Mala Rodríguez: "I do not believe that man is a fucking psychopath by nature" | Culture
She managed to break all gender, musical barriers and even spatial. With only 21 years old he already had his first album playing on all national radio stations and Latin America received it with open arms. Her so characteristic voice, her flamboyant style and her desire to talk about what nobody wanted to talk about made her the ambassador of a unique style of hip hop. With a long list of collaborations that have made her such an international artist that even her own Barack Obama had it on his Spotify playlist during the summer of 2015, María Rodríguez (Jerez de la Frontera, 1979), better known as Mala Rodríguez, or simply La Mala, premieres two new singles They put it back on top of urban music after staying away from the spotlight for almost five years.
"I got pregnant and everything changed," he explains with his indelible Sevillian accent, as he moved there with his family two years later. Of gypsy father and Dominican mother, explains that during that stage I did not feel like composing, or being exposed. "I just wanted to eat donuts, ice cream, donuts ... live my wonderful pregnancy." However, when she saw her child in her arms, she was inspired again: "I believe that having this responsibility, having the purest thing in the universe with me has contributed a lot to my work".
The artist returns With you, where he narrates, along with the British Stylo G, the sensations caused by falling in love with someone. "I have not done very well in love and now I have finally met someone with whom I feel full", he explains and asks himself: "What could be better than sharing it? It's my life that is in the lyrics, it's not anyone else's life. " With one more base reggaetonera usual, La Mala opens a channel to talk about her own experience and points out that she is not afraid that her fans will criticize her for choosing that musical accompaniment because "reggaeton has nothing wrong". "The complex comes rather by some macho messages that have some of their lyrics, but that extends to indie, to the cumbia, to the bachata, to the pop, to the flamenco ... they are in all the musical genres and we do not realize ".
Gypsy instead it came from what began to take place for a couple of years around women. It refers to the demonstrations, the marches, the protests, the meetings between women, the voices that have been raised publicly. "We had never experienced anything like it. This is being historic. It is the greatest revolution of the century, "she says excitedly. For the subject, Mala Rodríguez has wanted to surround herself with gypsies because "they are the first feminists"He met in this country. "They were the precursors of natural upbringing, those who were working in the street when there was not a word of feminism spoken here," she emphasizes, adding that it was also a way of demonstrating that the struggle for women's rights and equality does not understand classes or conditions.
"Who protects me?" He asks several times during the topic. And she answers herself: "I". "We live in defenselessness, the laws do not protect us. It's something that women have had to live with, "he says. To explain it remember the book King Kong theory, from Virginie Despentes, in which she narrates how a girl in a car has something in her pocket to protect herself with and is at the crossroads of whether to take it out and fight or not to use it, because if they discover it they will kill her and if you do not use it, they may also kill you. "They educate us not to be raped, but they do not educate them not to violate," he says.
Although she has been singing about women for 20 years, about the power they have and about the abuse, consider that things have not changed much since then. But he does trust that the new generations have matured, grown up and "do not have that shit cultural baggage." "I do not think that man is bad by nature, they are not fucking psychopaths. But you have to reeducate them, "he declares.
About to debut the new season of Vis a vis in which the artist has participated, says not being able to reveal anything about his cameo. What she does have emotion is the moment in which her friend Najwa Nimri He called her to ask if she wanted to participate in the series. "I started to cry. With her I have shared crucial moments of my career, it has been from the beginning and it has been super nice ". In addition, he confesses that he really wanted to work with Alba Flowers.
