Los Rakas

Boldly blending languages, cultures, and genres, the Panamanian-American duo Los Rakas fuse hip-hop, reggaeton, and R&B while rapping in both Spanish and English. Los Rakas had been founded in 2006 by Raka Dun (aka Abdull Rubén Domínguez), who was simply blessed in Panama and found Oakland, California as an adolescent, and his cousin Raka Wealthy (aka Ricardo Betancourt), a indigenous Californian whose parents emigrated from Panama. While “Rakataka” can be an insult in Panama fond of road people or citizens from the ghetto, both artists embraced the word within their traditions, and started producing music jointly after conference at a family group get-together. Contacting their design “Pana-Bay” (citing their encounters in Panama as well as the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region), both soon began showing up at night clubs and youth occasions in North California, aswell as documenting and self-distributing mixtapes, including 2006’s Panabay Twist and 2009’s Panabay Twist 2: La Tanda del Bus. Los Rakas appreciated a local strike with their melody “Jump,” so that as their popularity pass on, Snoop Dogg asked them to seem at his 2010 Smoke cigarettes Out Celebration, where they distributed the costs with Cypress Hill, Erykah Badu, and Manu Chao. In 2011 they fell their initial EP, Chancletas con Camisetas Bordada, and the next year they shipped a special ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION gift because of their supporters, the Raka Like EP. With time, Raka Dun and Raka Wealthy discovered themselves collaborating with performers ranging from Main Lazer (over the 2013 one “Desorden”) to Blondie (showing up on the 2014 album, Spirits of Download). Los Rakas arrived a record cope with General, and in 2016 the label released the act’s self-titled major-label debut. They shipped another group of romantic music, Raka Like 2, in 2017.