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Speaker 2: First, wait, the first time that we've not had Margarita's

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Speaker 1: Okay, stop, we do not drink Margarita's before we record

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Okay, we don't. Don't listen to him, y'all,

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Speaker 1: he's been drinking. The first time we've covered an artist

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Speaker 2: Whoa well, I mean, Nikki retired, Doja retired? Then they

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Speaker 2: kept making music? How long is that gonna last?

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Speaker 1: Facts? But this artist made a promise to Baby Jesus

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Speaker 2: Right? I believe it when I see it, or when

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Speaker 2: I don't hear anything, I guess. But shouldn't we introduce

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Speaker 2: who we're talking about?

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Speaker 1: A good call? So today's icon is the King of

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Speaker 1: Regathon a big Box, otherwise known as Daddy Yankee, who

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Speaker 1: announced his retirement from the biz back in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: And then said it goodbye to a roaring crowd at

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Speaker 2: his final clonsert in its native Puerto Rico. Last year.

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Speaker 1: He said that he's stepping away from music to focus

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Speaker 1: on his Christianity, which sounds a little surprising coming from

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Speaker 1: the guy who wrote saban as Blancas along.

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Speaker 2: We've countless other booty shaking bangers over the course of

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Speaker 2: three whole decades and over thirty million albums sold.

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Speaker 1: It's more than enough success to totally justify hanging it up.

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Speaker 1: But you know us, we are never ready to say

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Speaker 2: I will believe it when I don't hear it, all right,

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Speaker 2: don't see it.

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Speaker 1: Point is possibly more than I think any other icon

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Speaker 1: we've covered. We're living in the world Daddy Yankee built

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Speaker 2: That is a very bold statement, Chica.

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Speaker 1: I know, but think about it, Okay, just like stay

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Speaker 1: with me here. There is the world before Reggaton and

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Speaker 1: the world after Reggathon, and who was right there when

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Speaker 2: Who else but El exactly.

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Speaker 1: And to be clear, it's not to say that he

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Speaker 1: just a little bit for all you music historians.

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Speaker 2: But basically, without Daddy Yankee, your weekly New Music Friday

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Speaker 1: My workout playlist would basically be unrecognizable. I mean, like

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Speaker 1: my get Ready remix Forgetting Done Done. So my point

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look at how the King of Reggathon

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Lillianavasquez and I'm Joseph Carrio and this

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Speaker 1: is Becoming an Icon Week, the podcast where we give

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Speaker 1: you the rundown on how today's most famous Latin X

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Speaker 1: stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 2: And given the world some extra couple.

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Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know

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Speaker 1: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest

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Speaker 3: Before we dive in, let's mix it up a little

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Speaker 3: bit remake to understand how Daddy Yankee became the icon

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Speaker 3: when and where he came of age Puerto Rico's underground

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Speaker 2: Daddy Yankee didn't invent Ragaeton. Rayton is a product of

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Speaker 1: So from there you would think that the music just

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Speaker 2: out loud The History of Reggaeton, another great podcast hosted

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Speaker 2: by Regaeton Roy y'll t lativ coween.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, like I'm not asking you to

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Speaker 2: The clubs or dance halls all of this community played

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Speaker 1: Just as Ramon Ayala Junior, the boy who would go

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Speaker 1: Ramon Ayala Junior was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico,

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Speaker 1: on February third, nineteen seventy six. Joseph, want to go

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Speaker 2: surprise is hi berro mira la lunin pieces with your

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Speaker 1: The cape suits you, Joseph, it really does you know

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Speaker 1: And she's the one who actually introduced him to American

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Speaker 1: Just picture young little Daddy Yankee. Like that sounds so weird,

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Speaker 1: The Gasadiels tended to be heavily policed and subject to prejudice.

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Speaker 1: At Ramond Senior struggled with addiction all throughout his son's childhood,

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Speaker 1: Ramond Junior was a lover of the great American pastime baseball.

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Speaker 1: Reflecting on this experience as an adult, daddy, Yankee would say,

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Speaker 2: Nonetheless, Ramon Junior continued to find joy and escape through baseball.

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Speaker 1: And all the while he also showed he had a

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Speaker 2: Not surprisingly as a teenager, his natural talent for music

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Speaker 2: By the time Daddy Yankee was wrapping, reggae Espanol had

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Speaker 1: The youth of poor barrios like Ramond Juniors couldn't get

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Speaker 2: Much like dancehall and Panama, Puerto Rican reggaeton and rap

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Speaker 2: But this didn't stop youth culture from doing its thing.

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Speaker 2: Located in La Perla, the poorest neighborhood in San Juan.

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Speaker 2: The Noise was founded by DJ Negro, the producer who

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Speaker 2: worked with Daddy Yankee's favorite Raperro Vicosi. See guys, It's

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Speaker 1: It's all all connected. It's here at the Noise where

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Speaker 2: But every rapper needs a producer, and Daddy Yankee's man

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Speaker 2: behind the deck was one DJ Plaeto.

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Speaker 1: DJ Plato began releasing mixtapes of original beats that range

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Speaker 2: These tapes also feature local rappers, and the standout was

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Speaker 1: If you guys have not taken a moment down music

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Speaker 1: What did you think when you first heard it? And

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Speaker 2: Not the old people's rageton? You know what, I'm not

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about what Daddy Yankee's actually saying in

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Speaker 1: four thirty. But Joseph, did you know that this is

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Speaker 1: a teenage Daddy Yankee. He is fifteen years old rapping

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Speaker 2: This is little Sun Yankee. Oh my god, he's fifteen?

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Speaker 2: Wait is it is? That's not illegal? Right? Like fifteen?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that these nineties kids, the people that

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Speaker 1: Children of the eighties and nineties are wild. But yes,

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Speaker 1: But again, people get upset about it because obviously Daddy

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Speaker 2: Okay, But you know what, I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 2: something with that. It's just funny because it doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that people said that before. Because I said the word

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, someone of the Kardashians, they said, shut

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Speaker 2: But Chloe said, shut your butt. I been saying shut

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Speaker 2: reggaeton was used before. Do we think that he made

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Speaker 1: Know if he was the first person or the guy

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Speaker 1: that invented the phrase reggaeton, But previous to this, people

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Speaker 1: because we don't need to be saying reggae and espanol

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Speaker 2: And for as much attention as he was getting in

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Speaker 2: a lifetime Liliana.

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Speaker 1: That's so formal. Why are you being so formal?

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Speaker 2: Right? Now are you there? Okay, listen, I have to

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Speaker 2: ask you something. What have you ever experienced a blessing

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Speaker 2: in disguise?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god?

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Speaker 2: Yes, of course, like someone who's like shut the door

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Speaker 1: When I had just moved to Philadelphia, I auditioned to

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Speaker 1: down in tears. I was like, my life on television

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Speaker 1: is over. I will never be on TV. I will NET,

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Speaker 1: I swear to God. I cooked like what I called Patrick,

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Speaker 1: And well we know how that worked out, so yes,

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what's about to happen to Daddy Yankee,

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Speaker 1: because in nineteen ninety four, Ramond drew the attention of

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Speaker 1: Still, he continues to record with Playerro. One day, the

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Speaker 1: Dramond's neighborhood via Kennedy. It's January sixth, which is Three

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Speaker 2: He's been hit by a stray bullet, which ends up

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Speaker 1: Today, Daddy Yankee says he thanks God for that bullet.

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Speaker 1: Shortly after Ramon's recovery, he became a father. At nineteen,

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Speaker 1: After years of mixtapes, he again got together with DJ

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Speaker 2: The name of the cover simply reads a yank. At

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Speaker 2: the time, Ramon went by names like Winchester Trentai Trienta

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Speaker 1: The album features a couple of old school sounding rap

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Speaker 1: And soon they would find themselves making noise outside of

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Speaker 2: Ramon hustled selling cassette copies of No Mercy, just like

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Speaker 1: The same year, Daddy Yankee dropped his debut, formative Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rican reggaton producer Nico Canada teamed up with New York's

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Speaker 2: It was a mixtape featuring Puerto Rican drapertos like Daddy Yankee,

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Speaker 1: On a single disc, Reggaeton and nineties Boom Bob stood

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Speaker 1: coming out of two different underground scenes that were more

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Speaker 2: But for Daddy Yankee, wa would prove to be a

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Speaker 2: warm up. Nineteen ninety seven's Bodicua Guerreno First Combat would

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Speaker 1: Regaton Nkokanada linked up with DJ Playerro Yankee's longtime collaborator,

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Speaker 2: MCS Mexicano seven seven seven Eddie d Daddy Yankee Busta Rhymes,

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Speaker 1: Everybody was there, but the biggest name of the bunch,

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Speaker 1: he was there?

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Speaker 2: Who Nas what?

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Speaker 1: Uh huh? Nas was hot off the success of his

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four debut Illmatic. His nineteen ninety six follow up,

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Speaker 1: It Was Written, had sold a quarter of a million copies.

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Speaker 2: Where hip hop was concerned, Nas was the artist to watch,

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Speaker 2: and on Brigua Guerrero he split a track with Daddy

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Speaker 2: Yankee titled The Prophecy.

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Speaker 1: Yankee intros the track with a classic dancehall affect, wrapping

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Speaker 1: the island and shouting out Knos, who shouts him back

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Speaker 1: from New York, saying, Puerto Rico, we roll.

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Speaker 2: In with you. NAS's verse is a hip hop anthem

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Speaker 2: about surviving and thriving. He uses gangster vibes to show

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Speaker 2: how he overcomes tough times and ends up on top

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Speaker 2: of La Pablo escomar.

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Speaker 1: But Yankeees verse turns that gangster imagery on his head.

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Speaker 1: He calls out those who aspire to live large, only

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Speaker 1: to be done in by their own deeds. He quotes

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Speaker 1: his mother, your.

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Speaker 2: Future depends on the sowing of your works. He continues,

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Speaker 2: Live by the sword, Die by the sword. Another wordrds,

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Speaker 2: make no enemies, trust no bitch, and I am not

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Speaker 2: looking to make enemies with him. On Brigua Guerrero. It

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Speaker 2: just gives me this dark and over policed sound, like

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Speaker 2: I feel like this was definitely He's coming for you.

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Speaker 1: You know what's fuddy is? I do think in my

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Speaker 1: head there is a sound to Daddy Yankee. So when

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Speaker 1: we were researching this episode and we're listening to some

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Speaker 1: of these older discs, I don't associate that sound with him, right,

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Speaker 1: It's really different, Like I know it pops up here

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Speaker 1: and there but for the most part, like you like

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Speaker 1: to always say, Regaeton is like music you can shake

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Speaker 1: your ass too. I mean, I'm sure you could shake

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Speaker 1: your ass to this song.

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Speaker 2: But it'd be a little different, right, you know, It's

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Speaker 2: funny hearing Daddy Yankee like, I mean, yes, it's kind

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Speaker 2: of similar. But like if I heard this first from

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Speaker 2: Daddy Yankee, I would be like, whoa, this is kind

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Speaker 2: of from a dark place. Like I wouldn't associate this

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Speaker 2: with the ass shaking Daddy Yankee. If you heard this first,

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Speaker 2: like I would be like, oh, I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: listen to his music. That's just not my vibe. So

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Speaker 2: it's cool that he dabbled with this, but it's just very,

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Speaker 2: very different.

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Speaker 1: It is different, and I think it just shows you

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Speaker 1: his range, right, and I think the entire project, I

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Speaker 1: think what's so special about this, and we talk about

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Speaker 1: this all the time, is that there is such a

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Speaker 1: connection between Puerto Rico and New York City, right specifically

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Speaker 1: like the Bronx, they just share so much. And obviously

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Speaker 1: they share an island, but they share music, they share culture,

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Speaker 1: they share you know, an underground hip hop scene. They're

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Speaker 1: really both products of this kind of over police, underserved

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Speaker 1: neighborhood vibe that you see in both of these places,

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Speaker 1: despite being so far away from each other geographically. The

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Speaker 1: first disc of Bricoa Guerero showed New York hip hop

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Speaker 1: heads that Puerto Ricos rapperos could flow with the best

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 2: Then, on the second disc, Di and Nicocanada brought their

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Speaker 2: reggaeton a game from start to finish, introducing New York's

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Speaker 2: underground to the sound of Puerto.

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Speaker 1: Ricos, and Daddy Yankee is there on both discs, first

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Speaker 1: going toe to toe with hip hop's biggest rising star

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Speaker 1: before showing how it's done down in the Tropics.

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Speaker 2: This was crucial to Daddy Yankee's success and to the

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Speaker 2: coming success of reggaeton as a whole. From Jamaica to Kanama,

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Speaker 2: to Puerto Rico to New York and back again. It

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Speaker 2: was clear that reggaeton wasn't a fact, but a part

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Speaker 2: of something deeper.

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Speaker 1: And by helping establish the genre's credibility in New York,

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Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee had all but set the stage for himself

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Speaker 1: to dominate but stardom.

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Speaker 2: Kintestovitch, for example, could Daddy Yankee really make no enemies.

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Speaker 1: On the next Becoming an Icon Daddy Yankees rise from

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Speaker 1: the underground to the top. Becoming an Icon is presented

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Speaker 1: by Sonoo and Iheart's Michael Duda podcast Network. Listen to

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Speaker 1: Becoming an Icon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast