Daniel Martínez (Málaga, 1993) comes from a few months in a swimsuit and flip flops in The stickthe Malaga neighborhood that saw him born. With nothing to worry about spending time with your family, eating pipes in a bank with your lifelong colleagues, returning to your childhood beach. “I have a syndrome of the imposter right now that you screw up, uncle,” he acknowledges as greeting when he gets to this encounter. At that time just a few days left for this kid, like an innocent Clark Kent, the star cost of the urban genre, his superman, from his superman, Delaossa.
And, even if it is not the first time, it is different. The tour that the Malaga has just started this weekend in Barcelona under the name The Madrugá Tour And with 12 other stops ahead until May is the staging of his homonym album and also the cry of a kid who has spent two years of the rehabilitation process to leave alcohol and drugs, which had to be purged psychologically to be again and to continue in the business he had pursued since childhood. The 17 songs and the 57 minutes that make up the early morning, published last May, are neither more nor less than an accelerated mixture of all that. «People are known in two situations: when a couple leaves them and when you give them power. I have learned now that the power corrupts. It is very easy to lose the conductive thread with your true self, uncle, when several songs of yours have a fat status. I was someone lost, who lived in a constant wheel of external approval, who needed dopamine … », says the rapper, sitting on the stairs to the Santa Isabel monastery in Madrid.
While some children, for their mother’s blush, jump over the mobile that serves as a recorder, a group of Asian tourists observes the building and a beer delivery man their barrels by the narrow alley, Delassa describes how were the months that led him to put on the table a job that thought it was not going to be. And also why exhaustion has led him to spend summer in his neighborhood, how he has changed his life after that process, what he is preparing for the future … although before comes a warning: «I tell you one thing, I have always hated interviews or the load of media without why. The exhibition exhausts me a lot and now I understand how, through alcohol, I dealt with that. Let’s say it helped me to support stress levels that in other situations could not stand». Signed.
Now this story can already start in front of the Mediterranean Sea, on the beaches and the streets of El Palo. There, locked in the closet of his house, his first music was born, materialized in the rap of An Andalusian dog. And there he has returned. «I have felt Dani again in the pure sense. I have lived again as always, as when I was young, I have reconnected with simplicity and with being able to settle for day to day, ”he says. And he continues: «My ambition has gone down a lot, I am not so interested in the show offclothes … I know that I now have unthinkable numbers for me on the Internet, but all that is false. Until I do not see people singing my songs, the album has not been consummated».
As part of that return to simplicity, the Malaga explains a recent situation that he remembered to enter “the danger” that neighborhoods such as El Palo, of working tradition and fishing, end up devoured by gentrification. «I was going to buy a two -story house with a pool, I had already given the signal and when I went to see it for the second time I wondered what I wanted for all that. So I’m going to buy my grandmother Trini’s floor, who died at the beginning of the year. I don’t need more, what do I paint in a giant house alone. That is not my social stratum. It made me feel out of my identity ».
It is to that kid who is now playing on stage to show all his audience what he has lived in the process that has led to an album that sounds like pure rap, Afropop, Latin pop and that had been promised by the artist himself until the exhaustion. «I remember in February 2024 sitting in the toilet of my house saying that I would not be able to get this album and, so, when I saw it it was one of the days in what I have been most proud in my life», Recalls Deaossa, who now has changed the strategy for a future project that, he acknowledges, is already preparing. «I am testing, I am not in a hurry and I am doing something that I think characterizes me: fun, try and not be afraid of the one they will say. I know that if I make rap again that people claim, I break it quickly and there I leave you a track ».
That track is a somewhat nostalgic look towards the Delaossa that was integrated into the Space Hammurabi collective, which sang to the problems in which its neighbors of the neighborhood sink, which banalized with the infinite nights of party, drugs and alcohol and that is given to political rap. «I would not turn back to time because I always longed for everything I have achieved, but I want to get together with my friends and have banal conversations sitting in a bank taking a soda. The essence of that time was very aligned with what I felt and I do not regret it. If at that moment I boasted to live as I lived it is because I felt like that. Now I’m sorry otherwise, but that’s the artist’s learning. I relieve myself by making music, I am visceral and I am not deprived of saying what things ».
– What would you like to tell us now?
– That I am very excited to remember this year, before the interview I was doing it. It was a beautiful year, uncle, but very very hard because I have had to do many experiments with myself, expose myself to situations that I didn’t support before … but I see that I am much better in this version. I have learned to deal with loneliness, to be creative there, not always be subject to a constant stimulus need.