Pitbull

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Armando Christian Perez, otherwise known as Pitbull, was born in Miami, Florida on January 14, 1981. At a young age his parents divorced and he was raised by his mother until she found out about his drug dealing business. Once his secret was revealed his mother placed him in the foster system and he then grew up with a family in Roswell, Georgia. He went to school at Coral Park High School, where he graduated and made the tough decision to not continue on to college. Pitbull persued his rapping dreams until he was noticed by a famous rapper and from there his career really began. Pitbull is most prominent for his rapping, but he has also played parts in many movies and has developed his own school.
Rapping was a key component as Pitbull grew up and he drew his creativity from popular rappers like Nas and Big Pun. His first big musical break was with the popular movie series “2 Fast 2 Furious” where his song “Oye” was the theme song of the entire movie. This achievement was extremely important to Pitbull’s future rapping career because many people watched this movie series and by having this song be the theme it instantly gained him fame. From this movie he signed on with TVT records and made his first album called M.I.A.M.I. In the years following this album release, Pitbull made three more albums all of which were very successful. Pitbull became a prominent rapper and this career lead to many other accomplishments that were to come.
From the popularity of his rapping career, Pitbull made a movie of his life and was also asked to be the voice in a popular movie called “Epic”. As stated in the beginning, Pitbull began life in a rough manner and that became the plot line for his own movie. Pitbull released his movie in 2006 and ...

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