Yesterday, Benito attended the press conference for Apple Music and I’ve managed to add several photos of him being asked about his influence, plans he has for the big performance and more. I’ll also be adding screencaptures of the press conference before the Super Bowl on Sunday. You can watch the press conference below:
One week before he’s set to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show and on a night when he made Grammys history, Bad Bunny used his time on stage to deliver a pointed political message that protested the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Accepting the award for best música urbana album, Bad Bunny began his speech saying, “Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!”
The crowd inside the show, which took place in Los Angeles, overwhelmingly responded with cheers, according to what was heard on the telecast.
“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens,” he said. “We are humans and we are Americans.”
After pausing while the audience applauded, Bad Bunny continued:
“I know it’s tough not to hate on these days, and I was thinking, sometimes we get contaminados – I don’t know how to say that in English – the hate gets more powerful with more hate.” “The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love,” he said. “So, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love.”
The phrase “ICE out” has been used at protests as a call for an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Bad Bunny won a total of three awards on Sunday, one of which was a history-making win for album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos).” It is the first time a Spanish-language album has claimed the Recording Academy’s top prize.
During his emotional acceptance speech, delivered mostly in Spanish, Bad Bunny dedicated his win to “all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country to follow their dreams.”
Noah also did a bit with Bad Bunny prior to the musician’s win, asking if he could live in Puerto Rico if things keep getting worse in America.
“Well, I have some news for you,” Bad Bunny said. “Puerto Rico is part of America.”
Just in time for our one year anniversary on Monday [and also my birthday], I’ve added a brand new look on the site kudos to Jasper. He did an amazing job on this and I am still shocked that it’s been almost a year.
I’ve added screen-captures from a brand new documentary that hit Peacock yesterday into the gallery. If you want to watch it you can here.
I’ve added Benito’s brief appearances in the 2025 film Caught Stealing including adding stills and promotional materials such as posters and artwork.
Another set of captures have been added into the gallery, this time I’ve managed to add Benito latest two appearances on Saturday Night Live, where he was the musical guest with Scarlett Johansson which was the show’s 50th season and when he hosted the show back in October.
Here’s to hopefully seeing more projects with Benito in the acting world because he was a hoot in Happy Gilmore 2 and his Saturday Night Live performances.
Happy New Year! I have finally been able to add screencaptures from all of the music videos that Benito did from his last album Debi Tiras Mas Fotos.
On Thursday night, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny took home the biggest prize at the Latin Grammy awards: His genre-bending homage to his island, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, won album of the year. Despite the fact that he had a dozen trophies in his case before the night even began, he had never won any in the show’s three major categories — album, record or song of the year.
Bad Bunny won four additional Latin Grammys in the urban and reggaeton categories. The Latin Grammy victories have the potential to kick off a season of wins for the rapper. He is also nominated for six awards at the Grammys, (including album of the year, song of the year and record of the year) and will headline the halftime show during the Super Bowl in February.
When it came to the other major categories at the 26th annual Latin Grammys — song of the year and record of the year — the Latin Recording Academy awarded familiar faces. Colombian pop-reggaetonera Karol G received song of the year for her Dominican-infused merengue hit, “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido,” alongside her fellow songwriters Edgar Barrera and Andres Jael Correa Rios. Record of the year went to Spanish artist and composer Alejandro Sanz for his slow pop ballad, “Palmeras En El Jardín.”
“Benito, I stole it from you. Forgive me,” Sanz joked in Spanish as he accepted the award, referring to Bad Bunny by his first name. Cameras panned to Bad Bunny, who laughed and clapped.
I’ve managed to add several events that Benito has attended recently including Saturday Night Live and The Billboard Latin Music Awards to the gallery!
On the penultimate night of his sold-out 31-show residency in San Juan, a visibly emotional Bad Bunny stood in front of the towering “mountain” he had ordered erected on the floor of the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot and delivered a message of love.
“Value every minute, every second that life and God gifts us,” he told the crowd of 15,000, his voice shaking at times. “Thank you, thank you. And to those who one day left Puerto Rico dreaming of coming back, and to those of us who are still here, I don’t want to leave!”
“I don’t want to leave” — No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí — the name Bad Bunny gave his Puerto Rican residency, is intrinsically tied to his album DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS (I Should Have Taken More Photos), a love letter to Puerto Rico and the island’s music that Bad Bunny dedicated on its back cover “to all the Puerto Ricans around the world.”
It may as well have said, “To all the world around Puerto Rico.” Since the album’s Jan. 5 release (on the eve of Three Kings’ Day, a significant holiday on the island) and since the July 11 launch of the residency, “No me quiero ir de aquí” has become a rallying cry of pride for both Puerto Ricans and the multicultural global diaspora that has seen itself reflected in Bad Bunny’s most autochthonous songs.
Just nine months after its release, the success of DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — which spent four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — has been breathtaking, particularly for an album that delves into styles like plena and salsa and that Bad Bunny describes as a labor of love with “zero” commercial expectations. Globally, it’s a phenomenon, a unifier of cultures, an incentive to dance, an enraptured call for love and celebration. It all boils down to Bad Bunny’s island, with its dichotomy of stunning natural beauty and miasma of economical issues, the place he calls home and says he “always returns to.” As his star has risen, the performer born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio has become the most passionate and effective ambassador in Puerto Rican history. Come February, he’ll have his biggest platform yet when he headlines the Super Bowl LX halftime show in Santa Clara, Calif.
Hundreds of thousands of fans — who can now distinguish between a plena and a salsa and know that the old man in Bad Bunny’s videos is 90-year-old Puerto Rican actor Jacobo Morales — flocked to Puerto Rico to see the residency, which ran from July to September. Once there, audiences experienced a “party de marquesina” (backyard party) set to the backdrop of the production’s massive mountain and its now-iconic casita (little house) — designed to resemble the houses found in a typical Puerto Rican neighborhood — built inside the Coliseo. A host of celebrities, from LeBron James to Jon Hamm, partied at the casita, and dozens of artists — including Young Miko, Arcángel, Ricky Martin and Rubén Blades — performed as guests at the show.
Among them was longtime pal Residente (real name: René Pérez Joglar), the irreverent Puerto Rican rapper known for incisive lyrics, social pronouncements and his passion for the island’s politics. In Bad Bunny, he found a similar, though gentler, iconoclast. The two became fast friends after meeting for dinner at a San Juan restaurant in December 2017 and collaborated musically on the 2019 singles “Bellacoso” and “Afilando los Cuchillos,” the latter an incendiary anti-government track released after Bunny and Residente paid a surprise nighttime visit to then-governor Ricky Rosselló.
Rosselló would resign his post that same year, but the friendship between the two musicians has endured. After performing once at Bad Bunny’s residency and attending as a guest a second time, Residente sat down to interview his friend for Billboard. The wide-ranging conversation — which took place the day after the engagement’s penultimate show, weeks before Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl announcement — spanned nostalgia, music, film and, of course, Puerto Rican pride.
Photos have been released from Bad Bunny’s Shoot from Billboard and I have added them to the gallery.
Bad Bunny says he’s not just performing at the Super Bowl LX halftime show for himself … he’s doing it for his culture.
The singer-songwriter chatted with Apple Music’s Zane and Ebro to talk about the exciting announcement made last night during Sunday Night Football between the Packers and the Cowboys.
Check out the clip … Bad Bunny says he’s relieved the news is out because he had to keep the secret under wraps for so long … and it’s like a weight has been lifted.
He explains he took the job to represent his family and friends proudly … as well as Puerto Rico and Latino people all over the world. Bad Bunny says he plans to enjoy and embrace the moment … and he wants the world to see what “our music, our culture” are all about!
He doesn’t know exactly what the show is going to look like yet, he admits … but he promises to put on a good one — adding his rookie mindset keeps him hungry to put on amazing spectacles.
As for the size of the audience … listen to the clip yourself — sounds like BB’s trying not to think about it!
The show’s only a few months away … Bad Bunny’s got some motivation that will keep him working hard!
