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Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna just drink or smoke, but I might
Speaker 1: get a little little fool just a little bit and
Speaker 1: a little bit of drinking a little bit, a little
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Speaker 1: man super one of the closest friends to me, right,
Speaker 1: my Dominican constituent, when I you know, we did all
Speaker 1: your mkanto, when we, you know, started to mess with
Speaker 1: the Latin latin um because Latino world. I asked Super,
Speaker 1: oh the same way I asked him when I went
Speaker 1: to get into reggae Throwne. I said, Yo, listen, I
Speaker 1: got I think I got Nicki James. I think I
Speaker 1: would be able to interview Nikki James. And Super says, Nori,
Speaker 1: already know where you're gonna go with this. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: Holy moley, guacamole. Now listen, well, I'm gonna take off
Speaker 1: my champions. It's okay, man. So I'm watching this right now.
Speaker 1: By the way, I somewhat know your story right because
Speaker 1: I fell in love with reggae Thorn. Like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: black and Puerto Rican, I love to be born. I've
Speaker 1: never not claimed both. I always said I'm bold and
Speaker 1: I went to to Puerto week and I fell in
Speaker 1: love with reggae thor. I didn't know the stories of
Speaker 1: reggae thor. I didn't know the nicky Jams. I didn't
Speaker 1: know the Daddy Yankees. I didn't know that they got
Speaker 1: their owns. I didn't know the Donald Mars. I didn't
Speaker 1: the designing list. But I knew the music. I knew
Speaker 1: that when I heard that show, I said, holy ship,
Speaker 1: there's something about this music here. But you got started
Speaker 1: with it was Latin wrapped first. Yeah, it was Latin
Speaker 1: wrapped back in the eighties. And you know we had
Speaker 1: Vico c uh Julli M C Ruben d J. I mean,
Speaker 1: vehicle C is like, you know, the king, he started this,
Speaker 1: this whole movement. He's considered the first get throne and
Speaker 1: pr because hand that, I was kind of considered the
Speaker 1: first one who made it, who kind of started doing
Speaker 1: it in Panama? Am I correct? I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: I can't say you know what it was because what
Speaker 1: what what Vico C was doing was just Spanish hip,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that, And then I started
Speaker 1: the Spanish reggae. Yeah, so you know, they did start
Speaker 1: the reggae the movement because it was funny in the
Speaker 1: movie when you called yourself raging muffins. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I used to. I used to, like I used to this.
Speaker 1: This is a real story about this. I came from
Speaker 1: the States, right, okay, Lawrence, from Lawrence, Massachusetts, and went
Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico. I didn't know ship about Spanish, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I just knew a little bit
Speaker 1: of Spanish. And I used to lie and say that
Speaker 1: I knew jam I was half Jamaican because I used
Speaker 1: to imitate Jamaican. I had my old VID. But I
Speaker 1: wasn't saying ship man. You know, people believed that something.
Speaker 1: I was locked my way in, you know what I'm saying, Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this kid is half Jamaican. You know, he's like, he's
Speaker 1: twenty years old. He could wrap in English. Like. So
Speaker 1: there was a concert that was a remember it was
Speaker 1: a bat I don't know how you say the English.
Speaker 1: The regga Patrick Patrick Spanish. So we went over there
Speaker 1: and people like, Yo, this is this kid. He's half
Speaker 1: Jamaican and kids have Jamaican and I want you to
Speaker 1: meet him and he's and so so they take me
Speaker 1: them and she was like, yeah, jamaicanout okay. I used
Speaker 1: to understood okay, and you talking. You know, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm swearing, and so that that made me. You know,
Speaker 1: the thing is, I mean the style was fluid. I
Speaker 1: had the style and everything, but I didn't't know Spanish,
Speaker 1: so I learned the language in Spanish, you know, saying.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the carry being and the
Speaker 1: reygae movement. I mean in the States, I remember back
Speaker 1: in the days when it was just when it was
Speaker 1: you know, the hip hop and everything. People would dance separated,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you going to the clubs,
Speaker 1: you didn't see people like grinding like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when I went to Puerto Rico and
Speaker 1: I saw reggae ship, you know, girls and boys be
Speaker 1: like that, what the funk? This is my life? You know?
Speaker 1: This ship is crazy, man. I mean they used to
Speaker 1: do a little they call him the garage parties, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And uh, the next day you
Speaker 1: will see all the jenes on the wall. It was
Speaker 1: like the garage party, the DJ at the end of
Speaker 1: the garage, you know what I'm saying. And then people
Speaker 1: were charging money to go inside. That's those were the
Speaker 1: first parties, okay, and one and another thing is when
Speaker 1: I first got to Puerto Rico. I first came to
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, they made me performing a cassett el, right,
Speaker 1: And when you and and Daddy Yankee did it was
Speaker 1: that's something that was traditional every year you guys were performing.
Speaker 1: I mean, is like the projects in Puerto Rico. So
Speaker 1: it's like something Christmas. You gotta do it everywhere, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like those were the stages for us.
Speaker 1: That was the stage. We didn't have no shows, so
Speaker 1: it was the cassat Eels. And even when we became
Speaker 1: famous and we were doing already like clubs and bigger stuff,
Speaker 1: we still had to give love to the cassat Eels.
Speaker 1: And we don't do shows all over the cassatt Eels.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what crazy show. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know, but James, I have a picture with
Speaker 1: jay Z and Damn Dashed when I was like twelve
Speaker 1: years old out yeah, and they went to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: Remember the group called Original Flavors. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how jay c ended up with that. Probably they had
Speaker 1: a song together down together, so they I was I
Speaker 1: was walking with j C all over Porto Rico show.
Speaker 1: I was just towards God and I was taking him
Speaker 1: the spots and he don't even like he wouldn't even imagine.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that that I'm who I
Speaker 1: am today and I'm gonna showing you picture or not.
Speaker 1: I gotta right here, get out of here. Let's get
Speaker 1: some champaigne up here. Look at look at this picture. Man,
Speaker 1: You're gonna laugh. And you see his picture. Look at
Speaker 1: this picture right man? You see j C. Holy movie
Speaker 1: camera and that's young to keep your Yeah, with the
Speaker 1: two X nikee. You teach the whole legend out here man,
Speaker 1: like you're like, ye know when you really like the
Speaker 1: legend legend Like so one thing about the movie, right, um,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you how much I honor you
Speaker 1: for keeping it real like the things that I was watching, Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: let me just say your something. I know you made
Speaker 1: it right, this is this is the crazy Ship. It's
Speaker 1: how good the movie is. Is that I know you
Speaker 1: made it. At the end, I know you you win.
Speaker 1: But as I'm watching and I'm watching you, look who's
Speaker 1: lose lose, I'm just crying, like yo, when this isn't
Speaker 1: gonna win. So I know there, but as I'm watching it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, this is roughly And I told us
Speaker 1: to my wife, I said, Joe's roughly the Nikki jam
Speaker 1: fan right now because and I was. I was amazed
Speaker 1: that you didn't hide them like that. You you you
Speaker 1: you kept it real. Like the idea of my idea
Speaker 1: was to make kids to learn, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And you know, I wanted to make a graphic. So
Speaker 1: if you make a graphic, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: people gonna like, kids are gonna look at this and
Speaker 1: they're going, Okay, if you go this route, this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen. If you go the right route, this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So I just wanted people to see that.
Speaker 1: You know, I come from My mom was she was
Speaker 1: a crackhead, you know drug my dad was as well,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I lived in in
Speaker 1: the and theyve right, they both alive, good good, So
Speaker 1: you know I came from. I came from a really
Speaker 1: dark past. You know what I'm saying that there's nothing
Speaker 1: more crazy than seeing like, you know, your mom doing
Speaker 1: faces because she's on it and think. You know what's
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is I've missed Judge you me personally,
Speaker 1: so I know the world miss judge you because you
Speaker 1: make so much beautiful music. You make music that make
Speaker 1: me want of commercial music, and but your life you
Speaker 1: should be making. You should be like making. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like you know what I'm saying. Like so
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm sorry, I'm bouncing around. Yeah, how did
Speaker 1: you not like become let that turn you dark? And
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that? Music wise? Music wise, you know,
Speaker 1: I was always I like, this is a thing. I
Speaker 1: was always a melody guy when it came to music.
Speaker 1: So melody wasn't it wasn't like a rough thing in
Speaker 1: the past, like if you did melody, you know what's
Speaker 1: like I could wrap. But it was like I was
Speaker 1: really good doing the melody impact. I got famous doing melodies.
Speaker 1: You know what they ain't doing melody hooks and all that.
Speaker 1: So when when I when I went through all this
Speaker 1: bad ship that I was going through, there was no
Speaker 1: way for me to do music that related to what
Speaker 1: was going on in my life because people respecting me,
Speaker 1: it's just the guy that did melody music. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying it was like I don't know. I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example of somebody that, uh it sounds
Speaker 1: beautiful and had like a hard h well t Ping
Speaker 1: is kind of like a melody guy. Future is kind
Speaker 1: of like a melody guy. You know what, Future incorpate
Speaker 1: drugs and things like that in his rap. So I
Speaker 1: guess you like kind of like the future, like it
Speaker 1: was like the first Future something like that. Hollywood brogrounds
Speaker 1: you the second Nick James. No, but you know so,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. It's funny because I did a
Speaker 1: lot of bad things in the past, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying where people people sit down and I don't
Speaker 1: even wanna talk about it, but people of people say, like, yo, Nikki,
Speaker 1: you did stuff that you never bragged in a rap
Speaker 1: song or nothing about it. Like I'm not because it
Speaker 1: wasn't my It wasn't my thing to do, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And I'm not, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: something that people wanted to hear from me. I think
Speaker 1: it sound kind of funny. I'll kill you this, come on,
Speaker 1: give us that little you know. But Nikki was always like,
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted with a little phases. So one
Speaker 1: of the I'm bouncing around because like I said, like
Speaker 1: I said, this really have a really thing. You have
Speaker 1: a really I don't I'm saying beautiful because of the turnout,
Speaker 1: But it was to get to beautiful, to get to
Speaker 1: beautiful it was, and like I said, I really admire
Speaker 1: the fact that you kept it so real, you kept
Speaker 1: it so so now bouncing around me and Mato was
Speaker 1: trying to debate just now it's like why did he
Speaker 1: go to Columbia in the first place? Right for me,
Speaker 1: from what I understand in the in the movie, Um,
Speaker 1: you went because of a show. Okay, so how did
Speaker 1: that turn into me staying there for ten years? Well?
Speaker 1: The thing is in Puerto Rico, I wasn't doing no shows, man,
Speaker 1: I mean everything was. Nobody wanted to funk with me.
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of street problems and I was
Speaker 1: in drugs and I was messed up, so nobody like
Speaker 1: for me. For in Puerto Rico in the time, I
Speaker 1: was like the embarrassment of reggaetone music. But in Colombia
Speaker 1: I was I was a legend because they listened so much.
Speaker 1: They even listened to music that in Puerto Rico people
Speaker 1: didn't like. So they like Puerto Rico like my heads,
Speaker 1: but Colombia like my hits and the songs that wasn't.
Speaker 1: Really I don't want to go right back to Colombia.
Speaker 1: Remember to go back back to Colombia. But what do
Speaker 1: you mean by that in Puerto Rico? Because I just
Speaker 1: I don't think port Ico looked at you as an embarrassment.
Speaker 1: I think I mean in the time and the time,
Speaker 1: in the time I was an embarrassment and in the
Speaker 1: music at what time you would say, is that time
Speaker 1: I would saying what I wasn't in a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of situations, you know what I'm saying, Like cat they
Speaker 1: called me, they called me in a car that old
Speaker 1: like seven months and and got a jail for some
Speaker 1: stupid stuff like that. Or they caught me with cocaine
Speaker 1: and in my parking and they got and they locked
Speaker 1: me up for that. Like it was embarrassment, embarrassment, embarrassment.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, when you were in drugs,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? And then I just go to you know,
Speaker 1: say so in Puerto Rico was like, you know, Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico is a very competitive vibe, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like, man, who's up? Man? Like you know,
Speaker 1: like and in Colombia it was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't expect Puerto Rico to Uh. I'm gonna get this clear.
Speaker 1: I don't expect Puerto Rico. I don't. I don't judge
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico because of my faith about my situation. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That was me, that was my situation.
Speaker 1: I just needed to get out of Puerto Rico so
Speaker 1: I could find myself. You know what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of famous people, do you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you went to Columbia. Most people go to
Speaker 1: Columbia to get fucked up. Really, ten years you would
Speaker 1: say five was getting up. Check this out. When they
Speaker 1: called me for a show, and uh, they're like, yo, Nikki,
Speaker 1: and we want to show, and how much you charge it?
Speaker 1: In that moment, I need to pay the rent. So
Speaker 1: I said, just give me two thousand dollars. And the
Speaker 1: dudes like, okay, we'll give you two thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: I'm going to Columbia. When I saw the movement of
Speaker 1: the urban music, the reggae, reggaetar music, and Columbia was like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is? This man like people was doing
Speaker 1: five shows a day a day and I'm starving in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. And that same week that I went, I
Speaker 1: did like seven shows. So I said, I'm living this motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I got I got the kids. You know, I pay
Speaker 1: the rent and I gotta child support and all that.
Speaker 1: The thing is um When I went to the show,
Speaker 1: I was the only old school cat, like everybody else
Speaker 1: was like the new kids. They were killing the game
Speaker 1: that I get through, you know what I'm saying. You know, no,
Speaker 1: I meant there was yeah, but that's I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like the in the world. I bet there was kicking
Speaker 1: in Colombia. He was doing good in Columbia, but I'm
Speaker 1: talking about everywhere else. Then I get through Joe Zombie
Speaker 1: like the biggest stars, I've got you and now unless
Speaker 1: you feel all these cats were killing the game and
Speaker 1: they were on this big ass show and I was
Speaker 1: the only guy that was like not active in the
Speaker 1: You couldn't be on that same show on Porter we
Speaker 1: go never and they took me on my home but
Speaker 1: they saved me for last the Colombians. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: worried and I'm like, yo, bro, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying something. So that's what I'm saying. What I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a good idea, bro, Like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. No, if I said, you know,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is when I came out, man, that
Speaker 1: ship wanted to fucking b the fun You gotta understand,
Speaker 1: I started this movement with Daddy Yankee years ago, back
Speaker 1: in ninety to me, Yank Yankee, Me and a couple
Speaker 1: of more. There's a lot more that I would never
Speaker 1: finish if I talked this og black mouth there Joe, Um,
Speaker 1: there's a job Evie, queen baby, a whole bunch, a
Speaker 1: whole bunch. But like, so to see that everybody was crazy.
Speaker 1: I said, man, I love this place. And everywhere I went,
Speaker 1: people like, you're a legend. But I'm bro llegend, you llegend.
Speaker 1: So one thing I saw in Columbia was I saw
Speaker 1: this like almost fifty million people here and I did
Speaker 1: a little freestyling video with Yahorn and a hotel. You
Speaker 1: probably see it if you look, if you if you
Speaker 1: check it out, and it did almost like two million
Speaker 1: views or a million views, I don't remember at that time.
Speaker 1: So I said, Okay, if I do one national hit
Speaker 1: in this country, I could probably make so much views
Speaker 1: that I could bounce again all over the world. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna focus I'm gonna focus on that. That was
Speaker 1: my mentality. But before that, something fucked up happened. That
Speaker 1: it was my thirtieth birthday and I went to a
Speaker 1: club and I did, like I don't know how many cocaine.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many cocaine I do. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about so much cocaine. I mean the guy went to
Speaker 1: pick me up in the house, there was like a
Speaker 1: little bag of cocaine and every spot of the house.
Speaker 1: Because I think this guy was like I was performing.
Speaker 1: I was just on that. Was that Columbia or you
Speaker 1: would have been like that in pr too? Was Columbia?
Speaker 1: And I mean I was there. I mean I was there.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna go there, but
Speaker 1: I was saying I was there. A guy said, yo, Nikki,
Speaker 1: you want to hit. He had a big gass bag
Speaker 1: like this. I went to the bathroom and it was
Speaker 1: double bag bag. I went like this, I'm like y'all,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. And so this is the thing,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I did that I did. I woke
Speaker 1: up like around seven o'clock in the morning. I had
Speaker 1: another show on both without different city from Maiging, and
Speaker 1: I remember that I was feeling kind of weird. I
Speaker 1: was feeling kind of weird. I took coffee. I was
Speaker 1: in the plane and all of a sudden, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to move my hands and I can't move my hands,
Speaker 1: and I got to concentrate to do every every movement,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm like, who ship
Speaker 1: what the fund is going on with me? I guess
Speaker 1: I did so much drugs my whole life because I
Speaker 1: did ecstasy, I did every I even didn't I even
Speaker 1: did heroin. I didn't do it by veins, but you know,
Speaker 1: by by nose. I didn't so much drugs. It sucked
Speaker 1: up my my nervous system. And uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to say it in English and see them, I'm
Speaker 1: on threes is the your motor system and fucked up
Speaker 1: my motor system. That's when you say about the weed though,
Speaker 1: like because he could then I get a little crazy now.
Speaker 1: But its so the thing is. I went to U,
Speaker 1: I went to a hospital. I went to a brain
Speaker 1: of brain doctor, and he told me that I had
Speaker 1: to stop any drug because I was gonna get sucked up.
Speaker 1: I could just stay like you know, that's the festival,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm like, I had to.
Speaker 1: I stopped doing that. And I was so scared of
Speaker 1: staying like that that I started focusing on my career
Speaker 1: first of all. But I had to get clean because
Speaker 1: I was taking perks. And I was taking perks. I
Speaker 1: w was sent for them a day. I would send
Speaker 1: for them, like I would make money in Columbia and
Speaker 1: bring perms to Columbia. And I would bring a three
Speaker 1: hundred bottle of buyers uh, because perks looked like buyers say,
Speaker 1: it looks like they like they looked like so the
Speaker 1: ones I used things that were and though so I
Speaker 1: was like, I would travel with a big gas bottle
Speaker 1: of like three hundred and I would like chill and
Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of shows in Columbia with that ship.
Speaker 1: And if you know about so you're bringing drugs to Columbia. Yeah, holy,
Speaker 1: So you're talking y'all talking to ya yoire talking about
Speaker 1: that that I went to Columbia and rude, I bring
Speaker 1: drugs Jordan they didn't have. They didn't have. I even
Speaker 1: gave a Columbia got perk and he was like, hey said, okay,
Speaker 1: that's mean wear food. So you know, like I was
Speaker 1: on some other ship. So the thing is UM, I
Speaker 1: had to like break like Heroin. It's the same ship
Speaker 1: because I asked open. So I had to stay in
Speaker 1: the in the room for three or four days. Sweat
Speaker 1: ain't the whole funking you saw, Rachel. I don't want
Speaker 1: to go because I want to go to UM later,
Speaker 1: but I need to know. It's a part of the place.
Speaker 1: You go meet with this artist, you asked Penya, I think,
Speaker 1: pa Pa, and you say, you hook me up with Valet,
Speaker 1: and then you go meet with Valet whose Vallet hooked
Speaker 1: me up with Vallet the artist, the artist and you
Speaker 1: met with the artists? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, who is
Speaker 1: that in real life? Yeah? Well you know in that moment,
Speaker 1: is it not? I know the guy no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the guy that said he was an artist and it
Speaker 1: was born to Let. It's come from that section. He
Speaker 1: was topping. I've no guy us all the same little
Speaker 1: what's that beach us he was with and so shout
Speaker 1: out to shout out to even churching out with no
Speaker 1: definitely hector, hector, help fathers in church, the church as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was white lying together. Yeah, and that still label two. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point Max more Man and I'm listening. So honestly,
Speaker 1: when I've seen that, I was like, yo, um, Artists
Speaker 1: don't know how tough that ship is. Artists don't know
Speaker 1: how you know, you go from being this this legend
Speaker 1: and then Leo Combes just to say you got a
Speaker 1: little bit of whack juice on you. So when you
Speaker 1: have wack juice on you, people don't want to mess
Speaker 1: with you. Nobody want to. And at the same time,
Speaker 1: I had a bad situation with Daddy Yankee. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Daddy Yankee was you know, he was
Speaker 1: he was everybody the respect that people have for Yankee,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So until I didn't fix
Speaker 1: that situation, you know what I'm saying, people want to
Speaker 1: be clear that I was, that I was good, you know,
Speaker 1: because I was fucked up. I sucked it up, and
Speaker 1: don't get to that too. But ahead because I was
Speaker 1: around when that happened, like when when the leaning back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, I was, actually it was crazy and I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is true. I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is true. You tell me it's true. Somebody somebody
Speaker 1: contacted me and said, uh, Nicky Jam. They I don't
Speaker 1: know what if they said, Nickie Jam, but they said,
Speaker 1: Yankees brother wants to do a record with you. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool, no problem, like and then
Speaker 1: they're like, so I asked, said, yo, Nicky Jam do
Speaker 1: a record, and he goes, yo, right now, Poppy and
Speaker 1: he's like, yo, man, you know, but he's not really together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know what I thought at first was like whatever,
Speaker 1: And then later on I was like, I think Yanky
Speaker 1: was hating And then when I saw the movie, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, maybe he wasn't he was.
Speaker 1: He wasn't, I say a percent. He was doing everything
Speaker 1: about it. He was just trying. He was trying to
Speaker 1: help me all the time. He was trying to help me.
Speaker 1: And I was just because in the movie I could
Speaker 1: see certain people say that Yankee looked like an angel.
Speaker 1: Was he was he mad that he looked like because
Speaker 1: he looked like he just was perfect and he didn't
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong. No, no, he was from the streets,
Speaker 1: but he never did anything wrong to me, right something.
Speaker 1: What I meant is like in the streets, like yeah,
Speaker 1: no Yankee, you know, like you saw this, like he
Speaker 1: was he was in uh when the police put them
Speaker 1: over and he's in the hood, and they were like
Speaker 1: they were talking to him, like people from the streets
Speaker 1: wanta talk to Yankee like that. You know what I'm saying. Nah,
Speaker 1: But that was the director and it was already made. No, yank,
Speaker 1: you would have go off on everybody, but people respect
Speaker 1: the Yankee in the hood, like you shot to do condo, Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the club and then and Yankee, everyone thinks it's
Speaker 1: Gonald from out here. No, no, no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: gotta relax. No, I don't no, it's not that's my boy,
Speaker 1: my boy. We all de baby, like, I think you
Speaker 1: really got confused, Like, Bro, you shooting so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he wanted to be here. You don't right? You
Speaker 1: show me right, am? Like, no, Bro, I love you
Speaker 1: so being that we did know, being being clear to
Speaker 1: the old Yankee situation. Bro, it was just me being
Speaker 1: iglorand Bro, I love love, I love I loved in
Speaker 1: the movie where you kind of looked at yourself and
Speaker 1: you reflected on and, Um, your manager, what's his name?
Speaker 1: The guy from Columbia. Yea, if I see him, I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna give him a five. I got about
Speaker 1: to him. That's what's bro, yo. Like this ship that
Speaker 1: he was putting together for you, that's like, you didn't
Speaker 1: go to Columbia for you. You went to Columbia for him,
Speaker 1: and that he was he was a blessing for you, bro.
Speaker 1: And like obviously obviously obviously, um, you know that's it's
Speaker 1: through the movie. So I don't you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: but that was that was a blessing. But um, what
Speaker 1: was I saying before that? If you about we know that? Um,
Speaker 1: but is it really that hard in Puerto Rico? Like
Speaker 1: what like at the street? Oh my god, you don't
Speaker 1: understand man. Puerto Rico was rated number one capital and
Speaker 1: murder in the world. Yeah, I remember that Rico only
Speaker 1: have three million people living. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You go, don'ta sunk around when it comes to that
Speaker 1: street ship, you know what I'm saying. And when we
Speaker 1: come from it's not it's not easy like in the movie.
Speaker 1: I wanted to go in the whole Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: was his name. He's not here no more. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to I want what's because I noticed this
Speaker 1: part of this entertainment, so you know, I know, but
Speaker 1: was it really like that? Was it over a girl?
Speaker 1: And like because I remember I think, I think, Dad,
Speaker 1: you got shot in New York. I think this guy
Speaker 1: was missing my guy names stand and even just put
Speaker 1: it in the movie. Actually that was the only part
Speaker 1: I was like. I was a little skeptical of because
Speaker 1: you have a Puerto Rican barber shop with none but
Speaker 1: Dominicans in there. I peeped that. I just that Lobo
Speaker 1: he's I mean, I mean, I'm to but um, so
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, I was just saying what he was.
Speaker 1: He was talking about how the streets in Porto Rico
Speaker 1: jah man ship is quick. No, I mean the situation
Speaker 1: was that one of the boys that me and Yankee, Uh,
Speaker 1: the guy I'm not gonna say that he was he
Speaker 1: was he was waning. We helped him, and a dude
Speaker 1: from the streets, Uh didn't like that that we held him.
Speaker 1: So he ended up killing that guy and then he
Speaker 1: was after us. You know what I'm saying, like in
Speaker 1: the movie. He was in the music, just like in
Speaker 1: the movie. So we had to get the she was
Speaker 1: this guy had six six six on his foread get
Speaker 1: the fun out they're talking around. This guy was insane, bro,
Speaker 1: this motherfucker and he was after us. So we had
Speaker 1: we went to Of course, man, we're trying to like survive,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because we're singers, were from
Speaker 1: the streets. But these guys are from the streets. So
Speaker 1: that's their business when we do music, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So we we make money, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like doing shows and ships. So we had
Speaker 1: to go to New York. And that's when I went.
Speaker 1: I went, I was in I was in box and
Speaker 1: the bronx pected was not in the third by phoning
Speaker 1: wrong that mango opinion and I was hustling that mango opinion.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is that I went with Yankee with
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, and I told this guy was like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: we didn't make These guys were making money like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I was like, I mean, we was broke a fuck.
Speaker 1: That time was Iceberg and ship. Everything was Iceberg and
Speaker 1: all that ship and I said, I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: the Holly were making money. I'm saying, you know what, man,
Speaker 1: I so I'm gonna say that ship to him, gonna
Speaker 1: make my money. Fuck that ship. I saw the way
Speaker 1: that ship was moving. And I was just hustling and
Speaker 1: making money. And we made money enough to get strapped.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yankee. You know he made
Speaker 1: his money too. And we went back to Port Ko.
Speaker 1: We were just him and it was really just y'all
Speaker 1: two or y'all have other brothers that came with y'all
Speaker 1: when y'all came because New York, it was just me
Speaker 1: and Yankee, but we had a crew from over there
Speaker 1: because Nan, we can't. When we came back. You know
Speaker 1: what this guy wanted to show that was in Porto Rico.
Speaker 1: That wasn't what was that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's it's crazy, but it's
Speaker 1: the life that you used to live, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like I mean, I mean, like like I
Speaker 1: told Yankee, that's issues, Like, well, it's not the first time.
Speaker 1: Somebody ain't gonna kill us the way that I didn't
Speaker 1: have to. You know what I'm saying that why I've
Speaker 1: been for a long time, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And you've be seeing a lot of people died in
Speaker 1: Porter week. Could be just because of that ship to
Speaker 1: a girl. Yeah no, I know that. And it's a
Speaker 1: small line, so I don't I don't look around with
Speaker 1: that ship. So listen, that's the craziest ship about the
Speaker 1: But the movie is when I look at any two groups,
Speaker 1: I always look at it like and I compared to
Speaker 1: component oriega, Right, I always just say that's you know.
Speaker 1: And when I'm watching the movie, the whole time, I
Speaker 1: thought I was one of you guys. But I realized
Speaker 1: I am not. I realized, yeah, yeah, you always took
Speaker 1: the route every time a girl said, they said the
Speaker 1: girl I said, yeah said the whole time to the
Speaker 1: end of the ship, I was like ship he was.
Speaker 1: It was so much like that. It was serious business situation.
Speaker 1: And yet you look at me like, yeah, come on, bro,
Speaker 1: you know yeah, I can't. I can tell you this.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this Yankee was meant to be
Speaker 1: a hundred dollar man. Like he's always a hundred million
Speaker 1: dollar man. You know what I'm trying to say. He
Speaker 1: was always a boss. Yeah, and that I was always
Speaker 1: a crazy to clown. He was like he was really
Speaker 1: a boss street street dude. I was a clown, but
Speaker 1: I was like crazy clown, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I was a rebel. I would do any fucking
Speaker 1: crazy thing. Yank you was more you know boss. You know,
Speaker 1: yeah he was bus since he was born over But
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. Yankee streaked like a motherfucker I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. But you know the dude, you know he
Speaker 1: went through a lot of ship too in his pastor Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went through a lot of ships. So his mentality
Speaker 1: was like Nicki's gonna he was at the point like Nick,
Speaker 1: He's gonna suck it up for me, Like I love
Speaker 1: him a lot, but I've been like trying and trying
Speaker 1: trying because he was using the movie, right, you went
Speaker 1: from like the first time like meeting him and then
Speaker 1: it was like one time you came to the studio
Speaker 1: late and it was just like I don't want to
Speaker 1: say ungrateful, but it was just like yo, I'm here,
Speaker 1: just shut the funk up type of ship. How did
Speaker 1: you go from that from that movie from like you know,
Speaker 1: when you was first well, to be clear, I will
Speaker 1: never tell Yankee shut the fun he was because he
Speaker 1: was always bigger than me. Movie. It was like you
Speaker 1: came late with what's my man? Jonz Um, j Jones
Speaker 1: came with Jones. And I related to the situation because
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, me and Capone getting together and
Speaker 1: Capone being happy to be at the studio at one
Speaker 1: point and then him knowing that he's about to go
Speaker 1: to jail and him just being like fuck it, like
Speaker 1: has come to the studio. And that's what I realized, Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I might be Yankee in this situation. How did you
Speaker 1: go from that? Like go from because he was like
Speaker 1: signing at twelve years old, like you were like doing
Speaker 1: the ship. The thing is that shows that that particular
Speaker 1: part right there shows how daddy Yankee was always focused
Speaker 1: and I was just not appreciating life. I was not
Speaker 1: appreciating the gift that God gave me a music. I
Speaker 1: was not, you know, not doing it. And he was
Speaker 1: telling me like, bro, you know what I'm saying, come on, man,
Speaker 1: Like you know, Yankee was the type of guy if
Speaker 1: we went to New York, he would change, his mentality
Speaker 1: would change, becuse he know in New York was like
Speaker 1: the city of hip hop. So he would put his
Speaker 1: his his his benie on and he was sitting on
Speaker 1: a car like that, we want to like a like
Speaker 1: a town car tax anybody he was in the limo
Speaker 1: said I'm not joking with the guy, and he's like,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, because I was just a clown, bro,
Speaker 1: don't wanted to clown around, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And he was always, you know, serious about business, and
Speaker 1: I was hanging out with the wrong people. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you hang around with the wrong people, they don't
Speaker 1: give you the best advice. So everything that happened with
Speaker 1: me and Yankee was because I was on drugs, I
Speaker 1: was ignorant, I had the wrong people next to me.
Speaker 1: So what was the exact thing that said? Because as
Speaker 1: an artist, it takes a lot for us to write
Speaker 1: something to something right. And when you write something, it's
Speaker 1: like coming from the heart regardless. So for you to
Speaker 1: write something that, it had to be something that really
Speaker 1: tick you off. They're just trying to pick somebody off,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like I was, I was mad, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, I just I just wrote. I just wrote
Speaker 1: what I wrote because I thought I had to go
Speaker 1: hard and made somebody mad, but the way they made
Speaker 1: me mad, So the problem was the problem was this.
Speaker 1: But did he come at you first? That's what you thought?
Speaker 1: What's that's what I'm trying. There was a party said that,
Speaker 1: uh he said something like about it, like you talk
Speaker 1: for us because you because of the pills or whatever.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't for me. I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't for me. It was for somebody else.
Speaker 1: So I just went at him because I was like,
Speaker 1: oh he did and then people, you know, bad energy
Speaker 1: and all that ship, so of course he's gonna feel bad.
Speaker 1: It was just a bad moment. It was a bad,
Speaker 1: stupid moment in my life where I didn't have my
Speaker 1: head clear and the dude hadn't ever been a record back.
Speaker 1: He never made a record back. Man, he did, he
Speaker 1: had got Solina, the biggest hit in the world, and
Speaker 1: that's you don't need. After that, he made me look, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's life, that's what it's all about. Because he
Speaker 1: was there for me and he was doing something good.
Speaker 1: He was trying to help me, and I was stupid
Speaker 1: and ignorant and not pay for it. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know that nothing comes You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying you You you get what you give. I
Speaker 1: gave bad energy, of bad mentality. I was stupid and
Speaker 1: I paid for that. Look at all the ship I
Speaker 1: went through. You saw it, jail, drugs, embarrassments. My music
Speaker 1: wasn't popping, I wasn't doing so and me and Nas
Speaker 1: we had a fallout, right, and for two years it
Speaker 1: was rough for me. How was it for you? Like
Speaker 1: hard when when you made this record with Daddy and
Speaker 1: now Yankee is popping. Imagine I imagine this. I could
Speaker 1: have been a part of it, and instead of being
Speaker 1: a part of it, because I was stupid and ignorant,
Speaker 1: I had to see somebody's success six like, succeed to
Speaker 1: the fullest and my career just go down because I
Speaker 1: was stupid and ignorant. And then obviously, during all those
Speaker 1: years that I was doing drugs, I kept my mom
Speaker 1: mentality like no funk, everybody did it because it looks
Speaker 1: like a bad cloud you get. But then when you
Speaker 1: stopped doing drugs and your mind gets clear, you're like, funk, man,
Speaker 1: this dude was right and I was wrong, and it
Speaker 1: took me ten fucking years. He realized that ship you wanted.
Speaker 1: He wanted to get back up. He wanted to be
Speaker 1: back into a level. You don't he want to just
Speaker 1: come to the Yankee and squash it like and like
Speaker 1: you're needing him exactly I wanted. I know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to sit down and what I already had the position?
Speaker 1: So how do you think like that? That's that's that's
Speaker 1: a will bollship because my mentality is it's it's easy
Speaker 1: to say you're sorry when you need something. So is
Speaker 1: he really gonna believe that is official? But because but
Speaker 1: if I'm successful and rich and I say I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: like he don't need ships, so it's real, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I waited for that. I worked
Speaker 1: my ass off, I did everything I could, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, to be big and huge and then
Speaker 1: sitting next to the guy and me like and he
Speaker 1: won't feel it uncomfortable. He didn't felt uncomfortable. It didn't
Speaker 1: feel awkward because it feels awkward as funk that you like,
Speaker 1: broke is fucking a bad situation, Like yo, bro I'm
Speaker 1: sorry and fucking with you. You'd be like you need
Speaker 1: a you need a song, you need a future, you
Speaker 1: need a video. You're sucking with me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it felt good to go back to
Speaker 1: him in a good position in my career, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And that made me feel good about myself.
Speaker 1: And he knew it was real because in that moment,
Speaker 1: I could have act too. I could have been like,
Speaker 1: I'm popping now, I don't fun no no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no sorry, And I'm still with your soldier and you're
Speaker 1: still the boss baby, and that's the way it's still be.
Speaker 1: You think, hell, yeah, that's easy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's easy. I mean, I mean we're working a lot
Speaker 1: because I'm doing movies, I'm doing series, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff. And by the way, I'm doing
Speaker 1: my podcast as well, because I'm cod from what are
Speaker 1: you saying about movies? How was that? We dreamed? You?
Speaker 1: Not only you not only did Bad Boys, You did
Speaker 1: the World Cup with Will Smith bothered the challengement, but
Speaker 1: you found out about that tangentent. Did you call him
Speaker 1: to make sure he's okay? No no, no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no no no no, Because I want
Speaker 1: one movie, would do I'm with you. You were formed
Speaker 1: the World Cup? Yeah, we will write Holy moving what
Speaker 1: how was that? Well? The thing is the thing is
Speaker 1: h you know, I uh, because I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: we did something before then the World Cup? You were
Speaker 1: sober baby? Right doing the World Cup? Or did you
Speaker 1: do it already? No, I'm trying to remember. What happened?
Speaker 1: Is I did something with Will be hold on on
Speaker 1: time out when a person can't remember performing, No, you
Speaker 1: got me. I had a smooth his life. Best if
Speaker 1: you said the World Cup, people like, yeah, I remember. Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't yellow thinking he's like being Will. I hain't
Speaker 1: out a Will lie. That's hard. That's hard, brother, No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I know what happened. My relationship with Will started with
Speaker 1: his son I did. I did a remix for him,
Speaker 1: Gonna let you go. Yeah. So after that, they gave
Speaker 1: me the opportunity to do the World Cup song and
Speaker 1: I said, I'll do it if Will Smith is on it.
Speaker 1: A're not gonna say no. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Will Smith? Yeah, okay, No, FIFA don't work around they said.
Speaker 1: So I went, you know, and I told him, we
Speaker 1: don't know about FIFA, bro, we've never been invited. That's
Speaker 1: a movie. That's a weird movie. If Baby the World
Speaker 1: Cups in the World Cup, Mr World come to the
Speaker 1: World Cup. Yea, the world So I told people who like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready. I'm ready to do this, but
Speaker 1: I need Will Smith. So I got Will. Will Smith
Speaker 1: never done the World Cup, so for him like huge,
Speaker 1: So I said, already got him in the World Cup.
Speaker 1: And I heard he's doing Bad Boys. I'm like, yo, Will,
Speaker 1: already are doing Bad Boys again, and you got a
Speaker 1: decent part of Bad Boys. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That no, but this is the look at the answer
Speaker 1: he gave me, like, Yea, that's right, that's why we're
Speaker 1: doing Bad Boys. It's like you think I get a part.
Speaker 1: Then he's like, hey, if you do the casting and
Speaker 1: you passing, you're good. Like damn. I thought she was
Speaker 1: gonna be easy casting, Like alright, bro, I'm doing the
Speaker 1: casting though, so I got you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I went to the casting. I'm telling you, this
Speaker 1: is three ladies with the poker face like there like this,
Speaker 1: I can't stand that ship and I'm acting and she's
Speaker 1: like you and I'm saying they were like, then I
Speaker 1: got the phone call that I got the part I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so I made it and yeah, and you know, hust guy,
Speaker 1: but I mean a good things. I said, I could
Speaker 1: be big easy eating Hamburg if you want to start war,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so it was easy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I mean I didn't the
Speaker 1: end of the day. Um, getting fast is not a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told Will Will if y'all got another movie now
Speaker 1: in Corona, is a good time to give me, dude,
Speaker 1: because I've been eating. Like That's the other thing in
Speaker 1: the movie is you worked out one time and lost
Speaker 1: all the week and one it was a good time
Speaker 1: to think back the cream now that it was crazy. Man.
Speaker 1: So the World Cup now before all this all, Enrique,
Speaker 1: you're in Colombia when you get the Enrique Cole we were.
Speaker 1: I was in Spain, I was tours. I was in
Speaker 1: a dread. Yeah. The song was one of the biggest
Speaker 1: Spanish songs out there. And uh, he is like, yo,
Speaker 1: Nikki and Nikki les is gonna call you. You gotta
Speaker 1: understand for me, this is big because I came from
Speaker 1: like getting big, no, and I came from getting big
Speaker 1: from Colombia, not the tip, not from the base Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: So for me, I was like for me to make
Speaker 1: big things and and and and and in my career
Speaker 1: it was like even begger because like I didn't go
Speaker 1: through the same way everybody went out. I went, I
Speaker 1: did it from from over here, not being Colombia. So
Speaker 1: he gets in the cause when he calls me like,
Speaker 1: I hena, yeah, he's gonna call you. Then they called
Speaker 1: me with his accent theme they talked with her. Then
Speaker 1: he said that ship and I was like then he said,
Speaker 1: he was like, okay, I was getting for two minutes.
Speaker 1: But the dudes like, yo, I want to be I
Speaker 1: want to do I want to get on the remix
Speaker 1: of Travit Suda And I'm like, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: didn't see him on that song. They messing coming gonna
Speaker 1: get out. I'm like, I'm like, yo, you know what.
Speaker 1: This song is already hit, bro and it's already out there.
Speaker 1: Don't think we should do a remix. I got this
Speaker 1: new track hustling. I'm hustling the dude and it's called
Speaker 1: it the Dome And this track is really crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sending it to you see if you like it.
Speaker 1: Bro that dude and fucking that dude recorded the song
Speaker 1: the next day and automatically and this is the crazies
Speaker 1: shit about this track. This song comes up he uh,
Speaker 1: he records the song and then I got paranoid and
Speaker 1: I felt that I was going to commercial. So I
Speaker 1: was like, no, you know what, get the song out
Speaker 1: without Ricky and never the regulabor what the fund are
Speaker 1: you doing? Like no, no, no, get the song on
Speaker 1: without rick because I don't know. I got people from
Speaker 1: the streets of my reggae told music right now, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do no fucking commercial ship. That's pop. And
Speaker 1: then uh it came out a loom and they and
Speaker 1: then you know, I said like, okay, fun, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. So we did it as the best
Speaker 1: thing I did in my life because it bring me
Speaker 1: to pop sensation. Automatically the team made like that ship.
Speaker 1: I wasn't pop. I was popping in Israel and Swiss
Speaker 1: and all Europe because of this guy. Because your girls
Speaker 1: love this guy. You know what I'm saying. They love
Speaker 1: him to lie. So I mean, you know that's in
Speaker 1: greeking money right there. That's when I started winning breaking money,
Speaker 1: and then that was different. It's a whole different way
Speaker 1: changing my career after that. You know that the song
Speaker 1: was number one for twenty eight weeks on the Billboard
Speaker 1: shots tweeny eats eats number one. That's why I got
Speaker 1: my Grammy and blah blah blah and all that ship.
Speaker 1: I was big for me too, because you know, like
Speaker 1: reggae tone artists wasn't winning Grammys. It was like more
Speaker 1: art ship, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was easier to see somebody like girl Salia get
Speaker 1: a Grammy because she's seen Flamenco and she had like
Speaker 1: an urban dark vibe. They get. Throw music wasn't really
Speaker 1: getting Grammys in those years. So for me to get
Speaker 1: a Grammy was huge, you know what I'm saying. If
Speaker 1: you see the video when I wanted, I jumped like
Speaker 1: a motherfucker. I did flip flops and everything, getting a
Speaker 1: great suit. I had a great scause, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean I was I was already like thirty five
Speaker 1: years old, thirty six years old, and this reggae tol
Speaker 1: music is for kids, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: already forty something years. So I'm gonna say something. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, No, I mean there's only there's only two
Speaker 1: singers in the reggae tone in the order mus Nicky
Speaker 1: Jammy got a Yankee. They all kids, all twenty something
Speaker 1: years old. So they see me in the gym, I'm like,
Speaker 1: chill out. You want a movie, you gotta wait a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So going through this all, what is what? What is?
Speaker 1: What is the biggest movie? You would grab doing? Wait
Speaker 1: before you did that, because I needed I needed to
Speaker 1: comment on your hair cut in the movie at some
Speaker 1: point when you when you was going ate the whole
Speaker 1: Barbara cut you. Oh man, no, no, that was fake
Speaker 1: on purpose. I was faking. Oh my god. Jesse too.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, Jesse, it looks it looks
Speaker 1: great expense little right there, Like yeah, yeah, I wanted
Speaker 1: to understand that. The weeks we always try the high ball,
Speaker 1: you know what. But it was the time when you
Speaker 1: went to the hood and I think with the girl
Speaker 1: and the guy said, hey, your nagked jam He said,
Speaker 1: you don't know, you know what it was? I didn't
Speaker 1: have hair, so they put hair on me. They put
Speaker 1: it on me, so I had to you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't have had to put it. I know, tattoos, fat skinny.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even fat suit like you can make your
Speaker 1: lean was doing fucking I was doing forty million dollars
Speaker 1: Hollywood Ship without winning forty million dollar Hollywood money. Holy moly,
Speaker 1: getting faggot and skinny tattoos off yo and ship ain't easy.
Speaker 1: Your neck get mad red because it's a part of it. Tattoos.
Speaker 1: Jesse was like, yeah, bro, people don't care, they get it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck it, I'm here work. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because no, listen, no, I had to call him.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something I had to call didn't
Speaker 1: go right there? Baby, Jesse, some baby? What did I
Speaker 1: call you? What did I call you the other day? Say? Yes,
Speaker 1: here in my hair covers, I was, I was Jesse Man.
Speaker 1: I did say that, great Nick, Yes, like we did
Speaker 1: like we did, like we were doing forty million dollars
Speaker 1: Hollywood ship without getting that money. You know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me ask you why I got your both on
Speaker 1: the floor. I know I got you, but why I
Speaker 1: got you both together? When y'all went to Lawrence, you
Speaker 1: really went to Lawrence when y'all showed Columbia, did you
Speaker 1: really go to Columbia every week the budget was open.
Speaker 1: Let's make the noise for what that was me, And
Speaker 1: that was me and Jesse fighting like we gotta go
Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico. Let me just say, does not look
Speaker 1: like well, let me just tell y'all something. What wow?
Speaker 1: So let me tell y'all this is how good it is.
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna do a part two to this one,
Speaker 1: you guys gotta go to the island and produce everyone
Speaker 1: else's story the same way, because that's how good it
Speaker 1: is you two guys together. I'm dead serious. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Oh goddamn, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: I ain't trupting on my money. Let me money. Let
Speaker 1: me well, just in case you don't know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to say congratulations to your face. You made a great
Speaker 1: piece of art. And I've told you it's only two
Speaker 1: things I didn't understand was NICKI jams lost three hundred
Speaker 1: pounds and one trapped mill session. And here's how I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this. Beat you what is that jam?
Speaker 1: You need that? Jaman and the porter gave me listen
Speaker 1: and the word we getting bother drop all the Dominicans.
Speaker 1: I did not like it. I did not last said, man,
Speaker 1: that's my role right there. I thought I should have
Speaker 1: played Peter role long but all right, Jess, we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit you back ta give my brother, alright, Bro, I
Speaker 1: love that. I love you, Bro, love me. Y'all told
Speaker 1: my right Peter's role Peter, you know your your black
Speaker 1: friend that speaks Spanish. And from last Lawrence, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could have. I could have played that role. Couldn't
Speaker 1: I could play? Said who said that white? Why we
Speaker 1: do know? When I played basketball? My good be like
Speaker 1: he looks good like you don't look like music is amazing.
Speaker 1: But I mean you get the whole said but you
Speaker 1: love me doing that ship? I mean she played basketball? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So um, after you live this life, after you go
Speaker 1: through all of this, what do you do for hoppies?
Speaker 1: What's it? What is what is something that you do
Speaker 1: to just to maintaining play golf or something? I played
Speaker 1: basketballsball even though I look ugly, and I played I
Speaker 1: played basketball almost every day every day. I played basketball,
Speaker 1: and uh, I like going to the wall. But I'll
Speaker 1: be you know, being the sea in the boat, just
Speaker 1: chilling and doing music. But you know, like I've done
Speaker 1: it all, man, you know what I'm saying, I'll traveling
Speaker 1: the world. I've done it all. I just like chilling,
Speaker 1: bro just telling with my friends, you know, eating and
Speaker 1: you know it's crazy that you know how much of
Speaker 1: a Columbia is a savior for you. I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 1: like first, a couple of times me going to Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico as a grown man, I would smoke, but and mom,
Speaker 1: Mom will be like, oh my god. And then at
Speaker 1: the same time, I look that you do. That's what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you. So I never I never knew that
Speaker 1: that was like when you had to see when I
Speaker 1: was doing coke, and obviously Yankee didn't do very funny
Speaker 1: to see, you had to see the way Yankee would
Speaker 1: look at me when I was like really cooked up.
Speaker 1: He was sitting on me. He would go like, I'll
Speaker 1: be like this, like and Yankee me like this. Yankee
Speaker 1: will literally do this. And women did coke, you know,
Speaker 1: just sucked up with somebodyhood his teeth. He would he
Speaker 1: was doing I don't want them. I trying to do
Speaker 1: and I can't talk to I'd be like I don't dad,
Speaker 1: and and and going coked up inside wald Brings is
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world. I need to hear
Speaker 1: this walk like, oh my god, wrings when you're doing
Speaker 1: when you sunked up and drudge is the worst thing
Speaker 1: is that light is like everybody don't you inside was
Speaker 1: like and I was like Niki Young and oh god,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, bro, this beautiful. I'm really proud of what
Speaker 1: you went through, how much of a man that you are,
Speaker 1: because so many people would be better, and so many
Speaker 1: people would not have took the same situation like in this,
Speaker 1: in this, in the in the movie, you keep writing
Speaker 1: the same song. Wasn't really like that because you kept
Speaker 1: having the pad and your pops was waking up. I
Speaker 1: didn't do I didn't do a hint for a long time.
Speaker 1: So I was really focusing on this song, to the
Speaker 1: one song, and that was be inside me. I needed
Speaker 1: it hit I'm not yours, not that, but that was
Speaker 1: my last hit. What was the new one? That he
Speaker 1: was right? And you kept saying to your pants man
Speaker 1: and me that bittings that was in me, and when
Speaker 1: you going to were saying it was too slow, it
Speaker 1: was too slow, too romantic because everybody was doing that yo,
Speaker 1: get over bad the other thing. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that good ship, and I was too romantic with that ship.
Speaker 1: The song came out and didn't do anything, so it
Speaker 1: became a hit a year after in Columbia. You know
Speaker 1: what I like was when you went to do the
Speaker 1: interview in Colombia and like you guys just bullied your
Speaker 1: way on you. There was a show. They didn't want
Speaker 1: to us stay. They wanted like people that were really,
Speaker 1: you know, killing the game. So my my manager, he hustled.
Speaker 1: He said, I got this guy, got yeah, this guy
Speaker 1: and this guy. So when we got to the shows
Speaker 1: like yo, they can't make it, but we got naked
Speaker 1: and I'm over here, like what's good? So the thing
Speaker 1: is I was already killing the game and the streets.
Speaker 1: But the TV shows they didn't know who the funk
Speaker 1: I was. They didn't believe that ship. So I said,
Speaker 1: I promised the lady like I'm gonna make those numbers
Speaker 1: for you, just give me a shot. I sang the
Speaker 1: song and the ratings went up and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so this guy is really somebody you know. Of course,
Speaker 1: I did a whole bunch of shows back. And that's why,
Speaker 1: because in that moment, it was really hard to go
Speaker 1: in TV like Columbian TV if he wasn't from Columbia.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So I wanted to love.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm here because of love
Speaker 1: Columbia gave me. You know what I'm saying. They gave
Speaker 1: me so much love, so much love, and they made
Speaker 1: me feel they made me feel like I was part
Speaker 1: of Columbia. What's that true? In the movie when Jake
Speaker 1: Album pulled up, Yeah, yeah, I mean Jay Bobby. The
Speaker 1: thing is Jay Bobbi being was he knew what was
Speaker 1: living in Puerto Rico and Colombia, and he's I want
Speaker 1: to see Nikki Jackers for him. Imagine, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I was like spilt into my way
Speaker 1: inside the club and he pulls up, not in not
Speaker 1: in a Ferrari. He had a range rover in that moment,
Speaker 1: which it was big and Colubia, and he pulls up
Speaker 1: and everybody's like Jay Bobbin's I'm like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: want this guy to see me trying to hustle and
Speaker 1: come inside. So he comes. You know what saying it's like, yes, Jay,
Speaker 1: Bobbin's gonna turn around. You know, he comes out with
Speaker 1: a swag. You don't know how that feels when you
Speaker 1: know somebody you wanted, somebody want good. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I know. I mean, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: this story is the funniest thing. Man. It sounds better
Speaker 1: in Spanish. But I remember, so we seen. We seen
Speaker 1: was like it was in their best moment, and we
Speaker 1: see was very like, you know, his vibe was like
Speaker 1: so he was okay, so we seene sees me like
Speaker 1: I was fucked up. I was sucked up. Like what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: I'm like, good man, you know, I'm just you know, hustling.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, man, we just did this show right now,
Speaker 1: we got a million dollars for the show. We get
Speaker 1: a collaboration with doctor. We're doing this right now, We're
Speaker 1: doing this and then that, by the way, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? And I'm like I'm buying chicken And he's
Speaker 1: like okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go play golf and Franco and I'm like, oh shift,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play golf, Frankle at anything, like like this,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, those are one of
Speaker 1: the moments that really reflected in my life because I
Speaker 1: was like, when you see somebody that's doing good and
Speaker 1: they're seeing you doing fucked up, those are moments that
Speaker 1: you sometimes if you're weak, you go crying the car
Speaker 1: alone because you're like, it's an embarrassment and the problem
Speaker 1: with you guys don't understand, Like when you're famous and
Speaker 1: you lose you and I understand understand you. I got stories, bro,
Speaker 1: I better go. The worst thing in Puerto Rico, specially,
Speaker 1: there's nothing worse than still being famous and being broke
Speaker 1: because the people like go like yo, yeah, yo used
Speaker 1: to have this, So why are you driving this car? Why?
Speaker 1: You know they're like and they know it. But you know,
Speaker 1: the people, some people are harsh, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They're going so it's it's hard man. One time I
Speaker 1: was in a I was in a think it was
Speaker 1: a Mazda bro that. Yeah, I don't know how. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you're saying it is. Yeah, that sounds
Speaker 1: nicer than English. That's just like a protegee, very prode
Speaker 1: and you know, the car just got sucked up. The
Speaker 1: card got sucked up and uh and and I remember that.
Speaker 1: I was like, how the funk am I gonna get
Speaker 1: out this car? People gonna know who I am? And
Speaker 1: the police came. I'm like, holy shit. I remember the
Speaker 1: police officer like what happened? And you get young the
Speaker 1: card like and I'm like, bro, He's like you, what's
Speaker 1: wrong the cars? You gonna have to do something. You
Speaker 1: gotta get out of him like, yo, can you hook
Speaker 1: me up? He looked at me like what hook you up?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I mean you know, I mean you could
Speaker 1: push that. They push that. You want me to push
Speaker 1: the car, I'll push the car. You gotta get the funk.
Speaker 1: I would push you with me, Like that's the whole point, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't want to come out help me man if
Speaker 1: I get out of this car, and I'm those are
Speaker 1: one of the embarrassments that I was talking about. And
Speaker 1: I come out of the car and I started pushing
Speaker 1: the car with the police officers and the car it
Speaker 1: was fucked up. It wasn't a brand. It wasn't only
Speaker 1: the brand. It was the way the car was. You
Speaker 1: know what Sunny knows. You know, I was gonna scream
Speaker 1: like because pe Putterwey gives me like we're not talking
Speaker 1: about We're not talking about like today it was even
Speaker 1: worse because today it will be a hundred and fifty cameras.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like sometimes I left in
Speaker 1: my car and my fucking rolls Royce with no guys saying.
Speaker 1: What I do is I made a phone call and
Speaker 1: I said no guts, so enough boom, get on the
Speaker 1: car at the funk out and I leave that ship
Speaker 1: to anybody to deal with. I ain't gonna get recorded
Speaker 1: trying to funk with the car, none of that. I've
Speaker 1: seen some of the artists with no gus and calling
Speaker 1: a stupid as fun. One thing that something happened with
Speaker 1: with Siam and the apt Oh my god, that's that's
Speaker 1: anohing you do. All the embarrassments I can telling you
Speaker 1: how to read. You know, my sister gave me like
Speaker 1: this is like the last checked this out. My sister
Speaker 1: gave me um she signed for a car from me.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I needed a car, so
Speaker 1: we gotta it was. It was max maxim. It was
Speaker 1: a lot better. Okay, Okay, I put rings from in everything.
Speaker 1: You know, we could be broke, but we may we
Speaker 1: get those rims anywhere. So the thing is I didn't
Speaker 1: pay the car like for six months man, and uh
Speaker 1: they had the police over there. They called vehicle dollar
Speaker 1: like cops just for stolen cars. But they didn't have
Speaker 1: no no uh stickers or nothing in the car. So
Speaker 1: I thought it was somebody just trying to like do
Speaker 1: something to me. So I just went and then the
Speaker 1: helicopters and everything and and I was on my way
Speaker 1: to go to Columbia. They noticed I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was me, so it was like no police than I, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Then I when I went out, everybody went
Speaker 1: on me, all the cops and on me, fucking helicopters everything,
Speaker 1: and the cops like got me out and put me
Speaker 1: against the fucking thing. He broke my wrist. So I
Speaker 1: was crying and ship and I'm telling him, your bro,
Speaker 1: I need to do a show in Columbia because the
Speaker 1: guy that paid me in Columbia, serious guy, is a
Speaker 1: serious guy I don't want to funk with. So you know,
Speaker 1: So I was in a funked up situation and I
Speaker 1: needed to stop. At the the it was like the
Speaker 1: Colombian uh in the embassy, the Colombian embassy thing to
Speaker 1: get my passport, to get the visa to go worker.
Speaker 1: So the problem is, I, uh, they take me this.
Speaker 1: It was so this is gonna be quick. Let's do this.
Speaker 1: We'll take you to the to the to the station.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and um, if everything's okay
Speaker 1: your car, you know, you will just give you a
Speaker 1: paper and you come back and go to court. Like
Speaker 1: I fuck it. So I go over there. It's like, okay, perfect,
Speaker 1: We're gonna check your car. If there's nothing in your car,
Speaker 1: you're good to go. I had some perks in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, damn you had a stats good or no,
Speaker 1: you had a little bout a little bit a little boy.
Speaker 1: They don't let you go back to your car because
Speaker 1: they gotta check saw him. And I'm like Ship, And
Speaker 1: then I just acted like I didn't know. Ship was
Speaker 1: on the phone. And I went to the car get
Speaker 1: the bottle. How you can't be in the car. My bad,
Speaker 1: I'm bad, I'm sorry. So I went out. They checked
Speaker 1: the car. Everything is good. When I get to the
Speaker 1: embassy was closed, but the lady was outside and she's like,
Speaker 1: here your passport. I got you. I saw the news.
Speaker 1: I was on the news. Helicopters, the old thing, my
Speaker 1: sister calling me, and I went to the airport. Everybody
Speaker 1: was laughing, Yo, what happen? You know? So I'm at
Speaker 1: the airport and I lost. I lost the flight and
Speaker 1: signing Alantics was there and signs like there's only one,
Speaker 1: that there's only one ticket and was first class. I'd
Speaker 1: have no money and signs like I'll buy the ticket,
Speaker 1: so he took care of me. I went to Columbia,
Speaker 1: did the show, pay sign the money, and from there
Speaker 1: on I stayed in Columbia. So like the record Union,
Speaker 1: it should be a Reggae Thrown Union, because you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, um, nicky Jam. When I did
Speaker 1: Reggae Thrown, everybody cut me off from the from the
Speaker 1: hip hop world because they saw you sad. What do
Speaker 1: you what it means? First of all, now, yes, listen,
Speaker 1: this is just label. I'm gonna tell you. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you how deep it was, man, because I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever said this story. I love my people,
Speaker 1: so I know I wasn't the real reggae throw Like
Speaker 1: I just loved the music. I wanted to do something
Speaker 1: for it. So I had I had a record called
Speaker 1: Throw My Reggae Throne because I wanted DJ enough Camillo.
Speaker 1: I wanted these people to play it. They couldn't play it.
Speaker 1: So I went and I got a verse from a person.
Speaker 1: His name is cool Kid DJ coo Kid. At the time,
Speaker 1: this is when I'm scovering reggae thron, so I know
Speaker 1: all your motherfucker's records. I don't know who your motherfucker's are,
Speaker 1: but I know the record because I'm just I'm vibing
Speaker 1: into it. So I get come across the dude named
Speaker 1: they Go God. It all his verse for a god
Speaker 1: named DJ Hookey. So I did a record only for
Speaker 1: the Puerto Rican the parade facts it was only La Porade.
Speaker 1: Every year I get hired as a as a as
Speaker 1: a Puerto Rican from New York, I do the Porto
Speaker 1: Rigan Parade. I never have a record to I got.
Speaker 1: I got start. Oh God, that's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1: It's not good to play in three o'clock in the
Speaker 1: afternoon and Street and Broadway coming on town. It's not good.
Speaker 1: Like kids out there. So I make this record just
Speaker 1: to miniate my friend Big Punt the original version. You're
Speaker 1: on the original version, you don't so the original version
Speaker 1: of just body Money, and now he's singing on yeah
Speaker 1: you know ship. I was so at the time, at
Speaker 1: the time, this is the whole breakdown. I'll never swept.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was wrong for taking things verse
Speaker 1: and putting it on right. I was wrong being honest
Speaker 1: that verse. Huh. I said that they felt some kind
Speaker 1: of way they messed up. Hip Hop doesn't always have
Speaker 1: to make sense, you understand hip hop? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: hip hop doesn't always have to make sense, but it
Speaker 1: has to work. So when they go and I put
Speaker 1: out the record, we got word from that, you know,
Speaker 1: think it might be a little upset because we didn't
Speaker 1: ask permission. We just I just felt like, YO were
Speaker 1: all Porto weekends like this is be together. So I
Speaker 1: got word of this new guy that's coming out. His
Speaker 1: name is Daddy Yankee. Daddy Yankee contacts us, so we
Speaker 1: contact him. Let's be clear because it's super old. So
Speaker 1: Old said this is the next guy if they go front,
Speaker 1: he's the guy put him on. So we get on
Speaker 1: the phone with him and Yankee says, by the way,
Speaker 1: they goes asking us fifty all right, I'm working with
Speaker 1: the biggest of the biggest. We ain't even getting twenty
Speaker 1: from me, bro, So when I had fifty tho, I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like disrespect at the time. But Jankie
Speaker 1: very small because strategic person. Oh yeah, Poppy, I don't
Speaker 1: want nothing. I threw this ship for free. He hustle
Speaker 1: for that. Love the Lord, how are you thinking? And
Speaker 1: he killed it? Super Bowl says, no, you're not doing
Speaker 1: it for free. You're gonna get on Garcelina. At the time,
Speaker 1: Gazelina didn't leave by your mom and didn't leave both
Speaker 1: and say and then it was all so when I
Speaker 1: told him I gonna get on gar Selina, Yankee said,
Speaker 1: holy the fuck. Let's be clear. I'm a legend too.
Speaker 1: Let's come on, man, let's just be clear. I looked
Speaker 1: at you too. So when I told Yankee, I knew
Speaker 1: what Gacelina and I was lying. But I listened to
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Yeah, I listened to super Bowl. I keep
Speaker 1: getting less here. I ain't even be iin't even realizing that.
Speaker 1: And it set all. It was the perfect time for
Speaker 1: the Latino storm was I'm gonna be honest with you
Speaker 1: because and listen, I will see it this way, you sacrifice,
Speaker 1: I sacrifice us to three years. I'm just sacrifice people us.
Speaker 1: I'm just about four years. They're telling me after that
Speaker 1: after only be come to work. It worse, worse. It
Speaker 1: wasn't better like you would think the ship I paid
Speaker 1: depth Jam's bill for three months, for three or four months,
Speaker 1: we had a number one record in the country, and
Speaker 1: you know, you would think that that ship would give
Speaker 1: me love. You know what people were saying. I would
Speaker 1: go back to the radio stage and they're like, aren't
Speaker 1: you Puerto rican You take this into take this into
Speaker 1: a bad guy like I know Samon Locome And then
Speaker 1: I went to Puerto Rico and oh yeah, no, ain't
Speaker 1: no play like he didn't speak English at the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't speak great Spanish, but I understood no bair,
Speaker 1: no hard man, yo, nobody I sacrifice really, you know, man,
Speaker 1: you know this is be clear b T. It was like,
Speaker 1: we don't know about adding a video with somebody named
Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee because the name was so weird that now
Speaker 1: it's you know, natural, it's new. You know. I just
Speaker 1: hated to deal with cold cold. Yeah, hold on, everything's
Speaker 1: gotta deal with pep. Seen your whole movie. Pep seen
Speaker 1: it got that now that one. So I can tell you, man,
Speaker 1: that's how much I sacrifice. Man, that's how much. It
Speaker 1: was really really rough for me. People was looking at
Speaker 1: me like, yo, even it's my partner. Bro. Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought, listen, I know you're him. Fat Joe both
Speaker 1: called me and says, stop, don't do it. Am I
Speaker 1: life and you gotta keep it. You're not lying, You're
Speaker 1: not lying. What did you say? Just just just so
Speaker 1: Nikki jam don't do what you hear me? Come on
Speaker 1: even talk, I said, I said, now try. I remember
Speaker 1: when you started doing a verse. I thought you was
Speaker 1: cracking jokes because it was like this regged Spanish. I
Speaker 1: hadn't even like. I had just heard about they get
Speaker 1: done in a trip to Puerto Rico in two thousand
Speaker 1: at Stargate Echo and and I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this ship? Bro? And he was like, this is gonna
Speaker 1: take over the world. I'm like, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then you started doing it and I was like, bro,
Speaker 1: you're crazy right now, what are you doing? And then
Speaker 1: the ship took off? Man? But you know you real quick,
Speaker 1: I was, but real quick. The reason why a lot
Speaker 1: of at least Latinos in the States had that mentality
Speaker 1: because we were fighting for our respect and hip hop
Speaker 1: as is it's true to hear that they get done.
Speaker 1: It felt like it was going against that grain, but
Speaker 1: it's obviously now looking back at everything, what it's done
Speaker 1: for Latinos internationally is without saying, you know what I'm saying, no, no,
Speaker 1: I I agree with you and I know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about because I was in those days and I
Speaker 1: know it was like you don't know even when I
Speaker 1: saw you there like he so listen, this is how
Speaker 1: really was was. I would go to I want to
Speaker 1: I don't want to say America, but I would go
Speaker 1: to New York. But like, yo, why you're not playing this.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have this recket. You don't have
Speaker 1: you don't have a little soul by soul, you don't
Speaker 1: have these reckets. And they'd be like they just so
Speaker 1: the only thing I had to do was put myself
Speaker 1: in the situation. So when I did it, I for
Speaker 1: obviously I wanted UH had gold. Then when Yankee, I
Speaker 1: mean after Yankee, we jumped on gas Selina and it
Speaker 1: put me to a level where it was no coming back.
Speaker 1: Everyone just looked at me like I sold out but
Speaker 1: to my own people, which was insane because I told
Speaker 1: people my first rhyme, I said, j Laulist got you,
Speaker 1: I said, I said in the beginning, I talked, I
Speaker 1: would got Blan. That's that's part me. I can't believe
Speaker 1: that guy Brol. So you have me come through crazy bro,
Speaker 1: It's funny man. World is crazy, man. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you see people you never think you're gonna meet
Speaker 1: him never, you know what I'm saying, Like, um, remember
Speaker 1: but you did have a deal with Pepsi. I did.
Speaker 1: I did. I did his own shot niggers in your
Speaker 1: own movie and still gotta deal with Pepsi and performed
Speaker 1: at the World Cup. You're really Pepsi you're thinking about
Speaker 1: y'all trust me, man, Listen, He's shot that s was real.
Speaker 1: Like I'm sitting there that gun did it. Yo. But
Speaker 1: that's a great, great story. Um, Now, what was what
Speaker 1: was the moment when you and Yankee we spoke about
Speaker 1: a little bit and you said that you wanted to
Speaker 1: get back up for before you did it. But what
Speaker 1: was that moment where you was like, Yo, I played myself,
Speaker 1: let me let me make this right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you mean what Yankee? You mean, well, I mean everything
Speaker 1: in general. But me and yell look, me and Yankee,
Speaker 1: we already we squashed to be before everything happened. Is
Speaker 1: we was in the first class of plane like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was weird because American Airline, Oh motherfucker's
Speaker 1: did on purpose. I mean not American Airline, but the
Speaker 1: workers American and they like they knew we had like
Speaker 1: a little war going on. And then like that's what
Speaker 1: they did that And Yankee got that smile like he's
Speaker 1: sitting down there, he's seeing me. I'm gonna sit down
Speaker 1: and he goes like uh and I laughed, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, all up, And we sit down and
Speaker 1: we talk, and you know, I said, you know, man,
Speaker 1: my bad, let's do the all mentality and that at
Speaker 1: that time, it was like, yo, just just ego your way.
Speaker 1: I go my way. I didn't. I disrespected you. I
Speaker 1: didn't do the right thing, and and I recognized it,
Speaker 1: and and then we didn't see each other until I
Speaker 1: was then I came back to the music, and man, man,
Speaker 1: that's what's you know, what was what's crazy about you
Speaker 1: through this whole thing is your honesty, like I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna tell you this, no ego. That's
Speaker 1: the worst send to me of of a man, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because it doesn't let you get
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zoom, and that's why you never
Speaker 1: be bigger man. I don't care about losing. I don't
Speaker 1: care about being embarrassed anymore. I don't care about nothing
Speaker 1: because I already went through all that. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying to that, and and everything. Everything embarrassed for
Speaker 1: you right now? You know what more embarrassing. I thought
Speaker 1: I was just making conversations. I saw you kind of man,
Speaker 1: and a little I was like ship. But you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the best thing in the world
Speaker 1: is just to be real man, and be real if
Speaker 1: you funked up, but funked up, I lost it and
Speaker 1: I got it back. I feel good now because you
Speaker 1: know I'm I'm that guy that everybody knew that I
Speaker 1: lost everything, and now I got more than I could
Speaker 1: ever imagine. You know what I'm saying. I live a
Speaker 1: good life. I got four kids, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They all big now, they all live in a good life.
Speaker 1: They all study, and they're all in college. You know,
Speaker 1: I got, I got, I got my mom. My mom
Speaker 1: is good, my dad's good. I helped my dad have
Speaker 1: his all his beautiful home. My mom as well. They
Speaker 1: both feel beautiful. So not no grammys, no nothing. It's
Speaker 1: bigger than that, you know. So, but there's no embarrassment.
Speaker 1: There's no embarrassment that can make me feel bad because
Speaker 1: I did my job. And your mom trying to stab
Speaker 1: a dude seven times? No no, no no, actually she's
Speaker 1: in Dominican Republic because she stabbed to do seven times.
Speaker 1: She said, with self defense. She said, to the to
Speaker 1: the to the to the j others just like yeah,
Speaker 1: but self defense seven times, like what he kept coming out,
Speaker 1: So I kept seven and you know, saving like he
Speaker 1: didn't go, didn't she had so proud of was like
Speaker 1: seven times self defense. My mom said, he got up
Speaker 1: seven times. He kept trying, you know, and I had
Speaker 1: to like defend myself seven times. But you know, my
Speaker 1: mom was My mom was a crazy one. She's gangs
Speaker 1: to My mom is gangsters. Having she didn't have taken
Speaker 1: the ship and there's something fed on at my corey.
Speaker 1: But she lives in some Thiago right now. And my
Speaker 1: mom is the one that she's like, oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: she was manning on me, like tell everybody. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: was like, Mom, you know I love that because I
Speaker 1: got her know what I'm saying, And uh, I looked
Speaker 1: for my whole life. And then one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why I wanted to be famous is because I wanted
Speaker 1: my mom to find me, and she found me in
Speaker 1: the show. The show just like that. Bro, That's that's
Speaker 1: the point that made me cry. I'm gonna tell you another.
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm going And when you when
Speaker 1: you listen, when you when you refused to go back
Speaker 1: to Porto Rico, right show, when you did that, like
Speaker 1: because you got a gangster from left Fragment. Listen. My father,
Speaker 1: my father, Puerto Rican stone cold fifteen tattoos. He knows
Speaker 1: them tattoos and rings, super super you know, one of those,
Speaker 1: you know, those tough Puerto Ricans. So he never thought
Speaker 1: I was rhyming. I told him I was rhyming. I
Speaker 1: had the War Report album come out, and then finally
Speaker 1: I go to see him in Seattle, Washington. What what what? What?
Speaker 1: That comes out? It's the number one record. My father
Speaker 1: looks at me like, oh my god, Papeter I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought you were lying the whole time, said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you're piece of ship. My father told me he's a
Speaker 1: tough guy. Don't know black like the blackness the only
Speaker 1: quarter weekan want to tell he's jogging, he's fighting three
Speaker 1: three guys like this is. This is the earliest memory
Speaker 1: of my father. My mother big you know, thick, the thick,
Speaker 1: the typical thick black girl. My father is your color
Speaker 1: with green eyes. Right, this is real ship. Pull up
Speaker 1: a picture when you every anyway, this is my first
Speaker 1: memory my mother father. It's three black guys come up
Speaker 1: to my mother and say, hey, we we this Spanish
Speaker 1: guy for we even And my father goes, hey, man,
Speaker 1: leave my leave my lady alone. And these three guys say, ah.
Speaker 1: My father goes into ice cream Pollo. He buys three
Speaker 1: guys ice cream cone. So the guys go as they
Speaker 1: looked the ice cream called my father too. And from
Speaker 1: that moment on, my father was my hero. I said, fuck,
Speaker 1: Bruce Lee, I'm gonna tell you the story of Monday. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: when you was when I was that was right, seven
Speaker 1: years old. My dad, you know so saw you was laughing, right,
Speaker 1: this guy was like this guy was in the car
Speaker 1: like you're fuck you, and my dad no, fuck you.
Speaker 1: And then my dad looks tell me. They say, yeah,
Speaker 1: when someone dou never take ship from nobody, Never take
Speaker 1: ship from nobody. Then the guy gets off the car.
Speaker 1: Guys like seven foot tall like that guys like when
Speaker 1: the guys that that big No not that made me
Speaker 1: slick because I was like, I learned that that was
Speaker 1: a good advice actually, because sometimes I want to eat
Speaker 1: the world. Bro, I mean, the battles you can't win,
Speaker 1: so you gotta be like my dad was giving me
Speaker 1: like it was funny, but at the same time like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean dude, you know, dude, I can't win this.
Speaker 1: Dude something to be chill. Let me tell you. I
Speaker 1: don't want to look stupid. I'm still here, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I study in the one of
Speaker 1: the I don't know if you guys know about Lawrence,
Speaker 1: but Lawrence is serious. Serious law ain't But even even
Speaker 1: the Irish kids fought like like, like, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, was there ever a moment where you felt
Speaker 1: like you was gonna give up? Uh? Well, you know
Speaker 1: the thing is, uh it was one time that I
Speaker 1: was gonna do a normal job. This is when you
Speaker 1: da Rosa. No, this is no Rosa. Was in Colombia,
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. I was gonna do a normal job,
Speaker 1: normal like like like a regular job, taxi ding. I
Speaker 1: was gonna working. Uh, I was gonna work in a
Speaker 1: foot locker. Thing is full. Locker wasn't hard for me
Speaker 1: because I was a hustler and you like sneakers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like listening that was good, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was inquested with that Mango people.
Speaker 1: You got com Jorgers, girl, you're gonna buy them. Georgia,
Speaker 1: You've got your girl, Jordan. You know what I was doing.
Speaker 1: You know I was doing okay, but I felt like
Speaker 1: I was like, this ain't met. Yeah, this ain't mean.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm bigger than this. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna disrespect that working a foot locker. You know
Speaker 1: I did it too, But I felt that I had
Speaker 1: so much And I when when I was seeing doing
Speaker 1: with mind out of Yankee, they we see you on dead,
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta be up there. I mean I
Speaker 1: know that I know the talent that I have. You know,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I mean, I'm like the very few,
Speaker 1: uh speaking. But how hard is that? Because at one
Speaker 1: point those names, as you said, they were named the Kings,
Speaker 1: but now your name is But how hard was it
Speaker 1: to come up to that? You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: it was really hard, man, It was really hard those
Speaker 1: three Kings, right, it was like two more. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get take nobody's credit out. But what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say is I know I had to be top. I
Speaker 1: knew it because I know the talent to have. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a rapper, I could sing, I have melodies, I freestyle.
Speaker 1: I'm like I did, I did everything. Why I am
Speaker 1: not up there? And I knew. You know when you
Speaker 1: know you can see somebody playing basketball and you know
Speaker 1: that I'm giving you an example. You know you could
Speaker 1: take him and he's on top, and you like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean I'm better than this dude. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that I'm better than than than Thong or they
Speaker 1: go like Yankee like no, that the top dogs, But
Speaker 1: I know I could be there with that, and you
Speaker 1: know that that made me work harder you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But the situation that happened with you know,
Speaker 1: when I got funked up because of the drugs and
Speaker 1: health wise, helped me appreciate every every time I was
Speaker 1: in the studio, every song. And that's why I got
Speaker 1: so focused, you know what I'm saying, Because I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna lose my life. So that made me
Speaker 1: really get on it. You know what I'm saying. Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico is probably the only place I got ever offered
Speaker 1: heroin in my life. But I've been all over the world.
Speaker 1: No one said he probably no one has ever than
Speaker 1: that to me. I mean, you know, it's like everywhere. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, Puerto Rico is a very beautiful country and
Speaker 1: it has beach, has a lot of beautiful things, a
Speaker 1: lot of beautiful, hard working people coaching that. But tell me,
Speaker 1: but it has a stark fun you would never move
Speaker 1: back to Puerto Rico. I will never move back to
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. That's a good question. Um, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this. I'm gonna tell you why I will never
Speaker 1: move to Puerto Rico. No disrespect to my to my
Speaker 1: bouty and my country. It reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: my of my bad moments, it's just that they got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with with the country. I love my country.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because Columbia mind your beautiful moments and everyone
Speaker 1: else in life that reminds me a lot of that
Speaker 1: reminds me of that. And and you know it when
Speaker 1: I go I enjoy it to three days. I enjoy
Speaker 1: it in New York. But it's it's, you know, it
Speaker 1: just it reminds me because I went through a lot
Speaker 1: of bad things in Puerto Rico. It's not Puerto Rico's fault.
Speaker 1: It's my fault, but I went through it. So you
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to a place that reminds
Speaker 1: you of all that bad energy and all that ship
Speaker 1: that you went through, even though it was my fault.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't see me living in Puerto Rico,
Speaker 1: not now, probably when I'm older, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because it is a beautiful country, like you know, like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you laying without the eights,
Speaker 1: you know, like the beaches, crystal clear water white saying
Speaker 1: you know we just went to Vegas, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: liked it that. Yeah, that's from my you know, from
Speaker 1: like damn from you know, and that's what that's the movie.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something, bro, And I want
Speaker 1: to admit this right now because you know why I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get this from you. I was mad. I felt
Speaker 1: like a sponge. I felt like a sponge that was
Speaker 1: used right because I really put reggae throng before before everybody.
Speaker 1: I put it. I put it on the forefront for me.
Speaker 1: Am I messing up with the sound. I hit my chest,
Speaker 1: all right, cool? Cool? So when I didn't see the
Speaker 1: love back, I got thetter. So you know, I making jokes.
Speaker 1: You know, me and Joe might have said some couple
Speaker 1: of things about that and get keeping the real, keeping
Speaker 1: it real week. I don't know if you heard it.
Speaker 1: I heard it Joe definitely, and I co signed. I
Speaker 1: was there. I love Yankee, Me, I love Yankee. We
Speaker 1: haven't spoke. We haven't spoke, but I'm not I'm not. Uh,
Speaker 1: what do I say, like if I don't speak to
Speaker 1: you for two years, however we left it that two years,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be that same way. That's me, that's who
Speaker 1: I am. But if you change on me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it personal because I especially for him. I sacrificed
Speaker 1: and I never told him what I sacrificed because he
Speaker 1: didn't deserve. Not to say he didn't deserve it. He
Speaker 1: did deserve it, know it. But I did it. I
Speaker 1: didn't do it for him. I did it for the movement.
Speaker 1: The movement was bigger than me. I knew. I knew
Speaker 1: that you will be sitting here. I knew that, you know.
Speaker 1: I knew you guys. I knew Reggae throw would be
Speaker 1: the biggest ship in the world. I knew that ten
Speaker 1: years ago. Ten years ago, you can get some boys. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm yeah, you're spip TV. We sacrificed so much.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about we put so much because I didn't
Speaker 1: want to be wrong. And ship was if they're gonna
Speaker 1: flip with me and they're gonna cut me off, and
Speaker 1: guess what, let me be right for it. Let me
Speaker 1: not be wrong. So I just kept going, kept going.
Speaker 1: And that's why you know I jumped on reggae throwing Latino.
Speaker 1: You know, boy Wonder up and said, you know, the
Speaker 1: boy went no, no, no. I did with Daddy. Yankee
Speaker 1: taught me I don't want the money, boy, Wonder you
Speaker 1: take that let me jump that and do it. And
Speaker 1: I started to do that, and I really really really
Speaker 1: really really sacrifice. So when I didn't get that lot back,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It looks like his bottom you something put
Speaker 1: it out. He's not the highest I'm sorry, I'm doctor, doctor,
Speaker 1: don't but we're trying to keep ship together. Like look,
Speaker 1: so I cut to our ship. So I kind of
Speaker 1: was better and and it was fucked up at me
Speaker 1: because I learned from you from watching um that I
Speaker 1: was the only better. I was better a Yankee. I
Speaker 1: was better with the gregge thrown community, and I was
Speaker 1: better with the island for something that was terrible. I
Speaker 1: was bugging, you know what I mean. I said it
Speaker 1: to my friend Ike the other day. I said, I
Speaker 1: was a little I said, I said, this is how
Speaker 1: good Nikki James movie is. But that's good that he's
Speaker 1: saying this. He made me miss Puerto Rico, that you're
Speaker 1: saying this, and you're saying this on the camera. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And uh, you know, and and
Speaker 1: you know and and that a Yankee is he's a
Speaker 1: good man. He's a man. He's a man with a
Speaker 1: lot of good values. You know what I'm saying was
Speaker 1: to throw me back, like when it was time, like
Speaker 1: when I like at the time the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I didn't use him, he didn't use me. We use
Speaker 1: each other to go to that level. And once we
Speaker 1: both got to a level, all I wanted was all
Speaker 1: ja Poppy, that's it that I got. I don't need
Speaker 1: like that. I'm good. I'm a hustle I always. I've
Speaker 1: been who I am before they get throwing them gonna
Speaker 1: be who I am after reggae throw No, I understanding.
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted, you know. And at that time,
Speaker 1: when I see you in um the jeweler, yeah, the
Speaker 1: jew I saw you with the jewel and I said,
Speaker 1: and I said, damn, you know Nicky jam coming he
Speaker 1: ships watched, so I'm looking and I'm like, damn, and
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's your brother. I know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to approach you. Yeah, so I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, and he's like, he's like pop.
Speaker 1: And when we took each other's number, but I still
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to approach you. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: until I watched the movie. When I watched the ship
Speaker 1: no man, like I said, he's a he's a good guy, bro.
Speaker 1: And then I'm sure that you guys would work anything
Speaker 1: out and talking, you're gonna find each other's little nice
Speaker 1: With me, I don't have no problem. It's just I
Speaker 1: was at that point I was disappointing. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I just felt like, you know, what
Speaker 1: I did was sacrifice alive. But it wasn't for him.
Speaker 1: It was for the movement. So when he but probably
Speaker 1: if he listens to you, like yeah, so when he's
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't know your story, Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: He probably just saw I was elicondandor. But I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you something. I appreciate it because
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't some remarkable ship that made me
Speaker 1: feel different. It was your story. When I sat there,
Speaker 1: I said, cocks, Oh my god, I love it. I
Speaker 1: missed the cheach it on the point come west. So
Speaker 1: I miss it and you get you catch it. That's
Speaker 1: my ship. But I missed it because of when I
Speaker 1: when I watched the movie, when I watched it and
Speaker 1: sit there and I see how will you kept it?
Speaker 1: And I see you he was going to the cops
Speaker 1: of the Eels and and I gotta thank you for that.
Speaker 1: They're gonna thank you for that because us your first
Speaker 1: let me throwing about this. You came, kept your word.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought I ain't a lot and I
Speaker 1: was watching the movie you canceled a lot of ship,
Speaker 1: different ship, So I was like when you text me,
Speaker 1: was like, yo, you come like I definitely said that
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm ready. No, no, no, man, you know,
Speaker 1: everything happens for a reason. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew that situation with Yankee and then
Speaker 1: he did call me. You know, I'm like going on
Speaker 1: why I didn't do ship. It was like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, you gotta remember Yankee
Speaker 1: got on on Fat Joe's track because of me. I
Speaker 1: was like, h I mean I thought he was cool
Speaker 1: and I said I thought too, and you know he
Speaker 1: was like you kind of mad with me in that
Speaker 1: situation and he had all the reason too. But you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, just ship happens, bro, But you
Speaker 1: know what it is. We're all we're all brothers in
Speaker 1: a different way. So the thing about it is and
Speaker 1: we're all bosses, we're all man. So guess what it
Speaker 1: could be misunderstood. I don't think I don't think Daddy
Speaker 1: is a bad person at all. Oh hell no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: He's strict with his business because he keeps a close circle.
Speaker 1: Even if he's like a jay Z in the spassages.
Speaker 1: Even when you look at me and Joe joking, if
Speaker 1: you look at this, she always say, but that's my man.
Speaker 1: Still love him. I still say that because because you
Speaker 1: know we're joking, like I don't get to see you,
Speaker 1: don't get to speak to you. But let's get back
Speaker 1: to you right now. So you've never you said you
Speaker 1: never felt that chance to quit? And how about have
Speaker 1: you ever felt that chance when you felt better? Other
Speaker 1: than Daddy Yankee but other artists. No, man, I've never
Speaker 1: had that mentality. I always knew that if I was
Speaker 1: sucked up, it was my fault. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I always thought it was my fault. And uh, the
Speaker 1: mentality that I had was just I'm gonna earn my
Speaker 1: spot because sometimes you always mad with a lot of things.
Speaker 1: You want collaborations, you want people to help you. But
Speaker 1: come on, man, you can't retire the game of baseball
Speaker 1: and come back and say you want to play with
Speaker 1: the New York Yankees, you gotta do, you gotta do,
Speaker 1: you gotta start again to go pro. So that's the
Speaker 1: way I saw it. I was just being real. I
Speaker 1: can't take it personal. So my mentality was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do good and I'm ready to you know, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to play when you got back on top. Now,
Speaker 1: this is real ship. You ever want the front or
Speaker 1: somebody come on, But it's But I did it in
Speaker 1: a different way. I didn't do it the way that
Speaker 1: everybody thought. Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't do it the
Speaker 1: way everybody thought I was gonna do it. I did
Speaker 1: collapse with them. I helped them in the moment that
Speaker 1: they needed it and charged them two d because I
Speaker 1: went free and I hooked them up and I gave
Speaker 1: them the masters and I showed him. That's how Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ is. Jesus Christ Mo mentality heavy duty. The part
Speaker 1: of the someone says, part of the song says, uh
Speaker 1: the song I said, um, I I said that in
Speaker 1: the song. You know what I'm saying, Like, Bro, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't pay people with the same ship they gave me,
Speaker 1: because that's what they expect you. You got to show
Speaker 1: people what what kind of man would I be if
Speaker 1: I do the exact fucked up ship that you did
Speaker 1: to me. Well, I'm gonna show you that you did
Speaker 1: it right. You know what I'm saying. So I'm on
Speaker 1: top right now. I'm gonna educate you. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you no, no, no, this is what you needed to do.
Speaker 1: You needed to help me, like I'm helping you. So
Speaker 1: now you have the knowledge that I gave you, and
Speaker 1: you have the education, and now when you're gonna help
Speaker 1: somebody else. So I'm spreading love and I'm spending education
Speaker 1: to the world instead of spending the same fucking mentality.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want people to come
Speaker 1: in and be like, yeah, see, I knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna suck me up like that funk that nigga. No no,
Speaker 1: no no. I want people to say, damn you know
Speaker 1: you helped me. I love that face. I love that
Speaker 1: face more than stunning on you in front of I
Speaker 1: love seeing you going like yo, bro, thank you. It
Speaker 1: makes me feel good. I want to help people. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be the same piece of saying it's
Speaker 1: all about the one thing we got to your watch game.
Speaker 1: Your watch game is very serious. But I watched I
Speaker 1: watched in the beginning of a watch In the beginning,
Speaker 1: you were very honest. You didn't have a crazy watch
Speaker 1: on as a young Nikki jan No, I didn't. But
Speaker 1: then once you got up there, you had that scudding
Speaker 1: a bust down not the thing of the thinon. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love watches. I always thought since I was a kid,
Speaker 1: to watch makes a man. It doesn't matter to watch.
Speaker 1: You got you just got you got something. You need
Speaker 1: something on your wrist, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I don't know because I'm I'm forty years or or
Speaker 1: something like, I'm gonna be honest with you, forty son.
Speaker 1: There's a change that I was wearing. I was that
Speaker 1: ship was driving me fucking crazy, Like it was like
Speaker 1: as heavy as fucking I just like, I just feel
Speaker 1: better with the watch. I think with the watch game,
Speaker 1: you clean, you got a good ass watching It talks
Speaker 1: a lot about you. Now. I had that Jesus peace
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm like, I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: ship off and I'm gonna put it on. And then
Speaker 1: when I sat here like can I take my ship off? Yo?
Speaker 1: But I can't just I can't have changed anymore. But
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm too costrophobic for that ship. But
Speaker 1: the watches everything. Man, I look at everybody's watching when
Speaker 1: I talk sometimes and business. But I mean, you know
Speaker 1: when even really state like something like like y'all this
Speaker 1: is I'm like, bro, you want to tell me that
Speaker 1: I was little to watch? You got right? I don't
Speaker 1: want you got what's wrong with you? My bro Caesar
Speaker 1: and Jays crazy, he has like he you know, he's good,
Speaker 1: but he rents a mini van here. The first time
Speaker 1: he said that he came, he came in a minivan.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, bro, you in a minivan And he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't go anywhere. Like, no, man, he
Speaker 1: shouldn't go anywhere because you know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got more than a thousand units were in a
Speaker 1: white Many of that was no tent because when you
Speaker 1: got the tent window, you hiding in that motherfucker. But
Speaker 1: it's like he's out there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's more humble than me, way more humble. Now did
Speaker 1: you ever work for fifth tv NA? Never? I mean
Speaker 1: I didn't. I think I did a track for Little
Speaker 1: Wayne and never came out. It was a Little Wayne,
Speaker 1: uh my Luma and I don't know who else. It
Speaker 1: never came out. But that's my boy thought. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: bigger to Spift TV like that big up to to
Speaker 1: spif because you know what I'm saying, he's one of
Speaker 1: the one of the guys that believe to and reggaetone
Speaker 1: with a lot of people wasn't believing on it. If
Speaker 1: you would believe how many times he broke and well
Speaker 1: around Yeah, and no one listened to him. Nobody, nobody
Speaker 1: listened to him. Bro Like I agree, wells like you
Speaker 1: have a relationship. Yeah, that's my boy. Tracks with him,
Speaker 1: I got tracks with everybody, Mama. Tality is not to
Speaker 1: have problems with nobody. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I have no beef for no singers, and you know
Speaker 1: some of them got beat for me, so sometimes they
Speaker 1: got me for you. You don't even know you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I mean, I know a lot.
Speaker 1: You used to a lot of people, bitches though, let's
Speaker 1: keep it red in the days that I was sucking
Speaker 1: bitches like they gotta be old ladies. Now you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like, yeah, yeah, still talking like right now.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny? You told me that though I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say, I'm not gonna say something that I
Speaker 1: don't remember some crazy mom. No no, no ship god
Speaker 1: there anyways. Man, No, but you were very predictable in
Speaker 1: the movie. Every time they said don't fun with the girl.
Speaker 1: That's what made me want to fuck it. Say no.
Speaker 1: When I'm calling you your kid, I can't answer how
Speaker 1: your game. I want so, but that's not me anymore.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with your girl, get you in a
Speaker 1: law of trouble, but that messing around. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I got four kids, and I mean three,
Speaker 1: four kids with different moms, so I was responsible that
Speaker 1: a mom for each kid. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It took time for you to get that one up.
Speaker 1: Did he just say four kids and you don't understand
Speaker 1: what it is to deal with four different mamas, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like they all got a different
Speaker 1: but like one got a high pitch like man' uh.
Speaker 1: Three from Puerto Rico, one from from Columbia, my last
Speaker 1: my last kid. She's from Colombia? Is which one is
Speaker 1: character she in the movie? No, I protected that you protected.
Speaker 1: I protected all you know. I'm gonna tell you why
Speaker 1: I did it, because then they come and they do
Speaker 1: books and ship. That's not the way it happened. I
Speaker 1: didn't talk about about she doesn't exist, because you know
Speaker 1: how it is, man, they'd be doing books and ship,
Speaker 1: and then you know, we're doing in stores of the
Speaker 1: books and ship sign ship. I don't want to check
Speaker 1: that thing. My name in the movie, is that really
Speaker 1: how you got your name? Nicki Jam, Nicky Strawberry Jam.
Speaker 1: That was Was that really your name? No? It was
Speaker 1: early No, it was just no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this this this it was this drunk guy bro. My
Speaker 1: name was nick MC because back in the guy you
Speaker 1: had to fight with I was nick m see and
Speaker 1: then the junk I was like, I was like, what's
Speaker 1: your name? I'm nick him? See you was like nick
Speaker 1: him See now your Nicky Jam, Nicky nicky Jam. He
Speaker 1: started doing jams so fucking mad. I'm like, I ain't
Speaker 1: Nicky Jam. He's like like nicky Jam. People making fun
Speaker 1: of me until this day is Nicky Jam. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the dude, but he probably up with
Speaker 1: He's definitely somewhere saying nicky Jam on me. He only
Speaker 1: name Nicky Jam every time you sign me in the
Speaker 1: park because I was I wanted to nick him see
Speaker 1: so bad, so all into the park. He was like
Speaker 1: nike yall, nicky nick nicky nyall. And you know how
Speaker 1: they get that, They get y'all ni' and I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: bro chill out and the other people like y'all get y'all.
Speaker 1: So when I mean, I mean, I mean the people
Speaker 1: in the state called me nicky Jams, you know what,
Speaker 1: like making American African Americans like, yeah, nicky Jams, nicky Cans.
Speaker 1: And then Puerto Ricans ain't get young. I don't even
Speaker 1: get young. So so where are you exactly from him
Speaker 1: from Porter Weeko Daniel Puerto Rico right across sign jueif okay?
Speaker 1: And I was raised in body later way Yankees from
Speaker 1: southward to say, no real hood, So that's not like
Speaker 1: it's just as he could be even worse. I went,
Speaker 1: I went to church in La Yeah, that's crazy to
Speaker 1: go to church. And I went to a different church.
Speaker 1: The church actually felt safe b Yeah, let me take
Speaker 1: some port because this is the most religious motherfucker's in
Speaker 1: the world. No, they ain't gonna mess with the church.
Speaker 1: They ain't messing with the church. Bro the church. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that went to be outside of the church. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. This is the first time like that.
Speaker 1: I want to get up the church. What I want
Speaker 1: that They got a double clips and all that show
Speaker 1: what's your favorite part of the game? Is it performing?
Speaker 1: Because that was the That was the one thing that
Speaker 1: I couldn't get clear to you, right Like when they
Speaker 1: talked about Donald Marred, I forget who they said, but
Speaker 1: they talked about the Goo. They said thego was like Biggie.
Speaker 1: When you talk Aboutdaddy Yankee. They said that Daddy Yankee
Speaker 1: was like a bust of rhymes mixed with the jay Z.
Speaker 1: The one character that I didn't see, They just said
Speaker 1: Nikki Jams. Nicky Jam like you or do you feel
Speaker 1: like that, like you're just a character on your own,
Speaker 1: just just a person. I'm I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: think that would you compare yourself to a hip hop artist?
Speaker 1: Who would it be musically or you mean I mean
Speaker 1: personality wise? I mean you do both, which every one
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with ship, bro, Let mean see, because I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's somebody like me in the Spanish,
Speaker 1: in the in the in the hip hop games. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just crazy, bro. Like the Weekend, I feel
Speaker 1: like you we get ish mass. No, I was mart,
Speaker 1: but I was a rebel. I did a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Ship was doing little movies and ship, and I was
Speaker 1: I was like a mix of I can't believe you
Speaker 1: don't make DMX music, bro, people to be making kind
Speaker 1: of like he said that a Spanish I slipped in
Speaker 1: ba I can't get you going. You don't know, but
Speaker 1: but but you Okay, now you're gonna do a little.
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but in a good way and in a
Speaker 1: good way. In a good way. You know, I got
Speaker 1: my ship together. That legal. What I'm saying goes that
Speaker 1: he won that by them. Really, yeah, I didn't know that. Really, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: I've never I watched it, and so I watched it
Speaker 1: on a level of I want to prove my man
Speaker 1: super old wrong. I was supposed to go listen to
Speaker 1: your music, supposed to listen to everything. But when I did,
Speaker 1: I could not stop watching that Ship. And I watched
Speaker 1: it twice. That's crazy, Bro, thirteen episodes or anything on you.
Speaker 1: That's what Corona does to you. Bro, bug jus man,
Speaker 1: y'all tell the moon gott be with y'all. You know
Speaker 1: what happened. You don't got the inside story because Netflix.
Speaker 1: It was Netflix that did a deal with Telemundo, so
Speaker 1: they didn't do it in the States, so then do
Speaker 1: it so that they wanted to pay Netflix. But then
Speaker 1: it was so graphic and so funked up that it
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, Bro, like Netflix, I want
Speaker 1: you Oh ship, okay, alright, we represent early brother. Man,
Speaker 1: You're really a legend, man, Nikki, Man, I really appreciate
Speaker 1: you coming hanging out with us. You know, we smoke,
Speaker 1: we we drink. But oh that's good, but you can't
Speaker 1: do it because because of health. I want to expect you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to you know what, There's two things that
Speaker 1: was confused about, right, because one, I wanted to give
Speaker 1: the best interview when I interview you, right, But then
Speaker 1: I also wanted to give you the super respect, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm just giving you the super respect because I
Speaker 1: really I really just so you know how to man
Speaker 1: and man, I really respect you and I respected you
Speaker 1: prior to do on the investigation of you, but now
Speaker 1: I respect you fifteen million more, which is preduded because again,
Speaker 1: you know, I judged the whole movement based on the
Speaker 1: putty songs that we're making. Everyone is I forget you,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the hood, the body of city or local.
Speaker 1: Then around quick time of slime. You're ready, quick, Thomas Slim,
Speaker 1: You're ready for everybody? Come quick, Thoma Slive. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you two choices. You just you just pick whatever
Speaker 1: one you're ready. Nicki Mina's Cardi b Nicki Minaj, Daddy
Speaker 1: Yankee and well Dad Yankee, lost Congrease, Lengary, Okay, Goola,
Speaker 1: oh god, okay, damn. What's the other? I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: he be queen and it was the other girl forgot
Speaker 1: her name, um, the one that should do the hooks Genie.
Speaker 1: Oh she's just the boys, like, she's just the voice
Speaker 1: that can't do that. I gotta relax, guy, you get anyways,
Speaker 1: he be Queen Queen. If you don't have somebody else,
Speaker 1: Queen Queen is my home board, yo, Queen, because you
Speaker 1: know she's like, yeah, yeah, that's some of that panthers.
Speaker 1: My brother but I'm like the best. So he started everything,
Speaker 1: and he really gave you that compressor and um um
Speaker 1: in the movie. Remember you couldn't record this ship. Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah that's true, Poppy. Damn, Oh my god, you really
Speaker 1: give everybody. I gotta do it. Didn't get everybody. That's
Speaker 1: that's fucking beautiful. I gotta do it, man, gotta do it.
Speaker 1: I wanted. I wanted that show to be perfect in people.
Speaker 1: I didn't want mad people calling me to say no,
Speaker 1: pay no play to you. No, no, we hustled, you
Speaker 1: can native. I'm not you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: have a brother. My brother looks like you. Case. Somebody
Speaker 1: told me to my brother whose baby baby showed me
Speaker 1: a picture of my brother. Listen, brother, that's like you
Speaker 1: with no green eyes. My father has green eyes. Case,
Speaker 1: somebody which has it. This sounds like you're gonna go yeah,
Speaker 1: do I have a picture of my brother? I don't
Speaker 1: even know. That's funked up, right. I don't know album
Speaker 1: my album? Yeah, yeah, Bobby, my brother's there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but damn, I don't know. Jeesusuise, Papa Cheese, Nikki, y'all
Speaker 1: A while, I gotta say, Niggy y'all. Nigga, n y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry manswering my girl and you wanna think, yeah, yuh,
Speaker 1: little Glory Ray, little Poppy, that's your brother. That's my brother. Show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna picture my father. He knows my father. I
Speaker 1: used to beat him up back in the days. And
Speaker 1: my father say, hey, you cannot do nothing to any
Speaker 1: Latino in here. So he made a Latino and the projects.
Speaker 1: It's only like fourteen families. I was when I was
Speaker 1: like four, asked this guy for what you said? Holy ship,
Speaker 1: my wife for you. You gotta get me some What
Speaker 1: are you trying to do? See? Yeah, my crazy like
Speaker 1: that's my boss man. I'm really really quarter Reacon. Listen.
Speaker 1: Listen to Fat Joe. Listen Fat Joe. At one point,
Speaker 1: I'm not Dominican. I love Dominicans, I love you, I
Speaker 1: love I love Santi that Comball I love. But so
Speaker 1: I told Fat Joe for years you know I'm Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican for real. But Joe was like, huh, how you
Speaker 1: saying earlier? You want have talked to me. If you
Speaker 1: look at my brother, it's the same ship. We got
Speaker 1: the same eyeb look at I can't fake right right
Speaker 1: about so fat Joe. So I said, Yo, my my
Speaker 1: family is going to come to the show. So Joe
Speaker 1: was like, all right, cool. So he's looking. He's thinking,
Speaker 1: people gonna come looking like him, come looking like him? Right,
Speaker 1: Joe calls me, goes, oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: You really Puerto Rican my whole family. So I'm sorry, man,
Speaker 1: Let's make some noise, man, keep going, man, I really
Speaker 1: really I'm thankful. Oh, I'm thankful for you to even
Speaker 1: spread your story and the way you spread your story. Um,
Speaker 1: it's legendary, bro, because like I just kept watching and
Speaker 1: I just like watch. I watched it twice, bro, I
Speaker 1: really did, like I rewatched it today. I'm not three.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the bootlegar, Bro, you're embarrassing me right now.
Speaker 1: Got that in Hinatown because the telemoon or that that's
Speaker 1: the rum of the rumor Mondo Blue blocked y'all out universal.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but that's Netflix problem. Then,
Speaker 1: So how did you get how did you get approach
Speaker 1: to that? When did they say they say you want
Speaker 1: to do a movie and you looked at Tupac ships
Speaker 1: actually actually that you know, we want to do a movie,
Speaker 1: and The crazy thing is where we signed a deal
Speaker 1: with Netflix to do the show. Ja Don wanted to
Speaker 1: do the movie. I mean as what as us is
Speaker 1: that got to be do? Yeah, she wanted to do
Speaker 1: We already had we already had the business with Netflix.
Speaker 1: The script it was this Puerto Rican dude and the
Speaker 1: Mexican dude and the names. Bro. I'm sorry, I gotta
Speaker 1: I'm not. I've never been good with that shape with names.
Speaker 1: But it's so how did they write? They sat down
Speaker 1: and they and they interviewed you, the interview me with
Speaker 1: a tape recorder, and I told him my whole story,
Speaker 1: these mothers. So sometimes that's the problem that a lot
Speaker 1: of things are good, like miss out because you can't
Speaker 1: say everything and once one time you sit down, you know,
Speaker 1: because that's my That's that's what I will dadd Yankee,
Speaker 1: what is what is dad? Yangeese? Movie name? What made
Speaker 1: you not want to do a movie and made you
Speaker 1: do a series because of your stories? Because serieses was
Speaker 1: popping right now exactly. You know what I'm saying that
Speaker 1: it was the right way to do business. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking you. Yeah, and I got like, you know, Colombians
Speaker 1: was killing it right now. So I got the Columbia
Speaker 1: World on it, I got the Puerto Rican World on
Speaker 1: I got you know, the US, you New York. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of everything. Man. Yes, we congratulations
Speaker 1: on everything. Man, I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Man,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming here. I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: was so scared because you know, I wasn't scared after
Speaker 1: I've seen through the trip, the series. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: I didn't want you to take it as if you know,
Speaker 1: like because I did those shots at that world for
Speaker 1: some time because what I was going through. But I
Speaker 1: know you understand because of what I've just seen you
Speaker 1: go through. So this is the reason why I wanted
Speaker 1: to say on here because now for me, I've missed
Speaker 1: my island. Now i want to go back to Porto Beco.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stay like you gonna stay. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go have some fun. No, the island is the same, man.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful, good people. And uh, it's just that I
Speaker 1: went through so much ship man that you know, I
Speaker 1: just I don't want to remember. I don't want to
Speaker 1: remember that. I don't Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I just want to look forward. You know, not one
Speaker 1: thing in the movie, and this is probably one thing
Speaker 1: in the movie, is they never showed like when you
Speaker 1: go from no tattoos and then you go from these tattoos.
Speaker 1: Was that something that you you missed on purpose? And no,
Speaker 1: it was just something they missed, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean the rectors and writers, you know, like I
Speaker 1: think they should have done that. But you know, there
Speaker 1: was so many like there was a lot of things
Speaker 1: that was wasn't there you know what? Something else? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know it's just right now for me to think
Speaker 1: of it right now, but I just think that every
Speaker 1: time I remember something that I'd be like, fuck, we
Speaker 1: should have put this on. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like right now, I don't remember, but a lot of
Speaker 1: things because you got me high as fun with that
Speaker 1: some some something. Sometimes it's not good, you know what,
Speaker 1: it feels good. You're making me reminisce. I ain't joking.
Speaker 1: It's okay, mom. Sometimes you get all right when somebody
Speaker 1: else's smoking. Imagine if the album no No, we ain't
Speaker 1: nothing out there, I can't do it. And now we
Speaker 1: have a relationship just so you know, yeah, that relationship
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I'm definitely gonna try to get a
Speaker 1: verse out of you. I just want to throw that
Speaker 1: out you all right. I just want to know you
Speaker 1: front about it. I just did. I'm just I'm doing
Speaker 1: Tom and Jerry right now. Yeah. Yeah, I'm one of
Speaker 1: the I'm one of the voices of Tom and Jaffy.
Speaker 1: What even know what that check will look like. But
Speaker 1: unless before we get up out of here, let me
Speaker 1: pick up to one of my favorite owners that I
Speaker 1: hope you stayed for a meal. If you don't cause stay,
Speaker 1: give meal to go Fario, who cook up anything you want,
Speaker 1: from anything to anything. He's an Italian mobster in my mind.
Speaker 1: Just rolling it, Just roll with it, just roll with it.
Speaker 1: This is damn It's cool, Sar Delis. And let me
Speaker 1: just tell you something, nigga, jam, we really appreciate you,
Speaker 1: to appreciate you coming down, sitting down. We're gonna open
Speaker 1: up the things so you can get unhigh and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get a couple of drops, a couple of drops,
Speaker 1: take a picture. But let me just tell you something, bro,
Speaker 1: everything that I expected from you, you gave it to me,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. I'm so glad. We spoke about
Speaker 1: everything from Daddy Yankee to you know, your career, to
Speaker 1: your downfalls, to your up falls, to your everything. And
Speaker 1: I want to say, this is a great fucking interview.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You're a funny motherfucker. What is your own podcast?
Speaker 1: What is it? It's it's yeah, I'm starting it right now.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm putting anything together. The chance we got it down.
Speaker 1: I just think. I just think that I got a
Speaker 1: lot to bring in the table. And you know, right
Speaker 1: now is a good time to do it, beautiful time
Speaker 1: to do it. It's the best time to do your culture.
Speaker 1: And I just like talking to people and I'm anna
Speaker 1: talker and I don't shut the funk up. It's good.
Speaker 1: That's a time. And you know, you could get bored
Speaker 1: in this Corona moment right now, so it's good just
Speaker 1: to be productive and keeping I'm doing music. I got
Speaker 1: a studio with wood and I got my little basketball
Speaker 1: court in the back. But I want to do more,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I'm ready to work.
Speaker 1: I just want to work, bro, That's all I want
Speaker 1: to do. So is that how's your adaptings to not
Speaker 1: doing shows? Because that's that's that's something that we are.
Speaker 1: I've been doing some shows on some streaming shows, like yeah,
Speaker 1: I've doing shows for Dubai or doing shows for for
Speaker 1: a couple of countries. Yeah. Like I don't know if
Speaker 1: y'all saw me. I did a show with like in
Speaker 1: uh in the water in the house. Yeah, then I'm
Speaker 1: doing I'm doing shows like probably like once a month.
Speaker 1: But they're good shows, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: uh doing a lot of collaborations and ship like I've
Speaker 1: been doing good. I can't be mad. I've been working
Speaker 1: a lot. You know what I'm saying. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not the same as touring, but I'm okay, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, God damn it. If y'all don't
Speaker 1: know by now, then you guys are motherfucking fools. As nicky,
Speaker 1: motherfucking jam it is a legend. You got some of
Speaker 1: the best story in music. Got that story is one
Speaker 1: of the best stories in music. Thank you. Not just
Speaker 1: I want to be clear, not just regge thrown, not
Speaker 1: just laughing. You know, a couple of a couple of
Speaker 1: rappers hit me, uh kind of hit me up. Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony hit me up to a whole bunch hit me up.
Speaker 1: Any motherfuckers. It was crazy for me to like, you
Speaker 1: know these people like I know that to check out
Speaker 1: my story. You know it feels good, It feels good.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Any motherfucker who knows you
Speaker 1: and watch that and don't call you and pick you
Speaker 1: up their fake dudes. If you see somebody in the
Speaker 1: street like yo, yeah, nicky, Yes he didn't tell he
Speaker 1: didn't you man, leave him? Then let's do. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. It took me four days not to
Speaker 1: call you because I wanted to call you every single
Speaker 1: day and like, y'all, hold on at this part right here, man,
Speaker 1: what's happened right here? No? No, who's this guy now?
Speaker 1: But listen when I see the l A bar, I
Speaker 1: really was like, that's both the king, it's one of them.
Speaker 1: I really thought that. So I'm glad glade where vehicle
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