Nicky Jam names his favorite albums.
The Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Nicky Jam sat down with Hard Knock Tv’s Nick Huff Barili for a new in-depth interview. In the interview, he talks about his childhood, growing up in Lawrence Massachusetts with parents battling addictions, wanting to be like Rakim, LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, and much more.
At around the 8:40 minute mark, Nick Huff asks, “We have to pick 3 other people’s music albums that kind of like embody who Nicky Jam is, what albums would you choose.”
“Okay there’s this album that of this group called Sublime, I don’t know, you being from Oakland you probably know about them,” says Nicky Jam. “They were kind of like, their music was kind of like Scott, like reggae type of vibe. I could say Jay-Z’s album “Reasonable Doubt“, “The Blueprint“, and Eminem‘s album “The Marshall Mathers LP“.”
“Why do you think those albums represent who you are.”
Nicky Jam continues, “Because they all gave me kind of like the vibe of what I’d like to do, you could say that the sublime had all the melodies and all that reggae vibe that I like to do. “Reasonable Doubt” was like just speaking the truth, but speaking in a nice way, making it sound so nice to hear. And Eminem because Eminem was just, he had no hair in his tongue, like he would say anything, he was so good with words, so all those albums made me want to do albums.”
Jam revealed in August 2021 that his first official post-pandemic tour will begin in early 2022. The ‘Infinity’ Tour will make stops in key cities across the United States and Canada, beginning on February 3, 2022, at Boston’s Agganis Arena.
Watch his interview below.
