Tres Coronas

Tres Coronas (alternatively known by the nickname Triple Crown) were a group of three MCs, formed in early 2001 in Queens, New York, composed of the New Yorker/Colombian Luis Alfonso Fonseca known as PoNchO or P.N.O a.k.a.

In 2000, Rocca met a Colombian named Inti Limani in France, who later emigrated to New York, and was the one who they planned to include in the beginning.

One day they gather at the P.N.O house in Brooklyn and start improvising songs, while watching a horse race on television, in which the race rapporteur says: "triple crown" (crown translated into Spanish is corona), that is when Reychesta suggests baptizing the group as Tres Coronas, P.N.O and Rocca agreed with the idea.

At the end of 2001, they had their first two concerts in Colombia, the first one that was presented was "Rap al Parque" (where they know the group La Etnnia) and the second one was in the "Coliseo el Campín".

In the process of promoting "Nuestra Cosa: Deluxe Edition", Boy Wonder offered a contract to Tres Coronas on the seal "Chosen Few Emerald Entertainment, Inc.", but the only one to accept it was Reychesta, without telling his teammates.

Shortly after Gustavo López, he also offered a contract to Tres Coronas on the label "Machete Music", which was accepted by the three members of the group, but Reychesta omitting that he had already signed with "Chosen Few Emerald Entertainment, Inc." legally damaged Tres Coronas in the negotiation of his contract with "Machete Music".

Rocca and P.N.O learned through the lawyers of "Machete Music" and immediately fired the Dominican group, unleashing a battle of truly scandalous statements and threats.

Rocca and P.N.O had to prove to the label that they were both Tres Coronas, of course they did not give Reychesta the money that corresponded to him, for the payment of $100,000 that "Machete Music" gave the group for the special edition of the album "Nuestra Cosa".

In the beginning, this song only contained the voices of Rocca and P.N.O, who traveled without Reychesta to Puerto Rico, where they asked TNB to participate as producer of the theme, whose genre is Reggaeton (musical genre of which Rocca and P.N.O denied, however the first one says in the song: "people ask for reggaeton with my style, mommy likes it", and the second one says: "on the island of perreo, hamlets and ghettos this is true TNB and Tres Coronas").

In 2011 Rocca and P.N.O on their album "La Música Es Mi Arma" published a song called "Aquí Llegamos (Intro)" in which they used the production of Artwell Smart (music producer and best friend of Reychesta).

In other songs he has made indirect or crazy bullets such as: "Muchos Tratan (Remix)", "Nos Tienen Miedo", "Nos Tienen Miedo Dos", "Somos La Calle", "Todo Lo Que Sube", "Yo No Tengo Tiempo", "Remember This", "No Quisieron Grabarme Fuck With Me", "I'm Back", "Pistola", "Nunca Los Perdonare (Remix)", "Sigo En La Mia", "Lirica Pura", "En Esta Orilla", "Hold Your Own" and "Mi Regreso".

In 2017, in the magazine Rolling Stone: Colombia, they published Rocca biography, entitled: De Bogotá a París (round trip).

Excerpt from the published biography: Tres Coronas was taking shape and Dominican Reychesta would join the project, according to Rocca: “He was very talented in freestyle, that's why we chose him, but he was very rough, he didn't write his lyrics.

That fight ended up depleting Tres Coronas, they also felt that a good part of their audience had remained in the most basic and traditional rap schemes of the '90, and only now many begin to appreciate the work of that moment.

In September 2019, the return of "Tres Coronas" (Rocca & P.N.O) was announced at the Colombian festival, "Hip Hop al Parque", scheduled for October 5.

In 2004 Reychesta and P.N.O traveled to Puerto Rico to make an album produced by DJ Playero, unfortunately, this project was never completed.

Valles T, twice winner of Red Bull Batalla De Gallos 2016 and 2018, also champion of "Pura Calle" 2019, said he grew up listening to Tres Coronas.

The negotiations for the different distributions of the Tres Coronas albums were, in Colombia for the label "5–27 Records" (of the group La Etnnia), in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain, for the "2Good" stamp, in Spain for the "3X2 Distribution" label, in United States for the stamps "Fania Allstar" and "Universal Music Group", the latter also did it for South America, lowered his Latin American department "Machete Music".