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An honor for me to, to represent my flag and to represent where
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it really started from.
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You know what I mean?
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Spanish reggae and then they converted it to reggaeton.
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Thank you so much for being here with us at Latino music by me
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And you know, this is more like a deep dive into your career
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and like your story and you know, let's start off with like
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talk to us about your career journey.
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Like you were born in Panama.
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How did you get to, you know, to be one of like the main producers
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in the Latin music and history?
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Listen, I was really into music since I was little, my parents
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my mom, I was mopping the floor with a salsa and my cousin was
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a DJ and I actually started out, I was really into basketball
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So I was playing basketball for a U, I was playing basketball
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in bar city and, and in high school and then I got into a car accident
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and I broke my femur and, and I was down for like three months
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and then I started falling in love with D and the music.
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So and it was a quick story.
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And then after I couldn't play basketball, no.
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Last, this is not that I couldn't play.
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I just, I couldn't be myself in the court anymore.
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So I didn't feel like that guy, you know, anymore.
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So I started falling in love with music.
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I, I was living in Orlando, I used to back and forth to Panama
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and I went to, to one of my cousin's house and there was DJ.
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He had, but back then he had a little computer with like a small
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like, playing with the, with the DJ stuff to the computer
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And then I started falling in love with, with that because
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I like to be in front of the audience and, and, and, and people
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And I like the feeling of that.
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I like the feeling of the radio and from there to be honest with
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you, I, I fell in love with the music and I started doing what
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Do you think that your experience?
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Because I think there's no one has a better ear than a DJ at a
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Like, do you know what's up?
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You know what people like?
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You know what people vibe to do?
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You think that shaped you as the person that you are?
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That's my main thing.
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That's my main thing.
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I think that's my sound because I, I actually feel what, what
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the people want to hear.
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I feel what the people want to listen to.
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I like to go out a lot to see what people like.
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You know what I mean?
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I not to disrespect anybody but, or, or, or say anybody but
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a lot of the people that are in the labels, the A and Rs, a lot
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of people that all the producers that are in the house just
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sitting there making beats.
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I, you need to live and, and in order for you to live, you need
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to know what people like because if you're in a house, you don't
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know the reaction that you, that your crowd will have to the
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So that reaction, you can't fake that you have to be in the,
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You have to be out there.
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You have to be not in the same partying, but you have to be in
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the street in order for you to know the reaction from the crowd
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You know what I mean?
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What's your creative process?
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Like does an artist come to you?
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Like, hey, can you, can we do a song or like, do you, do you produce
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And then, you know, I have a team, I have a team of, of producer
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I have a team of writers and I actually, I create the music
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and I hand it to them, you know what I mean?
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That's, that's how I, I actually have my process of, of, of
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of working, you know what I mean?
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And I I give you the song.
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Sometimes we're gonna, I like to create from zero.
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You know what I mean?
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I have to like give you the crown.
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I'm crown on you right now.
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When you do a remix, how do you know which artist you wanna add
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I mean, it's actually, I, I have it from the beginning like
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after we make the songs like, OK, this gotta fit here.
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We gotta put this one here.
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We gotta put another one over here just because the fact of
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of the, the voices, the different voices, the different
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styles and, and I actually feel the record.
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Ok, so if I put, I got a Yankee here and if I put a, uh, uh, uh, uh
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an here, do I put a sign, Lex here?
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That would it work like this?
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Maybe he's six for the first verse.
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Um, Yankee goes first.
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Now let's put Yankee last because the people would expect
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him at the end and they listen to the whole song.
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It's a strategy that it just may not.
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Avengers was a game changer by the way.
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And, and the, and a lot of music, I just speak for props to you
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because I think it elevated.
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You said play that to like another level.
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The Avengers was actually all of us.
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I don't, I don't, I don't credit myself only.
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It's a, it's a, it's a group that we all, we all actually got
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together and, and felt the vibe and we, we decided to create
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the Avengers and, and actually, I, I love that creative process
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because we are friends, close friends, we hang out with each
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We know what we like.
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We know how to deal with each other.
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That's very important when you do an album like that because
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it's actually all of us in the same record.
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So you have to know how each other vibes, you know, I have to
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get, you know, how, how, how Lenin works, how Justin works
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They all work different, they all have their own different
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I mean, as a producer, I have to deal with all of them.
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It's like that my kids is there gonna be a follow up for, for
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the Avengers by any chance or what do you have in store for us
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I can't tell you that, but I think people would want it.
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I've seen like a lot of lady and with some of your, your songs
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as well that you're credited as an artist in, in the songs.
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Like I've seen, for example, other producers like Benny Blank
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called Calvin Harris, like name a few.
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Do you think that's necessary for like producers in the Latin
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industry to get, you know, more visibility necessary for
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But I'm gonna do it.
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I was reading an article that apparently used lead into Tiger's
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I actually did, I actually did.
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And then we, we got a couple, I'm working a couple of stuff with
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I got like 23 records with him and in different markets.
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But I did a slide into the yo, I, I got this record and I want you
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to listen to and then actually did a couple of rock, did a couple
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of records with him to be honest with you.
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So is that like the best way for like an artist to reach or just
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like, doesn't really work all the time?
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But for me, I'm pretty sure I can go back into my tweets.
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I think there's like a tweet from like three years ago.
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But II, I think I said, where did that come from?
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Because he came out the gate with bankers.
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And then I'm like, oh, they're all produced by, by my name.
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I'm not even actually that's, that's the thing that's like
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we all set came set.
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Actually, people, a lot of people don't know from set.
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He's a producer himself, but he sometimes most of the time
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he brings me the records.
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I almost done and then I just put my touch to him and we work as
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a team, you know, and what are you, are you working with him
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And oh, uh to be honest with you for 42 42 is, is, is one of his
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best albums I can say the, and we have to change our sound because
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sometimes it, it becomes people know where people know.
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But at the end of the day, that's why I work with different.
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I have a team, I have a big team that, that we all have different
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sounds that we all know what we lack in and we all know what we
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We all know where, what's our best to do what we do best and,
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and, and that's why I think we have a success on, on what we have
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done on, on, on the industry.
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And then I think like, Panama and art is like, are on the rise
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right now, especially with you with that.
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We have almost, my whole team is from Panama and different
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really and Colombia.
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And uh yeah, I have one Puerto Rican and I think too, I think
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how do you feel to like, you know, represent Panama, like at
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the global stage and like, you know, showing like different
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sounds that come from like the, like, it's an honor for me.
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It's an honor for me to, to represent my flag and to represent
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where it really started from, you know what I mean?
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Spanish reggae and then they converted to reggaeton.
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I think it started to turn down and we, we, we're doing it and
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we're gonna do it even better.
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So we just gotta get together and, and everybody works team
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There's that whole debate of like, how do you feel about that
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You can take care of your family?
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That's what you gotta figure it out lately.
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You've been producing for like artists like Daddy, Daddy
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Yankee JB tag and all that.
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Like, what can you tell us about working with them?
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Like your experience working with them?
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I mean, it's a dream working with Yankees.
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Like you, you, you've seen him from and now like me being in
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the studio for him, give me the credibility to work on records
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with him is, is, is a blessing.
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Any artist like like your dream collapse or like artists you
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want to produce for in the future that you're like, oh, it seems
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for now, but I need, we need to hit the American market, Drake
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Post Malone Travis, Scott Chris Brown.
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That's my next goal.
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And then I guess to like Romeo, but that would be a good one.
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That would be a good one.
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I mean, I did a record with Romeo remix but I wasn't in the studio
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So I didn't get to catch that vibe.
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Do you have like, like to close it out?
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Like any advice for like up and coming producers believe in
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God and keep working hard and never give up.
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You gotta keep working.
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It can take you 15 to 10 years, it can take you a year.
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But if you no excuses for me when you want something that I have
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Something that I tell my team all the time.
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Is there no excuses this, you know what I mean?
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If you don't have excuses, you're gonna succeed in life.
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Always Latino music.
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