Alejo Acosta, a.k.a. YSY A, is one of the artists that has collaborated the most in the growth of urban music in Argentina over the past few years.
He started "El Quinto Escalon" back when he was 13 with the sole purpose of bringing rap battles to the center of Buenos Aires to spread the gospel of hip-hop. "The first meetings we did were of about 15 people, few of which were actually freestylers.
Most of them were dancers, beatboxers or graffitti artists," he explained. Freestylers like Dtoke and WOS -- international champions of the Red Bull "Batalla de los Gallos" -- MKS, Dani, Replik and Trueno are some of the rappers that left their mark in "El Quinto." Years later, what had modestly begun in Rivadavia Park, in the middle of Caballito