"Trap Queen" Nesi Is a Huge Reason "Yo Perreo Sola" Is Such a Big Success

Oct. 16 2020, Updated 3:12 p.m. ET

Just after we concept we could not be extra into Bad Bunny's "Yo Perreo Sola" earworm, he goes ahead and stocks a new remix of the track on the instance of the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, the place he walked away winning Top Latin Artist.

Performing at Bad Bunny's side were early aughts reggaeton "caballota" (which interprets more or less to "boss lady" or "matriarch") Ivy Queen, and Nesi, identified formerly as Genesis Rios, who sings on the observe's iconic hook.

But whilst "Yo Perreo Sola" has been broadly celebrated as a feminist anthem, Nesi's feminine vocals went conspicuously uncredited. So, who is Nesi? Keep studying while we be informed extra about this reggaeton artist.

Meet the self-described "trap queen" from Puerto Rico, Nesi.

Nesi began freestyling a couple of years earlier than catching the attention of fellow Puerto Rican Bad Bunny and briefly was somebody to seem out for in the underground scene. 

"It started off as a hobby," she tells Trap House Latino, noting that she was reasonably shy when she began freestyling on Facebook, which is where she first caught the attention of a few large freestyle pages, significantly Freestyle Mania, that helped her build up her following.

As some of Nesi's movies began to move viral, she attracted a fanbase that turned into obsessive about both her lyrics and her delivery. Bad Bunny was among one in every of the audience who early on took notice of her skill, and invited her to lend her vocals to his YHLQMDLG observe. 

After he'd written the complete monitor to "Yo Perreo Sola," Nesi recalls "the only thing he wanted was my voice." 

"He liked my freestyle, and when I heard his track, I loved it, if I'm being honest," she mentioned in Spanish. While she does not have a "featured" credit score on the observe, Genesis' title does seem on the album's credit. 

The resolution not to include her identify alongside his has brought about an argument among fanatics who consider the track would no longer be as successful because it has turn out to be with out Nesi's contributions. "It really didn't bother me," she stated candidly in a video the place she seems actually grateful for the doors the alternative has opened for her.

For Bad Bunny, the decision got here out of the incontrovertible fact that he first of all wanted to do the track by myself. Having already written the lyrics for the tune that "was born in [his] mind," he wanted female vocals to help him reach a pitch he couldn't by myself.

"Nesi's voice can be the voice of any girl," he stated in an Instagram Live on the matter. "It's the voice of many people, it's not someone specific." 

For what it is value, it's extraordinarily common in reggaeton not to give credit score to the feminine vocalists who appear on male artists's songs.

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While she might no longer have appeared as a featuring artist for Bad Bunny's observe, Nesi did lately sign directly to report label Hear This Music, which prior to now represented Bad Bunny. And if there used to be any doubt about it before, it kind of feels now that the two are very fond and filled with recognize for one another.

"FROM FREE[STYLE] TO THE AMERICAN BILLBOARDS," Nesi wrote on her Instagram web page following the iconic reside efficiency of "Yo Perreo Sola." "Once again, thank you so much [Bad Bunny] for trusting me and counting on me to make history," she captioned the picture.

Follow Nesi on Instagram at @nesipr. We can't wait to peer what else she does next!

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