April 25, 2024 • 28 mins
You may know this week’s guest by many names. Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide, or more likely, the one and only Pitbull. Yes, the Grammy winning superstar, education advocate and entrepreneur sat down with Bob for a live conversation in his native Miami at the POSSIBLE conference. Before gaining all his titles, Pitbull was simply Armando Christian Pérez, a kid soaking up the colorful cultures of his city. Growing up, he was exposed to diverse, bustling, and at times unstable environments on the streets of Miami. Yet despite any hardship, Pitbull credits his city with giving him the skills to succeed in music and business. In fact, he’s leveraged his creativity and keen business sense to develop a number of independent ventures, including creating his own record label, Mr. 305, Inc., co-owning the Trackhouse NASCAR racing team and creating the Voli 305 vodka brand. Plus, he uses his international superstardom to give back to his community. Through SLAM! Charter schools, Pitbull is revolutionizing education and giving kids in underrepresented communities the opportunities he didn’t have. Listen to hear about these endeavors and more, and stay tuned to learn how he got the name Pitbull in the first place.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Math and Magic, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Anything that you are trying to accomplish in life, just
know that if it's easy, it's going to go away fast.
Remember what comes quickly is quickly. But anything that you love,
anything that you got passionate for, anything that you believe in,
you're gonna have to fight for it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I am Bob Pittman. Today is a special episode of
Math and Magic. So it might sound a little different.
Our guest is a worldwide phenomenon, a Grammy Award winning artist, entrepreneur,
and philanthropist, and we recorded it live on stage at
the Possible Conference at the Fountain Blue in Miami. I
hope you'll enjoy my conversation exploring math and Magic with
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the one.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And only pit Ball.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Obviously you heard the intro. We have Armando Christian Perez,
mister worldwide Mayor of Miami, best known as Pitball, Grammy
Award winner, singer, saw entrepreneur, you've heard about it, philanthropists.
We're going to dig into that a little bit. He's
got a great story and he's got a trademark sound.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's great to first.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Of all, everybody, welcome to Miami. In the three oh
five day County to Magic City. And with that said,
it's only right we go. Yeah, get ready for a
great conversation. And I need to get it right because
I'm making in trouble on the streets of Miami. See
I missed the three oh five. Lucas the King of Miami,
meaning Uncle Luke it Rosses, the Boss, Flow Riders, mister International,
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and Trick Daddy is the mayor of Miami. He's got
to make that right because it's not absolutely.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Mayor there's anything to do with three oh five. He's
got it. Before we get started, I always do a
s feature called you in sixty seconds. We're going to
do a lightning round style and uh, give me the
first answer comes to your mind? Do you prefer cats
or dogs?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Neither?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
To be honest with you, early or late night? Late
night city or country city coker PEPSI. I don't drink
any city or suburbs city or suburbs city, beach or.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Mountains, beach, Hip hop or pop Come on now, hip hop?
Coff of your tea at tea, cook or eat out.
You're asking the Miami boy that eat out comedy or drama, comedy,
call or text I'd rather call podcast streaming. Podcast is
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streaming and you got me there, documentaries.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Touring a recording studio, turing salt or sweet mm hmm spicy. Okay,
we'll take that. It's about to get harder. Your all
time favorite artists.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My altern favorite artist hit me there. It's gonna have
to be too because remember it is English, Spanish, great,
all right, perfect, notorious, big, biggest, smalls.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And in Spanish Celia as uh favorite city. Come on, man,
Miami three or five day, Kenny.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And last one. When you were a kid, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
When I was a kid, what I want to be
when I grew up? To be honest with you, I
didn't even have that kind of vision at that point.
All I wanted to be was secure, stable and protected.
There was a lot going on at that time. And
thank god that we've accomplished those goals.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We're going to dig into that. Let's jump into it,
and let's start with creativity. For you, where did it
come from? How do you develop your ideas? Do you
have a process. My ideas are developed around my life.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So if you listen to the records, I'm always telling
you you're reporting live from the tallest building in Tokyo,
or take advantage of the night because tomorrow I'm off
the dude by to perform for a Princes.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, these are all things that happened to me
in my life.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So really what I'm doing is I'm reporting, or we
could call it journalism on a beat. As far as
the earlier records that if you heard, you know, there's
been evolution from Pitbull or mister three ZH five to
mister Worldwide. And if you listen to pit or you
listen to me back in the day, what I was
painting you was a picture of what my environment looked like,
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whether it was in the streets, whether it was in
the clubs, whether it was the vision and the goals
that we were setting at that time. So basically, my
creativity comes from my life. And do you have a
process for how you channel it? You got the idea,
how do you turn it into these major hits? So
a lot of artists, in general, people are very creative,
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sometimes tend to overthink. That's one of my number one rules.
Don't ever overthink. You can think ahead, but don't overthink.
And what I mean by it is when they start
to write a record, they're like.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, that's not the line.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh that's not this, or it's not that, And everybody
has a creative process. I'm not knocking it for me.
I just let it flow. So whatever the first line is,
I write it. And that first line may end up
at the end of the record, it may end up
in the middle of the record, it may not even
end up on the record at all, but at least
it opened the pipeline to creativity and allows it to flow.
So that's basically my number one rule when we're recording,
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as far as like, hey, whatever you feel, write it down,
and you just you just never know where that idea
take you. And when I've been around the best of
the best, what's funny is you could be having a
conversation and they'll go, that's the record, that's what we're
gonna do, and you go, man, I was just talking
to somebody. I'll give you an example. I was with
Pharrell Williams and we were knocking out a record and
he hears me having a conversation about somebody that was
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a very jealous person. And I was telling this person
on the phone. I said, oh no, double a goops,
A's episode. You don't need that in your life. That's
a very jealous person. You don't need an your life.
And Forrell turns to me and says, what's that that
word you just said? I said, Celoso. He goes, what
a seloso mean? I said, jealous? He said, that's a
name of the record. And we made a record together
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called Geloso. And it's about making you know, other people
jealous when you're in the club and someone's trying to
holler at you that maybe you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Either. Or you see how the idea came about.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I was I think it was at the iHeart Radio
Music Festival and I was backstage and you and Calvin
Harris got into this whole like collaboration thing, like on
the spur of the moment.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
How do you think about collaboration.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, collaboration to me is key, right, because there's nothing
like being able to tap into someone else's audience and
then tap into yours. It's the ultimate example how powerful
music is because music is the universal language.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Music unites, it doesn't divide.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And example, like speaking to a Calvin Harrison iHeart and
it was the first iHeart actually and we were in Vegas,
and thinks, by the way, I really appreciate it. They
come backstage and they tell me, oh, we're gonna need
you to close After Errol Smith, I said, oh, sh
so give me a little bit more voculate, let me
see what else I's doing.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But no worry, we got this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But that's exactly with that story I just told you briefly,
that's exactly what collaboration is about. You can't be afraid,
you can't be scared, you can't be fearful. And a
lot of people don't collaborate with other artists or genres
or cultures or countries because they feel it'll hurt their
credibility or their path or journey in their career. And
I've always told people, if you ever worry about your credibilities,
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because you were never credible in the first place, And
that just shows us a sign of insecurity. Growing up
in a city like Miami, that's a melting pot, and
I've grown up around a lot of different cultures.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It got me ready to be able to collaborate.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
With anybody anywhere about anything, which has been key and monumental.
And it allows you to learn other cultures, which is
beautiful as well.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
You have a wildly passionate fan base. How do you
stay connected to that fan base day in and day out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That we're living in a society where I feel that
the fake is celebrated, the real get hated.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's an instant gratification.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's not now, it's right now, now, now, right. So
I feel that the connection stays with the fans for
the simple factors that I try to be as honest
and real with them through the music, through our projects,
and through everything that we do for other things other
than music. But music has created that avenue and those opportunities.
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And the other thing is that I check in with
them every so often. I don't like the dilute or
saturate what the message may be, because if you hear
from me every day, every day, every day, then you're like,
I'm not trying to hear nothing from Pitt. But if
there's a message that is strategically placed every now and
then for things that we got going on, now, it's different.
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Now they're out there fighting for you, acknowledging you, being
I would say, empowered by you, motivated and inspired by you,
And that to me is priceless because at the end
of the day, when it comes to music, when it
comes to anything in life.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm a fan first.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I'm a person that acknowledges and really appreciate when someone
is knocking it out of the park and trying to
be at the top of the game. And bottom line
is that without the fans, there is no pit Bull,
no movement, no revolution, no way. We get a chance
to live our dreams every night on stage, which I
let them know that every night when we perform, because
it's just the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So radio, you've been a part of it for as
long as I've been around this company, been a major
presence on the radio. How do you use radio and
how do zip work in making your music and getting
it to the public.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I mean, radio is something that's been a major
part of my career, but you have to again learn
how to utilize it. And as far as that is,
when you create an amazing partnership, which we have throughout
the years, in order to get a platform at that level,
to be able to give music to your fans or
to the world, you got to make sure that you
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can take advantage of that opportunity. So when you create
a partnership, well you know that I'm gonna when I
say I mean we, I mean us. I don't do
this by myself. As far as making records and performing
and things of that nature. Is quality over quantity. So
as as partners, you know, I'm gonna bring you quality
and you guys are gonna give me quality opportunities.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
So to me.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
When it comes to radio being as powerful as it is,
and it's been throughout the years, obviously times are changing
and things of that nature, but that's something that will
forever be with us.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's about partnership.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I feel more of math and magic right after this
quick break. Welcome back to math and magic. Let's hear
more from my conversation with Pitball.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Let's go back in time. Your Cuban roots very important
to you. You grew up in little Tavana, and can
you paint a picture of that time and place when
you were growing up? Give us give us the uh
the visual picture here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, First of all, I grew up on little Havanah's
one of my old neighborhoods, and back in Yohanna on
fifty fifth. I grew up all over Miami. Good neighborhoods,
bad neighborhoods, worse neighborhoods, ugly neighborhoods, you name. It built
a lot of character. But if we're going to talk
about little Havana on Fifth Ave and fifth Street, where
I was always at was a spot called Kayoto Coyotes
is like a main vein of Miami H Street, And
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at that time it looked like there was a parade
out every day because everybody was always out. And the
Mario boat lift had just hit in eighty eighty one
and I was living there eighty three eighty four, and
they still had this thing called Tense City where they
were living up under n ninety five and the Maria alitles.
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So a lot of Maria alitles were out in about
in Kyoto, which you know was a good thing, great thing,
and a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Let's call it a gift in the curve.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
A lot of them that came over were looking for
freedom and how to take advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
And you know what, how can I can put it
like this?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I grew up at an early age around entrepreneurs that
were just moving a different product. They were looking for
angel investors, venture capitalists. They were you know, seeding their
startup money. Let's just say round A round B, round C.
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Some became multi multi and exited, and some just exited.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
If you know what I mean, I do know what you.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
What lessons did you take from that that you used
today or have helped you build your career.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The lessons that I've learned growing up, I think the
number one lesson was what not to do?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
What I learned from those.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Individuals that I was around as a youngin And you
gotta understand, as a kid, your mind is a sponge.
You're picking up everything everything they dropping you picking it up.
So I would see the ones that would survive and
thrive because you know a lot of folks they were
just trying to make a better life for themselves. But
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the ones that didn't survive and thrive were the ones
that we call song a ladoso.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I mean a ladosa is.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Someone that's always showing off, speaks loud, a lot of jewelry,
fancy cars, always flashing money, and treating people disrespectfully. Those
are the guys I would look at it go definitely
don't ever want to be that. But the guys that
were around that every time they would come around, which
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I'm actually doing something with them now about their life
story and things of that nature. It's like time would stop,
and they treated everybody with respect. They were always funny,
They always, you know, were tipping and made sure that
people were taking care of And I always said, you know,
those are the kind of guys that would like to
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be like you know. So the music business in the
street business is very, very similar.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It's just a different product.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
So in the streets there was cocaine, crack, heroin, obviously, weed, pills,
you name it. I dealt with all of that, meaning
I grew up around it. I saw the people that
got addicted to it. You can get addicted to it
doing it, or you can get addicted to it selling it.
It all depends on what lane you want to take, right.
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But I've never seen a drug as powerful and more
addicting than fame. So when I got into the music
business and I started to see what fame would do
to people, I said, wow. So those guys were dealing
with fame at a different level. That's why some of
them are not with us to this day. And when
I see certain artists deal with fame a certain way
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and the way that they treat people, I can tell
you time is taken.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
They're not going to be here that long with us.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So those are the things that I have captured, found
a way to learn from and again learn what not
to do well.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
One of the things you do is you help other people.
And one of the things that sort of fits in
here is you've started SLAM in Miami. It is a
charter school K through twelve tuition free. Tell us a
little bit about it, and then try how you bound
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it and got into it and why.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So SLAM Sports, Leadership, Arts and Management. It's a public
charter school. Ninety seven percent of those kids are on
free lunch. All of them come from the Indy City.
So we pull them out of Liberty City, Alapado, Wywood,
over Town, Little Havana, you name it. So they go
from DNS schools. Basically, Now SLAM is in a school.
It's been up for ten years. Now, why do I
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get into education? I didn't graduate high school. I went
to a lot of schools, over twenty of them, probably
twenty five. Never been in trouble maker, just always around
some trouble. But a teacher changed my life and ironically
when I was hopeless. Her name is Hope, Hope Martinez.
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Is her name Pedance Martina and all it took was
for her to turn to me and tell me I
believe in you. And when she did that, it changed
my life. It changed the trajectory of my life. So
I said, if I could do the same, And when
I again, when I say I mean we, I mean
ustis administration behind this principles teachers parents that believe in us,
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kids that believe in us, if we could help them
the same way that Hope Martinez helped me.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And all you need is one. You know, Tupac has
a great line.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Tupac says, I'm not the one that's gonna change the world,
but I'm the one that's gonna spark the mind of
the one that's gonna change the world. And that, to me,
what Slam is all about. It's one of my neighborhoods
in Little Havana, Like we were speaking earlier, ten years.
In education, now we're up to twelve schools, ten thousand
kids across the nation. So we have them Tampa, Bolca,
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thank you. So we have Miami, Tampa, Boca, Palm Beach, Oceola, Atlanta.
I know we got approved in Alabama, that's crazy. We
just got one in Arizona. We have in San Antonio,
and we have in Nevada, in Las Vegas, right outside
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of Las Vegas and Henderson, so little by little it's growing.
It's you know what they say, well comes quickly quicker, which,
by the way, I learned that in the streets as well.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
So I made up a slogan called it's a slow
but a for show.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I think that education is the real revolution because
as much as we speak about all the problems that
there is in society in the world today, my mother's
always told me, son, don't worry. The world's always been
coming to an end. Don't let it scare you out
of living is the route. So the more we teach
on what life really looks like because slam, what makes
a difference is the curriculum.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
So we're able to teach these kids through sports.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So example, I don't know how many of y'all really
liked algebra. I didn't think so, So when I saw
numbers meet letters, I said, man, I must be in
the wrong class. But if you're taking algebraic equation and
xyz and x is they need six points? Why is
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they're at the thirty yard line and z is they
got thirty seconds? Now you create a different level of
engagement with these students, and you make education and learning exciting.
So that's the reason that I got involved with SLAM
because another neighborhood that I lived in the Miami called
wind Wood, which used to be the heroin Capitol, now
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is the art mecca of the world. She goes to
show you how shit changes. Yeah, from a negative to
a positive. Baby, that's right. And there's a big slogan
in Windwood which you say, don't talk about it, be
about it. So SLAM for me, for us and those
that have given me the opportunity to be able to
build schools. It's an ultimate way of not talking about
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it being about it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
A couple of quick things. Pitball, where'd the name come prop?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The name pitbull came from a friend of mine, Dominican,
one of my best friends growing up, And we were
on the way actually to a pit bull fight, crazy,
you know, and I was looking for in them cee name.
I didn't have one yet. And when we were on
the way there, he's like, he's like, hey, you know what,
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I know your name?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I said, all right, what is it? Peobull? B Bull?
And I'm like pitbull said shit, that got a little
ring too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I like that pit all right, And then as I
researched the breed, there's a lot of stereotype behind them pitbull.
Pit Bulls were actually used to be you realize this, babysitters.
Then they became fighters. But what happened It's all about
you become a product of your environment. Right, So me personally,
I got a great heart, but my blood could turn
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cold real quick due to the environment that I was raised.
So being a pitbull in Miami, by the way, which
was illegal at the time. Pitbulls weren't allowed, so I
was the only legal pit with papers a lot in
Dave County. But they fight to the death, they're loyal,
they ride to the death, they bite, they lock, they
don't let go till they take care of business, and
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they don't understand what it is to lose. So I said, man,
I can definitely apply this to our mentality in music
and more than anything in life, because anything that you
are trying to accomplish in life, just know that if
it's easy, it's gonna go away fast. Remember what comes
quickly is quickly. But anything that you love, anything that
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you got passionate for, anything that you believe in you're
gonna have to fight for it. And the first thing
that they're going to tell you is you're crazy. Don't
through it. It'll never happen. It's impossible. You're fucking stupid
while you're trying that. Yeah, so I flipped it. I
mean you saw me talk about it. But it's the truth.
So I had to figure out ways to go. No, no, no,
they don't know what they're talking about. But I'm focused.
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By that means you're moving forward, move up, don't look back,
not even for a boost. Gotta stay focused. But in
the word can't, just can, and the word won't is one,
and the word don't just do, and the word impossible
is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
And take it to the next level is put that
little possible in front of the eye. It's I'm possible.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And when you can rewire your brain like that, then
guess what anything is possible. So between the pit and me,
that's how we're wired. And that's why my name is
pit Bull.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And here you are as possible possible right here.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Wow. And then by bad, I gotta tell you this one.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So mister three oh five, by the way, came about
because we spoke about him earlier.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
From the mayor of Day County, Trick Daddy, because.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We were in the studio together and we figured out
we lived in a lot of the same neighborhoods, either
at different times or same times, just didn't run into
each other. And when I told them all the neighborhood
that I had lived in, he said, man, you like,
Mister three oh five said, bet that up.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Thank you very much. I'm taking that right there.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Appreciate it, so, Trick Daddy, TBD, I appreciate you, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
AI. We can't do a discussion we talking about AI. Hey,
it is a very hot topic in the music business.
How do you think about it?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's funny because I was having a conversation about artificial intelligence.
There's AI artificial intelligence, and then there's AI damundo intelligence.
What do I think about artificial intelligence? Just like I
think about any form of technology or any new platform.
As long as you utilize it and it doesn't use you,
then you're in the green. But they're going to have
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to get ahead of it the same way that social
media got in front of everybody, and we see what
it's done to society one way or another. There's things
that are positive about it, but there's a lot of
negatives to it. So what happens when you implement these
kind of platforms there's no rules, laws or regulations. Example,
in Florida, they just passed where you know, kids can't
get on social media till fourteen. I mean if it
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takes sixteen, it takes a kid to be sixteen years
old to be able to get his driver's license, eighteen
years old to be able to smoke, twenty one to
be able to drink, then there should be somehow, some
way barriers in place so that the youth understands the
power of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Right the same way that I think we kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Missed the ball with social media, we should utilize that
as an example going into artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
And it's the same thing. We look at traffic.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What I mean by it is you get on the road,
there's lanes, there's stop signs, there's stop.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Lights, there's exits, there's ways that it directs you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
But if everybody were running red lights, running stop signs,
everybody's running into each other. Now we see what social
media did to society to a certain extent. So with
artificial intelligence, obviously we know it's the next level I
feel that we're just gonna have to be real responsible
about it. Is it powerful? Can it be utilized to
help society? Yes, it can, But again I think that
they're going to they have to get in front of it,
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which we're actually dealing with with certain companies about artificial intelligence.
But it's all for ways to prevent things. Again, utilize it,
don't let it use you. And with being involved with education,
we see what it does to students when they're not
properly aware or educated on how powerful that tool is.
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So one time a friend of mine had a conversation
with a university and he asked the kids in university, so,
how many of y'all got tattoos? And let's say a
quarter of the room raised their hand, and he said, no, no,
all of y'all need to raise your hands. And they're like, oh,
what are you talking about? He said, because I'm sure
that all of y'all have a picture on the internet
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right now as we speak, and that's a tattoo. It's
with you for life. So just imagine that with social media,
you can take it to deep fakes, you can do
real crazy things with it. So that to me is
the part that I look at it and go there's
gotta be rules, laws, regulations on creating that barrier.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now. Musically, shit, we gotta protect ourselves.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I mean, somebody can give you a record that sounds
just like me right now, all I has to do
is talk to whatever platform they want to go on
and make that happen. Can it be utilized where a
producer sends it to me and I'm like, oh, I
see where you're taking it, and then we take it
to the next level.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, it can be.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But do we need to find ways to protect that absolutely,
whether it be from music side or entertainment as a whole.
And even the politicians they need to watch out. I
always say politics. I call it politrics where AI is
about to become poly tricky about out there.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Rmando, you inspire us with your music and your life.
Thanks for ring with us today and sharing your insights.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It's truly my pleasure it Snana. I appreciate you all
for having me. Thank you, Pitman, Pitbull, and Pitman.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Here are a few things I picked up in my
conversation with pit Bull. One draw from your life, from
putting his real experiences into lyrics to starting slam charter schools.
Pitbull has built a career steeped in his own personal history.
He's proof that you don't have to look far when
seeking inspiration, whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, or both.
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Pursue projects that feel true to yourself to create something
meaningful and authentic. Two, don't overthink it. Let your ideas
flow without giving it too much thought. Pit Bull says
he writes down the first lines that come into his head,
whether or not they make the final cut. It's valuable
to experiment with your idea because you never know where
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they'll take you. Three. Utilize your platforms. Pit Bull has
been on the radio for his entire career and knows
how to leverage its springs to help his career. These days,
there are new platforms popping up every day. Pitbull still
looks out for new tools and technologies like AI and
tries to understand them so he can be in control
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of it, creating quality products that he can use to
his advantage. I'm Bob Pittman, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's it for today's episode. Thanks so much for listening
to Math and Magic, a production of iHeart Podcasts. The
show is hosted by Bob Pittman. Special thank to Sydney
Rosenbloom for booking and wrangling our wonderful talent, which is
no small feat. Mathemagic's producers are Emily Meronoff and Jessica Crimechitch.
It is mixed and mastered by Baheed Fraser. Our executive
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producers are Nikki Etoor and Ali Perry, and of course,
of big thanks to Gail Raoul, Eric Angel Noel and
everyone who helped bring this show to your ears. Until
next time,
You're listening to Math and Magic, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Anything that you are trying to accomplish in life, just
know that if it's easy, it's going to go away fast.
Remember what comes quickly is quickly. But anything that you love,
anything that you got passionate for, anything that you believe in,
you're gonna have to fight for it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I am Bob Pittman. Today is a special episode of
Math and Magic. So it might sound a little different.
Our guest is a worldwide phenomenon, a Grammy Award winning artist, entrepreneur,
and philanthropist, and we recorded it live on stage at
the Possible Conference at the Fountain Blue in Miami. I
hope you'll enjoy my conversation exploring math and Magic with
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the one.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And only pit Ball.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Obviously you heard the intro. We have Armando Christian Perez,
mister worldwide Mayor of Miami, best known as Pitball, Grammy
Award winner, singer, saw entrepreneur, you've heard about it, philanthropists.
We're going to dig into that a little bit. He's
got a great story and he's got a trademark sound.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's great to first.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Of all, everybody, welcome to Miami. In the three oh
five day County to Magic City. And with that said,
it's only right we go. Yeah, get ready for a
great conversation. And I need to get it right because
I'm making in trouble on the streets of Miami. See
I missed the three oh five. Lucas the King of Miami,
meaning Uncle Luke it Rosses, the Boss, Flow Riders, mister International,
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and Trick Daddy is the mayor of Miami. He's got
to make that right because it's not absolutely.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Mayor there's anything to do with three oh five. He's
got it. Before we get started, I always do a
s feature called you in sixty seconds. We're going to
do a lightning round style and uh, give me the
first answer comes to your mind? Do you prefer cats
or dogs?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Neither?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
To be honest with you, early or late night? Late
night city or country city coker PEPSI. I don't drink
any city or suburbs city or suburbs city, beach or.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Mountains, beach, Hip hop or pop Come on now, hip hop?
Coff of your tea at tea, cook or eat out.
You're asking the Miami boy that eat out comedy or drama, comedy,
call or text I'd rather call podcast streaming. Podcast is
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streaming and you got me there, documentaries.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Touring a recording studio, turing salt or sweet mm hmm spicy. Okay,
we'll take that. It's about to get harder. Your all
time favorite artists.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My altern favorite artist hit me there. It's gonna have
to be too because remember it is English, Spanish, great,
all right, perfect, notorious, big, biggest, smalls.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And in Spanish Celia as uh favorite city. Come on, man,
Miami three or five day, Kenny.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And last one. When you were a kid, what did
you want to be when you grew up?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
When I was a kid, what I want to be
when I grew up? To be honest with you, I
didn't even have that kind of vision at that point.
All I wanted to be was secure, stable and protected.
There was a lot going on at that time. And
thank god that we've accomplished those goals.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
We're going to dig into that. Let's jump into it,
and let's start with creativity. For you, where did it
come from? How do you develop your ideas? Do you
have a process. My ideas are developed around my life.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So if you listen to the records, I'm always telling
you you're reporting live from the tallest building in Tokyo,
or take advantage of the night because tomorrow I'm off
the dude by to perform for a Princes.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, these are all things that happened to me
in my life.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So really what I'm doing is I'm reporting, or we
could call it journalism on a beat. As far as
the earlier records that if you heard, you know, there's
been evolution from Pitbull or mister three ZH five to
mister Worldwide. And if you listen to pit or you
listen to me back in the day, what I was
painting you was a picture of what my environment looked like,
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whether it was in the streets, whether it was in
the clubs, whether it was the vision and the goals
that we were setting at that time. So basically, my
creativity comes from my life. And do you have a
process for how you channel it? You got the idea,
how do you turn it into these major hits? So
a lot of artists, in general, people are very creative,
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sometimes tend to overthink. That's one of my number one rules.
Don't ever overthink. You can think ahead, but don't overthink.
And what I mean by it is when they start
to write a record, they're like.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, that's not the line.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh that's not this, or it's not that, And everybody
has a creative process. I'm not knocking it for me.
I just let it flow. So whatever the first line is,
I write it. And that first line may end up
at the end of the record, it may end up
in the middle of the record, it may not even
end up on the record at all, but at least
it opened the pipeline to creativity and allows it to flow.
So that's basically my number one rule when we're recording,
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as far as like, hey, whatever you feel, write it down,
and you just you just never know where that idea
take you. And when I've been around the best of
the best, what's funny is you could be having a
conversation and they'll go, that's the record, that's what we're
gonna do, and you go, man, I was just talking
to somebody. I'll give you an example. I was with
Pharrell Williams and we were knocking out a record and
he hears me having a conversation about somebody that was
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a very jealous person. And I was telling this person
on the phone. I said, oh no, double a goops,
A's episode. You don't need that in your life. That's
a very jealous person. You don't need an your life.
And Forrell turns to me and says, what's that that
word you just said? I said, Celoso. He goes, what
a seloso mean? I said, jealous? He said, that's a
name of the record. And we made a record together
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called Geloso. And it's about making you know, other people
jealous when you're in the club and someone's trying to
holler at you that maybe you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Either. Or you see how the idea came about.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I was I think it was at the iHeart Radio
Music Festival and I was backstage and you and Calvin
Harris got into this whole like collaboration thing, like on
the spur of the moment.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
How do you think about collaboration.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, collaboration to me is key, right, because there's nothing
like being able to tap into someone else's audience and
then tap into yours. It's the ultimate example how powerful
music is because music is the universal language.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Music unites, it doesn't divide.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And example, like speaking to a Calvin Harrison iHeart and
it was the first iHeart actually and we were in Vegas,
and thinks, by the way, I really appreciate it. They
come backstage and they tell me, oh, we're gonna need
you to close After Errol Smith, I said, oh, sh
so give me a little bit more voculate, let me
see what else I's doing.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
But no worry, we got this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But that's exactly with that story I just told you briefly,
that's exactly what collaboration is about. You can't be afraid,
you can't be scared, you can't be fearful. And a
lot of people don't collaborate with other artists or genres
or cultures or countries because they feel it'll hurt their
credibility or their path or journey in their career. And
I've always told people, if you ever worry about your credibilities,
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because you were never credible in the first place, And
that just shows us a sign of insecurity. Growing up
in a city like Miami, that's a melting pot, and
I've grown up around a lot of different cultures.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It got me ready to be able to collaborate.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
With anybody anywhere about anything, which has been key and monumental.
And it allows you to learn other cultures, which is
beautiful as well.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
You have a wildly passionate fan base. How do you
stay connected to that fan base day in and day out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
That we're living in a society where I feel that
the fake is celebrated, the real get hated.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's an instant gratification.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's not now, it's right now, now, now, right. So
I feel that the connection stays with the fans for
the simple factors that I try to be as honest
and real with them through the music, through our projects,
and through everything that we do for other things other
than music. But music has created that avenue and those opportunities.
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And the other thing is that I check in with
them every so often. I don't like the dilute or
saturate what the message may be, because if you hear
from me every day, every day, every day, then you're like,
I'm not trying to hear nothing from Pitt. But if
there's a message that is strategically placed every now and
then for things that we got going on, now, it's different.
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Now they're out there fighting for you, acknowledging you, being
I would say, empowered by you, motivated and inspired by you,
And that to me is priceless because at the end
of the day, when it comes to music, when it
comes to anything in life.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I'm a fan first.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I'm a person that acknowledges and really appreciate when someone
is knocking it out of the park and trying to
be at the top of the game. And bottom line
is that without the fans, there is no pit Bull,
no movement, no revolution, no way. We get a chance
to live our dreams every night on stage, which I
let them know that every night when we perform, because
it's just the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So radio, you've been a part of it for as
long as I've been around this company, been a major
presence on the radio. How do you use radio and
how do zip work in making your music and getting
it to the public.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, I mean, radio is something that's been a major
part of my career, but you have to again learn
how to utilize it. And as far as that is,
when you create an amazing partnership, which we have throughout
the years, in order to get a platform at that level,
to be able to give music to your fans or
to the world, you got to make sure that you
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can take advantage of that opportunity. So when you create
a partnership, well you know that I'm gonna when I
say I mean we, I mean us. I don't do
this by myself. As far as making records and performing
and things of that nature. Is quality over quantity. So
as as partners, you know, I'm gonna bring you quality
and you guys are gonna give me quality opportunities.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
So to me.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
When it comes to radio being as powerful as it is,
and it's been throughout the years, obviously times are changing
and things of that nature, but that's something that will
forever be with us.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's about partnership.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I feel more of math and magic right after this
quick break. Welcome back to math and magic. Let's hear
more from my conversation with Pitball.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Let's go back in time. Your Cuban roots very important
to you. You grew up in little Tavana, and can
you paint a picture of that time and place when
you were growing up? Give us give us the uh
the visual picture here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, First of all, I grew up on little Havanah's
one of my old neighborhoods, and back in Yohanna on
fifty fifth. I grew up all over Miami. Good neighborhoods,
bad neighborhoods, worse neighborhoods, ugly neighborhoods, you name. It built
a lot of character. But if we're going to talk
about little Havana on Fifth Ave and fifth Street, where
I was always at was a spot called Kayoto Coyotes
is like a main vein of Miami H Street, And
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at that time it looked like there was a parade
out every day because everybody was always out. And the
Mario boat lift had just hit in eighty eighty one
and I was living there eighty three eighty four, and
they still had this thing called Tense City where they
were living up under n ninety five and the Maria alitles.
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So a lot of Maria alitles were out in about
in Kyoto, which you know was a good thing, great thing,
and a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Let's call it a gift in the curve.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
A lot of them that came over were looking for
freedom and how to take advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
And you know what, how can I can put it
like this?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I grew up at an early age around entrepreneurs that
were just moving a different product. They were looking for
angel investors, venture capitalists. They were you know, seeding their
startup money. Let's just say round A round B, round C.
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Some became multi multi and exited, and some just exited.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
If you know what I mean, I do know what you.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
What lessons did you take from that that you used
today or have helped you build your career.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The lessons that I've learned growing up, I think the
number one lesson was what not to do?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
What I learned from those.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Individuals that I was around as a youngin And you
gotta understand, as a kid, your mind is a sponge.
You're picking up everything everything they dropping you picking it up.
So I would see the ones that would survive and
thrive because you know a lot of folks they were
just trying to make a better life for themselves. But
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the ones that didn't survive and thrive were the ones
that we call song a ladoso.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I mean a ladosa is.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Someone that's always showing off, speaks loud, a lot of jewelry,
fancy cars, always flashing money, and treating people disrespectfully. Those
are the guys I would look at it go definitely
don't ever want to be that. But the guys that
were around that every time they would come around, which
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I'm actually doing something with them now about their life
story and things of that nature. It's like time would stop,
and they treated everybody with respect. They were always funny,
They always, you know, were tipping and made sure that
people were taking care of And I always said, you know,
those are the kind of guys that would like to
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be like you know. So the music business in the
street business is very, very similar.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
It's just a different product.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
So in the streets there was cocaine, crack, heroin, obviously, weed, pills,
you name it. I dealt with all of that, meaning
I grew up around it. I saw the people that
got addicted to it. You can get addicted to it
doing it, or you can get addicted to it selling it.
It all depends on what lane you want to take, right.
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But I've never seen a drug as powerful and more
addicting than fame. So when I got into the music
business and I started to see what fame would do
to people, I said, wow. So those guys were dealing
with fame at a different level. That's why some of
them are not with us to this day. And when
I see certain artists deal with fame a certain way
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and the way that they treat people, I can tell
you time is taken.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
They're not going to be here that long with us.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So those are the things that I have captured, found
a way to learn from and again learn what not
to do well.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
One of the things you do is you help other people.
And one of the things that sort of fits in
here is you've started SLAM in Miami. It is a
charter school K through twelve tuition free. Tell us a
little bit about it, and then try how you bound
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it and got into it and why.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So SLAM Sports, Leadership, Arts and Management. It's a public
charter school. Ninety seven percent of those kids are on
free lunch. All of them come from the Indy City.
So we pull them out of Liberty City, Alapado, Wywood,
over Town, Little Havana, you name it. So they go
from DNS schools. Basically, Now SLAM is in a school.
It's been up for ten years. Now, why do I
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get into education? I didn't graduate high school. I went
to a lot of schools, over twenty of them, probably
twenty five. Never been in trouble maker, just always around
some trouble. But a teacher changed my life and ironically
when I was hopeless. Her name is Hope, Hope Martinez.
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Is her name Pedance Martina and all it took was
for her to turn to me and tell me I
believe in you. And when she did that, it changed
my life. It changed the trajectory of my life. So
I said, if I could do the same, And when
I again, when I say I mean we, I mean
ustis administration behind this principles teachers parents that believe in us,
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kids that believe in us, if we could help them
the same way that Hope Martinez helped me.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
And all you need is one. You know, Tupac has
a great line.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Tupac says, I'm not the one that's gonna change the world,
but I'm the one that's gonna spark the mind of
the one that's gonna change the world. And that, to me,
what Slam is all about. It's one of my neighborhoods
in Little Havana, Like we were speaking earlier, ten years.
In education, now we're up to twelve schools, ten thousand
kids across the nation. So we have them Tampa, Bolca,
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thank you. So we have Miami, Tampa, Boca, Palm Beach, Oceola, Atlanta.
I know we got approved in Alabama, that's crazy. We
just got one in Arizona. We have in San Antonio,
and we have in Nevada, in Las Vegas, right outside
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of Las Vegas and Henderson, so little by little it's growing.
It's you know what they say, well comes quickly quicker, which,
by the way, I learned that in the streets as well.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
So I made up a slogan called it's a slow
but a for show.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I think that education is the real revolution because
as much as we speak about all the problems that
there is in society in the world today, my mother's
always told me, son, don't worry. The world's always been
coming to an end. Don't let it scare you out
of living is the route. So the more we teach
on what life really looks like because slam, what makes
a difference is the curriculum.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
So we're able to teach these kids through sports.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So example, I don't know how many of y'all really
liked algebra. I didn't think so, So when I saw
numbers meet letters, I said, man, I must be in
the wrong class. But if you're taking algebraic equation and
xyz and x is they need six points? Why is
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they're at the thirty yard line and z is they
got thirty seconds? Now you create a different level of
engagement with these students, and you make education and learning exciting.
So that's the reason that I got involved with SLAM
because another neighborhood that I lived in the Miami called
wind Wood, which used to be the heroin Capitol, now
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is the art mecca of the world. She goes to
show you how shit changes. Yeah, from a negative to
a positive. Baby, that's right. And there's a big slogan
in Windwood which you say, don't talk about it, be
about it. So SLAM for me, for us and those
that have given me the opportunity to be able to
build schools. It's an ultimate way of not talking about
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it being about it.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
A couple of quick things. Pitball, where'd the name come prop?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The name pitbull came from a friend of mine, Dominican,
one of my best friends growing up, And we were
on the way actually to a pit bull fight, crazy,
you know, and I was looking for in them cee name.
I didn't have one yet. And when we were on
the way there, he's like, he's like, hey, you know what,
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I know your name?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I said, all right, what is it? Peobull? B Bull?
And I'm like pitbull said shit, that got a little
ring too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I like that pit all right, And then as I
researched the breed, there's a lot of stereotype behind them pitbull.
Pit Bulls were actually used to be you realize this, babysitters.
Then they became fighters. But what happened It's all about
you become a product of your environment. Right, So me personally,
I got a great heart, but my blood could turn
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cold real quick due to the environment that I was raised.
So being a pitbull in Miami, by the way, which
was illegal at the time. Pitbulls weren't allowed, so I
was the only legal pit with papers a lot in
Dave County. But they fight to the death, they're loyal,
they ride to the death, they bite, they lock, they
don't let go till they take care of business, and
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they don't understand what it is to lose. So I said, man,
I can definitely apply this to our mentality in music
and more than anything in life, because anything that you
are trying to accomplish in life, just know that if
it's easy, it's gonna go away fast. Remember what comes
quickly is quickly. But anything that you love, anything that
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you got passionate for, anything that you believe in you're
gonna have to fight for it. And the first thing
that they're going to tell you is you're crazy. Don't
through it. It'll never happen. It's impossible. You're fucking stupid
while you're trying that. Yeah, so I flipped it. I
mean you saw me talk about it. But it's the truth.
So I had to figure out ways to go. No, no, no,
they don't know what they're talking about. But I'm focused.
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By that means you're moving forward, move up, don't look back,
not even for a boost. Gotta stay focused. But in
the word can't, just can, and the word won't is one,
and the word don't just do, and the word impossible
is possible.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
And take it to the next level is put that
little possible in front of the eye. It's I'm possible.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And when you can rewire your brain like that, then
guess what anything is possible. So between the pit and me,
that's how we're wired. And that's why my name is
pit Bull.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And here you are as possible possible right here.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Wow. And then by bad, I gotta tell you this one.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So mister three oh five, by the way, came about
because we spoke about him earlier.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
From the mayor of Day County, Trick Daddy, because.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We were in the studio together and we figured out
we lived in a lot of the same neighborhoods, either
at different times or same times, just didn't run into
each other. And when I told them all the neighborhood
that I had lived in, he said, man, you like,
Mister three oh five said, bet that up.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Thank you very much. I'm taking that right there.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Appreciate it, so, Trick Daddy, TBD, I appreciate you, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
AI. We can't do a discussion we talking about AI. Hey,
it is a very hot topic in the music business.
How do you think about it?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's funny because I was having a conversation about artificial intelligence.
There's AI artificial intelligence, and then there's AI damundo intelligence.
What do I think about artificial intelligence? Just like I
think about any form of technology or any new platform.
As long as you utilize it and it doesn't use you,
then you're in the green. But they're going to have
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to get ahead of it the same way that social
media got in front of everybody, and we see what
it's done to society one way or another. There's things
that are positive about it, but there's a lot of
negatives to it. So what happens when you implement these
kind of platforms there's no rules, laws or regulations. Example,
in Florida, they just passed where you know, kids can't
get on social media till fourteen. I mean if it
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takes sixteen, it takes a kid to be sixteen years
old to be able to get his driver's license, eighteen
years old to be able to smoke, twenty one to
be able to drink, then there should be somehow, some
way barriers in place so that the youth understands the
power of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Right the same way that I think we kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Missed the ball with social media, we should utilize that
as an example going into artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
And it's the same thing. We look at traffic.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What I mean by it is you get on the road,
there's lanes, there's stop signs, there's stop.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Lights, there's exits, there's ways that it directs you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
But if everybody were running red lights, running stop signs,
everybody's running into each other. Now we see what social
media did to society to a certain extent. So with
artificial intelligence, obviously we know it's the next level I
feel that we're just gonna have to be real responsible
about it. Is it powerful? Can it be utilized to
help society? Yes, it can, But again I think that
they're going to they have to get in front of it,
(24:15):
which we're actually dealing with with certain companies about artificial intelligence.
But it's all for ways to prevent things. Again, utilize it,
don't let it use you. And with being involved with education,
we see what it does to students when they're not
properly aware or educated on how powerful that tool is.
(24:39):
So one time a friend of mine had a conversation
with a university and he asked the kids in university, so,
how many of y'all got tattoos? And let's say a
quarter of the room raised their hand, and he said, no, no,
all of y'all need to raise your hands. And they're like, oh,
what are you talking about? He said, because I'm sure
that all of y'all have a picture on the internet
(24:59):
right now as we speak, and that's a tattoo. It's
with you for life. So just imagine that with social media,
you can take it to deep fakes, you can do
real crazy things with it. So that to me is
the part that I look at it and go there's
gotta be rules, laws, regulations on creating that barrier.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Now. Musically, shit, we gotta protect ourselves.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I mean, somebody can give you a record that sounds
just like me right now, all I has to do
is talk to whatever platform they want to go on
and make that happen. Can it be utilized where a
producer sends it to me and I'm like, oh, I
see where you're taking it, and then we take it
to the next level.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, it can be.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
But do we need to find ways to protect that absolutely,
whether it be from music side or entertainment as a whole.
And even the politicians they need to watch out. I
always say politics. I call it politrics where AI is
about to become poly tricky about out there.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Rmando, you inspire us with your music and your life.
Thanks for ring with us today and sharing your insights.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
It's truly my pleasure it Snana. I appreciate you all
for having me. Thank you, Pitman, Pitbull, and Pitman.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Here are a few things I picked up in my
conversation with pit Bull. One draw from your life, from
putting his real experiences into lyrics to starting slam charter schools.
Pitbull has built a career steeped in his own personal history.
He's proof that you don't have to look far when
seeking inspiration, whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, or both.
(26:41):
Pursue projects that feel true to yourself to create something
meaningful and authentic. Two, don't overthink it. Let your ideas
flow without giving it too much thought. Pit Bull says
he writes down the first lines that come into his head,
whether or not they make the final cut. It's valuable
to experiment with your idea because you never know where
(27:01):
they'll take you. Three. Utilize your platforms. Pit Bull has
been on the radio for his entire career and knows
how to leverage its springs to help his career. These days,
there are new platforms popping up every day. Pitbull still
looks out for new tools and technologies like AI and
tries to understand them so he can be in control
(27:22):
of it, creating quality products that he can use to
his advantage. I'm Bob Pittman, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's it for today's episode. Thanks so much for listening
to Math and Magic, a production of iHeart Podcasts. The
show is hosted by Bob Pittman. Special thank to Sydney
Rosenbloom for booking and wrangling our wonderful talent, which is
no small feat. Mathemagic's producers are Emily Meronoff and Jessica Crimechitch.
It is mixed and mastered by Baheed Fraser. Our executive
(27:57):
producers are Nikki Etoor and Ali Perry, and of course,
of big thanks to Gail Raoul, Eric Angel Noel and
everyone who helped bring this show to your ears. Until
next time,
Host
Bob Pittman
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