Arcangel

If you’re in Nueva York this week, well, you must know the Puerto Rican Day Parade is hitting the streets on Sunday (6/14). In honor of my boricua hermanos I’ll bring you some interviews with a few of music’s most talented Puerto Rocks. First up, Arcangel told me, “If I don’t go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade there ain’t no parade.” With that said, the half-bori also picked his favorite Puerto Rican artists.

Arcángel, he of the freshly groomed eyebrows, admits he’s a strange Dominican. How strange you ask? Well, the reggaetonero is such a strange Dominican that he doesn’t like bachata! Well, at least he loves his plátanos. If he hated them, he’d have to join the Alex “I’m Dominican When it’s Convenient” Rodriguez club. And we know there isn’t any coming back from that hell. Check out what Arcángel said about big-boned girls, crying over women and his Dominicaness.

I attended a New York Yankee game last Friday and boy is my Met heart burning. Pero, since this is a blog about Latin music and not sports like my boy Alex I’ll say this: the intro music for the Yankee batting line-up sounds like a house party in Spanish Harlem. Yes, we all know Latinos dominate baseball with juice (A-Rod) and no juice (Jose Reyes) but they have also transformed a ball game’s ambience. Check out the songs some of the Yankee sluggers came out to on Friday night against the Minnesota Twins.