1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Joseph Joseph Joseph, what do Doddy Yankee anti Swift having gone? 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 2: Okay? I thought we were doing another pop quiz, but 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: now you're throwing riddles at me. 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 3: I got to mix it up. I gotta keep you 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 3: on your toes. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: I hate you. 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: Okay, here's a clue. It has nothing to do with 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: their personal lives. 9 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: Okay, other than being platinum selling artists. I got nothing 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: unless you're gonna tell me Taylor got shot and never 11 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 2: wrote a song about it. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we would have like a triple anthology 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: album if Taylor took a bullet. 14 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: Okay, no, she did not. 15 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: But did you know that both Daddy Yankee and Taylor 16 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: Swift own all of their master recordings, and Doddy Yankee 17 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: didn't have to rerecord his entire catalog to get it. 18 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: All of Daddy Yankee's music is already a Daddy's version. 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: How did you do that? 20 00:00:58,440 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: Well? 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety, all of Daddy Yankee's music has been 22 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: released through his own independent record label. It's called El 23 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: Gartel Records. So whether it was his mixtape days through 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: Gasolina and yes, even through Espasito Eland has had full 25 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: bargaining rights over all of his recording. 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: Damn, and he gets a fat cut from every. 27 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: Cut he is printing bills? Literally, can we get some 28 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: of that? 29 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 2: By the way, I mean, plead sponsor. 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: But here's the thing he did say, when you're independent, 31 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: you're free. I mean, that's what he's told Rolling Stone 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: last year during his farewell tour. And apart from obviously 33 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: the financial freedom that you get from that, the freedom 34 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: from major label expectations, that means that he has freedom 35 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: to uplift and collaborate with producers and fellow rapperos that 36 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: he found exciting both from his home in Puerto Rico 37 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: and of course beyond. 38 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: But at a certain point he became the star of 39 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: the show. Despite all the mixtapes and the compilations, he 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: was the one we all ended up talking about. 41 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: Yes, one thousand percent, he was a rising star. And 42 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: it's as true of the regaton scene as it is 43 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: in the rap scene. 44 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 3: That you don't get to the top without a little 45 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: beef child. 46 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: Way are we going to go into some Drake and 47 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: Kendrick Schitt. 48 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: We do not have the next week to talk about that. 49 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: I mean, it's drama. 50 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 2: Listen. Reggaeton has layers. 51 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Liliana Rosquez and I'm Joseph Carrio, and 52 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: this is Becoming an Icon a weekly podcast where we 53 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: give you the rundown on how today's most famous Latin 54 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: V stars have shaped pop culture. 55 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: And given the world some extra level. 56 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 3: Sit back and get comfortable. 57 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know how, 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 2: with buena vivras, agnasriesas. 59 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest 60 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them 61 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: so iconic. We have followed Daddy Yankee's rise through the 62 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican reggaeton scene from the stage at the Noise 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: to splitting a track with Brooklyn Royalty Nos. 64 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: And we've covered lots of his pioneering reggaeton piers along 65 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: the way. But there's one person we haven't quite touched 66 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 2: on yet, Nicki Nicki Nikki Jam. 67 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: Yes, and that is nick Rivera Kamineto aka Nicki Jam 68 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: And he would come to be Daddy Yankee's right hand man. 69 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: He was what you would call an indispensable part of 70 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee's rise to greatness and their falling out is 71 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: a sad, but it's a critical part of Yankee's overall story. 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 2: He was born on Saint Patrick Stay all the way 73 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 2: up in Massachusetts, to a Dominican father and a Puerto 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: Rican mother. 75 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Can I tell you that besides from Mexa Rican, Mexican 76 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: and Puerto Rican, which I am, Domi Rican is my 77 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: other favorite? 78 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: Oh? I love that now. 79 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 3: From an early age, Nicki jam loved hip hop. 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: His favorites Hello Cool Jay and Marky Mark and the 81 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: fund Key Bunch, which I will not hold against him. 82 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 2: Wait, maybe this is a confused kid. 83 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: Listen. 84 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: If you're Latino and your birthday party every year was 85 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: a Saint Patty's Day parade in Massachusetts, you would be 86 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: confused too. 87 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,679 Speaker 3: But he didn't stay there too long. 88 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: At the age of ten, Nicki's family relocated to San Juan, 89 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. 90 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 2: Nicki's parents told him that they wanted to reconnect with 91 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: his roots on his mother's side, but Nicki would later 92 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: learn that his father was on the run. 93 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: Both of Nicki's parents struggled with substance abuse, and Niki's 94 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: father had duck to bail on a drug related charge. 95 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 2: And so on. The cusp of adolescence, Nicki found himself 96 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: in a completely new environment where he didn't speak a 97 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: word of Espanoon. 98 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: But over time, Nicki overcame this hurdle by following his 99 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: love of hip hop. He listened to reggaeton and other 100 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: Spanish language music to train his ear and learn the language. 101 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: His starting music came at the age of fourteen, working 102 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 2: as a bag boy. Hey, a bag I wonder if 103 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: this is the same place where a bad bunny were. 104 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: Working as a bag boy at a grocery store, he 105 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: would make up rhymes about all of the items he 106 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: would scan and bad, just. 107 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: Like Daddy Yankee made of rhymes when his family went 108 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: Christmas caroling. 109 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: One day, Nicki cut the ear of a record. 110 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: Producer and just like that, Nicki jam had a debut 111 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: EP distinto Alo demas or Different from the rest Ooh. 112 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: The Puerto Rican boy from Boston who loved Saint Patrick's Day. 113 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, okay, I know, I know. When you heard 114 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, I was triggered. 115 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 3: But let's go easy on Niki right. 116 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: After all, he hardly saw any money from the recording 117 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: because he signed the contract without reading it. Y'all stop 118 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: signing contracts, Joseph, what have we learned from this. 119 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: I have learned a lot. Let me tell you, let 120 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 2: me tell you. 121 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 3: Get a lawyer. 122 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: Ya ya yeah. 123 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: But his distinct voice did garner him an early reputation, 124 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: even though he sounded like the littlest little baby. 125 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 3: That baby could spit bars. 126 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: The album would even catch the attention of Nikki's idol. 127 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: When Nicki Jam started showing up at the Noise, he. 128 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: Would go specifically to seek out Daddy Yankee, and for 129 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee, Nicki Jam needed no introduction. 130 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 2: Upon meeting Nikki, he said to him, I know who 131 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: you are. You're that little kid who sings rap in 132 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 2: a little Mickey Mouse voice. The shade right like, oh yeah, 133 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 2: I've heard of your stuff. It's cute, but still, Yankee 134 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: told Nikki he liked his style. The two became best 135 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 2: friends and towards the end of the nineties close collaborators. 136 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: Both Daddy Yankee and Nikki Jam appeared on Playeto forty one, 137 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: another DJ Plaeto mixtape. Shortly thereafter, the two formally became 138 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: a duo like us, I mean. 139 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: That's cute, okay, So they called themselves Los Congris, which 140 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 2: is the best of the best. 141 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: Hear Mike Hungrie, Hmmm, I Love You and Yankee. 142 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: Elgartel Productions became Los Gungri's Music Inc. Together Los Congrie's 143 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: release hits that lit the underground on fire, like in 144 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: La Gama and Legata. 145 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: These are the tracks where Daddy Yankee really starts to 146 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 2: sound like Daddy Yankee we know today, aggressive barking vocals 147 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: and next level hooks. 148 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: Not to mention the overwhelmingly sexualized lyrics that through the 149 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: ire of the Puerto Rican authorities. 150 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 2: So speaking of the authorities, like I literally just downloaded 151 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 2: to day this moment. La Gata have you heard that song? 152 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: I have that one? And then La Gamma. 153 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,239 Speaker 2: Those are so juice. 154 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: Now do you think that they're juice because you understand 155 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: the lyrics or do you think that they're juice because 156 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: you just like the beat? 157 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 2: I would say both because I feel well right now 158 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: at the moment, I kind of feel like Soto single, 159 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: like I'm vibing with the words because it's going to 160 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: be summer for me, like you know what I mean, 161 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 2: Hawk Girl Summer and my Houchi Daddy Era. So those 162 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: songs are really here for me. And also it feels 163 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 2: like it feels like a throwback so it's summery. It's 164 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: summer for me right now at this moment. 165 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: I also feel like it's really fun to watch the video. 166 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 1: So listening to the songs is an experience, but you're 167 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: talking to two kids that grew up with TRL and 168 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: so for me, part of listening to a song and 169 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 1: thinking back on it is also looking at the. 170 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: Video because it's it's just captures. 171 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: I think in this particular instance, it captures the friendship, 172 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: the brotherhood, and the youth of these two guys kind 173 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: of about to embark on, you know, a pretty massive 174 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 1: journey together. And also, can we take a second to 175 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: appreciate the bucket hats in these videos? 176 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 2: I mean, it took me back. 177 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: It's viby. It's vibaf You know that you could wear 178 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: that now? 179 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 3: Are you kidding? 180 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: I just took a screenshot of them in the video 181 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: and I'm going to amazon the outfit to myself later today. 182 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 2: No, you have to. 183 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 3: It's viby. It's so funny. 184 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: The kids nowadays gen Z's sometimes think they're really original, 185 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: but you just look like Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee. 186 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 3: In the end La Kama video. 187 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 2: Nail on the head, I'm like, Nikki Jam literally just 188 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 2: had that in nineteen ninety five. 189 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 3: Big We've been here, we done did that. 190 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 1: Like you think we're old, but like we actually were 191 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: the originals. 192 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 3: Yeah original, Oh jeez. 193 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 2: Watching early videos of Daddy Yankee and Nicki Jam feels 194 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: like watching two brothers. They dress like, they lean on 195 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 2: each other, they hype each other up. Kind of reminds 196 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: me of us, except I'm an extras march. 197 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: No, what do you call like? What do you call 198 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 3: smaller than this march? 199 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: I'm a smart stretch. 200 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: Oh if people could only see r dms, they would 201 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: totally have a better insight into what we're talking about. 202 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 3: Okay, I digress back to Daddy. 203 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: So it's easy to imagine the kinship that Yankee felt 204 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: with Nicki. They had a shared talent, a shared love 205 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: of hip hop, and shared experience. Both had parents who 206 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: had struggled with drug addiction. 207 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: But while Yankee avoided the substance abuse that had gripped 208 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 2: his own father, Nicki had unfortunately begun to use as 209 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: early as fifteen years later. 210 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: Nicki would explain, I thought to myself, why am I 211 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: going to take care of myself? My dad didn't handle 212 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: his drug problems my mom did drugs too, so why 213 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: not me? I had drugs all around me. And the 214 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: foundation of everything is your home. It's your family. 215 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: And as most Gangai's musical impact grew so with a 216 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 2: distance between them. 217 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: Despite performing and doing business as a duo, Nicki and 218 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: Yankee continue to build their respective solo recording catalogs. From 219 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and one to two thousand and two, Daddy 220 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: was in the studio recording his second album, et gangri 221 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: dot Com. 222 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 2: Wait. I got to ask a question here? Was that 223 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 2: really a website? 224 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 3: Great question? I'm so happy you asked it was? 225 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: And well, elgangriy dot com is no longer available online. 226 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 3: You can see the old. 227 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee and Nicki Jim fan site on the Internet archive. 228 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 2: Should we do that right now? It's so jews hold please, omg? 229 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 2: This site is great? Are these pop ups? 230 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 3: This looks like MySpace? 231 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 2: It's so jews and like the stuff that's on here, 232 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: not a matchmaking website. Wow. 233 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: What's so funny to me is that there's sidebars and 234 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: banner ads and there's even a little poll which says 235 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: who is basically the most popular Puerto Rican artists of 236 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: the year? 237 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 3: Is it? Hold? 238 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: On. 239 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 3: Here are the choices. 240 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee, follow Litholaco, Hector Etito and Triple Echis. First 241 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: of all, I don't know who any of these bitches are, 242 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: so I'm going to Votedaddy. 243 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 2: Yankee, I bet, and I bet you they did that. 244 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: I'm purpose. I think that's just I think it's they're 245 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: a random name. 246 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: Also, not me, just kicking rados to find out who 247 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: the people voted for. 248 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: It's just really cool, you guys. You know, if you've 249 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 3: ever wanted to go back and look at an old. 250 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 2: Website, how did you find this? 251 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we have amazing producers, But basically, there's 252 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: an entire site called Internet Archive that will take you 253 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: back to an old website that's no longer in existence, 254 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: that's either been updated or been deleted. And it'll actually 255 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: take you back to a snapshot in time. So if 256 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: you want to go back to two thousand and nine, 257 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: what was a Gangai dot com doing? You can actually 258 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: see what it was doing. But it's really funny because 259 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,719 Speaker 1: it is like a trip down memory lane. And can 260 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: I tell you that if you put a website out 261 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: like this right now, gen Z would be like. 262 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 3: This is so cool. It's sabby what it hits? 263 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 2: Eh, you know why, because it's very complicated. There's so 264 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 2: many things that's very like. 265 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: It feels like a throwback to them because they weren't 266 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: around when the Internet was invented, Like we were. 267 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 2: Just wait, just wait till it comes back and then 268 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 2: we're all going to be like MySpace. 269 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: Okay, So besides a poll, what else caught your eye 270 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: on here? 271 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 2: Okay? Not a CD store section that like advertises that 272 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: you get a free poster. So buy this CD which 273 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 2: was probably crazy priced at that time, and you get 274 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 2: a free poster, and like, obviously you want him in 275 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: your house. Gosh, member posters. I'm not even we're not 276 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 2: even going to start the whole posters. 277 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 3: I love that. That is what caught your attention. Do 278 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 3: you know what caught my attention? 279 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: I know what? Not? 280 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: An entire section of cheek Us called Las Gangris with 281 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: girls and their bikini photos. By the way, this is 282 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: basically just like pre Instagram Model. 283 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 2: You know what. 284 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: On Instagram there. 285 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 2: Were the girls in the videos, right. 286 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're girls from the videos and there were girls, 287 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: and I think we're looking to get attention. But before 288 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: we had Instagram Model, we had Las neuvas Chicas, gangris. 289 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 2: I love lust, I was part of them. I would 290 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 2: have been that cur So. 291 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 3: There you are. 292 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: That's in a blue. 293 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 3: In a blue tanga. 294 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 2: All right. 295 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: As fun as it is to travel back to the 296 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: days of GeoCities, let's get back to Elgangrie dot Com 297 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: the album. 298 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: Although Yankee and Nikki Jam dominated the underground throughout the 299 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 2: late nineties with mixtapes, compilations, and singles, Elgangrie dot Com 300 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 2: was Daddy Yankee's first full length studio album in siete 301 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: annos and. 302 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: Trust me, you do not want to keep people waiting 303 00:14:58,840 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: on an album. 304 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 3: Yes, I Am talking to you, Rihanna. 305 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: The streets theyby yakin. 306 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 3: Yankee's true breakthrough. 307 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: You know the one was yet to come, but at 308 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: Gange dot Com was the runway for Yankee soon to 309 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: come take off. 310 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 2: The album features a sleeker glossier definitely higher budget sound 311 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: than Yankee's previous material, including some of the most early 312 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: two thousands orchestra since you've ever heard, like on a 313 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 2: scale of one to ten, it's fifty seven. 314 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: The entire album was produced by dire Blas, one of 315 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: the fore runners of Berreo the Urn Sheier more Joseph 316 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: style party music of regaton that Los Gngres had gravitated 317 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: towards in the late nineties. 318 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: And it has two tracks featuring Niki Jam. Both songs 319 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 2: are classic Congate's club tracks, with both boys looking to 320 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: get some Wayando and as. 321 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: Yankee does, pull the East Coast hip hop flow back 322 00:15:58,640 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: out towards the end. 323 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 3: On the title track over a beat that's very murdering, 324 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 3: like where is a Shanty? 325 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: Levels of murder inc. 326 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: He poeticizes his rise from the violence that plagued his 327 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: gasadio and laughs in the face of those who wondered 328 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: when the next album would drop. 329 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: He also mentions Nikki by name, positioning themselves as key 330 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: architects of the reggaeton scene classic hip hop BRAGGEDO show 331 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 2: and hearned it. 332 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: Elgandri dot Com was a hit in Puerto Rico and 333 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic and in the US. The album reached 334 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: number forty three on the US Latin Albums Chart, thirteen 335 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: on the US Latin Pop Albums Chart, and ten on 336 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: the US Latin Rap hip Hop Albums chart. 337 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 2: Okay, El Gandria has reached the top ten. 338 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: He sure did, and Yankee kept the momentum going with 339 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: Los home Run ESS. 340 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: A compilation of greatest hits from. 341 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee's decade in the underground from the DJ Playeto 342 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: mix tapes through Body Guagerero. 343 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 2: Which is smart. It's two thousand and two and the 344 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 2: only way that gringos are going to find that stuff 345 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 2: is napster. 346 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 3: But it's not just a greatest hits record. 347 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: He also recorded every track and updated the instrumentals with 348 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: new producers, so. 349 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: He did do Daddy's version. Na M. 350 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: Taylor literally took a page ride out of Daddy Yankee's book, 351 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 1: and you know what. Los home Run US also featured 352 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: four new songs, one of which Segudowski would score Daddy 353 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: Yankee his first major airplay in the US. 354 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 2: There was also Gotta Gangster featuring fellow Puerto Rican draggaeton 355 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 2: Og Donald mar and most of Got Killer, which would 356 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 2: turn out to be Daddy Yankee's last recording with Niki 357 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 2: Jam for many years. 358 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: Over the first few years of the New Millennium, Nikki 359 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: Jam's reliance on drugs had grown worse, so too had 360 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: his creative differences with Daddy Yankee. 361 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 2: In short, Niki Jam was slipping hard cocaine alcohol and 362 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 2: eventually Percoset were taking their toll on the quality of 363 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: his work and on his relationships. Daddy Yankee's patience. 364 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: Maxed their situation reached its peak. In two thousand and two. 365 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: Nicki Jam was taking thirty Perkoset tabs a day, and 366 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: in a hotel bar, he found himself in an altercation 367 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: with another patron. 368 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 3: Nicki pulled a gun and shot. 369 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 2: This wasn't the first time Niki's drug use had driven 370 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 2: him to violence. A similar fight went down in a 371 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 2: club sometime earlier, and Nikki had pulled a gun that 372 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 2: time too. 373 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: The first time, Daddy Yankee had diffused the situation by 374 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: paying off the victim, but this time Yankee couldn't bring 375 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: himself to bail Nikki out. 376 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 2: Niki was sentenced to six months in prison. Afterwards, a 377 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 2: Yankee his fellow Gottli kept his distance and eventually booted 378 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 2: Niki from the label. I would too, you know, because 379 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 2: I feel like love is it is unconditional, but if 380 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 2: you are making the wrong choices constantly, it's like at 381 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 2: this point you don't love yourself, and I feel like 382 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: it just you need to keep your distance so that 383 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 Speaker 2: person could see. I guess give them time to reflect. 384 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 2: Does does that make sense? You know? 385 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: Yes it does. And I'm going to make this really simple. 386 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: Don't be messy. 387 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: That's it. That's it, that's it. 388 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: I mean, how many of those friends do you have 389 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: that you're like enough, don't be messy because you're over 390 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: here trying to really kind of elevate, get to the 391 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: next level, like be in rooms that you are not 392 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: often allowed in. And if your friend is bringing messy, 393 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: whether it's Nicky Jam or like you know, your primo 394 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: or your prima or your. 395 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 2: Pia, no, I know exactly. 396 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: Just don't be messy people, because there is not we 397 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: are a else. 398 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 3: Let's behave like grown ups. 399 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 2: I agree with you, but you know, I guess considering 400 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 2: on a mental health aspect. You know, now in twenty 401 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 2: twenty four, Nikki Jam did grow up around that, and 402 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 2: I guess that's kind of like one of those things 403 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 2: where you you can't see out of that. And I 404 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 2: think that you know, him keeping his distance and more 405 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 2: people keeping their distance from him, you know, let him 406 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 2: go to get better. 407 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: Well, think about this though. 408 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: Both of them grew up in homes where drug abuse 409 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: was prevalent, and I think what you need to understand 410 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: is as people are healing from trauma, Daddy Yankee healing 411 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: from that trauma. 412 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 3: Whether he knew it or not. 413 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: In this day and age, there was something about what 414 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: was happening that felt really uncomfortable for him. And so 415 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: back then we didn't have the words that we have now. 416 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: We didn't have words like boundaries and trauma and triggering, 417 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: We didn't have any of that stuff. 418 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: But Yankee kept his distance because. 419 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: I actually think it was incredibly triggering for him, and 420 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: we don't know what he was dealing with. We don't 421 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: know what demons he was fighting in silent and to 422 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: have Nikki around him doing all of this was probably 423 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: very triggering. 424 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: You're best friend, exactly. 425 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 3: Check on your mental health people. 426 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, the two wouldn't exchange words for years, but Daddy Yankee, 427 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: on his way to the top, would have some choice 428 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: words for Niki. 429 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: So are we finally going to talk about Gasolina? Hit 430 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 2: me with the shocking facts. 431 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: Well, the producers behind Gasolina almost didn't work with Daddy Yankee. 432 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 2: Okay, that is the darkest timeline where Evie Queen never 433 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 2: makes it to my Hucci Daddy playlist? 434 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 3: Why have you not shared the Huji Daddy playlist. It's 435 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 3: probably gatekeeping. 436 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like it, and listen. 437 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: That is not a world I want to live in. 438 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 1: But we don't have to thanks to Franciscool, San Dania 439 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: and Victor Cabrera aka Looney Tunes. 440 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know what's going on in Massachusetts, but 441 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: the Massachusetts born a Dominican blooded duo started crafting beats 442 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 2: in the late nineties on the computer program Fruity Loops 443 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 2: hence Loony Tunes, fru Lu lutu. 444 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 3: You get it. 445 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 1: By day they washed dishes in the Harvard University Cafeterira. 446 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 3: I mean, like, when did they have time to make 447 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 3: these beads? 448 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 2: Well, exactly, by night they were remixing beats, dropping fire tracks, 449 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 2: and introducing reggaeton to a whole new crowd. 450 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: And it took them three separate interactions with Daddy Yankee 451 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,479 Speaker 1: for el Hefe del Henro to take note. The first 452 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: was outside of New York bodega in nineteen ninety five. 453 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: I mean, all the good shit happened in the bodega. 454 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 3: I missed Bodega's. 455 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: I did a whole rant the other day on instagratte 456 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: I am so tired of the fact that there are 457 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: no damn bodegas in La like erewhon is not a 458 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: fucking bodega? 459 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 2: I love you? Okay wait. Francisco Saldana aka Looney recognized 460 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 2: him from one one of his earlier videos and called 461 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 2: out to him. 462 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: He must have been wearing a bucket hat. Anyway, he 463 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: told Daddy Yankee that. 464 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 2: He wanted to work with him, and understandably, jumpy Yankee, 465 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 2: who remember got hit by a stray bullet a little 466 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 2: over a year prior, gave Looney the side eye, but 467 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 2: he told him to give him his number. 468 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: Well, Looney didn't get a call, but a few years later, 469 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: Looney had another opportunity and again approached Daddy Yankee about 470 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: working together, and Yankee told him no thanks, but no thanks, 471 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: probably wondering the reason, and it's because Yankee didn't want 472 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: to work with music pirates. 473 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 2: What Daddy Yankee the napster narc. 474 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: Joseph Things change when you get big right. At the 475 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: same time, tension had long simmered over up and coming 476 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: hip hop producers sampling older work, despite sampling being foundational to. 477 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 3: Hip hop and reggaeton by extension as. 478 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 2: Well for Yankee to see or hear what he was 479 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 2: going to say no to, Looney Tunes would have to 480 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 2: gain approval from some other figures of the raggaeton royalty, 481 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 2: Reggae Carderon and Evy Queen My boot. 482 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: Looney Tunes would produce a track for Godliton's two thousand 483 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: and two major label debut Elaboradem and Evie Queen's chart 484 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: topping breakthrough album. In two thousand and three, Diva. 485 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 2: Reggaeton was surging and Looney Tunes was elevating the scene. 486 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: They proved themselves to be hit makers with tracks like 487 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 2: Evie Queen's Gero Sare So this time Yankee came to them. 488 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: He got on the mic for Looney Tune's own two 489 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: thousand and three debut album, Mass Flow. Like so many 490 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,719 Speaker 1: of the Puerto Rican reggaton mixtapes that came before it, 491 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: Mas Flow featured a who's who of reggaeton vocalist. 492 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 2: But Mos Flow would put Looney Tunees production style at 493 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 2: the forefront of reggaeton in the two thousands. Theirs was 494 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 2: a hot new sound. 495 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 1: So basically all Looney Tunes had to do to win 496 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee over was get the attention of the entire 497 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: international reggaton scene. 498 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 3: I mean you know what I mean, not a big deal, no. 499 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: Small fee, right NBD, But joking aside, Yankee read the 500 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: room and enlisted Looney Tunes to get involved on the 501 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: follow up to elgangri dot Com two thousand and four's 502 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 1: Barrio Fino. Finally, as you can tell from the long 503 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: road it took to get here, Barriofino was the product 504 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 1: of years of hustling and grinding in the underground, not 505 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: just for Daddy Yankee, but for so many of his collaborators. 506 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 2: On the album, Barriocino introduced much of the world to 507 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 2: reggaeton while also showcasing its reinvention in the new Millennia. 508 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: Which is to say, you got to hear several different 509 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: sides of reggaeton on Barriofino, from the more aggressive, barking, 510 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: hardcore hip hop influence tracks that kick off the album 511 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,239 Speaker 1: to more melodic try tracks like Los and Principe. 512 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 2: And Variosino brought sharper hooks, harder beats, and a wider 513 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 2: variety of sounds than reggiton had ever seen. 514 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: From Salsahorn's Worthy of Fania Records to Middle Eastern string flourishes. 515 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: The sheer diversity of sounds on the new album was 516 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: all tied together with that iconic reggiton rhythm known as dembo. 517 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: And lyrically yankee handled to beat like a stunt driver 518 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 2: handles a card. 519 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: Yes, King, that impeccable sag brings to the track that 520 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: needs absolutely no introduction. 521 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 2: Are y lega da mosca solina? I mean, where were 522 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: you when. 523 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 3: This song came out in a club in Washington Heights? 524 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 2: Oh perfect, you know, I was in Chapbas, Mexico at 525 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 2: a wedding and I had never heard it and it 526 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 2: was rowdy and crazy. 527 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: I think Gosolina has to be the most iconic, the 528 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 1: most epic, and I think the most recognizable reggaeton song 529 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: in the history of pregaton like boom thal like period. 530 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: Like the kids said, yeah, yeah, you know what was 531 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: funny about this song is there's a couple of songs 532 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: that really bridge I think the two cultures that I 533 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: distinctly belonged to. One of them is obviously like the 534 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 1: culture I'm so proud of, which is being Puerto Rican 535 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: and Mexican and living in that world really authentically listening 536 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: to the music, eating the food, spending time with my 537 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: friends who also share a language with me. 538 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 3: And then there's the other side of me, right, it's 539 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 3: my non Latino friends. And this song for me, I. 540 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: Think really bridged those two because I was living in 541 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: New York at the time, and I heard this song 542 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: because I was out partying with all of. 543 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 3: My friends that I work with. 544 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: I happened to work at a Latin advertising agency, so 545 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: all of my friends were Latinos and we were out 546 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: like literally like berriando to this song in Washington Heights 547 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: and that was like on a Thursday. And then on Saturday, 548 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: I was like downtown at Butter, which if you lived 549 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: in New York in the early like two thousands, you 550 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: know what Butter was was a club, and it was 551 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: like the club to be at. 552 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 3: And then all of my white friends were like Gasolina Gasoli, and. 553 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. 554 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: The point is I was hearing the song all over 555 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: New York, regardless of who I was out with, and 556 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: it had been a long time since I had shared 557 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: a song like that with my two very distinct groups 558 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: of friends. Right with Gasolina Daddy Yankee Looney Tunes and 559 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: co writer Eddie d had honed in on what so 560 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: many rappers in the aughts had realized that a sing 561 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: along hook can live in harmony with fast flowing rap. 562 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean he's just flexing fast rhymes in 563 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 2: the verses. The way he draws out the last word 564 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 2: in the line, I know that it can mean by Marquessine, 565 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 2: he's literally making the sound like little kids make with 566 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: toy cars, like yeah yeah. 567 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: It's basically like if Tokyo Drift came to the Bronx. 568 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: This was rap that could put imagery in your head 569 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: just as well as it could make you move. 570 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 2: Plus, Yankee's lyrics were edgy as hell. Gosolina itself was 571 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 2: a reference to barrio girls who would catch rights to 572 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 2: parties with guys in flashy cars lambeau, but in the 573 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 2: culture people started using the song as an ironic dig 574 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 2: at the wars in the Middle East. 575 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: Elsewhere on Barrio Finol, there's even a song that rhyme's 576 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: no Loan with Taliban, and the song in question is 577 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: about having sex against a wall. 578 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 2: Like yan Key's records got too big for Puerto Rican 579 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 2: police to censor, but this was definitely not a record 580 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,479 Speaker 2: you showed to your parents or listen to what their 581 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 2: parents I mean. 582 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 3: Oh my god, so embarrassing. 583 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, although not really because like, 584 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: what's funny about parents hating Ondregaton? And my mom was 585 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: one of the parents that hated Onregaton. You ever listened 586 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: to the words and those salsa songs that our parents 587 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: were dancing to? 588 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe wildly? Now let me tell you. 589 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 3: Look, it's not to. 590 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: Lay the entirety of music scene sexism on Daddy Yankee's head, 591 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: but we have to touch on it because women had 592 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: long been the subject of so many of Yankee's songs, 593 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: and on. 594 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: Bardio Fino, for the first time, the voice of a 595 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: woman was the defining feature for his biggest tracks. The 596 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: woman was Glow aka Glori mar Montalvo Castro. She's the 597 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: one you hear on the chorus of Gasolina, as well 598 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 2: as Dala Caliente and Nomeriejlo. Today, many like artists and 599 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 2: fans have called for her to get her due recognition. 600 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 3: But at the time she was uncredited. 601 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: Barrio Fino was a group effort that brought reggaeton to 602 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: a whole new echelon of public awareness and That's why 603 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: within Daddy Yankee's desography, the album stands out just as 604 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: much for who is absent. 605 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 2: Absent from the credits and from the track list. One 606 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 2: of the ogs of Puerto Rican reggaeton, don Omar, was 607 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 2: slated to feature on a track, but creative differences drove Yankee. 608 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: To scrap it, And of course, the most noticeable absence 609 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: is that of the artists. We kicked this episode off 610 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: with Nicki Jam. 611 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 2: Like Omar, Nikki had originally been set to feature on 612 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 2: the album, but, as we mentioned, after their falling out 613 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 2: in the years leading up to Bardiofino's release, Yankee had 614 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 2: booted him from his label. 615 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: From Nicki's end, this meant Hella resentment. One night, Nicki 616 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: made a surprise appearance on stage with Fat Joe. During 617 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: lean Back, he spat bars about how Yankee owes him 618 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: for his success, wo shots fired and claiming that without him, 619 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: Yankee wouldn't know how to sing or wait. 620 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 3: For it, how to dress ouch. 621 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 2: But Nikki didn't fire the first shot. His lean Back 622 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 2: verse was a response to the Brio Phino track Santificatus Escapolaios, 623 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 2: which Yankee had clearly written for Nikki Jam the boom. 624 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: Bap is back, and Yankee fires at everyone who can't 625 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: handle seeing their friends and peers find success, but he 626 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: does save his choicest bars for Nicki. 627 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: He says that he used to be like brothers, but 628 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 2: now Yankee has visions of himself growing old in a 629 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: mansion watching his grandchildren play well. Nikki sleeps naked and 630 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 2: pease the mattress like, ouch, you can't. I can't like 631 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 2: if my best friend said that shit about me, I 632 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: would be puddle devastations literally literally. 633 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: A Yankee saves some room for humility, saying that for 634 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: all his bragging rights, he isn't superhuman, but then comes 635 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: the knockout line Nikki gets his courage from a pill. 636 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 2: Even though Nikki's bars on lean Back were a response 637 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 2: to this track, the rest of Santificatus Escapolaios makes it 638 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 2: seem like Nicki might have this Yankee outside of the 639 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 2: recordings before the album dropped. 640 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: I mean, you and I know there is always out 641 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: beat outbe then what we know and what's on the track. 642 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: But as for who won this one, the numbers make 643 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: it an open and shutcase. With distribution by Universal Music Group, 644 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: Barrio Fino sold one point five million copies in the 645 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: first month alone, making it the best selling Latin album 646 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: of two thousand and five in the United States. 647 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 2: Eventually, it would become the best selling Latin album of 648 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 2: the decade on Record of the Year at the Latin Grammys, 649 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 2: and Yankee's performance at the Billboard Awards that year was 650 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 2: a clear standout. And remember, because of his independent label setup, 651 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,280 Speaker 2: Yankee made Capital B Bank. 652 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: Nicki's debut album meanwhile underperformed, and his depression hit new debts. 653 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: Nicki would eventually relocate to Columbia and eventually get sober 654 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 1: and slowly but surely reinvent himself. 655 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 2: Okay, but wait, wait, wait, spoiler alert. Everybody calm down, 656 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 2: don't don't cry. Nicki gets better. We're not going to 657 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 2: leave you hanging like that. 658 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 3: But there's more to this beef than the juice. 659 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: What it shows us is that when you walk the 660 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: road to fame, you often have no choice but to 661 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 1: leave people behind, even the people you call family. 662 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 2: Badio Phenoes title is a nod to Dady Yankees Cassio. 663 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 2: Yankee reps the BODYO hard and the Bodio represents more 664 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 2: than to be at Kennedy, where he grew up. 665 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 3: It's every barrio. It's the underground. It's the regathon scene. 666 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 2: From voting in to New York City, the neighbors and 667 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 2: the stick up kids, the MC's, the DJs, the producers, 668 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 2: the promoters, the hypeman, the girls in the music videos, 669 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 2: and everyone in between. 670 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: And this is a big part of why a beef 671 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: like Daddy Yankees and Nikki Jams can run deep and 672 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: dragon for years. You can wrap the barrio that raised 673 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: you all the way to the top, but sadly, you 674 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: can't take everyone with you. 675 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 2: On the next Becoming an Icon, Daddy Yankee turns from 676 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 2: chart timing to legacy building Pasito Pasito. 677 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,280 Speaker 1: Becoming an Icon is presented by Sonoo and Iheart's Michael 678 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: Guda podcast network. Listen to Becoming an Icon on the 679 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.