No Jumper - The Farruko Interview: Blowing Up out of Puerto Rico, Working with Travis Scott & Nicki

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

Reggaeton icon Farruko takes over No Jumper for our first interview of its kind! With the help of Doknow, Farruko talks about his early days working hard to make a name for himself, working with some ...of the biggest names in the US, his Reggaeton influences, the success of "Pepas" and more! https://www.instagram.com/farruko/ https://twitter.com/farrukoofficial https://www.facebook.com/FarrukoOfficial https://www.youtube.com/c/farruko/videos ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 No Jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and today we're in here with absolute icon. Faruco, how are you doing? Hi. Nice to meet you, man. So I guess we're going to be trying something different night today. Yeah, so we guys don't know Faruco is an OG in the Latino, Regettone, World, Hispanic. So Adam doesn't know Spanish for shit. Faru Spanish is a little more advanced than my Spanish, so we're going to have to be going back and forth,
Starting point is 00:00:28 but we want to try to say, but that's for a good. We're going to give it a shot. We might have to caption the fuck out of this, but we're going to do it. Okay, so let's just start in the beginning. Tell us a little bit about your early life. Well, in my commence, I'm going to, I'm from Puerto Rico.
Starting point is 00:00:46 I'm over around 13, 14, 15 years, in the music, around. I always have done reggeton. It's the genre that's the genre that I distinguish. And in this case, I've fused a little, my music, I've done rap, I've done rap, and now, we're just a lot of what is the war, h, the d'em, also with the reggaeton,
Starting point is 00:01:11 which is in the case of the theme more recent that I've done PEPAS. So what were your early influences in terms of music, the music you grew up around, and what was the stuff that you really gravitated towards as a young kid? It's that I've been a little, I've heard of all of music, thanks to my family and that,
Starting point is 00:01:28 but majorly the reggaeton is the culture that in Puerto Rico is in the veins of one, me understand. So, it's a day, and he's dinner, and it's a lot of
Starting point is 00:01:39 culture, and I grew up to hear and I'm listening to Darry Yankee, Don Omar, Wising, Yandel, Estol, the Fad, the Tego,
Starting point is 00:01:46 were like, my idols in those moments, me, when I decided to make music. And I've influenced a much,
Starting point is 00:01:54 the people have said that reggaeton was a movement that no it would be to be able to get a fever and the moment he's has been abodered the world
Starting point is 00:02:02 and has developed my career also. Definitely. So you never thought about doing anything else. If you weren't doing music, what would you be doing
Starting point is 00:02:11 with your life? Did you consider anything else in terms of a career or a way to make money? It's that in reality I always I always did for passion, because I
Starting point is 00:02:20 like. Never for the money or for the fame or a position, a status. always that I do music, at the sun of today, I do what I like. It's my hobby, my passion,
Starting point is 00:02:31 me understand. If it's a hit and it's a fine. And if no, we're still doing music, because I don't work on a number one, in making more rich, and I don't work with that mentality. So when did you start to get some recognition and really feel like you had some potential? Or were people telling you that they believed in you
Starting point is 00:02:51 from a very young age? From the beginning, no. It was a quite because I was of those artists that I took
Starting point is 00:02:59 to make to make without discler and to play a and then at the beginning
Starting point is 00:03:05 the tools, nor even to have a studio professional where to grab my music.
Starting point is 00:03:10 I'm in the closet of a The microphone was so, it was to chattear, like the message. Like the chiquitos? The little,
Starting point is 00:03:27 with a gancho of roba and a panty-ho. And so we started to do music and we'd up to the pages web. In that time, the most pegged was Mindspace when I started. And in the playlists, I put the songs, canted in the proms of the schools,
Starting point is 00:03:44 and I'd call in the fiesta of the barrios. Nobody knew anything, said, "'Who's what, that's this? That's what's this? But I always went to, to give to to get me to know that the people that I had talent, me, it's a little difficult to be
Starting point is 00:03:56 a artist. That was a long fucking time ago, though. The Myspace era. Yeah. Do you feel like that's how the reggaeton game works? Is that it takes years and years and years of grinding to build up your name, or how does that normally work?
Starting point is 00:04:12 For the most in my case, I me took time. I took time to work and and do my name and to respect because we don't have the same more of the more of the other are the platforms digital, the Spotify, the Apple, the same Instagram.
Starting point is 00:04:28 In that moment, there was to to be a, to get to the radio, to do the interview, to say to the DJ, say to the only form of that your music oversalier and you could ever be the people, me understand. Now, no. Now you launch a theme and it's up the platforms
Starting point is 00:04:47 digital and it's all over viral and all the world's all the same time and space, there's all the world compaginand. In that moment, it was, like we say, social, to give us to know and to me it was
Starting point is 00:05:00 it made very difficult to create my career and my my name and my respect in this industry. Did you always feel like you needed to go and spread your music to different cultures in different countries in order to really make something out of yourself?
Starting point is 00:05:15 Or like, how would you have felt if you had only been successful in your your country like did you always have a bigger dream than that me when I when I saw that for example in what was my barrio in the school that I that my pay me my country me was up playing me
Starting point is 00:05:33 me and I did this all in serious when I was that was having much result in through the Puerto Rico when I'm going to stand by other countries I'm going to try to talk the the port of other
Starting point is 00:05:46 places to conquer those territories because in a place where it's a place where it's very difficult to because there are many regettoneros, me, and it's... ...it...it...so, that's... ...that I'm...that I'm trying to puttowlop... ...that it's... ...and it's...
Starting point is 00:06:02 ...and decide to go to my equipment, ...aqarmaletta, to... ...a provaal suerte and get to the countries and say, ...Mere, here I'm here I'm my music, ...sue... ...and many times we're... ...to show of gratis... ...to give to show to get to come to know,
Starting point is 00:06:16 ...ande... ...and get to be able to see. moment that then then they'd then to go to, for, to, for to get to us, I'm getting. That was a job, but I know that the world was to grow. I always had faith in that.
Starting point is 00:06:29 And if I'd like, all like the Dominican Republic Republic to Colombia, Chile, that were the first in opening our doors. A lot of the most popular rappers, it's like they kind of need to be associated with or respected by the streets or like the gang.
Starting point is 00:06:48 culture or whatever. Is it similar? Like, did you feel like you had to win over the streets in order to really become what you wanted to be? For the most of the culture where I'm in, and the barrio where I'm and the country, the music of reggaeton is well ligated with the street. So, the the street does the music of reggeton. And it's a something, they're going well, are well connected, me understand. It's very difficult. It's like the hip-hop that out of the Yeah. And it's very difficult to deligal that. That's something that's always going to be
Starting point is 00:07:22 because when you were coming up, did it feel like Americans would just never appreciate this music? Because I feel like you've gotten to experience watching America become more and more open-minded to the regitone and stuff. We've seen it become popular and then become less popular. Now it feels like it's just popular and it could probably never change. Toc, to try, prove our
Starting point is 00:07:45 because at the beginning, for a featuring or a collaboration with an artist Anglo-American or hip-hop,
Starting point is 00:07:54 it was very difficult because they were not they were not even that the gender Latino was working,
Starting point is 00:08:02 that reggeton was getting to the masses, then we have been today that have decided to collaborate
Starting point is 00:08:07 with us and it's super chever because before we saw it was an impossible of what
Starting point is 00:08:11 happened. Yeah, because I remember 2004, 2005. I forget exactly what year it was, but Norie started fucking with the reggaone hard. Noriega, who does the
Starting point is 00:08:23 Drink Champs podcast now and stuff. He had bangers. He had really popular songs, but people would talk about it like you're really putting your whole career at risk by making Megatone music because it was like, you will never be respected as a rapper if you do this, which seems kind of crazy and closed-minded now, right?
Starting point is 00:08:40 He was of the first. Norie, he was of the first who supported the genre and he started to collaborate. Yeah, and what he's saying is that, that person was a risk, if you're an American, a rapperer, that's with someone who does reggaeton, and not just,
Starting point is 00:08:54 he's a Spanish, and it's of Puerto Rico, Mexico, the D.R. It was like, if your career not serve, it's not going to serve, and you know why? And you, you, how do you think of that? Like, no, I, you, I'm, I'm, I'm feeling, because, imagine, until the principle, it was an
Starting point is 00:09:09 impossible, and we'd be we didn't, that we understand, that we understand, that we understand, and now, but, after our music, that they want to be the same Americans that we're going to be to bring a song to do a collaboration with you. It's a remix. It's a little bit too.
Starting point is 00:09:24 I was a very long. When I did creepy Cush with Bad Bunny, the theme was a success and French Montana did subversion, Travis Cote, he's a subversion, Nikki Minoche, me the entire that all the world brinked for the theme and it was a something a cabron. And I think that also has also that we've been in the genre, We've also been a way to sound a little American, we understand, we've made a rap,
Starting point is 00:09:49 things like that. Before the Americans, like, they had to make that reggaeton, because it was like, it was like, of a single form, me, you know? And now, because, we've had more variety of the urban, we've created a rap, we've done,
Starting point is 00:10:03 dance, or, you know, is to be the manner to collaborate. Yeah, was that song with Nikki Minaj and Travis Scott and everybody on the remix? Was that the big, big hit, like the first song, really exploded for you? Yeah, for me, for what, for me, for what is the market American, so, is the theme that, that first
Starting point is 00:10:21 me exploded so if I remember the first song that I heard of you Tierra Passen Wine with shampoo, but it was, it was a maiky, no, but so, if they're, to, to talk the fiber to the Americans that they're gonna, this farruco, was creepy cush with with, with Alicia Keys. Alish, we did, we did the rim and the, of, the, of, the, of, calm, that was a hit, too. How was that, like, the experience,
Starting point is 00:10:46 like she's not rapera, but she's a but can't of love and the and you, you're from, the, um, see, the peon, you're, you're, like, reggaeton, and the guys and of these areas, and in these two areas. How were the transition, and from there, for the Ichikis?
Starting point is 00:11:01 This, what happened with, with this theme was that was a, it was a time more pop with, with, reggae, me, but I met the essence my, of, the, of, the, of, the, the,
Starting point is 00:11:11 and, and, He just that. I mean, he, he, the vibe, he got the theme, that was something more sweet, me, and for me, well, one, oh, Lichaki, you know that that's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that must be crazy for your country
Starting point is 00:11:25 to just see American artists that they've never seen interact with this kind of music before to be, you know, having some of the Nicky Menager, Travis Scott, on music with you. Do you think that inspires, like, all your people to let them know that, like, this music is real, and that, like, it's respected by people all over the world? because you're doing things that they've never seen done before.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Yeah, I think that mark a, mark a, mark, as I say, and a mooseo, me understand, of that, that's a corral in a world. Because, as, as, as, I'm not sure we're not that people like I and other, many artists, have done that this, that's a CD,
Starting point is 00:12:05 well, I imagine that's like a legado, me understand, and there, and there are those doors open for future artists that are in the way, No, no, it's not the same luch that we've got us. Do you feel like the new generation of rappers or reggaeton artists from your country,
Starting point is 00:12:19 are they a lot more confident and a lot more easily able to imagine doing this with their lives because they've already seen people like you come in and actually do it? Like, it's easier for them to see the vision? Now, it's more easy for them to see the vision. They're more,
Starting point is 00:12:34 have more more more than I, when I, when I was when I was commenced, and we're notherst we're going to, that maybe they're going to, you know, that's going to pass them to get in these times. Because it's tripliced the world.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Yeah. Me, you know, yeah, we get to more countries, we're going to more public, the eyes are in our
Starting point is 00:13:07 so, it's very different to peg to a time in the 2015, to pay it on now in the 2021,
Starting point is 00:13:15 me, understand, it's more the, what will happen, is more a lot of
Starting point is 00:13:20 now right you're going to know, who's, and you're, you're going to be a millionario more rapid
Starting point is 00:13:27 and more famous than that's that's You think the artists more like they're from, like they're from, or before you, you think they're that they're, to, they're, like, that you're like, that you know, or you think?
Starting point is 00:13:44 Yeah, I think, yeah, yeah. Like, but it's like in a sense where they're hating or it's kind of more like, no, no, no, no, no, it's more like, it's more like, it's more like, we're, okay, okay, okay, it's, it's just, it's, it, it's, and, and, and for you, and for you, because you,
Starting point is 00:13:59 You have done hits a 10 years and you have the one of the song number one right in in 2021.
Starting point is 00:14:05 You see the difference with the hit there and you know, many times. For that I
Starting point is 00:14:10 think, because I've lived, I've had a hit ago ago back, and I
Starting point is 00:14:15 have a hit now, me understand. And I see the power that has a five years
Starting point is 00:14:22 back. For sure. What's the biggest difference between performing in America
Starting point is 00:14:28 versus performing in Puerto Rico, is it completely different? Like, what stands out is the biggest differences? Yeah, it's very different. Because, how much I'm how do you explain? In Puerto Rico,
Starting point is 00:14:43 you know, you know where you're coming, and when you're seeing, when having, that's from there, you know, you have to gain respect and they're like to tell them more in, in, in, you know, first, there's
Starting point is 00:14:55 a lot hating, you know, you, you know, you know, you're to prove. But it's like here, also the artists, when you're from your barrio, it's like, not explicitly those that you're with, like, people that you're with,
Starting point is 00:15:06 all the days, but the city where you're the city, exactly. It's, it's, like, not zealos, but like, is an incest where, like, what you're going to do, and that you, you've, you've seen the way to start. And, for example, when we get to the US, well, there are fans
Starting point is 00:15:24 expecting, no, me understand, because they they're being in what they're paying in the island that's that's on the island that back, and if you're going to receive with the with the
Starting point is 00:15:31 arms of open. But to sing in Puerto Rico, even you're to get in you're going to do the way to be
Starting point is 00:15:38 being the way to be put in because if no, they're not to give you know, no important,
Starting point is 00:15:43 how many years if you've you've got to have to be to do the time to rena, and I'm very competitive. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:15:57 American rap style or is that totally out the table have you ever thought about that well fiatty I've seen that is what I've said to be what we're saying we're, like, not even the American's like, because we're not comfortable on the rhythm of regreton of us, and I, in this case, I've been to give you to the opportunity of when I collaborate with an artist American, to give in his, in his same vibe, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:21 and I also I'm trying to as a artist, dominant other area. For that is that when I, when I, when I collaborate with an artist American, I don't like to go in the wave of the artist. Yeah, what do you think needs to happen in order for America to embrace reggae its own more? And is that something you even care about or are you just doing your thing? Do you ever think about how other cultures, like are there cultures who don't really seem to appreciate it that you care about making them like it more or is that not really something you think about? I think about.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Like the culture is very similar to the hip-hop and the culture urban. Remember, the music-ton nace of the Jamaican,
Starting point is 00:17:01 of reggae, of the hip-hop also, me-tient. So, they're mixed in those two cultures and
Starting point is 00:17:07 make a regetone. I think that's what has done, that's that's not to make,
Starting point is 00:17:13 because they feel, seem, identified, more it's a genre that comes from the
Starting point is 00:17:17 call, expressa, what is what maybe other genres of music don't even to say, and not just so it's a, it's a general that's a much of a musical, so the sound Latino is unique. In, in, in
Starting point is 00:17:30 comparison to the other, and it's less prescient, but it makes to dance, I'm the answer. But what he is, that, if you don't know, the, the country, here, in the United, obviously,
Starting point is 00:17:41 you know, the loose, regentone, the music urban, where you're doing, if you're doing music, if you're doing music, with ACON, CJ, with all that's what you can't think, but you think that in the States
Starting point is 00:17:52 United still there's, there is a space to grow the love for regent and respect to or not you don't you
Starting point is 00:18:01 know in the sense where and that we don't know, we're doing what we're doing in a position privileged.
Starting point is 00:18:09 So if you say, we're in a moment now same that I never ever seen the reggeton so very
Starting point is 00:18:13 for the American, never in my life, at the moment that we're today, me you know,
Starting point is 00:18:18 I'm a I'm a artist that I'm a discotheque, clubs, of 100 people, to be a
Starting point is 00:18:26 stadium in the United, or an arena. Oh, shit. And, and not just it was,
Starting point is 00:18:33 I don't tell you, not you know, talking to me only, because before we took about
Starting point is 00:18:37 a discotheka three and four artists. Now are festivals, I'm understand. And I
Starting point is 00:18:42 say, we we're in a good moment where we have opened the in a way incredible, if
Starting point is 00:18:48 it's, if, it's, it's, to be the more, I imagine that I'm, I imagine that I'm going to, I'd like, I'd like,
Starting point is 00:18:57 because it's the right of one. But we're in a position privileged, like it's any American artists that our audience would know that you would love
Starting point is 00:19:06 to work with? Like, is there anybody, obviously you've worked with some of the biggest artists, but is there anybody in particular that you would love to hear doing your style of music? I like, I like much,
Starting point is 00:19:16 Post Malone I'd like to do something. I'd like much as well as Bruno Mars The Weekend Chris Brown are artists that I'd like
Starting point is 00:19:29 to collaborate with them You'd like a lot of R&B then so? Yeah, me I like the R&B and so I think the hip-hop I think you
Starting point is 00:19:37 because he likes much the Tupac without you? Yeah, I've heard much music of Tuba and how how I've created
Starting point is 00:19:44 that in the house in the with the streets, with friends. No, he was on YouTube,
Starting point is 00:19:48 and my manager, Frank Miami, is fanatic of Tupac and I always I put in
Starting point is 00:19:53 the music. What's the favorite song of his? He has one of
Starting point is 00:19:59 that he says, Mijie, that he is a black complete. Those are
Starting point is 00:20:06 two classics. This one. Would you ever do this one? Is a a song
Starting point is 00:20:11 like the like the head him up, never they never a And the tiradero too, you can never hate somebody so much
Starting point is 00:20:19 you want to make a whole song about them? How like? How do you? Like if, if never had to someone, as you can do it, the song like you did,
Starting point is 00:20:27 the hit him up? Yeah, yeah. It's just, yeah. You can't send a rapagazzo. And if, right,
Starting point is 00:20:35 all the, what's what's how it's like, I'm, I'm, I hear the, I hear the,
Starting point is 00:20:41 I hear the the club is one of the first that they're the first that they're paying and is I can't see a lot but also people suffering you know what shuffling? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how is, how is it,
Starting point is 00:20:54 how does it talk all the genres but it was a regettone in that sense? I tell you, because I've had different hits in what is my career and I've seen the different reactions of the public. Majorment the hits that I've had been,
Starting point is 00:21:11 are the songs that have been in a tempo... More rapid? ...mallento, okay. ...morelain't. And, well, the reaction was that the people was the chorus, because the chorus was chis and it was it's... It was easy to learn, me understand.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Yeah. When I did the creepy coach with... ...combat, I saw the shuffle for the first, the people, breaking. But normal, because it was a trap, me... Yeah. When I'm...
Starting point is 00:21:40 I'm going to now with this of Peppa and I see the reaction that is the people desquished, you know, being, so different. It's different. I think it's the first time that I get that type of energy in a crowd. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Yeah, that song is crazy. 40 million views in a week or some shit like that. No, and organics. It's a, that I just a little lanced the art of, and I was up to YouTube, so with the audio, and it's viral,
Starting point is 00:22:08 so. Right. So, so, today, you're to take a time,
Starting point is 00:22:12 you're not it's rare. It's very. It's very very. It's very. Yeah. And when,
Starting point is 00:22:18 and when we're in the studio, if it's the song, never thought, okay,
Starting point is 00:22:21 that's, I'm going, I'm going, so, obviously the life was changed, where you
Starting point is 00:22:25 have been this song with an artist, a artist, but this song
Starting point is 00:22:31 to get to another in a sense when you think you you think, you think,
Starting point is 00:22:36 in this sense, that you I think that's a mark a precedent because it's not the first ever that one-hits, me-hits. Many times there are people that are one-hit wonder. And I've had that bendition of going to, and down and down,
Starting point is 00:22:49 and every one more than one more than one more than one makes a song and then one knows what to do you know, because how you're going to super a la the, the best you've had that suites and that bendition of the fanatic that I've been growing, that no matter the years that I go to career. But is what I said, when I do
Starting point is 00:23:07 when I do music, I do it with the because I like. I never do think that this is the song number one. If I do I do experiment, it's like to have a fabric of automobiles and you're creating a prototype, me, and you go to the public,
Starting point is 00:23:24 well, if we're going to do you, if we're doing prototypes, me understand. If you think that's the problem with artists in music, but in the genre, reggeton, like, where they have a song and they're with that song for years, And no... And no...
Starting point is 00:23:38 And no pass more nothing. Uh-huh. So, it's very difficult. There are many artists that are one-hounder. And I... That is a fear that I've been
Starting point is 00:23:47 always, me understand. But I do that that... That's when you do a song with mentality of
Starting point is 00:23:54 that's a number one. Or, or maybe you didn't, when you got to have a number one,
Starting point is 00:24:00 you've done to try. And you still getting a way to find a way of inventive. And that's the my mind of artists
Starting point is 00:24:07 of not able to superer every song that I always me make that in the case, it's the number one, but it has to be a better song. If you, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I have, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. But what keeps you motivated to keep going?
Starting point is 00:24:20 Because, you know, I would assume that you're pretty comfortable financially. Obviously, you're famous as fuck, one of the most famous artists from your country and shit. What do you, like what actually makes you want to keep working, whereas a lot of people might just chill? I'm going to imagine to get the fame to someone
Starting point is 00:24:36 that never took nothing, you know, I'm trying, you know, to get a lot of you, I mean, what I'm trying to make up to hear about, I don't do this for money, no I do for fame, I do it for superar me, for me, for me, for me for me, I see, I'm a player, me and I have to be the player
Starting point is 00:24:54 more valiose, me, you know, or I have to have a legation in the, in the cancha that I've had a game unique, me and I don't do I do do I do
Starting point is 00:25:05 not do to do you know I know I'm I'm not that I'm think I'm that nobody
Starting point is 00:25:11 played like nobody nobody didn't the game that was that I'm do you feel
Starting point is 00:25:16 like you're actually in competition with the new generation of artists who are probably mostly inspired
Starting point is 00:25:21 by you can't maybe you can't be it can't it can't it can't be
Starting point is 00:25:27 one that one that other I'm You know, because, lastimusamously, a some people that don't respect to those that have time, me
Starting point is 00:25:34 understand. But it's like there's one or another that's, that's really, I admire what I do, and I'm impede, me, you
Starting point is 00:25:40 think? But I, you think the era of you, is more open-minded to help to help those who are
Starting point is 00:25:48 sub-eating, that as they're about them, with those who are about to them? Yeah. Yeah, right? Yeah, I think the era of
Starting point is 00:25:57 More amable? More amable to collaborate. Because many of the artists that are the same. I'm not going to color as much as to be like I, more than I'm more than I. With the day of the other,
Starting point is 00:26:08 I don't go to collaborate, me, you know. And at the day about, that is to have to be up to get up, yeah, me understand. What's the difference between the girls in Puerto Rico
Starting point is 00:26:17 versus the girls in America? I'm stupid. I never been there, so I don't know. I need to hear a review. The Puerto Ricanas are little, but they're much.
Starting point is 00:26:26 What's that? Problematica. They're toxic fool. Here? No, no, no. In Puerto Rico. And, and working
Starting point is 00:26:37 like the Alpha, how's, how comes that when he has has been in the studio together, how is the braeba,
Starting point is 00:26:45 like with Barban and all that. The Alf and I are we are very friends. When he he started,
Starting point is 00:26:51 he comes to from a place different, that is Republic of America, and there,
Starting point is 00:26:55 as, there, there, no, there, no, no, there was an artiste urban, uh,
Starting point is 00:26:59 so, so there was a Romeo in the Batchata, if there was a Juan Liggar in the Merengue, but no, there was an artist urban a
Starting point is 00:27:07 level world, as what has got to the alpha. And in that principle that I know he, he still didn't,
Starting point is 00:27:13 he was still not, if it was a public Dominican, but still didn't internationalized. We did a good
Starting point is 00:27:18 amitou, I did what I did much in what was the the business, of how manage to to,
Starting point is 00:27:24 to see if you're like an artist international. And he's left to give to me in many things and I
Starting point is 00:27:30 agree with the success that has been, I'm it's a good for me, for the Republic of
Starting point is 00:27:36 Dominican because I know, that I know, and that's a person that's that's
Starting point is 00:27:41 we're a good amsted. I want you to ask some questions. I'll be, if I
Starting point is 00:27:47 see, if I see, you're going to retire. Ah, well, I was, I was,
Starting point is 00:27:51 I was, before this, of what what happened with Pepas and that I wanted to get to get a break as a person
Starting point is 00:27:59 I mean I really always have always I've really that I'm going to I'm going to
Starting point is 00:28:08 I don't like I'd like I'm I'm being old singing with a regatown
Starting point is 00:28:14 and and I've always I've always I want to go to I'm going to go to the
Starting point is 00:28:20 music me What I'm what I do I want to I don't want to get that trot of that competition all the time, but I want to get to get a moment of my career where me do it and I'm just to do what I want to do, you want to do,
Starting point is 00:28:34 and explore other areas or other things. Because is that is something where you want to live a more relaxed? I think that's, I'm a living a more relaxed and also I think that I think that much people is that when in their pejor in moments, Me, you know, I want to go in one of my
Starting point is 00:28:55 my more moments. Oh, and those, you think, that are the time perfect for you? I think that's still in some some of some of the same, on some, some of the way to do you, but the day that I'm the way, I'm getting, but, but, I want that when pass it,
Starting point is 00:29:11 it's a, I don't want to to be at all in my ultima. You know, 45 years. Yeah, no, and, too, or, or have been, respect to the people or something, me understand, that, that's a cavaun,
Starting point is 00:29:24 he's, he was invicto in his best a good, a man, you're gonna retire to Puerto Rico or are you gonna retire someone else? No, in Puerto Rico.
Starting point is 00:29:33 In Puerto Rico? In the area, in the area, in the same barrio, where I grew, and I know in Puerto Rico,
Starting point is 00:29:42 the baseball is great, never played? Yeah. Yeah, when was, when I was a, no,
Starting point is 00:29:49 I got a pass. It was a good for that. If in the school, what was the thing that had more power in? Well, the basketball and the baseball. Oh, see?
Starting point is 00:29:58 And the boceo. Okay. So in Puerto Rico, what is the most grand? So is the, is the baseball? The,
Starting point is 00:30:03 the, baseball, and the basketball. Oh, okay. Now, right. Right. What's the favorite players
Starting point is 00:30:12 that are the people that play here? A me, I mean, I like much the the team of here of the Lakers. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Uh. I've been a fan of the Laken. This year, it's going to be good for those people who have many players. Yeah. Colabages of the game, you know, there's a pure show in there. He'll be going to be good,
Starting point is 00:30:28 the league. What do you do with all your money? I mean, he's got a really big fucking shiny-ass watch on. So that's one thing. I'm just wondering, like, do you have your car collection? Do you own a bunch of houses?
Starting point is 00:30:40 Like, like, what's a hobby? What's the hobby of you? My hobby, in the money, where I've got to get to a vehicle. I like much the motors, the auto is where that's my only vizio. I mean, you know, you're doing, but I'm so you're not so, I'm so of the jewellery.
Starting point is 00:30:57 I'm more of the vehicles of motor, of the boats, of the yeski, the motors. Oh, so they like much the life rapid? Yeah, I like the velocity. And in what state he's more to be in the US? Obviously, Miami's very great, but you know, New York has a much, if Puerto Rican,
Starting point is 00:31:15 but yeah, but Fiatty, Miami, Miami. And I me, me, me, me, my, my like the river to Miami. Because it's more like the isla? Yeah, it's very, it's very, it's very, but he's like the weather? Like, like, like, the... Yeah, yeah, it's, it's...
Starting point is 00:31:29 That's horrible. So, for you, I said, in Los Angeles, or for me, the, how do you say, humor? Or the, the, how do you say, humiliation? How do you say? The humidity, oh, the humidity, yeah, the humidity.
Starting point is 00:31:44 Ah. The humidity does? Yeah, because, when I go out and not to refreshes, me. Do you know. What is tomorrow for your regettone? If you give those top five or not, you have to do in order, but of regenton,
Starting point is 00:32:00 what's going to be for you? Of what are you? The, the, you're going to be the other? The other than. Yeah, the regetone, Don Omar, Hector-Elfadl,
Starting point is 00:32:12 of the new Barboni is very d' very d'n. I like much what he does. MyTower, also, that's of the new, Demeterrethorish, also, of the new,
Starting point is 00:32:24 are chomacos that are working well. I saw when did a, like, a cover with Jerry Rivera,
Starting point is 00:32:31 how was that for you? I know that the generation of him is very different, that my mom was put
Starting point is 00:32:38 when I was to clean in the Saturday in the morning. How was to do that? I respect
Starting point is 00:32:43 much the salsa and the cantants of Sarsero because I grew I, I I grew up I'm listening
Starting point is 00:32:51 the music of salsa, in Puerto Rico and it's respect much the salsa and for me to grab with Jerry
Starting point is 00:32:57 is like it's like to grab with one of my idol and that was and for my mom
Starting point is 00:33:02 or an ballita my my mom my mom was you did you see you
Starting point is 00:33:07 did you like she got with all in the world but he's
Starting point is 00:33:11 with the with the with the Jerry and he has How do your parents feel about all your success? My papa, imagine,
Starting point is 00:33:21 this is, I'm really, very, very felicit, because my destiny not the best, you know, I've seen that I was a little rebel, and that they were the way to break with me, and I, well, I did a lot of the of the head and problems my papa, but, at all I imagine,
Starting point is 00:33:39 I've made that I've done the things well, that I've focused on what is my career, and in what I like to do so, in my talent. You think they're going to do a documentary when it's a document that you're that's all easy? All right, yeah, when you're the career in the CES?
Starting point is 00:33:55 Yeah, I think that I think I have a a story that's interesting to tell you to my life. I don't know if it's a me in that moment, but when it talk, I think there are many anecdotes and stories that can't tell good, that can serve in inspiration for much people. In your career, what was, I think the year is more difficult or it was more difficult for you, where it's where it's where you're,
Starting point is 00:34:19 and it's where you're, there's different things for your life. I think about two years ago, I've, I've, took a situation in my career, where I arrested. Oh, if for the money? Yeah, for a money.
Starting point is 00:34:32 And, also, artistically, not, not, I'm not in my most moment, too, you know? And it was a pretty I was a very very much things in
Starting point is 00:34:41 in the life and the career also and it was a but I wanted and I'm
Starting point is 00:34:49 and you know what is the important you want to do the next question you want to I've seen your list on your phone
Starting point is 00:34:57 I want to make sure you get to it and all and with the hip-hop and you never has ever has a done to do a
Starting point is 00:35:07 something in English? Well, look, I want to learn to dominate. I understand. I understand. I mean, I understand. I understand. Well, ah. But, but I don't
Starting point is 00:35:15 I am I to pronounce it. I'm like, no, I don't know, it's a... Because I don't know because I don't know. No, but I don't think that's the word, because it's like... Because it's like...
Starting point is 00:35:28 He knows, Spanish. He's not trying, you're not trying. Pussy right here. So, if he wants... If you know, the... If you know, but... Why don't know?
Starting point is 00:35:37 not you know what you're like, it's timid. It's like, like, timid, it's like, I'm trying to, but you're in a, in a career where you, you know, why not prove a different? Yeah. No, I'd like, I'd like try English. He says he's kind of like, sigh embarrassed.
Starting point is 00:35:58 And I'm like, well, at least he's trying, you know, you don't even speak Spanish at all. I'm trying. No, you're not. I'm listening. Say one thing in Spanish to him. Ask him a more question in Spanish. That would be so offensive for me to bust out.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Because I'm going to bust out my like 12 year old Spanish. There's nothing wrong with it. No, there's something wrong with it. I'm not doing that. Yeah. Let's say I'm going to ask you. He's waiting for your Spanish question.
Starting point is 00:36:20 I mean, I don't want to disrespect his fucking entire culture. You're not disrespecting it. I'm like saying he's disrespected when you're... I don't even think I could make a sentence. I think I just got words. This individual word. I would have a hard time putting them all together.
Starting point is 00:36:35 By the way, I like your shirt. I like the hell. Thank you very much. Shout out to my boy, Casper. See, this is a shirt from England, and he's a Puerto Rican respecting it. You didn't say nothing about my shirt. That's whatever. I heard you call me a pussy in there, too. I'm still trying to figure it out.
Starting point is 00:36:52 I was telling him that at least he tries to do a song in English. And he's the, I might try it. I'm going to try it. And I'm like, you're a pussy. You're not even trying to talk in Spanish. Yeah, that's fair. You ever think about trying to get Nicky Minaster rap in Spanish or something? No, Nikki, where are in Spanish?
Starting point is 00:37:10 Yeah, she's probably a lot better than me. Yeah, for sure. And has something in the Fiosk with artists grandes here, like Drake, me or something? I'm doing a couple of things. I've been a little bit of things. I did one with Lil Mousley.
Starting point is 00:37:28 I did one with Mowgli. I have one with Mowado, the Jamaica, and we met him to the Spanish in the two songs. Okay. And, and the album, now are you're starting an album? Album, if I'm working, my album,
Starting point is 00:37:39 it's the name of the carreterer, where I was and I grew up. And, well, we're getting a minute, we're going to go to the tour, also, I'm going to be the tour. When does the tour?
Starting point is 00:37:53 The tour, the tour is it in November. In November, and it's in the States? In the States. We're going to be here in L. We're going to be in New York, Miami, all the cities are grand.
Starting point is 00:38:04 For the DLE? For the DLE? We'll go to go to you? Sure, yes. I go to LA song you got a tour in November. I want to see the girls shaking their ass in the crowd. I'm going to be honest with you. Is there a lot of that?
Starting point is 00:38:13 Yeah, see, that's what I know. I know that the music I listen to, girls don't shake their asses to it, but the music everybody else likes. So that's what I want to say. Sign me up. Yeah, Lee, if the show, not going to be here in Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Here, here's how we're in Ontario? Oh, wow. That's not so. That is, that is, That's a... That's huge. Toyota, Ontario.
Starting point is 00:38:40 Let's go. And for Los Angeles, no... If you don't know if you can't get any artist that you can't see that right that's out of the rap. De Los Angeles, I was listening a
Starting point is 00:38:51 Mexican, rape, like in English, in Spanish, it's a product, or something, I think, Snow the product. Snow the product.
Starting point is 00:39:00 Oh, okay, okay, okay. I like the flow. And regettone and artists that do do you do you
Starting point is 00:39:10 think that in Puerto Rico would be a chance or no? Or in places like the R Puerto Rico,
Starting point is 00:39:17 Chile, Colombia? I think yeah, at the first all the regettoners
Starting point is 00:39:22 were out from Puerto Rico and you've seen in the Republic Dominican to the
Starting point is 00:39:25 Alfa in in Colombia we have a Colum a a Jew
Starting point is 00:39:29 and J. Balvin and you had been been in Panama a Sech
Starting point is 00:39:32 so before not was that was the other people to do all the PR the PIR, me understand, and now they've been out of, oh, that's real. That's fire. And the next one at all? You're the one with the phone full of questions.
Starting point is 00:39:44 Nah, I saw my questions. I got through my questions too. Yeah. If I do what you I feel like this would be big for you, I feel like you're gonna be hosting shows in Puerto Rico by the end of the week. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Nobody's, they're included, because you know, no, no, in Spanish. But you're saying that you're not in the, in the generation and the close, I'm with pure a man, that you were, someone who was to begues, and I was playing,
Starting point is 00:40:11 and I explained much that for so, for that, so, so, no, he's been a lot of him. You gotta take him on tour with you, your career will reach new heights. I swear to God. I'm going to talk with you.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Where we go? Where we go? Where we go? Give me a plane ticket, we're good. And when, when did Los Angeles, what come? Tacco.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Tacco? Toto. Just, Yeah, me just the tacos. This is not going to go to me or just like tacos. If you like hot chitos? I like, yes, the
Starting point is 00:40:39 food Mexican. Do you like hachitos? What are chitos? The chitos? Yes. But not the picante. Oh, you don't like hot chitos. We have a friend
Starting point is 00:40:49 who overdosed on them. Who? Luzanne. He overdosed a hot chitos? He's late to the party. Oh, you are paying attention to the live music back that. I've seen that.
Starting point is 00:40:59 I've seen that. I've seen that. And the artists that are Mexicans for raping, no, don't they pay to anyone with you? Of the Mexicans. That are from here, the state, but. It's that I've seen so much. If the, the, the, of the, the, of the, the, of the,
Starting point is 00:41:14 the, of the, the, of the, the, Natanel, that's the, I like, I like, I do. Yeah. That's, is, is, I'm surprised. I never, I never saw that, Like I'm a Mexican, so the
Starting point is 00:41:29 CURRID has grown there, but I don't know, I did Barbonny, to do that with Nathan Elkan, me, me surprised because in Puerto, what I know in Puerto Rico is very, the dumb-bado, in the... No, but... No, you know, the, the... ...courrivolve, in Puerto Rico.
Starting point is 00:41:45 Oh, yes, if it's... At least in the barrio and in the streets, so... No, yeah, is... Okay, and... ...and the documentary of Nicky Jam, and they they liked? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:56 It was really good, huh? Yeah, yeah. They're on the same part of where you're on. Nicky, Nicky was from other part. I'm going to go on. Oh, okay, okay. Is this an honor? It's an honor, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:09 We got to go to the show. We first, I got it. It'll be fun. Manager, we're going to get your contact right after this. We're going to need a couple of passes. Puerto Rican, Bob. A couple shots. Yeah, we're getting in a guy.
Starting point is 00:42:20 You want to close it? Yeah, hey, I mean, just appreciate it so much. Thank you so much. I think this might be the longest interview you ever done even an English or the American platform I don't know yeah I I think that's my interview is about to have because my Spaniolese is for the audience that we're going to you're saying that's different to us others say
Starting point is 00:42:40 you're talking like in, like, celsius, and you're about cursive. We're not, like, I've got a, I never knew what,
Starting point is 00:42:54 what, what, and I was like, like that's like saying, what's up, right? Yeah, I mean, to buy some of my to buy them to rob a little bit. Oh, fum a motos, I see. And when we went to the type of there and he said,
Starting point is 00:43:10 You're not Arabi? Oh, you guys do look Arab. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because we're very rapid. You guys, now, you think you look a little Earl? Huh? But you think they look a little Arab? Yeah, everybody looks a little Arab.
Starting point is 00:43:25 I don't know like that. Yeah, but I'm saying that the Spanish of your is more like cursive, more more, they're more rapid, ah. And the last question, the Comedient, who are those are the favorites? Of the artists of the artists of the For the Comedies?
Starting point is 00:43:42 Ah, of comedians. Comediente, like, how's the Mexican this, I like much, how's it? The Fluffy? No, the, the, the, the that's the movie. George Lopez? No, the other.
Starting point is 00:43:56 There's another one? Carlos Menzilla. I don't know. The Yerebez. What is the, the family of peluche? Uh-huh. That's a, that's a momon. It's Chilango, I think, is Chilango?
Starting point is 00:44:09 Yeah, my family is D.F., for that I'm, so I'm saying, if I'm a good way. But, oh, okay, okay. All right, I have one more question. If me and him come to Puerto Rico, what is the food and the drugs that we got to try before we leave? Stupid. Faharan. The food, you have to eat mofongo. Let's say the truth.
Starting point is 00:44:30 I don't like. No, I do. Or it's here, but at the most I'm... No, papi, you have to prove it in Puerto Rico. Okay. Mofongo, Alcapurria. And when you go to the perla, pitted the creepy. Creepie.
Starting point is 00:44:43 Oh, you want to... If he's not... ...you want to... Oh, try that. The drug. What? Creepy. What's that?
Starting point is 00:44:53 What is? Oh, okay. Well, that's a given. Man, man, I don't know that Farroko, de vera. Yeah, appreciate you, man. For real. Thank you so much. I'll close it out.
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