Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, music now.

Today we're going to be talking to Residente, a rapper who's won more Latin Grammys,

27 than anyone else on the planet.

Our own, Delisa Lopez, is going to be doing the interview.

Hey, Julissa.

Hey Brian, who are you?

Not bad.

So tell us a little bit about Residente, who he is, where he came from, what his music's been like.

Definitely.

So Residente is a rapper from Puerto Rico and he's one of the most outspoken artists in the Latin music

industry ever since he started Kaya Tresse a a famed rap duo with his brother

Eduardo Cabra he's just been making really politically charged music. They first got together in

2005 and a lot of the music was playful and subversive. They had a really big hit

called A Trevette which is kind of a regetong song.

There was a trebeton song.

A trebete, tte, salte,

a closet, sta patte, that it is smallte,

they have a d'a-tte.

There was always this current of just being really interested in politics and

especially politics in Latin America. So fast forward years later,

Drisenante has continued to do that in his work. He eventually went solo and in 2017 he released

Resideante, which was this album that he made by getting a DNA test and going to each country that he had DNA from and making music with musicians there

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