by Peso Pluma & Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho · 2024
The song “Haciendo Memoria” by Peso Pluma & Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho is about recalling a dangerous and intense escape from law enforcement during a drug trafficking operation, highlighting the risks, adrenaline, and luck involved in narrowly avoiding capture.
This song has been Shazamed over 107,963 times. As of this writing, Haciendo Memoria is ranked 149
‘Haciendo Memoria’ by Peso Pluma & Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho is a song about remembering wild, dangerous moments from the past. In this post, we’re going to break down what the lyrics really mean and why so many people connect with this story. Let’s see what secrets we can uncover together. ⬇️
The song sets a tense, cinematic atmosphere—think high-speed chases, adrenaline-pumping decisions, and the haunting echo of past choices. Its narrative plunges us into the life of someone who’s lived on the edge, haunted and hardened by brushes with danger.
In the chorus, there’s a raw confession: “Tiraba un boludo, mas no me detuve / Se sentía feo, pero me mantuve.” Here, we feel the narrator’s fear, but also his stubborn resolve—not stopping, even when things turned ugly, even as bullets fly and everything feels like it could unravel in a heartbeat. We sense that desperate courage, that sharp taste of survival, and we wonder—haven’t we all tried to keep moving forward when life comes at us hard?
The verses spill out like fragments of a crime drama—“Salvar el mandado que traía el avión,” “Venía pata a fondo, volteando pa’ atrás”—painting vivid snapshots of risky escapes, muddy camouflage, and the chaos of flight. There’s a wild energy in lines like “quería hacerme Flash,” as if the only way out is to outrun the world itself. Every lyric pulses with the weight of consequence and the slim margin between luck and disaster.
As the story unfolds, we meet accomplices, close calls, and a relentless pursuit from the authorities—“Por aire y por tierra buscando a un joven barbón”—but it’s the cunning, the quick thinking, the almost mythic luck (“me ayudó la noche también, además”) that turns survival into legend. The details, sometimes almost casual (“me clavé en un charco con tules”), draw us into the sweat, mud, and tension of every moment.
⚡️ In the end, ‘Haciendo Memoria’ isn’t just a tale of outlaws and escapes—it’s a gritty meditation on memory, fate, and the stubborn will to survive when the odds and the world are stacked against you.
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