Peso Pluma sits down to discuss his favorite tracks from his new album 'Exodo.' He breaks down the sound he came up with for the song 'Solicitado', discusses collaborating with Anitta and Cardi B, and reflects on what his legacy means for the future of Mexican music.
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00:00Hi guys, I'm Feso Pluma and we're going to talk about my new album, Exodus, with Variety.
00:10It's very different, Exodus from Genesis, you know, I think I reached some maturity in my vocals
00:17and I think from every day and from every artist that I collaborate with
00:21I learn something new from every one of them and I just try to grab those little things
00:27those inspirations from the studio and just bringing it to my music.
00:30One song can be done in five minutes, one song can be done in two hours
00:35depending on how we are feeling. For example, Solicitado.
00:43I think it's a very special song from the album because its own name says
00:49what am I talking about, no? I think it's the requested one.
00:53Having nothing to have it all, everything changes in your life, no?
00:58And I think in my life everything changed and I wanted people to see both sides of the coin
01:03and why am I acting the way I am now.
01:11It's just being requested by everyone now that things are going very well
01:16now that I'm a famous person, now everybody looks up to you
01:20bigger audience want to collaborate with you when back in the day it wasn't nothing like that
01:25I'm just giving a response of why am I acting like that.
01:28Every song has a different process but when I'm doing regional and Mexican music
01:33I always have my group with me so I can hear their opinions about their instruments
01:38of what they do better, you know, and I think that's very comfortable for me
01:42being in the studio with them and just having their opinion to make the song better.
01:46Right now we are a group of nine members. It started with my compadre Lalito
01:52who's a friend of mine from years ago and then I met Parca
01:56who's now the musically director from the band and from there we all three decided
02:03who was going to be in the project and who was not.
02:05And the real important thing here is that in every rehearsal, in every stage we perform
02:11we feel very familiar. This feels like a family, not like a band or a group, you know.
02:16I think that's the most important part of the group, that we all have chemistry and we all get together.
02:25If you are used to hear Tu Peso Pluma songs in the Mexican music
02:30I always use Tolo Loche. In this song we replaced it with an actual electric bass
02:36and the ones who knows about this kind of instruments is going to like it a lot.
02:41This mysterious sound, it was just vibing in the studio.
02:44I remember I was with Neto, who's my producer, a Grammy winner too, from Genesis.
02:49We were in the studio vibing and we were trying to master and mix Rosa Pastel from Genesis
02:55which was Jassiel Nunez's collaboration in that album.
03:07Puro Rosa Pastel.
03:09And we were trying to make it different. I was visualizing this kind of angels in the back
03:13with that song because it's a real beautiful melody.
03:17And I was kind of hearing these backgrounds like in my head, not in the song.
03:22And I was just telling Neto, I hear this, how can we make it happen?
03:26And we started playing with different effects, we started playing with different things in the computer
03:30and we did that actual sound and from there everybody wanted to do it
03:35and everybody wanted to put that on their music.
03:38I think we trademarked that and that's our trademark.
03:42That's Peso Pluma's trademark and we should be proud of other upcoming artists doing it as well.
03:52For example, there's a lot of songs that were shown to me like the Cardi B one
03:56that was shown to me from her producers and I love the song.
04:01Whatever is happening in the industry right now, it was going to be the perfect mix of both worlds
04:06and Cardi is just a lovely person who gave me that opportunity and I'm really grateful.
04:19It was just a vibe. Her producers sent me the song and I loved it.
04:24And I even loved more the fact that she was singing in Spanish because it was going to be easier for me.
04:30It is one of my favorite songs from the album, from the whole album.
04:34I would put it on my top three.
04:36So Hollywood is a song written by Esteban Plazola.
04:39I know him since we were 18 years old.
04:42Now he just signed to my label. He's doing real great things.
04:46He's working on his album. This is a cover actually.
04:49It's actually the first cover that I put in one of my albums.
04:52We put our Peso Pluma sound in it.
04:55We did our own production and we just made it a thousand times better from what it was.
05:01And the lyrics talk by itself.
05:05We are talking about reality and how our lives went through this process of being famous
05:12and getting money and getting whatever we wanted since we were kids and how we looked at it now.
05:19Ice is a very special song because it was one of the last ones to be on the album.
05:24This song is just so special for me.
05:27It has this intro by Ric Flair.
05:35Ric Flair was a big inspiration for me when I was growing up watching the WWE
05:41and just the drip that he had and all these luxury things that he showed us.
05:47I just put him in the song because that's what the song talks about.
05:51Now that I'm wearing diamonds, everybody wants to wear diamonds.
05:54Everybody's trying to copy what the project is looking like.
05:58And no matter what they copy or how much they copy, they're never going to be Peso Pluma.
06:04Genesis was the beginning of everything, the beginning of a new era in Mexican music.
06:10It was just a monster, a big monster that came into the global charts and took over every genre.
06:17And I think last year, Genesis marked a before and an after.
06:21This is a total evolution. This is Mexican revolution.
06:24This is the next step. I think Exodo is opening doors.
06:28That's why it's named.
06:30We are opening doors for Mexican music and upcoming artists
06:34to be even more global than Mexican music is right now.
06:46You