Eladio Carrión begins 2024 with a new album, savoring his first Latin Grammy and with his newborn babies. All of the above led him to feel grateful, especially to his mother, to whom he dedicates his production.
The American-Puerto Rican rapper releases the album “Sol María” this Friday. The title is named after his mother, whom he describes as “the best” and appears in an old photograph on the cover taken by artist Darian Mederos.
Carrión’s mother lives in Baltimore with her father and has been a housewife for years after retiring. He also dedicates the emotional song “Mama’s Boy” to her, in which she has Nach as a guest.
In December, as a preview of the album, Carrión released the single “TQMQA” (I love you more than yesterday), whose video was made with fragments of home images in which you can see Carrión as a child and his parents.
“My parents gave me a spectacular upbringing. I wanted to show them another side of Eladio that perhaps many people didn’t know, little Eladio,” he said in a recent interview. “I wanted them to listen to the song and think about their parents too. “I enjoyed putting together the video, seeing all those videos again, seeing my young parents again was something good.”
In November he won the Latin Grammy for best rap/hip hop song for “Coco Chanel” which he performs with Bad Bunny, the song is included in his album “3MEN2 KBRN”, which was nominated in the category of best urban music album.
“I have always wanted a little Grammy, and not simply because of how big the award is, it is always good that such a recognized and serious academy recognizes our work, it lets one know that one is working well,” he noted.
Although he described the award as “a blessing,” he was not able to attend the ceremony, although for a good reason, the birth of his identical twins, the product of his relationship with Vianell González.
“I couldn’t miss my babies’ first days. There are going to be many more Grammys, maybe in this life I will go to 10 more Grammys, but those children are only going to be born once, so I stayed with them, enjoying it for a little while,” said Carrión.
Now that he is a father, his album dedicated to his mother took on more importance for the artist and he sees it as another gift.
“She is so happy right now with her grandchildren, with the album, with the video that is coming out these days.”
With the album he released the video for “Bendído”, the song that opens the album and reflects the feeling he is experiencing at this moment, after a year in which he performed at the Coachella Festival, released two albums and held his Sauce festival. Boyz Fest with artists like Duki, Wiz Khalifa and Bizarrap.
“Last year was such a spectacular thing,” he said.
In “Sol María” he has other stellar guest artists such as Milo J, Duki, Yandel and Rauw Alejandro, the latter in “Hey Lil Mama”, a song with an R&B touch produced by DVLP.
“The rhythm has a vibe that transports you to the 2000s to the 90s,” he noted.
The Panamanian star Sech accompanies him in “El malo”, a reggaeton made with the intention of making people dance.
“That was the first song I recorded with Sech,” he said. “And I couldn’t find it, when I found it, about a year ago I said, wow! This song almost got lost and we never released it, because it was on a hard drive somewhere.”
“Mencionar” is one of the last songs on the album and it talks about how they have him listening to regional Mexican music and he says that he is from the H, but he is not Junior. After his collaboration on the song “77” with Peso Pluma, it is a friendly mention of the genre and also a play on the name of Junior H, another corrido star. Carrión said that he 100% likes regional Mexican music.
For “Tanta drug” he managed to bring together Arcángel and De La Ghetto, pioneers of urban music. The song mixes trap and EDM.
“I had always wanted a song with Arcángel and De La Ghetto,” said Carrión. “They are one of my favorite duos in history.”
Carrión’s sixth production demonstrates his versatility through 17 songs in which there is rap, trap, reggaetón and even a little bit of reggae. In general, he conveys the feeling that he is at peace and content.
“I feel very blessed with my family, with my work team and I wanted to share it, there is not much darkness,” he said.
