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"Pitbull is Music's New Don" - The Hollywood Reporter
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Pitbull has had one of the most meteoric rises in pop over the past few years, going from a small-time Miami emcee to the so-called Mr. Worldwide, selling out arenas around the world -- and rapping about every single one of them.
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Don't underestimate the hitmaker (and new face of Playboy), who talks to THR about life as Cuba's underground hero, why he hasn't talked to Kesha since rehab and how he came to own the pop culture moment.
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Pitbull is more confident, even willing to time-stamp the future threshold. "Do I think it's realistic to be a billion-dollar company by [age] 35? Absolutely."
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Pitbull is evangelical about hard work. "Why do interns make the best CEOs? Because they got the doughnuts and coffee, they cleaned the bathrooms," he says. "They learned that building in and out." It's a principle that he more than backs up in his own life. In the three months following his Barclays Center bow, he has kept up a relentless pace, including headlining the recent iTunes Music Festival at South by Southwest, after which an inebriated Apple executive professes backstage, "I love you, Pitbull."
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While "Timber" spent three consecutive weeks at No. 1, Pit's co-star on the song, Kesha, has been in and out of rehab. Taking a sip of his Volito, Pitbull says they haven't been in touch since she got out of treatment on March 6. "People need their space. The good thing is she came out on a high horse. Sometimes, it's a blessing in disguise."
Although it has been 16 years since he peddled and used drugs -- never cocaine, insists Pitbull, "smoke a joint here and there, have my little drink" -- the experience of abuse still is fresh in his mind. "I grew up around so many alcoholics and drug addicts that I saw early on in my life what I didn't want to do," he says. "I had a mother that went to Alcoholics Anonymous, I sat through the classes. I've seen the 12 steps, the chips, the whole nine."
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Loads more here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...reveals-691054
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