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"The landscape is beautiful," Justin Irvin Rivera tells Popsugar. The Puerto Rican rapper and native New Yorker better known as J.I. is referencing the Rocky Mountains just outside the window of his Colorado hotel. Rivera, 21, has racked up millions of streams over the past seven years. Yet even as a rising rap star, the contrast between his newfound circumstances and his life growing up in Brooklyn isn't lost on him.
"I've been over here a couple of times, but while I'm over here now, I'm able to really embrace everything and see everything. I wish we had mountains like this in New York," he adds.
Rather than mountains, Rivera grew up surrounded in a panorama of Crown Heights apartment buildings and city stoops, running around the maze of streets from sunup to sundown and sharpening his lyrical skills at the local ciphers. Even at a young age,...
"The landscape is beautiful," Justin Irvin Rivera tells Popsugar. The Puerto Rican rapper and native New Yorker better known as J.I. is referencing the Rocky Mountains just outside the window of his Colorado hotel. Rivera, 21, has racked up millions of streams over the past seven years. Yet even as a rising rap star, the contrast between his newfound circumstances and his life growing up in Brooklyn isn't lost on him.
"I've been over here a couple of times, but while I'm over here now, I'm able to really embrace everything and see everything. I wish we had mountains like this in New York," he adds.
Rather than mountains, Rivera grew up surrounded in a panorama of Crown Heights apartment buildings and city stoops, running around the maze of streets from sunup to sundown and sharpening his lyrical skills at the local ciphers. Even at a young age,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Miguel Machado
- Popsugar.com
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