Ayax y Prok is a duo of rappers from Granada, two 33-year-old twin brothers –Ayax and Adrián Pedrosa– who on their website define their music as “rap with a conscience.” In contrast to the critical letters are the more than 60 testimonies that an Instagram account has collected that brings to light a type of behavior with women in their private lives that has caused their representation agency to dissociate themselves from them. In addition, the concert they had planned for March 28 of next year at the WiZink Center has been canceled and the rest of the tour they were working on has been left up in the air.
“What the testimonies say is so recognizable that it is chilling but it is completely true,” published Caneca, a woman who had a romantic relationship with Adrián Pedrosa (Prok) and who has confirmed, in conversation with elDiario.es, that she has read situations in the testimonies in which he recognized his own experiences.
Taste The Floor, one of the agencies management most important in urban music, representatives of artists such as La Zowie or Quevedo, broke their work and artistic relationship with both rappers on the first day of November, “in the face of the numerous and very serious accusations that have come to light in recent weeks,” they say from the agency. “From our organization we strongly reject any act of sexist violence and we trust in a fair and complete judicial investigation,” they add. This breakup puts the rest of the dates that the duo intends to perform in 2025 in the air.
Since the anonymous testimonies of abuse published on the Instagram account Denuncias Granada emerged, the agency carried out its own investigation, serious and in-depth, with calls and conversations. Upon understanding that there were sufficient indications of truth, even if there were no police or judicial complaints, they made this resolution which implies that they will not be hired or promoted again.
The ‘Errejón effect’
Complaints Granada It is a profile that appears on October 28 reposting a message published by Cristina Fallarás on her account. As the journalist has done on other occasions, she publishes anonymous testimonies in which episodes of sexual abuse and machismo are reported. The publication of one of them led to the resignation of Íñigo Errejón.
The social impact of this method and its ability to create support networks is what leads the people behind the account to open a specific one, with the same methodology as that of Fallarás, as its managers explain to elDiario.es: “We It leads us to think not that this is the only way, but rather a way prior to other subsequent steps that we are studying.”
“We decided to open the account to provide a means for the alleged victims to share their stories, feel heard and supported, and not be questioned,” they add. The account, with more than 32,000 followers, has published more than 60 testimonies but has received many more, others that the senders asked not to publish. Hashtags such as “the silence is over” or “let shame change sides” accompany the publications. But the anonymity, veracity or lack of judicial reporting of testimonies has been questioned. And it is precisely this questioning that has generated more testimonies, some with names and surnames.
Two ex-partners of Adrián Pedrosa (Prok) have published separate videos on their TikTok accounts, endorsing and supporting the anonymous testimonies. “I faced a page of stories that exposed my ex. I have read comments that questioned these stories. It took me zero seconds to recognize attitudes, words, dates. “It has all been very recognizable to me and very easy to believe,” said Dulce (Deliciouspao), who had a three-year relationship with the rapper, which ended in 2020.
For his part, Caneca, who was in a relationship with the same person for nine months in 2021, also admitted to recording the video “for Dulce” from his TikTok account, as it helped him in his process of “getting out of there” and “for each and every one of the testimonies from the Denuncias Granada account.” This communicator pointed out that she considered it necessary that “some voices be exposed to give credibility to these testimonies” and that the same thing cannot happen “to 17-year-old girls who are not capable of identifying abuse.” “It is time for them to fall because they have done a lot of damage and it is good that these people continue to get up on a platform and do and undo as they please,” he added.
In conversation with elDiario.es, Caneca states that she considers it important “to see that sisterhood exists, that among women we support each other, we do not beat each other, we do not lie but we clarify.” “We tend to see exes [de nuestras parejas] as enemies but Dulce was my 100% support,” he admits, and reveals that the story comes from behind, although it has jumped out now: “Last year I made two videos telling the story in passing, without mentioning who I was talking about. Another would have passed on the topic but her ex called me, we talked and it helped me to see his face and be able to leave him sooner. In his response I already saw that sorority.”
In her video, Caneca describes her ex, whom she does not name, as a “narcissistic psychopath,” talks about “harassment” situations and that she was “psychologically abused in many ways.” She explained that she has evidence of what she says, that it is “humiliating” towards her, that she had to leave the city due to “a harassment situation” from which he would not let her leave. “I can’t sleep peacefully thinking that I am defending an aggressor and not a victim,” she said in the video about her process before recording it.
These are some of them: “There was psychological and physical abuse for a long time, I have felt sexually abused and without the strength to face this at the police station,” says a testimony published on October 30, without specifying who carried out this abuse. “He pressured me to have sex without a condom,” says another screenshot of a message, published the same day, and referring to “P.”, with the word “sex” crossed out but legible. “We slept the first time and when we had finished, he continued, and here I started to tell him no, stop, but he didn’t stop,” says another, in relation to “P.”
An “open secret” and a “silenced” previous attempt
elDiario.es wanted to speak with some of the senders of these messages but, after having spoken with another media outlet, they have declined to continue having public exposure. Those responsible for this account point out that there is a fear among these women “of being discredited, of reprisals.” Furthermore, some had already experienced an attempt a few years ago to make testimonies like these public, via social networks, “and it was silenced.”
Those responsible, who have legal advice, explain that names or some key words are crossed out so as not to accuse anyone directly “for legal reasons and to maintain the presumption of innocence.” “In Granada it was an open secret before the account was created, but now it is reaching more people, although there is still a long way to go,” they say and point out that they do not want this to remain “on an Instagram account.” ”.
“It helps us if the victims have found a safe space in which they can be heard without fear of being judged and know that they are not alone. Although we are going to try to go further and take the measures that have to be taken in the event that it is proven that this case is like this,” they add.
It was Ajax and Prok themselves who published a statement on their social networks claiming they were alluded to. “A few days ago an account was opened in which we were defamed without any limit,” they began by saying.
The denial of Ajax and Prok
The artists, with whom elDiario.es has not been able to contact, described what was published on that account as “very big nonsense” and claimed to “deny everything.” They claimed to be “good people committed to all social causes, without exception, since 2015.” In addition, they announced that they would try to “find the people behind everything” and establish “a precedent” so that “a person cannot be defamed with absolute anonymity, without evidence and without filing any complaint.”
For his part, Ayax Pedrosa, who deactivated his Instagram profile for a few days due to legal advice, has reactivated it and published a video in the last hours of last Tuesday. “All this is not only a lie and nonsense but also madness and cruelty, an old-fashioned witch hunt, without having to provide evidence. Anonymous testimonies that anyone could have written and, as I said in the statement, I want to deny it on behalf of myself and my brother,” he said.
The rapper has also asked that they not be treated as a unit: “I am Ajax and my brother is Prok, we are not the same person. If an ex talks about my brother, she talks about my brother, I am a different person” but then he added: “I am with my brother to the death, in everything. Everything that is said about my brother is also a lie.” In addition, he has attributed some of the messages to “personal revenge.”
elDiario.es has been able to speak with other people who have witnessed “unpleasant” behavior by Prok in different situations in the city of Madrid.
Critical voices in the environment
Some people around the rappers have spoken in recent days. The photographer and filmmaker Álex Caballero, closely linked to the beginning of the brothers’ career, has sent “a lot of support to all those women who have been mistreated, manipulated and abused throughout the lives of these characters.” “I was a very good friend of theirs, I helped make them famous with my work, I never received anything in return. “I have also received mistreatment, abuse and shit for which I distanced myself from these people,” he added in a video.
In Granada’s music scene, one of its most outstanding groups is La Plazuela. Luis Abril Martín, known as ‘el Nitro’, one of the two members of the group, has received “threats” from Prok when speaking out about this case. In reaction, Nitro spoke this Tuesday about Adrián Pedrosa from Miami, where he is working with his group. “I want it to be exposed how these people manage their actions, based on threats, which is what I received this morning to my La Plazuela account and my personal account,” he said. Prok had posted some messages, which disappeared but which Nitro captured and published. “If you see me on the street and you want to hit me, you probably can, but no matter how hard you hit me, it will not take away the responsibility that you have with so many people you have hurt,” he added.
It catches my attention how men, when faced with an attack, tend to throw balls away, instead of doing the work of looking at ourselves, we prefer to throw shit the other way rather than ask for forgiveness.
Luis Abril Martín, ‘el Nitro’
— Component of La Plazuela
“It strikes me how men, when faced with an attack, tend to throw the ball away, instead of doing the work of looking at ourselves, we prefer to throw shit the other way rather than ask for forgiveness,” he reflected.
In this line of reflection, the writer and content creator Bruno León, with more than 86,000 followers on TikTok, made this Wednesday “a call to all his colleagues”: “Without your silence this would not have been possible. You know that there are more rappers committing these crimes,” he warned.
Those responsible for channeling these more than 60 testimonies conclude in this way what social change they hope will occur: “Hopefully one day we can stop being brave and simply be free because this requires a lot of courage.”
#fall #Ayax #Prok #stories #alleged #abuse #testimony #exes #lose #manager #concert #WiZink
