Facundo Cedrés is one of the leaders of Uruguay’s urban scene. With beginnings in freestyle, Pekeño 77 was growing until he found his marked style within hip hop. He was one of the first chosen by Bizarrap to participate in the Music Session, he made a feat with Duki and his career is full of successes. In his interview with Julio Leiva he talks about how he processed fame, money, abandoning his old style because he no longer needed it, and how his family plays a key role in his life.” My family saved me from the bad life. We are from a complicated neighborhood and there is always a problem, there is always the one who comes to break the balls. Something always happens, but you always have to do the gil, because I learned that, leave it at that, you are right. Do yours because sooner or later they end up losing them. Then I was like my family, in my family we are not going to say that we are all saints, but they are good people. But I say, they are people of principle, old school people who respect and always told me, when they saw me they saw me, I see badly, “you, what are you doing?” as if they turned on the lights,” he said.
He also referred to anxiety disorders and depression that he went through during his life: “I try to play sports every day and keep my head clear. But yes, anxiety is abundant, I had panic attacks, depression, pain, I took medication a band of time. Now I don’t take anything anymore. Thank God not anymore, I’m not even there with the remedies or anything. I try to eat healthy and play sports, be honest and avoid relationships with people I don’t want to have relationships with.” There came a point, even, that went through what is known as depersonalization: “It’s like at a certain moment you kind of see yourself outside the real world. It’s kind of weird, like you feel outside your body. It’s a journey. You start to feel half dizzy, you start to hallucinate a little and then the panic attack. It’s that complicated.” He also spoke of his session with Biza: “I was one of the first. They don’t take that out of me. At that time you did not imagine that he was going to hit him as he hit him, but he hit him like that and he deserves it. It was because of a subject that he worked as he had to work, he did things as they had to be and he did well. There is no mistake.” On the other hand, he talked about Neo Pistea and Duki: “The one I get along with is Neo, who now went to Uruguay because he was filming the series, he had like 4 months, I think. And there I already fell in love with him, because the kid is from the plant of good people really. With Duki ponele, it’s all good, but I don’t have a relationship that I say ‘he’s my friend’. It’s like a person who is all right. He knows me, I know him, we greet each other, but neither does the great relationship. Already with Neo we already met another point of view, and he walked in my neighborhood, we went out to fuck, everything is fine with the Neo, it’s other people.” I would like to come to Argentina, if I don’t come here, I’m going to go to Chile. Now I have the idea of traveling to Chile, going a month to meet”.What moment in your life makes Peke 77 who it is today? “I think everything, there is no time when I become Peke 77, what happens to me that I consider Peke 77, it’s quite me. It doesn’t have much mystery, it’s not a character, it’s me. So everything that happened in my life is what makes me Peke 77. Because Peke 77 and Facundo are the same. That doesn’t have much of a turn.”
