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Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and raised in South Gate, California Reyes is best known for the song "Mentirosa" ("Liar" in Spanish). The song took a riff from Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways" as the music, repeated and tweaked to fit the lyrics, which were sung in Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish). "Mentirosa" was the first Spanglish hit record. According to Reyes himself, B-Real came up with the "Check this out baby" line in the track. Pinar del Río is a city in Cuba. ... Location of South Gate in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1923-01-20 [2]  - Mayor Gregory Martinez [1] Area    - City  7. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947), known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. ... Allegory of Music on the Opéra Garnier Music is an art form that involves organised sounds and silence. ... Lyrics are the words in songs. ... Spanglish — also called espanglish, inglañol, or espanglés, a blend of the Spanish-language words for Spanish and English — is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the United States, which is exposed to... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Spanglish — also called espanglish, inglañol, or espanglés, a blend of the Spanish-language words for Spanish and English — is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the United States, which is exposed to... Louis Freese (born June 2, 1970), known by stage name B-Real, is a Latin rapper of Mexican and Afro-Cuban heritage. ...

Reyes is the brother of Cypress Hill's Sen Dog, and frequently utilizes Cuban slang in his rhymes. Musically, Reyes did a couple of hip house tracks, but mainly hip hop tracks, produced by the likes of Julio G, the Dust Brothers, Def Jef, the Baker Boyz, Johnny Rivers, Tony G (producer) as well as Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs, and his self. Not all of his music mixes Latin and hip hop. His first album contains only one wholly bilingual track, "Mentirosa", but all in all, about half of the tracks include Spanish lyrics. On the second album, which was produced by Bronek Wroblewski, Julio G, DJ Muggs, Ralph Medrano, and Tony G, about half of the tracks were in Spanish or contained Spanish lyrics; one song was in English with a Cuban accent. However, on his third album, From Darkness to the Light, produced by the Collective Funkateerz, DJ Muggs, Cuban, and Tony G as well as himself, Reyes didn't actually mix Spanish and English but kept the languages separate, with only two tracks in Spanish and the rest in English. On Vengo a Cobrar (2004), Reyes returned to mixing the languages, with Bronek producing the whole album. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sen Dog (born Senen Reyes on November 20, 1965 in La Habana, Cuba), is an Afro-Cuban rapper member of the well known rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of rapper Mellow Man Ace. ... Julio G is an influential West Coast hip hop DJ who was born and then raised in Lynwood, CA, and is credited for being responsible for the rise of gangsta rap as part of the KDAY radio station on-air talent in Los Angeles, CA. Before KDAY he was a... The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles-based producers E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo (John King), famous for their creation of sample-based music in the 1980s, and specifically for their work on the groundbreaking albums Pauls Boutique by the Beastie Boys and Odelay by Beck. ... Def Jef (born Jeffrey Forster) is an American alternative hip hop artist and rapper of the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Johnny Rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... DJ Muggs (born January 28, 1968), also known as Muggs, is Cypress Hills DJ and producer. ...

Reyes is considered the "Godfather of Latin Rap." In 2002 he was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. "Mentirosa" was the first platinum single by a Latin rapper, and "Mas Pingón" was the first all-Spanish rap single.

Originally a member of Cypress Hill before going solo and releasing his album prior to the group's debut, Reyes teamed up with older brother Sen Dog of Cypress Hill to release a duo album under the group name "The Reyes Brothers." Although he has guest featured on Cypress Hill albums, this marks the first collaborative LP effort between the two brothers, with their album Ghetto Therapy released October 3, 2006 on Latin Thug Records. October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Discography

• 1989 Escape from Havana (Capitol)
• 1992 The Brother with Two Tongues (Capitol)
• 2000 From The Darkness Into The Light (X-Ray)
• 2004 Vengo a Cobrar (Dimelo)
• 2006 Ghetto Therapy (Latin Thug) (with Sen Dog, as The Reyes Brothers)

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See also

• List of Cubans

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Filmography

• Heroes of Latin Hip Hop (dir. Fred Sherman, 2002)

External links

• Official website
• Mellow Man Ace interview