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I cleaned up my image.
I wanted to be like Tupac.
I don't just record to record.
I love trap music and street music.
Everything I do I do it for my family.
Bad Bunny and I have a great relationship.
I am super competitive, and I sacrifice a lot.
I represent the streets of Puerto Rico around the world.
Wisin Y Yandel are legends. They're very smart and really humble.
I wanted to show people that I can do something besides street music.
The types of songs I used to do, I used to sing a lot for the streets.
People just love rumors. They're always saying things that aren't true.
Whatever happens, I'm going to adapt to it. I always been like that all my life.
People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music.
Even though Puerto Rico will always be my hometown, I feel Miami is my second home.
People who really love you are the ones who stand firm by you when things are bleak.
My music is my soul speaking, literally. It's spiritual. It has a lot of feelings, a lot of pain.
I collaborated with Lil Wayne, Bad Bunny, Tego Calderon, he's a big legend in the Spanish industry.
My mantra when it comes to money is always remember that money doesn't make you. You make the money.
Sometimes I want to listen to sad music, sometimes something fun and sometimes you're in romantic mode.
Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.
Sometimes I wanna get tatted somethin' in my face really little but other times like nah can't ruin my face.
I listen to what people say in the songs, not just the melodies. With rappers you gotta listen to what they say.
I really like Billie Eilish's music. It's really different. My music ain't like hers but I like her music, her vibe.
I've never had a stylist. My style is very distinctive from where I am from in Puerto Rico: a housing project in Carolina.
Little by little, I keep growing mentally and my entire work team keep growing and working more professional, more organized.
There are a lot of people out there that don't value their family the way they are supposed to. I value mine above everything else.
Daddy Yankee and I have some of the same fans, but he reaches people I don't reach. The same thing with Ozuna and Balvin and Karol G.
I love Jordan's like, where I'm from like the Jordan's, having Jordan's is like really part of the culture so this is really essential for me.
I can't betray anyone. I don't know what it's like to really betray someone. I'm very loyal to my circle, my family, and those I hold close to me.
One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already managed to dominate commercial music.
There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.
I can't live without my PlayStation. When I go on tour this is like my best friend. 'Cause if I don't bring the PlayStation, I feel like I'm a slave of my work, basically.
When I started to get all that money, I started to buy a lot of watches. I bought 6 to 7 watches, the rainbow Rolex... In a year, I had spent $3.3 million just on the watches.
I got a lot of money like invested in watches. When I buy watches I make sure, like you could go buy and they're still gonna have the same price, the same value, or maybe more.
So in prison basically is when I started to build a good relationship with God and I started praying a lot. I read the bible a lot so I started to get a lot of knowledge about life.
Thank god 'Real' was successful, but I feel like 'Emmanuel' will be even more successful. All my ideas, I could put them to work myself, on my own time. I had more control, and it shows.
I'm always up and down with Jordan's. I try to not wear them too much. They're the type of shoe that, if you want it, if you don't want to get them too dirty, you don't use them too much.
I learned to forget everything. To concentrate on my music and thank God for all good moments. Because the positive attracts the positive. You must work, work and work to get the most out of it.
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn't matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What's critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That's what helps keep me going.
What gives me strength and inspires me is never to go back to where I once was. My inspiration is to see my son as he admires me and knowing that I have someone there who depends on me. I have to do things right. I have to move forward.
Bad Bunny and I aren't brothers, but we have a good relationship. We compete. We'll compete until the day we die, because he says he's the best, and I say I'm the best. When he releases something big, I have to release something bigger.
When I made 'Real,' I recorded it over the phone in prison. I did it in a week. I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I couldn't even listen to the masters before it came out, I couldn't listen to 90% of the beats. I recorded 21 songs in seven days.
People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin, with people who had nothing to do with reggaeton. I grew up watching him play all kinds of instruments. It's something I carry in my blood.
I've been dealing with racism since I was a little kid! My dad's super black, from Puerto Rico. Then my mom's super white - she's Puerto Rican too, but she grew up in Milwaukee. As a Latino in the U.S. I've seen how we are treated differently based on the color of our skin.