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‘My Job Is to F—ing Sing’: Bad Bunny on the ‘Pride, Pain and Love’ Behind His Massive Puerto Rico Residency and the Relationships That Define Him
Bad Bunny unpacks the 'pride, pain and love' attached to his 30-date Puerto Rico residency. Ahead of its launch on July 11, the global star tells all.
That chapter is defined by his sixth solo studio LP, “ Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos),” a cultural time capsule that threads together the folkloric history of Puerto Rico using plena, jíbaro, salsa and reggaeton, each song name-checking legends from Willie Colón to Héctor and Tito. Martínez is spending the month in Manhattan crossing off a list of impressive to-dos: Attend the Met Gala; record voice-overs for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming action film “Caught Stealing” (where he’ll portray a gangster opposite Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz); sit courtside at multiple New York Knicks games; make a third appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” this time for the season finale. Needless to say, the residency — titled “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” (“I Don’t Want to Leave Here”) — is much more than a series of concerts: It’s a celebration of the island and its biggest homegrown success story, a defiant and joyous declaration to the world from a region that has been brutalized for centuries by hurricanes, gentrification and the American government.
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