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FloyyMenor
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sourcesRemezcla · Wikipedia · Billboard Pro
FloyyMenor (born Alan Felipe Galleguillos in La Serena, Chile) turned bedroom uploads of trap and reggaeton into one of Latin music's biggest crossover stories, breaking through as a teenager with 2023's 'Gata Only.' His sound splices the syrupy melancholy of Latin trap with a genre-agnostic ear that reaches past reggaeton entirely — he's cited Coldplay and Katy Perry in the same breath as Anuel AA — and that hybrid turned a modest homegrown hit into a multi-billion-stream global phenomenon and the first Chilean No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart since 1999. He's continued building that sound across the El Comienzo and YTSQS EPs, frequently pairing with fellow Chilean breakout Cris MJ and producer Lewis Somes.
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2023
Gata OnlyFloyyMenor
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Anuel AA2010s · Latin trap / Reggaeton / Latin hip hop
Billboard's profile of FloyyMenor names Anuel AA as one of his direct influences, and it surfaces in the plaintive, half-sung cadence FloyyMenor leans on over dembow-adjacent beats — trap's Auto-Tuned melancholy grafted onto reggaeton's rhythm section, the exact hybrid Anuel AA popularized in the mid-2010s.
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2018
Real Hasta la MuerteAnuel AA
2023
Gata OnlyFloyyMenor
listen forListen for the way FloyyMenor lets his voice crack and trail behind the beat on 'Gata Only' — the same weary, melodic delivery Anuel AA rode through 'Real Hasta la Muerte.'
Travis Scott2010s · Hip hop / Trap / Psychedelic hip hop
FloyyMenor has named Travis Scott as a touchstone despite working in Latin urban music rather than U.S. hip-hop, and he later got a public co-sign from Scott himself. The pull shows up as atmosphere rather than rapping style: warped, reverb-heavy ad-libs and a hazy, mood-first production sensibility layered over the reggaeton pulse.
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2016
goosebumpsTravis Scott
2024
PeligrosaFloyyMenor
listen forListen for the woozy, echo-drenched vocal textures on 'Peligrosa' — a mood indebted more to Travis Scott's psychedelic maximalism than to classic perreo production.
Bryant Myers2010s · Latin trap / Reggaeton / Trap
The same Billboard interview lists Bryant Myers alongside Anuel AA and Travis Scott as a stated influence, and it tracks with FloyyMenor's collaboration-heavy, feature-stacked release strategy — leaning on a rotating cast of producers and guest artists the way Myers built his catalog on tag-team collabs during Latin trap's founding wave.
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2018
TristeBryant Myers
2024
Apaga el CelFloyyMenor
listen forListen for the plainspoken, conversational verses on 'Apaga el Cel' — the same unfussy, hook-forward Latin trap songwriting Bryant Myers specialized in.