After presenting his goth trap aesthetic alongside Orteez back in 2019 with his debut EP Yang, Ferrori took a backseat and released a few singles here and there along with some collaborations. Now, Ferrori and Orteez team up once again with Ying, a project that seeks to update listeners on Ferrori’s life while also completing the aesthetic and presentation letter that began with Yang. Ying kicks things off with “Luz e de brillar”, a melodic trap track where Ferrori reflects on his struggle and tries to inspire listeners to keep fighting to achieve their goals and dreams. The album then presents “Amor Isleño”, a short yet banging love tune that explores the many acts one would do for love. Afterwards, “Eres tú” displays Ferrori and Orteez collaborating with familiar face/rapper/Los Rarxs member Erre in a love and sex-driven track that uses its atmospheric R&B production to create hazy setting full of the night’s most sensual images. Then, “Como la luna” finishes the first half of the project in another love tale that uses pictures, metaphors, and similes of the night to keep the goth aesthetic while telling its story. The second half of Ying starts strong with “Devuelvo la Lluvia”, an experimental collaboration with Jeysell and Gaby Chuleta that feels a bit like a surreal, trap driven A24 romantic horror film. Next “NELQP” or “Nada Es Lo Que Parece” brings Ferrori back into the world of mosh trap as Orteez provides a banging beat for him to flex or display reflections of life’s realities. Then “Estoy Afuego” does exactly what the title states as Ferrori raps about how great he is at his craft while also telling how he came to this conclusion through a lot of grinding and setting up certain priorities for himself. Finally, the album closes with “La Pista Está Embrujá”, a song that sees Ferrori and Orteez blending the danceable sounds of reggaetón and dembow with the dark and experimental reverberations of the goth aesthetic that started with Yang and continued to be explored in this project.
Overall, Ferrori and Orteez’s latest offering displays how, despite time passing, their chemistry between rapper and producer continues to be intact. Ying shows that sometimes giving room to breathe can improve on what was already a great collaboration. In addition, the album is a great closure for the proposal that started with Yang while also opening the door for new sounds and blends to be explored in future projects. The one question I would have, at least for now, would be: Are Ferrori and Orteez going to continue mixing mythology, goth and what feels like black metal influences into their ever-growing sound? I don’t know, but I can’t wait to see/listen to what they got for the future.
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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