Bad Bunny has dominated music headlines this week as his historic thirty-show residency, titled No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí, continues in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The residency, held at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, launched July 11 and ends September 14, with nearly all shows sold out and millions of dollars funneled into the local economy. According to The Spokesm ... Show More
Yesterday
Bad Bunny Wins Historic Reggaeton Copyright Case, Dominates Charts, and Launches Film Career in Record-Breaking Week
Bad Bunny has had a huge week, and listeners have a lot to catch up on. The biggest headline is legal: multiple outlets including USA Today and Rolling Stone report that a U.S. federal judge has reversed a previous ruling in the massive reggaeton copyright case over the dembow rh ... Show More
5m 26s
Sep 2
Bad Bunny Closes Historic Tour in Puerto Rico, Cements Legacy as Spanish-Language Pop's Global Game-Changer
Bad Bunny has just closed a massive chapter in his career and is now in a reflective, legacy-defining moment that a lot of listeners are talking about across news and social media. People magazine reports that he wrapped his DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS world tour with two emotional fina ... Show More
3m 45s
Aug 30
Bad Bunny Closes Record-Breaking Debí Tirar Más Fotos Tour in Puerto Rico with Political Statement on Water, Power and Gentrification
In the last week, the big story around Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Bad Bunny, is that he has officially closed out his massive “Debí tirar más fotos” world tour with two emotional, politically charged stadium shows at home in Puerto Rico, turning a tour finale into a statemen ... Show More
3m 44s
Aug 2025
Can the Bad Bunny effect save Puerto Rico?
Bad Bunny, one of the most-streamed artists on the planet, is in the middle of his 30-concert residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico titled No me Querio Ir de Aqui, or "I don't want to leave here". Much like his latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it is both a celebration of Puerto Ri ... Show More
29 m
Jan 2025
Bad Bunny's love letter to Puerto Rico
The first great release of 2025 is already here: Bad Bunny's newest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. Over the course of its 17 tracks, the Puerto Rican reggaetonero crafts an intertextual, anti-colonial tome of a record, incorporating sounds from across his island and the boricua dia ... Show More
46m 58s
Nov 2023
Bad Bunny’s New Album and the Future of Puerto Rican Rap and Reggaeton
Ryan Dombal, Isabelia Herrera, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd talk about Bad Bunny’s remarkable rise to superstardom and how his latest record, nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana, doesn’t quite live up to his own high bar. Also, we highlight a few new queer femme artists from Pu ... Show More
32m 16s
Aug 2023
Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance
Bad Bunny, the genre- and gender norm-defying Puerto Rican rapper, is one of the biggest music stars on the planet. He has also provided a global megaphone for Puerto Rican discontent. In this episode, we take a look at how Bad Bunny became the unlikely voice of resistance in Pue ... Show More
38m 29s