Bizarrap
Gonzalo Julián Conde, born 1998 in Ramos Mejía on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, got his start editing highlight reels from Argentina's freestyle rap battles before teaching himself production and launching the numbered 'Bzrp Music Sessions' in 2019 — a one-artist-per-session format that turned him into the biggest producer in Latin music. From Nathy Peluso and L-Gante to Quevedo and Shakira, his sessions fuse Argentine trap, EDM, and reggaeton into tightly engineered records, earning him Latin Grammys and multiple Guinness World Records for streaming.
Bizarrap's career began inside the same freestyle-battle scene that made Duki a star — Bizarrap has said the tournament El Quinto Escalón 'changed his life,' and his first break as a producer came from remixing Duki's freestyles before the two eventually cut an official session together.
listen forPut on Duki's 'Goteo' and then Duki and Bizarrap's 'Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 50' back to back — the same clipped, aggressive Argentine-trap cadence Duki popularized is the raw material Bizarrap built his whole sessions format around.
Bizarrap has repeatedly named Skrillex as one of his three main production touchstones, and dubstep's habit of building a track around a huge, mechanical drop shows up in how many Bzrp sessions detonate into an electronic break in their back half.
listen forCue up Skrillex's 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' and then the second half of 'Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52' — both hinge on a rhythmic, bass-driven drop that turns a vocal track into a mini rave.
Bizarrap has said his ear was shaped early on by his parents' record collection, and has named Radiohead among the artists he grew up on before he ever touched a DAW — a taste for moody, texture-first arrangements that sits underneath his more maximalist trap and EDM instincts.
listen forPlay Radiohead's 'Creep' next to 'Nathy Peluso: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 36' — listen for how both let a spare, brooding verse coil before the arrangement cracks open.