Jesus Ortiz Paz of Fuerza Regida stopped by the Genius office to discuss their hit song “TÚ NAME.” The song has garnered over 27 million views on YouTube and is featured on the group’s latest EP Dolido Pero No Arrepentido. On today’s episode, Jesus shares his perspective on the genre’s evolution over the years, provided insights into the group’s creative process and more!
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00:00This genre, man, is really coming in into the global scene.
00:04Back in the day, it wasn't too cool to be singing this type of music or to even be bumping
00:08it in the car.
00:09You had a lawyer.
00:10When you get to school, hey, switch it to hip hop.
00:12Get roasted.
00:13That's who paisa or something.
00:14So back in the day, it wasn't cool.
00:15Now, you don't even know Spanish and they bumping the songs.
00:18So now it's cool.
00:19It's a big thing for me because we're pioneers of this.
00:21We do music for what we live through and everything.
00:30And then sometimes I do music just to see whatever's popping, I'm going to do it too.
00:34I've seen some artists doing some type of breakup music, kind of like getting cheated
00:38on.
00:39So I was like, hey man, we don't know nothing about that, but we got to make a song about
00:42that.
00:43But you get cheated on, but you living it up though.
00:46Come on, motivation for the heartbreaks.
00:48Come on, we here.
00:52That means, I went with the homies, I got a nice piece of, you know what I'm saying?
01:03I got a nice...
01:04Can I cuss or no?
01:05I got a nice piece of ass, you know what I'm saying?
01:08Like you, but better.
01:09You know, I'm pumping up my guys that get cheated on, you know, like you can go out
01:12there and find a better one.
01:22I bought her everything that I never bought you.
01:26It's like I hurt her, you know what I'm saying?
01:27Like, damn, I was with you for that many years and you didn't even buy me a Louis bag and
01:30you bought her and you just met her.
01:41Pretty much what it says right there, like I don't look for you no more, I'm not looking
01:44for you no more.
01:45I went with these shorties called Brianna, Juliana, and Tanya, and Con La Que Nada Que
01:49Ver.
01:50With the one I told you, don't worry about.
01:52The names just rhyme, you know what I'm saying?
01:54So we put those names in there.
02:17One of the homies called Jay, he had that chorus already.
02:19He showed it to me and I didn't like something, so I changed it up right there.
02:22I changed up the melody a little bit, changed the lyrics up, and I told him, I think this
02:25is better.
02:26But he just showed it to me just to show it to me and it stayed there for months.
02:29One day the homies were writing to it and it just kind of stayed in my head.
02:32So when I had that idea, what we talked about earlier, about making this song for the people
02:36that have gotten cheated on and to pump them up, and I remembered that chorus and I'm like,
02:39oh, I'm going to just put this in there.
02:41And it just landed perfectly.
02:42And we just switched the lyrics up a little bit and boom, that was it.
02:49Just because of cuerno.
02:57So that means, cuerno, let's translate it in English, means you got cheated on.
03:01Or you cheated on somebody like, either he's cheating on or he's getting cheated on.
03:06Just because of that, you lost everything.
03:07You lost your crib.
03:08I re-pulled the rollies.
03:10I re-pulled your bags.
03:11Now you're going back to your mom's house.
03:13You lost it.
03:19Everyone's hating on me because I'm singing about fresas or a lot of girls.
03:27Because back in the day, we would sing just hardcore corridos for the homies.
03:30My fans were like 80% men.
03:32So I was like, I got to start switching that.
03:33Now we're like at 50-50, thank God.
03:35But now they're like, he's doing it too much.
03:37So I was like, all right.
03:38So I guess I'm the king of the fresas.
03:41So I had to put that in there, you know what I'm saying?
03:43Just to shut some people up real quick.
03:44If you're a girl fresa, don't get mad, my bad.
03:48I remember he showed it to me on the way to play soccer, bro.
03:50We were about to go do a cascarita, you know what I'm saying?
03:52What position do you play?
03:53In soccer?
03:54You're not going to believe me, man, but I play forward.
03:55I know I'm a little big for that, bro, you know?
03:57We do good on four, you know, ask the teammates, you know?
03:59We all right.
04:00We score.
04:01At least we score during the game.