When Bad Bunny takes center stage for the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, he'll be the first artist with a primarily Spanish-language repertoire to do so.
These are some of his most impactful lyrics, in Spanish and English, as the Puerto Rican artist prepares to make music history.
Debí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuve
Debí darte más beso' y abrazo' las vece' que pude
Ey, ojalá que los mío' nunca se muden
I should have taken more photos when I had you
I should have given you more kisses and hugs the times that I could
Hopefully my loved ones will never move
Perhaps the most popular song of his most recent album -- which won the Grammy for Album of the Year -- "DtMF" captures the nostalgia and longing to make more out of everyday moments, a sentiment that many immigrants describe as a consequence of being away from home.
Ey, ey, ey, 4 de julio, 4th de July
Ando con mi primo, borracho, rulay
Los mío' en El Bronx saben la que hay
Con la nota en high por Washington Heights
While sampling "El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico," a more than half-century-old salsa orchestra, Bad Bunny brings to life the joy of Puerto Ricans in the mainland, highlighting the diaspora's time under the New York sun.
Quieren quitarme el río y también la playa
Quieren el barrio mío y que abuelita se vaya
No, no suelte' la bandera ni olvide' el lelolai
Que no quiero que hagan contigo lo que le pasó a Hawái
Bad Bunny calls out gentrification in the island, an ongoing trend fueled by tax incentives that have raised property taxes and excluded Puerto Ricans from some of their most prominent lands, drawing a comparison to gentrification in Hawaii.
Ey, 'tá empezando a llover, otra vez va a pasar
Por ahí viene tormenta, viene temporal
'Tá empezando a llover, otra vez va a pasar
Por ahí viene tormеnta, ¿quién nos va a salvar?
In a 2024 reflection on Hurricane Maria, which leveled parts of Puerto Rico and left many without power for months, Bad Bunny denounces the government's role in the chaos that ensued after the Category 4 storm swept through the island.
Vo'a llevarte pa' PR, mami, pa' que vea' cómo es que se perrea
Tráete a tu amiga si te gusta la idea
Dile que esta noche vamo' a janguear
Que rico la vamo' a pasar
Aquí nadie se va a casar
Pero tú te va' a querer quedar
Many of Bad Bunny's songs center around women and love. In "VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR," the singer highlights a reggaeton dance that grew in the Caribbean, known as perreo.
Similar to twerking, it has been criticized for being hypersexual and inappropriate, according to Petra Rivera-Rideau, an associate professor of American studies at Wellesley College, who co-authored "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance." Rivera-Rideau points to perreo as an example of resistance during the 2019 anti-corruption protests in Puerto Rico.
No, no te puedo olvidar
No, no te puedo borrar
Tú me enseñaste a querer
Me enseñaste a bailar
Apple Music debuted a video of Bad Bunny dancing to "BAILE INoLVIDABLE," or "Unforgettable Dance," featuring a wide range of people. In the video, the 31-year-old artist, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, dances beneath a flamboyán, a tropical tree with bright red flowers from Madagascar that has become a beloved symbol in Puerto Rico, with a myriad of people -- a firefighter, women of all ages and people of all ethnicities.