

Pitbull does not mind: "As they say, every great artist is a thief." The success caught the attention of the critics, unhappy with the overuse of samples in the banging drumstick style of the rapper. charts, selling more than 2.5 million copies on iTunes and turned Pitbull into a monster of radio and racetracks. "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" reached second place on the U.S. The fourth album, "Rebelution" (2009), changed the landscape. The failure led to the powerful Ultra, which funds electronic artists like Deadmau5 and David Guetta. "My career has always been a struggle, but I like it like that," says the rapper to Folha.

Son of a Cuban stripper and an American involved with drugs, Armando Christian Perez, 31, chose the stage name Pitbull because the dog is "too stupid to lose a fight."Īnd he got into a lot of them since he was kicked out of the house for having followed his father's career until the bankruptcy of his label, TVT Records, after the poor performance of the album "The Boatlift" (2007). Pitbull is the face of the masses, a Latin American with money that reigns in pop music today. Within seconds, cell phones are taken out of pockets and the counter, which serves to hold the car keys of the cool people, becomes support.
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Until they hear the presenter announce the presence of the rapper Pitbull. The valets and porters don't show interest in the tumult. Dozens of journalists jostle to get a shot of Will Smith and Josh Brolin at the entrance of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Cancun.
