NYC Song Of The Week: “El Tigeraso” – Maluca

…Wait, lemme stop dancing first. Just give me a minute…

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I could have put this song up for my international post or for hype song of the week, it’s just that good and I would describe it as hype music..but all roads lead back NYC. I have to give shoutouts to Buraka Som Sistema and Le Poisson Rouge for exposing me to this talent, my neighbor from uptown, @MALUCAMALA. I first heard her at a show at LPR, she opened for BSS and she was hot. A good live act.

182nd and Audubon, huh,  sounds more like 177th and Amsterdam, Highbridge Park in the Summer. Cookouts turn into dance parties, abuelo with the piragua cart and the coquito at the bottom. (That’s grandpa, snowcones and frozen coconut and rum drinks for all my unilingual readers out there.)

I can play this track over and over, it just resonates in my head and I just let it keep running. Then twenty minutes later I realize I’m playing a playlist with only one song in it. After one more listen, then I stop.

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Washington Heights.1

Nothing compares to being able to order Media Pollo, Arroz con Pollo, Cuchifrito, Mangu, and Platano Mas Duro at 3 o’clock in the morning-and they might even deliver, depending on how hood the place really is. Beef Patties and the “Big Azz” cheeseburgers from the bodegas don’t always cut it when you’re stumbling home after “Drunken Salsa Night” at Latin Quarter. The entire strip around the GWB Bus Terminal is open way late on the weekends. [pictured] I stumbled into that restaurant one night (the birds were already chirping) muttered something in horrible Spanglish and dropped a ten-spot on the counter. I can’t remember what I got, but it was the best thing ever.