Alt.Latino: Rapper PJ Sin Suela on Puerto Rican hip-hop and more

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Anamaria Sayre talks about the history of Puerto Rican hip-hop with rapper PJ Sin Suela.

Featured artists and songs:

• PJ Sin Suela & Chuwi, "Escúchame "

• PJ Sin Suela, "Es La Hora"

• Nuff Ced & Tek 1, "Metrópolis"

• PJ Sin Suela, Siete Nueve & Messy Deprat , "Illegal 2.0"

• E.A. Flow, "D'Aqui"

• Intifada, Luis Diaz & Yallzee "Albizu"

• Los Pleneros de La Cresta, "Los de la Isla"

• Bad Bunny & Los Pleneros de La Cresta, "CAFé CON RON"

• Tego Calderón, "Gracias"

• Ñejo Y Dálmata, "Asi Es la Vida"

• PJ Sin Suela, "San Dunga"

• PJ Sin Suela, "Mambrú"

• PJ Sin Suela, "Vivo"

• PJ Sin Suela & Jorge Drexler, "Todo Se Complica"

Credits

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Lauren Migaki. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	What's up, PJ?
0:01.1	What's up?
0:02.2	Okay, this...
0:03.5	Podermos to say it in English?
0:05.3	Seguro?
0:06.4	Cool.
0:07.0	I might spanglish some...
0:08.0	But I'll try to do it.
0:09.6	You're already in trouble for saying...
0:10.8	I can't talk bad.
0:12.7	This is going to be really hard for PJ.
0:14.8	No.
0:19.4	From NPR music, this is all Latino. I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisemay begin. And the Chisemay this week is that I'm taking over. Yes, Felix is out. Don't worry. He'll be back next week. And in the meantime, I brought my boy PJ Sinsuela to be a co-host of sorts with me.
0:40.3	For those who don't know, PJ Sinsuela is a Puerto Rican rapper, hip-hop artist who came up
0:44.9	with the likes of Bad Bunny, Ra Alejandro, and a lot of other big regattoneros you know today.
0:55.0	This is PJ's song, Escuchemy. today. Hey, I'm thank you, thank you my P.
0:56.0	This is PJ's song
0:57.0	It's
0:58.0	Listen
0:59.0	Me
1:00.0	Let's
1:01.0	I
	...

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