Rauw Alejandro has been busy weaving his way across the country on his acclaimed Costa Nuestra tour, but he still found time to hit the club with a new generation of rising stars from Puerto Rico. On the new song “Forni,” he teams up with newcomers Los Ballers and Clarent for a reggaeton-inspired club anthem, just in time for summer.
The song is a flashy, flex-heavy ode to partying and showing off. Clarent and Rauw trade verses on the track, boasting about themselves to a girl who’s attenion they’re trying to get: “A baller in the city/She’s not afraid of glocks/She wants a gangster like me,” Clarent raps. Rauw, meanwhile, adds softer vocals to the track.
The Puerto Rican star is continuing on with Cosa Nuestra, bringing the intricately choreographed show to Puerto Rico for four sold-out nights at El Choli starting on Thursday. The performance follows a full narrative arc, with Rauw playing a guy who moves to New York from Puerto Rico and falls in love with a girl named Maria.
Rauw says the music reflects his own move to the city. “When I finished [my last album] Saturno, I was in Miami and I was like, ‘I have to switch it up,’” he previously told Rolling Stone. “I like to feel the whole vibe and a lot of this concept was like, ‘Puerto Ricans living in New York? I’m moving to New York… We went to a lot of jazz club, salsa clubs, regular clubs, bars, restaurants, just walking through the city,” he says. “I think if you do a project with a type of music, you should project what you say, how you dress up, how you live your life, otherwise doesn’t make sense.”
After the shows in Puerto Rico, Rauw kicks off the European leg of his tour by heading to the U.K. on June 17 and wrapping in Barcelona on July 12. Then, he’ll kick things off in Latin America, hitting Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.
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