Perhaps the singer's music is Puerto Rico's best response to the offensive campaign led by the US president elect Donald Trump, whose rally at New York's Madison Square Gardens on October 17, 2024, was preceded by a comedian who called the singer's country "a floating island of garbage."

Alongside Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar, the singer is one of the most listened-to artists in the world and his success is a scathing response to the racist slur uttered at the rally. Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, released his new album "DebÍ tirar mas fotos" ("I should have taken more photos"), on January 5, the day before his country's emblematic Dia de Reyes (Three Kings Day or Epiphany). After starting modestly on the SoundCloud platform, the 30-year-old Puerto Rican rapper has juggled between reggaeton, hip-hop, pop and salsa, and remaining faithful to his native language Spanish has succeeded in conquering English-speaking listeners in a veritable manifesto against the monopoly of American pop culture.

He looks back nostalgically on the high points of his life, hence the album's title, which is indicative of his regret that he did not keep a closer track of his journey. The work comes with a short film, posted on YouTube, in which an old man in sneakers returns to his homeland and says: "I've traveled to many countries, but there's nowhere like Puerto Rico."

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