Yes, and the credit sheets are unusually consistent about it. He works as a singer, songwriter and record producer, not as a voice hired to sing other people's material, and on La 167 he is listed under his legal name, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, for composition on every track of the album. What he does not do is write alone. Reggaeton spreads authorship across the room, so that same album credits his manager Franklin Jovani Martínez on the composition of every track, Sharo Towers on nearly all of them, and Andy "White Star" Bauza on most of the record, with Ghetto and K4G recurring on the trap and guaracha cuts. "Pepas" carries a songwriter list running from Farruko and Martínez through Andy Bauza, Ghetto, José Carlos García, Juan Manuel Gómez, K4G, Sharo Towers and Víctor Alonso Cárdenas. His writing has also been recognized away from his own records: he won Best Urban Song at the Latin Grammy Awards as one of the songwriters of Yandel's "Encantadora" (2016), a credit he earned as a writer rather than as the lead voice.
By the Numbers
9
Studio Albums
162
Tracks Credited
99%
Self-Written
19
Years Active
475
Collaborators
Authorship Breakdown 161 / 162 self-written
Who wrote the songs?
Across all 162 tracks: how many Farruko wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Farruko has a writing credit99%
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Sole author1tracks1%
Co-written160tracks99%
Outside writers1tracks1%
Role Fingerprint how they contribute
Farruko's roles across the catalogue
Share of all 162 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Lyricist (words)99%
Composer (music)99%
Producer0%
Performer99%
Authorship Over Time writing credit per album
Farruko's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
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2010El Talento del Bloque
2012TMPR The Most Powerful Rookie
2013Imperio Nazza: Farruko Edition
2014Farruko Presenta: Los Menores
2015Visionary
2017TrapXFicante
2019Gangalee
2021La 167
2024Cvrbon Vrmor
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Authorship by Decade track-weighted
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2010s
El Talento del Bloque, TMPR The Most Powerful Rookie +5 more
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2020s
La 167, Cvrbon Vrmor
Authorship Spectrum pure performer to complete author
Where Farruko sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Farruko
Other artists on the site
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
Written by Farruko, Benny Benni, Musicólogo, Menes, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Jesús Manuel Benítez Hiraldo, Eliezer García, Eduardo López
Co-wrote
Passion Whine
Farruko Presenta: Los Menores
Written by Farruko, Sean Paul, Rvssian, Jumbo, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Sean Henriques, Tarik Johnson, Víctor Viera Moore
Co-wrote
Sunset
Visionary
Written by Farruko, Shaggy, Nicky Jam, Rvssian, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Nick Rivera Caminero, Nikolas David Silvera, Orville Richard Burrell, Tarik Johnston
Co-wrote
Krippy Kush
TrapXFicante
Written by Farruko, Bad Bunny, Rvssian, Frank Miami, Kosa, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Franklin Martinez, Benito Martinez, Tarik Johnston, Thomas Kevin Richard
Co-wrote
Don't Let Go
TrapXFicante
Written by Farruko, Frank Miami, Musicólogo & Menes, Rafa J. Vegas, Freddy "El Syntethyzer", Phantom Neo, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Franklin Martinez, Eduardo López, Freddy Montalvo, José Carlos Cruz, Noah K. Assad, Rafael Jiménez, Eliezer García
Co-wrote
Nadie
Gangalee
Written by Sharo Towers, Frank Miami, Farruko, Marcos G. Pérez, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado
Co-wrote
Delincuente
Gangalee
Written by Echo The Lab, Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Exel The Future, Diesel, Frank Miami, EZ Made Da Beat, Kendo Kaponi, Farruko, Anuel AA, Tegui Calderón Rosario, William Omar Landrón Rivera, Franklin Jovani Martínez, José Fernando Rivera Morales, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Emmanuel Gazmey Santiago
Co-wrote
La Cartera
Gangalee
Written by Farruko, Bad Bunny, Karloff, Peter Tosh, Sharo Towers, Dímelo Flow, Frank Miami, Andy Balzat, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Winston Hubert McIntosh, Marcos G. Pérez, Jorge Valdés Vázquez, Franklin Jovani Martínez
Co-wrote
Ponle
Gangalee
Written by Sharo Towers, Frank Miami, Sky Rompiendo, Rvssian, J Balvin, Farruko, Marcos G. Pérez, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Tarik Johnston, José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado
Co-wrote
Calma (Remix)
Gangalee
Written by Pedro Capó, Farruko, George Noriega, Rec808, Frank Miami, Sharo Towers, Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Sosa, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Gabriel Edgar Gonzalez Perez, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Marcos G. Pérez
Co-wrote
Calma (Alicia Remix)
Gangalee
Written by Pedro Capó, Farruko, Alicia Keys, Rec808, Sharo Towers, George Noriega, Frank Miami, Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Sosa, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Alicia Augello Cook, Gabriel Edgar Gonzalez Perez, Marcos G. Pérez, Franklin Jovani Martínez
Co-wrote
Pepas
La 167
Written by IAmChino, Juan Manuel Gómez, Ghetto, White Star, K4G, Sharo Towers, Víctor Cárdenas, Frank Miami, Farruko, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Andy Bauza, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Marcos G. Pérez, Axel Rafael Quezada Fulgencio, Keriel Quiroz, José Carlos García, Víctor Alonso Cárdenas Ospina
Co-wrote
La Tóxica
La 167
Written by K4G, Sly Dunbar, Lloyd "Gitsy" Willis, Periquito, Frank Miami, Tempo, Sharo Towers, Ghetto, Farruko, DJ Joe, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Andy Bauza, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Marcos G. Pérez, Luis Angel O'Neill, Axel Rafael Quezada Fulgencio, Keriel Quiroz, David Sánchez Badillo, Héctor L. Pagán, Joselly Rosario, Lloyd Willis, Lowell Fillmore Dunbar
Co-wrote
El Incomprendido
La 167
Written by Pronti, Juan Manuel Gómez, Juan Diaz, Ice "The Producer", Bobby Capó, Kalmani, Kemzo, Frank Miami, White Star, Víctor Cárdenas, IAmChino, Sharo Towers, Farruko, Yondoe, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Andy Bauza, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Marcos G. Pérez, José Carlos García, Víctor Alonso Cárdenas Ospina, Carlos Humberto Domínguez, Eelke A. Kalberg, Félix Manuel Rodriguez, John P. Ramos Rivera, Johnny Gaitan Jr., Juan Alfredo Díaz, Sebastiaan Molijn
Co-wrote
Esta Vida
Cvrbon Vrmor
Written by Marshmello, Farruko, O'Neill, J. Cross, NO ME DE COTORRA, Frank Miami, Sharo Towers, Christopher Comstock, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Marcos G. Pérez
Co-wrote
NAZARENO
Cvrbon Vrmor
Written by J. Cross, Tite Curet Alonso, Frank Miami, Farruko, Catalino Curet Alonso, Franklin Jovani Martínez, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado
Co-wrote
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Discography 9 albums
The five compilation albums, En Letra de Otro among them, and the mixtape compilation sit outside the studio catalogue and are not listed. Cvrbon Vrmor was released in two stages in 2024, and Wikipedia lists both as studio albums. The May part-release subtitled C_DE: G_D.O.N. is not listed separately here: all seven of its songs reappear unchanged as tracks 18 to 24 of the October album, so listing both would show the same seven tracks twice. The discography article contradicts itself on the total, giving 8 in its infobox and six in its opening line while its table lists ten; the table carries the release dates and labels, so the table is what is built here.
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. Showing the 150 most frequent of 462. FM Frank Miami · ST Sharo Towers · MG Marcos G. Pérez · FJ Franklin Jovani Martínez · BB Benny Benni · G Ghetto
The Authorship Story
Data Insight
Farruko is credited on 161 of his 162 tracks and wrote exactly one of them by himself, back on TMPR in 2012. Everything else is shared, and one collaborator does an unusual amount of the sharing: Frank Miami appears on 96 tracks, close to sixty percent of the catalogue, with Sharo Towers on 68. That is not a rotating cast of writing rooms but a small fixed crew working the same way across fourteen years, from El Talento del Bloque in 2010 to Cvrbon Vrmor in 2024. One track, on the 2013 Imperio Nazza edition, has no documented writer at all.
Quick Facts
Own labelCarbon Fiber Music, cofounded in 2014 with his manager Franklin Martínez, had 9 artists signed as of 2022
Biggest single"Pepas" reached number one on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs and Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and No. 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100, his highest-charting single
Number-one albumsFarruko Presenta: Los Menores, Visionary and La 167 each reached number one on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart
Genre rangeReggaeton, reggae, Latin trap, urban pop and EDM, with merengue, bachata and Latin dance turning up across the singles
The 2022 turnHe stopped a Miami concert on February 12, 2022 to preach about God and ask forgiveness for the lyrics of some of his songs, and began releasing music with Christian-based lyrics in 2024
Where the title came fromLa 167 is named for a highway close to where he grew up in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where his grandfather owned a gas station
Creative Fingerprint
He takes a composition credit on every track of La 167 beside the same two names, his manager Franklin Martínez and his producer Sharo Towers, so a record that swings from guaracha on "Pepas" to a corrido-influenced "Baja Cali" to reggae on "Jíbaro" still comes out of one writing room.
The Story
Farruko is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer, born Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado in Bayamón in 1991. He built a following posting songs online before El Talento del Bloque in 2010, then spent a decade moving between reggaeton, reggae, Latin trap and dance music rather than settling into one. "Pepas" from La 167 became his biggest international record.
Awards & Recognition
Won Best Urban Song at the Latin Grammy Awards as one of the songwriters of Yandel's "Encantadora" (2016)
Won Best Urban Fusion/Performance at the Latin Grammy Awards for "Calma" with Pedro Capó (2019)
Nominated for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards for The Most Powerful Rookie (2012), Farruko Presenta: Los Menores (2015) and Visionary (2016)
Nominated for Best Reggaeton Performance at the Latin Grammy Awards for "La Tóxica" (2021)
Nominated for Best Urban Song at the Latin Grammy Awards for "Mi Mejor Canción" (2023)
Nominated for Best Música Urbana Album at the Grammy Awards (2023)
Won Latin Rhythm Airplay Song of the Year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards for "6 AM" with J Balvin (2015)
Won Latin Pop Song of the Year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards for "Calma" with Pedro Capó (2020)
Won Hot Latin Song of the Year, Sales Song of the Year, Streaming Song of the Year and Latin Rhythm Song of the Year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards for "Pepas" (2022)
Won Urban Song of the Year and Urban Collaboration of the Year at Premio Lo Nuestro for "6 AM" with J Balvin (2015)
Won Favorite Urban Album at the Latin American Music Awards for Visionary (2016)
Won Latin Pop/Reggaeton Song of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards for "Pepas" (2022)
Won Top Artist - Christian-Spiritual, and Top Song - Christian-Spiritual for "Nazareno", at Premios Tu Música Urbano (2023)
Nominated for Favorite Male Latin Artist and Favorite Latin Album (La 167) at the American Music Awards (2022)
Nominated for Best Latin at the MTV Video Music Awards for "Pepas" (2022)
Frequently Asked Questions Farruko
Does Farruko write his own songs?
Yes, and the credit sheets are unusually consistent about it. He works as a singer, songwriter and record producer, not as a voice hired to sing other people's material, and on La 167 he is listed under his legal name, Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado, for composition on every track of the album. What he does not do is write alone. Reggaeton spreads authorship across the room, so that same album credits his manager Franklin Jovani Martínez on the composition of every track, Sharo Towers on nearly all of them, and Andy "White Star" Bauza on most of the record, with Ghetto and K4G recurring on the trap and guaracha cuts. "Pepas" carries a songwriter list running from Farruko and Martínez through Andy Bauza, Ghetto, José Carlos García, Juan Manuel Gómez, K4G, Sharo Towers and Víctor Alonso Cárdenas. His writing has also been recognized away from his own records: he won Best Urban Song at the Latin Grammy Awards as one of the songwriters of Yandel's "Encantadora" (2016), a credit he earned as a writer rather than as the lead voice.
Is he credited as a producer on his own albums?
He is billed as a record producer alongside singer and songwriter, but the board work on his albums usually goes to other people. La 167 lists production from Sharo Towers, Prida Beats, Eze el Ezeta, K45, Ghetto, IAmChino, Víctor Cárdenas, Dímelo Flow and more than twenty others, while his own line in the technical credits reads composition on all tracks. Sharo Towers mixed the whole album, and Franklin Martínez is credited as executive producer on all of it.
Who does he write and record with most often?
Franklin Martínez, his manager and the cofounder of Carbon Fiber Music, is on the composition of every track of La 167 and is its executive producer. Sharo Towers produced, mixed and co-wrote most of that album, and Andy "White Star" Bauza writes across it as well. On the artist side the recurring names are Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Don Omar, J Álvarez, Arcángel, Ñengo Flow, Myke Towers, Yandel, Pitbull and Pedro Capó.
How do reggaeton writing credits get shared on his records?
Collectively, and the track sheets show it plainly. On "Pepas" the producer line is drawn from the same pool of names as the songwriter line: José Carlos García, Víctor Alonso Cárdenas, Sharo Towers, K4G and Ghetto all appear in both places. Borrowed material widens the list further. "El Incomprendido" interpolates Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone", which puts Sebastiaan Molijn and Eelke Kalberg on the writing credit, and "Lambo" carries Irving Lorenzo, Jeffrey Atkins, Robert Kelly and Kendred T. Smith.
Who produced his best-known hits?
Rvssian produced "Krippy Kush", "Passion Whine" with Sean Paul and "Ponle" with J Balvin. Sharo Towers produced "Pepas" and "La Tóxica" with K45 and Ghetto and carried most of La 167. His 2007 debut single "Bla, bla, bla" was produced by Phantom y Villa, and Musicólogo & Menes of Los De La Nazza built Imperio Nazza: Farruko Edition with him in 2013.
Why does his catalogue keep changing genre?
Because the writing team stays put while the arrangement does not. La 167 alone moves through trap on "Ki" and "Cucaracha", EDM on "Embalao" and "El Incomprendido", dancehall on "W.F.M.", reggae on "Jíbaro", corrido-influenced regional Mexican music on "Baja Cali" and guaracha on "Pepas". Gangalee had already pulled in dancehall and reggae, and his singles run out to merengue, bachata and Latin dance.
What did his 2022 conversion do to his catalogue?
On February 12, 2022, during a show at the FTX Arena in Miami, he stopped the concert to preach about God and to ask forgiveness for the lyrics of some of his songs, telling the crowd that "Farru is retired and Carlos is here now" and offering refunds to anyone unhappy about it. He did not actually retire. He resumed performing in May 2023 and began releasing music with Christian-based lyrics in 2024. The shift reached the awards as well: he won Top Artist - Christian-Spiritual, and Top Song - Christian-Spiritual for "Nazareno", at Premios Tu Música Urbano (2023).
What is Carbon Fiber Music?
It is the label he cofounded in 2014 with his manager, Franklin Martínez, and it had 9 artists signed as of 2022. Alexio La Bruja, Lary Over, Menor Menor, Almighty and Milly have all been on the roster, and Farruko Presenta: Los Menores was released through it in 2014 before he moved to Sony Music Latin for Visionary.
What does the title La 167 refer to?
A highway close to where he grew up in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where his grandfather owned a gas station that the album cover references. He described it as the first road his eyes saw, and the record threads local reference points through the writing, mentioning the salsa singer Ismael Rivera in "El Incomprendido" and putting Héctor Lavoe's "Juanito Alimaña" inside "Pepas".
Did he write the songs that made him famous outside his own albums?
Several of his biggest credits are guest verses on other artists' records, and they sit outside his album catalogue: "6 AM" belongs to J Balvin's La Familia, "Ganas Locas" to Prince Royce's Five, and "Me Pasé" to Enrique Iglesias's Final (Vol. 1). His own writing is recognized separately, through Best Urban Song at the Latin Grammy Awards, where he won as a songwriter on "Encantadora" (2016) and was nominated again for "Mi Mejor Canción" (2023).
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