Fuerza Regida Announces New Album ‘111XPANTIA,’ JOP Calls It ‘Most Important’ of His Career

Fuerza Regida is on a mission to reconnect with its ancestral heritage — and they’re doing it the best way they know how, via Mexican music. The group’s upcoming album, 111XPANTIA, which Billboard Español is announcing exclusively on Tuesday (March 25), will be an exploration of the band’s roots, according to frontman Jesús “JOP” Ortiz Paz. The album is set for release on May 2.

The title — pronounced “ixpantia” — comes from the Náhuatl language, a dialect of the Aztecs, symbolizing “manifest,” JOP explains to Billboard Español. “Before I even knew what the word ‘manifest’ meant, I always believed in it,” he adds. “I’d tell myself, ‘I’m going to do this in the future.’ Even as a little kid, I was sure I was going to be something in life. Maybe not an artist, but something. It’s the law of attraction, a testament.”

With 111XPANTIA, Fuerza Regida is on a quest to continue applying this philosophy and turn “every song” into future “bangers.” The San Bernardino, Calif., hitmakers have consistently achieved with their 13 hits on the all-genre  Billboard Hot 100 and 63 on Hot Latin Songs to date. The group’s most recent single, “Por Esos Ojos,” released in February, peaked at No. 5 on the Hot Latin Songs chart.

The artist adds that while they created around 40 songs in the process of making this album, they narrowed down to 12, assuring that every song is a “focus track.”

111XPANTIA will be released via Rancho Humilde/Street Mob Records/Sony Music Latin. It also will be available in physical format, both CD and vinyl.

“This album represents my whole life,” JOP says. “Since I was a 5-year-old kid, I’d see Corvettes in the hood — there were no Lambos — and tell my mom, ‘I’m going to buy that car,’ or I’d look at a big house and say, ‘Mama, I’m going to buy you that house when I get older,’” adding that the meaning of this upcoming release is “to prove something beyond doubt through the power of the mind.”

And those dreams have undeniably materialized. For the June 2023 Billboard Español cover story, the group pulled up in three luxury cars, including a graphite off-roader Lamborghini Urus and a white Chevrolet Corvette. Most recently, Fuerza Regida acquired a new building to house its record label, Street Mob Records — which won the Billboard Latin Music Award 2024 for publisher of the year — in San Bernardino County.

The cover artwork, co-designed by KidSuper’s Colm Dillane, features an eye, a symbol deeply tied to the album’s themes. “The eye means the same thing — ixpantia, 111, manifest — to make your dreams come true,” he explains.

“This is the first album that has so much story to it, so much connection to it. Everything means something. Nothing está allí de oquis,” JOP says, emphasizing that everything is intentional. “Once you get into it, 111XPANTIA, you’re going to start tripping, what it means to be on the next level,” he adds, stating that “everything’s back to the roots” stylistically. “This is the most important album of my career. This is the one that brings all of that together.”

See the cover for 111XPANTIA below:

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