It's really funny actually when people like meet me
and they say to me like Paloma Mami,
like I think it's so weird.
Like my name's Paloma you know.
You don't have to call me like Paloma Mami.
It's kind of strange.
Everybody gets called mami you know,
it's a thing, it's a thing like people say.
Especially if you're Latina.
It's like mami.
And I think it sounded so fire that I made it like
my Instagram when I was little and then it stayed til now.
I was in the studio in Chile with producer Tygo
and he put, he put a beat on and honestly I just,
I just got inspired.
When I first heard the first draft of the song it was,
it was just like talking about being sexy and stuff.
Then I showed it to my boyfriend
and I was like look, like do you fuck with it,
blah blah blah.
And he was like yeah, like it's fire.
So then we were trying to add another part
'cause I was like okay, I'm trying to make this like
an anthem.
Like I said like an anthem for girls.
Like who is somebody that for Latin, the whole entire Latin
world like is an icon you know?
I was trying to think and I was like wow,
like Ivy Queen was La Patrona,
that let everybody through you know.
So I was like wow, that'd be fire if I put,
if I put like a sample of hers you know?
And when I heard it like that I was like damn,
I gotta change the whole entire fucking song now.
Like Pa la cama voy is a song that like I'm,
I'm the boss, like you don't get to decide what I'm
gonna do.
You know it's always what I say.
And I thought that was so fire and I was like wow like,
damn, my song's gonna be like meaningless next to that.
'Cause that song's so powerful.
So I was like god dang, I gotta change everything.
And I changed everything, and it took me like five
other times to write it.
I put so much work into it and I'm so happy,
I'm so happy how it came out.
It's, I think it's beautiful and it's super powerful
for sure.
La Tentacion y la Gloria Tambien
is the temptation and the glory that comes with it too.
I think every woman has like a million different sides.
And definitely me, like I'm like that.
And I have like my, my side that like I could be like
la tentacion, devilish, you know.
Like my little bad self.
And then I could be so so good.
And I think every woman has the power to do that you know.
I feel like men don't, men don't,
don't have the power to do that, you feel me?
Like I think it's just women.
And it's so so dope, so fire.
So I wanted to show that I could be sweet,
I can be temptation, but it's always how I,
I want it to be.
Prepare yourself,
like putting them in check you feel me?
Like don't get it confused.
The sunrise is coming closer,
it's getting time to you know leave.
We're surrounded by gold and silver
and you know everybody's just you know dripping.
Well honestly, I don't go clubbing.
But I can tell you when I felt like a moment that was
really important for me where I felt like you know,
You know boss lady.
And it's definitely when I'm on stage
so I feel like that, that part of the song is like me
feeling when I'm on stage for other people like,
if this is a club song you know.
They could be singing it in the club
and they could be singing it in the VIP you know.
The chorus is like super like important just because
of the fact that in the states more cat calling
was a really big thing.
Still is.
It'd be like mami for an example in New York.
And I feel like I kind of took the word back.
I like it when you call me that you know.
Because that word makes me feel like I could do anything,
that word makes me feel super powerful,
makes me feel like a queen.
When I hear the fans yelling my name out mami
on the show like I feel so powerful.
I think it's, it's an amazing feeling for me.
Like I guess, it turns me up you know,
it gets me, gets my hype.
This line is so important you know,
it basically says that I'm literally like every single
type of woman.
I wanted to say like I can relate to every single woman.
We are all the same you know.
That line was inspired by I'm Every Woman.
Whitney Houston's version you feel me?
♪ I'm every woman, it's all in me ♪
Mas Poderosa Que Dos Nefertitis is a more powerful
than two, not one, but two Nefertitis.
You feel me, like that's crazy.
I love Lauryn Hill, she's a big inspiration for me.
Since always, since I was little.
I heard her say that line and I was like wow
that shit's so crazy.
Like, two Cleopatras, like Cleopatra was a freaking boss
you know.
And I've been to Egypt before when I was younger.
I went to Egypt and I learned about Cleopatra
and I learned about Nefertiti.
She was the rule like of Egypt, it's so crazy.
Like it's two.
I'm on my way to your crib,
you know take the stress off me.
How do you want me to tell it you,
you know Spanish or English?
'Cause I'm bilingual.
Going to school, like it was always,
I was always having like an insecure moment
like speaking Spanish like when I had to speak Spanish
to my mom.
It was terrible the fact that I felt like embarrassed
by my own name.
Like I had like four names you know,
over there it's just like Andrew Jackson you know?
I'm like Paloma Rocío Castillo Astorga.
Like it's so long and I'd, I'd be embarrassed or ashamed.
Which is so wack.
And when I grew up I realized and I was like wow like,
I realized how awesome it is being Latina.
And being able to speak two language, not one,
I'm literally more, cooler than everybody here
in this school.
Like I get to speak Spanish and English.
Is that we dance to the rhythm of the.
Of the -
Yeah 'cause there's no translation for that,
it's a Latin word.
Tra is just like the, a type of beat, a type of sound.
That slaps like you said.
You made me breathe heavily but at the end of the night
I'm not gonna go to bed with you, you know?
That's a super important part because everything
is like leading up to like what a guy would think
is what okay yeah it's lit, let's go.
But I'm again, twist it back on you,
just like the first, the intro where it's like
I'm telling you how I am.
But then I put you in check you know so that you don't
think that you got it the way that you want it.
These whole entire bars were taken from Ivy Queen,
sampled from Ivy Queen's Yo Quiero Bailar
which is an iconic, iconic song for Reggaeton in general.
Hearing a woman play en la disco like, is like oh,
and saying that shit is like another level you know?
She was the pioneer.
Don't worry like, papi like I'm a pay, I've got this.
'Cause now we're living in a generation where like
the girls don't have to depend on the men for the money.
Ever since I was little my grandpa,
he would tell me is like you cannot depend on man.