Who is Bizarrap, the Argentine artist who will do the BZRP Music Session #53 with Shakira

A 23-year-old producer from Buenos Aires’s outskirts has been making waves online for the last couple of years, posing a threat to the status quo of Latin music with each of his hit singles and music videos.

Gonzalo Julián Conde, better known by his stage name “Bizarrap,” has become one of the most-streamed Latin American musicians in the world because of the success of his BZRAP sessions, which include an electrifying blend of hip-hop, trap, and electronic dance music. Some of the most interesting MCs in Latin rap, such as Argentina’s L-Gante and Paulo Londra, Spain’s Ptazeta, San Jose, California’s Snow Tha Product, and Puerto Rico’s Residente (who made headlines this spring with his ruthless bars aimed at J Balvin in his Bizarrap freestyle), appear in a new session every month.

His most recent work is Shakira’s now-global-hit diss song about her ex-husband Gerard Pique, who cheated on her with a woman 22 years her junior

Seeing only a few sessions will teach you all you need to know about how magic is done. So far, there have been 53 videos with various rappers featured, each corresponding to a certain number. Biza creates the instrumental, while the guest MCs record their verses and rap verses at the producer’s three-camera home studio. The room is tiny and has been designed to be as unremarkable as possible: white walls, blue-green lighting, low ceilings, and a Sony monitor on the wall.

When the singers are in the limelight, Biza stays in the background and jiggles his chair or raises his arms. The final footage frequently has an unforgettable mystique, like being a fly on the wall witnessing a meeting of bright minds. Keeping up with the whole series can be addictive in its own way, and fan response videos on YouTube have established a subgenre in their own right.