And so Welcome to South Beach Sessions. We don't usually have this kind of fame around here. There's a lot of bustle around you. It seems like a lot of responsibility to be

Nicky Jam. I can say I've got the own pioneer, correct? You feel like a pioneer?

You don't have to be humble here. You can feel like you helped to introduce this music.

I've knocked a lot of doors for this music to be where it is today.

I'm one of the ones. I'm one of the guys that knocked on a lot of doors. I can't take all the

credit, but there's a lot of doors I can't take all the credit but there's a lot of record tone

artists that are not active today that started with me back in the day so it's

been almost 30 years. Your journey is fascinating I'm curious what you think is most interesting about your journey because I don't know if it came with all of the expected things.

What's happening around you, I don't know how comfortable you are in it, certainly you're used to to but the bustle and the economy around you the

number of people around you buzzing around you it seems like a lot I mean yeah you know

I mean it seems like a lot but of most of the people that surround me

they family you know they family they've been with me for more than a decade

some of them have been been being for more than two decades and uh so I feel good I feel good with the people I'm with you know the most I can

say crazy thing about my my career is the comeback. You know, I was, I started in 1994, my first album. I was discovered

at a supermarket. I used to pack groceries and freestyle while I pack groceries and

this lady heard about me and then she took me some weird

she took me that same day she heard me, she took me to her husband and her husband was, he was, he worked for a record label called MP records back in the days.

I don't know if that record still exists but

Literally bagging groceries you were you were discovered bagging the

groceries for a customer. Yeah I used to that's the way I used to make money when I was a kid, you know, I made

$20 a day and with that I'll buy bread, milk, coke, ham, cheese and bread and cigarettes

for my dad. And that was like my job every day you know and if I wanted to go to the

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