Benny Blanco remembers hearing Netón Vega’s corridos a few years ago and “really, really, really fucking with his style.” The longtime producer dove into the música mexicana singer’s catalog and was drawn to the Vega vocal delivery on both the corridos he started with and the urbano tracks that made him go viral.

“He wasn’t really known that much when I started looking into his stuff,” Blanco tells Rolling Stone . “I reached out to him and he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s work.’ And literally from the time we were trying to figure out dates, he got so big.”

In just two years, Vega has become one of the most exciting new faces in música mexicana — not only for his versatility, but also for his urbano collaborations, like the ultra-viral Alemán track “Te Quería Ver” that soundtracked MexicanTo

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