Jhayco: “If Trump calls me I’m not going to go”

Many may have known for the first time of the existence of Jhayco just a week ago thanks to his time on David Brocano’s program, but this is almost certainly not the case for someone under 30 years old.

The Puerto Rican is a benchmark in the global urban genre. With 29 million monthly listeners only on Spotify, his songs appear on radio stations, parties and clubs. It seems that after almost a decade of career he has the key to combine sounds with catchy choruses and climb to the top of the charts. But now, he says, he wants to get away from all that.

“Before I felt like I had to make music to make people like it, to be able to do shows and for my songs to be bigger.. But there comes a time when you look inside and realize that what they fall in love with is your personality and the creative new things you bring out. “You have to trust yourself more,” he says. And he reveals his strategy to overcome those insecurities that appear “always, every day”: “I call my hotI play them the songs, and I’ll see it.”

His new album, with a peculiar name –Le Clique: Rockstar Life (X)– and infinite duration – there are 29 songs over 1 hour and 49 minutes -, was born under this premise.

“It is not an album for people who listen to me for collaborations and want to hear 13 songs and choose their five commercials and go to TikTok. It’s an album for my true fans. “It is designed to test me as the creative that I am with my productions, my transitions, my lyrics… The different styles that I can do,” he defends.

The work is divided internally into three parts and has the collaboration of Quevedo, Featherweight o Eladio Carrión. It starts off daring with pop-rock and then moves on to the most common trap and electronic rhythms mixed with reggaeton. The themes of his lyrics are where he innovates the least, with his relationship with women in practically every song.

Although the reference to Jean-Michel Basquiat In one of his singles he reveals one of his lesser-known hobbies: his passion for art.

“I’ve been in the business for about two years, I feel like I’m just starting out. I have a Picasso at home and I gave another one away. I also have a Banksy. I’m still for the super famous ones, then the less famous ones will arrive and then the new ones, which are just as important. I would love to have a Basquiat and also some Andy Warhol. It’s super cool“, dice.

It is difficult for him to describe what this Picasso is like – “it is difficult to define him because what can I tell you? They are like two lines, turned, a human being…”, he laughs – but he confesses that he has it hanging in a room of his home where there are only “a lot of art.”

“There I have many things that I have collected over time. There are paintings but also many vinyl records. I have Nirvana, Artic Monkeys or music from movies like Dune. If I start telling you, we’ll stay here all day,” he jokes.

Although he usually does not speak out on politics – unlike what compatriots like Bad Bunny or Residente do – it is impossible not to ask him if he would have done the same as colleagues like Anuel AA or Nicky Jam, objects of controversy after recently attending to Donald Trump rallies. “He hasn’t called me. If he does I’m not going to go,” he says.

– For not getting into politics or for Trump?

– “For many reasons. I can’t comment on that. I’m telling you the most I can.”

He doesn’t want to reveal much about his future either. “If not, there will be no surprise,” he says. Although he assures that when he thinks about Spain he thinks big. “I feel like I have a community here and that we have been growing together. I have been coming since before publishing ‘He doesn’t know me’ (his big hit of 2019) and we have been taking all the steps together. It is one of the countries that supports me the most and it is my duty to come,” he says.

And he concludes: “My idea is to continue working, continue promoting the album, and prepare the tour that I am starting now in the United States. The rest are plans in which one gets involved and about which I cannot say more.”

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