Communion, real name Álvaro Vega, is a Latino Christian rapper and former seminarian. He first gained viral notoriety in the mid-to-late 2000s under the stage name "The Cacaman", where he made parodies of rap and R&B music with a rather irreverent and scatological slant, though one of his songs, "Ain't Got Much of a Smile", was a more serious glimpse on his troubled background and depression.
His stint as a parodist was short-lived, however: in a MySpace post he confessed
that he had a revelation after a bad hangover, having stumbled upon a copy of the 15th-century devotional book The Imitation of Christ; through this he realised how shameful his former career was, expressing his disillusionment over secular pop music and labelled his former idol The Notorious B.I.G. as "glorifying sin" and rapping "verses that are satanic." Since then, he devoted his life to Catholic music and was at some point a seminarian, though he was unable to fulfil his vocation as a priest and is now serving God in a more devotional take on his once-obscene rap game.
He and his music can be found on YouTube and on Instagram.
Discography
As The Cacaman
- 2007 - Shittin' on the Industry
As Communion
- 2016 - Creo en Dios
Communion (and his earlier career as The Cacaman) gives examples of:
- As the Good Book Says...: Vega's songs now lean more towards this, starting from his conversion to Catholicism in 2008.note
- God Is Good: The reworked version of "Ain't Got Much of a Smile", extolling the joys of being saved by Jesus.
- Gospel Music: As Communion.
- Genre Shift: Following his confession on MySpace, he took down all of his back catalogue under The Cacaman moniker and reinvented himself as a Catholic rapper.
- Grossout Show: The video for NastyCrap where he is shown reeking in fecal matter as he tries to unclog a toilet.
- Heel–Faith Turn: Starting from his confession about his former musical career.
- Hollywood Atheist: Vega has made songs lambasting irreligion through a conservative Catholic lens, such as in the song "I Believe".
- The Moral Substitute: Since shredding the gross-out humour out of his system, he turned his attention towards preaching the Gospel using the genre he knows best, citing Eminem as an influence.
- Same Face, Different Name: Previously known as "The Cacaman", but later took on the moniker "Communion" as he went by a different subgenre.
- Songs of Solace: "Ain't Got Much of a Smile", though this was eventually averted when he reworked the song as simply "Smile" to reflect his newfound faith.
- Song Parody: As The Cacaman, albeit mostly leaning more on scatological topics such as diarrhea and indigestion. He did however make quite a few non-scat parodies such as "I Shop At Walmart".
