Posted in PROMIS on 04/01/2022 08:52
In a recent interview on the Spanish program “El Hormiguero”, Nicky Jam He spoke about his single “Ojos Rojos”, his life, his personal relationships and reminisced about his time in prison and the learning that this dark past left him.
Nicky Jam was calm, very good humored, with a desire to do many things and share what he has. It has been defined as a person who cannot be silent for what opened a restaurant in Miami, which will soon be based in Medellin (Colombia) and has the desire to open another branch in Madrid (Spain).
He affirmed “he was a bit rebellious before,” but now he likes to laugh with everyone who believes in second chances and knows that he’s the one making the money and not the other way around.
After a severe depression that led him to ruin, to drugs and alcohol, the artist spent three years in prison, “within the four walls”, as he himself put it. He was rehabilitated for the year 2007 when he decided to move to Medellín (Colombia), so his career, his life began anew.
Nicky Jam said that humorously you learn good things in prison “One of the things I learned the most was to enjoy my freedom because sometimes you’re outside in a park and since you’ve already got it you don’t know how nice it is, but when you’re inside and they tell you what to do and how to do it, that’s when you realize that freedom is an amazing thing.”
“I’ve also learned that it’s better to stay away from someone who has many years or a life sentence because if they know you’ll be out of prison soon, they’ll do whatever it takes to keep you,” said he between laughter and with a bit of mischievousness.
The interviewer Pablo Motos asked him if it was better to be discreet in prison and not draw attention to himself, to which Nicky Jam replied: “I’ve been the clown of the whole world, I won’t tell you I was strong, no, I’ve been scared since.” I entered, but he joked with everyone, he sang, he improvised. I helped everyone, even when I left, people cried because the clown left, do you understand me?
The artist continued to reflect on the human conditions of people in prisons: “What happens to the people in it is unbelievable, because at some point they no longer feel like people, but like animals. It’s time to remind them that it’s not that they’re human, that we’re locked up for making mistakes, but there are people who aren’t bad.
He knows life in prison is different, now he values and enjoys his freedom. He also sent a message to focus on the “principles that God teaches you, those principles that they teach you at home.”