Agorazein through ten of its songs

Agorazein returns to the square. Ten years after releasing his last album, “Always”its members take advantage of the round anniversary to reunite with a quadruple performance at the Movistar Arena in Madrid.

Taking advantage of the launch of “King Kong EP” and from those four concerts in the capital, we review the ten most outstanding songs of the group formed by C Tangana, Sticky MA, Jerv.AGZ and producers Fabianni and I-Ace.

10. Normal People
At the beginning of 2011, the first formal album of Agorazein titled “Kind Of Red”nod to the legendary “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis. Under the warm sound of Fabianni, both C Tangana and Sticky MA (then called Manto) anchor the group’s identity and, therefore, its distinction from the rest. With ego, of course, but also with everyday images, without excessive pretensions or exotic poses.

9. I Can’t Get It Out
Following the jazz veins of “Kind Of Red”this song reinforces the group’s anti-gangsta corpus. Ambitions begin to creep in, but also impulses of evasion and anger at being within a system without much horizon or opportunity to cling to: “Son of a bitch, I see that you are missing days, I am missing coins / By saying that you are real you are no longer real, so shut up.”

8. AGZ Always
This rare song from 2013 and published on platforms much later perfectly synthesizes, and under a dramatically ghostly instrumental, the strong points of the writing of C Tangana, Sticky MA and Jerv.AGZ: the first weaving abyssal concepts; the second with explicitness as a flag; and the third with its characteristic dirty tone and often with nuggets of surrealism.

7. Epokhe
At the end of 2012 and with the launch of “LOVE’S” on the horizon, his most experimental album, C Tangana I was in a dense phase of writing and dabbling with philosophical concepts. All of this is filtered into “Epokhe,” a Greek concept related to the suspension of judgment to think in the purest way possible. He is again accompanied by Manto, who provides more explicit lyrics, in a brilliantly ethereal production by Cookin Soul.

6. Slang
The collective of Galician origin Banana Bahía Music begins to continuously get involved in the productions. With menacing lyrics, accelerated percussion and very pronounced 808 bass, the contemporary synergy between Agorazein and Banana Bahía Music began to define itself, taking its definitive form at the end of the year with the publication of “Always”and being the architects of the album’s sound skeleton.

5. What Will Happen
We enter flour; on Agorazein’s last published album. “What Will Happen” It was the initiatory fuse of the launch. Once again Banana Bahía Music is present through Royce Rolo, with an instrumental in line with its time and sublimely adapted to the vicissitudes of love, sexuality and promiscuity that Sticky MA and C Tangana recite, aware that it is not so much what is said in the lyrics, but how and in what way they present it.

4. Lie
Broken promises, false loyalty, accounts that will always remain pending and the bitter taste of the most cynical side of love: Jerv.AGZ and C Tangana happily dispatch a theme crossed by the fragility of human relationships, which stars in the rawest emotionality of the project. “That this time you are going to leave it if it weren’t a lie / You can’t forgive it if it weren’t a lie / That you are going to start over, that this is the final one.”

3. You know
The first song of the triad of songs, along with “Carretera” and “100K Pasos”, where they reap what they have sown and take stock of what they have achieved in recent years. From the vantage point of “You Know” C Tangana and Sticky MA proudly remember their particular guerrillas, their forced apprenticeships and the consensus of their status as a capital group in the contemporary development of Spanish rap.

2. Road
A bass line in the first seconds of the song, which seems to evoke the timid start of a car, serves as the prelude to an optimistic song where Sticky MA and Jerv.AGZ take out the convertible, put in the nitro and speed through their experience in the game, as well as the pride of having managed to succeed. With messages to haters and haters. “Envious people eat shit / they are miles behind / They don’t even smell us when they know what is coming to them.”

1. 100k Steps
There is no doubt: the great climax of Agorazein. It was the song that, sung in an impressive communion with thousands of people at the San Isidro Festival in Madrid in 2016, definitively confirmed the status of a generational group. The embroidery in gold letters of “Always”. An energetically melancholic instrumental; a plea for what has been accomplished and for letting go of the burdens of the past to walk firmly towards the future.