99 Lyrics in English Don Pablo Mures , Yemil, Aley La Nueve
Pichirri is a colloquial term, particularly used in some Latin American countries, to refer to a very small amount of money or pocket change.
In the context of the song, the line "Las girl no sale sin el pichirri" suggests that the girls won't go out without at least some money, even if it's just a little. It's an interesting and less common slang word that adds a touch of local flavor to the lyrics.
99 is a Panamanian dancehall boast, built around one repeated line: Don Pablo Mures calling himself the Bank Illuminati, the commander back in the year 99.
Most of the song looks backwards. It name checks the crews, DJs and street figures who ran Panama's dancehall scene when the artist was coming up, from Tony Bull to the Toshandes, and it treats that era as the standard everything since has to live up to. Yemil takes the middle stretch and turns the same idea into a list of what the crew has now: a data plan while everyone else asks for wifi, connections abroad, money, guns and women.
The point of both verses is the same. They were there first, and they are still ahead. The hook keeps coming back to the party, the Safari club and the call to let the dancehall light up, so the track sits somewhere between a memory and a warning.
