San Antonio Current

Tego Calderón: 'The Original Gallo del Pais – O.G. El Mixtape'

After a five-year absence, Tego Calderón returns with a vibrant mixtape that cements his status as reggaetón’s answer to KRS-One. Thankfully, though, the album has no reggaetón in it — by embracing ...
Billboard

Tego Time

Reggaetón star Tego Calderón drops the bling and turns inward on his Atlantic debut, "El Subestimado/The Underdog." Will that translate to a long-awaited U.S. breakthrough? By Billboard Staff Tego ...
NPR

Tego Calderon: Reggaeton On Black Pride

Reggaeton is the biggest-selling genre of Latin music. Its blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin rhythms has been criticized as simplistic, violent and misogynistic. But the Puerto Rican artist and ...
Rolling Stone

Twenty Years Later, Tego Calderón’s ‘El Abayarde’ Still Embodies the Powerful, Raw Spirit of Reggaeton

With jazzy orchestra sounds, folkloric Afro-Boricua percussion, and political lyrics united over a ubiquitous dembow riddim, Tego Calderón’s album El Abayarde embodies the soul of reggaeton. Twenty ...
NPR

Guest DJ: Puerto Rican Rap Legend Tego Calderon

Much like English-language hip-hop, Spanish-language rap and its close cousin reggaeton are both good and bad. At their worst, they're misogynistic, materialistic and mediocre. At their best, rap and ...