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‘How’s Bad Bunny gonna be the king of pop, hey, with reggaetón and dembow?’ Bunny asks on the opening track of his ambitious and political sixth album DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS.
It’s a prophecy foretold because he almost is that king. But how? B.B., aka Benito Martínez from Vega Bajo, Puerto Rico, has squished six albums into seven years.
All Spanish-speaking. All Billboard number ones.
Here Martínez reconciles hit-making and homecoming. His trademark Reggaeton reigns heavy over these 17 tracks, intermingled with other beats (the Colombian Cumbia, house) in a state of impassioned chaos.
Opener NUEVAYoL (NYC) evokes the city’s rich diasporic revolution — a madcap frenzy of salsa and polyrhythmic dembow.
BAILE INoLVIDABLE sees Bunny hopping genres into Bomba and Merengue performed by the students of El Libre de Música San Juan.
This album expertly engineers a cross-generational reheating of Puerto Rican music, young and old, to forge a liberating and patriotic new mood.
