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September 25, 2025 36 mins

In this episode, Latin hitmaker Justin Quiles serves up a deep and personal conversation that goes way beyond the music. The Puerto Rican star opens up about fatherhood, connecting with Thailand through his partner’s roots, and why his bond with songwriter Elena Rose has been so special.

King of the Collabs, Quiles breaks down his upcoming joint album with Lenny Tavárez (yes, expect some Afro-Beats!), and shares why he has the utmost respect for Tego Calderón, who showed him love early in his career.

He clears up why people often confuse him for a Colombian (spoiler: he’s a proud Boricua 🇵🇷), explains how Colombia and Venezuela first embraced his music, and reveals why Spain will always have his heart.

We also dive into his roots in Aguadilla, PR:  from cleaning the house on weekends while Mami blasted music, to growing up by the ocean and carrying that love with him today. Plus, how he manages to stay fit even while being a self-proclaimed foodie. 🌊🍴💪

Tap in for laughs, stories, and plenty of gems from one of the most versatile voices in Latin music.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Grass Come Again a podcast by Honey German.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to another episode of Glasses Come Again. Tonight, we're
sitting down with Jake Gis.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey my, mommy, man, I'm gonna talk to me.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Give me that. I love that. I love that. I'm
a sucker for so you know.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Cloud. Okay, see, oh yeah, happy, I'm content to New
York City. I love New York City. I love the city.
I love my hands.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Especially how did it feel walking in the ring when
you were coming here and started pouring on you?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Right, I started pouring on How did it feel? It
just I mean, a regular day in New York. You know,
you never know what the hell's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It was nice and then all of a sudden I
look at the window and it's pitch black, and I
got the weather advisory. I'm like, say, holl youo justin.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, And it was three blocks we have to walk
three blocks. But thank god when we when we came down,
when we stepped out the car, it was it wasn't
raining that bad. It was like, oh, we're not.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
That shout out your manager he out here driving his big.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Shot out.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
About how are you feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm good?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
How's fatherhood treating you.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean, I'm happy, man, I know I got you know,
I love that I got a special family. You know, amazing,
you know for me is motherhood.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You know, was that about your mom or was that
about your daughter's mother?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I think more about my daughter's mother. But because you
witnessed it, because I was an adult, I mean, I
you know, it's it's hard, man, it's a hard job. Quick.
But I was like, how does she know the baby

(01:53):
she's she's turning to on Tuesday? Terrible Tuesdays, Terrible Toues
is here, and I got another one in the way.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Congratulations, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
That is dadd is. Girls, you're going to what was Kobe?
What did they call him?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
A girl dad?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
A girl dad? That's me. I don't know that that's
gonna be Candell Ma complained and I have a whole
day here now now you forget it.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Elena Rose, how dope is that song? I feel like
every female in my life loves that song.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love that record. I think it's super like. You know,
Elena Rose is a great songwriter. You know. J Kils
is another great songwriter. You're up here when it comes
to songwriting. Okay, yeah, I write a lot of big records.
So we got together Sally Mala. We had a conversation
about relationships and a little bit of everything. She was
in a relationship on a relationship, and I was like,

(02:49):
we just talked about it and the song came out organically,
like you know, that's how everything came about in the conversation.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
So no, that's that's definitely a dope track. Now, speaking
of what's the track you're most proud of? You like
your rome be like beyond with this song. If someone's
listening and they don't know your whole catalog, you know,
you know.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that record.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Went to I feel like you're the king of the collapse.
Like how many collab records do you have?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Bro like a hundred, like a lot of yank That
was a good record. Then that that record is the record. Yeah,
I have a lot to avengeers. We did a lot
of records to A and C, C, he concet nothers.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, sorry, said.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
We got we got I was a hair record. We
got to bow you that that was a hair record.
We have is lonely, we have Angel d s.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Fix was not broken right exactly, like let's give him more.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
We give them more. And I think we're gonna drop
one soon album on the way, the Goo album called Learning,
okay learning that the album Angel Learning said called anything

(04:58):
called Lenny. We have a lot of and now we
got an album Collapse. We have a lot of big
features on the album. I think this album is gonna
be do I love this album. We got nasty, you know,
we get nasty to we combined. I think we got

(05:24):
we got a good combination. You know.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I love how Latinos like we're you know, we're branching
out into affrobeats like that.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's just so it just makes sense for us. Yeah,
it makes sense. I feel like, you know, I feel
like it feels natural for us because we got that tropical.
It feels tropical to me, you know, it feels like
tropical music. So obviously you want to collapse. We have

(05:54):
a great collapse when that drops out. I know you
like you love creating music in Colombia. Most persona to
the Columbia come because you know Columbiana.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm like, no, no, how do you think that happened?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think because prim Conner and Colombia. Okay, Okay, Okay,
this is the Orlando, you know, the Torigos and Tons
and saw Kyo and the Colombia. Okay, Colombia A prince
cared a lot of Columbia. Now at my Colombiael Primer,

(06:44):
Colombia azuela and Colombia for prim you know, and says
Colombia aulad American and Pacific. Yeah, then multiple column those
hours and twenty three days out there.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
You have fandom for you to be able to do
a bad bunny and obviously they really loved you there.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, they love me out there. Get you know. You know,
I've been been going to Spain for like ten years,
like almost every year, touring, and they don't get tired
of me. I'm like, that's when you know the fans
are real. Were gonna get tired of me? I come
every year You're.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like, we're still selling tickets.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
What's this? I'm like, I'm tired of myself. Man. They
really have embraced you all.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's surprising because you see the morest like more like
a little buttoned up you know, my you Knowzufino.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
They get down there, they get down and there they're like.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know what scan Yeah, she said, she parties and
she said, and yeah, crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Spain is crazy. The party is crazy healthy. I would
have never imagined that beautiful. You know, there's I don't
know how to explain. It's like Europe is beautiful, but Spain,
Spain got my heart to like. Party over there is crazy.
Like there's a lot of especially Madrid, Barcelona, those big cities,
but any city got party, they party hard. But that

(08:34):
we have that we don't know come from Spain because
we were like Puerto Rico Dominica Republic was colonized by
by Spain back in the days, so we got a
lot of some day I don't know how wrong like
you know, we love to wrong, I love to and

(08:56):
they are they wrong? Can't get there you like no, no,
you're not body as a as a Yeah, now you
love the ocean? Is that you think my thing to
Instagram and common min can't have a connection with the water.

(09:21):
Know your your crash bow and you crash boawt. You
know that's the best beach the Cantes now, ma, you
know it really was a dope beach. Cantos apply, so
that apply trail your go here, your your boogie bo

(09:59):
boards boogy boo yah boo. I'm even can. I'm like,
yeah you.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Reporto no disrespected some one. But I'm like you put on.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
I was like, director, fly directly. I don't fly to
jem you go at the.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Know they don't check normal.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Clip. You'll be.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, no one airport.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I was like, yo, I like this, I've never been there.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
You know what it is. I've been going to York too.
They got direct flights. I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I definitely gotta go back because I was one. But
then my friend was like, now we gotta go, and
I was like, yo, this ship is lip right here.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I was like, I really like it. I was like,
you gotta go through the whole coast, like in all
that ship is fly like.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I was like, i gott talk to him about the
ocean because I'm an ocean person.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I love the ocean.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
When you go into the ocean, you just feel so different,
right Like it's just like you can be alone with
your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
You could be inspired just looking at the water, listening
to the sound. It's crazy live in Miami. It's healing
to like you feel very healing, like when you're with
the water, Like like you said, you could just sit
down and listen to the water doesn't wow right, know

(11:39):
you da co.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Co legs in the flank.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know Pana the Yallo, you know the adrio, the
adio think mana gym or Jim the gym in Korea,
the quatras in koreas my dog my gym gym. Are

(12:35):
you what's mostly waights? Mostly mostly waights? Or if we
call learning len and the auditor boy apps you know
moo like abdominal peste you you're more like Bucky. Yeah,
go to my phone, my pa comodot, could you fred.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
That I know part.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Again? You said that the lol.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Barrios some and you looking pel p.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Cant I know my goola because like me and Canta
comdo you look like and super Malclo whoever the Miami

(13:48):
Miami super malcal Branco we said Memo Beja. I was like,
is the lid and I have you love.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
And have.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Even Thailand.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Beautiful, the beaches, the beaches and no disrespect atom.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
No no no no no players with Linda, but you
gotta be realit And I play Land. I was like,
I love you went to pp Island. Clara's crazy you

(14:40):
remember and allow you feel like you're in Tehu mont Canoe.
You're like what and Clarie mon what you like not
poto b b I canto then photo mon int yeah

(15:04):
yeah yeah yo, all my trip. Oh bro, that flight
is insane. Ship is brutal, brutal, brutal brutal. Yea, Now
I need a jet lag or jetlag. You don't know
real jet lagging. So you go to Asia. It's crazy.

(15:25):
It's like sixteen hours different, so cracked out, bro yo,
no like no, three am. We're like, yo, We're like,
what the hell? Try I see you? I know I

(15:53):
want to keep visiting Asia. My my, my, your name
we have on you have you have? If they love
our culture, I love them. I love Japanese food. Yeah,
so that's why you again New York gonna eat all
the great Japanese places they got. Oay, New York is

(16:14):
the mecca food, like of everything. I love New York.
You're gonna just say food is so.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Remember we gotta go.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Today to Korean Korean barbecue that I saw that's crazy
and they go wild there in New York with the food,
Indian food, everything like come.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Like I love you, I love you because it's like meto.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right now. There was.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay that will probably go super viral. CoA to a comment.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Like I think, mommy, he's like London.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
How proud is she of you?

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Man? Is someone going to get that right now?

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Before we was talking to her right now water start
and now she's happy. She's kella to mammy. You know
JOm and many and mana bar some of my song.

(17:46):
You know, you know single. My mom was a single
mom to the purong. They don't make them like.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
That, no more.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
They don't make them.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
They really don't. They would come to another country. I
speak the language for kids and make it work.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, they'll do anything. I remember, Mam will grab all
three of us, defeasing. No, no, why mine not mine? Not?
The prey is nanny because it does it was and
puto mano creole yasola. Who's so it's hard. I believe

(18:28):
it's hard for it. Definitely that you're in New York
right now. We had the v m A tomorrow, mamtell
cantando no single balbing zoomzoom. I like, yeah, classic classic.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
I was watching the video. I was bugging out.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Like the male flow two thousand y.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And I said, way, hold on, this is why two kay,
because like somebody had a spinner.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Piece on us. I remember the spinner piece the day
I said, maybe I'm bugging.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was like, maybe it's not the video to the song,
but it's super dope.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you again, New
York recorded, I hear New York. Yeah. Yeah, we won
Super Retro with a two thousands flow two thousand down
called like a Polo Spain the Comet. I'm talking, you know,

(19:33):
I'm talking like you know, I'm I don't know what,

(19:54):
you know. It's great. I feel like we see you know,
there's still so sometimes sometimes I want.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I don't see them. They are pioneers. But when I
talk about the pioneers, it's like, nah, they're still here.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
They still here. Yeah, and they still making head records
all the time, you know, so oh no, that's that's
a fact. Yeah, they still got it.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
So I want to be so much more visible than
he is.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
He he I just think he doesn't want it. He
doesn't want it. He's just he's just ready out and
he's just enjoying his life. I mean, I don't blame him.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
I don't blame him either, but you know what it is,
it is like we miss him though we do he's
so special. Like to me, it was what they got
brought was just so different because it was his look
was different, it was non conventional, and then his sound
and his voice, it was just like we have we
never saw anything like that before. And then he went away.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I hate it quick, too quick, right for real.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
He did a song last year and I was so hype.
I was like, yo, he looked good and I was like,
is lit? And then it was like bye, just one
he just one off.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
He said, that's it. That's going to be a that'll
be crazy. I'm like, that's going to be real special.
I need that they go there go, there goes something
special sale one of like what two three years when

(21:37):
he's singing live in Miami, two three years al handed
complet I'm talking and well by Bonnie we Queensali Yo?
Who else was there? Kill el Mundo Yellow? It was
crazy little and it was it was a special night.

(22:02):
I think that was the last time he performed, like
three years ago. We're gonna figure something you don't want,
you know. I think he don't want to. He doesn't care.
He don't care about the money. He don't care about that.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
And it's just now you could tell you know, but
it's just we love him. Yeah, you know we can
close it at that.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Now I got I got you think special story with
when I met him. Mm hmmer. I did a couple
of shows with him together, like we did like four
shows together with you talk. So I'm waiting at the

(22:42):
Hallway and Trage and everybody, and he said, Yo, con
Michel Brass, my Camarinore, mom Coon, super humble cousin, will

(23:13):
be the Prince on Temple soon and sound check again,
New York Is on sound check and Tamini on the
soundcheck and super Coolie Pep was always okay pa or
my bang and my hallo, my bang, serving you drinks,

(23:37):
serving me drinks are.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
And you know, it's dope that you get to say
a story that you know that's so positive, you know
what I'm saying. And I'm not surprised because you know
that's the vibe he gives.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Off a super super organic tebo.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Look at that out of all people that I could
have brought up, you know what I'm saying. Come on, Aldio,
you were with Aladio on.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Stage, yeah don't you. Yeah, we were singing.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Your C C C, So I like you on that
so I like that record, like when you switch up
your flow and make it more urban ingredient rap, Like
I don't know why I like you like that. I
love you as a singer too, But when you get
into that flow, I was like, my.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I switched it up. No you definitely yeah, yeah, it's
gonna Comelio on form Tech and j Will like it
was good. It was crazy out here last night in
New York because that four concerts. Yeah, no annual Belo

(25:00):
a well and US open VM A weekend Yeah, v
M A weekend.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
New York is like no other I'm sorry, man. I
love Miami, I love Dominican Republic. Those are my two
alternate places. But here it just feels like real ship.
Yeah yeah, no, I love that one passion week.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
When I got in the store. You picked a good
week to come down. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, puzzle,
but we narrowed down. Enough is enough.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
She's like, what about.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Have don't play? I have and I have my Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Now, when it comes to New School, it's weird because
it's like a lot of people like to be like.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I can't do a like, who are your artists that
you really c bl bl Yankee, your your ring all

(26:58):
the ant and you still take from your course and
you're like Vardo Bardo music andant and like tom d
everybody don't ch in can not for sure? Blue print, Yeah,

(27:18):
the blue print, Jo know your music Roan.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And my number one cross.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Johnny Rivera Le Johnny Rivera monster. Oh h went m
Canta for sure when it's crazy called Porto and Don

(28:11):
Domino and Domingo po mam sac Ma Olympia, Mama, she
didn't care, she.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Didn't give ye. Prendia is Brenda and purpose on Monday
through Friday.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
You know, so.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
P and I hated the ban. I hated the ban because.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
My medl Manuel Toyle.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
I'm like mom, no metal.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Man, but like you know, wanted of course, I know
my Dominican o course not the word.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I want that limp.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
You know, I want.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Jandolet. But you know what, it's never heard that absolutely,
you know, but it made me I'm not afraid of nothing.
Seven years old, was cleaning the toilet bowl with my hand.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
You're definitely not a jam freak.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Oh absolutely absolutely, but then go one day, one day, okay.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Drama, drama, let's just live it in the bag man,
big shout out you know to all the Latinas and
all the latin you know that are still passing down
the traditions you.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Know that we grew up on. Yeah, you know me, Mamira,
like Mamma, super Triata should be like what can I think?
Control Goesu and like oh fuck, I know your oly
I know you, yeah, Paul and yeah so yeah, Sparles,

(30:25):
I'm like that, you know yeah, and you know and
being fol couldn't be soft, you know, giving up what
the America handle Ma reakil Co One True Story and

(30:55):
Mano and yeah they re Manola and yes it's made
you put your from p's know just no and that

(31:31):
man your name and Petty and from Piano until now

(32:01):
our tour?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Are we getting a tour from you when we had
the new album or with the.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Album that we're dropping, we're planning on the tour. Yeah,
not planning on tour. No no, no, no, no called learning.
Look you're learning. Are you gonna tour together? Yeah, we're
going to tour together. Yeah. I like that sole to
album man single I Love twenty twenty five it was

(32:36):
a good year for felt good. Yeah, yeah, I feel good.
Everything's getting on line. Everything at what do you feel
was your biggest accomplishment so far?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
And I know we have three months left still, but
there's gotta be one stand up moment that you're like, Bro,
that was big.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think you're gonna get Tomorrow is gonna be a
big day. M A no love, no le is going
to be a big day. It was our first time singing,
and you know American awards awards, No no, no I
sing and awards but America yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
And and m t v B. That's a huge stage.

(33:18):
Not congratulations to you man that that that's super big. Yeah.
I think tomorrow is going to be a big day
for us. I'm gonna be watching you. Yeah, yeah, I'll
be watching.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeahn't pick up you know town yet know where we are?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
It was you don't sneakers? You know what? I know
you look like? Also delivery on delivery and a troop.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
No no.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Pick up Yelino no yo want to say mm hm.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's the street that they put in all the videos,
like all of them, both videos. If you would have
been to Guarico, you would remember no no it so
who that next level You'll be like, I remember I
almost lost my life.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
No I've been to Malola Guardentio, but not for sure.
Pick up, pick up. This is an you so good

(34:53):
you real food, Yeah, real food. I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Thank you so much for sitting down with me today. Man,
Thanks every and you've done.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
The collab king, the collapse king, that's my word. I'm like, bro,
how many collaps does this?

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Man? But I have a lot of records by myself to.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I like, that's my sister's song, my sister, every time
I wear jeans my sister. But you're not say that.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
That was a big record if.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
You do have a lot of dope, but when you
look at your photography, bro, it's just not but it's dope,
you know, dope tracks. Thanks for everything you've done, and
you know, thanks everything you've done for the culture.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Tomorrow kill it, good luck now album. I'm going to
be looking out for it.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Oh yeah, gave me.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
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