--- title: Pitbull's Private Jet to Rescued Puerto Rico Cancer Patients description: The rapper sent his private plane to the island to bring cancer patients to the mainland U.S. for chemotherapy treatments. canonical: https://time.com/4959876/pitbull-private-jet-plane-puerto-rico/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-27T19:46:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:38.591Z og:title: Pitbull Sent His Private Plane to Rescue Puerto Rican Cancer Patients og:description: "Thank God we’re blessed to help. 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As mainland Americans with extra resources think of ways they can help, they might look to Pitbull for inspiration: The rapper sent his private plane to the island to bring cancer patients to the mainland U.S. for chemotherapy treatments. The news came by way of a [tweet](https://twitter.com/Jenniffer2012/status/912762190238711808) from [Jenniffer González](http://time.com/4951048/puerto-rico-power-blackout-hurricane-maria-electricity-prepa/), the a representative of the U.S. territory in Congress, who wrote in Spanish, “Thank you @pitbull for lending your private plane to move cancer patients from PR to USA so that they can get chemo.” In a statement to the[ _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pitbull-sends-private-plane-rescue-cancer-patients-pr-article-1.3523262?utm%5Fcontent=bufferc1167&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=NYDailyNewsTw) on Tuesday, Pitbull, who is Cuban, said, “Thank God we’re blessed to help. Just doing my part.” > [](https://twitter.com/Jenniffer2012/status/912762190238711808) Pitbull is one of more than 30 artists who’ve joined forces with Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony for the initiative “Somos Una Voz,” a coalition of “artists working together to rush food, shelter, medicine, power and communications to those in need from the effects of recent natural disasters,” according to [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/marc-anthony-jennifer-lopez-together-again-puerto-rico-n805161). Lopez has reportedly donated $1 million to relief efforts, and [Despacito](http://time.com/4913699/the-new-science-of-the-truly-unstoppable-impossible-to-resist-summer-jam/) singer Daddy Yankee donated $100,000 to Feeding America and another $100,000 to the Red Cross. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4959876/pitbull-private-jet-plane-puerto-rico/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4959876/pitbull-private-jet-plane-puerto-rico/"},"headline":"Pitbull Sent His Private Plane to Bring Puerto Rican Cancer Patients to the Mainland","datePublished":"2017-09-27T19:46:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:38.591Z","description":"\"Thank God we’re blessed to help. 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