December 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Step into this powerful, cultural deep dive with Word Life, the Bronx-born Puerto Rican creator behind the viral tagline “Facts is Facts.” Known for his straight-to-camera truth telling, WordLife has become one of the most trusted voices educating the world on Puerto Rico its history, culture, food, music, politics and the real issues the island faces.
Before the viral moments and millions of views, he was a New York rapper grinding in the music scene. Now he’s fully committed to storytelling that uplifts his people. In this episode, we get into his journey before content creation, his transition out of music, and what it means to be a Latino in hip hop.
We also unpack the biggest misconceptions about Puerto Rico, highlight the major contributions Boricuas have made across entertainment, and dive into the current events he often breaks down online. One powerful point he breaks down is why Latinos must start buying homes in their ancestral countries, the same way tourists are doing in his native Puerto Rico.
And because they both love the sport, they end with a fun segment on Puerto Rican boxing legends Honey names Tito Trinidad, Hector Camacho, Miguel Cotto, Edgar Berlanga & Amanda Serrano and he hits back with the perfect one-word descriptions.
This episode is informative, educational, funny, and a full celebration of Puerto Rico and the Bronx. BX to the island, this one’s for y’all.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Gray Come Again a podcast by Honey German. Welcome to
another episode of Grasses Come Again. Today, we're going to
be educating the public. We're gonna be talking culture, We're
gonna be talking history, we're gonna be talking issues.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're gonna be talking to me.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome, my guy. Word life is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thanks Socie, Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you having me.
Thank you for the opportunity. I got to give your
flowers too, for creating a dough platform for like the
news to have a voice. So you know, I appreciate you.
Thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm so happy you're here because the way you talk
and the way you put on for your people, that's
what I want to do through this show. So I
was like, nah, we've got to sit down, we've got
to talk.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know. They I appreciate it you as soon as
they you know, I saw the email, I said, oh yeah,
I definitely want to do that. You know, I talk
picking truth sometimes I'm like, you definitely want to do
that one, and you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Know, it's just it's for us. I created it for us.
So a lot of people are just like, I've got
to do.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It for sure, because.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know what I'm saying. It's just like you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Got to help the community. Everybody is doing they things,
especially us. We gotta we gotta put put on for each.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Other, exactly when it comes to music, when it comes
to movies, whatever it comes to it's like, Yo, if
they're creating something for us, let's consume it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's why I said, you know, people have to ask
me all the time, like why do you even talk
about Puerto Rico? Why don't talk about others? I'll say, Yo,
this is a platform that's for us, you know. I
take it from the footble for us, by us. You know,
I talk about what I'm saying on too, So it's
kind of like built for that, you know, if you
want to learn about the culture and all that coming
to my platform.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Your rapper, I was stuck on your music talk. What
are you focused on now? Mostly being a content creator,
being an influencer? What do you title yourself right now
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Five, I'm telling myself world life. I mean, I don't
know because everyone calls me different things. Yo, you app
what influence of me?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm just your creator.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A creator, I guess you could say, and all this overall,
you know what I mean, And I do a lot
of different things. Do merge, I design. I also do
all the graphics that you see on my videos. I
do all that stuff, you know what I mean. So
you know, I work with a production crew. But all
the other stuff that I don't want to the videos
and all that, I do all that. So you know,
I'm a little bit of everything I gainst an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's because you're a perfectionist. That's why. That's why you
do that yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I ould think a lot of things too, So I
go in there and make sure this is how I
need it to be. And I wanted to look a
certain way, you know, so I took sound's familiar.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How I know.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What do people get at you like, just let it go?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Just let go, especially talk to my my you know,
my team, Like yo, you just let it. It's all right, bro,
And like, no, it's not like I need it's that
one little thing I need to change. He's like, bro, no,
one's don't even notice. I said, yeah, you will. We
know I'm gonna notice. It's gonna get gonna be tight.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can we talk about the fact that when you're the
face of a brand or a product or a platform.
It's different.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's way different. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta just really
put on and make sure everything is polished.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I guess you could say nobody knows who video is,
nobody knows who audio is, nobody knows graphic designer is,
but they know who you are.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So that's why it's important. I
think it's important to me and my brand to tell
everybody was That's why I said, I pick and choose
what I want to do because not everybody's you know,
aligned with you know, the quality I want to bring
and delivered to the people. So I think that's you
know what.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It is, and I respect that because I live by that.
It's my name. People like it's fine. I'm like, no,
it's not fine. They're seeing Honey German, they're not seeing you. Yeah,
who's in the background doing things? You know what I'm saying,
you want me to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't want to take the you don't want to
take the head exactly like word.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So she didn't see that. Even when when we use
you know, software to cut clips, I'm like, fix that name,
fix that type. Like who cares? I see typos all
the time, but I don't want to type.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't want it to be a represented showing what
I'm worth. You know, I'm worth a little more on
my values. It is important.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It gets me because it's a daily thing for me.
As far as like coloring video clip clips, I'd be like,
the audio that sounds low, can we raise that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They're like, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Sometimes I did. I did turn of that interview last
week and in the background, you know, you can kind
of hear a little they were.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Talking people there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You had a lot of people in the background.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
At the interview. Was just like, okay, it was his
wife and my team, you know, two guys on my team,
and you can kind of hear him in the background,
and I'm mad. I'm talking like, yo, why are you
talking in the back? Nobody's gonna I noticed, And.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It messes with you when you're that type of person.
It's like you hear and you're like, wow, somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Was talking, for sure, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And sometimes a mad stays in the room and then
he starts eating over there, and I'm like, I'm going
to murder this guy.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
In the studio I shoot where I filmed the clips
of the same thing. You know, I need everything to
be on a certain way, and I got to be
on point. And if you're in the background doing something
or just making a move or something, it's going to
distract me. So I need to be on point.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Distracting is that, especially when you're creating, or you're interviewing,
or you're just in your zone and people think it's
okay to start throwing things and start I tell.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
People, you got I lock in, Like I don't know
about everybody. I lock in. So if you like this interview,
I've been locked in. I've been looking at all year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm just it's me and you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Paying attention, you know what I mean. And I want
to be on point when I show up. So if
I'm not on point then and if something is bothering
me or it's distracting, it takes away from all of that.
It takes away from what I could deliver, you know
what I mean. So I just it's very distracting. It's annoying,
like just relying. Let me get this out the way.
It take an hour thirty minutes and we're good. We
can do whatever you want after that. You know them
chips you want. After that, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
To make I'm going to tell you after we're done,
he'll he'll eat cookies and stuff and drink soda while you,
me and you are discussing things I'm like.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And being the poort things right, you couldn't wait.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But but you know what, God tells me everything I
need to know about why your content is so great,
why it's being shared so much, and why it just hits.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I think I tell people were telling they ask me,
like yo, because I'm not the only one that does
this type of content, you know. I mean, there's a
lot of people that do their style of I call
it the dy style, like you know, to do yourself
style where they do the cell phone And I actually
pay a production student here on company that I put
money into this, you know, invest into myself and my
brand and and what I deliver. So I think it's
the point. I don't think it's just me per se
(06:00):
or the stuff I talk about. I think it's all
of it as a package, the quality that's being delivered
and everything else involved. So I just, you know, I
just it's part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're holding everything to a standard, which which is what
I'm talking about. You know, you make sure your audio
is good you make sure your video is good quality,
the color, and you know, a lot of people don't
really lock in that way, like you know, they put
out you know, and they're not consistent. Also, yeah, how
many times a week do you post? Once a week
but you only pick like the best clip, No, I post.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Some It's kind of like, you know, I have a
kind of a schedule more or less that I have.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'll shoot like a content calendar.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I'll shoot certain amount of clips in one session
and then I'll have them stacked for you know. I
try to drop once a week, you know, maybe Mondays
or Fridays or something like. I just try to drop
once once a week, and and our time it out
depending on what's going on in the world. And there's
something that jumps all of that stuff that I'm talking about,
like the bad Bunny situation that happened, and I jumped
on that a side. I went to just shoot that
clip and dropped it the next morning, like I need to.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I need to get to a studio.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I need to do something quick, you know, I get
it done now. And it's actually my mam producer who
called mes like, yo, you need to. I didn't even
know about it like it just happened, and he called
me like, yo, you need to be in the studio.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like the next when he was announced us to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So when the yeah, and I found in the kickback
that everybody gave, you know, the response that it brought,
like literally the next day I went to shoot when
they announced it. By that night it was enough feedback
people negative feedback that I was like, yeah, I got
to talk about you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You need to talk about it because I might not.
You know what, We're not going to let this go
out like that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's the port Yeah, because if they control the narrative,
if they want, you know, and they could you know,
the headlines to these blogs and all that, they control
a lot of stuff. So it's like, okay, let me
make sure, let me do my part as far as
you know, who's tuning into my my community. Let me
put something out there for them to understand, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So, and that's dope, and I respect it because you know,
if we don't do our part with everything that's happening
right now, we're going to just be painted in a
light that you know, it's not real.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I think, you know, the Latinos struggles in the voice
here in the United States goes on her sometimes and
I feel like, you know, we got to do our
part that. You know, I have a platform now that
if you ask me to years ago, would I be
missed a factis Puerto Rico guy on Instagram? Like hell on?
I would have been. I would have looked to you
crazy like you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Doing ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was a rival, I was, I was on tours,
I was torn with a lot of major artists. I
was in Dallas actually, and I had dropped the record
that we were living in Dallas. Yeah, I went. I
went to visit my mom's and I was dead and
I got in a little bit of trouble out there,
so I had to stay there for a little bit.
And throughout that time it changed my whole life because
I dropped the record that went crazy regionally over there,
and I just started torn. I started getting booked for
a lot of shows down there, and I met the
(08:30):
production crew that I'm working with now. I met them
during that time too. So you know, I've just been
I was everywhere, but you know it was cool. Where
were you born in the Bronx?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, so you're a Bronx Kid parents both perto.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yea, Yeah, my dad was born and raised here in
New York, but my mom was from Carolina.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So mom is from the island. Dad is of what
he got from New York.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, New York.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And for sure that's what's up now as far as
like you connecting to Puerto Rico the way that you
are connecting at do you study it? How do you
spit all these facts?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
My whole life has been about like I tell people
don't believe it, but it's like I've actually went like
paid attention to my culture and all of that, you
know what I mean. Like I've paid attention to a
lot of stuff growing up and stuff that I've you know,
experienced when I was in Cattolina with visiting my mom's
or visiting whoever.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Have you lived in Puerto Rico at any point you
justto Rico? How you get to the bottom of how
you learned or this quarter was there?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then you know, I just know a lot of stuff.
And then the book War Against All Puerto Ricans came
out in twenty fifteen, and when I read that, I
was like, dang, there's a lot of stuff that I
didn't know, like this stuff that's from the history that
I didn't know, and to understand where we're headed. We
got to understand and where we're at now, we understand
what happened and what got us here. So I was like, oh,
let me you know, I started going through the what
is it called the rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, So I started going all that and I was like, wow,
it's just so crazy. And then the first clip that
I did wasn't even about none of that, was about
like Bad Bunny and the music industry, about how Latinos
have taken over the music industry. And there's a clip
that went crazy, and it went crazy in a negative
way because a lot of other cultures and communities and
people were like, yo, you you're being racist. You're talking
about you know, because I kind of compared it to
(10:08):
how where they get thrown and Bad Bundy artists like
him are streaming in the beings compared to rappers. You know,
I named a few that are streaming in the means.
I said, it's a big difference because you've got different
cultures surrounded and supporting it. And you know, and when
negative people saying I'm being racist and all that, and
then the next clip I dropped was about the about
the Puerto Rican flags, the four Puerto Rican flags, and
(10:30):
that one super crazy and I was just like, yo,
this okay in a good way, you know. And I said, okay,
now I know a little purpose. I got a little
purpose now, you know, so let me let me see
how it goes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And just what year was this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
A year and two years ago?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, I'm brand new to this influencer world. I
don't even know, Like, I'm not even know what's going on.
That's why you asked me what all your man? I
don't know. God, it ain't work late, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I'm like, what do you want us to call you? Not?
What you're doing out here is super dope. I love it.
I respect it, and I'll never question why you're only
doing Puerto Ricans because you know what, it's a tanta.
Those are your people, that's what you know. And I
tell people all the time, what we know is what's
going to come off most authentic for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, And I love Puerto Rico and everything about it,
I say, yah, And the fact that I'm here and
spreading and teaching, educating people that all Puerto Ricans that
didn't notice either. It's like, just to me, it's just
a humbling and I'm grateful for you know what I mean.
I'm just thankful for the community I built, the platform
I god, and I'm just you know, people like you
who invite me to come and talk, you know what
I mean or whatever. So I'm just thankful.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What do you think is the biggest misconception about Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The biggest misconception, in my opinion, is you got to
be a certain way, like they act like you Puerto
Ricans a certain look or a certain sound or a
certain thing. But you know, Puerto Ricans come from everywhere
at this point. You know, they migrated a long time ago,
not necessarily migrated, They went and looked for a better
opportunity a long time ago. We can't control where we're born.
But you know, it's it's a little bit of everything.
You know, we're a little bit of everybody. You see
(11:55):
dark skinned Puerto Rican, you see light skinned Puerto Ricans.
You see people that look like me Puerto Rican. You'll
see people that was weighing, you know, that look like
just straight Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You know, it's kind of like, you know, I guess
all of us have that, you know, because you know,
you have the Black Colombians, same way you have the
black Dominicans. So it's like when it comes to Latinos,
we're such a mixture of different humans that it's just
like we can come in any shape or form.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
We walk and we you know, we come from You know,
if you look at the DNA, we got three different cultures.
It's dead, you know what I mean. It's it's not
just going to say Puerto Rico. It's a little bit
of everything right now.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So give me a breakdown, can you right now on
the spot about Puerto Ricans. You know your makeup, how
Puerto Ricans came to be? You know what do you
what do you? What is your DNA composition?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, I'm indigenous. It says indigenous. I think it's I
forgot like small percentage large, We got a large so
your yeah, of course we got small. We got the
small indigenous in there, and then we got the Spain
or Spaniard, the European sign, and we also got the Africans,
you know, our blood line because they all came from
the island as slaves and all that, so we got
(12:58):
a little mix of all that. You know, if you
look a picture of my great great grandma, she's dark
like you know, like dark like my jeans, and then
you see the rest of us with light skined, you
know what I mean. So that's it's yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Have you studied your lineage? I feel like that's something
you would have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeahah, yeah, I'm still I'm still learning. I'm still gone.
I'm talking to my dad, my grandma asking I'm with
my Grandmo the Bronx earlier and I'm asking the mad
questions about different things.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Are you taping it now?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You know? I do a lot of notes, and I
write down a lot of you look, you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Want that, you want this, you know, especially with grandparents
like I wish I would have interviewed my grandma.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I didn't even think about that, telling me you should like.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And you know, because you know, one day they won't
be with us any longer, when they get older, and
then you can hear their voice, like with my mom.
Like my mom right now, she's going through some health
struggles and I'm like, I need to sit down with her.
I want her to tell me everything her childhood in
Dominican Republic, you know, through her migration to America, because
one day she's not gonna be here anymore. You know what,
I can play it and I can listen.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She's my last the one here in the brunch, She's
my last grandma here. So I'm like, I got to
learn everything from her, you know what i mean, So everything,
I need to know everything. I'm looking at pictures from
when she was a baby, and I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's so crazy. We we become so thirsty for information
about our roots, right.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Uh yeah once. I mean, I think it's for me,
it's the old I got. It was more. I was
more interesting, you know, because as a young I was
torn doing a lot of stuff in the music industry
that I was just like not necessarily paying attention, but
it was always in me, Like it's always if you
talk to anybody that knows me growing up and all like, yo,
he's he's always represented Puerto Rico. He loves Puerto Rico.
So I think the old I guy is when I
realized that you look somethingmn young.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You keep talking about ten years ago I was rapping
and I'm like, how old is this me?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You know? You know I put out there like that,
but you know I'm young. Yeah, yeah, I'm young, you
know what I'm saying. I ain't up there like that.
But at the same time, you know, I've experienced a lot.
My journey's been a long journey.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
If you're from the Bronx and you're Puerto Rican, you
know here in New York we.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Go through a lot, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, by the time we're twenty, we don't live like
three lives.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's a different world, you know what I mean. And
I've been to back and forth to a lot of
different places and all that, and and and you know,
my journey's experienced journey, you know. So I just I'm
just thankful for everything. But I look at it like
like I don't know, I just gotta I appreciate it
more now than I did, probably like ten years or
fifteen years ago, when I was a kid in Puerto Rico. Like,
you know, I'm trying to get whatever we did in
(15:12):
the Bronx over there, Like I'm trying to act like
I'm in the Bronx in Puerto Rico as a kid,
you know what I'm saying. So, but now I appreciate
everything about it. It's a different feeling now that I'm
you know, older. I guess you could say whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
When's the last time you went to Porto Rigo?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Was like a few like last month. I was there.
I was there on me and a few other influences.
Was there for the Bad Buddy experience we was at
the stayed at the Twista house they had. Yeah, it
was a whole experience that they had us in and
it was it was pretty cool. It's fun. But I'll
be there a lot because I just bought or I
just can you know, took control of my grandma's house
over there and Cotto Lean.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Us talk about that, Yeah, all these houses in Puerto
Rico and the issue that that Puerto Ricans have with
paperwork when it comes to inheriting houses and you know,
not being able to you know, the houses are empty.
And I was reading an article and it was a
lot you know, with Hurricane Maria and you know the
people that migrate, but a lot of it has to
do with that, with the paperwork and you know inheritance.
(16:19):
Where do you stand with that? And how did you
make it happen?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I tell him it was different for us. It was
a blessing it was. It was already in my grandma's
name here in the bronx.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And oh case, so it was easy for you. But
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But I know, like, for example, my dad, he has
like seven acres of land and save it, right, and
it's so long ago that he doesn't really know about
the paperwork. So I tell people like Yo, there's lawyers
that you could just hire that that will guide you
through it. Of course you gotta, you know, do you
do your due diligence and find out who's the best,
so who could work. You know, that's good for what
you're trying to do. But there's a lot of empty
(16:50):
there's a lot of land that we could go back
and buy, you know, and just inherit into the back,
into the land. We can't let these guys everyone else
come and take take control of what's out there.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Can you talk about it please? I want Puerto Ricans
to take back the island. Take yo, go back, buy
these houses. And I know there's a lot of you know,
red tape and there's different things, but I don't want
people like Jake Paul to end up taking the island.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
And that's what's happening I said, yeah, we're gonna lose
one of the videos, I said, we're gonna lose our
culture because they're coming in. They want us out and
they want to come in, you know what I mean.
And even here they tell us it's a weird dynamic
because it's like us, it's Latinos just born here in
the States. It's like I said earlier, they try to
the Latin new voice goes on herd. Sometimes our struggles
and all problems because it's like, yo, you're born in America.
Go back home, and it's like, what do you mean?
(17:33):
Like you know what I'm saying. I'm here, I'm boring here,
and go back home. What does that mean? Y'all want
us out? And then I'm confused because y'all telling us
to go home, but y'all want us y'all want to
go there and take over and take the land from us,
you know what I mean. But y'all want us to
leave too, but go back. It's a confusing situation, you
know what I mean. But people like I tell people
all the time, I say, yo, go look into your
grandma's houses and make sure the paperwork is right. Go
(17:54):
talk to some lawyers and explain your situation to them
and they'll find a way to help you out. And
if you're not, feel the vibe. And there's plenty of
other lawyers you could talk to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you can't give up, of course, not the end
of d You know.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Google's free, like you can learn a lot on your
own and learn who to work with and all that.
So you know, you just never give up, Just continue
and continue.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That belongs to you. Your grandma's house that's been closed
for ten, fifteen, twenty years, that has value. And I
understand we get caught up in the everyday life here
in the US and we're like, the house is closed,
I'm not going back. You know, that's generational wealth. Whether
you realize it or not. It's not happening here. It's
not a house in Long Island, but it's a house
that has value.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And it's just in a beautiful place that they all
want to, you know, take control of. So it's like, yo,
you take control back, you know, and go in and
invest into your island, to your people, into your culture
and your family. At the end of day, don't even
worry about everybody else, your family, like you, majority of
Puerto Rican's got their family still over there, So just
look into it. And you know, Grandma's not going to
do all that. She's older, She's probably not going to
(18:54):
just sit there and study and research all the paperwork
and the document she needs for all that. So us
as the younger one, as the grand kid, we go
in there and figure it out for them, you know,
and make sure it's all good. Not as a as
a thing for us, but it's a thing for the family.
Is family for generations to come, you know what I mean.
And I think you know the house. That's why I
did that with the Codlina. So I want to make
sure that it's not going anywhere, you know what I mean,
(19:14):
because for you and that's what we did, between me
and my mom and the rest you know, in the
family and all that we make it happen. And I
think everybody, you know, it's not everybody, but I think
a lot of Puerto rican should go and do that,
you know, Latino. It's not just in Puerto Rico, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Anywhere where you know your family owns a home and
where you have memories, you know, you know, That's why
when I was five, that's why when I was ten, we.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Used to have parties, them Christmas parties, and we used
to go, oh yeah, you see pictures of me and
the before, the bad bunny with the hebetal hat and
all that. I'm a little baby with the little hat
around did all that, We did all that the pictures
to prove it a little baby. And you know it
says Puerto Rico. We used to have a good time.
I think I got my first Jordan Jersey to pin
straight in Puerto Rico. It was probably bootleg, but it
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was like out in there, like, yo, I got it.
I got it Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Like you know, getting back to the Brons, you were like,
I got my Jordan jersey and Porto.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Puerto Rica ain't got this one. It's fake.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I love that man. Now educationally, college did.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You high school?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah? High school?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah barely, you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Know, so like educated and so knowledgeable that I'm not
like you got to have a couple of degrees.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Google's Freedom.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You're doing a great job. You had me thinking I
was like this man definitely got at least.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Probably jump back into it. You know, education is very
important these days, and you know I tell people to
tell your Google's free. You know, you can learn and
there's a lot of misinformation.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But check.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was just gonna say, there's a.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Lot of misinformation. This fact check what you got to
look at and triple checking the chat GPTs, all that,
triple do all that, you know what I mean, just
make sure it's on the point, you know, because it's
a lot of misinformation. But having something like this that
we didn't have or you know, our parents or whoever
had didn't have to learn and all that, it's a
blessing now because like we could literally put this in
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our hands and just study and learn and educate ourselves.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You know, I don't put together a whole marketing plan
for you. You tell them what you want to do,
and it's gonna put it together and Google and AI.
There is nothing you can't do like the way that
you can, you know, manifest and put yourself out there
and you be like, I want to be a massage
therapist today and in a year you could be.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I found for I learned how to follow a trademark
through you did yourself. Ye did it myself. They're trying
to you know, some lawyers have charge certain prices and
all that. Nah, let me figure it out, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It took me hours, but I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It took me. It took me days actually, and I
did it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But ied in icked in a whole day. I was like,
I'm not gonna stop. Like it was hours and hours,
but but you see, you did it and I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, that's that's why I say I educated myself and
that's the same way saved corn. And I said my
bra I was like, yo, I'm gonna do this and
I'm gonna figure it out and if it kicks back,
because you get an opportunity when it kicks back, and
if it's something wrong with it, and I'm able to fix,
and I'll learn how to fix.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What did your trademark?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I now I did on why trademark fractis facts and
all that. That's all me. But I had recently I
dropped the Bad Bunny video I was talking about when
Super super Bowl. You know, the people that was hating
were mainly the Maca Beachos and you know I call
them Maca Beachos, but the Maga world was the ones
that was pretty much hating. So in the video, I said,
you know, you got these haters, these Maca Beachos and
all that, and it was just spread it like crazy,
(22:14):
like insanely, like all these people dropping these videos of
Maca Beach.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
All of a sudden, you were like, I'm a trademark that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Everybody's in my d ends and all my team, everybody's like,
you need you need to coin that. You need to
you need to lock that in because I've come to
find out if someone else trying to take it now.
And he got he went and got the website and
immediately and I'm like, oh, what like always something I'm
you know, even if it's something you've been working on,
it wasn't brought out until after my video. I said.
So it's like, yo, let me let me at least
(22:40):
you know, so I trademark that the factsis facts all that,
you know what I mean. So you know, I just
learned and it's a part of growing.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So now let's talk. Like I said, do you watch
I ain't. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I've been too busy to come on. I've been so busy,
Like but I've been you know, I.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Was there last night, like Puerto Rico is it.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Looks like to me, it looked like the Zoos network
of Puerto Rico. It looks like it's going down over there,
Like every clip I see is like them fighting or yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But I was bringing up because two of the guys
that are there are Puerto Rican team Los Nanas, and
it's just oh yeah, okay, all about Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All of them were Puerto Rican. I thought the whole
show was based.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
In Puerto Rican Dominican Republic. But there's two Puerto Rican guys.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Okay, that's I know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I've seen it and it just become a whole
you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The new wave. You know, it's crazy. I can't say
what I have plans for.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Because it's out there. Go school went out there.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Everybody now seeing the c I mess with a lot
of the blog pages and the community pages like the.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm pretty sure you're super busy, but you gotta lock
in with you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, no, no, I want, I want. I didn't know,
but like I started seeing it like the last week
or so or two weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Ago, I'm like, yo, this, Yeah, they're they're all locked
in there for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Thirty days, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're locked in their thirty days. No phones, they don't
know what time it is. Everybody but there's two Puerto
Rican guys and they're in there. They're all so locked.
Then they're like making music. When they come out, they're
gonna be stars.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It's like it's like it's like the real world.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, in the real world.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And the real world, but out of put the house
together called But the reason I bring it up is
because the two Puerto Rican guys is like every.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Day they representing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Listen the way these guys are so Puerto Rican. Really
it's just you're not Puerto Rican in front of them exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Like I'm like they are o d with the way
they talk, the shout out, oh yeah, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Seen Okay, okay, I've seen that. Yeah that went viral
with the flags on the bad Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I love them, you know what I'm saying. And
I love the way you know that all the Puerto
Rican artists have come together and you know, to support
Themole brought them chains close. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow, Okay, I'm gonna tune in.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Locking like tonight such a thing was coming to you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm interested in that because I've been reached out to
by different networks that reached out to me to apply
to be on like you know, Squad Game Challenge in
different networks, like.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
What we're doing, You're about to be on TV.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I mean I don't know. I haven't I haven't got
the call back it, you know. So it's just there
was Fear Fact. It was one of them, the new
reboot of Fear Factor. The Mister Beast Games was another
one like that. I can see you Quick Game the
challenge that just dropped it was. It was an opportunity.
So that's pretty much what it is. It's something like
a reality type of show where these you know. So
I'm interested in all that, Like I want to get
into that world and be a face in that world.
(25:24):
So yeah, I definitely got to tune in and check
it out.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You got to support little voting voters.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Everybody is, okay, I send.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Them money and everything.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I got this one and he sent me money.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Michael Florida's I was going to send him a couple
of bugs with him. My husband's like, don't you play
yourself and saying that man no money?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah for real, looking at you, like what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Puerto Rican too.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He gets it, he gets it, I got you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He knows I got weakness for Puerto Rican man.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Hey, there you go. There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now, let's talk boxers. You were with Yeah, yeah, how
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Do you know him?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Or how?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
My team, my age reached out to Orlando Boxing Club.
They were putting together the Trinidad Invitational where they were
putting up pretty much. I think it was like thirty
fights of just up and coming boxes, new generation of boxes.
All of them were like three rounds. But anyway, it
was they they called it the Trinidad Invitational. It was
the first time they ever reached out to the tho.
He's been dealing with a lot of other stuff, so
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they he was finally trying to get back out there
and they reached out to him. They set up this
whole event and my agent happens to know they live
in Orlando. He happen to know one of the guys
that was in Orlando. He said, Yo, you know this
we're life. You know, he talks about all the boxes,
and he talks about the you know, the champions and
all that. You should maybe include him. He said, Yah,
I'm I'm a fan of I've been he follows my
page and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So I like.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The fact that he the fact that he said, yo'
whatever he needed to get out here. I said, yo,
for something like this, I'm wanting to you know, just
give me out. Then we're gonna make a hoppen in class. Nah. Yeah, yeah,
I ain't doing all that. You know, normally if you
follow up, you know only that's how I fly. But
you know he ain't did all that. But but I said,
I got to be there for that, and the only
thing I wanted to return is to be able to
sit down. And I asked he through a couple of questions,
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you know what I mean. And you know I do
that a lot with some of the boxes, but I
want to do like this one on one with with
Detrow because nobody really, especially someone.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Like me, I have not seen him do anything.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And yeah, so now he's trying to get back out
there and promote himself and all that. So it's like, Okay,
I definitely got to do that, and.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Me being right now, talk to me.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
He's he's working on trying to build his boxing club
through Trinidad Boxing Club. I think his sister runs in
and I think they're trying to grow that build there
in Orlando, and he's he's working on a lot of stuff,
and you know, I asked him a few questions about
things like, you know, like, yo, you want to get
back in the ring. You know. He's like, yeah, you know,
you know, if if it makes sense, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
These exhibition fights as people be doing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know, but as I say, you know now with
throughout the years, entertainment and boxing is going hand in
hand for for a long time, you know what I mean.
And these exhibition fights is not new. It's not like
Jay Paul started exhibition fights. It's something that's been going
on for a long time now. I remember Muhammad Ali.
I wasn't you know, around for that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But you remember it happening.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I remember watching, reading or studying about it, and Muhammad
Ali was over there with I just I just check
on you check on. She was there. There was some
exhibition fight where they was all in Puerto Rico and
the in the trolley. So I'm like, there's stuff that's
been going on for a long time now. And you know,
I said, yo, you will are you willing to get
back in the ring for like a fun exhibition fight?
(28:19):
And he said, yeah, you know, I'm not here to
bother nobody. I'm just you know, I'm thank you. His
legacy is established, is established, she said. But if it's
anybody to be Oscar de la Joya, I'm dropping that
clip on Monday, by the way.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Together.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, but you know, you know, he said he would
do that, but he said, you know, I mean, you
know what he said was the balls in your court,
you know what I mean. So he's down, but he's
not looking for it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Put that clip out. We got to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, for sure, I'm trying to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I'm a boxing fan, and you know, I wanted to
talk to you about you know different you know, Puerto
Rican boxers, and I want you to just give me
one word. We'll start with Trinidad. One word that you
would use to describe Trinidad go the goat.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
To me, he's my top number one, my favorite boxer
of all times. One word legend, greatest, He's the greatest
right now. Savage Savage another one of my favorites. Oh man, legend,
another legend. Those are all in my top five for sure.
(29:24):
But he's he's the chosen one. I call him the
chosen one. I mean, that's why he called himself the
chosen one. So I called him the Chosen One and
it Yeah, you know, I think he's up there, he's
on his way up, and he's going to have a
lot of opportunities that he's coming out that you know,
it can't really be talking about yet, but he's he's
got some opportunities that's coming in that he's gonna do
and he's gonna shock the world.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I think, yeah, we're going we're going to be sitting
down and we're gonna happens with him. We're gonna have
a good conversation because you know, with boxers, I feel
like there's so much misconception because they have to put on,
you know, this persona that is not really who they
are hanging.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Out with them. It's a whole different story. I was
hanging out with around all of the not hanging out,
but being around them, and they're like, yeah, you see it,
this person so nice, so humble.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, when they do those face offs, you're like, what's.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Even Belonga Like, I've been around him a few times
and he's not like that. He's not like that on
the on the way he's on those not even all
the time, but these last couple of fights, he's not
like that. And you know, he's really humble and he
gives back and he shows love to the people.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So oh no, he definitely does. You know, they're dope humans.
But sometimes we tend to just you know, grabs onto
like that persona that we see when they do the
face officer. Yeah, and it's not the case at all.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I like, you know, I must belong a lot because
he was one of the first boxes out of everybody
to follow my page and back a year when I
first started, you know, doing all this, and he was
one of the first ones that start supporting my page.
So that's why we show love back.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
One thing about perto Rican, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Going to support. We're gonna represent represent one hundred and seven.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Sure, let's talk about Latino rappers. Let's talk pun Let's
talk that Joe. Let's talk our you know, our legacy rappers.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah. I tell we was there from the beginning, were
there from the jump, you know what I mean. I
don't care what nobody say, especially here in New York.
You know, there's a there's a culture, a melting pot
over here. We all mixed in together, you know what
I mean. And we was there from the jump. If
you go back and look at the history and look
at the the do your knowledge. You'll see that we
were there from the jump, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Can't erase us.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You can't rate, you can't take us out, you know
what I mean. And I talk a lot about that
was some of my early videos that went crazy, was
talking about that. I used to get a lot of
kickback from you know, obviously the you know, different companies
and different people that represent and they didn't like it.
It's like, well, you don't have to like the facts.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
The facts is facts.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You can't erase the history, you know what I mean, Like,
that's just what it is. And you know, and I
talk about you know, I saw you have Frankie Colors
up here, and he was one of the early ones
that was going on with the song Puerto Rico, and
we was dead there from the jump. You know what's
name Charlie Chase? Did they Charlie Chase? He was in
the first hip hop movie to ever too? What's the
(32:07):
other guy? I forgot his name? It's blowing my mom. Anyway,
they were in the first hip hop movie ever created,
you know what I'm saying, And we were there. You
can't erase us out of the history books because we
was there, We was representing, and we was showing love
to everybody, you know, So I don't see why it
would be a difference for anybody else to not show
love back. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I think it's an ownership thing. Sometimes. I feel like,
you know, when thinks something is so great, sometimes people
be like, I own it. It's mine, it's not yours.
And I'm not like a toy, you know what I'm saying,
when you're a child. I don't think it's like malicious
or anything. I just feel like it's hip hop is
so great and it's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Probably it is a culture. It's not like one thing culture.
It's not like you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Everything clothing, it's graffiti, it's music, the.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Way you toy, it's the way you act. You know,
that's hip hop, you know what I mean. And it's
not you know, and I know it's in the beginning
it was a little different, but now it's going scrown
so much that you can't exclude nobody because everybody was
involved at this point. You know, we've all put in
their their their effort into changing what hip hop was.
You know, for sure, Yeah, it's a missed.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
We all put a.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Little flat, little so soon and all of that, But
you can't eraise the Puerto Rican soithoon that was in hip.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hop, especially here in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Like it the mecca, it's the berth of it. So
New York, yeah goes hand in hand with the Puerto Rican.
Latinos say.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It goes sast.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I thought you was gonna say, now.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
That pressure on me.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I got my own saying ship you own gott gotty Now. Yeah,
you know it's crazy though, especially in New York. Like
you said, it's you know, it's a big city music.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What do you what do you want to do with
music to?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I mean, I've done a lot of music.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I was like, you feel like you're done with music.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Not necessarily like you know, I think now it's different
now where it's like, you know, my platform is a
little different, it's bigger, it's it's grown to a whole
different world. I got different people paying attention, different opportun
when he's coming in that I can't just be up
there being that, you know, talking to some of the
stuff that I was talking before. You know, through my
life and it's experience, I've evolved. I guess you could say, yeah,
so you know I and I pay attention to certain
(34:11):
different things now that I'm like, but I'm not done
with it. I could send me like I feel like
you guys see anybody like I was. Probably I think
I put out my first record when I was like
fifteen years old or something like that, recording on the
you know what was the headphone?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But what was your first record?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I don't even remember. It was just a wild I
think I was ripping over like a wou tang beat
or something like, trying to make it my own song
or something. I don't even remember what it was. I
think I got it on the tape somewhere, but.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You must preserve that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh yeah, it's like a trophy to me. It's like, yo,
that's me, Like that was me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are your dad?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I was gonna say, how did your family feel about
your content? Like are they like, yo, this is done?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
They love it. They show love my mom especially Yeah,
they share my mom, especially my dad. It's funny because
it's like my grandma right with my grandmother day and
she was telling me how her pastor her church is
sending her videos of me, not realizing that's my grandson.
Like my dad went before he retired. He retired earlier
this year. Last year, his coworker they're like, Yo, you've
(35:09):
seen it. You know they're not Puerto Rican. You've seen
this and it's a video of me, and they're like,
that's my son. He said there, like what is he
got going on? Like the reach is far and why
it's crazy to me. It's it's like I said, I'm grateful,
and I'm thankful. You know, I'm humbled by it.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know, what are we doing next? Talk to me?
What are we promoting? What's coming up?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I got a few things I can't talk about too much.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Back came up the secret.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I got a few things. I gotta I gotta. I
gotta do what I gotta do a few things. And
that's not locked in yet that it's going to be
locked in. But yeah, time of the year, I'm being
Puerto Rican phone set working on a couple of leagues
that they got the collegiate lead or league over there.
They want me to go, yeah, to go do some
stuff with them. Tomorrow will be at the Puerto Rico
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VERSUS Dominican Republic game at the City Field.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You gotta see I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And now they ain't get a sweep. They gave us
the dugout joints, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Which we still You know, it's crazy because I was
I was looking at tickets this morning and then my
husband's like, it's gonna be cold, Like I want to go,
and he's like, it's gonna be cold.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Ain't gonna be too bad. But I said the same thing.
I said, you know, you got these guys coming from
eighty degree, let's get this game over with it. Like
you're gonna be throwing stikes.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And nobody's get It's definitely gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It's gonna be fun. Yeah. So I'm be there, I'm
be doing I'm working on you know, the factist fights
is always the it's the main line, you know, So
that's my first and foremost. Make sure all the fact
is right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That you gotta do. The pressure is on, bro. You
can be out here to talk about factist facts and
be off points.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
There's been a couple of times when I slipped up,
and it's not a lot of that stuff is not scripted.
People think it's scripted. Yeah, So I'll be in there
just free like this, freestyling it, you know, more or
less from what I know. You know, I got notes
that I go over and the camera content.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's not for the week.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's not for the week, you know. And I've been
doing it so long that I'm used to it. I'm like,
I know what I need to do and how to look,
how to sit and you know, and we got a
whole set up for that, and and so I just
make sure I got I said a few things that
that I've gotten a few things wrong. You know, it happened,
and they'll put me out of the cats wrong.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
And bro, they don't let me list. I'm like, Jesus,
I just mistook two words.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
What's funny is this guy? This this kid is influenced
The last year for the parade I was at I
was at a club out here in New York and
the night before the parade, and I was hanging out
with fifty cent. We was doing mad different things. I
could show you the videos. It was having a good time.
I didn't leave that club until about five or six
in the morning, like five and like four sun in
the morning, I think they closed, and I didn't get
back to where I'm man up. You know, it was late,
(37:34):
the sun was up. I had to be at the
parade at a certain time. I'm still hung over and
all that I am they expected, especially this influencer comes
up to me asking me mad questions about the facts
of Puerto Rico, the history of Puerto Rico. What's this
and what's down? Like, yo, bro, what s And this
is my first time dealing with all these people that
I didn't know who I need. So I'm trying to
figure it out. I'm hung over, and I'm like, Bro,
I was just hanging on fifty cent two hours ago.
(37:54):
You were asking me this like like I don't know, bro,
and it went viral. Of course with all the videos,
it goes biro and then all.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
The comments recorded.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, all the comments is like, oh, don't know his ship.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I'm saying. They're like, I'm human to at the.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
End of the day, and you know you're not ready.
It's it's not what you're doing at that moment, but
you know that and you have a very distinct look
like I will always know it's you. So of course
he ran down on you.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
He knew you, knew exactly what he thought. I was
gonna be on point, and I was like, bro, I
just left the club two hours, you're not walking in cycles,
still got liquor on my breath, Like I'm trying to
tell right now, I'm trying to find where I need.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
To go hoot up.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
So it's things like that that I like, Okay, I
got to be on point, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
But you know, it happens, especially when we're on like
we're speaking right now, me and you back and forth.
You don't have a script. I don't have a script.
You know, I have some notes, but it's going to happen.
And we're human, of course, but we do have to
appreciate it. When someone is creating content for a group
of people that is not being properly represented, we gotta
you know, love them, uplift them, let them slide. Sometimes
(38:59):
let me slide. When I say my word's wrong. You know,
I think it was like eloquently and I said, like elegantly,
it was something weird YouTube video. All it was that
word is wrong. Oh that word is wrong, or you miss.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's how it is. And I like, I mean,
I don't I like the kind of engagement and the
reactions and all that, but sometimes they get.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Crazy and sometimes it'd be one common that will throw
you off.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
The change the comments really changed the narrative of the video.
They're the one that kind of control the narrative because
if you don't go in there and I reply back
to some people sometimes I'm like, nah, you're changing, You're
not you're not talking what need to be said. You're
changing the whole dynamic of this video.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Helping here, You're not helping here.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, you're not helping here.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And they'll come back and don't leave. Two three more common.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
They're around, have five other accounts that you don't even know,
and it'll be like just spamming ship, Yeah, buying your ship,
Like yo, you're talking mad ship about you or the
video whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know now, But I want you to continue what
you're doing. Musband loves your content. He's Puerto Rican and
he just that's right all day, all day with the
facts is back. I'm like, I get it, I saw it.
You don't got to show me the videos every time
I follow him too. But now I want you to,
you know, I want you to continue doing what you're doing.
(40:13):
The way get you know, you know, like Puerto Ricans
are super proud people, but the way that you're putting
out you know this, the facts, the information, the history.
It's just beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
It feels very relatable. It doesn't feel condescending. You don't
feel like you're trying to school people. It just feels like, yo,
here's what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I tell people, you know, I don't put my personal
opinion in the videos. I just give you the facts.
You know what I mean. And you know I don't
talk about what I feel about some of this stuff,
because we you know, that's what this is for, you know,
So you know, I just keep it real neutral and
just give you the facts, and it's up to you to,
you know, go from there.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You're a smart man to do that, because those videos
are being shared by thousands and thousands and thousands, and
if one of your opinions is misinformation without you even
knowing it, a lot of mistiness service.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Exactly to the culture, to myself, so to everybody. And
there's a lot of misguided and misiformed people out there.
So I feel like platforms like yours and mine and
stuff like it's important to have because you know, they
could go and feel you know, relatable to something that
they they're attached to, you know, and they feel good
with that. And I feel thankful to that that I
was able to grow a platform educating people that don't
(41:23):
even know. There's a lot of Puerto Ricans that don't
know some of this. My mom's like, yo, I don't
even know schooling your own mom Like, yo, really, I
didn't even know some of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Like that, And I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
There's certain things that you know, they're they're tuning in
the way they tune in. They don't pay attention to
all the politics and all that stuff. So they, you know,
they're like, wow, I didn't I didn't know that thought right, Yeah,
who would have thought? Right? I'm educating them like what
they raised you.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, I was supposed to learn from them.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
But you know, I get it though, you know, they
all you know, when you get here to the States,
it's different from disconnect. You disconnect from the culture. And
I think that's big important for us to as influencers
or whatever you want to call it, is to try
to connect. We try to connect the culture back to
the people so we could go back and appreciate what
we have and we.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Can't, you know, and we can't let the culture die,
regardless regardless of if we speak English, Spanish, Spanglish or
whatever it is that we speak. Culture is so important,
our food, you know, playing whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Like, that's all.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Like I know all this stuff through my husband. You
know what I'm saying. But I find it fascinating that
you know it still exists, that it's still.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
We gotta we gotta connect, We gotta we gotta bridge
the gap. I guess you could say the same thing
I told. I said, how important, Like when you brought
out a big pun and fai joe to the fight,
I said, how important was that to bridge the guy?
Like what it means? He said, Oh no, it was.
I love my Porto Ricans, whether you're born on the
island or born and stay wherever you're born, your Puerto
Rican is in your blood. It's in your it's in
your you know, we can't control what we're boring. Like,
(42:59):
you know, our parents made decisions and that's them. You know,
their life was different than so I can't be mad
at it. But it doesn't mean I gotta I gotta
disconnect from where I'm you know, from my roots and
all that. So I just I tell people at the time.
We gotta connect and try to you know, bring it back,
you know, and that's important in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And Puerto Ricans and Dominicans we gotta love each other.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
That was one of my second videos, We're all Caribbeans.
That was one of my earliers. Like I don't know,
he knew you already understand. You might understand the Puerto
Rican and Dominican like there's not necessarily a beef, but
there's always like a competition there.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Sometimes we love each other and we marry each other
and we sleep with each other.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I talked about it. I was like, yo, we all
we all family. That was all brothers and sisters, like
it's all family, like we all. The video was pretty
much about just the facts as far as like, you know,
the comparisons. You know, we're compared to a lot of
this stuff that's already you know what I mean that
there's no reason why we should have a disconnect between
each other.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
And we just say some words different. What do you
call a straw? Do you speak Spanish?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, but in the end though, I'm still learning, and yeah,
it just you know, we just have.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Those words like some words we say different. But I
feel like, you know, we're Caribbean, you know, African span
We're the same people. We just have different islands, of course,
And I'll leave it at that, different stops, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Fact he was on the same boat, just different stops,
you know.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
I want to thank you so much of it, you know,
making the time and coming up here. But more importantly,
I want to thank you for the content you're creating.
Appreciate and the positive way that you're depicting not just
Puerto Ricans but Latinos and New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, and thank
you again for your platform and what you do for
having you know, give an opportunity for Latinos to come
up here and have a voice. So thank you. I
appreciate it, Appreciate you having me come again, Yes, come again. Well.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Grasslers Come Again is a production of Honey German Productions
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Gray Come Again a podcast by Honey German. Welcome to
another episode of Grasses Come Again. Today, we're going to
be educating the public. We're gonna be talking culture, We're
gonna be talking history, we're gonna be talking issues.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're gonna be talking to me.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome, my guy. Word life is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thanks Socie, Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you having me.
Thank you for the opportunity. I got to give your
flowers too, for creating a dough platform for like the
news to have a voice. So you know, I appreciate you.
Thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I'm so happy you're here because the way you talk
and the way you put on for your people, that's
what I want to do through this show. So I
was like, nah, we've got to sit down, we've got
to talk.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know. They I appreciate it you as soon as
they you know, I saw the email, I said, oh yeah,
I definitely want to do that. You know, I talk
picking truth sometimes I'm like, you definitely want to do
that one, and you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Know, it's just it's for us. I created it for us.
So a lot of people are just like, I've got
to do.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It for sure, because.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know what I'm saying. It's just like you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Got to help the community. Everybody is doing they things,
especially us. We gotta we gotta put put on for each.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Other, exactly when it comes to music, when it comes
to movies, whatever it comes to it's like, Yo, if
they're creating something for us, let's consume it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's why I said, you know, people have to ask
me all the time, like why do you even talk
about Puerto Rico? Why don't talk about others? I'll say, Yo,
this is a platform that's for us, you know. I
take it from the footble for us, by us. You know,
I talk about what I'm saying on too, So it's
kind of like built for that, you know, if you
want to learn about the culture and all that coming
to my platform.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Your rapper, I was stuck on your music talk. What
are you focused on now? Mostly being a content creator,
being an influencer? What do you title yourself right now
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Five, I'm telling myself world life. I mean, I don't
know because everyone calls me different things. Yo, you app
what influence of me?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm just your creator.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
A creator, I guess you could say, and all this overall,
you know what I mean, And I do a lot
of different things. Do merge, I design. I also do
all the graphics that you see on my videos. I
do all that stuff, you know what I mean. So
you know, I work with a production crew. But all
the other stuff that I don't want to the videos
and all that, I do all that. So you know,
I'm a little bit of everything I gainst an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's because you're a perfectionist. That's why. That's why you
do that yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I ould think a lot of things too, So I
go in there and make sure this is how I
need it to be. And I wanted to look a
certain way, you know, so I took sound's familiar.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
How I know.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What do people get at you like, just let it go?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Just let go, especially talk to my my you know,
my team, Like yo, you just let it. It's all right, bro,
And like, no, it's not like I need it's that
one little thing I need to change. He's like, bro, no,
one's don't even notice. I said, yeah, you will. We
know I'm gonna notice. It's gonna get gonna be tight.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Can we talk about the fact that when you're the
face of a brand or a product or a platform.
It's different.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's way different. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta just really
put on and make sure everything is polished.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I guess you could say nobody knows who video is,
nobody knows who audio is, nobody knows graphic designer is,
but they know who you are.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. So that's why it's important. I
think it's important to me and my brand to tell
everybody was That's why I said, I pick and choose
what I want to do because not everybody's you know,
aligned with you know, the quality I want to bring
and delivered to the people. So I think that's you
know what.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It is, and I respect that because I live by that.
It's my name. People like it's fine. I'm like, no,
it's not fine. They're seeing Honey German, they're not seeing you. Yeah,
who's in the background doing things? You know what I'm saying,
you want me to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't want to take the you don't want to
take the head exactly like word.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So she didn't see that. Even when when we use
you know, software to cut clips, I'm like, fix that name,
fix that type. Like who cares? I see typos all
the time, but I don't want to type.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't want it to be a represented showing what
I'm worth. You know, I'm worth a little more on
my values. It is important.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It gets me because it's a daily thing for me.
As far as like coloring video clip clips, I'd be like,
the audio that sounds low, can we raise that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They're like, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Sometimes I did. I did turn of that interview last
week and in the background, you know, you can kind
of hear a little they were.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Talking people there.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You had a lot of people in the background.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
At the interview. Was just like, okay, it was his
wife and my team, you know, two guys on my team,
and you can kind of hear him in the background,
and I'm mad. I'm talking like, yo, why are you
talking in the back? Nobody's gonna I noticed, And.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It messes with you when you're that type of person.
It's like you hear and you're like, wow, somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Was talking, for sure, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And sometimes a mad stays in the room and then
he starts eating over there, and I'm like, I'm going
to murder this guy.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
In the studio I shoot where I filmed the clips
of the same thing. You know, I need everything to
be on a certain way, and I got to be
on point. And if you're in the background doing something
or just making a move or something, it's going to
distract me. So I need to be on point.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Distracting is that, especially when you're creating, or you're interviewing,
or you're just in your zone and people think it's
okay to start throwing things and start I tell.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
People, you got I lock in, Like I don't know
about everybody. I lock in. So if you like this interview,
I've been locked in. I've been looking at all year.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm just it's me and you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Paying attention, you know what I mean. And I want
to be on point when I show up. So if
I'm not on point then and if something is bothering
me or it's distracting, it takes away from all of that.
It takes away from what I could deliver, you know
what I mean. So I just it's very distracting. It's annoying,
like just relying. Let me get this out the way.
It take an hour thirty minutes and we're good. We
can do whatever you want after that. You know them
chips you want. After that, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
To make I'm going to tell you after we're done,
he'll he'll eat cookies and stuff and drink soda while you,
me and you are discussing things I'm like.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And being the poort things right, you couldn't wait.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But but you know what, God tells me everything I
need to know about why your content is so great,
why it's being shared so much, and why it just hits.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I think I tell people were telling they ask me,
like yo, because I'm not the only one that does
this type of content, you know. I mean, there's a
lot of people that do their style of I call
it the dy style, like you know, to do yourself
style where they do the cell phone And I actually
pay a production student here on company that I put
money into this, you know, invest into myself and my
brand and and what I deliver. So I think it's
the point. I don't think it's just me per se
(06:00):
or the stuff I talk about. I think it's all
of it as a package, the quality that's being delivered
and everything else involved. So I just, you know, I
just it's part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're holding everything to a standard, which which is what
I'm talking about. You know, you make sure your audio
is good you make sure your video is good quality,
the color, and you know, a lot of people don't
really lock in that way, like you know, they put
out you know, and they're not consistent. Also, yeah, how
many times a week do you post? Once a week
but you only pick like the best clip, No, I post.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Some It's kind of like, you know, I have a
kind of a schedule more or less that I have.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I'll shoot like a content calendar.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I'll shoot certain amount of clips in one session
and then I'll have them stacked for you know. I
try to drop once a week, you know, maybe Mondays
or Fridays or something like. I just try to drop
once once a week, and and our time it out
depending on what's going on in the world. And there's
something that jumps all of that stuff that I'm talking about,
like the bad Bunny situation that happened, and I jumped
on that a side. I went to just shoot that
clip and dropped it the next morning, like I need to.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I need to get to a studio.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I need to do something quick, you know, I get
it done now. And it's actually my mam producer who
called mes like, yo, you need to. I didn't even
know about it like it just happened, and he called
me like, yo, you need to be in the studio.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like the next when he was announced us to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So when the yeah, and I found in the kickback
that everybody gave, you know, the response that it brought,
like literally the next day I went to shoot when
they announced it. By that night it was enough feedback
people negative feedback that I was like, yeah, I got
to talk about you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You need to talk about it because I might not.
You know what, We're not going to let this go
out like that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's the port Yeah, because if they control the narrative,
if they want, you know, and they could you know,
the headlines to these blogs and all that, they control
a lot of stuff. So it's like, okay, let me
make sure, let me do my part as far as
you know, who's tuning into my my community. Let me
put something out there for them to understand, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So, and that's dope, and I respect it because you know,
if we don't do our part with everything that's happening
right now, we're going to just be painted in a
light that you know, it's not real.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I think, you know, the Latinos struggles in the voice
here in the United States goes on her sometimes and
I feel like, you know, we got to do our
part that. You know, I have a platform now that
if you ask me to years ago, would I be
missed a factis Puerto Rico guy on Instagram? Like hell on?
I would have been. I would have looked to you
crazy like you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Doing ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was a rival, I was, I was on tours,
I was torn with a lot of major artists. I
was in Dallas actually, and I had dropped the record
that we were living in Dallas. Yeah, I went. I
went to visit my mom's and I was dead and
I got in a little bit of trouble out there,
so I had to stay there for a little bit.
And throughout that time it changed my whole life because
I dropped the record that went crazy regionally over there,
and I just started torn. I started getting booked for
a lot of shows down there, and I met the
(08:30):
production crew that I'm working with now. I met them
during that time too. So you know, I've just been
I was everywhere, but you know it was cool. Where
were you born in the Bronx?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, so you're a Bronx Kid parents both perto.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yea, Yeah, my dad was born and raised here in
New York, but my mom was from Carolina.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
So mom is from the island. Dad is of what
he got from New York.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, New York.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And for sure that's what's up now as far as
like you connecting to Puerto Rico the way that you
are connecting at do you study it? How do you
spit all these facts?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
My whole life has been about like I tell people
don't believe it, but it's like I've actually went like
paid attention to my culture and all of that, you
know what I mean. Like I've paid attention to a
lot of stuff growing up and stuff that I've you know,
experienced when I was in Cattolina with visiting my mom's
or visiting whoever.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Have you lived in Puerto Rico at any point you
justto Rico? How you get to the bottom of how
you learned or this quarter was there?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And then you know, I just know a lot of stuff.
And then the book War Against All Puerto Ricans came
out in twenty fifteen, and when I read that, I
was like, dang, there's a lot of stuff that I
didn't know, like this stuff that's from the history that
I didn't know, and to understand where we're headed. We
got to understand and where we're at now, we understand
what happened and what got us here. So I was like, oh,
let me you know, I started going through the what
is it called the rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
The rabbit hole.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, So I started going all that and I was like, wow,
it's just so crazy. And then the first clip that
I did wasn't even about none of that, was about
like Bad Bunny and the music industry, about how Latinos
have taken over the music industry. And there's a clip
that went crazy, and it went crazy in a negative
way because a lot of other cultures and communities and
people were like, yo, you you're being racist. You're talking
about you know, because I kind of compared it to
(10:08):
how where they get thrown and Bad Bundy artists like
him are streaming in the beings compared to rappers. You know,
I named a few that are streaming in the means.
I said, it's a big difference because you've got different
cultures surrounded and supporting it. And you know, and when
negative people saying I'm being racist and all that, and
then the next clip I dropped was about the about
the Puerto Rican flags, the four Puerto Rican flags, and
(10:30):
that one super crazy and I was just like, yo,
this okay in a good way, you know. And I said, okay,
now I know a little purpose. I got a little
purpose now, you know, so let me let me see
how it goes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
And just what year was this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
A year and two years ago?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, I'm brand new to this influencer world. I
don't even know, Like, I'm not even know what's going on.
That's why you asked me what all your man? I
don't know. God, it ain't work late, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I'm like, what do you want us to call you? Not?
What you're doing out here is super dope. I love it.
I respect it, and I'll never question why you're only
doing Puerto Ricans because you know what, it's a tanta.
Those are your people, that's what you know. And I
tell people all the time, what we know is what's
going to come off most authentic for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, And I love Puerto Rico and everything about it,
I say, yah, And the fact that I'm here and
spreading and teaching, educating people that all Puerto Ricans that
didn't notice either. It's like, just to me, it's just
a humbling and I'm grateful for you know what I mean.
I'm just thankful for the community I built, the platform
I god, and I'm just you know, people like you
who invite me to come and talk, you know what
I mean or whatever. So I'm just thankful.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What do you think is the biggest misconception about Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The biggest misconception, in my opinion, is you got to
be a certain way, like they act like you Puerto
Ricans a certain look or a certain sound or a
certain thing. But you know, Puerto Ricans come from everywhere
at this point. You know, they migrated a long time ago,
not necessarily migrated, They went and looked for a better
opportunity a long time ago. We can't control where we're born.
But you know, it's it's a little bit of everything.
You know, we're a little bit of everybody. You see
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dark skinned Puerto Rican, you see light skinned Puerto Ricans.
You see people that look like me Puerto Rican. You'll
see people that was weighing, you know, that look like
just straight Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You know, it's kind of like, you know, I guess
all of us have that, you know, because you know,
you have the Black Colombians, same way you have the
black Dominicans. So it's like when it comes to Latinos,
we're such a mixture of different humans that it's just
like we can come in any shape or form.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
We walk and we you know, we come from You know,
if you look at the DNA, we got three different cultures.
It's dead, you know what I mean. It's it's not
just going to say Puerto Rico. It's a little bit
of everything right now.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So give me a breakdown, can you right now on
the spot about Puerto Ricans. You know your makeup, how
Puerto Ricans came to be? You know what do you
what do you? What is your DNA composition?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, I'm indigenous. It says indigenous. I think it's I
forgot like small percentage large, We got a large so
your yeah, of course we got small. We got the
small indigenous in there, and then we got the Spain
or Spaniard, the European sign, and we also got the Africans,
you know, our blood line because they all came from
the island as slaves and all that, so we got
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a little mix of all that. You know, if you
look a picture of my great great grandma, she's dark
like you know, like dark like my jeans, and then
you see the rest of us with light skined, you
know what I mean. So that's it's yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Have you studied your lineage? I feel like that's something
you would have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeahah, yeah, I'm still I'm still learning. I'm still gone.
I'm talking to my dad, my grandma asking I'm with
my Grandmo the Bronx earlier and I'm asking the mad
questions about different things.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Are you taping it now?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You know? I do a lot of notes, and I
write down a lot of you look, you.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Want that, you want this, you know, especially with grandparents
like I wish I would have interviewed my grandma.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I didn't even think about that, telling me you should like.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And you know, because you know, one day they won't
be with us any longer, when they get older, and
then you can hear their voice, like with my mom.
Like my mom right now, she's going through some health
struggles and I'm like, I need to sit down with her.
I want her to tell me everything her childhood in
Dominican Republic, you know, through her migration to America, because
one day she's not gonna be here anymore. You know what,
I can play it and I can listen.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She's my last the one here in the brunch, She's
my last grandma here. So I'm like, I got to
learn everything from her, you know what i mean, So everything,
I need to know everything. I'm looking at pictures from
when she was a baby, and I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's so crazy. We we become so thirsty for information
about our roots, right.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Uh yeah once. I mean, I think it's for me,
it's the old I got. It was more. I was
more interesting, you know, because as a young I was
torn doing a lot of stuff in the music industry
that I was just like not necessarily paying attention, but
it was always in me, Like it's always if you
talk to anybody that knows me growing up and all like, yo,
he's he's always represented Puerto Rico. He loves Puerto Rico.
So I think the old I guy is when I
realized that you look somethingmn young.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You keep talking about ten years ago I was rapping
and I'm like, how old is this me?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You know? You know I put out there like that,
but you know I'm young. Yeah, yeah, I'm young, you
know what I'm saying. I ain't up there like that.
But at the same time, you know, I've experienced a lot.
My journey's been a long journey.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
If you're from the Bronx and you're Puerto Rican, you
know here in New York we.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Go through a lot, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, by the time we're twenty, we don't live like
three lives.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's a different world, you know what I mean. And
I've been to back and forth to a lot of
different places and all that, and and and you know,
my journey's experienced journey, you know. So I just I'm
just thankful for everything. But I look at it like
like I don't know, I just gotta I appreciate it
more now than I did, probably like ten years or
fifteen years ago, when I was a kid in Puerto Rico. Like,
you know, I'm trying to get whatever we did in
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the Bronx over there, Like I'm trying to act like
I'm in the Bronx in Puerto Rico as a kid,
you know what I'm saying. So, but now I appreciate
everything about it. It's a different feeling now that I'm
you know, older. I guess you could say whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
When's the last time you went to Porto Rigo?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Was like a few like last month. I was there.
I was there on me and a few other influences.
Was there for the Bad Buddy experience we was at
the stayed at the Twista house they had. Yeah, it
was a whole experience that they had us in and
it was it was pretty cool. It's fun. But I'll
be there a lot because I just bought or I
just can you know, took control of my grandma's house
over there and Cotto Lean.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Us talk about that, Yeah, all these houses in Puerto
Rico and the issue that that Puerto Ricans have with
paperwork when it comes to inheriting houses and you know,
not being able to you know, the houses are empty.
And I was reading an article and it was a
lot you know, with Hurricane Maria and you know the
people that migrate, but a lot of it has to
do with that, with the paperwork and you know inheritance.
(16:19):
Where do you stand with that? And how did you
make it happen?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I tell him it was different for us. It was
a blessing it was. It was already in my grandma's
name here in the bronx.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And oh case, so it was easy for you. But
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But I know, like, for example, my dad, he has
like seven acres of land and save it, right, and
it's so long ago that he doesn't really know about
the paperwork. So I tell people like Yo, there's lawyers
that you could just hire that that will guide you
through it. Of course you gotta, you know, do you
do your due diligence and find out who's the best,
so who could work. You know, that's good for what
you're trying to do. But there's a lot of empty
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there's a lot of land that we could go back
and buy, you know, and just inherit into the back,
into the land. We can't let these guys everyone else
come and take take control of what's out there.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Can you talk about it please? I want Puerto Ricans
to take back the island. Take yo, go back, buy
these houses. And I know there's a lot of you know,
red tape and there's different things, but I don't want
people like Jake Paul to end up taking the island.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
And that's what's happening I said, yeah, we're gonna lose
one of the videos, I said, we're gonna lose our
culture because they're coming in. They want us out and
they want to come in, you know what I mean.
And even here they tell us it's a weird dynamic
because it's like us, it's Latinos just born here in
the States. It's like I said earlier, they try to
the Latin new voice goes on herd. Sometimes our struggles
and all problems because it's like, yo, you're born in America.
Go back home, and it's like, what do you mean?
(17:33):
Like you know what I'm saying. I'm here, I'm boring here,
and go back home. What does that mean? Y'all want
us out? And then I'm confused because y'all telling us
to go home, but y'all want us y'all want to
go there and take over and take the land from us,
you know what I mean. But y'all want us to
leave too, but go back. It's a confusing situation, you
know what I mean. But people like I tell people
all the time, I say, yo, go look into your
grandma's houses and make sure the paperwork is right. Go
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talk to some lawyers and explain your situation to them
and they'll find a way to help you out. And
if you're not, feel the vibe. And there's plenty of
other lawyers you could talk to.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you can't give up, of course, not the end
of d You know.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Google's free, like you can learn a lot on your
own and learn who to work with and all that.
So you know, you just never give up, Just continue
and continue.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That belongs to you. Your grandma's house that's been closed
for ten, fifteen, twenty years, that has value. And I
understand we get caught up in the everyday life here
in the US and we're like, the house is closed,
I'm not going back. You know, that's generational wealth. Whether
you realize it or not. It's not happening here. It's
not a house in Long Island, but it's a house
that has value.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And it's just in a beautiful place that they all
want to, you know, take control of. So it's like, yo,
you take control back, you know, and go in and
invest into your island, to your people, into your culture
and your family. At the end of day, don't even
worry about everybody else, your family, like you, majority of
Puerto Rican's got their family still over there, So just
look into it. And you know, Grandma's not going to
do all that. She's older, She's probably not going to
(18:54):
just sit there and study and research all the paperwork
and the document she needs for all that. So us
as the younger one, as the grand kid, we go
in there and figure it out for them, you know,
and make sure it's all good. Not as a as
a thing for us, but it's a thing for the family.
Is family for generations to come, you know what I mean.
And I think you know the house. That's why I
did that with the Codlina. So I want to make
sure that it's not going anywhere, you know what I mean,
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because for you and that's what we did, between me
and my mom and the rest you know, in the
family and all that we make it happen. And I
think everybody, you know, it's not everybody, but I think
a lot of Puerto rican should go and do that,
you know, Latino. It's not just in Puerto Rico, but anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Anywhere where you know your family owns a home and
where you have memories, you know, you know, That's why
when I was five, that's why when I was ten, we.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Used to have parties, them Christmas parties, and we used
to go, oh yeah, you see pictures of me and
the before, the bad bunny with the hebetal hat and
all that. I'm a little baby with the little hat
around did all that, We did all that the pictures
to prove it a little baby. And you know it
says Puerto Rico. We used to have a good time.
I think I got my first Jordan Jersey to pin
straight in Puerto Rico. It was probably bootleg, but it
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was like out in there, like, yo, I got it.
I got it Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Like you know, getting back to the Brons, you were like,
I got my Jordan jersey and Porto.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Puerto Rica ain't got this one. It's fake.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I love that man. Now educationally, college did.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You high school?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah? High school?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah barely, you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Know, so like educated and so knowledgeable that I'm not
like you got to have a couple of degrees.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Google's Freedom.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You're doing a great job. You had me thinking I
was like this man definitely got at least.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Probably jump back into it. You know, education is very
important these days, and you know I tell people to
tell your Google's free. You know, you can learn and
there's a lot of misinformation.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But check.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was just gonna say, there's a.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Lot of misinformation. This fact check what you got to
look at and triple checking the chat GPTs, all that,
triple do all that, you know what I mean, just
make sure it's on the point, you know, because it's
a lot of misinformation. But having something like this that
we didn't have or you know, our parents or whoever
had didn't have to learn and all that, it's a
blessing now because like we could literally put this in
(20:59):
our hands and just study and learn and educate ourselves.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You know, I don't put together a whole marketing plan
for you. You tell them what you want to do,
and it's gonna put it together and Google and AI.
There is nothing you can't do like the way that
you can, you know, manifest and put yourself out there
and you be like, I want to be a massage
therapist today and in a year you could be.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I found for I learned how to follow a trademark
through you did yourself. Ye did it myself. They're trying
to you know, some lawyers have charge certain prices and
all that. Nah, let me figure it out, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It took me hours, but I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It took me. It took me days actually, and I
did it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But ied in icked in a whole day. I was like,
I'm not gonna stop. Like it was hours and hours,
but but you see, you did it and I did it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, that's that's why I say I educated myself and
that's the same way saved corn. And I said my
bra I was like, yo, I'm gonna do this and
I'm gonna figure it out and if it kicks back,
because you get an opportunity when it kicks back, and
if it's something wrong with it, and I'm able to fix,
and I'll learn how to fix.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What did your trademark?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I now I did on why trademark fractis facts and
all that. That's all me. But I had recently I
dropped the Bad Bunny video I was talking about when
Super super Bowl. You know, the people that was hating
were mainly the Maca Beachos and you know I call
them Maca Beachos, but the Maga world was the ones
that was pretty much hating. So in the video, I said,
you know, you got these haters, these Maca Beachos and
all that, and it was just spread it like crazy,
(22:14):
like insanely, like all these people dropping these videos of
Maca Beach.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
All of a sudden, you were like, I'm a trademark that.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Everybody's in my d ends and all my team, everybody's like,
you need you need to coin that. You need to
you need to lock that in because I've come to
find out if someone else trying to take it now.
And he got he went and got the website and
immediately and I'm like, oh, what like always something I'm
you know, even if it's something you've been working on,
it wasn't brought out until after my video. I said.
So it's like, yo, let me let me at least
(22:40):
you know, so I trademark that the factsis facts all that,
you know what I mean. So you know, I just
learned and it's a part of growing.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So now let's talk. Like I said, do you watch
I ain't. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I've been too busy to come on. I've been so busy,
Like but I've been you know, I.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Was there last night, like Puerto Rico is it.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Looks like to me, it looked like the Zoos network
of Puerto Rico. It looks like it's going down over there,
Like every clip I see is like them fighting or yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But I was bringing up because two of the guys
that are there are Puerto Rican team Los Nanas, and
it's just oh yeah, okay, all about Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
All of them were Puerto Rican. I thought the whole
show was based.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
In Puerto Rican Dominican Republic. But there's two Puerto Rican guys.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Okay, that's I know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I've seen it and it just become a whole
you know, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
The new wave. You know, it's crazy. I can't say
what I have plans for.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Because it's out there. Go school went out there.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Everybody now seeing the c I mess with a lot
of the blog pages and the community pages like the.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm pretty sure you're super busy, but you gotta lock
in with you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, no, no, I want, I want. I didn't know,
but like I started seeing it like the last week
or so or two weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Ago, I'm like, yo, this, Yeah, they're they're all locked
in there for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Thirty days, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're locked in their thirty days. No phones, they don't
know what time it is. Everybody but there's two Puerto
Rican guys and they're in there. They're all so locked.
Then they're like making music. When they come out, they're
gonna be stars.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It's like it's like it's like the real world.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Okay, in the real world.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And the real world, but out of put the house
together called But the reason I bring it up is
because the two Puerto Rican guys is like every.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Day they representing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Listen the way these guys are so Puerto Rican. Really
it's just you're not Puerto Rican in front of them exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Like I'm like they are o d with the way
they talk, the shout out, oh yeah, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Seen Okay, okay, I've seen that. Yeah that went viral
with the flags on the bad Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And I love them, you know what I'm saying. And
I love the way you know that all the Puerto
Rican artists have come together and you know, to support
Themole brought them chains close. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh wow, Okay, I'm gonna tune in.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Locking like tonight such a thing was coming to you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'm interested in that because I've been reached out to
by different networks that reached out to me to apply
to be on like you know, Squad Game Challenge in
different networks, like.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
What we're doing, You're about to be on TV.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I mean I don't know. I haven't I haven't got
the call back it, you know. So it's just there
was Fear Fact. It was one of them, the new
reboot of Fear Factor. The Mister Beast Games was another
one like that. I can see you Quick Game the
challenge that just dropped it was. It was an opportunity.
So that's pretty much what it is. It's something like
a reality type of show where these you know. So
I'm interested in all that, Like I want to get
into that world and be a face in that world.
(25:24):
So yeah, I definitely got to tune in and check
it out.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You got to support little voting voters.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Everybody is, okay, I send.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Them money and everything.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I got this one and he sent me money.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Michael Florida's I was going to send him a couple
of bugs with him. My husband's like, don't you play
yourself and saying that man no money?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah for real, looking at you, like what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Puerto Rican too.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He gets it, he gets it, I got you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He knows I got weakness for Puerto Rican man.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Hey, there you go. There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Now, let's talk boxers. You were with Yeah, yeah, how
did that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Do you know him?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Or how?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
My team, my age reached out to Orlando Boxing Club.
They were putting together the Trinidad Invitational where they were
putting up pretty much. I think it was like thirty
fights of just up and coming boxes, new generation of boxes.
All of them were like three rounds. But anyway, it
was they they called it the Trinidad Invitational. It was
the first time they ever reached out to the tho.
He's been dealing with a lot of other stuff, so
(26:18):
they he was finally trying to get back out there
and they reached out to him. They set up this
whole event and my agent happens to know they live
in Orlando. He happen to know one of the guys
that was in Orlando. He said, Yo, you know this
we're life. You know, he talks about all the boxes,
and he talks about the you know, the champions and
all that. You should maybe include him. He said, Yah,
I'm I'm a fan of I've been he follows my
page and all that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So I like.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
The fact that he the fact that he said, yo'
whatever he needed to get out here. I said, yo,
for something like this, I'm wanting to you know, just
give me out. Then we're gonna make a hoppen in class. Nah. Yeah, yeah,
I ain't doing all that. You know, normally if you
follow up, you know only that's how I fly. But
you know he ain't did all that. But but I said,
I got to be there for that, and the only
thing I wanted to return is to be able to
sit down. And I asked he through a couple of questions,
(27:01):
you know what I mean. And you know I do
that a lot with some of the boxes, but I
want to do like this one on one with with
Detrow because nobody really, especially someone.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Like me, I have not seen him do anything.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And yeah, so now he's trying to get back out
there and promote himself and all that. So it's like, Okay,
I definitely got to do that, and.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Me being right now, talk to me.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
He's he's working on trying to build his boxing club
through Trinidad Boxing Club. I think his sister runs in
and I think they're trying to grow that build there
in Orlando, and he's he's working on a lot of stuff,
and you know, I asked him a few questions about
things like, you know, like, yo, you want to get
back in the ring. You know. He's like, yeah, you know,
you know, if if it makes sense, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
These exhibition fights as people be doing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know, but as I say, you know now with
throughout the years, entertainment and boxing is going hand in
hand for for a long time, you know what I mean.
And these exhibition fights is not new. It's not like
Jay Paul started exhibition fights. It's something that's been going
on for a long time now. I remember Muhammad Ali.
I wasn't you know, around for that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
But you remember it happening.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I remember watching, reading or studying about it, and Muhammad
Ali was over there with I just I just check
on you check on. She was there. There was some
exhibition fight where they was all in Puerto Rico and
the in the trolley. So I'm like, there's stuff that's
been going on for a long time now. And you know,
I said, yo, you will are you willing to get
back in the ring for like a fun exhibition fight?
(28:19):
And he said, yeah, you know, I'm not here to
bother nobody. I'm just you know, I'm thank you. His
legacy is established, is established, she said. But if it's
anybody to be Oscar de la Joya, I'm dropping that
clip on Monday, by the way.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Together.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, but you know, you know, he said he would
do that, but he said, you know, I mean, you
know what he said was the balls in your court,
you know what I mean. So he's down, but he's
not looking for it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Put that clip out. We got to make this happen.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, for sure, I'm trying to make it happen.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I'm a boxing fan, and you know, I wanted to
talk to you about you know different you know, Puerto
Rican boxers, and I want you to just give me
one word. We'll start with Trinidad. One word that you
would use to describe Trinidad go the goat.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
To me, he's my top number one, my favorite boxer
of all times. One word legend, greatest, He's the greatest
right now. Savage Savage another one of my favorites. Oh man, legend,
another legend. Those are all in my top five for sure.
(29:24):
But he's he's the chosen one. I call him the
chosen one. I mean, that's why he called himself the
chosen one. So I called him the Chosen One and
it Yeah, you know, I think he's up there, he's
on his way up, and he's going to have a
lot of opportunities that he's coming out that you know,
it can't really be talking about yet, but he's he's
got some opportunities that's coming in that he's gonna do
and he's gonna shock the world.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I think, yeah, we're going we're going to be sitting
down and we're gonna happens with him. We're gonna have
a good conversation because you know, with boxers, I feel
like there's so much misconception because they have to put on,
you know, this persona that is not really who they
are hanging.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Out with them. It's a whole different story. I was
hanging out with around all of the not hanging out,
but being around them, and they're like, yeah, you see it,
this person so nice, so humble.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, when they do those face offs, you're like, what's.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Even Belonga Like, I've been around him a few times
and he's not like that. He's not like that on
the on the way he's on those not even all
the time, but these last couple of fights, he's not
like that. And you know, he's really humble and he
gives back and he shows love to the people.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So oh no, he definitely does. You know, they're dope humans.
But sometimes we tend to just you know, grabs onto
like that persona that we see when they do the
face officer. Yeah, and it's not the case at all.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I like, you know, I must belong a lot because
he was one of the first boxes out of everybody
to follow my page and back a year when I
first started, you know, doing all this, and he was
one of the first ones that start supporting my page.
So that's why we show love back.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
One thing about perto Rican, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Going to support. We're gonna represent represent one hundred and seven.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Sure, let's talk about Latino rappers. Let's talk pun Let's
talk that Joe. Let's talk our you know, our legacy rappers.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Yeah. I tell we was there from the beginning, were
there from the jump, you know what I mean. I
don't care what nobody say, especially here in New York.
You know, there's a there's a culture, a melting pot
over here. We all mixed in together, you know what
I mean. And we was there from the jump. If
you go back and look at the history and look
at the the do your knowledge. You'll see that we
were there from the jump, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Can't erase us.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You can't rate, you can't take us out, you know
what I mean. And I talk a lot about that
was some of my early videos that went crazy, was
talking about that. I used to get a lot of
kickback from you know, obviously the you know, different companies
and different people that represent and they didn't like it.
It's like, well, you don't have to like the facts.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
The facts is facts.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You can't erase the history, you know what I mean, Like,
that's just what it is. And you know, and I
talk about you know, I saw you have Frankie Colors
up here, and he was one of the early ones
that was going on with the song Puerto Rico, and
we was dead there from the jump. You know what's
name Charlie Chase? Did they Charlie Chase? He was in
the first hip hop movie to ever too? What's the
(32:07):
other guy? I forgot his name? It's blowing my mom. Anyway,
they were in the first hip hop movie ever created,
you know what I'm saying, And we were there. You
can't erase us out of the history books because we
was there, We was representing, and we was showing love
to everybody, you know, So I don't see why it
would be a difference for anybody else to not show
love back. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I think it's an ownership thing. Sometimes. I feel like,
you know, when thinks something is so great, sometimes people
be like, I own it. It's mine, it's not yours.
And I'm not like a toy, you know what I'm saying,
when you're a child. I don't think it's like malicious
or anything. I just feel like it's hip hop is
so great and it's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Probably it is a culture. It's not like one thing culture.
It's not like you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Everything clothing, it's graffiti, it's music, the.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Way you toy, it's the way you act. You know,
that's hip hop, you know what I mean. And it's
not you know, and I know it's in the beginning
it was a little different, but now it's going scrown
so much that you can't exclude nobody because everybody was
involved at this point. You know, we've all put in
their their their effort into changing what hip hop was.
You know, for sure, Yeah, it's a missed.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
We all put a.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Little flat, little so soon and all of that, But
you can't eraise the Puerto Rican soithoon that was in hip.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hop, especially here in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Like it the mecca, it's the berth of it. So
New York, yeah goes hand in hand with the Puerto Rican.
Latinos say.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It goes sast.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I thought you was gonna say, now.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
That pressure on me.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I got my own saying ship you own gott gotty Now. Yeah,
you know it's crazy though, especially in New York. Like
you said, it's you know, it's a big city music.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
What do you what do you want to do with
music to?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I mean, I've done a lot of music.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I was like, you feel like you're done with music.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Not necessarily like you know, I think now it's different
now where it's like, you know, my platform is a
little different, it's bigger, it's it's grown to a whole
different world. I got different people paying attention, different opportun
when he's coming in that I can't just be up
there being that, you know, talking to some of the
stuff that I was talking before. You know, through my
life and it's experience, I've evolved. I guess you could say, yeah,
so you know I and I pay attention to certain
(34:11):
different things now that I'm like, but I'm not done
with it. I could send me like I feel like
you guys see anybody like I was. Probably I think
I put out my first record when I was like
fifteen years old or something like that, recording on the
you know what was the headphone?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But what was your first record?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I don't even remember. It was just a wild I
think I was ripping over like a wou tang beat
or something like, trying to make it my own song
or something. I don't even remember what it was. I
think I got it on the tape somewhere, but.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
You must preserve that.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh yeah, it's like a trophy to me. It's like, yo,
that's me, Like that was me.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are your dad?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I was gonna say, how did your family feel about
your content? Like are they like, yo, this is done?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
They love it. They show love my mom especially Yeah,
they share my mom, especially my dad. It's funny because
it's like my grandma right with my grandmother day and
she was telling me how her pastor her church is
sending her videos of me, not realizing that's my grandson.
Like my dad went before he retired. He retired earlier
this year. Last year, his coworker they're like, Yo, you've
(35:09):
seen it. You know they're not Puerto Rican. You've seen
this and it's a video of me, and they're like,
that's my son. He said there, like what is he
got going on? Like the reach is far and why
it's crazy to me. It's it's like I said, I'm grateful,
and I'm thankful. You know, I'm humbled by it.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know, what are we doing next? Talk to me?
What are we promoting? What's coming up?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I got a few things I can't talk about too much.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Back came up the secret.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I got a few things. I gotta I gotta. I
gotta do what I gotta do a few things. And
that's not locked in yet that it's going to be
locked in. But yeah, time of the year, I'm being
Puerto Rican phone set working on a couple of leagues
that they got the collegiate lead or league over there.
They want me to go, yeah, to go do some
stuff with them. Tomorrow will be at the Puerto Rico
(35:54):
VERSUS Dominican Republic game at the City Field.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You gotta see I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And now they ain't get a sweep. They gave us
the dugout joints, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Which we still You know, it's crazy because I was
I was looking at tickets this morning and then my
husband's like, it's gonna be cold, Like I want to go,
and he's like, it's gonna be cold.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Ain't gonna be too bad. But I said the same thing.
I said, you know, you got these guys coming from
eighty degree, let's get this game over with it. Like
you're gonna be throwing stikes.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And nobody's get It's definitely gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
It's gonna be fun. Yeah. So I'm be there, I'm
be doing I'm working on you know, the factist fights
is always the it's the main line, you know, So
that's my first and foremost. Make sure all the fact
is right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That you gotta do. The pressure is on, bro. You
can be out here to talk about factist facts and
be off points.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
There's been a couple of times when I slipped up,
and it's not a lot of that stuff is not scripted.
People think it's scripted. Yeah, So I'll be in there
just free like this, freestyling it, you know, more or
less from what I know. You know, I got notes
that I go over and the camera content.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It's not for the week.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's not for the week, you know. And I've been
doing it so long that I'm used to it. I'm like,
I know what I need to do and how to look,
how to sit and you know, and we got a
whole set up for that, and and so I just
make sure I got I said a few things that
that I've gotten a few things wrong. You know, it happened,
and they'll put me out of the cats wrong.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
And bro, they don't let me list. I'm like, Jesus,
I just mistook two words.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
What's funny is this guy? This this kid is influenced
The last year for the parade I was at I
was at a club out here in New York and
the night before the parade, and I was hanging out
with fifty cent. We was doing mad different things. I
could show you the videos. It was having a good time.
I didn't leave that club until about five or six
in the morning, like five and like four sun in
the morning, I think they closed, and I didn't get
back to where I'm man up. You know, it was late,
(37:34):
the sun was up. I had to be at the
parade at a certain time. I'm still hung over and
all that I am they expected, especially this influencer comes
up to me asking me mad questions about the facts
of Puerto Rico, the history of Puerto Rico. What's this
and what's down? Like, yo, bro, what s And this
is my first time dealing with all these people that
I didn't know who I need. So I'm trying to
figure it out. I'm hung over, and I'm like, Bro,
I was just hanging on fifty cent two hours ago.
(37:54):
You were asking me this like like I don't know, bro,
and it went viral. Of course with all the videos,
it goes biro and then all.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
The comments recorded.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yeah, all the comments is like, oh, don't know his ship.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I'm saying. They're like, I'm human to at the.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
End of the day, and you know you're not ready.
It's it's not what you're doing at that moment, but
you know that and you have a very distinct look
like I will always know it's you. So of course
he ran down on you.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
He knew you, knew exactly what he thought. I was
gonna be on point, and I was like, bro, I
just left the club two hours, you're not walking in cycles,
still got liquor on my breath, Like I'm trying to
tell right now, I'm trying to find where I need.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
To go hoot up.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
So it's things like that that I like, Okay, I
got to be on point, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
But you know, it happens, especially when we're on like
we're speaking right now, me and you back and forth.
You don't have a script. I don't have a script.
You know, I have some notes, but it's going to happen.
And we're human, of course, but we do have to
appreciate it. When someone is creating content for a group
of people that is not being properly represented, we gotta
you know, love them, uplift them, let them slide. Sometimes
(38:59):
let me slide. When I say my word's wrong. You know,
I think it was like eloquently and I said, like elegantly,
it was something weird YouTube video. All it was that
word is wrong. Oh that word is wrong, or you miss.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's how it is. And I like, I mean,
I don't I like the kind of engagement and the
reactions and all that, but sometimes they get.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Crazy and sometimes it'd be one common that will throw
you off.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
The change the comments really changed the narrative of the video.
They're the one that kind of control the narrative because
if you don't go in there and I reply back
to some people sometimes I'm like, nah, you're changing, You're
not you're not talking what need to be said. You're
changing the whole dynamic of this video.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Helping here, You're not helping here.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, you're not helping here.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And they'll come back and don't leave. Two three more common.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
They're around, have five other accounts that you don't even know,
and it'll be like just spamming ship, Yeah, buying your ship,
Like yo, you're talking mad ship about you or the
video whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know now, But I want you to continue what
you're doing. Musband loves your content. He's Puerto Rican and
he just that's right all day, all day with the
facts is back. I'm like, I get it, I saw it.
You don't got to show me the videos every time
I follow him too. But now I want you to,
you know, I want you to continue doing what you're doing.
(40:13):
The way get you know, you know, like Puerto Ricans
are super proud people, but the way that you're putting
out you know this, the facts, the information, the history.
It's just beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
It feels very relatable. It doesn't feel condescending. You don't
feel like you're trying to school people. It just feels like, yo,
here's what you need to know.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
I tell people, you know, I don't put my personal
opinion in the videos. I just give you the facts.
You know what I mean. And you know I don't
talk about what I feel about some of this stuff,
because we you know, that's what this is for, you know,
So you know, I just keep it real neutral and
just give you the facts, and it's up to you to,
you know, go from there.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You're a smart man to do that, because those videos
are being shared by thousands and thousands and thousands, and
if one of your opinions is misinformation without you even
knowing it, a lot of mistiness service.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Exactly to the culture, to myself, so to everybody. And
there's a lot of misguided and misiformed people out there.
So I feel like platforms like yours and mine and
stuff like it's important to have because you know, they
could go and feel you know, relatable to something that
they they're attached to, you know, and they feel good
with that. And I feel thankful to that that I
was able to grow a platform educating people that don't
(41:23):
even know. There's a lot of Puerto Ricans that don't
know some of this. My mom's like, yo, I don't
even know schooling your own mom Like, yo, really, I
didn't even know some of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Like that, And I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
There's certain things that you know, they're they're tuning in
the way they tune in. They don't pay attention to
all the politics and all that stuff. So they, you know,
they're like, wow, I didn't I didn't know that thought right, Yeah,
who would have thought? Right? I'm educating them like what
they raised you.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, I was supposed to learn from them.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
But you know, I get it though, you know, they
all you know, when you get here to the States,
it's different from disconnect. You disconnect from the culture. And
I think that's big important for us to as influencers
or whatever you want to call it, is to try
to connect. We try to connect the culture back to
the people so we could go back and appreciate what
we have and we.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Can't, you know, and we can't let the culture die,
regardless regardless of if we speak English, Spanish, Spanglish or
whatever it is that we speak. Culture is so important,
our food, you know, playing whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Like, that's all.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Like I know all this stuff through my husband. You
know what I'm saying. But I find it fascinating that
you know it still exists, that it's still.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
We gotta we gotta connect, We gotta we gotta bridge
the gap. I guess you could say the same thing
I told. I said, how important, Like when you brought
out a big pun and fai joe to the fight,
I said, how important was that to bridge the guy?
Like what it means? He said, Oh no, it was.
I love my Porto Ricans, whether you're born on the
island or born and stay wherever you're born, your Puerto
Rican is in your blood. It's in your it's in
your you know, we can't control what we're boring. Like,
(42:59):
you know, our parents made decisions and that's them. You know,
their life was different than so I can't be mad
at it. But it doesn't mean I gotta I gotta
disconnect from where I'm you know, from my roots and
all that. So I just I tell people at the time.
We gotta connect and try to you know, bring it back,
you know, and that's important in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And Puerto Ricans and Dominicans we gotta love each other.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
That was one of my second videos, We're all Caribbeans.
That was one of my earliers. Like I don't know,
he knew you already understand. You might understand the Puerto
Rican and Dominican like there's not necessarily a beef, but
there's always like a competition there.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Sometimes we love each other and we marry each other
and we sleep with each other.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I talked about it. I was like, yo, we all
we all family. That was all brothers and sisters, like
it's all family, like we all. The video was pretty
much about just the facts as far as like, you know,
the comparisons. You know, we're compared to a lot of
this stuff that's already you know what I mean that
there's no reason why we should have a disconnect between
each other.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
And we just say some words different. What do you
call a straw? Do you speak Spanish?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, but in the end though, I'm still learning, and yeah,
it just you know, we just have.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Those words like some words we say different. But I
feel like, you know, we're Caribbean, you know, African span
We're the same people. We just have different islands, of course,
And I'll leave it at that, different stops, that's it.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Fact he was on the same boat, just different stops,
you know.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
I want to thank you so much of it, you know,
making the time and coming up here. But more importantly,
I want to thank you for the content you're creating.
Appreciate and the positive way that you're depicting not just
Puerto Ricans but Latinos and New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, and thank
you again for your platform and what you do for
having you know, give an opportunity for Latinos to come
up here and have a voice. So thank you. I
appreciate it, Appreciate you having me come again, Yes, come again. Well.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
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