Pitbull (rapper)

Pitbull (2013)

Pitbull (born January 15, 1981 in Miami , Florida ; real name Armando Christian Pérez ) is an American rapper of Cuban descent who first gained fame worldwide through his collaboration with Lil Jon . Pitbull achieved worldwide success with the singles I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) , Give Me Everything and Timber . His trademarks include a. that he announces himself at the beginning of a song with his pseudonym Mr. Worldwide as well as the howl before the beginning of a verse.

Life

Pitbull was born to Cuban parents in Miami , Florida . Already in his early years he was interested in the works of various poets. At the age of three he was able to quote works by the Cuban poet José Martí . Pérez's parents separated when he was young. He then grew up with his mother. At the age of 16, like his father, he began dealing in drugs. So his mother sent him to the children's home, and he grew up with a foster family in Roswell , Georgia .

He attended South Miami Senior High School and then Miami Coral Park High School and then focused on his rapper career. He reported that as a white rapper with blue eyes it was hard for him to be taken seriously. So a lot of work was part of his breakthrough. His music is influenced by the Miami bass genres of pop music. He cited Celia Cruz and Willy Chirino as further sources of inspiration .

He said he chose his stage name because pit bulls are biting down and too stupid to lose. This is exactly how he worked out his career plan. He wants to bite through and not lose sight of the goal of celebrating the breakthrough. After meeting Lil Jon in Miami, Pitbull had his first official recording on Lil Jon and East Side Boyz's album Kings of Crunk in 2002. Pitbull's song Oye was used as the soundtrack to the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious in 2003 . With these two tracks he was able to make a name for himself in the music world for the first time.

Career

2001–2003: Luke Records and TVT Records

Pitbull performing live (2008)

In 2001 Pitbull signed a contract with Luther Campbell's record label Luke Records . Then followed a contract with Jullian Boothes label A&R . In 2001 Robert Fernandez signed him with Famous Artist Music & Management , an independent label and management company that specializes in making artists great. When the contract with Luke Records expired, he moved to Famous Artist Music & Management . Together they focused on making Pitbull's music radio-ready. Fernandez later said to HitQuarters: “Back then his songs consisted of many stanzas and it took a long time for a chorus to kick in. So we set out to make the songs more catchy and less on rap. "

Fernandez got Lil Jon to record the intro of his new album Kings of Crunk with Pitbull . According to Fernandez, Jon took a liking to Pérez and gave him the opportunity to contribute his own track to the album. This was called Pitbull Cuban Ride-Out . The whole purpose was that Pitbull should quickly get a bigger name in the rap scene.

2004-2005: MIAMI

In 2004 his debut album MIAMI was released , which was produced entirely by Lil Jon and the Diaz Brothers. Jon also took part in several songs, such as Pitbull's first single and debut single Culo . The album reached number 14 on the US album charts . Culo was the first single from the album. She reached number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 , as well as number 11 on the US hip-hop chart. Dammit Man , Back Up , Toma and That's Nasty (both with Lil Jon) were the next four single releases. None of these titles could reach the charts.

He signed a contract with the Anger Management Tour . As a result, he became the headliner of many hip-hop tours by artists such as Eminem or 50 Cent . Pitbull also worked with the Ying Yang Twins on the single Shake . This came to number 41 on the Hot 100 and reached number 12 in the rap charts. Together with Twista he recorded the title Hit the Floor and reached number 94 on the Hot 100 and number 20 on the rap charts. His remix album Money Is Still a Major Issue was released in November 2005. This contains two CDs. The first consists of the tracks from MIAMI and a new track Everybody Get Down , together with the hip-hop group Pretty Ricky . The second CD contains the music videos for the awards. The album reached number 25 on the US Billboard Top 200 and was awarded a gold record .

At the time he was under contract with TVT Records , and Slip-n-Slide Records. These two labels also released the album Welcome to the 305 , an unreleased album that Pitbull recorded in 2001. A Miami judge ruled that Slip-n-Slide had a legal right to release the album because it was recorded when Pitbull was exclusively under contract with Slip-N-Slide. A US district judge upheld the decision. TVT was then sued for $ 9.1 million in March 2007 for attempting to block the publication of Slip-n-Slide.

In 2005, Pitbull and rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs founded the Bad Boy Latino record label , a subsidiary of Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment . It mainly focuses on Latin hip hop, Latin soul, Latin pop, and other tropical music. Offices can be found in New York and Miami. Pérez currently heads mostly the A&R department of the label.

2006–2008: El Mariel and The Boatlift

In January 2006, Pitbull had a guest role on the TV series South Beach . In the spring he recorded the song Nuestro Himno with Wyclef Jean , Carlos Ponce and Olga Tañón . He was also involved in three songs on the LP Listennn… The Album , the debut full-length player from DJ Khaled , a member of the Terror Squad band . These were u. a. the tracks Holla at Me and Born-N-Raised , on which other US rappers also participated.

In October 2006 the album El Mariel was released . He dedicated the album to his father, who died in May 2006. In addition to the usual party-oriented tracks, the album also contains political-thematic tracks. As singles, the songs Bojangles , Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera) , Fuego and Dime , a duet with the Puerto Rican singer Ken-Y . El Mariel made it to number 15 on the US album charts and number 2 on the rap charts.

Pitbull's third album titled The Boatlift was released in November 2007. He announced earlier that the album would genre in the direction of gangsta rap . The first release was Secret Admirer , together with Lloyd. The Anthem with and produced by Lil Jon was the following single, which was the first single to be placed in many other countries, including Germany. The third single was Go Girl , along with Trina , who moved up to number 80 in the US. The last single was called Sticky Icky .

From May 2007 to 2009 his own show Pitbull La Esquina ran on the mun2 TV channel . Pitbull also appeared on DJ Laz's single Move Shake Drop , as well as on DJ Felli Fel's Feel It .

2009–2010: Rebelution & Armando

Pitbull in 2010

His fourth studio album, Rebelution , was released on August 28, 2009 . It made it into the top 10 of the US album charts and reached placements almost worldwide. There were also top positions in France, the Netherlands and Australia. The whole album is much more commercial than the previous ones. The first single was Krazy , again with Lil Jon, released. The title was significantly more successful than the previous singles and achieved high placements in the USA, for the first time in Australia, Canada and Switzerland.

Second, the song I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) was released as a single, which is a new recording of 75, Brazil Street by Nicola Fasano vs Pat-Rich . This was the most successful single of his career to date. Chicago's street player (also sampled or replayed in above 75, Brazil Street ), which was successfully sampled by the Bucketheads in the mid-1990s, was used for the distinctive and re-enacted horn sound . The title addition Calle Ocho , the Spanish-language name for 8th Street in Miami, alludes to Fasano's piece . Pitbull's song rose to number 2 on the US Billboard charts and then became a pan-European summer hit. a. topped the charts in France , Belgium and the Netherlands . With 82 million views, the video for the single was the most-watched music video in 2009 on the YouTube video portal .

The third single, Hotel Room Service , samples the song Push the Feeling On by the Nightcrawlers . This could follow on from the success of I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) and ultimately helped Pitbull to two record deals with Polo Grounds Music and Sony Music Entertainment . He also founded his own label, Mr. 305 Inc. Mr. 305 then became his shout , which he called at the beginning of every song he was involved in. He later announced himself to be Mr. Worldwide .

In 2010, Pitbull performed a rap part in the Haiti benefit song Somos El Mundo , a Spanish version of We Are the World . A large group of Latin artists sang the text. He also worked as a guest musician on the title Armada Latina , the fourth single from the album Rise Up by Latin rap legends Cypress Hill . The song was produced by Jim Jonsin and has a vocals by Marc Anthony . Pitbull then took together with Alexandra Burke , the single All Night Long and gained an even higher level of awareness, especially on radio, with DJ Got Us Fallin 'in Love by Usher . DJ Got Us Fallin 'in Love became another great success and reached all top 10 placements worldwide.

Pitbull released a Spanish-language album debut on November 2nd, 2010 entitled Armando . He was also nominated for the Billboard Latin Music Awards . He collected 7 nominations for Latin Rhythm Airplay, Song of the Year with Bon, Bon , Latin Rhythm Airplay, Artist of the Year, Solo Artist , Latin Rhythm Albums, Album of the Year with Armando , Latin Rhythm Albums, Artist of the Year, Solo Artist , Social 50, Latin Artist of the Year , Latin Digital Download of the Year with Bon, Bon and Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Event for the song I Like It , together with Enrique Iglesias . He also won the TeleHit award for Most Popular Artist .

2011: Studio album Planet Pit

Pitbull on his planet pit tour

In June 2011 the album Planet Pit was released . This became a huge hit worldwide and his most successful album to date. It was able to reach the top 10 in a number of countries. Among other things, he was awarded 5 platinum records and 7 gold records. The first single Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor) , in collaboration with the US rapper and singer T-Pain , achieved several top 30 placements.

The second single Give Me Everything could also be his biggest solo success to date and reached several top positions, as well as 15 top 10 annual chart placements. In addition, he was awarded 17 × platinum, once multiplatin and 3 × gold for the single. The track was recorded together with his good friend and DJ Afrojack , singer Nayer and singer Ne-Yo . In addition, the song's intro is sponsored by Kodak , so your slogan “Me not working hard? Yea right picture that with a Kodak ", followed by" Or better yet, go to Times Square and take a picture of me with a Kodak. " Pitbull received a lot of criticism for this intro . Still, it didn't hurt the song's success.

He also performed rap parts on Jennifer Lopez 's song On the Floor and was in the German top 10 for 6 months and finally at number 1 in the German annual charts. The next single from Planet Pit was Rain Over Me , in collaboration with Marc Anthony . This also achieved a number of top 10 placements. With Chris Brown as a guest musician, he released the last single International Love in 2012 . It became another smash hit, especially in countries like Great Britain or the USA.

2012: Men In Black, Global Warming

On November 16, 2012 Pitbull released his studio album Global Warming in Germany. Already before the album there were three single releases, namely Back in Time a cover of the song Love Is Strange by Mickey & Sylvia, Get It Started with Shakira and Don't Stop the Party with EDM - DJ TJR. All three singles had worldwide success. It should be noted that the instrumental of the song Don't Stop the Party is based solely on the track Funky Kitchen by Toots & The Maytals or in particular its remake Funky Vodka by TJR. Don't Stop the Party reached number 17 on the US Billboard charts, number 7 in Great Britain and number 1 in Mexico, and also achieved good chart positions in many other countries. Get it Started with Shakira only made it to 89th place in the US, but could enter the top 10 in some other charts worldwide. Back in Time, on the other hand, was ranked 11th in the USA, 5th in Germany and Austria, the Czech Republic and even 1st in several countries. It was the official song for the movie Men in Black 3 starring Will Smith .

The fourth single was parallel to the release of Global Warming the title Feel This Moment , released in the US on 16 November 2012 found. The track was created in collaboration with singer Christina Aguilera . The song reached the top 10 in more than 29 countries, including four times number one and 14 further placements in the top 5. With over 16 platinum and six gold records, it was considered the most commercially successful single from the album. The chorus samples the instrumental of the 1980s hit Take on Me by the Norwegian pop rock band a-ha . In addition to the songs that have already been released, the album also features collaborations with, among others, Enrique Iglesias , Usher and The Wanted . The success of the studio album was limited. Although it reached the official album charts in over ten countries, with just under half a million it was not even half as many units sold as its predecessor Planet Pit .

2013: Meltdown EP

In 2013, he appeared on the musician Arianna's single Sexy People (The Fiat Song) , which was used in the Fiat commercials. The track was able to advance to number 97 in the US single charts, but did not reach any other chart positions. Shaggy and Charlie Sheen can be seen in the music video for this song .

Global Warming: Meltdown was released as an EP on November 25, 2013. In addition to the songs from the original album, this contains five new songs. These include guest appearances by artists such as Kelly Rowland or Inna , as well as productions by Calvin Harris or Benny Blanco , none of which were decoupled nor were successful. The first single was the song Timber with Kesha . The song was released on October 7, 2013 and was Pitbull's first single, which reached number one in Germany. In addition, the title was ranked number one in Austria, Canada and Sweden and in the top 10 in 23 other countries.

2014: Fifa World Cup Song & Globalization

In April 2014, the rapper released the song We Are One (Ole Ola) . This was used as the official song of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which also resulted in the single cover. The American singer Jennifer Lopez and the Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte performed as guest musicians . Just a week after its release, the song hit the singles charts in many countries. At the opening ceremony, before the game between Brazil and Croatia, the three of them had a much-criticized appearance. Among other things, Pitbull was ridiculed for his choice of clothes - he wore white tight pants with a yellow T-shirt. Jennifer Lopez was also criticized because she had actually canceled two days before the FIFA appearance , but then only came spontaneously and the appearance had obviously not been rehearsed with her enough and therefore left a lot to be desired.

On February 25, 2014, the single Wild Wild Love was released with GRL , the single reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 but became a celebrated hit in the UK. On July 23, the single Fireball with John Ryan was released, the song advanced to number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also a global hit, reaching the top 20 in several countries and reaching gold in Australia and Canada, among others. and platinum status. Ilsey was involved in the production of the song .

In June 2014 it was announced that he will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

On November 21, 2014 Pitbull's eighth studio album Globalization was released in collaboration with artists such as Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, Jason Derulo , Juicy J , Bebe Rexha , Sean Paul and many more. The album contains eleven songs, including the song Celebrate , which was used as the official soundtrack for The Penguins from Madagascar and was the fourth single after We Are One (Ole Ola) , Wild Wild Love and Fireball from Globalization . The single Time of Our Lives followed on November 17, 2014 together with Ne-Yo. The song was able to surpass the success of the previous singles and entered the charts in over 30 countries. His sixth single from this album was released in late June 2015 and was the song Fun , which he recorded with Chris Brown . It is currently at number 40 in the Billboard charts and is already represented in the German charts.

2015: Studio album: Dale

In spring 2015 he toured Asia and appeared on April 18, 2015 as part of the Formula 1 race in Bahrain . On June 6th, 2015 he performed together with Ne-Yo and other musicians at the Summertime Ball in London in front of almost 80,000 spectators, where he presented his current title Time of Our Lives alongside some old songs . On June 8, 2015 Pitbull released the song Baddest Girl In Town, recorded together with Mohombi and Wisin , as a single. The song is the fourth pre-release single of his ninth studio album Dale , which was released on July 17, 2015. On this one can hear songs with artists like Farukko, Yandel , Ricky Martin , El Micha. He can also be heard on the tracks Mr. Put It Down with Ricky Martin, That's How I'm Feelin with Ciara and Missy Elliott , Back It Up with Prince Royce and Jennifer Lopez. On July 26th, he performed with Kanye West at the closing ceremony of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto . He then published the video for his song Baddest Girl in Town with Mohombi and Wisin . He also worked on the songs SummerThing by Afrojack and Never Let You Go by Farukko .

In October 2015 he made a guest appearance on the internationally successful television series Empire , where he interpreted a song written by Ne-Yo and Timbaland with the Empire actors .

2016: Studio album Climate Change

After the single Free.K had already been released as a promotional single at the end of 2015 , Pitbull announced his tenth studio album Climate Change for 2016 . The first official single from it, Freedom , was released in early 2016. The music video was released on February 11th and was sponsored by Norwegian Cruise Lines and filmed on the newest ship in their fleet, named by Pitbull.

On February 15, 2016, Pitbull appeared together with Robin Thicke at the 58th Grammy Awards, where he presented the single Bad Men for the first time . Pitbull was also nominated for four Grammys, including Best Latino Album for Dale .

He has also appeared on the singles Ay mi Dios by Yandel and 'El Chacal', the Spanglish remix of the blockbuster El Taxi by Lil Jon and Get with you by 'Jung Jay Ray'. On June 15, 2016, he received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Together with Enrique Iglesias he released the song Messin Around , with Flo Rida and Lunchmoney Lewis the track Greenlight .

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2004	MIAMI	-	-	-	-	US14th gold (40 weeks)US	First published: Aug 24, 2004 US sales: + 644,000
2006	El Mariel	-	-	-	-	US17 (9 weeks) US	First published: October 30, 2006 US sales: + 214,000
2007	The boatlift	DE96 (2 weeks) DE	AT42 (3 weeks) AT	CH23 (8 weeks) CH	-	US50 (5 weeks) US	First published: November 27, 2007 Sales: + 100,000
2009	Reelution	DE34 (6 weeks) DE	AT20 (8 weeks) AT	CH8 (19 weeks) CH	-	US8 (11 weeks) US	First published: September 1st, 2009 Sales: + 380,000
2010	Armando	-	-	-	-	US65 (2 weeks) US	First published: August 31, 2010 Sales: + 50,000; Spanish album
2011	Planet pit	DE6th gold (32 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (38 weeks)AT	CH2 gold (53 weeks)CH	UK11 gold (18 weeks)UK	US7th gold (63 weeks)US	First published: June 17, 2011 Sales: + 1,350,000
2012	Global warming	DE21 (4 weeks) DE	AT12 (16 weeks) AT	CH15 (14 weeks) CH	UK- gold UK	US14 (45 weeks) US	First published: November 16, 2012 Sales: + 715,000
2014	Globalization	-	-	CH34 (2 weeks) CH	-	US18 (43 weeks) US	First published: November 21, 2014
2015	Dale	-	-	CH71 (2 weeks) CH	-	US97 (1 week) US	First published: July 17, 2015
2017	Climate change	-	-	CH69 (1 week) CH	-	US29 (2 weeks) US	First published: March 17, 2017
2019	Libertad 548	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 27, 2019

Web links

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• Official website
• Pitbull at laut.de
• Pit at Discogs (English)
• Pitbull at Allmusic (English)
• Pitbull in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article about his career
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} article. In: Washington Post
3. ↑ ^{a b} Report on his breakthrough
4. ↑ ^{a b} biography on Allmusic
5. ↑ Interview with Pitbull ( memento of the original from January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Article on MTV
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Interview on hitquarters.com
8. ^ Report on his first successes on tours
9. ↑ MTV reports on the "label fight"
10. ↑ further course of the fight
11. ↑ News on MTV
12. ↑ MTV reports
13. ↑ Article about the label
14. ↑ Article on hispanicsurf.com ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Pitbull achieved international attention for the first time through his participation in Gasolina (DJ Buddha Remix) by Daddy Yankee with Lil Jon and NORE Interview on latinrapper.com
16. ↑ Pitbull reports on the label ( memento of the original from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ article on Billboard
18. ↑ Music News on FoxNews.com ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ^ Presentation of his new album on MTV
20. ↑ News from MTV
21. ↑ Interview about The Boatlift
22. ↑ Announcement of his TV show ( Memento of the original of November 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ Article in the Washington Post
24. ↑ Announcement from YouTube , December 16, 2009.
25. ↑ Article about his nominations ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ Fans outraged by Kodak ads in Give Me Everything
27. ↑ Amazon.de .
28. ↑ https://www.vip.de/vips/pitbull-t10622.html found at vip.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
29. ↑ Twitter.com .
30. ↑ Publication of Meltdown ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
31. ↑ Chart placements Timber
32. ↑ Article about the World Cup song
33. ↑ itunes.apple.com
34. ↑ ^{a b} billboard.com
35. ↑ guardianlv.com
36. ^ Gold & Platinum Searchable Database . Retrieved June 4, 2015.
37. ↑ [1]