Songfacts®:

• "Gatúbela" is a sensual track where a feisty Karol G describes what she'd like to do to her lover between the sheets. The song title translates to "Catwoman," whom Karol G refers to in the first verse.
  
  Ya estoy elevada, me siento gatúbela
  (I’m already elevated, I feel like Catwoman)
  
  Karol G is unapologetic about devouring her lover in bed. She compares herself to Batman's morally ambiguous love interest.
• Puerto Rican artist Maldy joins Karol G on the track. In his verse, he outlines how the fiery Colombian singer turns him on. Formerly one half of the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Plan B, Maldy and his cousin Chencho Corleone released three hit studio albums between 2002 and 2014.
• Sin Maldy no hay perreo
  Yo la apreté en la disco como nadie la apretó
  (Without Maldy there's no perreo
  I dance with her in the club, as no one has done before)
  
  Ovy On The Drums' production fuses old-school reggaeton and intense perreo beats. A Dominican dance similar to twerking that generally accompanies reggaeton, the Perreo finds the man facing the back of the woman.
• When Karol G's team reached out to Maldy about collaborating, he was in the middle of a move from Orlando to Puerto Rico, so the timing wasn't the best. However, the Puerto Rican artist couldn't turn down the opportunity, and the next day he went to the studio in Miami and sang his verse.
  
  One of the song's composers, Justin Quiles, joined him in the studio. "Karol's team actually gave me the entire song with my verse already written," Maldy told Billboard. "What I did was add very few touches to interpret it with my essence."
• Two Florida-based producers, Dick Alfredo Caballero Rodríguez (who records as Alfr3d Beats) and Jack D. Hernandez (Ocean Vibes), brought legal action against Karol G, claiming 'Gatúbela' copied a beat they had posted on YouTube before the song was released. In February 2026, they voluntarily dropped the lawsuit and issued a public apology to Karol G, admitting they were wrong to accuse her of plagiarism.