El SEI66EIS

El SEI66EIS

When Latin trap was on the rise in the mid-2010s, Puerto Rican artists were visibly at the movement’s forefront. Though quite a few of those rappers went on to greater stardom in reggaetón and more pop-oriented forms, the original spirit of those times evidently imprinted on the home-grown Hades66. Inspired by those street-feeding works from a decade prior, his proper full-length debut strips the sound and themes back to their hedonistic, thuggish roots. He ruthlessly reigns with an insatiable sex-and-drugs ethos on “YO QUIERO”. Similarly, “PeRRa BB” finds him fixated on the opposite sex, as does the relatively more romantic and R&B-tinged “Bbsita Te VeS Bien”. To aid in his wider endeavours, he calls upon OGs and youngbloods alike. Ozuna brings his veteran voice to the sonically bright yet explicitly raw “Replica”, while the gruffer Hanzel La H hustles from dusk until dawn on “Que Mucho Roncan”. Notably, he teams with repeat collaborator Ovi for “Si Mijo Si”, a defiant flex-fest with his Cuban cohort.