cano pointed out that an opportunity arose to get into a brawl with Pepe and he used it to gain more visibility. “I was fine, I saw something out there and I was excited, and there’s a very important factor that we’re experiencing right now, which is social media. You have to paint something, you have to have a profile, your identity. When you do these things, you do it more through networks,” said the interpreter, who barely lived to be 21.
In ‘The Minute That Changed My Destiny’, Cano spoke about his youth, his difficulties at school and the beginning of his musical career, which caused controversy when Pepe Aguilar gave his opinion on corridors of lies in an interview with ‘El Escorpión Dorado’ : “There is a lot of music in abundance in these times, well, ‘click’. By the time it was my turn as a kid there were a lot of artists in all very harmful genres and right now the truth isn’t.”
Cano took the lead and lashed out with a flurry of insults on social media, prompting Pepe to upload a video to his platforms: “There’s a young man singing music as they say about mendacious corridors who was thinking , he talks about how low self esteem you have to have for you to think when someone tells you to stop making ugly music, he’s talking about you, what low self esteem!”
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And he continued: “What I was talking about isn’t even local Mexican music, really, you just climb on a brick and you get dizzy, you feel like you’re already flying doing nothing; First of all, with all due respect, I don’t even know you, I’ve never heard your song. God help you and that you are doing very well and I haven’t even talked about you and any genre or anything,” he said. “God help you, even if you’re rude, get some education and I don’t have over talked to you, and if you think that when I say music is ugly, I mean music you make, then you have a problem.”
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So they came and went, culminating in open battle: “It was the first time I saw war,” Cano told Infante. “It was the first time I said ‘Wow’… I don’t regret it because in the end it’s like I said to you ‘I regret the tattoos I have’ because I know that everything that happened has brought me to where we are”.
A year or so later, Pepe spoke well of Cano for the first time, even pointing out that there had been a positive development in his musical style, which Cano viewed as an olive branch, although he was still looking for a way to reconcile with the rest and indeed he reissued the note by sending a message to Ángela, the youngest of the Aguilar dynasty, asking her to unblock her from Instagram, which Ángela did as a result of the lawsuit.
And it is that speaking of processes, Nathanael seems very argumentative and short-sighted: he fought with half the world (and not only in entertainment). He was recently having an affair in Las Vegas when he got into a fight with members of the MS gang, which led to a series of rude remarks and eventually a public apology.
Many wonder if Cano was right in using Aguilar’s comments to make himself known, but who in the entertainment world could blame him for that? There’s no such thing as bad publicity and if he really owes anyone, it’s without a doubt Pepe Aguilar.