O ne of the first people Young Miko ever showed her music to was her best friend, Mariana López Crespo. The two of them had been at a small bar in Puerto Rico years ago when Young Miko — who was a tattoo artist back then — shared how badly she wanted to be an artist.

“She was like, ‘Do you have anything on you?’” Young Miko recalls, remembering how she handed her friend a pair of headphones and played her earliest songs. “She was like ‘This is dope! You should take this seriously.’” Right then and there, they decided that López Crespo would be her manager. As they left the bar, they drove past El Choli, the famed arena in Puerto Rico that everyone from Marc Anthony to Bad Bunny has played. “We were both looking at it and I remember just being like, ‘Could you imagine if we do that o

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