“The founder and creator of reggaeton”, so says the first verse of the last album Legendaddythe new production of daddy yankeethe Puerto Rican who took the urban genre to another level, announced last Sunday his retirement from music, an apparently definitive goodbye that deserved a farewell with an album that arrives today with “Legendaddy”, his final studio work, already in all the platforms.
The 45-year-old Puerto Rican, who in 2004 gave the blow of his life with “Gasoline“, says goodbye with a work in which he gives a good example of what his style has been for all these years, an album in which he wanted to accompany the great figures of urban music at the time.
The self-proclaimed “boss” recruits figures of the stature of Bad Bunny, Myke Towers, Rauw Alejandro or the Cuban Pitbull for his seventh and is expected to be the most important album of his career.
He is not accompanied in this goodbye by the also Puerto Rican Luis Fonsi, with whom he made history in 2017 with “Despacito”, a song in which he left his emblematic reggaeton, a rhythm with which he became from the nineties of the last century in a world reference that placed Puerto Rico on the international music scene.
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Legendaddy, Daddy Yankee’s seventh album
“Legendaddy” is the seventh studio work of his career, which hits the streets under the record label El Cartel Records and with the distribution of Universal Music Group.
Produced by Daddy Yankee himself and the Dominican duo Luny Tunes, among others, “Legendaddy” is a highly meditated work by the artist that includes 19 songs that try to review his long career.
Opened with the song “Legendaddy”, Daddy Yankee’s final album delves into the urban genre through 19 songs with titles such as “Champion”, “Remix”, “Pasatiempo”, “Rumbaton” or “X Última vez”.
The list of songs includes the titles “Forever”, “One removed and another position”, “Truquito”, “El abuser del abuser”, “Enchuletia’o”, “Agua”, “Zona del perreo”, “Hot” , “La ola”, “Bombon”, “El rey de lo imperfecto”, “Impares” and “Bloke”.
During all these songs, Daddy Yankee tries to remember his legacy in the urban rhythm, although he varies from one theme to another, delving into all the musical styles he has played in his career, in which he even dared with salsa together with Marc Anthony .
32 years of career and hundreds of collaborations and worldwide successes
“I will say goodbye celebrating these 32 years of experience with this new collection piece. I am going to give you all the styles that have defined me, in a single production,” said the artist when announcing the album.
Among the most powerful songs on “Legendaddy” stands out “Pasatiempo” with the collaboration of Myke Towers, in which the two artists put the best of their repertoire to come up with a great song.
“X Última vez” is another of the outstanding songs on the album, a joint with Bad Bunny in which he returns the collaboration they did in 2017 on the song “Vuelve”.
“Forever” is the theme chosen to sing with the Panamanian Sech, in which the two artists clearly connect.
Daddy Yankee goes solo on “Legendaddy” with “La ola” and “Enchuletia’o”, two songs closely connected to the latest urban music.
“Rumbaton” and “El abuser del abuser” are two other solo songs by the Puerto Rican in which the tropical influence of his native island is felt with a more Latin rhythm.
With “Bombon” he enters the musical universe of the Panamanian rapper El Alfa El Jefe, a collaboration that highlights his commitment to the most urban sound.
A success: Daddy Yankee sold 30 million records
The singer sold more than 30 million records throughout his career, highlighting his historic “Gasolina” from 2004, which marked a before and after of the urban genre.
The album “Barrio Fino: En Directo”, the third, from 2004, was also a reference in Daddy Yankee’s career, until the arrival of “Despacito” in 2017 together with his compatriot Luis Fonsi, who managed to rise to number 1 in over 80 countries and become the most played song on YouTube to date.
The artist said in his farewell that his followers have been “the greatest treasure” he can have in his career.
Daddy Yankee started his musical career with the album “Playero 34”, by music producer DJ Playero, and where the word reggaeton or reggaeton was heard for the first time.
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