Pichar (often spelled pichear) is a popular Caribbean slang word meaning 'to ignore' or 'to blow someone off,' which surprisingly derives from the English baseball term 'to pitch.'
In this track, El Alfa confidently declares, "tú no me puedes pichar" (you can't ignore me). This is an essential word to learn if you want to understand the unique baseball-inspired slang found throughout Dominican dembow and Puerto Rican reggaeton.
Suave by Dominican dembow artist El Alfa is purely about throwing money around at a strip club and losing your mind over a dancer. Right from the hook, he lays his cards on the table: Yo te doy lo que tú quieras, báilame en el tubo suave ("I'll give you whatever you want, dance for me on the pole softly"). He is mesmerized, hyping her up while showering cash on stage (En el strip club tiro pesos por un tubo / "In the strip club I throw pesos through a pipe", a slang phrase meaning he is spending money endlessly). If she keeps dancing, he promises extreme rewards, casually offering to buy her an SUV (toma esa Jeepeta) or even pay for plastic surgery (te voy a paga' las tetas).
What makes the track so funny is how quickly El Alfa tosses ridiculous punchlines between dance instructions. He brags about his physical shape and wealth by rapping 170 libras, con cuarto y sin barriga ("170 pounds, with money and no belly"), immediately comparing his real estate to a classic TV character: Yo tengo más casas propias que el Señor Barriga ("I own more houses than Mr. Barriga", the famous landlord who constantly collected rent in the comedy show El Chavo del Ocho). He plays with double meanings, too, shouting a wordplay on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro before looping jokes about ripe plantains (le gustan los plátano' maduro'). It is wild, loud, and delightfully blunt party music.