00:00I like to have my speaker to put like a,
00:03kind of like a good mood.
00:04I mean, even in your bedroom,
00:07it's important to have a speaker.
00:10Hey, EQ, it's your boy Rao Alejandro,
00:12and this is my 10 Essentials.
00:19So yeah, my first item is hoodies.
00:22I'm a low-key guy, so I always wear my hood on,
00:26you know, running away from the paparazzi.
00:29Nah, I'm just kidding.
00:31Nah, I just like this style, and I don't know,
00:33I like black hoodies.
00:34Black is one of my favorite colors,
00:36because you can combine it with everything, you know?
00:39Right now, I'm wearing Afiri.
00:41It's one of my brother's hoodies.
00:43I'm from an island, so it's really hot there,
00:46so when I go to the studios and they got the air conditioning,
00:50or if I travel and it's cold, I get cold real quick,
00:54because, you know, I don't know, I like the hot weather.
00:58I'm from the hot weather,
00:59but I'm not from the cold.
01:00This is like a package, you know?
01:02My phone and my charger.
01:04Yeah, I'm always in my phone.
01:05I cannot live with my phone.
01:06It's not because I'm addicted to it,
01:08it's just, you know, I'm always, like, hustling,
01:12you know, like, doing my move,
01:13and always thinking what I'm gonna do next.
01:16My notes are here, so I always use my notes
01:18for, like, ideas that I have on my mind,
01:21lyrics, schedule, calendar.
01:24You know, you got everything here,
01:26so it's really important.
01:27You know, I always like to be in contact with my family.
01:30This is really important, and my charger.
01:33I start worrying when it's 5%.
01:35At 5%, I'm, like, screaming, like,
01:37yo, it's my charger.
01:39It's, you know,
01:41charger that charge really quick.
01:42But I use my phone most of the time
01:45just for creative stuff, you know?
01:47I'm always creating new ideas.
01:49Half of my brain is here.
01:51Yeah.
01:55I'm telling you, Snapple.
01:57Yo, this is the best juice in America.
02:00Strawberry kiwi is my favorite flavor.
02:04Yeah, most of the time I drink this.
02:07I mean, even, like, before the interview,
02:10I start drinking it, and they say,
02:11yo, this is for the interview.
02:12I was like, damn, I need to save it.
02:14So, after this, this is done.
02:19So, I always have these juice every day.
02:23My friends, my family,
02:25everyone knows what is my favorite juice,
02:27so they always buy it to me.
02:29I use it for the breakfast.
02:30I use it for lunch, for dinner.
02:33When I'm in the studio, too,
02:36before a show, during the playing, everything.
02:39I got my Snapple.
02:41You know, I train a lot, so I deserve it.
02:43This is heaven.
02:45All right, so my next item is perfume.
02:48I love this brand, Lafayette Street Bomb from Paris.
02:52This is special.
02:53This one is, I have it always in my backpack.
02:57You know, the fragrance is so nice and elegant,
03:01and I always like to be, you know, smelling good.
03:05I'm a ladies man, you know, for the girls.
03:08Important.
03:09Perfect.
03:10I got the gum.
03:11Important.
03:13You know, you're smelling good, but you need to have your
03:15good flavor in your mouth.
03:16You never know when you're gonna find, like, a day.
03:21I mean, I like a lot of flavors.
03:22It doesn't matter the brand.
03:23It's just mints, and, you know, candy, bubblegum,
03:28stuff like that.
03:29I like cinnamon, too.
03:30I mean, it's not my favorite one.
03:33I mean, gum.
03:34Always important to have it in my back.
03:37Body lotion.
03:38You know, I got a lot of tattoos around my body,
03:43and I always like to put cream on it to, you know,
03:46to make it more, like, shiny.
03:49You know, I got, like, a,
03:51como se dice,
03:52piel seca, I don't know what to say in English.
03:54You gotta know.
03:54So, like, a dry skin, dry skin.
03:57I use Louie Dern.
03:59This is a good brand.
04:00You got no fragrance, so it's kind of, like, healthy.
04:03How many tattoos I have?
04:04I think I lost count.
04:06More on the way.
04:07Yeah, for sure.
04:09All right, so, next item.
04:11Speakers.
04:13Beats.
04:13This is really cool to have.
04:15Whatever you put it, like, it's good.
04:17I don't like the silence.
04:18Well, when I go, when I'm going to sleep, yeah, of course,
04:21but I do it in my day.
04:24Whenever I would stop,
04:25we would stop in a friend's house,
04:27a green room, you know, waiting for a meeting,
04:29or wherever.
04:31Working with producers, they send me beats.
04:33I mean, I like to hear it in my headphones, too,
04:35but I like to hear it, like, out loud.
04:38I can feel the vibe better.
04:39Yo, my next item is really important to me.
04:43El Rosario.
04:44I came from a Catholic family.
04:47You know, I'm Christian.
04:48I think God is the most important thing in life.
04:53I've been raised with that, and, you know, I got faith.
04:56So, this reminds me of my family, my mother.
04:58She was the one who taught me about El Rosario.
05:02Also, my grandmother.
05:03They teach me how to pray it when I was little.
05:06And most of the time, I pray, you know,
05:09during the night, during the day.
05:10But I always have it on me.
05:12I don't have it on me most of the time.
05:14I just have it on my back.
05:16And when I, you know, got that space to pray a little bit,
05:19just take it out.
05:20And, yeah, Rosario.
05:24Ven acá.
05:25Yo, stay here after the camera.
05:30Say hi to the ladies.
05:31He's a sexy guy.
05:32He's a sexy guy.
05:33Yo, this is my, this is not an item.
05:35This is my boy.
05:38I need to have this guy on my side every day.
05:42He fly with me to everywhere.
05:44Yo, stay here after the camera.
05:46Say hi to the ladies.
05:47I live in Miami, so like short flight,
05:48like two hour flight, three hour flight, he goes with me.
05:51He's in my car every day.
05:54We have a lot of fun.
05:55He always, like, messing all my stuff.
05:59Yeah, but I love him a lot.
06:01So, he gives me, like, concentration.
06:05You know, like, you feel like someone is waiting
06:07for you at home, and that feeling is,
06:09it's kind of nice, you know, to have that feeling.
06:12And Taro, Taro, it's my, you know, I don't have baby,
06:15so, yeah, this is like my baby.
06:18This is still a poppy.
06:20It's on training.
06:21It's intense.
06:22A lot of energy.
06:26My next essential is my brother, Francis.
06:29Yo, come on, Francis.
06:30Say hi to the GQ family.
06:33So, I got Francis here.
06:34I'm with this guy since I was a kid.
06:37And I think an essential part of artists is just the teamwork.
06:41You know, I cannot live with this guy.
06:42Like, I just woke up, and the first person that I talk
06:45is with him, like, schedule, calendar, everything.
06:48And we start from the bottom.
06:50Now we're here.
06:51It's like, it's like half of my brain.
06:53I'm telling you.
06:54I'm telling you.
06:54It's a real essential in my life.
06:57And I think there's no one better than him.
06:59To do what we do, he know me better than anyone.
07:03And, you know, thanks to him and my team, I'm here, you know?
07:08And I'm really grateful.
07:10The mustache, he got the best mustache in the world.
07:12You know what I'm saying?
07:13I didn't wax it today, but it's okay.
07:18Yeah, you can go now.
07:19All right.
07:21All right, EQ.
07:22Thanks for checking it out.
07:23She brought it out.
07:24Goodbye.
07:25Hey.
07:26We cool, we cool, we cool.
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