C. Tangana returns to rap in ‘Milko Freestyle’ to mourn Milkman and greet his son

C. Tangana has gone back to rap. ‘Milko Freestyle’, a new single credited to him and to Agorazein, the Madrid collective where he started, is a short, unadorned verse over a classic hip-hop beat in which Antón Álvarez mourns his friend and collaborator Milkman and, almost in the same breath, welcomes his newborn son.

The track matters because of what it follows. El Madrileño took Tangana out of Spanish urban music and into copla, flamenco and Latin American song, then he spent years making a film instead of records. Now he puts his own rapping back at the centre, days before Agorazein reunites on an arena stage in Madrid, and he says so plainly in one line, «AGZ mi grupo» (“AGZ, my crew”).

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The grief is specific. «Volando pa’ México mientras tú mueres» (“flying to Mexico while you die”), he raps, and later «El Milko se ha ido» (“Milko is gone”). Milkman was the stage name of Óscar Botello, a Mexican-born, Texas-raised rapper and producer who, according to the BMI rights organisation, worked with C. Tangana, Belinda, Álvaro Díaz and Jhay Cortez. He died in Mexico City after emergency surgery. Tangana had already made that loss public when he attacked J Balvin on Instagram over a stage tribute to Milkman, telling him, as Milenio reported, «se te cae el circo, payaso» (“your circus falls apart, clown”).

The second half of the verse turns to the child born while he was still absorbing the death. «Y otra vez pensando en el puto legado / En el nombre, en el hambre que voy a dejarle» (“and once again thinking about the fucking legacy, about the name, about the hunger I’ll leave him”). The video, directed by Rogelio González with Tangana’s Little Spain team, sticks to domestic scenes: the rapper holding his baby, doing the shopping, ironing.

Around that he settles accounts with his own career. The song opens on the backlash to El Madrileño, «la mitad de los rappers de España querían echarme a patadas del gremio» (“half the rappers in Spain wanted to kick me out of the trade”), runs through the Grammys and Las Vegas, and admits to money lost on touring. The beat comes from KevD and Jambo; Jenesaispop identifies Jambo as Raúl Bermejo, a producer from Murcia who has worked with Kanye West and was also a friend of Milkman. Behind the camera, Tangana’s documentary La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés won two Goya awards.

It is still a freestyle, not a project. The track runs two minutes and ten seconds, and nothing has been announced about an album; even the press around the release leaves open whether more is coming. Agorazein gets the co-credit and a shouted line, but Tangana raps alone, so Sticky M.A., Jerv.AGZ, I-Ace and Fabianni are present in name rather than in the verse. Landing just before a reunion run that Metal Magazine reports sold out within hours, it also works as very effective promotion, whatever its sincerity.

The video premiered on the CTanganaVEVO channel at midnight Spanish time on November 4, the same day the single reached streaming services, and passed 750,000 YouTube views within a day and a half. Milkman died on February 12, 2026. Agorazein plays Madrid’s Movistar Arena on November 15, 16, 17 and 18, ten years after the group’s 2016 album Siempre; the announced reunion is limited to those four Madrid nights.

Tags: Hip-Hop, Agorazein, C. Tangana, Milkman, Milko Freestyle, Spanish rap

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