Pitbull News: Rapper Talks About His Plans For 2016 [VIDEO]
Aside from his huge success in the music industry, the 34-year-old rapper dishes out that he has other plans for 2016, aside from pumping up crowds with super catchy party anthems, he has also involved and continuously expands his charity work in helping kids.
Two years ago, Pitbull helped open the first Sports Leadership And Management Academy (SLAM), a public charter school for students in grades six through 12, in his native Miami, E! News reports.
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"If sports is what you love, one way or another, it's a business you can get involved with ... whether you're a therapist, an attorney, a broadcaster," he told NPR. "They're already labeling me 'Mr. Education.'"
Not only had the M.I.A.M.I rapper joined the long lists of celebrities lending their star power support to the flourishing charter school movement. According to NPR, also the likes of Alicia Keyes, Denzel Washington, Shakira, Oprah — all support or sponsor charter schools.
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The rapper also dishes out to E! News, that more SLAM schools are planned. In 2016, the Sports and Leadership Academy (SLAM) Nevada in Henderson, Nevada will open.
Seventeen-year-old Austin Rivera says he transferred to SLAM after Pitbull spoke at his previous school. "He came from nothing and became something huge. ... It shows like not a lot of people are handed everything," Austin says.
"I'm not just a charter school advocate...I'm a charter school parent," the outlet quoted him as saying at the 2013 National Charter School Conference in Washington, D.C. "And that makes me one of you."
Now it has been reported that three of Pitbull’s six children are in charter school.
Meanwhile, the rapper star will kick off this 2016 with FOX special Pitbull's New Year's Revolution, which will air live from Miami on New Year's Eve at 8 p.m. ET.