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El joven fenómeno de la música urbana, el rapero y compositor Myke Towers se ha ganado un lugar de respeto y reconocimiento en uno de los mercados más competitivos de la música. Su audacia para escribir canciones, acompañadas de su voz profunda y un talento en escena que hipnotiza a sus fanáticos, le han hecho merecedor del respeto y reconocimiento en la competitiva industria urbana.  El puertorriqueño ha colaborado recientemente con algunos de los nombres más importantes del género, como Bad Bunny, Becky G, Farruko, Piso 21, Sech y Arcángel y rápidamente se ha vuelto en uno de los artistas mas buscados dentro de la “nueva” generación urbana. --- Phenom Rapper/Songwriter Myke Towers has earned his place in the music industry as one of the youngest and most successful interpreters of his time. His ability to compose songs, complemented by his deep voice and a talent on stage that hypnotizes fans, has earned him a place of respect and recognition in a competitive Latin Urban industry. The young Puerto Rican artist has recently collaborated with some of the genre’s biggest names including Bad Bunny, Becky G, Farruko, Piso 21, Sech, Amenazzy, and Arcángel amongst others and has rapidly become one of the most sought after artists coming from the “new” generation of the Urban music scene.

Some artists define a genre, but Lil Baby defines a generation. The GRAMMY Award-winning rapper has smashed records, made history, and impacted the course of modern hip-hop with his instantly identifiable and inimitable style. He has garnered dozens of multi platinum certifications and tens of billions of streams as arguably the biggest new rapper to emerge this decade. Following the success of his platinum full-length debut Harder Than Ever in 2018, he seized #1 on the Billboard Top 200 with 2020’s My Turn, becoming “the year’s #1 selling and #1 streaming album in the US.” At first, it cemented him as “2020’s first and only artist to go double-platinum,” but it has since gone quadruple-platinum and has logged 85 weeks in the top 10 of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart – marking the longest top-tier run in the chart’s history. He notably tied Prince and Paul McCartney for Billboard Hot 100 hits and Taylor Swift for “most weeks atop the Billboard Top 200 in 2020” with a total of 6. Out of eight nominations, he scored his first GRAMMY® Award in 2022. He teamed up with Lil Durk for The Voice of the Heroes, marking his second #1 debut on the Billboard Top 200. It’s just the beginning though. Most recently, he released “Right On” and “In A Minute” which both songs debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. This feat puts Lil Baby in rare territory, making him the youngest of only 12 artists to have ever landed 100 or more songs on the Hot 100.

In just a few short years, rapper Playboi Carti has amassed over 19B streams worldwide. Carti has been unstoppable since the release of his 2017 single “Magnolia,” as its meteoric rise garnered cosigns from Beyoncé and features on series like Atlanta. His self-titled album has accumulated nearly 7.8B streams to date after debuting at #12 on the Billboard 200 chart where it spent 63 weeks. The following year, Carti dropped his album Die Lit, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200, with collaborations like Lil Uzi Vert on “Shoota,” “Poke It Out” with Nicki Minaj & “Love Hurts” with Travis Scott. The album has nearly 9.5B global streams to date and spent a total of 111 weeks on the Billboard 200. In April of 2020, Playboi Carti returned with track “@MEH,” and on Christmas day, he landed his first #1 album on Billboard’s 200 Chart with Whole Lotta Red which has amassed a staggering 9.4B global streams to date. Playboi Carti kicked off 2024 strong with new music & collaborations including "CARNIVAL” with Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, and Rich the Kid, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carti’s collaboration with Travis Scott on their song “FE!N” peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Playboi Carti has also recently featured on “I LUV IT” with Camila Cabello, “TYPE SHIT” with Future, Metro Boomin, and Travis Scott, and “Popular” with The Weeknd and Madonna. His most recent collaboration “Timeless” with The Weeknd debuted at #3 on Billboard Hot 100.

You don’t get a lot of warning for an artist like Young Thug. From his warped delivery to his radical, gender-fluid fashion sense, the Atlanta rapper (born Jeffery Lamar Williams in 1991) flies in the face of every unspoken rule for what hip-hop is. Starting with a prolific run of mixtapes in the early 2010s, Thug rose by pioneering a weird, ever-shifting flow somewhere between singing, rapping, mumbling, and squawking. But the weirdest thing about what he does is that it works. Nearly every project Thug has released—from 2016’s reggae-inflected JEFFERY to the country-ish sides of 2017’s BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS—has cracked the mainstream, laying the groundwork for a new crop of fellow eccentrics like Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti. Meanwhile, he has continued to push himself as an MC. “It seemed like a show,” Young Thug told Apple Music about making 2015’s Slime Season 2. “You gotta show up; everybody’s watchin’.” That dedication to sharpening his performances led to career-high reviews and sales for his debut 2019 studio album, So Much Fun, a sprawling, guest-stacked opus. Since then, he used his prized place at the top of the heap to experiment, blowing past genre boundaries on 2021’s Punk and commanding malleable collabs with Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Travis Scott on 2023’s BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. Rather than search for some guiding internal logic in Young Thug’s music, it’s best to just take a deep breath and embrace the surprise factor.

Ñengo Flow brings authenticity and grit to a style of music most often associated with aspiration and glamour. Though many Latin trap artists reference ‘90s gangsta rap, he is one of the few that actually embodies the existential realities of the genre, drawing from his own experiences growing up in Puerto Rico. Born in Rio Piedras, San Juan in 1981 and raised in Bayamón, Edwin Laureano Rosa Vázquez Ortiz got his first taste of the spotlight at 14 years old, performing in front of neighbors and friends in his hometown. Propelled by their overwhelming support, he soon developed a lyrical style that echoed the voice of the streets and the marginalized communities he grew up with, combined with a penchant for club-friendly rhythms that dabbled in reggae, hip-hop, and the sounds of the island. This is reflected in his Univision-backed debut Flow Callejero (2005), as well as the classic Real G 4 Life mixtape series, efforts which earned him the nickname “The Real G of Urban Music.” Ñengo Flow has since gone on to collaborate with urbano behemoths like Ozuna on 2017’s “Mamasita Mala” as well as Anuel AA on “Sur y Norte” and Bad Bunny on two memorable cuts on the latter’s critically lauded sophomore release YHLQMDLG in 2020.

Multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY® and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa burst onto the scene with the release of his first major label debut album, ROLLING PAPERS‎ in 2011. ‎ROLLING PAPERS spawned the hugely successful hits “Black and Yellow,” “Roll Up,” and “No Sleep” and gave Wiz the platform to win the award for “Best New Artist” at the 2011 BET Awards and “Top New Artist” at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. “Black and Yellow” also earned him his first two GRAMMY nods for “Best Rap Performance” and “Best Rap Song”. As a follow up to ROLLING PAPERS, Wiz Released O.N.I.F.C. in 2012. This album featured tracks “Work Hard, Play Hard” and “Remember You” featuring The Weeknd. His third studio album released in 2014, BLACC HOLLYWOOD, ‎debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart and included the hit single "We DemBoyz." Soon after, Wiz’s track,‎ “See You Again,” off the FURIOUS 7 soundtrack, catapulted to the top of the charts across 95 countries and earned him a Golden Globes nomination for “Best Original Song”. Wiz released his album, KHALIFA, in February 2016 as a thank you to fans which included the tracks “Bake Sale” featuring Travis Scott and “Elevated.” Wiz released his project, The Saga of Wiz Khalifa, which was followed by his critically acclaimed collaborative album, FULL COURT PRESS, with Girl Talk, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA. In July 2022, Wiz released MULTIVERSE, to rave reviews. His newest album, KUSH + ORANGE JUICE 2 is out now.

With a hypnotic, laidback voice and charisma to match, Snoop Dogg emerged as one of gangsta rap’s most compelling characters, evolved into one of music’s most versatile artists, and wound up a pop culture icon. Born Calvin Broadus (1971) in Long Beach, CA, the rapper known as Snoop Doggy Dogg was discovered by freshly solo N.W.A. star Dr. Dre. An iconic partnership was born when the MC featured on the G-funk pioneer’s “Deep Cover” single, and it bloomed quickly: Snoop costarred on Dre’s genre-shifting 1992 debut, The Chronic, riding over the deep grooves and high synths of classics like “Nuthin’ but a G thang.” His silky flow conveyed gun-toting menace and weed-smoking euphoria with equal candor, and demanded its own platform. Snoop’s Doggystyle (1993) was yet another timeless album pairing gleefully narcissistic and lewd lyricism with Dre’s dense soundbeds—“Gin & Juice” and “Who Am I? (What’s My Name)” broke sales records and permeated barbecues and family reunions for decades. After leaving Death Row Records and signing with No Limit for three albums, Snoop C-walked into the mainstream with the Pharrell-featuring “Beautiful” (2002) and “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (2004), swapping in an easygoing, pimpish persona for the violent, charge-dodging image that frightened and fascinated suburban listeners a decade earlier. As he transitioned into reality TV as a family man, pee wee football coach, and Martha Stewart cohost, he experimented with other genres. In 2013 he released reggae album Reincarnated, and the 7 Days of Funk EP with keytar hero Dâm-Funk; then came 2018’s gospel double-LP Bible of Love. Snoop celebrated his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with his 17th album, I Wanna Thank Me, in 2019. The following year he began hosting Uncle Snoop's Army Radio on Apple Music Hits.

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Emerging from the Florida rap scene with his gritty rhymes and swampy trap beats, Kodak Black was praised for rejuvenating the spirit of 1990s 'Dirty South' hip-hop and, despite his career being marred by numerous prison sentences and legal troubles, he went on to top the US charts with his album Dying to Live in 2018. Raised in the housing projects of Pompano Beach, just north of Fort Lauderdale, Dieuson Octave (June 11, 1997) started freestyle rapping at 12 years old with some older neighbourhood friends and was gradually drawn into their crime-fuelled lifestyle. He was also part of local rap collectives Brutal Youngnz and The Kolyons and later changed his nickname from J-Black to Kodak Black, but found himself serving regular spells in juvenile detention centres and facing serious charges for robbery. His talent had been spotted by record label Dollaz N Dealz Entertainment and, after their lawyers negotiated his probation, they released Kodak Black's first mixtape Project Baby in 2013 when he was just 16. Underground tracks "Ambition" and "5 on It" told gritty tales of ghetto life, but it was his melodic, slow-strutting flow on "No Flockin'" that became his first big hit and was later sampled by Cardi B on her number one single "Bodak Yellow." His profile was also boosted when Drake posted a video dancing along to Kodak's track "Skrt," and he landed a major deal with Atlantic Records before teaming up with French Montana on club anthem "Lockjaw," landing his first big mainstream hit later when his single "Tunnel Vision" shot into the US Top 10. Despite spending much of 2017 under house arrest, his debut album Painting Pictures reached Number 3 on the US charts and confirmed his position as one of the hottest young rap stars around, while his next mixtape Project Baby 2 included popular collaborations with XXXTentacion and Offset. He also tried his hand at romantic R&B slow jams on his Valentine's Day release "Heart Break Kodak," legally changing his name to Bill K. Kapri after serving another four months in prison, before enjoying his biggest success when his album Dying to Live (2018) shot straight to Number 1 and produced the hit single "Zeze" with Travis Scott & Offset. Bill Israel, his third studio full-length, appeared in 2020 while the rapper was still serving a prison sentence. Following his release from jail in 2021, Kodak Black returned in full force with the mixtape Haitian Boy Kodak and an EP titled Happy Birthday Kodak, followed by his chart-topping fourth album Back for Everything in February 2022. On February 12, 2022, Kodak Black was shot during a fight outside an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles where Justin Bieber was hosting a Super Bowl-week party. He recovered and dropped his final project with Atlantic Records, Kutthroat Bill: Vol. 1, in October 2022 following a move to Capitol Records. The controversial rapper released his fifth studio album Pistolz & Pearlz in 2023, featuring production from the likes of Mike WiLL Made-It, TL Jacob, Oscar Zulu, and Pooh Beatz.

Since emerging in 2004, T-Pain not only changed the course of pop, hip-hop, and R&B, but he also reshaped the fabric of the culture itself. Beyond moving over 50 million singles, gathering billions of streams, picking up six GRAMMY® Awards, and selling out shows on multiple continents, his voice could be heard loud and clear as “All I Do Is Win” soundtracked President Barack Obama’s entry into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, during the “most popular” NPR Tiny Desk concert in the series’ history, and when he shocked audiences everywhere as the first-ever winner of FOX’s smash The Masked Singer. The Tallahassee trailblazer’s influence now transcends generations. Simultaneously, the man born Faheem Rasheed Najm shines as a Twitch phenomenon and uber popular streamer, label honcho for Nappy Boy Entertainment, expert drift driver, actor, and author with his literary debut Can I Mix You a Drink in 2021.

2Pac is arguably the most influential rapper of all-time. In fact, his closest analog may not be late rival The Notorious B.I.G., but rather dorm-room icons of the mythologized past: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and James Dean. Even if his legend has become a tall tale, his music remains an indelible testament to the multitudes he contained. He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in 1971, but his mother (a Black Panther leader) swiftly changed his name to Tupac Amaru Shakur in honor of the last Incan emperor to perish while resisting Spanish rule. For much of his career, he embodied this revolutionary, fight-the-power ethos on songs like “Trapped” and “Keep Ya Head Up,” befitting the Afrocentric, conscious-minded milieu of the early ’90s. But there was also the funkadelic player (“I Get Around”), the insular loner (“Me Against the World”), the savage warlord (“Hit ’Em Up”), and the sensitive poet (“Brenda’s Got a Baby”). And as Death Row Records’ strain of gangsta rap defined the middle years of the decade, he became the label’s avatar. Originally branding himself MC New York, 2Pac incorporated influences from the East and West Coasts, not to mention the South, to create a universalist message and sound that explains why murals of him can be found all the way to Sub-Saharan Africa. But you don’t have to travel far to witness his impact: Even two decades after his untimely demise, 2Pac’s influence can be heard in everyone from Lil Wayne to Kendrick Lamar to Future.

When Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’” came out in early 2006, it almost seemed like a joke: How could you make something so gonzo and still keep a straight face? This wasn’t rap as lyricism or verbal documentary, it was rap as pro wrestling, summer blockbuster. Few artists were as perceptive in capturing the genre’s turn toward new-money excess, the move from the streets—in Ross’ case, Carol City, Florida—to the exurbs, to cars that outprice helicopters and houses the size of airplane terminals. Even as he toned down the supervillainy, Ross remained larger than life, luxury incarnate. “Am I really just a narcissist/’Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?” he asked on 2011’s “I Love My Bi***es.” Maybe. But it’s good TV nevertheless. Born William Roberts in 1976, Ross started rapping in his early twenties, with “Hustlin’”—then self-released—sparking a bidding war that landed him on Def Jam. In 2008, his brief past as a corrections officer—18 months, starting at age 19—surfaced, loading new coals on the ever-ongoing conversation about biography and authenticity in rap. By 2009, he’d started the Maybach Music Group, following the rapper-to-boardroom path paved by artists like JAY-Z and Birdman; by 2010’s Teflon Don, his skills as had caught up to his vision. Ross worked steadily throughout the 2010s, easing into a more reflective version of his persona—in 2018, he’d ended up on life support after collapsing in his home—without sacrificing any of his outsized grandeur. Even as he made room to reflect on mortality (2019’s “I Still Pray”), race (2015’s “We Gon Make It”), and politics (2017’s “Santorini Greece”), you always knew where his heart was. As goes one to-the-point line on Port of Miami 2’s “Gold Roses,” “I know it seem odd/But money amazin’.”

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Matheus Aguiar is better known to the world as Matuê, a rapper and singer from Fortaleza, Ceará. He was born on October 11, 1993, and moved to Oakland, California, United States at the age of 8, returning to Brazil four years later. During his time in the US, Matuê was exposed to the world of hip hop and upon his return to Brazil, he decided to try his hand at it. In 2014, along with Clara Mendes and Lucas Degas, Matuê started the record label 30PRAUM. After some time dabbling in reggae, Matuê made a splash in the world of Brazilian trap with 2016’s “RBN,” which was accompanied by a striking music video that aided the song’s popularity. This was followed by a string of single releases the following year, including “Boomzin,” “Mud in the Glass,” “HORTA,” and several others. In 2019, he released the single “Kenny G,” one of his most popular tracks. In 2020, Matuê signed a contract with Sony Music Brazil, through whom he released his first full-length album Máquina do Tempo, which became the most successful debut on streaming services at the time. In the next few years, Matuê issued a series of non-album singles such as "Quer Volar" (2021) and "Conexões de Máfia" (2023) with Rich the Kid before dropping the EP Sabor Overdose no Yakisoba (2024), which preceded the release of his second full-length album 333 in September 2024. Featuring guest appearances by Veigh, Brandão85, and Teto, 333 quickly became one of the most streamed releases in Brazil, surpassing Luísa Sonza's Escândalo Íntimo and Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department.  

La Santa Grifa is a Mexican underground rap group from Tampico, Tamaulipas. Inspired by acts like Control Machete and Cartel De Santa, the group writes gritty, explicit songs about drugs, alcohol, and street life, often combining fast-paced rapping with slow, ominous beats. Their lineup has shifted over the years, the front act known as Yusak is the sole member of the group. They've primarily built up their fan base through their YouTube channel, and have released several albums under somos osos one of the leading independent Latin hip hop labels.

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Criado nas comunidades de Itapevi, Zona Oeste de São Paulo, Thiago Veigh é uma das maiores vozes da cena brasileira de Trap/RnB, apresentando sempre muita versatilidade em suas composições.

Trueno, nacido y criado en el barrio de La Boca (Buenos Aires) forma parte de la nueva corriente de artistas con una visión propia sobre el sentido próximo del rap a nivel regional. En 2019 se corona como campeón de las ediciones de Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos y Freestyle Master Series, las competencias de freestyle más importantes a nivel regional. Además de conseguir junto a Bizarrap el freestyle con más visitas en el mundo, el cuál todavía sigue siéndolo por encima de Eminem y Cancerbero. . En el 2020 publicó su álbum debut “Atrevido” generando un gran impacto local e internacional, con más de un BILLON de reproducciones. En el 2022, fué nominado con “Dance Crip” a “mejor canción de Rap/Hip Hop” en los Latin Grammys. Durante el 2023, siguió marcando tendencia tras haber lanzado el remix de “Fuck El Police” junto a “Cypress Hill”, El Tiny Desk y por sobre todo al haber sido galardonado con cuatro Premios Gardel, entre ellos el Gardel de Oro por su álbum “Bien o Mal”, obteniendo más de 1.3 BILLONES de streams. En el 2024 lanzó “EL ÚLTIMO BAILE”, su tercer disco de estudio, catalogado como uno de los mejores álbums del año por NPR, ROLLING STONE y BILLBOARD US, ocupando los primeros puestos de los charts globales además de entrar en el top 10 global con "REAL GANGSTA LOVE" y ganar su primer LATIN GRAMMY con “TRANKY FUNKY”. En este 2025 lanzó la edición "EL ÚLTIMO BAILE (DELUXE)" superando el BILLÓN de reproducciones.

Known as the “King of Hooks,” singer and rapper Nate Dogg added his smooth R&B vocals to scores of hip-hop hits in the G-funk ’90s and beyond. • Dogg was born in Long Beach, California, to a father who was a pastor and a mother who served as choir director. Nate grew up singing in the church. • In the late ‘80s, after serving three years in the Marines, Dogg formed the group 213 with his cousin Snoop Dogg and good friend Warren G. • In 1990, Warren G’s stepbrother Dr. Dre heard 213’s demo tape at a bachelor party. Nate Dogg made his first-ever solo appearance on Dr. Dre’s seminal 1992 debut album, The Chronic. • Dogg teamed up with Warren G for the 1994 smash “Regulate,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. • In 1998, Dogg released his debut album, G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2. • He earned his first and only No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 by singing on 50 Cent’s 2003 smash “21 Questions.” • Dogg died on March 15, 2011, at the age of 41.