-Welcome back to the show.
Congrats on the new single.
Thank you for performing for us tonight.
Thank you for coming back to the show and talking to me.
-Well, thank you for having me here.
It's a blessing. It's a real blessing.
-No, we love you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Since you've been on our show,
so much has happened to you.
Can I just read some things?
Last year, you were YouTube's
most streamed artist.
YouTube's most streamed artist.
That's you. [ Cheers and applause ]
You had the first Mexican song
to ever hit the top five in the Billboard Hot 100.
[ Cheers and applause ]
And your last album was the highest charting
regional Mexican album ever on the Billboard charts.
-Whoo! -[ Cheers and applause ]
-How is life? How's it feeling?
-Bro, there's so much happening in my life.
But I'm just thankful that everything is going well.
I'm very excited to be here.
-Knock on wood. Yeah.
I saw you on an interview in Billboard,
and they asked you what your plan and all this stuff,
and you said that you see yourself winning a Grammy,
"Breaking more records,
but in five years, I see myself more like Hov,
like Jay-Z, spending more time on the business side of it all
and helping young artists achieve their dreams."
[ Cheers and applause ]
A few months later, you did win your first Grammy.
So you just did it like that.
What was it like winning the Grammy?
-It was a dream come true.
I never thought about it in my life.
You know, it was a dream since I was a little kid.
And just, like, just being there, like,
around all these famous people,
it was just such a blessing, bro.
-And then you actually met Jay-Z at the Grammys.
Here's a picture of you guys together.
-Goat.
That's the goat, right there.
-And what did you talk about?
-I just tell him congratulations on his Grammy.
He congratulated me back, and I said, um --
I said that he was one of my biggest inspirations,
and he told me to keep doing my thing.
-That's cool. That's what you want to hear, right?
-Yes. Yeah. -He's a good guy.
-Yes, he's a great guy. -Yeah.
"Peso pluma" means featherweight.
-Yes, sir. -Yeah.
How did that name come up?
Why did you decide on that name?
-When we started the group, we were all skinny.
[ Laughter ]
-You still are. Yeah, yeah.
-There was this private gig in Mexico
and the one that hired us, it was Marco Antonio Barrera,
who was featherweight champion,
Mexican featherweight champion in the world back in the time.
And it was just like destiny or the universe
telling me to keep that name, you know?
And I just kept it. -Wow. So that was it.
I have a picture of you from a baby.
Baby Peso Pluma.
Look at this. Look at this kid.
Come on.
And now -- Yeah.
This kid is gonna grow up
to be a fashion and style icon, by the way.
You know, it's viral on the internet,
everyone wants your haircut.
-Oh, my God.
And I don't want it anymore.
[ Laughter ]
-People are going into barbershops,
like, "Give me the Peso Pluma."
How did you come up with this style?
-It was actually a mistake.
Like, um... [ Laughter ]
Like, they were cutting my hair in Medellin, in Colombia.
I went to do a video over there when I was starting my career,
and, like, he was just doing it bad.
And when I looked in the mirror,
I realized it wasn't that bad.
So I kept it, and all these little kids went crazy on it.
That's why I'm having it right now
'cause all the little kids want it.
[ Laughter ]
-I wanted to see what it would looked like on me.
[ Laughter ]
Let's see if I can pull this off.
-Wow.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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[ Both laugh ]
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I don't know. -Oh, my God.
-How do you pull this off?
I can't do this at all.
There's only one Peso Pluma. Come on.
I'll say that for a fact.
I tried.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Let's talk about your new single
"La Durango."
Which you're going to perform for us
later in the show.
Tell us about this song.
-This is a new song that just came out with
Junior H and Eslabon Armado,
which are really good friends of mine.
-Yeah.
-And, so this is like the third song
that I released from my album
and everybody's waiting on the new album, man.
And this is a taste of it. -I can't wait for it either.
"Exodo." -Yes, sir.
-June 20 is when it comes out.
I think you have such a fresh sound.
I don't know if I know, when I first had you on the show,
I go, "I can't wait to hear what this kid sounds like."
And you sound like no one else.
-Thank you. -I don't even know who
to compare what you sound like.
-Thank you.
-Did you base your sound on anybody?
-I mean, I had a lot of inspirations in my life,
but I think that's what people like about my project.
You know? Like, it's different. -It's different.
It really is. I don't know anyone like you.
I think it's great. Keep it up, please.
Like Jay-Z said, "Keep doing your thing."
Yeah. The best. Congrats.
You're going on tour too, right?
-Yes, sir. -New album. New tour.
-Yes, sir. -What can you tell us about
the tour or the album?
-The tour is going to be crazy.
It's going to be so different. I mean, I think, um, people,
especially in corridos in my general,
they are used to something, you know,
and they're going to be so crazy about it.
The new tour is going to be a whole different stage,
a whole different album.
New sounds, like, new thing.
It's a whole new thing.
-That's what I'm talking about, bud, come on.
Keep going, keep doing it.
He's one of the best. Peso Pluma!
"La Durango" is streaming now,
and his new album 'Exodo"
will be available on June 20.
Peso's performing for us after the break.
Stick around, everybody.