-I'm so happy to see you in person.
Thank you so much for coming on the show.
-I am so happy to be here again.
Like, one year -- almost two years.
-Yeah, right?
Here's what happened since I last talked to you.
-Okay. -Ready for this?
Your song "Tusa" hit one billion streams on Spotify.
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One billion.
Your album "KG0516" went to number one on the albums charts.
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Right now you're in the middle of a soldout tour.
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And finally, last night you won another Latin Grammy
for Best Reggaeton Performance!
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-Ah, ah, ah.
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Have to bring you to Colombia.
Those steps, those steps.
-I don't know if they'll allow Grandpa into Colombia.
But anyway. [ Laughter ]
You're obviously from Colombia.
But before that, you also -- you lived in New York for a while.
-I lived in New York.
You know, like, I came to New York for one thing.
-What? -I wanted to stop doing music.
So I moved to New York.
-To stop doing music? -To stop doing music.
-And then what made you start doing the music?
-I had to -- I used to live in Baldwin.
So I had to take three buses and one train
to get to my school in Manhattan.
And then in the train all the time,
I was watching, like, a billboard of music conference.
And it says like, "Music but in business,"
like in a business point.
So every day I was in the train like, "Why?
If I want to stop doing music,
I have to see these people every...day!"
[ Laughter ]
-So you kept seeing music, music, music every day.
-Yeah. -And you knew that's a sign.
-I went to Boston and I studied that and I'm here, you know?
-Look at you now. Yeah, look at you now.
Come on. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I'm back into music and I'm here again.
-Congrats. You're on your solo tour.
How does that feel to have your own tour?
-Like, it's something -- I don't know.
I'm telling my people all the time, like,
I'm in an airplane mode because --
it's hard to believe --
When I'm out, it's hard to believe that
all of those thousand people are there for me.
It's amazing. -Oh, yeah.
-And being part of those people's lives,
it's amazing for me.
We started, like, selling theaters,
and then it became, like, so huge,
and people started buying a lot,
so we moved from theaters to the arenas right now.
So I'm happy.
People, I love you so much
for giving me this amazing moment in my career!
-Do you look into the crowd
and just see, like, a sea of blue hair?
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
No, yeah. -That's good.
-You're laughing but it's true.
Like, I go out and it's like a --
I don't know -- like a big, blue cloud in the crowd.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-They use wigs and they put, like, all of my tattoos.
And they have their merch. It's amazing.
I love that, people. It's everything.
-Can you explain what "bichota" is?
-Bichota? Oh, my God. Okay.
I'm going to -- I'm going to say it because --
I'm going to say it. Bichota.
It's a word that I knew from Puerto Rican friends.
-Yeah.
-The meaning is "drug dealer," "bichote."
It's the head of the drugs. Okay.
So the word for me -- Okay.
So, the word for me, like, the meaning was, I know, tough.
But for me, the word, it's, like, powerful.
So I said, "What about bichota?"
"No bichota, they don't use it. They use bichote."
"No, I wanted bichota."
I wanted to create a bichota,
but the meaning is going to be,
like, a like a boss bitch girl, powerful, great...
[ Cheers and applause ] ...amazing,
doing her things by herself, you know?
-So, bichota -- So you go, "I'm making a new thing.
I'm making a --" -Trying.
-And then you put -- You didn't even try. You succeeded,
because the song became a giant hit.
-You know what happened yesterday?
We were in -- I was in the concert, in my concert.
And I was about to perform "Bichota."
So, in the ear, my team told me like, "Hey, Karol.
You just like five minutes before, you just won the Grammy,
the Latin Grammy for 'Bichota.'"
So I was about to perform "Bichota"
and I started screaming.
I told all of my people like, "Hey, now we have a Grammy."
And we performed "Bichota." It was amazing. Wow, amazing.
-Look at you. You're doing it all.
You're doing it. It's all happening.
It's all real! -I'm happy, happy for that.
-I know you're so young, but I just want to ask.
Do you want to just keep doing this?
Do you want to do other things? You have other interests?
Or is this it? You like, "No, this is --"
-I don't know.
I have a lot of things that I want to do in my life.
I just want to push myself and see, as a woman,
how far I can go in everything.
Like, in business way, maybe acting.
I'm going to act.
You know, I have a surprise for my people in January.
I'm going to start, like, shooting a series for Netflix.
It's not about my life. It's acting.
Like, I have a character, so I'm preparing myself for that.
-In January? -In January.
-[ Gasps ] On Netflix?
Come on, that's what I'm talking about.
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The sky's the limit. The sky's the limit.
Always good to see you.
Karol G right there. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you, everybody.
Go to karolgmusic.com for more info on her tour!