Eyedeal Bayano delivers a track that demands attention. “Pimentón” hits with precision and intent, inviting you to listen closely and catch every detail.
The music business is a grind and being visible is a full-time job. It is doubled to the independent artists such as Eyedeal Bayano. However, unravel the reggaeton beats and the party pitch, and you end up with a heavier reality. This is not merely a matter of getting people moving in the club, but it is a responsibility of expression. To Black and Brown diasporic individuals such as Bayano, such an act of creating and possessing the narrative is a political statement against the practice of Black and Brown erasure in mainstream trends.
Here is the point where the Streetwise and Thoughtful tone of Alexander Davis is concentrated. In an era when media is more inclined to reduce the rich, multi-layered Afro-Latino experience into a commercizable soundbyte, Bayano comes in with the delicate sense of a sensitive artist who understands that his experience is a luxury that he has gained by the sweat of his grandfathers. Pimenton is constructed on the fact of the DMV grind, the immigrant grind and the conflict of identity in an attempt to respect the new world as well as the old. It is a song that demands space, a lyrical statement of personal value that is being sung to a beat that is meant to move forward incessantly.
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