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Peso Pluma Breaks Down ‘Éxodo’ Songs, and How Ric Flair Inspired ‘Ice’
In a video interview, Peso Pluma talks to Variety about 'Éxodo's' inspirations -- from the aesthetics of Ric Flair to a choir of electric bass.
The young Mexican-American Grammy winner is boastful about leading música Mexicana ‘s inflated global reach, but he also grapples with that responsibility, unleashing darker subject material ( “I live a fast-paced lifestyle / The life of an artist / Drugs and women,” he sings in “Hollywood”) than in “Génesis,” his 2023 Billboard chart-topping debut. Peso recruited a long list of collaborators for “Éxodo” from all parts of the genre landscape — he’s got Quavo rapping in Spanish on “Pa No Pensar,” and Cardi B spitting verses on a trumpet-led beat on “Put Em in the Fridge” and plenty of Mexican all-stars, including Kenia Os and Natanael Cano. I was visualizing these kind of angels in the back with that song because its a real beautiful melody… we started playing with different effects, different things in the computer and we did that actual sound and from there everybody wanted to do it.”
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