YOVNGCHIMI Expands His Latin Trap Vision With DJ Khaled and Dei V on “HVRACAN”
YOVNGCHIMI is pushing his latest chapter beyond Puerto Rico with “HVRACAN,” a new Latin trap collaboration that brings him alongside Dei V and DJ Khaled for one of the most internationally positioned releases of his recent run.
Released August 17, the record stays firmly inside the hard-edged trap language that has defined YOVNGCHIMI rather than softening his sound for a crossover moment. DJ Khaled contributes his production and unmistakable presence, while YOVNGCHIMI and Dei V handle the record from the Puerto Rican side, turning “HVRACAN” into a meeting between an established global hip-hop brand and two artists helping shape the island’s current trap generation.
That distinction matters. Instead of treating Khaled’s involvement as an excuse to chase a more conventional mainstream record, “HVRACAN” uses his reach to enlarge a sound YOVNGCHIMI has already built around street rap, luxury, ambition and a deliberately uncompromising image.
The collaboration also arrives during a particularly important stretch for YOVNGCHIMI. His 2023 debut album WLGS (Whole Lotta Gang Shit) established the rapper as one of the more distinctive figures operating on the darker side of Puerto Rican urbano, while his catalog has connected him with artists including Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Eladio Carrión, French Montana, Tay Keith and Rich the Kid. His earlier Gangsta Grillz: Mvrda Gvng project with DJ Drama had already demonstrated an interest in connecting Puerto Rican street rap directly with institutions of American hip-hop.
“HVRACAN” advances that strategy rather than abandoning it.
Where the DJ Drama partnership connected YOVNGCHIMI to one of rap’s most recognizable mixtape institutions, DJ Khaled represents another kind of bridge: a Miami-based global collaborator whose career has repeatedly been built around assembling artists from different corners of popular music. Bringing that presence into YOVNGCHIMI and Dei V’s world gives the record international scale without removing its Puerto Rican center.
Dei V’s involvement is equally important. His chemistry with YOVNGCHIMI is not the product of a newly manufactured pairing; the two have crossed paths throughout their rise within Puerto Rico’s emerging generation. That familiarity gives “HVRACAN” an internal dynamic that helps keep the collaboration grounded even with Khaled attached.
Musically, the track is built around confidence, excess and forward movement. Luxury references and street imagery run throughout the record, with the Lamborghini Huracán providing one of the central motifs behind its title and larger aesthetic. Khaled’s familiar vocal signatures reinforce the scale of the moment, but YOVNGCHIMI and Dei V remain the musical center.
The official video extends that language onto the streets of New York City. Cars, jewelry, fashion, nightlife and urban architecture surround the three artists as the visual moves between individual performances and collective scenes. New York works as more than a recognizable backdrop: for a Puerto Rican trap record built around expansion, the city creates a natural visual connection between Caribbean urbano and the American hip-hop culture that has long influenced it.
For YOVNGCHIMI, the more interesting story may be what “HVRACAN” says about his positioning. His recent trajectory does not suggest an artist trying to leave Latin trap behind in pursuit of broader acceptance. Instead, he appears to be scaling the world around it.
That approach reflects a larger shift inside Puerto Rican urbano. Reggaeton remains the genre’s dominant international export, but the island’s younger trap artists no longer need to treat a reggaeton crossover as the only path toward expansion. Artists such as YOVNGCHIMI and Dei V can increasingly build international relationships while preserving the darker production, slang, imagery and street codes that distinguish their records.
Khaled’s participation makes that dynamic especially visible. The significance is less about a famous producer appearing on a Latin record and more about where the musical adaptation happens. On “HVRACAN,” the Puerto Rican artists are not being reshaped to fit an American rap record; an American hip-hop heavyweight is stepping directly into their environment.
That makes the collaboration more useful as a career marker than a standalone celebrity feature.
“HVRACAN” also continues an active 2026 release schedule for YOVNGCHIMI that has included records such as “MVLAN,” “EQUD” and “FDO EL INFALTABLE.” With reports also connecting the latest material to his forthcoming SVPERSTARDEMON era, the bigger question is how these individual releases will eventually fit into his next full-length statement.
If WLGS established the architecture of YOVNGCHIMI’s world, this next phase has an opportunity to determine how large that world can become without losing what made it distinctive in the first place. “HVRACAN” offers an early answer: expansion does not necessarily require reinvention.
For now, YOVNGCHIMI is doubling down on Puerto Rican trap while widening the network around it, and bringing DJ Khaled into that equation makes “HVRACAN” one of the clearest examples yet of how the island’s newest generation can connect with the wider hip-hop ecosystem on its own terms.
“HVRACAN” by YOVNGCHIMI, Dei V and DJ Khaled is available now across digital platforms, alongside its official music video. Follow LaMezcla.com and the LaMezcla Music App for more new Latin trap, reggaeton and urbano releases shaping the next wave of Latin music.
