Writing and recording music during a global pandemic is a challenging proposition even for those artists who are lucky enough to have a streamlined home studio and a robust means of distribution.
Puerto Rican rapper MalaCara has had more obstacles to hurdle. When lockdown started in the spring, he received a pack of beats from the producer Ibn Itaka, and quickly started writing over them.
The five songs he put down on paper over the next week, from the incendiary "TikTok" to the more introspective "Lola," dealt head-on with life in lockdown, and getting them out quickly made sense, but he didn't have the equipment on hand to put them down professionally.
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