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By Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli
In recent years, Bad Bunny – the World Superstar of Reggaeton and Latin Trap whose amazing good luck has remade the pop panorama of Spanish music – has won the world. Three Billboard albums to get to the maximum lists. A prominent place in Coachella. The name of the most reproduced artist on the planet. A career (and wrestling) in boom. The growing interest of paparazzi for their romantic extracurricular activities.
And yet all his success left him unanchored from the place at the root of it: Puerto Rico, where he was born, raised and lived until 2023, when he decamped for an extended stay in Los Angeles and New York.
He’s back in Puerto Rico now, and on his sixth solo album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), the musician born Benito Martínez Ocasio is making his recommitment to the island plain with a pointed musical pivot.
The 17-track LP, cut with live instruments, recorded entirely in Puerto Rico and features a host of young Angelesborators who represent a diversity of the styles of their homelos Angelesnd dating back to the generations of singer Rainao (“Perfumito Nuevo”); Reggaeton and the Latin trap through Omar Courtz and Deiv (“Veldá”); and classic rhythms such as Plena and Bomba de Plenos de Los Angeles Cresta (“Café Con Ron”) and the young band Chuwi (“Weltita”).
“Every one of them is Puerto Rican and there for a reason,” Bad Bunny, 30, said in an interview in late December, ahead of the album’s release on Sunday. During his globe-trotting, he added, “When I listened to them, I felt like I was there in Santurce, hanging out.”
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