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Turning Up with J Balvin

August 2, 2024
J Balvin is inspiring the next generation to follow their dreams, be happy, y ponerse las pilas. Enter for your chance to win $25,000 and become the next #CheetosDejaTuHuella Ambassador! For rules, visit www.cheetosdejatuhuella.com.
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Hey, Buenos Diaz,
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how does it feel to join that?
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They have to weigh a family?
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I mean, like,
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you know, inspire this next generation and make them feel their
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mark. How does that feel?
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It feels great, you know,
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like it's always been my vision and,
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and my purpose as another artist has done it with me that
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inspired me to be where I'm at right now.
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Basically, I think life is like a chain of failures in
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the fact that, you know,
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you inspire me, then I start inspiring another one and that's
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you know, like a change.
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So I think it's really beautiful to me that we can do
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that, we can create a legacy and it's not about music
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it's about how you follow your dreams.
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So you know what we're doing here is not telling people be
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an artist. That's the last thing that I want people to
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do. I want them to be,
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I want them to be really happy.
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So I rather, you know,
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whatever they wanna be just,
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you know, support them and,
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and give them the best tools to help them,
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which is what we're doing with,
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with Cheetos, you know,
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looking for the ambassadors to help them the dream ev what they
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what they want to do from the heart and you know
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leave a mark and speaking of Cheetos,
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what are your favorites?
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There's Puffs crunchy hot.
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There's so many. I'm a,
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I, I love Cheetos man and all the way,
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like there's one version that is coming up soon.
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We cannot say the flavor.
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When I was shooting the commercial,
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I basically, I had to go to the gym for like
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24 hours, man.
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I love Cheetos in every way.
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You know, it's because it reminds me of my childhood and
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they just gave me that nostalgia.
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You know, every time I made a Cheetos,
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I'm like doing my,
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my finger tips on my shirt and it's,
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it's really cool, man.
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It just everything that,
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that has nostalgia in my life makes me feel better and I
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have to keep an eye for a new flavor because I had
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no idea what fantasy in the new era of album.
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What I expected from me when I was doing the album was
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getting 2000%. I just want them to feel what I felt
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when I was in the studio music.
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It's a universal language.
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But also, you know,
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there's always some type of song that connect more with one people
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than another. I just want to connect with the,
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with, with whoever listen to the album,
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whichever song they pick.
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But as long as they connect with it.
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To me, that's the important thing.
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So, Papo Las Pilla,
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what song from this album is the best for clubbing?
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Like to get you all hyped up.
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There's one called Slut with Luar Lare.
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There's another one called Origami with Ryan Castro and Bless at
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the end of the day.
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People are the one who choose if,
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if he's a B or not,
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right? But there's no formula to the music but it
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makes me feel good when I listen to it.
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And I think that that give me peace to know that I'm
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not saying like, oh I could do better here or I
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could rap better here or I could do a better hook here
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or not. Like when I listen to it,
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I feel that I gave my whole energy and then,
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you know, it's how people react to it,
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which is not in my hand,
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but I hope they love it.
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Oh That sounds great.
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No, I remember when Bibras was out like I had that
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on heavy rotation and that was good until this day Bibulus is
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it's, it's,
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it's, it's a proof that I was just doing me
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with Bis, for example,
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I just went to enjoy the music that I do and,
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and that's how create a great impact.
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So we're doing the same with this album and hopefully,
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you know, we have a lot,
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it is gonna have a lot of love back and what's
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one fun fact that people don't know about J Balvin.
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I skydive. That's a good one.
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I mean, I haven't done it in a while because I've
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just been traveling around the world and I haven't had like a
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lot of time to jump.
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I'm sad. I'm gonna,
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I'm gonna go tomorrow and jump.
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But yeah, also,
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Legos, I love,
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I love to build Legos.
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That's something that people don't even know.
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What's the craziest one you've done because there's like,
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so many, oh,
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man, I was,
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I was doing a piano.
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I think that piano is gonna take me,
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like, three years to finish it.
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So, so that one is great.
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But the last one I did it was Optimus Prime.
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I love Transformers. So it was a bad,
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and San Carlos dude,
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like, they're expensive.
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Like, it's an expensive hobby.
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You're right. You know,
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they, they, they don't hide the man.
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So, you know.
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Yeah. The, the,
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you know how the business is,
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they don't hide the man.
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But it's true. It's true.
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It's not, it's not cheap anymore.
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Like it used to.
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And, you know,
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we have adult money now.
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It's like, get the adults,
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you know, it's like they got money to spend.
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There seems to be so much talent coming from Colombia.
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Like you guys are doing the damn thing.
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How do you think?
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Like, how do you,
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who do you think is up and coming and that we should
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keep an eye out?
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For. That is amazing.
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I think she, she definitely,
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you know, a matter of time and be patient.
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I think she's gonna be the next one,
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you know, representing Colombia and reggaeton in the world.
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There's another kid called Jest.
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Another one. His name is JP.
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Amazing Pirlo from Cali.
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Like there's too many new artists coming out from my city and
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from my country. That is really hyped me up because it
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was a moment that it was basically just three of us in
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Colombia. I know you have a kid.
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I'm a dad. Do you want your kids to follow your
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footsteps and go to the music industry?
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No, no. What do you want them to do?
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No, no, no,
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no, I want him to be whatever he makes me happy
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to. If he wants to be an artist,
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I'll definitely will support him.
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But if he's for me,
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I just wanna let him pick,
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choose whatever he wants to be and I'll be there to support
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him no matter what anything he wants to be a writer or
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whatever. You know,
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like to me, every career,
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every job is important as long as it makes you happy.
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Who knows? Maybe a designer for Legos.
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That'll be amazing because I'm gonna,
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I'm, I'm gonna get that for free.
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And Ryo, when is it out?
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Yeah. August 9.
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Awesome. Check it out.
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Take care. Bye dude.
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He was awesome. He's so chill the Lego thing and like
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the skydiving. Yeah,
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he's so cool. Like I thought he was cool before but
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now like, look,
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I know that the vibes are going to be on point.
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I've been to one of his concerts.
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It's lit and he's so creative.
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So like the fact that he's into LEGOS,
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I see that because he's such a creative guy.
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And also thank you Cheetos for saying this up dude.
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That was awesome. And you know what if you have any
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of those new flavors?
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It's Oprah. Oh yeah,
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I would love to try them.