“Daddy Yankee wrote”
By Tilsa Otta
Translated By Farid Matuk
Daddy Yankee wrote:
“The boy knows this is what it does
Time separates boys from men.
The boy knows this is what it does
Time cleaves the colors real calm.”
When Jenny would say, “papi, give it to me harder” it was for real,
so difficult to understand for conservatives
and fundamentalists
who furiously debated whether such a love
could be as consensual and romantic as the coldest and most repressed.
“I’m not so different from you
and these days I’m the singer you want me to be,”
countered Don Omar the bandolero,
because Arcángel la maravilla had already said it: there is no minor culture.
Translated from the Spanish