29 Quotes by Daddy Yankee

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    The shooters had mistaken me for someone else. I entered a total rebellious phase. It completely changed me.

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    I've always dreamed of touring by myself. We're introducing reggaeton to the masses now. We've been doing this for the last 13 years, so for the Latin community this is not new. But this tour is not just for the Latin community. It's for everybody.

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    They thought I was a friend of mine, ... It's the same thing that happens in the 'hood here. I was the victim, but it wasn't for me.

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    It's the first time people will be able to see a reggaetone artist going on tour by himself, so it's a new experience for me, but it's not new because I've been doing this in clubs and performances all of my life,

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    That song Oye Mi Canto was the key to introduce reggaeton to the masses. It's like what Rapper's Delight (by the Sugarhill Gang) was for the hip-hop movement in the early '80s.

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    I'm representing for Latinos all over the world. ... This ain't a one-hit-wonder thing. It's just the beginning. And it's a special moment for me and my culture.

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    I'm from the crime capital / And the air smells like death that eats everything that lives / If it was up to me / I would reunite every gang in the name of the fearless people that have fallen / I am a valiant man who's just asking you to stop spilling innocent blood.

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    In the past year we didn't have a true genre that speaks for the Latino's. Right now we have that with the reggaetone,

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