Wonder why you always hear party jams like "The Anthem" and "I Know What You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" from Pitbull?

He did it, the rapper says, to assure his place on the roster of the now-defunct TVT Records.

"They always looking at Pitbull like, 'Oh, he's just the party guy. He's just making these club anthems,'" he said. "It's always been a survival tactic with the situation I was in before.

"So I would put these records out because I knew that they would sell. People would enjoy them and it could feed their wild side."

Though "Calle Ocho" and "Hotel Room Service" are certified party anthems and top 10 hits on the Billboard chart, Pitbull says he's tackling more serious issues on his new album, "Rebelution."

He recently sat for a few questions:

A) I have a record on the album called "Daddy's Little Girl," which is speaking about things that have happened to women in my family, very important women, such as my mother, my sister. I think people are going to hear it and go 'I didn't know Pit really had that side to him.' I keep saying it's exciting because I'm excited. I genuinely am for this project, and especially with the records to come.

A) The other label was an independent label. The staff was great, and I still work with a lot of those people. We created our own staff off that group independently. But there was just one person that really didn't get it. And everybody in the business knew about it. So now we have the chance to actually go out, do good business with artists, get cleared for other records and just be able to blossom throughout the music industry. So that record company was my Cuba. My family's from Cuba, but now I have a chance to be free and create opportunities and take advantage of them.