Latest / Kenny Wallace Media / "Pitbull" Talks Daytona 500!

Transcript

"Pitbull" Talks Daytona 500! · Kenny Wallace Media

• 0:00
  Well, first of all, we can start out by saying it's good to be
• 0:03
  here and even if it's raining, don't matter.
• 0:05
  We're going to bring the right the light, the light regardless.
• 0:08
  So thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
• 0:10
  It's always an honor and a blessing to be out here and I'm
• 0:12
  always excited to be a part of the NASCAR and track house
• 0:15
  family. So one way or another, we're
• 0:16
  going to make the best of it. No problems, just solutions.
• 0:19
  That's it. You want to talk a little bit
• 0:21
  about your new music? New music?
• 0:22
  That's right. You did tell me about that.
• 0:24
  I forgot. My bad as far as that.
• 0:27
  With with the the new album, that's AP actually it's only 7
• 0:31
  records. It's called a track house, track
• 0:33
  house Daytona 500. What I'm looking to do every
• 0:35
  year is put out track house albums with NASCAR, whether it
• 0:38
  be around the Homestead race, this one, be in Daytona 500,
• 0:42
  maybe Talladega next year, things of that nature just be
• 0:44
  putting them out. And the reason that I really
• 0:46
  wanted to get this one out is because a dear friend of mine
• 0:49
  who's giving me amazing advice, a mentor to me and someone that
• 0:53
  had a lot of fun with was Jimmy Buffett and he rest in paradise.
• 0:57
  And we have a song on there called Thank God and Jimmy
• 1:00
  Buffett. So I'll tell you all that story
• 1:02
  another day. But either or I wanted to get it
• 1:05
  out and and celebrate him, his life and everything that he
• 1:08
  meant to the world and especially to me.
• 1:11
  Someone that again, just gave me great, great advice and and
• 1:15
  lived. He lived life.
• 1:17
  Life didn't live him, you know. And I admire that about him.
• 1:20
  And I also got a record with Dolly Parton on there, which is
• 1:23
  an honor. And when I got on the phone with
• 1:26
  with Dolly Parton it was funny because she said it's is this is
• 1:30
  this my future boyfriend that stood me up on my first phone
• 1:32
  call. I said this the kind of woman I
• 1:35
  want to make a record with definitely.
• 1:36
  So that's a blessing. I got a record with there with
• 1:40
  Tim McGraw as well. That's an honor.
• 1:43
  So and now Rogers with good times.
• 1:46
  So it's something fun for the fans, something fun for the
• 1:50
  sport, and more than anything, something fun for the world and
• 1:53
  a way to bring them in to the sport as well.
• 1:55
  So one time for NASCAR, one time for track house, and feels good
• 2:00
  to be in Daytona 500. I'm going to tell you why,
• 2:02
  because we were in Kansas City last night.
• 2:03
  God bless Kansas City, but it was cold in the mother you
• 2:08
  already know. All right, we're going to open
• 2:12
  it up to questions for Pitbull. We will start right over here on
• 2:16
  the far right with Cedric. I'm going to get microphone up
• 2:19
  to. You say it is you.
• 2:21
  Right. Behind you.
• 2:23
  Oh, in my back. Yeah.
• 2:24
  Cedric Hollywood, representing Old School One O 1, formerly 99
• 2:28
  jams. And yeah, we got history.
• 2:31
  So a lot of history. But I want to ask you a really
• 2:33
  important question. Stephanie stole my Thunder
• 2:35
  because I want to talk about your music.
• 2:38
  So let me see if I can find a question that's relevant to what
• 2:42
  I wanted to say. You got it.
• 2:43
  How? Did How?
• 2:44
  Did you get Tim McGraw to agree to be on this EP?
• 2:50
  That's a good question. Tim is somebody that I admire
• 2:53
  for many, many years and not only obviously has amazing
• 2:56
  music, but for him as a person. And and obviously you've seen
• 3:01
  the transformation of Tim McGraw within the last decade, I would
• 3:04
  say. And I was there to watch it when
• 3:06
  it first started and we had that conversation and I thought that
• 3:09
  there was amazing when when someone immersed themselves on
• 3:11
  what their new journey is going to be now as he transformed as a
• 3:16
  human being, literally. And we had a conversation about
• 3:18
  the Bahamas and they had an island down in the Bahamas.
• 3:21
  And one of the Bahamian folks told me, yeah, you know, he used
• 3:23
  to party back their mind in the in a tent.
• 3:27
  So when I ran into him, I say, hey man, congratulations on the
• 3:31
  House on the island. I heard you.
• 3:32
  I had a lot of fun on the tent. He said, man, if I knew that
• 3:35
  house was going to cost me, I won't even say the number.
• 3:38
  When it was cost me, man, I would have stayed partying in
• 3:41
  that tent. So that's how we really like,
• 3:44
  broke the ice together, had a lot of because we love the
• 3:46
  Bahamas. And then from there, I ran him
• 3:49
  at a concert and I said, man, it'd be an honor to be able to
• 3:51
  remake this record. I said knock yourself out.
• 3:53
  Matter of fact, you want to jump on stage right now and do it.
• 3:56
  So he pulled my card. I ain't jump on stage.
• 3:58
  I wasn't ready for that opportunity.
• 4:00
  But making records with people that you really create a bond
• 4:03
  with and like, you know, we used to say in Miami, you know, real,
• 4:07
  recognize real. And when people work that hard
• 4:10
  to get to that level, y'all admire each other's struggle,
• 4:14
  hustle, sacrifice and grind. And that is why it's an honor to
• 4:18
  dual record with Tim McGraw and and how we got there in the 1st
• 4:22
  place. Yes Sir, I like it.
• 4:24
  I love it. Going to go up here in the front
• 4:27
  to Bruce. Three years ago you were a team
• 4:31
  here that wasn't, you know, didn't have a charter, didn't
• 4:34
  have any guarantees that you were going to even be in the
• 4:36
  races. Now you're like one of the mega
• 4:38
  teams of the series, and also this year you're taking on Moto
• 4:42
  GP. So when you think of how far
• 4:45
  track house has come in those three years, how do you describe
• 4:48
  that? No, I just said it, You know,
• 4:53
  Real. Recognize Real when we got with
• 4:54
  the team, with Todd, Justin, Daniel.
• 4:57
  Now you know, you have Ross, you have Zane, you have the
• 4:59
  motorsport at this point, underdogs.
• 5:05
  One thing we love is a challenge.
• 5:07
  We love when people tell us no, don't, won't, never will happen.
• 5:12
  Crazy, stupid, impossible. Those are words that fuel us.
• 5:16
  And when you take those words and you flip them, let's say
• 5:18
  can't and the word can't, just can and the word don't, just do
• 5:20
  and the word won't, just one. And the word impossible is
• 5:23
  possible. And if you really put it
• 5:25
  together and just put a little apostrophe between I am
• 5:27
  impossible is I'm possible, right.
• 5:31
  So when you bring that mentality to a whole sport who is hungry
• 5:35
  to feed the world and teach different communities, different
• 5:38
  cultures, that hey, there's opportunities here, then you're
• 5:42
  in the ultimate world of do good and be well.
• 5:45
  So for track house, to be underdogs, that was a beautiful
• 5:49
  thing in the beginning. But we'll forever be underdogs
• 5:52
  and that's why we'll fight the way that we fight and we'll
• 5:54
  continue to build the way that we build and continue to inspire
• 5:58
  and motivate others out there. Because coming from, you know my
• 6:01
  community, our culture and most of the world, to be honest with
• 6:04
  you, if there's one thing the world loves is underdogs and
• 6:07
  it's it's a blessing to be where we're at.
• 6:09
  But it's just the beginning. So thank you track house for the
• 6:12
  opportunity and it and for me, it's an honor to be able to
• 6:15
  represent track house, the organization and all of NASCAR
• 6:18
  around the world the way that we do.
• 6:21
  My pleasure. We're.
• 6:22
  Going to go to Kenneth and then we're going to wrap up with
• 6:24
  Justin before we have a special presentation.
• 6:28
  Ken, one of capital news at FIU Pitbull, Of course I I asked
• 6:32
  this to over here. Thank you.
• 6:33
  Man, there you. Go as this to to DJ Khaled and
• 6:37
  as the Miami native of course you you three, I mean you DJ
• 6:40
  Khaled and Dwayne, the Rock Johnson all sort of had that
• 6:43
  connection to South Florida right now.
• 6:44
  I remember you and Cedric talking at Homestead last year,
• 6:47
  that connection and and just talk about being back at in your
• 6:49
  home state in your home city and home racetrack in a way.
• 6:53
  What's that like to bring that Miami representation, bring that
• 6:56
  flair, bring that that vibrant Ness of Miami to a track like
• 7:01
  Daytona, to a race like the 500? Look, let me tell you, to be a
• 7:04
  Miami boy is is to be an underdog.
• 7:07
  Like I said before, you always got a chip on your shoulder.
• 7:09
  Because no matter how hard you put in that work, no matter what
• 7:12
  level you get to, they always want how somehow, some way
• 7:16
  discard all of that and then try to knock it down.
• 7:21
  So if you look at The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, look what he's
• 7:25
  done with his career. Obviously he was over at the U&M
• 7:27
  and then if you see his journey on what it was to be go go from
• 7:31
  a football player to transform to a wrestler.
• 7:32
  Wrestler transformed to an actor and now becoming an owner and
• 7:37
  whether it be his tequila, whether it be in in football at
• 7:41
  this point as well, that's that underdog mentality.
• 7:44
  Khaled, he was a DJ, underground DJ and that's how we all grew
• 7:50
  up. So when even when you look at
• 7:51
  Uncle Luke, Luther Cameron from 2 Live Crew, he was an
• 7:53
  underground DJ. That's why me and said have so
• 7:55
  much history because it's it's underdogs helping underdogs
• 8:00
  always. And when when nobody believed in
• 8:02
  us, it's only certain people that go watch out for that one.
• 8:05
  I'm trying to tell you it's like betting on the long run and
• 8:08
  therefore it's we have a saying in Spanish, which is, I got to
• 8:12
  say in Spanish in order to get it in English.
• 8:13
  Hold on, Paso coto E Talarga, short steps, long vision.
• 8:17
  That's what that's what the Rock is about.
• 8:19
  That's what DJ Khaled is about. That's what I'm about.
• 8:22
  That's what track house about and at this point that's what
• 8:24
  NASCAR is about and the reason that and kind of jumping train
• 8:28
  tracks at this point. But with NASCAR, one of the main
• 8:31
  reasons that I got involved because for me it's one of the
• 8:33
  ultimate American stories of a negative to a positive.
• 8:37
  I'm a negative to a positive. You know rock is a negative to a
• 8:40
  positive. Cat is a negative to a positive
• 8:42
  and for us to be able to be here and and it could be rained out,
• 8:47
  but we still going to make history.
• 8:49
  We still one way or another going to get the word out and
• 8:51
  create awareness for Daytona 500.
• 8:53
  Whether the race happens today or tomorrow, it's history in the
• 8:56
  making. Look at that.
• 8:57
  Who would have ever thought the rock?
• 8:58
  Khaled and Pitt at Daytona 500. Yeah, if you think it's a game,
• 9:04
  play with it. You wrap up with Justin.
• 9:09
  Justin Schuler kicking the tires Bruce kind of asked this
• 9:11
  question, but also kind of differently.
• 9:13
  What have you learned over the last three years working with
• 9:15
  Track House? And for the next three years,
• 9:17
  what would be your goals as a team owner to see Ross and and
• 9:20
  Daniel achieve? Look, obviously there's there's
• 9:23
  so many goals to be able to achieve, but I feel like we've
• 9:25
  already achieved and made history to this point, right?
• 9:29
  But it's just the beginning, always.
• 9:30
  That's the that's the mentality you, you continue to fight as
• 9:33
  that underdog. Like I said before, what have I
• 9:35
  learned from Track House? Track House is one of the most
• 9:37
  phenomenal organization. I don't say this to blow smoke
• 9:39
  up anybody's ass. This is the truth.
• 9:42
  Track House is one of the most phenomenal organizations that
• 9:45
  I've been involved with. Partners, solid, punctual,
• 9:48
  accountable, reliable, everything that you look for in
• 9:51
  a team. And that's why I feel that we
• 9:52
  are where we're at. What what I've learned from them
• 9:57
  is to be able to apply how I watch, how they move, how they,
• 10:01
  how they I study, analyze how they deal with each other, and
• 10:06
  then I apply it to our team as well.
• 10:08
  And what we got going on and that to me is what a partnership
• 10:12
  is all about is how do we make each other better?
• 10:14
  How do we learn from each other. I don't ever want to be in a
• 10:17
  room with a bunch of know. It alls in no way, shape or
• 10:19
  form. I want to be in mind you, like
• 10:20
  they say, if you're the smartest one in the room, you're in the
• 10:23
  wrong room. And the biggest room in the
• 10:27
  world, by the way, is room for improvement.
• 10:30
  So when you see a team that's constantly just trying to
• 10:32
  improve, trying to challenge themselves, trying to take it to
• 10:36
  the next level, that's what it's all about.
• 10:38
  And that to me it's it's an honor to be around.
• 10:41
  It's an honor to be a part of it, but as a fan first, I'm a
• 10:44
  fan first of anything that I do. When it comes to music, I'm a
• 10:46
  fan first. When I'm when it comes to NASCAR
• 10:50
  track house, I'm a fan first. I love to learn and that to me
• 10:53
  is what makes it exciting all the time, just being around it.
• 10:59
  Awesome. Well, thank you Pitbull, We're
• 11:01
  going to. Bring up pleasure.
• 11:02
  Thank you. We're.
• 11:02
  Going to bring up our track President Frank Kelleher for a
• 11:04
  special presentation for you. Pitbull, Frank.
• 11:06
  Let's. Do.
• 11:07
  It I'm going to speak for everyone here, How about you
• 11:09
  all? But some pretty motivational and
• 11:12
  powerful words. I think everyone in this room
• 11:15
  can feel your energy and for sure feel your passion, and we
• 11:18
  are grateful for you being here. So on behalf of the France
• 11:22
  family and the entire staff of Daytona National Speedway, we
• 11:26
  were thrilled that you said yes to be our pre race performer and
• 11:30
  it is customary that we present a custom gift.
• 11:33
  So this is a one of one custom built leather jacket for you
• 11:38
  with Daytona 500 logo on it and I want to, I want to show you
• 11:42
  something I think is the best part of it.
• 11:46
  Get a peek on the inside here. Dolly.
• 11:54
  That's right. Let's go.
• 11:55
  So that's. Right Pitbull.
• 11:57
  Put this on. This is for you.
• 11:58
  Let's try it out. How's the fit?
• 12:02
  I got you. There we.
• 12:10
  Go looking good one of. Your drivers has got to win now
• 12:13
  and. We'll give you a donkey step by
• 12:22
  step. So Pitbull, we had a lot of
• 12:24
  excitement for you today to perform and because of the
• 12:27
  weather that we could not do it. So I would like to formally ask
• 12:31
  your availability to perform the pre race show next year for the
• 12:35
  2025 Daytona 500. You want to check your calendar
• 12:38
  well. I'll tell you what you know, old
• 12:40
  school and no, no contract, no nothing.
• 12:42
  Just handshake. Eye to eye.
• 12:47
  Face to face. Let's go, man.
• 12:49
  Ain't man no, baby. Let's go.
• 12:50
  I will be here 225 all right or 202525.
• 12:53
  Let's do. It well, thank you.
• 12:57
  Thank you Pitbull. We look forward to seeing you
• 13:00
  burn it down on stage next year. Best of luck to you and your
• 13:02
  team on the track tomorrow and thank you again for all.
• 13:06
  Your every year I have a a goal that I put out there for
• 13:09
  everybody. So 2024 is 2020 flow, all right?
• 13:12
  That's what 2024 is, right. All right, cool, we got that
• 13:15
  2025, since we're talking about it just came to my mind. 2025 is
• 13:19
  all the way live and that's how we're going to do it in day
• 13:22
  2500, 2020 five baby. 25 Daytona 500.
• 13:26
  Thank you so much. Thank you.
• 13:28
  Thank you. Enjoy.
• 13:29
  Oh, yeah. Thanks everyone.
• 13:30
  One O 1, one O 1. We'll get a new number on a gift
• 13:35
  next year, 2024 this year, but on that collar, we'll freshen it
• 13:38
  up got. To be careful, nobody tried to
• 13:40
  take it for me.