J Balvin, Jowell & Randy, and De La Ghetto Play a Boss Lady’s Mafiosos in ‘Triple S’
The boys are living their Godfather fantasy.
On Thursday, J Balvin released his new single “Triple S” featuring Jowell & Randy, and De La Ghetto, along with its Corleone family-esque video, which sees the four men showing up to a blood-filled mansion as mafiosos.
As they drop bars about a woman who’s “single, strong, and not to be messed with,” the four men walk through a large home in preparation for a dinner, in which guests end up falling like flies after taking sips of their drinks and bites of their food. Turns out a femme fatale has been poisoning and plotting for their end all along. She was the Godfather after all.
Balvin revealed that new music was on the way earlier this week, sharing polls that had fans guessing what “Triple S” stands for. (In Spanish, it’s Suelta, Soltera, Sin Nadiel Que Le Joda.)
“What was promised is a debt, familia,” he wrote on X Monday. “I come to you with new music starting this week. And I am going to pay you this debt with interest 😉.”
“Triple S” is his first single of the year after joining Maluma on “Gafas Negras,” which was added to his 2023 Don Juan album. Late last year, he released single “Amigos,” joined Will.i.Am for “Let’s Go,” and rapped with Tainy and Young Miko on “Colmillo.”
Balvin spoke to Nylon last summer, sharing that his album was “very advanced” yet “easy to digest.”
“The flows, the deliveries — all of this is super updated,” he said, teasing a record filled with reggaeton and Afrobeats. “DJs are going to say, ‘Thank God, J Balvin, you made it easy for me,’” he joked. “Like, ‘Great, I’m going to play those two [songs] so I can have a beer or something.’”
As for other new music on the way for the reggaetonero, Balvin revealed he has a collaborative album with Ed Sheeran, with whom he’s released two songs in the past, that he plans to drop sometime this year.
“It came about in an organic, natural way. We met; we had coffee; we’d run into each other at the same gym, at the hotel,” he said of working with Sheeran. “That’s going to be another album that will offer a lot to talk about, because it’s like merging two worlds.”