If I told you this was a reggaeton reworking of a salsa classic, you would probably wince and not listen to it.
But this is incredible: it's a tiny saga, a slice of the Puerto Rican underworld. The lyrics are just slang-sodden poetry. The video is also pretty hot: sort of what Boyz N The Hood would be like if the hood had palm trees.
The original song, Juanito Alimaña, also tells the story of an unloved gangster. It's also tasty good. And it contains one of my favourite Spanglish words: "ratear", which is derived from "to rat someone out", the 1950s US term for grassing someone up. What a word.
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