The camera, iPhone, assistant and valley spring water bottles were sailing towards him like his 16 satellites. It felt like the arrival of a red carpet party - but Fuerza Régida host, Jesús Ortiz Paz, was just arriving at his newly built street mob record office near San Bernardino.
"What's wrong, brother?" Jop said, wearing Oakley's sportswear and Chanel's Chanel Beanie, who will be taking the edge pictures later on with Kendall Jenner in football. "They said you have a problem with me, don't you?"
Yes, I'm going to ask him a few questions, and he'll also preview the mysterious album he's written over the past few months, 111xpantia. We weaved his new office building in his impressive car collection: several Rolls-Royce, the 2021 Lamborghini SVJ, one of his first cars, the Chevrolet Camaro SS and an old-fashioned Chevrolet 454 Ss, as Corrido Pioneer pioneer Arrive “Chalino (Sanchez) is always used to rock these Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Masca, Mccsca, is”.
We enter the dark part of the building, shaped as an album - part listening room, part underground club with a The legend of the hidden temple- Style background. Jop refused to send 111xpantia To avoid leaks, his team asked me to listen to him play several of my songs in person. (He warned the room to put the phone down: "If it leaks, VA'STAR BASTARD,” he said before playing the role of "The Godfather," he imagined himself as Vito Corleone.
"This album is here, it's about fulfilling the dream, brother," said Chopp. "The eye (in the work of art) is similar to expression. It's similar to a new starting point. The name of 111 (angel number). The name of ixpantia comes from the Aztecs...it's all about expression." (The word "ixpantia" comes from the Nahuatl language, which is loosely translated into "manifesto" in Spanish, "showing something to others.")
When Jop became a barber career, his performance was huge for Jop, who later became a party guy and then became one of the main faces of the Musica Mexican sport, headlines throughout the Americas. When he talks to him, he also performs very well Rolling stones In 2023, when he shared his love for the little baby, he later brought him to the festival with Fuerza Régida. And now, he shows the global nature of Mexican music.
“We wrote some songs in Paris. This guy stayed to produce them. "He pointed to Moises Lopez, referring to attending fashion week with Kidsuper.
111xpantia It is a homecoming in the classic Fuerza Régida Corido style while still enhancing the group's voice. For the band's tenth album, Jop incorporates a banjo - an instrument that has never been used Coreydo lies Space - and synthesizer that adds new layers to the track. He also made his voice rude on certain songs. "It's the root of what we're trying to stick with, but making the shit improve," Jop said. "It's the question I always get, 'Where is Old Furza?' And we're not going to stay in 2018 in 2019. We're not going to do it."
The closest JOP on the record to "Old Fusa" is "Marlboro Rojo", which he said was made using the same instrument (Tuba, Charchetas, guitar, guitar), just like the one used from the fan favorite band "Sigo Chambeando" in 2018.
After 2023 PA Baby's and Belikeada, The group's early 2024 EP Injured but not repent He landed on a band with several charts and decided to go out of the band’s comfort zone completely and did electronic music on the “Jersey Corridos” he created, an experimental sound that had 808s and synthesizers and did not fully land on a typical Corrido structure. This is all part of the plan. He said: "We need some risks, like novels. If everything is the same, it will be boring. So I want a little drama. But don't fall in lovewhich includes Afrojack and Major Lazer. "I want people to talk like shit, 'Hey, what the fuck? We lost this guy.' I want that...I want the turbulent hit so we can come back and do what we do."
New songs hear him singing, telling the lyrical themes of living the life of a thug and many hip-hop music: party, love, sex, sex, chicks and drugs. On "Ansieedad," he sings to a girl, about his struggle with love and his life as an artist: "You want to change me/this story will never end." The song includes a subtle sample of the live version of Vicente Fernández's "Acá Entrenos". On "Tu Sancho", he merged a sample of Ellie Goulding that is easily missed. “In the hip-hop, reggae world, everyone uses samples, and in our genre, no one does that,” he said. “This brings extra little seasoning to the album.”
The album significantly ranges from hints to the cartel culture he sometimes sang on early records. Here is a question that many other Mexican artists have completely skipped: Grupo Firme, Luis R. Conriquez and Juliónálvarez all skipped their previous pill bars during live performances.
JOP avoids discussing politics, especially in the current climate. "I'm showing the roots and showing our culture. It helps us not be too involved," he said. "We're not political, man. We're not talking about the president here, none of that. I just don't want to be involved in something. That doesn't match me. ”
When asked about visa issues affecting his peers (Los Alegres del Barranco was revoked a few days before the interview), he made it clear: "I don't want to be involved with these things. We've been working hard, we don't want to work hard, we don't want to." "That's why we don't put it on the show, or nothing is like that." He does touch on the assumptions of Mexican music's connection to Narco Culture on the new album, though. He sang "Ayy Weyy", "Police pull up, that's in a white community / They've been fucking with us all the time because the music is big. They broke our doors in search of damn money laundering / But all they found was diamonds and platinum discs." (The video of the song is a clip of a SWAT team passing through his home, which dropped Tuesday.)
Jop would rather focus the conversation on new music and how he sees the Mexican movement continue to grow. He would be the first to say his team is “competing with anyone” because most of the Mexican acts are solo artists, but he shows it in the same sentences as other major stars in the U.S. market.
"Now, we're competing with Coldplay, those bands that are there... Of course, we still need a lot to do and sell out in Brazil like Coldplay," Jop said. "That's our whole goal, and that's our focus. To be on Anglo TV, to be on Anglo rankings, that's where we think we're going to move this album forward...We want to be those, rock stars, crazy people - this type of Beatles."