Resident speaks openly at Vive Latino 2022: “We must be proud of who we are in Latin America”

As part of the second day of the Ibero-American Music Festival Vive Latino 2022, René Pérez Joglar, known as Residente, gave a concert full of energy, euphoria and calls to the Latin American brotherhood. The former member of Calle 13 began his presentation with the controversial theme of “tiradera” that he composed against J Balvin, generating a high in the spirits of the audience.

The song that Residente recorded in a session with BZRP, was applauded by thousands of people who gathered on the Indian stage of the festival that returned after two years in the face of the halt caused by the global health crisis.

The song in which Residente dusts off some actions that the Colombian has carried out throughout his career and for which he has been harshly criticized, in addition to considering him a “hypocrite without talent”, was the starting theme with which René Pérez connected with an euphoric audience.

At about 19:50, the performance of the Puerto Rican rapper, considered one of the strong cards of the festival, began with the rap that became famous for his choir “I do this for fun”, in which he attacks and insults the reggaeton star.

René asked the audience if he wanted to listen to the second verse of the song, in which he throws himself hard against the singer of Mi gente, a fact that the audience accepted and gave rise to the part where he calls Balvin racist, negotiator, and takes away the title of artist.

“Being an artist is not the same as being famous,” Residente said and asked the entire Mexican public to sing “This is what I do for fun”, and although he did not mention the name of “his enemy”, it became clear who he was referring to.

“Now I want us to jump first, you bastards who are here without a mask, are you bastard, how good... because we are healthy, for those who are not there and for those who are in the name of art, all of Mexico, here all of you, tonight we are going to jump it”, said the singer to give way to other songs in his discography such as Ojalai and dare-you-te.

The Puerto Rican urged the public to show signs of brotherhood in the midst of the war scene that is currently being experienced.

“I want, since we are all stuck together, we can throw ourselves into our arms even if we don't know each other, the people, we need unity, we carbron* s among humanity, we saw each other, we hug, those who want to hug each other embrace, those who don't, don't have to embrace, but we embrace each other because there is a lot of war and we do this jump for those who don't they are, for those who are, for those who left, for all of them.”

After singing El Aguante, Residente noted that this was the first concert he has given after the period of confinement and it was also the last one he gave in the country before the health crisis:

“This bastard, Mexico, I just realized this, I think that now the last time I saw them before the pandemic was here in Mexico and the first time I come back and play is here in Mexico, so this bastard, I just realized... I was quite paranoid, you bastard, I didn't go out...” crowded shout “Olé, olé, Resident”.

René's performance included the songs La cumbia de los aburridos and El baile de los pobres, but before presenting his song Latinoamérica, the rapper raised his voice to call for Latin American pride:

“It is to get into that energy of being proud, you bastards, of who we are, of what we have, despite all the crap that happens in the countries with the c*brones governments we are always standing, standing there, holding on there, that they screw, we are a continent that I am proud of since the Caribbean to be, because we are strong and not everyone has that, and we resist and we are there,” he said to the euphoria of the public.