SWAGGER Lyrics in English Luis Brown
Amague translates to "feint" or "dodge." It's a term often used in sports, like boxing or soccer, to describe a deceptive movement intended to mislead an opponent.
In this song, the artist uses amague to describe how others tried to trick or deceive him, but he saw through their attempts. It's an engaging word that evokes a sense of street smarts and outmaneuvering rivals, making it memorable and unique in a musical context.
SWAGGER is Luis Brown flexing, in the most Dominican way possible. The hook is about a young woman who walks out on her boyfriend because the swagger got to her, and the rest of the song is the boast that follows: money spent on clothes rather than earned in wages, tattoos paid for out of a good run, and a lot of very blunt talk about what happens after she leaves.
The setting is real. He names Santiago and San Pedro de Macorís, two cities on opposite sides of the country, and the track runs entirely on Dominican street slang. A tíguere is a streetwise guy, cualtos is cash, en nota means buzzed, and no cap is the tag he repeats all the way through, borrowed straight from US hip hop.
For a learner this is a fast, unfiltered sample of how young Dominicans actually speak. Almost every word drops its final s, so lo' tíguere' is los tígueres and cualto' is cuartos. Getting your ear around that once makes a great deal of Caribbean Spanish easier to follow. Be warned that the language is explicit from start to finish.
