{"id":13249,"date":"2023-03-22T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=13249"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:49:44","slug":"3-a-0-l-kmii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/3-a-0-l-kmii\/","title":{"rendered":"3 A 0 \/ L Kmii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Cuba no one escapes the distribution. Even those who avoid it inevitably end up having to pay their share at some point. Like it or not. It is what it is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2022 L Kimii (formerly known as El Kimiko), one of the tough guys of the genre, released his second album. At the time I listened to it, not as an unabridged phonogram, but as single, stand-alone tracks. Walking around. By the neighbor who obliged me. At the party that was activated by the cast. Because I wanted to. I don't know. I listened to it, just like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L Kimii <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crowned<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and released an album to make his success clear to all of us. He had to tell the world that he was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pasted<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and continues <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">glue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Cuba or out of it, alone or accompanied, with or without a manager; I thought back then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 A 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his second phonogram<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solo album, released last December 24 and produced by DJ Conds, doesn't leave much room for doubt, its name itself denotes it: 3 to 0, victory assured. It could perfectly be the typical phrase \"I'm your dad\"; \"respect the elders\" or a more classic \"I'm the best at this\". In any case, nothing new.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WChUM0hjWyw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his nets, he then said that 3 is the number of Eleggu\u00e1 and of luck. A, the first letter of the alphabet (very much associated also with being the number one), the initial of his godfather's name and his own. \"A for love,\" he also said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After three months, I am ready to put my head into the disc. After all, I can't (and don't want to) escape from my immediate reality, of which the cast is undoubtedly a part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I begin, then, the inverse exercise of listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first thing you find in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 A 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a cover with a very close-up profile shot of L Kimii and a red background with silver glitter, a la <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">underground<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pleasant or unpleasant to the eye? It doesn't matter. It is totally coherent with what he is, with the discourse of his album and with his artistic projection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the intro to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candy<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">closing track of the album<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 36 minutes, the author goes through the romantic type, to whom \"El Ni\u00f1o, el bobo\" comes out; then, the scorned guy with a bad temper and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">good luck<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by a \"damned\" one<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who knows what to do with his little life;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And so, in 12 tracks without an apparent common thread, he opens and closes the same cycle, over and over again...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I play and finish listening to it again. Truth be told, I don't decipher what he wants to say or where he wants to take us with this apparent loop between the best, the hot in love and the hurt, but as it almost always happens to me with the cast, I enjoy the process of listening to it without thinking too much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You dive in and realize that he literally does whatever he wants in his themes. You start listening to one and, without any modulation, he changes from one tone to another, maintaining the effective harmony of the cast. The same goes for his lyrics. He will say that one is no one to question it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fear of Success<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his first solo album<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 A O<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osniel wants to avoid being boring and is trying (sometimes with more success than others) how to achieve it. On this occasion, he bets on reggaeton, pop and delivery. The artist is so focused that if I take another month to publish the review, he will release a new album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwurEMrfkAg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 A 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To date, he has released three singles: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Requirements<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ft.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Jackal; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The piece of your piece<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Descaros<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ft.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> El Charly; all accompanied by an audiovisual proposal. In other words: the guy is on. The problem? There are many others just as focused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The list of contributors includes William The Magnificent (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pipipi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Alexander Delgado <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Damn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and El Taiger (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The first of them seems to be trying to get out of the shadow in which he has been for years, and he moderately succeeds. Personally, his reiterative <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pipipi <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the topic brings me back to 2010-2011 with its famous <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tururu, play me the flute;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the same resource exploited again, but now less functional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Damn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the theme he shares with Alexander; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featuring <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from which more promotion and better reception could have been expected. It was not, because although Gente de Zona is a group that is supposed to be of international stature, they are on a downward curve and they even collaborate with their aunt; besides, the song itself does not merit it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hD_REnZzPeQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the opposite is true: it was the first strong step of the album, even before its release. Since May 2022, it was already being listened to on El Taiger's live streams, and in the first days of November it was on the street. Of course, now Jos\u00e9 Manuel Carvajal is not a cameo as in the videoclip of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> False Profiles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but an elemental factor in the production, image and promotion of the single and the DJ Conds label. His appearance is not surprising either: Taiger always gets on the train, last or first, but he sneaks in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of that, the song meets the requirements for simple catchiness: short and catchy chorus, and typical video with close-ups of the artists, polished with crayon editing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally speaking, the phonogram contains the same codes as the cast: its attempt at a romantic tone that ends in the sexual (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the woman down there tastes sweet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the same mentions of clothing brands, the more expensive the better, along with repeated references to the talent and blessings that cross the path of the deliverymen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Codes are repeated, so what? The record doesn't stop being worse or better for that. Neither do we as a society... I keep listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 A 0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their best album? I don't think so. Today, maybe. Tomorrow when he releases another one... we'll see. In the meantime, one thing is clear to me: whatever you think of him, L Kimii will always have the same answer: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">let them talk, let them say, my friend, I am not a jimagua. Oil. Water.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It's over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 A 0, their best album? I don't think so. Today, maybe. Tomorrow when he releases another one... we'll see. In the meantime, one thing is clear to me: whatever you think of him, L Kimii will always have the same answer: let them talk, let them say, mi'o, I'm no jimagua. Oil. 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