La Mera Mera: New Music From Peru, Colombia, Ecuador And More

By Jasmine Garsd, NPR/alt.latino

Anyone who listens to Alt.Latino regularly knows that in addition to being music geeks, history buffs and dance doofuses, we’re big language nerds. We open this week’s show with a discussion about the widely used word cabron (seriously, how did calling someone a ‘big goat’ get so popular?). We also talk about the expression la mera mera, which is on the opening track to this week’s show, an awesome mixtape by a DJ known as Ese Cabron. Since we were struggling to translate, we outsourced the question to our listeners: Cristobal Moris from New York says it means “the one and only.” Mariana Ramirez Carrillo told us it means “the OG wise one.” And Christian Villa defines it as “the real deal, the real McCoy.”

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