“He’s got a great voice…I can’t compete with that,” says Damon Albarn, leader of Gorillaz, who’s premiering a song with Bad Bunny, listen it here!

In the middle of a rushed start to the year before Bad rabbitincluding an unfortunate experience with a fan, there are still people who can devote kind words to him to the 28-year-old reggaeton player.

“I am proud of myself and I thank you for that,” Bad Bunny reactivates his Instagram account and his followers remind him of the mobile phone incident

He Gorillaz leader and singer Damon Albarnjust praised one of Bad Bunny’s artistic skills that opponents on social networks criticize him most often: his voice. To many, the way Benito Martínez sings, his real name, sounds like a yawn, like babbling or as if his tongue was numb.

But for British Albarn, the Puerto Rican rapper has exceptional vocal qualitymodestly assuring that he cannot compete.

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“He has a fantastic voice. He’s got a great voice, seriously. I can’t compete with her.”Albarn told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe during a interview published by the streaming service.

The news about this collaboration is not new. Last year, the London group already announced that it had a song by the rapper. Is about Stormsubject that is part of the Gorillaz eighth studio album cracker island.

The melody is mostly in Spanish with some verses sung in English by Albarn, also the leader of the rock band Blur.

The song, Albarn said in an interview with WARP, was recorded in Jamaica and takes Gorillaz into the world of “bad rabbit,” reggaeton, a genre that had not been explored by the British in their catalogue.

Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner: “She likes it and she’s having fun. He’s different from the guys he dated,” said a source close to celebrities.

On Bad Bunny, the 54-year-old musician also told Apple Music that when he was working on the song, he just stepped away and let him make music. “I just went right off the trail and then went back to the end,” he shared.

“He knows what he’s doing, he can connect directly with your emotion. See this is the trick, don’t feel blocked. It has never been blocked at all,” he added.

Albarn isn’t alone in praising Bad Bunny’s performance on this particular track..

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The The American music critic also highlighted the Puerto Rican’s voice and in particular the page of pitchforkThat compared him to Sinatra. “He sounds utterly languid as he hits all the notes and rhythms, like a 21st-century Frank Sinatra seducing a nighttime mic,” the publication noted in a review.

This isn’t the first time the Gorillaz have collaborated with a Latino artist.

On his debut album Gorillaz (2001) the group had Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer for the song Latin Simone (What’s wrong with you?).

The popular Colombian-American recording artist Kali Uchis recorded two songs with Gorillaz, She’s my necklace And ticker tapeassociated with the disk Humanz (2017).