“I manifested the fuck out of this,” Eladio Carrión tells Apple Music about his new album and its dream lineup of options. The Puerto Rican entice star’s 3MEN2 KBRN boasts no scarcity of formidable rapper company. But the appearances by icons 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, particularly, come after years of him visualizing this second, a lot in order that he hooked up their respective names to the track information properly earlier than they’d even agreed to contribute to the file.
Although initially supposed as a deluxe version of his 2022 mixtape, SEN2 KBRN, VOL. 2, the undertaking quickly developed into a correct album. Carrión likens the ensuing 3MEN2 KBRN to a spherical of golf, its 18 tracks an intentional, albeit refined, numeric Easter egg of kinds. Much less understated are his vocal company, a veritable vanguard of hip-hop hitmakers in each English- and Spanish-language areas, together with Future, Ñengo Move, and Quavo, in addition to the aforementioned legends. Although it breaks from the overarching sequence’ solo-only ethos, Carrión wished the ultimate quantity to attain one thing various his Latin music friends have strived for. “Typically, folks do songs with American artists, they usually don’t do the best track,” he says. “It’s all about having the best observe for the best individual, and for them to know that the music does work on our facet.” To that finish, he labored largely with the identical producers who acquired him to 3MEN2 KBRN, specifically Overseas Teck, Hydro, and Bassyy. “We actually did this bridge between American and Latino artists for the primary time. There hasn’t been an album like this earlier than.” Learn extra about a few of Eladio Carrión’s favourite 3MEN2 KBRN tracks beneath.
“Padre Tiempo”
“It’s mainly me having a dialog with Father Time, asking him for extra time. Each time I am going on tour, once I come again, I see my mother and father; they’re older with extra grey hairs. It’s me making an attempt to say, ‘What can we do?’—making an attempt to barter one thing. It’s only a actually highly effective observe; my intros are recognized for that. That’s a type of songs you’re going to should run again like, ‘Rattling! He mentioned that shit!’”
“Gladiador Remix” (feat. Lil Wayne)
“Lil Wayne actually made me perceive how essential it’s to drop bars in music. So, it is a actually huge one for me. ‘Gladiador’ was the intro for my final album. I didn’t assume that track may get higher. Wayne killed the track. It means quite a bit, simply to know he acquired on it. I manifested it a lot, so it’s a fantastic factor. It simply talks about, it doesn’t matter what occurs, regardless of the impediment, it’s important to carry on going.”
“Mbappé Remix” (feat. Future)
“Future was on the highest of my want checklist, trapwise. You realize that’s one in all my greatest inspirations is entice. Assembly him was tremendous dope. To see his response within the studio, and to see how he actually fucked with the track, it was tremendous cool to have his blessing on that facet. I didn’t see him do the verse. I met him and he went, in all probability, to the membership, and he got here again. I acquired the verse again at like 10 am. So, I feel he recorded at like 8 within the morning.”
“Si Salimos” (feat. 50 Cent)
“After I acquired the 50 verse, I cried like a child. I knew precisely how he was going to do it. I had manifested and visualized it so many occasions that, when he despatched me the verse, I mentioned that ‘yeah 50’ on the identical time [as him] as a result of I knew he was going to do it. It’s humorous as a result of I went to go see him carry out for the primary time like two weeks earlier than he dropped the verse. I used to be proper subsequent to him. He was me like, ‘Who the hell is that this man with the massive ol’ chain?’ If solely you knew, Curtis, I’m your greatest fan. That’s my hero. I’m simply rapping with my favourite rapper proper now!”
“Cuevita”
“That is extra on the pop facet. It’s nonetheless entice, however it’s extra business. Shout-out to my producers, Hydro and Bassyy. I at all times attempt to put one in there, simply to see what occurs on the exhibits. That kind of vibe, they at all times do properly for exhibits. I at all times prefer to think about the second my DJ presses that button. That’s undoubtedly a pageant track.”
“Coco Chanel” (feat. Unhealthy Bunny)
“Me and Bunny haven’t finished a track since ‘Kemba Walker.’ That’s why we’ve been sort of hesitant to drop a track. However once you hear the beat, you’re going to be like, ‘OK, yeah, I get why they selected this track.’ When the hook is available in, that’s when it bops. That’s a type of, , enjoyable little tracks that I be doing, him and I.”
“Peso a Peso” (feat. Ñengo Move, Quavo & Wealthy the Child)
“I had this Wealthy the Child verse for like a 12 months and a half. I met him in LA, then we met up in Puerto Rico. When he was recording the verse, he was like 4 bars in after which, out of nowhere, Quavo simply walks within the door. I didn’t even know Quavo was in Puerto Rico to start with. He simply pulled up and dropped that in like quarter-hour. It was superb to observe. I put Ñengo on it to make the perfect of each worlds on it, and he got here in with an excellent OG verse. That’s simply me making an attempt to make these appropriate collabs and make it sound correct.”
“M3” (feat. Fivio Overseas)
“We hit arduous in New York. That’s how we acquired Fivio, we acquired Lil Tjay, we acquired 50. Fivio is such an amazing man. Within the studio, it was really easy to do that as a result of he was simply so cool off the bat, like once we met. He went tremendous arduous on that one. He did it so quick, too, in like half-hour. I mentioned the primary phrases, began in Spanish, and he simply went off. That’s the solely factor I instructed him.”