{"id":12966,"date":"2023-02-13T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2023-02-12T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T21:51:01","slug":"vedado-state-milton-mcdonald-papa-humbertico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/vedado-state-milton-mcdonald-papa-humbertico\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedado State \/ Milton McDonald, Pap\u00e1 Humbertico"},"content":{"rendered":"

If at the confluence of G Park your entourage was the one with the handkerchiefs in the pocket and the cap on the side, the baggy pants, the walk and the intimidating rhymes, you know who I'm talking about. You also know what the <\/span>Vedado state of mind<\/span><\/i>The melancholic feeling that took hold of the generations that lived through the \"decentralization\" of culture in the 90's and its repercussions throughout the 2000's.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The influence of the Western cultural maelstrom and the space that urban genres gradually gained favored the emergence of artists with a particular, innovative and contesting vision. And in the capital city of the island, in El Vedado, such characters began to nestle during a fertile period of hopes and dreams, few of which we saw fulfilled, before the smokescreen dissipated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this context, many met Milton McDonald, who between 2009 and 2012 was just a young man eager for experience. Those two years of sacrifice did not bring him fame, but some visibility. A decade later, however, the rapper emerged as a \"veteran\" in the abrupt history of Cuban rap, and released an album where the testimonial is, I dare to judge, the golden nugget. Published in alliance with Pap\u00e1 Humbertico <\/span>\u2014<\/span>producer of the phonogram and creator of the mythical Real 70<\/span>\u2014<\/span>the album's soundtrack is the classic <\/span>trip-hop<\/span><\/i> with 4\u00d74 tempo, crossed by the <\/span>rap-fusion<\/span><\/i> and some isolated presence of <\/span>drill<\/span><\/i>. The references of this work are obvious: Nach (Spain), Control Machete (Mexico) and B\u00e1rbaro el Urbano Vargas (Cuba).<\/span><\/p>\n

The central thesis of <\/span>Vedado State <\/span><\/i>(Real 70 Producciones, 2022) is composed of the stories of that time, narrated through a prism of longing. Although the stories told are Milton's experiences, he presents them in a way that allows us to extrapolate them to our own memories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The sequence does not have a particularly inflexible track order, but if we are going to listen to it, it is necessary to start with the <\/span>Intro<\/span><\/i>. It is precisely on this subject that Milton conceptualizes his proposal and declares: \"El Vedado is not just a neighborhood, it is a state of mind\". Do you know that the first impression is the one that counts? Well, the first single of this album \"sells you the bike\", because of how well achieved it is (too bad it lasts so little). Piano, <\/span>riffs<\/span><\/i> of synthesizers, and trumpets in an amalgamation of <\/span>trip-hop<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Lo-fi, <\/span><\/i>while Milton's voice emerges, clean, with a cadence that is perfectly in tune with the background.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n