The 11-year-old boy died with just one shot / for refusing to be robbed by a thug that everyone knows / Since then all complaints have been ignored / Nobody has seen anything, nobody knows anything / Nobody here does anything / And under the pillow ‘e Julio He takes the bill and recharges it / And swears that tonight the debt will be collected.
The stark rhymes of prison song They not only explain why the Venezuelan rapper Tirone Jose Gonzalez Orama, better known as Canserbero, is a myth for millions of followers and for the urban culture of America. They also talk about the impunity that reigns in the most violent territory on the planet, the same one that for almost nine years kept his death amidst darkness and conspiracy theories. Venezuela and its young people never forgot either his work or his mysterious death despite Chavismo’s efforts to turn the page.
«His songs tell complex and dark stories, they are thoughtful reflections on life, death, injustice and the streets», summarized the magazine Rolling Stone to choose him the best rapper on the continent a few weeks ago. Stories as complex and dark as what happened in January 2015 in Maracay, two hours from Caracas, when, according to the official version, Canserbero stabbed and killed his best friendCarlos Molnar, bassist of the reggae band Zion TPL, and then jumped from a tenth floor in a fit of schizophrenia.
In a surprising announcement, revolutionary prosecutor Tarek William Saab reopened the Canserbero case, which has already led to the exhumation of the body. The decision, applauded by Nicolás Maduro who has included songs by the rapper in his playlist they Spotify (Madurofy), does not follow any discovery or confession. It only responds to the interest of the Venezuelan Government, which has just failed in two lawsuits before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations and is facing the political hurricane led by the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, who leads Maduro 80% to 15 % in surveys.
Meeting with the family, the prosecutor claims to have made progress in the investigation, despite the fact that what was conveyed by parents and sisters is the same thing that they have been denouncing for eight years: that Tirone did not suffer from any mental illness and that he had decided to break his working relationship with his manager, Natalia Amesquita, Molnar’s wife. Since then very little is known about Amesquita.