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Pimentel was one of the standout characters from the 4th season *spoiler* when she started to get involved with overthrowing Piper Chapman and her underground underwear business.
But when she isn’t trying to take over Litchfield, Pimentel is casually rocking out with her heavy metal band Alekhine’s Gun.
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“Alekhine’s Gun is my favorite band I’ve ever been in. We started in 2009, and it’s very personal. This is the first time I got to create my own thing in a band,” Pimentel told Thrillist. “I came up with the name because I’m a dork and I love chess, and I also felt that this music could convey a special message to an audience, and the best way to connect with an audience sometimes is to get down there and look in their eyes.”
Now, it isn’t like she just fell into being the frontwoman for Alekhine’s Gun overnight.
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According to Thrillist, Pimentel first discovered metal when she was about 12 years old. At first, she admits that the kind of music scared her but her mom never really controlled what she listened to so she kept exploring until she understood it. The deeper she has gotten into the world of metal music, the more she has put into her performances, like her corpse paint makeup. She doesn’t even mind that Rihanna stole her corpse paint look.
Pimentel first started her musical career when she was a little girl playing the violin, which she still plays (not the same violin, obvi).
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“I get out of jail to go play a little Rock n Roll and end up running right into #FIG @alysiareiner showed up last night to hang out and support @fullfrontalsamb and had no idea I played guitar for @peachesnisker ! SURPRISE!!!!” Pimentel wrote on an Instagram post.
Her mom even did what most Latina moms do and recorded her daughter shredding her guitar on tv.
Stay grateful you did not grow up in the era of Snapchat/ Instagram/ Facebook kids because you can delete but your recorded actions can still come back to bite. Cardi B knows the story. While the Afro-Latina queen of Trap isn’ making any apologies, the latest video to be dug up from her past is requiring her to give some answers.
Video of the singer, recalling a time in her life in which she felt forced to drug and rob men while seducing them has resurfaced.
Over the weekend, video of the “Money” rapper recalling how she used to drug and rob men resurfaced.
The video, which was recorded during an Instagram live broadcast, sees Cardi as she goes on a tearful verbal tirade about her past. This after, someone apparently questioned her success and accused her of not “putting in no fucking work.”
“I had to go ‘oh yeah, you wanna fuck me? Yeah yeah yeah let’s go to this hotel.’ And then I’d drug [expletivie] up and I’d rob them. That’s what I used to do.”
Users online were quick to comment.
âThe fact that cardi b admitted to drugging and robbing men she would take back to a hotel for sex blows my mind,â wrote Twitter user @itsangelaa. âThatâs not âkeeping it real.â thatâs a crime.â
The following day she also tweeted âIM THAT BITCH THEY LOVE TO HATE, IM THAT BITCH THEY HATE TO LOVE and I love it.â
On Tuesday, however, after users on Instagram and Twitter continued to simmer, she was forced to issue comment.
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In a post to her Instagram, the rapper responded to the comments about the video by saying: “I’m a part of a hip hop culture where you can talk about where you come from talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are.”
Debuting in 2005, the fellas of Super Junior are the kings of Hallyu — the Korean wave. At their height, 15 men donned the Super Junior title, but, due to departures, mandatory military service and other issues, only Siwon, Donghae, Eunhyuk, Shindong, Yesung, Heechul and Leeteuk are currently active. As a group, the men have led a revolution in the industry, spurring forward electro-pop and R&B-influenced dance tracks.
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And among K-pop, they also have one of the strongest fan bases in Latin America. The group has long captivated these audiences with hits like âSorry Sorry,â âMr. Simpleâ and âMamacita,â and Super Junior has made sure to visit their Latin American E.L.F — what they call their fans — on three separate tours since 2013, holding arena shows in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru. It must be noted that the group has yet to hold a single solo show in the U.S.
For many years, Super Junior and SM Entertainment, their label, had seen the excitement from their supporters in Latin America and wanted to show their gratitude by releasing a song partly sung in Spanish. In March, the group dropped âLo Siento,â a tune about finding romance on the dance floor, featuring Dominican-American singer Leslie Grace and the Latino production duo Play-N-Skillz as part of the extended version of their eighth album, Replay.
âThe song with Super Junior and Play-N-Skillz came out of nowhere. None of us really knew each other,â Leslie Grace, who was recommended to the K-pop group by the Argentine-Venezuelan sibling duo Play-N-Skillz, told FIERCE. âThe beauty of it was [having the opportunity of] discovering something thatâs been happening hugely in its own right in a different side of the world, and discovering it for the first time and saying, âMan, I wanna be a part of that. I donât know anything about it up until this point, but I really want to be a part of that.ââ
While itâs commonplace for K-pop groups to release records in Japanese or Mandarin in order to cater to Asian music markets, or English one-offs for international fans, no act had ventured into singing in Spanish or acknowledged their Latin American fans with a song quite like Super Junior.
âLo Sientoâ is a true K-pop and urban Latin-pop mashup. It plays up the typical Spanish guitar and blends a familiar Latin flair with the energy and the mix of pop, dance and hip-hop that K-pop is known for. The music video, shot in South Korea, even features the âDĂganleâ singer dancing along with the guys of Super Junior.
The trilingual track debuted at No. 13 on Billboardâs Latin digital sales chart, the first K-pop entry ever. A bit over two weeks after the music video dropped, âLo Sientoâ surpassed 20 million views, which was three times more than what their last Korean single, âBlack Suit,â accumulated.
While âLo Sientoâ isnât the first time K-pop artists have teamed up with Latin ones nor used Latin genres in their music, it is the first instance that we can actually call a real collaboration. In 2016, for instance, Ricky Martin released a version of his hit âVente Paâ Caâ featuring Wendy from K-pop girl group Red Velvet, though she sang in English, and Mexican boy band CD9 released âGet Dumbâ with Korean girl group Crayon Pop. In both cases, the artists simply exchanged vocals, put them together and released the song with little fanfare. With âLo Siento,â however, not only did Leslie fly to Korea to be in the music video, but Super Junior invited her and Play-N-Skillz on their Latin American tour last month.
Stopping in Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago and Mexico City, Leslie, Play-N-Skillz and Super Junior played before a total of 55,000 fans. The stars blew up the stage with âLo Siento,â but both Play-N-Skillz and Leslie also had the chance to perform their own sets during the show.
âIt never stops being a surprise, with my most recent released single âDuro y Suave,â for [the crowd] to sing it back to me,â the 23-year-old singer, who came to fame after the release of her bachata remake of The Ronettesâ âBe My Babyâ in 2013, told us. âI know itâs Super Juniorâs crowd. I know that their fans are so accepting and loving, and I knew that they would be attentive during the show, but you donât expect everyone to connect, especially a crowd thatâs so different, to your music when youâre the special guest.â
Leslie is currently finishing her new album, which she says will drop by the end of the year. Sheâs also very excited about potentially finishing another leg of the tour with Super Junior. âTheyâre trying to see if we can do some more shows in Latin America, in Central America, go to the countries we didnât get to go to in South America, like Colombia [and] Brazil,â she said.
Just like with âDespacitoâ and âMi Gente,â âLo Sientoâ is bringing together different cultures, languages and even fandoms from various parts of the world that donât get to interact as much through music in a compact, smooth earworm.
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âFor us to come together just fully based off of mutual artistic respect, and for something like this to happen, and now everybody really enjoying it despite the cultural differences, that to me was the biggest takeaway and the biggest blessing to now be a part of Super Juniorâs story and them a huge part of mine,â Leslie said. Â
During an interview in Times Square, the dominicana gave the boys a quick dance lesson — and it was all caught on camera.
âBridging cultures one dance step at a time! First Super Junior with me and âGroup Danceâ in their land South Korea, and now me with them and âBachataâ in my home NYC,â Grace, 23, captioned a video of the dance sesh she posted on Instagram. âProud to be your instructor, @eunhyukee44 hahaha! You are officially baptized the best bachatero out of Korea by the princess of bachata — BOOM!â
