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About Peso Pluma

Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija grew up in Zapopan, on the western edge of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, in a Lebanese-Mexican family with roots that he has spoken about openly in interviews — his paternal grandparents emigrated from Lebanon, and he holds dual heritage that he references obliquely in the catalogue. He picked up guitar in his early teens, listened to Ariel Camacho, Gerardo Ortiz, Calibre 50, and the wider sierreño-and-corrido lineage that runs through Sinaloa and Jalisco, and started writing his own corridos in high school. The early uploads in 2020 — recorded at home, distributed through SoundCloud and YouTube — caught the attention of producers working in the corridos tumbados scene that was already coalescing around artists like Natanael Cano, who had broken the form open by braiding traditional norteño instrumentation with trap drums, 808s, and the cadence and slang of urban Latin rap. Peso Pluma's contribution to the form was a voice that sat comfortably in either world: the breathy, sustained ranchera notes when the song called for it, the clipped trap delivery when the beat shifted. The 2022 single El Belicón with Raúl Vega broke him out on Mexican streaming charts; AMG with Natanael Cano and Gabito Ballesteros in early 2023 went massive across Latin America; Ella Baila Sola with Eslabon Armado, released in March 2023, became the genre's first true global hit. The song's success was structural — it ran simultaneously on TikTok, on US Latin radio, on Mexican regional radio, on Spotify's flagship playlists, and on the Billboard Hot 100 — and it pulled the entire corridos tumbados scene up with it. Génesis dropped in June 2023 with PRC, Lady Gaga, Bipolar, and Lagunas inside it, hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and took the Latin Grammy for Best Música Mexicana Album. The NPR Tiny Desk concert that October cemented the cultural moment: a full band with tuba, bajo quinto, requinto, and tololoche playing Lady Gaga, Por las Noches, and Rosa Pastel in arrangement that highlighted the form's traditional bones rather than the trap production layered on top in the studio versions. Éxodo arrived in June 2024 — a 24-track double-disc release split between Disco Éxodo (corridos tumbados, with collaborators including Gabito Ballesteros, Natanael Cano, and Tito Double P) and Disco Éxodo II (trap and reggaeton crossovers including Bellakeo with Anitta and La People II). He founded Doble P Records to sign and develop adjacent corridos tumbados artists, with Tito Double P and Joel de la P among the early signings.

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