Large numbers of young people, a very young audience that for the most part would never have set foot on the Cruillanourished this Wednesday the festival kick off with its shamelessly urban script: figures such as the Sevillian rapper totingthe Argentinian Thunder and the emerging pride of Sabadell, 31FamThey focused their eyes on the back to normal of the sample in the Forum Park. Linguistic rhyming session developed under a latent threat of precipitation. “But, even if it rains, people want to joke,” interpreted Toteking fully.
Cruïlla breathes after the suspension of 2020 and the tortured edition of 2021 (that of the antigen test protocol), and warmed up engines in a venue reduced to three stages (the same ones that will operate this Thursday), with the forecast of hosting between 10,000 and 12,000 people (which is expected to double with the full format on Friday and Saturday). Many girls, followers of 31Fam, a group that know very well what they are up to: “‘Are the single girls from Barcelona?'”, they questioned before addressing ‘Nens del neighborhood’, a topic in which, satyrs, they say go in search of “a Catalan girl”, given that she is “‘the greatest thing that hi has per ‘poguer’ fardar'”, they recited in their sub-21 ‘newspeak’, a pre-Norm Catalan with grafts of Spanish and English .
Costumbrista ‘boy band’
31Fam is considered the ‘boy band’ of our trap scene (and surroundings), and there is something in their staging and their romantic rhetoric, which made good friends with that tendency to melancholy in songs like ‘Des del día 1 ‘. Pure middle-class Catalan costumbrismo, yearning to “‘return to Menorca'”, with its “‘cubates in the sun on the coast'”.
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It was doubtful if the 31Fam fan base would be interested in a veteran like Toteking, with two decades of career, but his latest release, ‘The kingtape’, stuffed with rejuvenating collaborations, has bridged the generations. Popular consensus, then, before the former member of La Alta Escuela, who demonstrated authority and ease as a torrential MC pulling on his renowned eclecticism, mixing border airs and Cuban son in ‘No hay modo’, managing metal tracks in ‘Totehijoeputa’ and evoking the productions from the 80s in ‘Botines’ about the different brands of sneakers (“in Catalonia you call them sneakers, right?”). Manuel González, “el pureta de Tote”, as he referred to himself (43 years old), shared his happiness with a ditty that made the public repeat: “At Cruïlla, at Cruïlla, I feel like in Seville” .
Asphaltic rhymes of Thunder
Mateo Palacios Corazzina, Thunder, which could be his son (19 years old), was shown in a more organic and more rock format, with drums, guitar (both electric and classical) and keyboards, penetrating strongly with rescues of his first songs, such as ‘Atrevido’, and the material from their second album, ‘Good or bad’, released a month ago. There was the song dedicated to his city, ‘… Buenos Aires in flames’, a kind of emotional and social ballad, with views of the “river of blood and dreams in the ‘street'”. Asphaltic rhymes whet the appetite in a Cruïlla who is predicted a ‘crescendo’ journey between now and Saturday.