Daddy Yankee’s Advice to New Artists: ‘Get Married With a Prenup. Music Is Unpredictable’ 

Daddy Yankee has agelong fixed proposal to up-and-coming artists. At Billboard’s Latin Music Week successful 2021, helium spoke astatine magnitude astir the value of entrepreneurship and knowing your business. Today, his proposal has somewhat evolved. After his conversion to Christianity, and later, his divorcement and ongoing litigation, helium is advocating for artists to beryllium adjacent much progressive successful the business.

“Be connected apical of everything, adjacent if you person lawyers and accountants,” DY tells Leila Cobo successful his Billboard cover story. “Now I’m alone, truthful I person to beryllium 100% [involved]. Things I utilized to delegate, I don’t delegate anymore. It’s my responsibility, and I consciousness bully and I consciousness I’ve learned truthful overmuch more. You deliberation you cognize everything astir the euphony concern and the rules support changing. The smallest things tin marque a large difference.”

Following quality of DY’s divorce from his woman of astir 30 years, ineligible disputes initiated implicit his businesses, including his past catalog negotiations. “Even if you’re not celebrated oregon palmy and your vocation is lone beginning, get joined with a prenup,” helium says cautiously. “Music is unpredictable.”

Offering much words of advice, helium says, “It’s precise important to beryllium wide connected what self-love is and found limits — each kinds of steadfast limits. Learn however to accidental no. I learned that we sacrifice ourselves for galore people, and you bash it truthful overmuch that you normalize it. And that’s not the mode it should be.”

The Puerto Rican hitmaker graces Billboard‘s latest screen story, unveiled connected Tuesday (Oct. 14). The candid interrogation serves arsenic a preview of his upcoming Superstar Q&A astatine Billboard Latin Music Week 2025, acceptable to footwear disconnected Oct. 20 astatine The Fillmore Miami Beach. DY’s one-on-one speech with Billboard‘s Leila Cobo is acceptable for Wednesday, Oct. 22.

DY is besides acceptable to execute astatine the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2025, which volition people his archetypal televised show successful 3 years. And helium volition release Lamento En Baile (Mourning Into Dancing), his archetypal medium since 2022, connected Thursday, Oct. 16.

The afloat programming docket and summons income are disposable at BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com.