 Me llamo Temperamento, that's my rap name. Real name is Cristian Estremera, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. And I'm a Latin hip hop artist, known worldwide, especially in South America where I'm a big inspiration to a lot of people out there. I'm real known in Europe, of course United States, but we can do it in public. There's some places that listen to my music and you know a lot of people might consider me underground, but I don't look at myself that way. Temperamento is a movement. The music started for me in 1999. For that time, you know, I was in high school, I was a straight-A student. I had a really bad past. My father had committed suicide. I grew up passing through a lot of things in my life that were kind of holding me back from being mentally right, but I always kept doing my thing in school. What happened in 1999 was that this was a time when, I think, the Columbine massacre had just happened and in the high schools before, I wasn't doing that well and they sent me to this high school called AOP, Alternative Learning Project, which was a school of like 100 students, but in that school I started focusing. I wanted to do law, I wanted to be a lawyer. What happened was after this Columbine massacre happened, you know, something that had happened in, you know, when I was like 15, got, you know, caught up to me and some guys went to school the day, you know, I was attacked, something had happened in the school and the school expelled me from, you know, expelled me from the school because I got attacked for the fact that these kids had family members inside the school, so they were scared that I was going to retaliate against them and I got expelled from school, I was doing so good and being a kid that grew up suffering and, you know, having my father do so many bad things to us, I was kind of weak in the heart, so when I got expelled, I, like, quit school, I was in that road where I just, I wanted to kill myself, you know, commit suicide and I attempted to commit suicide, I ended up in a hospital for eight months. What happened in this hospital for the eight months I discovered music, I don't know how it came to me, I don't know how the music came to me, I've been in the hospital for eight months, but I started writing about my life on paper, you know, I wanted, you know, I've always been a person that I consider blessed, I always feel that it's always there to protect me, it brings things to life, but I go with it, so I started writing this song, I think it was like Seven Minutes Long, I didn't know how the music came to me, so when I left, like two months ago, I got into a rap competition, you know, I thought it was rap, but like I didn't even know, I had no experience, and the competition was held by DJ Buck, DJ Buck spent a lot of time, he was a DJ in How One of Six, the biggest English station here in Rhode Island, and there were 24 groups, everybody was English rappers, I was the only one Spanish, so I went crazy with an old school, and I ended up winning the contest, the trophy I still have is like five feet tall, so huge trophy, it was like 300 ales, I remember that you'll make it in Providence, and the competition in Portugese, that's about like 15 minutes from Providence, in Carlos, and I remember that I had somebody for a ride, and when I won the contest, I came walking back to Providence, I think I took like hours to get home, but I was so happy, I was like wow, you know, after that everybody was like, yo, it should be a rapper, it should be a rapper, it should be a rapper, and that's how, that's how the career started, you know, um, from that day on, I felt that Hip Hop saved my life in the year 2000, 2001, I was um, I had made this guy, his name was Magic, and he was like a proactive guy, like, you know, he wanted to manage me, I didn't really know him, so I was the only person that I had a choice to go to, and he actually took me to New York one day, and at this time, um, I went, he took me to Nori Studio, I mean, there was Nori there, you know, this guy, you know, SPK, Big Mato, these guys I've never heard of, he took me to the studio, and you know, they, they were like so humble, and like, you know, they were listening to me, they were like wow, you got a good future, you got a good future, I come back over here, and I met a guy named Spooni Yoon, which kind of discovered me, he took me to the studio, you know, in Massachusetts, and that was the person that I went with, I started doing my first album called Galena Perpetua, and you know, I was trying to do my thing, you know, in the Hip Hop movement, we started going to shows, we didn't make at all notices, um, then I started noticing, you know, my, uh, they get the movement really wasn't from the hip hop movement, like it wasn't really supporting, like I would go up to them and tell them, you know, I do hip hop, and they were like, nah, you know, that's not gonna make it, you can't do that, you have to do what we do, and since then, I always been like, you know, getting, you know, put all that I see, you know, in my heart, I, I've never been a person that hate people, and like, you know, they go all galento, you know what I'm saying, but since hip hop for me changed my life, I used to get offended, I got offended real bad when people used to tell me that I didn't do that, so I came about with the idea that I was gonna come in the game and I was gonna do this, is now the reason why I did it is because you gotta remember that the hip hop industry, the movement, they go by what's going on, so like right now, you know, Drake, it's Little Wayne, everybody doing that type of music to get out there. At that time, 50 Cent hundreds came out, 50 Cent was this and everybody. In Puerto Rico, we had a tempo against Polatilito, we had all these people, so everybody was getting known by doing this tracks, so that's why temperamento started doing this tracks, because that's what everybody was getting known for. So you know, I started dissing everybody, and I did a song, I did Stevo Calderón, and I think like in less than a week, people in Puerto Rico all over the place were like calling, telling me y'all, she's getting hurt everywhere. Next one day, La Calle radio station show, they played the song in New York, and Tevo had a show in Madison Square Garden, and he got so offended from them playing the song that he canceled he didn't go to Madison Square Garden, and that's the way people started knowing about me, but I knew that I had something different, I knew that I was good, so I started coming up with ideas, you know, am I gonna come up with my music? People have labels, these people got managers, they got A&Rs, they got people working on everywhere, so at that time, there was Mejenta.com, there wasn't even MySpace and all that. I had met, I had met Brujini Boys, it was the first video that I ever done was with Brujini Boys, around that time they took me to this kid, it was a special kid, they met a kid who was paralyzing my neck down, we go see him, this kid was in the computer, 24-7, he used to do bandings, Mejenta.com, people used to go in them and pick a code and play music on Mejenta, so I kept in communication with him, and through him I was like, we could promote our music in Mejenta.com, so me and my manager started focusing on the promotion, on the promotion, on the promotion, online, online, online, now at this time in the Spanish industry there wasn't really no online promotion, like there wasn't an internet rapper, but that's what I started becoming, people started looking at me like a rapper that got known through the internet because people were just downloading my dishes, so at that time I started going record labels, I had a lot of meetings with the record labels and funny to say now, they all started saying no because I was an internet rapper, I wasn't going to make it, it was no such thing as blowing up, being a rapper that was getting promotion on the internet, so I still kept being me and it's funny to say now that to get signed, to get a record deal now, you have to be an internet rapper, you have to have millions of my space hits and millions of YouTube hits, you know, they didn't want to go leave me, I think my strategy was too ahead of them, they didn't know, they didn't see it coming, but that's how they did it. I see my career as a blessing, I've gotten so far by myself, like I never had an investor come up to me and send them investors much money into you, I never had money involved in promoting me and I probably could say that I'm one of those rappers in all South America and in Europe that are always going to be mentioned when you talk about lying hip hop, I was the one who, I consider being the one that really opened the door in South America with lying hip hop because I was the one who started speaking about it when nobody else would, like the reggaetoneros, the burribas, they were all about themselves, there wasn't really a rap or saying, you know, I'm going to open doors in South America, so once I started doing that, this whole black voting came and a lot of people there started repping our movement and right now, the way I look at it is, you know, I've come, I've come, I've come so far, so far, with my people from South America, people worldwide that I'm just proud of myself, I'm very proud of what I do, I'm not a rapper that you watch on television, I'm not a rapper that you watch on that level, but it's a rapper that alone, alone, alone, alone, does his business well, does his music well, communicates with his fans, he's humble and he doesn't have hair in his tongue, when I don't like something, I like to express it, I live in a country where I can express what I want to say. In the end, you don't have to believe to say, wow, I think if people really dig deep into my music they're gonna be like, wow, it's really expensive, it's different for many people.