"It's a normal room for a normal kid."
This is how Gonzalo Julián Conde
Bizarrap
defined the place in his house in Ramos Mejía (Argentina) where the pop music phenomenon of the moment was born, the Bizarrap Music Sessions.
He learned musical technique on the computer by watching tutorials on YouTube and then went out to record kids in rap battles.
He would come home, put those rhymes to music and pass them on to his colleagues on WhatsApp.
He lit the fuse and began with his
Sessions:
songs where he composes the music and elaborates it on his computer and different vocalists write the lyrics and interpret them.
All the songs with their corresponding videos.
The last one was only two weeks ago and no one living on this planet has been able to get rid of it: the Bizarrap Music Sessions 54 starring Shakira and her scolding of her ex-partner, Gerard Piqué.
Bizarrap assures that it is he who chooses the singers and that what he has really created is a character.
When he takes off his hat and glasses he becomes Gonzalo, a shy boy who can walk down the street without being recognized.
Meanwhile, the world awaits his 55th
Session
. Will it be Bad Bunny?
Rosalia?
J Balvin hitting Residente back?
A game that keeps the pop industry entertained and its thousands of followers excited.
Until you decide to expand the roster, here we make a
ranking
of the ten best to date.
They are reviewed in reverse order: the best, at the end of the text.
10. Kinder Malo: Bizarrap Music Session 17. Side A
The first Spanish
trapper
who heard Bizarrap was Kinder Malo back in 2014. He fell in love with it and, when he had already played 16
sessions,
he decided to call this man from Barcelona who turns 31 this February and whose real name is Teodoro Pedraja.
They recorded two songs, the best this Side A, a drugged
trapero
song with a sticky melody.
Two curiosities: Kinder Malo is the brother of Pimp Flaco, another interesting urban musician;
and it may be the only
Session
to include a guitar solo: it explodes at the end and it's not bad at all.
9. Quevedo: Bizarrap Music Session 52
What plays against this song the most are those 1,000 million views on Spotify.
The brutal media exposure of
Session 52
interferes with the actual quality control of the issue.
After the participation of established artists such as Residente, Nathy Peluso or Paulo Londra, Bizarrap discovered the particular voice and rhymes of a 20-year-old canary and proposed a
Session.
In three hours they made the song, although later touch-ups were made.
Quevedo wanted to delete the “queeeeedate” from the chorus, “because it didn't fit” with his style.
But Bizarrap's opinion prevailed.
And less bad.
The result is a euphoric piece to sing in community with the magic of having become a youth anthem after the harsh confinement of the pandemic.
Quevedo's life changed, and Bizarrap's life became more bearable.
8. Cazzu: Bizarrap Music Session 32
Cazzu has been a serious thing for years with music that doesn't stop at
trap,
as it makes forays into reggae, soul or pop.
She is 29 years old and is Argentine.
With Bizarrap pumping out bass, the singer drags her witty, badass rhymes along.
A curiosity: in the video, Bizarrap changes his black visor cap for a wool cap.
7. Nicki Nicole: Bizarrap Music Session 13
One of the voices that shines the most in the
Sessions.
Nickie Nicole, Argentinian, 23 years old, and an anomaly in the Bizarrap invention.
Because her song fits more into soul, a style not exploited by the Argentine producer.
One of the shortest pieces (2.25), with a particular vibe, silky, relaxed.
A little bit of peace in some
Sessions
that fundamentally appeal to festive moods.
6. Abide: Bizarrap Music Session 47
Bizarrap was introduced to Morad's music thanks to Argentine rapper Trueno.
They went on a trip together and Trueno did not stop playing the music of this young 23-year-old musician from Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Bizarrap was shocked and proposed a collaboration.
Shakira's song is not the only one of the
Sessions
that alludes to the Treasury (“you left your mother-in-law as a neighbor, with the press at the door and the Treasury debt”, the Colombian sings against Piqué in
Sessions 53).
She also quotes the Treasury in
Session 47:
“I did not have to enter the stores, I doubt that you already understand that world.
/ He had to steal all my clothes, now I pay the Treasury every month”.
Morad has led (and leads) an intense life that has caused him some problems with authority as well as praise from various fronts.
In the company of the Argentine producer, he bills an irresistible theme.
This song shows Bizarrap's love for the electronic sounds of the eighties with a development that also refers to
Afrobeat rhythms.
5. Paulo Londra: Bizarrap Music Session 23
Another union of Argentines.
It stars Paulo Londra (City of Córdoba, 24 years old), tender and melodic compared to the ferocity of Duki or Residente.
The 23rd is the most emotionally charged song in the
Sessions
.
Londra had been without recording for a long time due to a draconian contract with a music producer.
He was 19 years old when he signed it and affirms that he was deceived.
His revenge is this piece, which has the good sense of downloading the chorus almost from the beginning: "Because I feel that I once lost myself, and today that I woke up, I think I never left."
A song that fuses a catchy chorus, a rap part and a reggaeton part.
All about Bizarrap sound mattresses.
Shiny.
4. Duki: Bizarrap Music Session 50
Duki is the musician who fills the most of all those who make up the
Bikarrap
Sessions .
Last November he sold out four nights at the Vélez stadium in Argentina (40,000 each day) and arrives in Spain in February with two days in Madrid and as many in Barcelona (30,000 people in each city).
One of the great musical phenomena of the moment is this 26-year-old boy from Almagro (Argentina) who in this song tells his story: from the rap battles of the Fifth Step in the Rivadavia Park in Buenos Aires to bursting stadiums.
A selfish piece
,
rude, aggressive hip hop, which is made accessible to a non -hip hop
audience
by Bizarrap's epic, orchestral arrangements, with well-placed little noises and an infallible chorus: “They speak as if they don't know failure, many give up but that's not the case”.
3. Antillean Villain: Bizarrap Music Session 51
The two styles that Bizarrap dominates the most converge in the three minutes of
Session 51:
hip hop and danceable electronica from the eighties and nineties.
Villano Antillano, a Puerto Rican transgender, brings his charisma, his combative personality, and his much lewdness.
A song with a powerful message, full of sonic sparks, playful and of high quality.
When it sounds in Bizarrap's live shows, the public goes crazy.
2. Nathy Peluso: Bizarrap Music Session 36
Bizarrap has recognized that it is one of the
Sessions
with which he feels most satisfied.
He caught them both at an unbeatable moment: the Argentinean, after some thirty
Sessions
, was already quite filmed, and the Argentinean had just edited his fabulous
Cramp of hers.
And they exploded.
It is a song where many things happen: it has strength, sex, humor, rhythm, a message about feminine strength... Peluso worries about vocalizing, something that he does not do in other of his songs, and the consequence is that they are already classic pop verses. Current: “A surprising, curvaceous and eloquent bitch, magnificently colossal, extravagant and animal”.
You can't do so many things in two minutes and 50 seconds, and all with chicha.
And the best, 1. Resident: Bizarrap Music Session 49
He puts on his cap and sips a beer.
Next, and for eight minutes and 40 seconds, Residente (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 44 years old) unleashes his fury against many things.
First his bellicose darts impact the urban genre (even some of the participants in the
Sessions
may feel alluded to) and then against the Colombian J Balvin.
If Shakira's
shootout
against Piqué is relentless, Residente's shot at J Balvin goes much further.
He attacks the false prophets of the genre.
“They are fifth-rate artists who write less than a pen without ink… / Because these fake rappers turn chickens with my rhyme… /
Autotune
and active
playback
,
those fools even sing with the microphone
turn it off”.
And this goes for Balvin: "calf", "asshole", "cowardly lamb", "idiot", "racist"... And all the argued insults.
The most fascinating thing about this outburst is that it is even danceable, with that lush refrain (“I do this to
have
fun, to
have
fun”) accompanied by a whistle.
With this song, the
Bizarrap
Sessions went up to another level: Residente gave them prestige and controversy.