Lapiz Conciente

Lápiz Conciente (“Conscious Pencil”) is a Dominican rapper who have identifies himself while “Un Papa del Rap Dominicano” (“the pop of Dominican rap”). Created Avelino Junior Figueroa Rodriguez in 1983 in the Los Mina community of Santo Domingo, Conciente was thinking about music from an early on age group. He was avoided from pursuing very much in the form of hip-hop, though, since it was marginalized in the Dominican Republic at that time, but he pursued it within an underground style, posting homemade video clips of rap confrontations with rivals. He started a full-time music profession when he was 14, 1st as an associate of the metropolitan merengue organizations Los Warriors and later on El Proyecto, before making a decision to visit it alone. Because of his involvement in the second option, he found the attention from the hip-hop collective referred to as the Charles Family members, with rappers JO-A, Enigma, and 3ni-Blaze, who essentially used him as an ally and collaborator. He was presented on the favorite singles “Calle Sera Calle” and “La Guayaba y La Redada.” Because of personal and professional variations with JO-A, Conciente remaining the Charles Family members and joined Poisonous Crow as you of its rappers. During his tenure using the group, they documented the full-length Sin Rivales in 2006 and obtained a hit solitary with “Capea un Dough” that also presented 3ni-Blaze. After disputes over path with various other rappers in the group, he still left and went single. He started a open public rivalry with JO-A and Dangerous Crow in the video “La Llamada”; they both responded with movies of their very own, underscoring the competitive character of Dominican hip-hop; the city enjoyed it, with particular factions betting on the favorites. In 2008, Lápiz Conciente got his very own radio plan along with rapper Melymel “Jam”, and signed with the brand new Sound Information and released his self-titled debut EP in ’09 2009, accompanied by an record, Rafaga del Plomo. This year 2010, he caused the favorite reggaeton vocalist Don Omar on the TV particular and record, Don Omar Presents: Meet up with the Orphans. The record, released with the Orphanto GROUP was wildly effective through the entire Caribbean. The rapper also still left his recording agreement and started his very own label release a his albums aswell as those of various other artists he backed and respected. In 2012, Lápiz Conciente and Toxic Crow known as a truce and jointly re-released Sin Rivales being a declaration stimulating the unity from the Dominican hip-hop community. By himself the rapper released the pre-release strike one “Mi Amor.” Lapiz Mundial made an appearance late in the entire year, implemented suddenly by Un Military in January of 2013. “Amor por Accidente” (offering Metrolo), Un Army’s lead one, hit the very best areas on digital graphs and its own video garnered over four-million take on YouTube. These albums had been accompanied by two La Historia compilations in Apr to maintain with enthusiast demand. In January of 2014, Lápiz Conciente released his 5th record, Letras, accompanied by Nueva Period (El Military) and Romantico. His eighth work, 2016’s Latidos, highlighted guest performances by Vico C, J Alvarez, Natti Natasha, and Belinda. The record peaked at amount seven over the Billboard Latin graph.