Eladio Carrión: Why the athlete-turned-rapper thinks everything in life is practice

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with the Puerto Rican hip-hop artist Eladio Carrión to discuss what drives him, learning Spanish through music and how he's changing the game of Latin rap.

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0:22.2	available wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, Anna, you rode your bike into the studio today,
0:27.9	into the building. You're very athletic, right? No, because you're a runner, right? That is true.
0:34.8	Okay. There is a distinction between athletic, though, I think, and active.
0:39.7	Yes.
0:40.3	But I was the kid who got picked last in school every single time.
0:45.6	So there's an element of skill involved in athletics.
0:49.4	There's an element of skill involved in athletics that I think is difficult to achieve if you're
0:56.3	naturally born horrible at them.
0:59.7	And why are we talking about athletics today on a music show?
1:04.4	On a music show, because you would be surprised, Felix, or maybe you're not, but perhaps
1:09.3	others would be surprised about how connected
1:12.7	they are, music and sports. And they both involve discipline, they both involve focus,
1:20.2	and you have to spend a lot of time practicing to achieve successes and meet your goals.
1:27.1	And you have to be a person who is inclined to not get distracted by other things.
1:34.6	Which leads us to our guest this week.
1:37.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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