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Puerto Rican rapper Residente released a new track called "La Cátedra" Sunday in which he says broke the world record for the highest number of words in a single song.
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"La Cátedra," which means "the lecture" in English, has 1,900 words packed into 12 minutes. Residente wrote on his Facebook page that it smashed the record previously held by British rapper Harry Shotta with his song "Animal" with 1,771 words on the track after he beat Eminem's record of 1,560 with "Rap God."
Residente, whose name is Rene Perez, dropped the new track Sunday night before arriving in Mexico Monday to begin his first tour as a solo artist on Saturday which will see him perform in Europe, the United States, Latin America and finally his home country, Puerto Rico, in December.
The song is the latest installment in a series of verbal and musical confrontations between Residente and another Puerto Rican rapper, the reggaeton singer Tempo.
"With the first one I hit you so hard that in your second attempt I made you talk about politics," Residente raps at the beginning of the song.
"A reggaetonero who does not know where the horizon is, and who thinks that there are rhinos on Everest," he continues, shooting insults at Tempo. "Who doesn't know what left or right is, and who thinks that in Latin America there are only Indians with arrows."
Some of the other lyrics show the political side of the Puerto Rican rapper, known for criticizing U.S. intervention in the region and standing up against austerity measures in Puerto Rico.
I am not communist, socialist or capitalist
I believe in inventing something new, better to say that I am idealistic
I believe in equality and infinite opportunities
I think health, food and education should be free
The rapper goes on to highlight repressive dictators, iconic revolutionary musicians and social movements in Latin America.
Without knowing it you support the dictatorships that disappeared people
Just for thinking differently
You can use as a reference our sister island
And the murderer Rafael Trujillo in Dominican Republic
You can use Pinochet and Videla as an example
Go to Buenos Aires and speak in Plaza de Mayo with the grandmothers
I believe in Serrat, Silvio Rodriguez, Violeta Parra
Ruben Blades, Leon Gieco, Victor Jara and his guitar
And as Ali Primera says from the open sky
Those who die for life can not be called dead
Residente's new track comes after Tempo had released a song taking aimed at Residente called "El Bruto," which means "the dumb one," after their ongoing constant rap battle began in May.
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In "El Bruto," Tempo criticizes Resident for performing in Cuba, for presumably supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and for taking a photo with the governor of the Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello.
The brawl also comes as Residente criticized the reggaeton top charts saying that for him the first five songs that are positioned in the different lists "are identical, with major chords." Puerto Rican DJ Nelson, one of reggaeton's pioneer musical producers, then responded to Residente saying he was generalizing.
Residente was part of a group called Calle 13, which translates to Street 13, whose other member was his stepbrother Eduardo Cabra Martinez, also known as Visitante.
Earlier this year, Tempo released a song taunting Residente called "Calle sin salida," meaning "dead-end street," to which Resident replied with a song called "Mis Disculpas," or "my apologies."
The new song produced by TROOKO and Residente, who has won 24 Grammy Awards, has 129 more words than Shotta's "Animal" and 340 more than Eminem's "Rap God."
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