Bad Bunny

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Bad Bunny performs during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption

Can we still relate to Bad Bunny?

Bad Bunny exalts Puerto Rico in his music of resistance. Getty Images hide caption

Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

The rapper Residente is just one Latin hip-hop artist Alt.Latino has featured on the show. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images hide caption

Bad Bunny and Grupo Frontera are featured on this week's episode of Alt.Latino. Eric Rojas hide caption

Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Bad Bunny, Grupo Frontera, Becky G and more

Bad Bunny (center) recently made waves with "un x100to," a collaboration with the regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera. Eric Rojas hide caption

Why regional Mexican's current explosion catapults the genre to new heights

Bad Bunny exalts Puerto Rico in his music of resistance. Getty Images hide caption

Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

Bad Bunny, performing in Miami on Aug. 12, 2022. The Puerto Rican superstar's wordplay was front-of-mind for Alt.Latino co-host Anamaria Sayre this year. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images hide caption

Poll Results: Listeners Pick the Best Albums of 2022

Bad Bunny, pictured performing on stage in Philadelphia in September, finished his international tour in Mexico City last weekend — but many fans were denied entry after being told their tickets were illegitimate. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Roc Nation hide caption

Bad Bunny has a preternatural gift for realness, one that he wields with fluidity, because that is what Caribbeanness demands. It makes his fame feel delightful and deviant. Illustration: Simone Noronha for NPR hide caption

In 2022, Bad Bunny made pop stardom a subversive act

Rosalía's Motomami is one of the best Latin albums of 2022. Gotham/Getty Images/Photo Illustration: Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption

Countdown: The Top 10 Albums of 2022

Roséwave is light and breezy, but not necessarily unsophisticated — the sound of an experience kissed by sweet summer heat. Vanessa Leroy/NPR hide caption

NPR Music's best music of May includes (from top left, clockwise) Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Julia Reidy, Ravyn Lenae and Ethel Cain. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

NPR's favorite music of May, from a San Benito summer to an uneasy opus

Raquel Berrios of the band Buscabulla, performing on April 15, 2018 in Indio, Calif. Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

What it means for pop music to raise awareness about intimate partner violence

On his new album Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny opts for personal intimacy and cultural specificity, anchoring his music in the Caribbean. Eric Rojas hide caption

Bad Bunny performs onstage in Miami during "The Last Tour Of The World" on April 1, 2022. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Bad Bunny unleashes a genre-smashing summer blockbuster

Projects released by Rauw Alejandro, Camila Cabello, and Nathy Peluso are included in NPR Music's Best Latin music of 2021. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR; Getty Images hide caption

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