Search - Magic Juan :: Inevitable

This CD is banging in both English and Spanish

Daddy Swing | 03/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"When a person can do something most others cannot, there is always those who will hate them. It seems incredible that an artist can flow in both languages with as much dexterity in both that people listening are going to say well it just diminishes both. Not so with this effort. The Spanish cd does outperform the English, but not by much simply because of the hooks. The Spanish hooks are based more on a melodic flow(Mil Horas) than a beat so the tunes are more enduring. This is my first Magic Juan cd, and whoa, he blows away most other reggaeton performers except Tego Calderon. Reggaeton is not simply Spanish rap with a West Indian drum beat. El General will tell you these flows were being done when rap and hip hop were not even thought of. Magic Juan has mastered that flow, and able to bring it to English. What is more amazing he does without sounding like a lousy calypso singer. I bought this cd set in January and play it almost daily as an anthem. The Spanish hooks are just incredible, I should know I was born in Panama where we been doing this stuff long before other forms of African flow hit the diaspora."