Moments in Timelessness

ISLAND BOYZ Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2025 Myke Towers By now, Myke Towers’ fans know that his artistry defies easy categorization. Even still, on 2024’s  LA PANTERA NEGRA  and its successor  LYKE MIIKE , the Puerto Rican star summarily illustrated the two most prevalent sides of his catalog. The global pop of the former and the rugged hip-hop of the latter spotlit just how far he’d come from his Latin trap roots. For others lucky enough to be in his enviable position, that might be enough of a musical foundation to spend the rest of a career honing and tweaking. And yet the frequent departures that make up  ISLAND BOYZ  show Towers valuing fulfillment over mere contentment, providing another series of lenses through which to view him. That first word of his latest album’s title offers the most glaring hint as to its contents, a tropical assortment of inherently summery songs that significantly diversify his established hitmaking sensibilities. The distinctive dancehall r...

LYKE MIIKE Album ∙ Urbano latino ∙ 2024 Myke Towers As multifaceted a star as Myke Towers grew to become, his day-ones remember him as a hard-hitting trapero. To be clear, that streetwise edge never quite left his music as he pivoted to reggaetón and, eventually, global pop, all evident on his 2024 album  LA PANTERA NEGRA . Yet this aspect of his artistry—the rugged rapper who helped to define a pivotal wave in Latin music—remains so integral to his approach that he’s essentially begun an entire series devoted to this veritable beast mode. A direct successor to 2021’s  LYKE MIKE , the similarly rap-centric  LYKE MIIKE  (note the extra vowel) leaves no doubt of the Puerto Rican star’s enduring hip-hop bona fides. Towers’ choice of guests speaks strongly to his roots, tapping generational peers like Dowba Montana and Miky Woodz to spit proudly alongside him. Eladio Carrión helps open the proceedings on “QUÉ QUIERES DE MI?”, a joint show of force from two artists with p...

LA PANTERA NEGRA Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2024 Myke Towers

CASSETTE 01 - EP ALBUM ∙ LATIN ∙ 2024 Ovy On the Drums & Myke Towers Medellín’s hitmaker meets the Puerto Rican rapper for reggaetón greatness.