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International Artist Feature #5 - C. Tangana - HipHop

International Artist Feature #5 - C. Tangana

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:50 AM PDT

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C. TANGANA (FKA Crema)

Born Antón Alvárez, C. Tangana is a popular Spanish rapper from Madrid. He and his group (Agorazein) were part of the Madrid underground since 2006, when Antón, under the name "Crema", released his first mixtape: Elescrema. His style in this mixtape was similar to what had been popping in Spain since rap came to its shores: 90s boom bap with thew typical gritty Spanish rapper voice, what people in Spain called "Hardcore hip hop", in part inspired by Wu Tang Clan and its style.

He went on to put out two very influential mixtapes (at least in the Madrid scene) in those years, in the form of Ego (2007) and Agorazein (2008). The latter was the first reference to what later would be his group, where his friends like Manto (now Sitcky MA) and Jerv.AGZ made their first appearances in the scene.

In 2011, tired of the monotony in Spanish rap, he changed his name and his style, releasing his first record (my personal fav) with the name C. Tangana (Agorazein presenta: C. Tangana). This record was a departure from his earliest style. His voice had changed to resemble his "talking voice" more, and his lyrics weren't as preachy, more personal, and it seemed his ethics didn't play that much of a part in his lyrics. Instead, he seemed frustrated with the amount of work he had put in his craft and how unappreciated he was in the scene despite all that. He seemed to be pointing to a total 180, with lines like:

Now people think they have a right to argue/give me an euro for every verse that made you float/I gave it to you for free, you didn't say nothing/pay my plate, then we talk about my rap"

It seemed his refusal to participate in materialistic/money music was dying, which at the time, for Spain, was the freshest thing to happen in the scene in a decade.

The same year his group released a joint record (Kind of Red-AGZ) where he was very blunt about his new goals in life (live off music, whatever it takes), you can see this pretty clear in songs like "Hacer Volar Los Billetes" and "I Can't Get It Out".

In 2012 he released Love's a record that marked a complete departure from his earlier style, focusing almost completely in musicality as opposed to lyricism, the record had a couple of standout "rapping songs" but most of it was very personal and emotional, though the bars (as always with C. Tangana's work) were still present.

In 2012 he also released a species of manifesto in Epokhe (prod. by the legendary Cookin Soul), where he talks about letting go of ideology, prejudices, and overthinking. In hindsight, this release seems to explain what was to come:

After a year-long break, in 2014 he released Alligators, a song in which he embraced the hedonism, the materialism and the machiavellian ideas he would further explore in subsequent releases. This release was met with a lot of criticism from the Spanish rap scene as the video looked more like a Lacoste ad than a music video.

Although the lyrics pretty much explained his point of view, it went over most listeners' heads (a thing he was frustrated with for a long time, "So many fucking years in this you still don't get anything", from the song "Hoy"), so it earned him a lot of criticism, and he got involved in some rap beefs, the most notorious one with Nega from "Los Chikos del Maiz", although the majority of the Spanish rap scene was on Nega's side (after all, C. Tangana was trying to reinvigorate the genre, which most Spanish rap fans see as "selling out") this beef gave him a lot of exposure.

In 2015 he released his mixtape 10/15. It consisted of 5 songs, all Drake beats, which he (imho) murdered. The standout songs were Nada (a diss song towards Nega) and Bolsas (a brilliant song about him doing coke with a girl, while thinking of another girl, trying to convince the new girl to stay over, because he still has half the bag left). This mixtape is arguably the most influential one in the history of Spanish rap, even though it was simplistic, it was very fresh and new for what we had going on in the scene, so every Spanish rap fan who was down with modern US rap gravitated towards this guy. In one move he opened Spanish rap to a whole new audience.

In his career, he sees 10/15 as the real departure from his earliest styles (in my own words, I would describe it as a preference for aesthetic instead of content, though the content, in my opinion, doesn't suffer, it's just harder to catch).

In 2016 his group released a joint album (Siempre-AGZ), C Tangana was already somewhat of an established artist, but the rest of his group was still relatively unknown. Although it was (from a Spain viewpoint) an anti-mainstream record, if it would have been released in the US, it would have fit right into what was going on there.

Now, 2017 was really his year. In 2016 he released a couple of poppy singles (Persiguiéndonos, Antes de Morirme) but his big hit Mala Mujer was his jump to the mainstream. He had finally reached his goal, the song was (over)played in the Spanish radio for months, and gave him the opportunity of signing a record deal with Sony under his own terms (which, if you follow the Spanish scene at all, you know is very hard to achieve).

He went on to release his first major label album Ídolo with commercial and critical success. The album is a concept album about the "building of the idol", it explores the machiavellian schemes you have to think of to make it, the egotistical lifestyle, the clash of personal ethics with personal pleasure, etc.

His last album was imo his best, he fleshed out all the concepts he had been brewing for years in a masterful way, never renouncing bars and rap, but instead trying to expand its boundaries.

Right now he's working on a couple of things. He said his sole focus right now is the studio, proving himself through his music. He has released 3 songs this year, the No te Pegas remix, Still Rapping, and a feat in his buddy's single Humo y Alcohol (which is, btw my favourite new song besides this guy's newer single: Subox3).

A few weeks ago he released Llorando En La Limo, the single leading up to his next project 'Cabernet Sauvignon'.

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This show is really good IMO, I'm curious if we'll learn anything new in this interview. Letterman has done a good deal of inquiry into his guests childhood, so I wonder if that's where they'll go to visit. Super excited about this.

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