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Speaker 1: I feel like I need to hear you sing. Why

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Speaker 1: don't we start today's episode with a few lyrics?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, she could be rich, but I'm rich. She

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Speaker 2: could be thick, but I'm thick of no.

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Speaker 1: No no no no no no no no no no no.

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Speaker 1: I meant Daddy Yankee.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, of course of course that. Oh and

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Speaker 2: I'm keto to that.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know how hard I can't?

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Speaker 2: You know what? I really can't sing like that. So

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Speaker 2: we're going to leave it to him.

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Speaker 1: So hard to sing a Daddy Yankee song because you

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Speaker 1: just don't have that flow. And that's okay. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that that song doesn't get stuck in your head.

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Speaker 1: And for me, that song has been in my head

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Speaker 1: since the last episode, but I had another song in mine.

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Speaker 1: Pass fucks.

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Speaker 2: Oh so analog.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we're not fucking around with the bluetooth in

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Speaker 1: my car. All right, imagine this, Okay, we are rolling

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Speaker 1: Toonse Okay or San Juan, wherever you're from, blasting Daddy

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Speaker 1: Yankee's twenty fourteen single Palavras consinfido or words with meaning.

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Speaker 2: We can get that barrio singy mohem.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So here's how the words go, I will not

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Speaker 1: sing because clearly Joseph has proven how hard it is

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Speaker 1: to sing a Reeton song.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, seriously, here are the words.

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Speaker 1: Riquerdom yere getan solo esta musica, ta criminal the arestaban

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Speaker 1: violando tu derichos translation.

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Speaker 2: Joseph, he's telling it like it used to be. He says,

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Speaker 2: I remember like it was yesterday that just for listening

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Speaker 2: to this music, they treat you like a criminal. They'd

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Speaker 2: even arrest you.

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Speaker 1: In the here and now of twenty twenty four, bragaton

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Speaker 1: is the stuff of big ticket festivals Hello Coachella, and

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Speaker 1: major ad campaigns. So Daddy Yankee might remember it like

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Speaker 1: it's yesterday, but for.

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Speaker 2: Us, noo machinad. But we learned a couple of episodes

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Speaker 2: ago the police raided music stores and threw shade on

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Speaker 1: That shift from state censorship to corporate sponsorship did not

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Speaker 1: happen overnight, and just a decade ago. Ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: Dottie Yankee was still fighting for Reggaeton's reputation.

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Speaker 2: But he's not just calling out the cops in Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 2: He's saying the politicians, the media, the preacher man. All

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Speaker 2: of them blamed Regaton for their own.

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Speaker 1: Feelings exactly, and he fires back that Perreo actually lifted

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Speaker 1: him out of poverty and not only gave him a job,

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Speaker 1: but created jobs for other people. That video has school

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Speaker 1: kids and young Gregatondo's singing the chorus and telling all

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Speaker 1: these authorities before you talk about me, look at yourself.

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Speaker 2: You could be helping the island. You could be helping

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Speaker 2: the barrio. To be honest, it's a little what have

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Speaker 2: you done for me lately? Crossed with I'm not even

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Speaker 2: gonna try the greatest level all.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your restraint there.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't I couldn't. I couldn't do it, and.

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Speaker 1: I promise well bless Whitney and Janet on the streets

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Speaker 1: of San Juan or punts it as well. But first

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Speaker 1: we need to get to the B side of this track.

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Speaker 2: Is this a new Baby Jesus song?

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Speaker 1: No, it's his old baby Cheese's song. Now, if you

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Speaker 1: could summarize or pray for me in one sentence, I

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Speaker 1: think it would be something like It's lonely at the top.

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Speaker 2: Of course, heavy is the head that wears the reggaeton crown.

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Speaker 2: Even with his wife and kids and all of Puerto

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Speaker 1: But see that's the thing on this one. He says

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Speaker 1: that sometimes it's easier to deal with an outright enemy

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Speaker 2: You think maybe Nikki jam wasn't the only one.

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Speaker 1: Well, like we did say in the last episode, when

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Speaker 1: you're walking the path to stardom, you're likely to be

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Speaker 1: losing friends all along the way. As hard as you

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Speaker 1: might try to put the community first and avoid making enemies,

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Speaker 1: money and fame make things Hella complicated, But.

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Speaker 2: The top wouldn't be lonely for long. As Dandy Yinki

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Speaker 2: continued building an empire and growing the Regeton Sin, he

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Speaker 1: That's today on becoming an Icon.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now give me the ox back so I can

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Speaker 2: play you in a new ice Spice Bitch.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Liliana oscaz and I'm Joseph Carrio and

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Speaker 1: this is Becoming an Icon, a weekly podcast where we

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Speaker 1: give you the rundown on how today's most famous LATINX

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Speaker 1: stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 2: And given the world some extra level.

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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 how,

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Speaker 2: with whenas us whenas some cheese, and a lot of opinions,

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Speaker 2: as we relive their greatest achievements on our journey to

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Speaker 2: find out what makes them still ic on it.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the two thousands, it was clear

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Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee was out from the underground.

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Speaker 2: Barriofino topped the charts not just in the US, but

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Speaker 2: in Mexico, Chile, the Jamaican Republic, Honduras, Argentina, and Colombia,

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Speaker 2: home to the next generation of reggaeton eros.

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Speaker 1: It was the first reggaeton album to ever debut at

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Speaker 2: Barriofino dropped, Yankee became the first Latin artist to sign

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Speaker 2: a deal with reeboch For the kids listening, it's like

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Speaker 2: a collabo exactly.

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Speaker 1: He was the og influencer before we had a name

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Speaker 1: for influencers. His accessory line dy included sporting goods, shoes,

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Speaker 1: and so much more.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see the kicks they're.

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Speaker 1: Giving a confused air Force one.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's so weird that you say that because

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Speaker 2: for me, they're giving like knockoff Tolo Cortes. But if

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Speaker 2: they try to add a flare, that's it. I said,

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Speaker 2: I said it like that, I said, how it is.

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Speaker 1: I did like the soul though, because I feel like

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Speaker 1: if you were walking in this, like if you were

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Speaker 1: stamping the sand with Daddy Yankee signature and I'm here

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Speaker 2: And you know what, And there was a little bit

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Speaker 2: it has like a design at the bottom of the soul.

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Speaker 1: He had a little bit of everything. He had some

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Speaker 1: the community. He had your like and white, yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they would be you know what,

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Speaker 1: I bet if I went on stock X right now,

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Speaker 1: these bitches are probably selling for a thousand dollars a pair.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, because he's retired.

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Speaker 1: Retired limited edition.

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Speaker 2: Oh I didn't think of that. But like, also, I

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Speaker 1: Joseph, don't be a hater because you don't have a

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Speaker 1: shoe collapse.

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Speaker 2: Don't be a hater. It's coming now.

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Speaker 1: The deals for him didn't stop there. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven, Yankee started in a campaign for Pepsi titled

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Speaker 1: With Us. The ad showed Yankee revisiting the scene of

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Speaker 2: He looks around the body he grew up in. He

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Speaker 1: It's the mythologizing of a gangri And it didn't stop

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Speaker 1: if you get a Pepsi ad, like you're you're golden, right.

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Speaker 1: But did you know, Joseph that Daddy Yankee got the

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Speaker 1: eight mile treatment. Wait, Mom's a spaghetti more like Mammy's Mofongo.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, Daddy Yankee started the film

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Speaker 1: Talento de Barrio. The story follows edgardinto a young ast

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Speaker 2: There were a lot of these little rap biopics back

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Speaker 2: Think and Get Rich or Die trying.

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Speaker 1: and while Valento de Barrio might not rank among the

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Speaker 1: people identified with Daddy Yankee's story. They were rooting for.

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Speaker 2: Him, and Yankee rooted for them too. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: That same year, Harvard College's Presidencia Latina student organization named

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Speaker 1: his work with La comonidac Our Guys.

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Speaker 2: Getting his props from every corner of society. The brands

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Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee was also inspiring a new generation of reggaeton nero's,

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Speaker 2: Honey, honey. He was in the driver's seat for his career.

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Speaker 2: What do you think he played on the OX.

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Speaker 1: Oh easy, Pussycat Dolls?

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Speaker 2: Mm? Wait what Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yankee closed out the two thousands with a follow up

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Speaker 1: mile Style Kindness sort of not really.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Clearly I'm two thousand and late to Daddy Yankee

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Speaker 2: because I was not aware. What about the soundtrack album?

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Speaker 1: That one was almost all Yankee except for a couple

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Speaker 1: of features by fellow Briareos Aganhel and Randy Ortiz So.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Yankee was topping the Billboard charts

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Speaker 1: and trol thinks the part to Fergie.

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Speaker 2: We owe hurt so much.

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Speaker 1: He continued to uplift up and coming artists in the Regaeton,

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Speaker 1: Sin and beyond, and we owe him so much. Exactly

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Speaker 1: years later, as Daddy Yankee was approaching retirement Icon in

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Speaker 1: the making, Carol G. Would tell Billboard, you never perceived

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Speaker 1: the guy as old because he collaborates with the hottest

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Speaker 1: new artists are grateful for.

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Speaker 2: Prince Royce, Oh sooner, Carol G. Becky G, Nahi Natasha.

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Speaker 2: These are just a few of the artists Daddy Yankee mentored, featured,

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Speaker 2: and collaborated within the twenty tens. He wasn't just passing

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Speaker 2: the torch, he was fanning the flames.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of torches, Joseph, I've got a little more trivia

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Speaker 1: for you, but you're.

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Speaker 2: Doing this in the middle of the episode. Now, listen.

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Speaker 1: We got to keep these listeners on their toes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I am changing shit up all right. Here's an easy one.

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Speaker 1: At the twenty seventeen Winter Olympics, which I know you

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Speaker 2: We, Before you know who jumped in the remix. This

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Speaker 2: Erre carrio.

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Speaker 1: Erre. Why is that so hard for people?

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Speaker 1: Carillo, Joseph Carillo, I'm sorry you had it so rough,

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, it's good. I'm good, I mean whatever. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: the remix super charged Esposito's chart performance, topping the Billboard

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Speaker 1: All in all, this Spasibo would become the best performing

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Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Doo.

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Speaker 1: I have tried to get that song out of my

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Speaker 2: Rudy Bettez said, not since Ricky Martin's Live in La

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Speaker 2: that has had the global impact of Desposito changing the

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Speaker 1: This Pasito set off a global surge in Latin music

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Speaker 1: Listenership music critics would even call this the this Fasito effect.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Wait when you said the Desposito effect,

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Speaker 1: How did I know you would say that? And also

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Speaker 2: We said, we're living in the world Daddy Yankee built.

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Speaker 2: This Fasito was basically the last piece.

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Speaker 1: And the world Daddy Yankee built had grown far beyond

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Speaker 1: Mihenthe was the sound of the next generation of reggaeton,

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Speaker 2: Same place where Reggaeton's the next generation was revving up.

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Speaker 2: Daddy Yankee's adoptive brother was mounting a company.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty fifteen and Daddy Yankee is boarding a flight.

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Speaker 1: It's before this bus Egal, but Yankee has already been

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Speaker 2: What he doesn't know is that he's boarding the same

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Speaker 2: chan Nicki looks a.

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Speaker 1: Lot different from when he and Yankee parted ways about

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Speaker 2: It would take years of recovery before Niki decided to

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Speaker 2: amid the Reggaetncin and Medeyin Home to j Balvin, Carol

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Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, Nikki Jammerly's two singles Bienceas and Me

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Speaker 2: So the Niki Jam who stepped on the plane that

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Speaker 1: By chance, Nicki and Yankee caught each other's eyes. The

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Speaker 2: Literally everyone was rooting for his comeback.

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Speaker 1: Here was the now global reggaeton community recognizing one of

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Speaker 2: The album's lead single, at Betazon or Forgiveness, would spend

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Speaker 1: In some ways, it shouldn't be so much of a

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Speaker 1: shock that Daddy Yankee is so public about his faith.

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Speaker 1: These days, He and his closest at mnols have experienced

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Speaker 2: Question, do you think Daddy Yankee goes fool Papito and

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Speaker 1: Versus one hundred percent? And we're about to get why?

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Speaker 1: The year after he patched things up with Nicki Jam,

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Speaker 1: in twenty six sixteen, just before taking the stage at

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Speaker 2: The doctors diagnosed him with pre diabetes and told him

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Speaker 1: So once again, Daddy Yanki was lying in a hospital bed,

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Speaker 2: Which brings us finally to Daddy Yanki's retirement. He would

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Speaker 2: And for good measure, we've got pitple on there too,

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Speaker 2: because let us never forget that Gossol Lena came out

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, those club days. Thank god there were

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Speaker 2: After more than thirty years in that reggaeton game, Daddy

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Speaker 2: Yankee went on his farewell tour La Umi West, done

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Speaker 2: eighty four performances in fourteen countries, ending with four sold

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Speaker 2: out back to back shows at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: With music in the rear view, Daddy Yankee had his

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Speaker 1: site set on the future, starting with executive producing me

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Speaker 1: on a Netflix series following aspiring reggaeton netos in Miami.

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Speaker 2: Except music isn't totally in the rear view, because this

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Speaker 2: year he released a song just in time for Easter Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Donantere or Blood Joiner and let me tell you It

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Speaker 2: trips like holy Water.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Joseph, you win this round. On Donante de Sanre,

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Speaker 1: Yankee impresses on his listeners that there are more important

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Speaker 1: things in life than fame, money and ego. So rather

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Speaker 1: than retiring from music, Yankees, retiring from old ways and.

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Speaker 2: Yankee be preaching. He pinned the following to the comment

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Speaker 2: section and the YouTube video from the song.

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Speaker 1: As I said in my last concert, the music, social networks, preaching,

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Speaker 1: concerts or other types of events on my platforms will

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Speaker 1: be used for the service of the Kingdom. Peter, upon

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Speaker 1: meeting Jesus, continued with the same job as a fisherman,

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Speaker 1: but with another purpose. He became a fisher of men

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Speaker 1: like me. I continue in music, but with a new

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Speaker 1: purpose to bring light and the gospel of the Lord

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Speaker 1: to all the souls of the world.

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Speaker 2: Damn, which gets me wondering, like, is this Daddy Yankees

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Speaker 2: Carlos Santana meets the Angel Metatron moment. So how do

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Speaker 2: you feel about by the Yankee.

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Speaker 1: I'm here for it because I support anybody's artistic and

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Speaker 1: musical decisions around like their art right, Like he can

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Speaker 1: do whatever he wants with it. I think it'd be

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Speaker 1: interesting to bring reggaeton sounds to I'm gonna call it

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Speaker 1: like gospel Christian music because I don't know what other

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Speaker 1: genre to call it, but listen, we have Christian rock,

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Speaker 1: we have Christian rap. Why could we also have Christian

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Speaker 1: or more spiritual regaton the Christian PreO Christian? Okay, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: do you maybe Jesus, We're sorry. I wouldn't call it

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Speaker 1: Christian Perreau would I would?

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Speaker 2: I would because it is what it is. Just because

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Speaker 2: you're serving the Lord doesn't mean you can't throw it back.

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm not being It's just a dance move.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: But what are you throwing it back into the air?

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Speaker 2: Joseph?

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Speaker 1: You know what, if there is an audience for like

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Speaker 1: niche music, this is the niche to like maybe invest

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Speaker 1: in For Daddy Yankee, I say, more power to And

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Speaker 1: by the way, he's not wrong. There is more to

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Speaker 1: life than fame, money and ego.

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Speaker 2: It's true.

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Speaker 1: So we agree.

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Speaker 2: I do want to say I am here for it.

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Speaker 2: I am here for Daddy Yankee finding his spirituality and

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Speaker 2: spreading the light. Because you know, when you are on

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Speaker 2: a mental health journey, or you can call it a

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Speaker 2: spiritual journey and energy journey, things do change, and you know,

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Speaker 2: ultimately he doesn't have to do anything from the past anymore.

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Speaker 2: He could start brand new. Who's to say.

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Speaker 1: And it's the sound of reggaeton that really brings you

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Speaker 1: into the music. So if the world is just listening,

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I want to hear Daddy Yankee. If

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Speaker 1: you were to do this kind of gospel and these

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Speaker 1: kinds of lyrics that support this new found faith in

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Speaker 1: his life. But put it to a reggat b and

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Speaker 1: put that dem bow on it, maybe it would make

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Speaker 1: it to the top of the Spotify playlist charts. Who knows,

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Speaker 1: But I say you do you, Daddy Yankee?

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Speaker 2: I say halle luke.

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Speaker 1: Time will have to tell what gospel badri Yankee will

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Speaker 1: come to preach whatever the future holds. Time and time again,

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Speaker 1: He's spread the light of reggaeton far and wide, and

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Speaker 1: generations of Latin artists stand in that light.

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Speaker 2: Oh that church stuff ain't going on my houte you

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Speaker 2: Daddy playlist?

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Speaker 1: Though completely fair. On the next Becoming an Icon, we're

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Speaker 1: taking a look at today's icons in the making Carol Gen,

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Speaker 1: Becky Gen, and Fmilicaba. Becoming an Icon is presented by

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Speaker 1: Sonoo and Iheart's Michael kudda podcast network. Listen to becoming

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Speaker 1: an icon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your to

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Speaker 2: Give us a book