Myke Towers
photo: tony dandrades · cc by 3.0 ↗Michael Anthony Torres Monge came up in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, posting rapid-fire Spanish rap to SoundCloud in the mid-2010s before pivoting toward reggaetón and Latin trap without shedding the lyrical density of his hip-hop roots. His 2020 album 'Easy Money Baby' spent a long run atop the Latin albums chart and established him as one of the genre's most bankable voices, a run he capped with the 2023 global smash 'Lala.' He has said he drew early inspiration from 1990s New York rap and the golden-age reggaetón of his childhood, threading both through a melodic, street-rooted sound.
Towers has said most of his favorite rappers are New Yorkers, singling out Biggie, and has pointed to the late rapper as the direct inspiration behind his track 'Cama King.' The debt shows in how he prizes an unhurried, conversational cadence and leans on narrative detail rather than a pure chant.
listen forPut on Biggie's 'Juicy' right before 'Cama King' and follow the relaxed, behind-the-beat storytelling — the way each line lands like plain speech; Towers rides the track with that same laid-back, rap-first patience.
Towers has named the kings of reggaetón — Daddy Yankee among them — as the sound that soundtracked his teens and pulled him toward music, and he called it a career milestone to finally record alongside Yankee on 'Ulala.' The debt sits in his command of the dembow-driven reggaetón template Yankee took worldwide.
listen forCue 'Gasolina' next to 'Ulala' and lock onto the insistent dembow pulse and the call-and-response chant; Towers builds his hook on the same chassis Yankee used to make reggaetón a stadium language.
Towers grew up on the golden-era reggaetón pioneers and has paid tribute to Tego Calderón and Don Omar in his music; Calderón's model — a rapper's dense, slang-heavy flow riding reggaetón rhythms — is the template for Towers' own hard, bars-first take on the genre.
listen forThrow on Calderón's 'Pa' Que Retozen' before Towers' 'MIB' and hear how both stack rapid, percussive Spanish rap over a stripped reggaetón beat — the rhythm lives in the syllables as much as in the drums.