Rulay It is an urban term, originating from the Dominican Republicmeaning ‘to have a good time’, ‘to feel good’ or ‘to feel relaxed or hang out’“, is explained in a post on the YouTube channel Dimeloo TVdedicated to all incidents or news of this genre.

Certainly several songs from that musical spectrum use this word.

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The artists Farruko, DJ Adoni and El Experimento They sing that “they already rule” in the song Mi Romo remix (2022), whose release took place just a month earlier Farruko converted to Christianity. The Dominican Amenazzy and the Spanish Moroccan Benny Jr. so one of their titles songs in 2022the same year the Colombian name coincided Maluma for one of his songs from the album The love and sex tape: “Honey, tell your girl that if she sees you with me, andamo’ rulay….”

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What does it mean Rulay in Ecuador

In Ecuador another version of Rulay became popular on platforms with TikTok and Instagram the last weekend. This is a composition attributed to the artists LALA 06, PEDRITO HP and Paolo ONTHEBEAT (producer). Although the theme, which has the rhythm of give me the light by Sean Paulwas released in October 2022 (as described in the information in the video on YouTube), nowadays it has become relevant.

Some of the attention that the song has regained today is due to the fact that it was performed by terrorism suspects held by the military during the current war. Exception statuswhere it was found that the military and police intervene in the control of prisons at national level. Those arrested are said to have been forced to sing the melody, according to several clips circulating on social platforms (see at your own discretion).

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Despite the message that Dominican and Puerto Rican artists have given to the term ruleThe most striking thing about the Ecuadorian melody is that it is said to have been associated with the criminal gang of The Tiguerons. Part of the choir even sings “andamo rulay, andamo rulay, 100 percent with the tiguero.” These verses also mention the use of Glock semi-automatic pistols, as the performers make the sign of the weapon with their hands..

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Opinions about Rulay

As a musician, clinical psychologist José Luis Freire believes that artists will always speak from their reality. “They have no moral obligation to society to create educational or civic songs, as they are essentially a human being expressing their emotions and thoughts, regardless of whether they are approved by the rest of society or not.”

For Freire, the possible influence of this type of music must be assessed from cultural relativism, a term that in sociology refers to the idea that to understand a culture (or counterculture in this case) it is necessary to see it objectively . That means you have to put yourself in the shoes of the artists. “This song is about what these two men experience in their reality. It allows us to see how serious the situation is and to what extent crime, violence and drug trafficking have taken root in our society… The situation we experience today is only the fever of an intrinsically corrupt society.”

The singer and composer takes advantage of this situation to remember that, in his opinion, “music does not shape culture, culture shapes music. This video clearly aims to glorify the life of belonging to a GDO (organized criminal group), like in this case Los Tiguerones… A lot of hip hop and reggaeton is about the use of guns, gangs and violence. , because that is the environment that composes that song. This does not mean that every young person who hears these lyrics will magically become a gang member. “This education corresponds to the family sharing responsibility for the state, which has seriously failed in the areas of health and education.” holds.

Sociologist Jenniffer Díaz, on the other hand, believes that there is an influence of these melodies ‘on a large scale’.

In his opinion, Díaz notes that the composers of this type of music “try to subjectively determine the ease of access to weapons and the control they can have in owning that object, within the normalization of violence social images of power are created.” emphasizing that it is apparently the goal of the band, to which the song belongs, to create recognition and fear and to attract young people.

“It is aimed at a specific audience, our children, young people and adolescents. Being in a phase of continuous training and development, some do not yet have the ability to discern the messages being sent in what they hear or see. This normalizes or, in certain cases, romanticizes violence and organized crime, creating behavior that threatens the good life in society.”

For this reason, Díaz believes that the issue should raise concerns among citizens that these melodies are circulating from different platforms. “It indirectly affects the reproduction of specific practices of violence. The central theme of their songs somehow deals with issues of illegality to identify the values ​​with which they should act in society.” (JO)