LoffMusic – July 11, 2025
This year Duki is no longer a tour: it’s an expedition. In the midst of this hustle and bustle of airports, stadiums and dressing rooms, the Latin trap reference has just released 5202, a mixtape of eleven tracks that works as a logbook and, at the same time, as a sound passport for those who could not accompany him from city to city.
An audiovisual notebook
Each track lands with its own video, shot on the fly: snippets of a backstage in Miami, the run-through in Paris, the confessed jet-lag in a Tokyo hotel. The result is a collage that captures the adrenaline of a sold-out and also that weird silence that remains when the lights are dimmed and only the hum of the dressing room fridge is left.
Transatlantic production
In the list of credits are some big names: Southside, Wheezy, J.LBS and LilJuMadeDaBeat. The sound moves between the muscular trap of “No Me Alcanza” and the digital psychedelia of “Toc Psycho x CRYPTONITA”. The only guest vocals come from Zell and Cluster, perfect for contrast without stealing the show from the host.
Advances that already run on their own
“Golfista”, the first single, surpassed fifteen million plays before the mixtape was released and served as an appetizer to the North American audience at a packed Madison Square Garden – the first time an Argentine urban artist had filled the venue solo. “No Me Alcanza”, released on his birthday in the middle of his Spanish tour, made it clear that the party also admits space for vulnerability.
Hysterical figures
Eight sold-out Movistar Arenas in Buenos Aires, eleven sold-out dates in the U.S., sold-out shows in Puerto Rico, Chile and Germany… In total, more than 350,000 tickets have been sold so far in 2025. Between now and the end of the year, there are still Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and a return to Europe that will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi and the Coliseum in A Coruña.
Why 5202 matters
Latin trap has been exporting for five years in the form of singles, but it rarely does so packaged as a conceptual project. Duki opts for the mixtape format so as not to lose freshness – he sings what happens to him today and releases it tomorrow – but at the same time articulates a narrative: that of a twenty-something from Almagro who now dines backstage sushi with Jhayco and wakes up in a Berlin dressing room wondering what language he dreams in.
Next stop: closing at home
There will be a last performance on December 17 in Buenos Aires. Whoever was at the first one assures that it sounded like a period; the last one promises a season epilogue. By that time, 5202 will have rolled half the planet and we may already have more clues about the rumored second studio album.
For the moment, the mixtape does its job: to bring the listener up to the stage railing, almost close enough to feel the sub-bass thump in the chest. It’s no small feat.
