Puerto Rican urban artist Vei Habache has just released his latest single and music video, SADBOILOKO a striking audiovisual work that goes beyond music to deliver a powerful social critique. Fusing sound, storytelling, satire, and protest, SADBOILOKO exposes the structural failures of Puerto Rico’s healthcare system through a raw, unapologetic lens.
The project was born from real-life experiences of Vei Habache himself, his creative team, family members, friends, and countless citizens who, in trying to access basic or specialized medical care, encounter a system built for paperwork, not for healing. One central idea shaped the project from the beginning:
“This isn’t just about mental health. This happens across the entire healthcare system.”
In the video, the psychiatrist portrayed by Dr. Piovanetti serves as a symbol. Behind him are the cardiologists, pediatricians, neurologists, and general practitioners all part of a system where common sense loses to bureaucracy and business. Many professionals, who once entered the field out of genuine vocation, now find themselves caught in a web of codes, billing procedures, and red tape forced to either adapt or break.
Another driving force behind the project is how younger generations now turn to social media for validation and self-diagnosis, arriving at clinics with pre-learned mental health “labels.” This creates a double mirror: a system that has become impersonal and transactional, and patients unsure of what is real and what’s just digital noise.
The song’s lyrics are a raw and chaotic scream, the patient’s emotional breakdown told through stark poetry. But just when everything seems lost, the ending reframes everything.
In the final scene, Dr. Piovanetti crosses the room, breaks protocol, and hugs the patient. He looks him in the eyes and says: “You’re going to be okay.”
That moment isn’t just a scene, it’s the core message of the entire work. It’s what the system doesn’t offer, but what humans still can: compassion, presence, dignity.
Visually, the piece draws from social realism, urban grit, and films like Good Will Hunting that portray human fragility without sugarcoating it. Every frame, every silence, every glance between the doctor and Vei’s character is meant to disturb, to spark thought, to leave the viewer unsettled and aware.
With SADBOILOKO, Vei Habache doesn’t just release a track he delivers a powerful artistic statement. One that demands attention, challenges complacency, and reminds us that sometimes, art is the only medicine we have left.
Listen to SADBOILOKO on all streaming platforms and watch the full video on YouTube.