With little fanfare, San Antonio professor, rapper and cultural commentator Marco Cervantes, known as MexStep, this Friday released the new EP Tráfico, a six-song collaboration with South Texas beatmaker and screwmbia pioneer Svani Quintanilla, or Principe Q.
The EP is the first multi-song solo release from MexStep — also part of the celebrated hip-hop group Third Root — since 2021’s Vivir. It also marks the first extended collaboration between Cervantes and Quintanilla.
The duo teased this EP last fall with the release of the single “The Eagle,” a clear-eyed, sharp-tongued banger of a rumination on the social construction of borders and how out of tune they are with both nature and humanity…