“I didn’t get any credit for my song,” says Pedro Tovar, composer and member of the group Armed linkwho is angry and agitated, because although he composed the hit “Ella baila sola”, interpreted by the Corridos singer lying down featherweightexternal that has not received the credit it deserves for being the creator of the theme that remains in the first spots of Spotify.
Through a video, the young man expressed his feelings and regretted that Featherweight didn’t include him in his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Jimmy Fallonbut he assured that one day he would get there “alone” because he said he would keep working to get far.
Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, better known as Featherweight, is 23 years old and is currently one of the most listened to artists worldwide on Spotify with the songs “Ella baila sola” with Eslabón Armado and “La bebé (remix)” with Yng Lvcas.
Also topping Spotify in Mexico are the songs “El Azul” with Junior H, “PRC” with Natanael Cano and “AMG” with Cano and Gabito Ballesteros, as well as “Ella baila sola” and the remix of “La bebe”. Featherweight is the first Mexican artist to reach the top five positions Spotify Global. He has also placed songs on the Hot 100 and Global 200 charts billboard.
In a video shared on his networks, Pedro Tovar said he felt bad because featherweight didn’t bring him the credit he deserved for composing the hit “Ella baila sola”, a subject that upset him, he asserted. He tried to speak to him, was refused, and doesn’t understand what’s happening.
He recalled that Featherweight almost didn’t promote the topic on its networks, and when the official video came out three weeks ago, things he did.
“The song Ella baila just so everyone knows, I wrote it, I’m not saying no, Featherweight uploaded it by machine, I’m telling it like it is, but I wrote this song and I had to do a lot of fakes for it make this song, you don’t know how much effort it took me to write this song,” he said.
While acknowledging Featherweight’s talent, Tovar admitted that he would have loved to have been on Jimmy Fallony’s show and sung a song.
“My respects to the Featherweight compa but it’s what upsets me that they don’t invite me for these things, I’d like to make this song shine more, I’d like to be there with Jimmy Fallon, with Featherweight, not level at all , as it is, but after singing that song there, I was a little bit excited, I’m not lying,” he said in his live video, which received support from his fans.
For Pedro Tovar, the song is a success simply because of the song, regardless of the performers.
“Without Link, without featherweight, it’s just the reel, it has to be said, the net; he interpreted it well, I sang it my style,” he said, stating that he couldn’t complain featherweight, so he decided to do this video that made him feel better.
“I’ve been trying to featherweight talk, I don’t know if he’s any different to me, I don’t know what I did to him but I had to get that out, I feel more relaxed because people talk and talk and are Mitotera,” he lamented.
Hassan is so named because his great-grandparents were Palestinians. “My parents are more Mexican than Nopal,” he said. Featherweight grew up in the western state of Jalisco.
“I used to write as a kid, I loved writing my feelings,” he said in a recent Los Angeles interview with The Associated Press. “Afterwards I realized that it actually rhymes and it was easier for me to compose and write things that I might say at that moment, ‘How is it possible that someone my age can write such profound things? ‘”.
Like many performers of the prone corrido, Peso Pluma openly addresses the issue of guns and drugs in his music, which mixes acoustic instruments with urban influences.
“The corridos have always been very attacked and very demonized,” he said. “At the end of the day it’s music, you see it in rap, you see it in hip hop, you see it in reggaeton… I take it as a transmission of the vibes I feel when I’m in the studio, in a booth; When I compose, I just do what I love to do and share my passion.”
Featherweight was called up by Becky G to sing her hit song “Chanel,” a song about heartbreak and luxury brands, at Coachella.
“If I could describe the feeling to you, words would fail me, but it was incredible,” he said of the emotions of attending the famous Californian festival. “Just life and grateful to God for everything that happens to us.”
Earlier this year he was also a guest of American DJ Marshmello on the main stage of the EDC Mexico Festival to perform an electrocorrido with Fuerza Regida.
His collaboration on the remix of “La bebé” with Yng Lvcas, a song with which he approaches reggaeton, came about thanks to a trip to New York.
“I heard the song and I knew the Morro (boy) was Mexican,” he said. When he landed back in Mexico, he wrote to a friend who knew Yng Lvcas and asked if he could collaborate on the remix. “When Yung Lvcas was hot he said yes, he even drew,” he recalled.
Featherweight went straight to the studio, where he composed his verses. “And a bomb came out,” he said.
With “Rosa Pastel” he hopes that the audience will also be moved. This song is a very traditional corrido in which the guitar is the protagonist. He talks about transporting his goods in Amsterdam.
“It’s a composition by my friend Jasiel Nuñez,” Featherweight said. “We’re very excited because the release (debut) of the song is on the same day as the release (premier) of my record label, Double P Records.”
Nuñez is the first artist signed by Featherweight to his label. Part of the song had already become well-known on the internet thanks to the public who had picked it up at the Featherweight concerts where Nuñez was a guest.
“I’m really excited for him to show what he has up his sleeve and show all the power he has in this pen because he’s a very talented young man, I want to support him very much,” he said.
Featherweight said he hopes his label will bring young and talented artists from inside and outside of Mexico to the fore.
“I’ve always said that in this industry we’re all connected and I think we need to support each other and unite for things to go at their best,” he said. “This is how to achieve success, unite, be thankful and humble.”
For Featherweight, the boom that Mexican music is experiencing around the world means that the “regional” label is becoming too small.
“The regional is already forgotten,” he said. “I think it’s not regional anymore, it’s already been shown because we’re there and number one and excited for the whole world to hear Mexican music and raise the Mexican flag.”
*With information from AP.