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| PITBULL INTERVIEW: |
| On September 22, 2006, we had the opportunity to speak with Pitbull, Armando Christian Pérez, one of the most successful Latino rappers, for an in-depth interview about his career, growing up, his thoughts on President Bush, and new album (El Mariel). |
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| We all know that you have a Spanish-only album coming out. What made you decide to finally do a Spanish-only album? |
| PITBULL: Basically, just to make history. So I am putting together a Spanish-only album, totally Spanish, Afro-Cuban music. Definitely, just to have it etched in stone, you know? |
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| Besides your two albums coming out, do you have any other projects or an upcoming tour? |
| PITBULL: I am always on the road doing shows, but as far as any upcoming projects, I got a DVD out called Mr. 305, which basically will show my movement on how I came up and telling my story. I am also doing movies. Also on the album coming out, there is a DVD attached to it showing behind the scenes, Pitbull at different shows, and showing them how much I be grinding for real so that the fan can really relate to Pitbull. |
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| When you're on the road, what is life like for you? |
| PITBULL: A typical day is wake up and go get it. To tell you the truth, I work more when I am at home than when I am on the road. |
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| In a recent press release, you stated that you want to "unmask President George W. Bush's misguided war." If you had the opportunity to speak to him today, what would you tell him and ask him? |
| PITBULL: There is definitely not much to tell him, but a lot to ask about the different situations that go on with our country. Not only does the War on Iraq show a sign of weakness as far as the way the country is being run, but I'll ask him what was up with the whole Katrina situation. We have Americans down there. We have people in Indonesia that was hit with the Tsunami and we were there faster than we were to the victims of Katrina. Just things like that, I would love for him to clear it up and if not clear it up, at least try to clear it up. That would be the conversation. |
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| Speaking of Katrina, did you have the chance to go down to the New Orleans region and speak with the victims? |
| PITBULL: I haven't had the chance, but I put a few of them up in apartments through foundations we have down here in Miami. |
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| There are a lot of kids out there on the streets, from broken families, struggling to succeed, surrounded by an environment filled with drugs, crime, and gangs. What advice do you have for those kids to stay positive, stay strong, and to reach their goals in life? |
| PITBULL: Well, I was definitely one of those kids that grew up having a rough life. Well not really a rough life because that life taught me to be what I am, to build my character. So I tell those kids to take every negative in their life and turn it into a positive. One thing that a university can't teach you, high school can't teach you, is the streets. If you learn the streets, that makes you just more dangerous. If you're educated and street-educated than that makes you a monster when you enter into corporate America because it makes you to think out of the box, instead in the box. With our education system, it teaches you to think inside the box. See, I applied everything in the streets to what I do now. Think about it, I have a product and going from city to city, state to state, country to country, trying to get people hooked to my product and trying to sell as much of my product as possible. So I applied everything I learned on the streets to the rap game. For anyone out there that is dealing with any negativity in their life, that is only going to make them stronger and don't take it as a lost....take it as a blessing. |
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