September 16, 2022
Aristocracia
It has been more than two decades since La Corte, a pioneer group of Venezuelan hip hop and an influence on the new generations of the genre in South America, has not met to record a song together. "VITAL Code" marks the breaking of this hiatus and is presented as the cover letter of this Aristocracy 2022. An energetic and sexy funk-soul that denotes the atmosphere of celebration and inspiration of its beats, accompanied by a grooved organ, capable of awakening an emotionally transcendental experience, between the earthly and the spiritual. Aristocracia 2022 is the sequel to the acclaimed album Aristocracia (2021), nominated for the 2022 Pepsi Awards for Best Hip Hop Album of the Year. DJ 13 (Pioneer of the Venezuelan Hip Hop movement since the 90s) and Un Tal Yupi (The most outstanding beatmaker of the current Venezuelan scene) bring together a little more than twenty Venezuelan rappers and musicians who live in the country and abroad, characters who are also fundamental pieces of the growing Latin American hip hop movement. La Corte (Rotwaila, Bostas Brain, Bless Killa, Russoman), Apache, Chuchu Bermudas, Gona, Rize 1200, DJ Mad Pee, Ce Cuatro, Ice OD, Bless Killa, Russoman, Neka One, Robert Tiamo, Tao, Vampi, Jalik Soulzoopreme, Oz KillA, Jahlodido, ito YAboi, Dru Flecha, 3m5, Modok le Chef, Kfe, Naruslay, Nila Medina, Jearetai, Cesn, Cherry V, PAARIS, Izaguirre Producer, Gegga, GATO GARCIA, Frank Malav, Caz, TA2, They are part of this board. A work that contains 30 songs in which the duo of producers vindicates the essence of old-school hip hop, taking it to lands of timelessness, avant-garde, and contemporaneity. In this way, they manage to strengthen, export and define the aristocratic and organic sound they have been weaving. A diverse mix of genres based on boom-bap, merging and expanding with soul, funk, disco, drumless, nods to jazz, and flirtations with metal, where they include sharp and progressive electric guitar riffs. The album is divided into three communicative components: Body, Mind, and Soul, a triad that represents the physical, earthly, the music of the soul, spiritual, the routine. Thus, his lyrics are rescuing the Venezuelan sentiment and idiosyncrasy, the one that is evolving in the country and the one that is flowing internationally from the most recent diaspora. In this context, Carlos Julio Molina, aka DJ 13, nods to his three decades of a musical career, weaving 30 hip-hop gems that account for a metaphor of evolutionary life in crescendo extrapolating his great creative moment. This second and new installment is a turning point of what will be Aristocracia Internacional. This plate will bring together Latin American MCs, beatmakers, rappers, and musicians to join the aristocratic experience of DJ 13 and Un Tal Yupi. The duo is also working on exploring sounds that are aligned with their challenging beats, in which Cumbia and LoFi will have an immediate role.