{"id":630527,"date":"2026-10-14T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630527\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:28:09","slug":"pitbull-makes-rare-comment-about-kids-says-kids-not-built-for-his-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630527\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitbull Makes Rare Comment About Kids, Says Kids ‘Not Built’ For His World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPitbull<\/a> has given us his all for nearly three decades in the public eye. And while Mr. Worldwide puts it all on the stage during his high-energy performances and leaves little to the imagination when it comes to his love of late night assignations on songs such as \u201cHotel Room Service\u201d and \u201cI Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho),\u201d the one thing the rapper born Armando P\u00e9rez has been reticent about is discussing his family life in public.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his new Billboard cover story<\/a>, Pit revealed why he keeps his offstage life out of the spotlight, explaining that his kids aren\u2019t yet ready for his world and should not have to withstand the public scrutiny that comes with being an A-list music superstar.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love them all deeply, I\u2019m very proud of them and I love to see kids grow, characters, what they do, how they do it, and at this point most of my ideas in music come from the kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tProclaiming himself the \u201cwild card\u201d in his kids\u2019 life, the rapper \u2014\u00a0who keeps details about his family life private and has not to date detailed how many children he has \u2014\u00a0said he preferred not get into numbers, but did confirm that he has \u201ca lot of kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for why he\u2019s so private, Pitbull said that if you love something, you don\u2019t want the world to know about it. \u201cYou protect it,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen my kids get to a certain age, which some are, and they want to make their own decisions as far as how they want to live their life and how they want to welcome the world to it, that\u2019s on them.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRealizing that if he were ever to get into a \u201csituation\u201d that might blow back on his kids, Pitbull said he keeps things quite for that very reason. \u201cShow me your friends and I\u2019ll show you future. So that\u2019s why I\u2019m very private on what I do, so I don\u2019t wanna put them in my world \u2019cause they\u2019re not built for it yet,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility as a parent to protect them. So, if I put you in my world and now you go to school and everybody\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, \u2019cause you\u2019re Pitbull\u2019s kid\u2019 \u2026 How are you gonna ever know who\u2019s your friend? They don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd because his last name, Perez, is very common in Miami, Pit said he\u2019s not worried about people sniffing out who his kids are at their school or on the street. \u201cI protect them because I love them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile he has kept them low-key, Pitbull said his children \u201clove it\u201d and \u201close their mind\u201d when they see him going hard in videos and on stage. He said the funny thing with his brood, especially the younger ones, is \u201cyou teach them in life to tell the truth \u2026 and then I have to teach them how to lie about the truth.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSo, for example, if someone asks where they live or where they go on vacation, he\u2019s taught them that the answer is always \u201cno.\u201d What about social media? Pit says that\u2019s a no go, though \u201cthe older ones, if they want to make that decision, it\u2019s on them.\u201d But, if they screw up and post something that causes heat, \u201cdon\u2019t call me,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

\n\tSame with a post that goes sideways when they show something they shouldn\u2019t have been doing, he counseled, \u201cjust get ready to own it.\u201d That said, the self-proclaimed \u201cvariable,\u201d the fun, wild dad said he\u2019s the first one to say \u201c\u2018hey, listen, go get in a little bit of trouble, go live a little.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tPitbull just dropped his 14th studio album, Pitcoin, which features collaborations<\/a> with Enrique Iglesias, Lil Jon, Jason DeRulo, Zion, Akon, Bon Jovi and Ne-Yo, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tPitbull is set to speak during the Superstar Q&A at the 2026 Billboard Latin Music Week, returning from Oct. 19 to 22 at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach. For ticket sales and more information, visit www.billboardlatinmusicweek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitbull has given us his all for nearly three decades in the public eye. And while Mr. Worldwide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,22062,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-630527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-latin","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}