J Balvin is criticized by Residente and other artists for ‘Perra’

Bogotá (EFE) .- The Colombian J Balvin offered an apology after the criticism for machismo and racism raised by the video clip of Bitch, in which two black dancers appear as if they were pets and which has already been removed from official channels.

“First I want to offer my apologies to all the people who were offended, especially women and the black community,” the singer said in a video on his Instagram account.

The video of Bitch, in which he collaborates with the Dominican Tokischa, provoked even a scolding from his mother, Alba Mery, who assured that this song was not by the “Josecito” she knew. “I did not see José anywhere,” said the woman in the program The night caught us from Worldview, In the past week.

Also even the vice president of Colombia, Marta Lucía Ramírez, assured, in a statement, that, beyond the video that denigrates women, “the lyrics of the song have direct and open sexist, racist, macho and misogynistic expressions. that violate the rights of women, comparing them to an animal that must be dominated and mistreated, with expressions that are not worth repeating ”.

“That is not part of what I have always expressed, mine has always been tolerance, love and integration,” said Balvin in this regard, who recalled that last week he withdrew the video clip.

And to his mother he expressed: “Mother, excuse me, my idea is to continue being better every day.”

It is the second controversy raised by “El Niño de Medellín”, in recent weeks, after he called not to attend the Grammys since, as he said, “they do not value us (urban musicians), but they need us.”

The Puerto Rican René Pérez, known as Residente, criticized his words saying that they were a contempt for the new talents who were nominated for the first time and compared his music to “a cart of hot dogs”, while there are other musicians from “Michelin star restaurants”.

“Your music is like a cart hot dog, that many people may like it or almost everyone. But when those people want to eat well, they go to a restaurant and that restaurant is the one that earns Michelin stars, ”said Residente.

It also provoked criticism from other artists such as the Cuban Yotuel, a former member of Orishas.