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T<\/strong>rueno<\/a> has the number four on his mind. He\u2019s just released his fourth album, \u2018Turr4zo\u2019 and his native Argentina are defending their title as world champions in the FIFA World Cup. If they take it home again, it will be the fourth time they\u2019ve won it.<\/p>\n \u201cOne can always dream! The number four is so important, and this is precisely my fourth album,\u201d says the rapper, whose full name is Mateo Palacios Corazzina, willing fate as he sits on a sofa in a small room in Sony\u2019s London headquarters, with a mat\u00e9 in hand.<\/p>\n Like Messi\u2019s troupe, Trueno is representing his nation \u2013 and has just done so on the biggest stage of his career: Tottenham Stadium supporting Gorillaz<\/a>. Performing in front of a crowd of 60,000 people is quite the feat for a kid from La Boca, a beautiful yet hardened working-class district of Buenos Aires, but rapping in Spanish to a majority English-speaking audience doesn\u2019t phase him at all.<\/p>\n Onstage, he commands the crowd with confidence, energy and style, smashing through the past hits while debuting new songs. \u201cIt\u2019s the first show I [played] songs of \u2018Turr4zo\u2019, Damon [Albarn<\/a>] gave me the opportunity to do it in England, in a gigantic football stadium,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s opened up new audiences to me \u2013 I\u2019m grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n