Eladio Carrión is back at Genius to discuss his song “Fé, Cojones y Paciencia,” which has been streamed over four million times on Spotify to date. The Foreign Teck, Sean Turk, Bass Charity & Hide Miyabi produced record is off his latest album Sol María, dedicated to his mother. On today’s episode of Verified, find out why it was important to the superstar to have the song on his album.
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00:00 You have to have faith.
00:01 You have to have faith in yourself that you're going to achieve something.
00:03 You have to have balls.
00:04 If you have balls, no one is going to tell you no.
00:07 And if you have patience, which is the most important thing of all.
00:10 Those three things I feel are a perfect balance.
00:12 I just wanted to have a song on the album that could show my ability with the pencil.
00:24 It's very easy to talk about ignorant things.
00:26 If you can talk about your real life without having to go to a club and do a strip,
00:31 talking about your life, how you're doing and how you feel,
00:34 I think that shows that you're a good person.
00:53 I've had the same hunger since I started making music.
00:56 I still do my 15-14 hour sessions.
00:59 I could do it every day, I do it every day.
01:01 I love to practice, I love to improve.
01:03 I have the same love I have for music since I started and I thank God for that.
01:07 I was at the game and before the game I said,
01:21 "Man, this is a historic moment that I'm going to make when it happens."
01:24 I know everyone is going to take out their phones and record it,
01:27 but I'm the only person with a selfie, with Lebron, scoring the last point.
01:32 That's from Batman.
01:41 And I mean the hole, the daughter of Ra's al Ghul,
01:45 who came out and had to jump.
01:47 She was the only one who could jump, who will keep going and then come out of the hole too.
01:51 When fame caught me, I didn't expect it.
02:05 And like the fist of Draymond Green to Jordan Poole,
02:09 Jordan Poole didn't expect the fist.
02:10 When it caught me, it caught me, but I was able to assimilate it well
02:14 because I never stopped doing the things I always did.
02:18 Marbella is a super nice place.
02:42 They have some of our builders who have a coffee shop in Marbella.
02:47 We go there and they cook us jerk chicken.
02:49 They're from London, they make a couple of cool things.
02:51 Real life stuff.
02:52 I have the cell phone in the locker because they call so much,
02:57 they're obsessed with it like the stalker.
02:59 I've changed so many numbers that I haven't been able to even score a point in Footlocker.
03:03 I don't listen to the people who throw me out because most of them live with their mother, Mr. Crocker.
03:09 Mr. Crocker is the bad guy from Fairly OddParents.
03:12 And he lives with his mom.
03:13 He's a grumpy guy, a guy that no one likes,
03:15 that's always so pissed off,
03:18 and he's 40 years old and he still lives with his mom.
03:22 Although living with your mom was beautiful, you know?
03:24 That's the best.
03:25 I would love to live with my mom, you know?
03:27 She would cook for me every day.
03:28 But there comes a time when you have to leave your house, you know?
03:40 We play chess, but there are a lot of people who play football.
03:43 And the sport that they play the most is soccer.
03:47 They play football, but I'm like Messi, I jump and I don't fall.
03:53 My team is all role players.
04:05 You have to do this, you do this, you do this.
04:08 And when you do this well, you do this well,
04:10 and you do this well, I do this well.
04:12 We win everything, you know?
04:13 You have to be very clear about what you want,
04:28 what you're looking for, your path.
04:31 Because it's very easy for someone to come
04:33 who doesn't know what he wants or she wants,
04:35 to try to influence what you want,
04:38 which they don't know either, you know?
04:41 Faith, balls and patience.
04:44 In a world where hate is watered down like influence.
04:47 I'm looking for all ways to be in trend
04:50 and hit the songs without being a bad influence.
04:53 Faith, balls and patience.
04:56 I know I make it look easy, but it's not how I think.
04:59 There are few people who support when they start.
05:02 I just sang to 30,000 people in Valencia.
05:05 I'm trying to make this music that is attractive,
05:09 but without vulgarities, without bad influences,
05:13 without taking these kids down the wrong path.
05:17 I started to be more conscious, especially with the kids.
05:21 When I had my first show in Puerto Rico,
05:24 when I told the audience the number of kids,
05:27 but I'm talking about 10-year-olds, 8-year-olds,
05:30 minors, no, 12-year-olds, I'm talking about kids with their dads,
05:33 their little brothers, 5-6 years old,
05:37 I said, "I'm not raising those kids,
05:40 I'm raising their dads, but they listen to me every day.
05:44 I'm putting a grain of sand in that mold,
05:48 in what they're doing.
05:50 If I can make the best music possible,
05:52 without damaging the mind of the youth,
05:56 I'm going to try to do that.
05:57 That's real stuff, man. I changed my number.
06:01 I changed my number six months ago.
06:04 I change my number every six months.
06:06 That's why every time I go to Footlocker,
06:08 I can't literally accumulate points in Footlocker.