A Beginner’s guide to Bad Bunny’s Masterpiece - "DtMF" analysis

[@PabloHernandez-rr1or]

Pa los puertoriqueños que anden viendo este video. Que hermosa tierra y cultura tienen. En latam somos todos hermanos. Bendiciones de un amigo mexa más 🇲🇽🤝🏾🇵🇷

[@mesilaostia]

Bendiciones hermanos 🇵🇷🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🇲🇽

[@ilimari]

❤❤❤

[@obeb787]

Que viva Latam! Nos toca brillar

[@MightyMind137]

Amigo estas bienvenido a Puerto Rico cuando gustes, visite Mexico y me encanto ustedes tambien tienen una hermosa cultura y paisajes, saludos desde PR

[@PabloHernandez-rr1or]

@@MightyMind137 saludos igualmente! Espero poder visitar muy pronto

[@nesone3385]

I didn’t know what to expect of someone’s dad in a bathrobe talking about Bad Bunny and Hip Hop, but I really appreciated your perspective. Really good work. You’ve earned a new sub

[@eduardomorales8384]

As a Puertorican and a lover of literary analysis, this was wonderful to see. Finding your channel during the BEEF was a blessing. AVAA, primo.

[@GingerSpiritSmurf]

Same, boricua and all. Love this channel and super excited to see this analysis 😊

[@JavierGonzalez-zc6qi]

As a Puertorican that also love and relates to @eduardomorales8384 as a matter fact I think we grow up together is Javio from Caguas if I not confused. Is your not my apologies. Yeah same here great analysis , the fusions and clean sounds make this album a masterpiece. 🤙

[@JavierGonzalez-zc6qi]

Eso Eduardito Moroles!

[@Bob-fj7lr]

Took the words out of my mouth, literally.

[@ivonnelopez7]

🎉Proud to be puertorrican, means we aren't a garbage Island, in the middle off the ocean❤❤❤❤🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆💭

[@nas10iris]

You are NOT a colonizer!!! You are educated, which makes you better than 89.94% of the men in America at the moment! With as much insight as you have dropped on this album, I think you are officially an honorary Latino 😎

[@57alex360]

Criteria to for any American to not feel like a colonizer: have a genuine interest and passion for our culture and language as well as understand the history and sympathize with the current political & economic environment in Puerto Rico. If you do this, trust me we Puertoricans LOVE seeing that.

[@PJ-hi1gz]

Puerto Rican here too. Love your analisis, very on point. If you have any more in depth questions let me know. Bad does a lot of inside references to Puerto Rico that sometimes it’s easy to miss as an outsider. Some things to add, I might edit later: - in the short film, the old guy is bad bunny as an old man in an alternate universe where he’s not famous, just a regular guy, and it touches upon the fear we all have due to the American gentrification and displacement of Puerto Ricans, we’re slowly been made to leave the island, we’re all feeling the pressure of being priced out of our own contry. He’s really being a voice for the voiceless, as you said in the beginning. - We see ourselves as our own country, even though we’re owned by the USA. We might officially be a territory, but we’re a colony, one of the oldest still in existence in the world. - lo que le pasó a Hawaii is jibaro music, this is as traditional as Puerto Rican music gets, it’s very cultural, this what my grandparents’ grandparents bumped to. “Jibaro” refers to the countryside people who farmed the land. The jíbaro is a self-subsistence farmer, and an iconic reflection of the Puerto Rican people. Traditional jíbaros were also farmer-salesmen who would grow enough crops to sell in the towns near their farms to purchase the bare necessities for their families, such as clothing. It is so special that people globally are enjoying this musical gift our ancestors saved for us, and you can partake in it. - you said perreo perfectly jaja - the theory is that the photos that we should have taken more of refer to Puerto Rico, we should’ve taken more photos while we were allowed to live here. Although it plays a double entendre and it can also refer to a past lover, a family member, etc. it’s up to interpretation. :) - i recommend you watch the videos too, he always injectes another meaning to the songs in his videos, like the video for El Club, to me changes it again from an ex to Puerto Rico and it’s current political situation. - Turista actually refers to the tourists that come to visit, so you got that right. Turistas don’t get to see the struggle to make it through here in PR. We were without power all of New Year’s eve, for example. - you’d love Pitorro de Coco, it’s so great tasting. - if you’d like to hear more about Bad Bunny’s inspirations, listen to Tego Calderon’s El Abayarde album, and the first 2 Calle 13 albums, I think you will like them a lot.

[@amn0809]

Yesssss, I second listening to Tego Calderon and Calle 13. Also just Residente in general (Residente is an artist that was part of Calle 13 and went solo).

[@lydiarivera4477]

Perfectly stated!

[@eugeniarodriguez9160]

I should have take.mn more pictures perhaps before our country is completely sold, change and we forget how our home use to be like. The old man it’s worth saying: is Jacobo Morales playing old Benito. Morales is among the pioneer of filmmaking in PR and his movie Lo que le pasó a Santiago was nominated to the Oscar’s in the foreign movie cat. A country shares a geographic, language and culture. Puerto Rico has endured a century of colonialism and nos is fighting gentrification and corruption. The album is an affirmation of our country and act of resistance and revolution. #FreePuertoRico

[@iantoja]

Yes ! Tego! La Mudanza which is the last song in the album has a similar vibe to Plante Bandera which is also the last song in the Tego album. Not just because it’s a salsa, but how he flows in it and its whole intent and vibe idk. Honestly we don’t get much Salsa+Reggeaton like “Sabor a Melao” and “Plante Bandera” today… and now suddenly we have the new Rauw and Bad Bunny album.

[@eileencronk7520]

@@eugeniarodriguez9160¡Que viva mi Puerto Rico libre!

[@drzjay0993]

Correction: the old man in the short film is supposed to be Bad Bunny in the future, when he shows Concho one of the photos he took in the past, it’s Bad Bunny taking the photo.

[@FrancesLissette]

Correcto!!! Venía a comentar lo mismo. El cortometraje es un viaje al futuro, el señor (Jacobo Morales) representa a Bad Bunny en el futuro. Y toda la historia representa lo que se proyecta nos pase en la isla con la gentrificacion y americanizacion. Mucho se relaciona con lo que expresa en la canción lo que le paso a Hawaii....

[@drzjay0993]

@@FrancesLissette exacto, me encanta que el está interesado en nuestra cultura caribeña.

[@Bob-fj7lr]

I'm glad you recognized this for the masterpiece it is. I'm wasn't a Bad Bunny fan until I listened to this album. This is an absolutely brilliant piece of art and will be just as much of the history of Puerto Rican music as anything else in it's rich history. The minute I heard Baile INoLVIDABLE, I realized that this was a masterpiece of an album.

[@occultst921]

As a Boricua living in the island this album means the world to me and to all of us. Seguimos aquí PUÑETA 🇵🇷 !!!!

[@EvelynRodriguez-uu9jj]

Weeppaaaa yo soy Boricua de Sangre y corazon aungue viviera en otro planeta orgullosa de mi 🏝 Isla Amada que me vio nacer ❤ 🏝 ❤🙏

[@liansosa7919]

Seguimos AQUÍ

[@HilmarieFigueroa]

Jacobo Morales is an Icon. He is one of our best writers, actors and directors alive today. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for “Lo que le pasó a Santiago” (What Happened to Santiago).

[@venuswarrior8456]

We're in 2025😂

[@HilmarieFigueroa]

@@venuswarrior8456what does that have to do with anything? I was providing information.

[@KarenJoglar]

​@@venuswarrior8456Y?

[@tucosito1]

33:12 Lo que le pasó a Hawaii is lyrically structured more like a Trova Jibara (folk) with Bomba elements with the drums at the end. It serves the same purposes as the Bomba which were ways of sharing stories, lessons and news among enslaved and jibaro folk in a way colonizers would not understand right away. It’s also a battlecry to Puerto Ricans to not lose ourselves and our culture to colonizing vultures.

[@ArmandoMPR]

Pura xenofobia solapada. Parecen unos loquitos a lo Tucker Carlson diciendo que y que nos estan desplazando 😂

[@myrnalillian16]

​@@ArmandoMPRmm @tucosito1 es bastante certero. Usted parece q no pasa por Rincón o por Dorado.. y solo son un par de lugares. A menos que usted sea discapacitado y/o no tenga comprensión general. Sígalo, que no es con usted.

[@tucosito1]

@@ArmandoMPRNo entiendo el propósito de tu comentario pero pa llorar vete a otro lao. Aquí vinimos a hablar música con el profe

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

Trova and Bomba are from completely different regions and don't have the same background.

[@tucosito1]

@ entiendo pero mi interpretación de la canción fue eso en cuanto a como la creó. Es más como una mezcla con el punto de transmitir el mensaje. Si estás mejor instruido, estoy dispuesto a aprender y mejorar mi interpretación

[@literal_lybatman]

AVAA 37:36 Hey Skye, In the song 'La Mudanza', Benito (Bad Bunny) isn't playing out his life as if he hadn't found fame, he's telling the story about his parents. When he says "Benito hijo de Benito" he's referring to his father, who was a truck driver like his father before him with the same name. He tells the story of how and when he met his mom, and where they had him. After the short drum break, he cuts the music once again to say: "A round of applause for mami y papi, because they nailed it." (they had him) It's a song about the person he is, and his love and impact on the culture and music he loves. So I think there was no better way to start a song with that theme than with the story of how he literary came to be.

[@nocomment9306]

Otro brillante analisis del Profesor Cielo!

[@docchicken245]

Jajaja

[@theonlydiego1]

Profe Skye Rompiendo

[@dde1fy]

hey this is a weird comment but thanks for being so normal and wholesome. with everybody trying so hard to be perfect, i find myself looking for just "normal" creators. like this chill dude sipping coffee, no edits or cuts, no annoying bg music, just wholesomeness and insightful commentary

[@luisliz]

This album has made me and many of my friends from puerto rico cry. He captured so well the attachment and beauty of what it's like to live there with the good and the bad. Because despite all the corruption, hurricanes and treatment of the US we always find a way to feel like family even with people you don't know. We don't want to let that die as we have seen in many other places which we also hold solidarity towards. And latin america in general can definetly relate to all this. Another thing i'll say about Bad Bunny is that he LEGIT has fun and you can find him in the biggest events in PR, as does any other puertorican, he does cover his face though. Artists usually don't do that even way smaller artists than him. As a hip hop fan I would put it as Hip hop but I also get defensive because it's totally different for me. I can never relate to a Kendrick song as much as someone who grew up in LA even if I also consider I understand a lot of it and I know outsiders (outsiders to maybe latino community) will never relate to this (or even older albums) in the way I do either. Dude talks about places I also had my childhood in, things my parents did with me. etc. I think there is also a very strong tie between rap and latin culture too. That's why I loved in GNX when kendrick bought the mariachi singer because my whole life i've felt connected to rap music but also felt like an outsider and when he put her on his album it really validated that connection. I think both cultures hold deep respect for the art form and that giving voice to the voiceless.

[@hendrik.stoops]

36:22 just before the choir there is a small melodic motif on the cuatro "guitar" (minute 3:17) that is referencing the main melody of the Puerto Rican anthem. The history of the anthem is interesting because the original lyrics were replaced in 1922 for being too "revolutionary". With the original anthem lyrics, the melody he references would say "Awake, Boricua! The call to arms has sounded!" . With the 1922 lyrics it would be "The land of Borinquén where I was born". not to overanalyze, but I love that small reference because the song starts with "this is a dream I had" (esto es un sueño que yo tuve) and when I hear that melody of the anthem, in my head I sing "¡Despierta, borinqueño que han dado la señal! ¡Despierta de ese sueño que es hora de luchar!" (Arise, Boricua! The call to arms has sounded! Awake from the slumber, it is time to fight!) which really ties the start and end of the song nicely. 'Lo que le paso a Hawaii" is a masterpiece. Bad Bunny anthem reference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6fJdZSQab-HbpIsi=WWeP6MdTSBfLiA1b&t=197 Revolutionary anthem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXqXoYqibL9kr7csi=PZ4FuG-yb4NXVGbF&t=24 Actual anthem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6K8qGWffMx4e9ksi=X1LR0EdbpPWOZ6yQ&t=16

[@luizalebeis8895]

Thanks for this!

[@rayarroyo7]

You are a genius. I was wondering why Lo que le paso Hawaii felt so familiar. I didn't even hear the melody until you mentioned it, but my brain did and it set off that nostalgia feeling.

[@Light1_2]

As a Puertorican this album brought me back to a simpler time living in in the rural side Puerto Rico. Where you can hear the music from all the passing cars while also playing dominoes with family and friends outside. Another amazing review.

[@gadielgomez2709]

Saludos from Puerto Rico. I'm so happy to have found this analysis of the album. This man analyzes the album with the caution and respect of a sociologist. No wonder he works at the academy. I will only add a clarification with great respect. Puerto Rico is a nation. No matter who claims to be our owner, somos una nación. That's why we speak of Puerto Rico as a country. We don't feel Americans at all. We are latinos, caribeños. Thanks for this great video.

[@tucosito1]

43:10 Pitorro is basically flavored by aging/pickling fruits in moonshine (home made rum) 🤣 . Please visit and just travel the island, not just the Metro area. This was an amazing discussion, thanks Professor!

[@jota8193]

Thanks for the review. it's important to understand the context. Bad Bunny is heavily influenced by Calle 13, where the performer named Residente has made records that have many of the ideas that Bad Bunny is now applying in this record. you should listen to it.

[@999Renji]

ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!

[@kidnemisis73]

This is great analysis, love the comparison to Daft Punk. One correction you will appreciate: La Mudanza is the story not of him but a move his father was invited to. It’s not too crazy and he meets his future wife. They get together and make Benito aka Bad Bunny. As he told Zane Lowe, for this album he asked his family their stories. So this song is his parents story. And how epic that he then takes the song over afterwards. Great job!

[@joelrivera6553]

Found your channel during the beef and as a fellow Puerto Rican I’m glad you decided to give us a little spotlight and review a beautiful album by bad bunny

[@luismercado4582]

Those kids on the song Baile Inolvidable are from the PR school music in PR and he gave them his platform to present their talents.

[@samirasoto96]

Venezuelan-American here who's been watching your stuff since the beef. You don't know how awesome it is to see this crossover from an American hip-hop-centered channel, especially because Bad Bunny is my favorite artist, and he doesn't get acknowledged often enough in this space. The way Benito shows authentic love to the island, its culture, and the people who live there is something I think he doesn't get acknowledged for among his English-speaking audience as much because of the high barrier. Thank you for being willing to make that effort to bridge that gap for yourself and for your audience. El Caribe is so rich in its culture. So beautiful your commentary showing love for this music we grew up with. It was an emotional listen for me as well. When there's so much vitriol against Latinos, it's more important than ever for us to embrace, and not forsake, our identity. Latin culture is so much more than the people who dismissively trash reggaeton are willing to give credit. Thank you for recognizing that.

[@jeromeespinosa8845]

AVAA, Gracias por hablar de este disco! As a Puerto Rican, you have no idea how hard this album made me cry just out of pure nostalgia, as well as it's anti colonial undertones, "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii" definitely deserves more attention. Our Island is mourning the loss of it's land and it's people.

[@tucosito1]

He covers traditional Puerto Rican generes like Salsa, Bomba, Plena, Reggaeton. Some Dominican genres like Dembow and Bachata which are intertwined and adopted by Puerto Rican Culture since the Dominican Republic is our sister island. Finally some folk Latin American generes like Bolero and Aguinaldos, which have different interpretations depending on the Latin American Country. This album really is a love letter to PR but also an evolution of Benito as a person and artist that anyone can enjoy. It’s amazing music and his best album imo

[@yielenedizz]

El aguinaldo es musica de PR

[@tucosito1]

@@yielenedizz creo que tiene origen español y otros países de LatAm también tienen sus versiones del genero

[@jayp7936]

Dembow comes from PR, DJ Playero...the noise

[@jellyg.8961]

​@@jayp7936 actually Dembow genre is from Panama and is a direct descendant from the reggae subgenre called Dancehall. Back in the 90s when El General and other singers from Panama went famous people first called the music they're singing rap-reggae but later it was called Dembow. Here in PR the genre arrived and evolved to underground and then reggaeton. I remember very well since those were my high school years.

[@reyrivera2478]

No such thing as dominican dembow. The dembow they do is what we were doing in the early 90s.

[@8bitretropro]

Hi, I'm From Vega Baja Puerto Rico. I grew up in the mid 80s with my mom's music like bands like the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Miami Sound Machine, El Gran Combo ( Salsa ) Vico C ( original artist of Spanish Urban Music in Puerto Rico along side Ruben DJ) Then came producers like Playero DJ, Dj Negro From The Noise, Dj Eric from La Industria, Daddy Yankee, Chezina , Maicol & Manuel, Lito & Polaco, Las Guanabanas Podrias, Mr. Notty, Baby Rasta & Gringo, Panny , Bebe Ivy Queen, Lisa M, Glory. Rey Pirin. amongs the best of the best of old school reggaeton that was fist called underground ( fun fact, the music was banned in Puerto Rico in the mids 1990s and when police pass you and you had a walkman with underground music they will take their baton and break your walkman when the walkman was in your pocket hurting you in the process, and I was then 13 years old receivingf this abuse of the authorities ignoring Freedom of speech that the constitution gave us being the Oldest Colony in the world. ) I grew up with this music and I was present when it started to be called Reggaeton. Some claim that Daddy Yankee was the first one that coined the name, I personally saw it in an advertisement of an event that was a marathon of Spanish Reggae and the advertisement called the even Regaeton alluding to a marathon + reggae!. I actually worked at the same chain of supermarket that bad Bunny worked at which is called Econo , but I used to work at the location at the beachside. He worked at a location that used to be the old Xtra Supermarket and the Econo bought the location. His music relates a lot of my same experiences and the same sentiments that he expresses I feel them as well. I am in the diaspora here in North Florida , specifically in Tallahassee and I definitively am in need of my Puerto Rican Culture. His musical style transcended barriers of languages because music is an universal language. However the most that it does with this album is to put conscienceness on people of how the Puerto Rico of today is actually being affected. Pretty much is the same situation as what happened with Hawaii that its own native population cant afford to live there. To give you a little bit of context of the short film. In the Film the older Gentleman, his name is Jacobo Morales, A great talent of Puerto Rico from many many decades. In the film, he is playing as Bad Bunny when older and he is reminiscing of the old times. Also the type of cheese that he was asking... papa cheese, is sharp cheddar cheese in a ball. He is talking in the film with a frog called Concho, which is the actual name of the type of frog. What's special about that frog is that there is only two places that that type of frog exist, which are Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Island. Why is this frog in the short film? well it is because this type of frog was once considered to be extinct, however, not by climate change, nor by low counts of its species, it was because of the invasive species that came from elsewhere and took over it's territories and colonies. However, this frog is not extinct. Its alive and thriving. The symbology of it expresses the sentiment that is currently facing the island with people from the mainland moving in and changing the panorama of the island. So much so that currently if you are a native from Puerto Rico living in Puerto Rico and you want to buy a house or a property, the real estate agents over there will not even give you the time of day. They want to sell to mainlanders or foreigners. That's why that short film is so significant, to express and show the sentiment and the possible future 40 years from now. This album represents a very important part in Puerto Rican and the World's culture because is a cry for help so the identity of our country (Puerto Rico as a nation) and all the vulnerable countries of the world don't become dominated by other people like it happened to Hawaii. As you can see from this big explanation, I am very passionate about what happens to my island that I love soo much and I am a huge fan of my Brother Benito aka Bad Bunny doing Good Bunny things. By the way he does have non profit good cause foundation called Good Bunny foundation. you should check it out. Blessings to everyone from my humble Vega Baja Puerto Rican Heart!

[@anukeroppi]

gracias por compartir todo esto, hermane. te envio un gran abrazo desde pr hasta alla en la diaspora, esperando que puedas volver a tu verdadero y amado hogar pronto 🫂🤍

[@lizzygutierrez1]

Excellent breakdown

[@lauramercado3947]

Sorry but it is not true that real estate agents won't take puertoricans as customers. Most people that purchase properties and own properties in Puerto Rico are still puertoricans, please get your facts straight before you write information that is far from being true.

[@NGLaw56]

Great analysis Professor! Wepa! 🇵🇷

[@danielbarrantes9594]

AVAA Skye. As a latino it gives me such a lovely feeling seeing you putting some light on us, even if it's with one of our most popular artists. I'd love to see you dive into more and more of our incredible artists and specially rappers such as Canserbero, Lil supa, Apache, Mir Nicolas and more countless great ones we have. Hope to see more latino art dissection and analysis by the goat (at least mine) 🙏🏽

[@ricardodiazcollado813]

Loved this video!! You get it!! Btw, pitorro is just homemade rum. Its prepared, and aged by burying it underground for a year. The end part of the process involves curing the rum with fruits and nuts for flavor. So pitorro de coco is homemade rum cured with coconut.

[@lolamaia2085]

This album is a classic.

[@Mr.Morales1000]

Agreed

[@luisliz]

From the day it came out.

[@Bob-fj7lr]

Genius Masterpiece.

[@33up24]

I always find it funny when people call Benito "Spanish drake" as an insult. like yeah he's like drake insofar as they are both the most popular hiphop artist in their respective language, but thats pretty much where the similarities start an end. This was a great breakdown, Profesor.

[@DiezDedosDown]

Americans always do that. And it downplays the significance and the uniqueness of the artist as tho bad bunny is just a bargain bin version of Drake. He is not. And he’s never tried to be. Back in the day they called so many of our female singers the “Latin Madonna”. Like they were a cheap version of the original. Most of them were very far away from madonnas music. They called Selena this at one point. It’s actually gross.

[@The00man]

If anything he's Boricua Kendrick

[@theonlydiego1]

It is an insult. He’s Boricua and not from Spain. Comparing him to a Canadian pop artist that’s only known in the North America, when Bad Bunny is known in all of Latin America, USA, and Spain

[@mari98_]

@@The00manyup! Down to being able to walk around his neighborhoods without heavy security

[@isaacarismendi1829]

I did not expect this Bad Bunny analysis prof Skye. This album to me seems like a sequel to "Un verano sin ti" from 2022. This is not rap, not hiphop, but Salsa, Bachata, Bolero, Bomba, Plena and old school Reggaetón influenced. This is Bad Bunny's "return to form" or homage to Puertorrican music history. Reggaetón evolved from Reggae, Dancehall and specifically Raggamuffin, but was later heavily influenced by New York rappers. To add some context: In spanish speaking countries, besides Puerto Rico, we do not consider Reggaetón as a form of Hip Hop, it is is own genre that found its niche in the mainstream in the late 90s and early 00s. If you want to get into Rap in spanish, most people would recommend listening to Los Aldeanos, and Rxnde Akozta (from Cuba), Canserbero and Lil Supa (from Venezuela), Kase.O and Nach (from Spain). Argentina has its own sound more reminiscing of Trap with artists as Duki, Wos or Trueno

[@irvingbaez6984]

He talked about Bad Bunny’s Latin Trap era. That was hip hop

[@josefonseca6144]

I thought of all the alt rock out of Latin America in the 90s and 2000s that mixed regional sounds with their rock, Peruvian flutes, Afro Latino percussions, cumbia beats, accordions, etc. Glad that bad bunny is continuing that legacy.

[@jonathanbarnes7641]

I think his production is no joke he makes some of the best beats even if o don’t understand any of his lyrics at all.

[@Kelo_ke]

I’ve always been a fan of lyricism and word play. This guys penmanship is understated. What he did conceptually, telling a story in each song, staying true culturally yet touches everyone world wide. A lot of emotion, feeling and heart poured in this project and it shows. Benito keeps it real. He’s a a beast. Great analysis!! The genres in this album were 90’s Latin House Salsa Reggaton Bomba y Plena Aguinaldo Bolero

[@jesusperez-cardona8383]

What an amazing reflection/analysis about Benito’s album. I think that all tourists should take a deep reflection to Turista. It is exactly how you mentioned. Even further, we Puerto Ricans are suffering a rampant gentrification due to millionaires buying our houses and businesses, and they were once tourists. As an independence supporter, I see Bad Bunny as a great Puerto Rican “ambassador”. Unfortunately, most statehood supporters does not understand or deny what is captured in this album, specifically in Lo que le pasó a Hawaii. They also fear that independence supporters are just communists (which is false) and they were subject to a lot of propaganda (e.g., the American Dream). I know that there are so many depths and dimensions in this so complex part of Puerto Rico, but my opinion is that tourists (or the unitedstatians) should be more educated to support Puerto Rican decolonization (political and social). Really appreciate your work! 🎉 Thank you very much!!!

[@tucosito1]

42:32 Cafe con Ron is a Plena which is focuses on percussion and vocal harmonies with a specific rhyme scheme that emphasizes the repetitive chorus because it’s meant to be a group activity which the audience amplifying the chorus. I would say it could be considered a new entry into the Puerto Rican Plena playbook

[@erickgeeh3206]

Baile inolvidable it’s the longest track and I have it on repeat.. u can feel the soul … as growing on this music it makes me happy to see a salsa top high on the charts worldwide

[@soyjuanpena]

Thank you so much for this review, really good analysis. Just a quick correction: The old man that you referenced from the short film Bad Bunny launched as the teaser for the album is Jacobo Morales, old school legendary Puerto Rican film maker that's playing Bad Bunny as an old man in the future, so he was reminiscing his own growing up. You nailed it all my friend. Cheers!

[@tucosito1]

12:36 You really nailed the comparison with Daft Punk RAM album, they really hit the same emotional notes musically

[@astromon10]

Also "Turista" has two meanings, and he said so in a inteview, it's both that person that only saw the good times and not the struggle that has been through, as it is the same message but to literal turists

[@tomporrata4359]

First time watching this channel and just wanted to check it for a few minutes before going to sleep and end up watching the whole thing. Really good and honest analysis. I like his style. 👍

[@katylynnj]

No I'm not like you. Im a non Spanish speaking Mexican American mother to 4 half PR children and I'm obsessed with Bad Bunny.😂 His career and music has been such an amazing ride to be along for. His live shows are spectacular. I'm so happy to watch this. This album blew me away. It was exactly what anybody paying attention should have been expecting.

[@LaTinoHustLa91]

As a hip hop/rap & Latin music enthusiast you really made some good points here and enjoyed listening to your take on DtMF, cheers to you Sir

[@kadio787]

I've been waiting for Bad Bunny coverage from you for a bit. Thank you for taking some time. There's a lot of depth in his catalog that is often obfuscated by the classist attitudes we hold towards vulgar/explicit music/lyrics/language/etc,. HMU if you need any help trying to understand something. I'm a year older than BB (born in the same hospital in PR) and I've got a degree in music (not that it matters just something that colors my perspective) and I am very much on the same wave as you that hip hop is the most important art movement of all time and Ye might be its most important figure. Anyways, thank you for all the videos. They've created a lot of discourse in my home and helped me better understand my relationship with my own music making. Much Love!

[@2Good_14]

The old man in the short film is bad bunny in the future. The old man is Jacobo Morales, a legendary filmmaker from Puerto Rico! If not mistaken was the first ( or even only) Puertorican filmmaker that was nominated for an Academy Award. As a Puertorican I appreciate the time you took to understand our culture and do a great review!

[@melisterpadilla7886]

This album gave me goose bumps! I cried listening to the lyrics, watching the videos, listening to Jacobo Morales and Concho el sapo. I had to leave Puerto Rico due too my daughter's health , and still in Boston for almost 13 years while my whole family and friends still there. It feels like my life have stop...and things will never be the same. Haven't danced for years, haven't laughed enough, haven't loved enough

[@Nani1804]

Listening to “lo que le pasó a Hawai” always makes me think of “lamento borincano”, it feels like the same lament but in different generations.

[@Kriss36000]

Lo que le pasó a Hawaii is a stripped down version of Jibaro music. He took out the traditional cuatro strings to make it less Jovial and to give it a more serious tone given the serious themes he is touching.

[@fexcab]

Your point about salsa and reggaeton being culturally the same for different generations rings true. My father was born and raised in Caguas, PR in the 1960s-70s and he would tell me stories about how older folks would look down on the kids who like this weird new sound "salsa". This was a similar sentiment in PR in the 1990s with reggaeton or "underground" music when I was a teenager spending my summers on the island. Fun fact: reggaeton or underground music was virtually banned on the radio in Puerto Rico for much of the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Music was circualted via DYI mixtapes/CDs or live performances which were recorded and released to fans.

[@pitoelcano6376]

I totally agree with you BAD BUNNY IS A BEAST

[@m.saavedramena9533]

Omg I’m from Spain and I swear your accent saying “Debí tirar más fotos” made me smile, how cute! You did it so well! ❤

[@jehovy]

As a Dominican from the Bronx RAM is my goat album. I grew up dancing and playing Salsa, bachata, merengue and reggaeton. When I first heard DTMF in that moment I realized that my community finally have a RAM caliber of an album.

[@juandarengifo3682]

Que viva latinoamericana libre y unida

[@sarahsosa]

Puerto Ricans have been moved to tears by this album over and over again since it came out last week. You are in great company. :)

[@mermaidnora]

This is so nice!!!!! Thanks I love Bad Bunny and what he does for our island. This album made me cry so so much! ❤️

[@JavierGonzalez-zc6qi]

I was in London 20yr ago tripping on extasy in Pacha Ibiza i remember listening to Bomba y Plena fusion with house music ' Voy subiendo voy bajando no viven como nosotros bomba Puertorriqueña '. I haven't been so excited and proud since that they. Bad bunny brought me back to that moment with this one.😮🎉

[@seanhenriques808]

Another great exegesis from you. As a half-puerto rican I feel perfectly comfortable saying "YOU SHOULD GO TO PR AND SEE IT FOR YOURSELF!" It really is a special place filled with beauty and warm people. I'm going for spring break this year after more than 20 years away. I'm so looking forward to it. Just look at some videos here of the island. There are so many and the FOOD! DON"T GET ME STARTED ON THE FOOD!! GO!!!! TAKE THE FAMILY!!!!!

[@lilprz7719]

Yes, Bad Bunny is a rapper. He started out strictly rap, hard-core rap and he’s branched out two different genres so he’s actually making new music that represent older version of older classic music from & bands from decades ago he’s using his artistic abilities to keep his music modern, by using classic rhythms Salsa, ballots, and soul, and etc and is re-creating it from other famous musicians from Puerto Rico with a modern twist. In an interview, he mentioned that now that he’s gotten more popular and well known he’s taking the liberty to use his creative freedom with his music, his overall goal to make it his own and personal. I am a New Yorker Born and raised with Puerto Rican parents I still consider myself Puerto Rican I have been following Bad Bunny’s music since he first started my family‘s actually from the town that he’s from so we’re proud of him.

[@irvingbaez6984]

His old stuff was gangsta af

[@migvhs]

This album has touched my heart so much!! I’ve smiled and cried with it!! MASTERPIECE!! ❤

[@calapai7]

AVAA I'm from South America and pretty much every teenager to 20 something year old's lives have been defined by Bad Bunny. When he was primarily a trap artist, he used to hang around low income districts (looked down upon by higher income areas) performing for a handful of people. Now he's selling out the largest stadiums and being listened to by people of all classes. His 2022 album was the biggest musical phenomenon I have ever experienced. Imagine you're in your early 20s, the pandemic has just ended and everyone wants to party like there's no tomorrow (because for two years there wasn't). Now imagine that for every single party, basically the only thing you're listening to is the 20 songs from Un Verano Sin Ti on repeat. No one ever gets tired of them, the whole club/party sings together even louder every time, because they are just THAT good, and meant to be danced and sung to by hundreds of people. He really transcended being just an artist and has now become an icon, and the best thing IMO is that he knows that and uses it to really bring up his community, his story, his people and the story of Puerto Rico. Personality wise, Bad Bunny was critized early on for just singing about how much of a baddass he was and how much he misses his ex(es), but he's also an artist who expresses a lot of complex emotion in very simple and accessible language, as well as having a good sens of humor and not afraid of making fun of himself. It might be just recency bias, but I see a lot of Kendrick Lamar in him, because of the way he transcends a single genre and revolutionized it, how loyal he is to his principles despite worldwide fame, how much he injects politics and struggles into his songs, even mainstream ones, and the way the experiment with music and humor. Would love more deep dives on Bad Bunny, he's such an interesting figure and a name and sound you can't get away from in Latin America.

[@nrvbrizzy]

34:28 EoO is essentially confirmed to stand for El Otro Ojo in reference to the eye figure from previous album. And that's why it was sort of similar to his previous style songs

[@MightyMind137]

Wow incredible reaction/analysis, very deep, its a mix of viewing it from the outside but knowing the interiorities, it was great to watch, Greeetings from Puerto Rico.

[@FerHering]

AVAA/GVCS (Genial Video Como Siempre). Love to see you cover Bad Bunny. Another artist I would love to hear your take on is Residente (Calle 13), particularly his song "This is not America" an, in in my view, friendly response to Childish Gambino's This is America for calling America to just the US, in which he talks about the history and struggles of Latin America.

[@tytania3545]

❤❤❤❤

[@abrahamgimenez6410]

No he visto el vídeo, pero eres mi youtuber favorito desde el año pasado. Siendo venezolano, no he vivido las mismas experiecnias tal cual como los puertorriqueños, pero siendo del caribe ambos paises compartimos muchas idiosincracias y pasamos por luchas similares. El dolor de dejar tu país prácticamente obligado, que todos tus conocidos estén repartidos por el mundo, recordar un lugar que ya no existe, son cosas dolorosas y que compartimos ese mismo dolor. Gracias a Bad Bunny por hablar de estos temas con su plataforma, y gracias a ti, profesor, por hacer el esfuerzo de entenderlo y comunicarlo a gente que no pensaria al respecto. AVAA, o deberia decir VGCS (Video Genial Como Siempre) 🫂 🇻🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸

[@bombadilltom]

Tú tienes madera para explorar más el flow latino my friend. Great analysis!

[@alejandrojose7530]

Verte hablar con tanto respeto y pasión por otras culturas es una joya. Super interesante tu referencia a la opresión linguística, es rarísimo ver a un americano hablar de esto. Haces un trabajo fantástico. Un video genial como siempre (AVAA)

[@ricardocastro3872]

Puertorriqueño en la casa 🇵🇷 love seeing non-puerto ricans giving time and trying to understand the album and our beautiful island 🤍 but most of all love seeing people just enjoy and dance to this glorious album The information on his visualizers is actually part of our story soo if you want you can read it to better understand him and us, love from Puerto Rico ❤️🇵🇷 great video

[@framaca88]

Amazing review! You make an incredible effort to try to interpret the underlying references and motives of the songs and concept of the album. Of course, as a non-Spanish speaker and non-Latino, people who are Spanish speakers and Latinos might have a different interpretation based on their point of view. However, the way you describe your thoughts was highly respectful and detailed, which opens the conversation of how this album (and music or art, in general) touches us in different ways and multiple internal processes.

[@nrvbrizzy]

Something that wasn't really touched on that he spoke about in an interview which really gave me even more understanding and helped me appreciate the album was taking you through the journey of understanding the Puerto Rican experience, starting with the first song "Nueva Yol" and then the second "voy a llevarte pa PR" - (i'm going to take you to Puerto Rico) and then the rest of the album was about taking you through the ups and downs and love but pain that are involved with the puerto rican experience

[@skii1586]

The end part of nuevayol from the whisper and the hard bass was soooo fireee. As someone with moderate spanish comprehension and listened to the past few bad bunny albums, this one hit the hardest. I don't really have a big cultural understanding of PR but the short film and the use of more traditional elements of Puerto Rican music definitely made this a more unique album (to me) AAVA!

[@ANTONIOHERNANDEZ-ex6mt]

You are a passionate man, just like most of us puertorrican people. I believe in us, this passion comes from the love of our culture, which has so much diversity and richness. I am not sure where it comes from in you, but I am amazed at your appreciation for this album. I had some of the same reactions as you did, and am glad to know that Bad Bunny is producing in people the kind of reation he is likely hoping for: an appreciation of PR, not just for its beauty but also for the plight of its people. Then again, with such amazing music, it will be hard for people to ignore these messages, as the music makes you want to know the lyrics too! Blessings to you, and thanks for spreading the word about the greatness of this piece of art.

[@uchihaaprtv]

when he said in newyork song "flow pesao big pun" its a ref to Big Pun a puerto rican MC who at his time was considered the puerto rican biggie smalls. he had mad puerto ricans, dominicans in NY behind him also "turista" song is puerto rico talking to the puerto rican people

[@gabrielmorais6426]

Vous êtes un professeur vraiment incroyable. Il faut beaucoup de didactique pour parler autant de temps comme ça. Je suis un réalisateur du Brésil qui par hasard vous a trouvé, et je suis tellement enchanté par vos vidéos, il n'y a pas de montage, des images, aucune ressource visuelle, c'est juste vous... Trop difficile mais pour vous ça marche très bien. Merci beaucoup pour tout le recherche, mais aussi pour l'humilité, respect et vérité que vous montrez

[@professorskye]

Merci !

[@exp787]

Jibaro is countryman/folk music, plena traditional Afro Caribbean folk music, salsa is salsa. I freaking love this channel. 🇵🇷

[@professorskye]

Thanks!

[@yesyjim]

Pitorro de coco is actually like a moonshine made with coconut or in a coconut shell

[@calebrivera8913]

Just to clarify, pretty much everybody in Puerto Rico and Latin America calls Puerto Rico a country simply for cultural reasons, same reason people call England Scotland and Wales countries when the actual country is the United Kingdom

[@adler310]

37:41 The “ La mudanza “ starts with Benito rapping the story of how his parents meet.

[@SayisSpeakin]

In one of FD signifiers videos he referred to Bad Bunny as “Latin Drake” and I just keep thinking about how wrong that comment was😭 I’m a big fan of FD’s but within the first few minutes of this video you perfectly explained why that could never be true😭 Thanks for this awesome video! Much love for this album for a New York Dominican🫶🏽🇩🇴

[@duke_rabbit]

An unforgettable dance is a special song. It is poetic about music, life and love. I too, connected deeper with this track.

[@joelvazquez1219]

And he’s gonna take all those kid with him for he’s world tour

[@dianamuniz2266]

The guitar in Pitorro con Coco is a Cuatro , a traditional Puertortican guitar its sound is so unique ✨. That music is also called. “ müsica de trova” or “música jíbara” In Café con Ron is mixed with plena Not Salsa. La mudanza is mixed with salsa and in Baile Inolvidable also Turista is what we called “ música de trío” like a folk bolero sort of Love how u Love this album! Come visit PR i think u would want to stay forever 🔥🇵🇷✨🙏🏼

[@laowlaowpantz]

I work in restaurants and intrinsically love food of all kinds. That pleading, "do you understand?!" felt exactly how it is talking about food with people sometimes. Like great cooking, there's definitely more to these songs than we realize. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@unerevuese]

I have been a Bad Bunny since his 100xPre. Watching him evolve into the artist he is now and speak about current social issues of the Puerto Rico is great. Puerto Ricans love this album.

[@Kalmar917]

I will say again. Great review!! Probably one of the best about this album.

[@ingridperez682]

Plena, bomba and jibaro music are completely different genres. manifestations. The plena is a native-born musical genre that originated in the 19th century in the sugar-growing regions of the island’s southern coast, especially in the environs of Ponce, and it blends both African and Spanish musical traditions. plena is sometimes referred to as the períodico cantado [the sung newspaper] because the songs often deal with important current events. For example, the song “Tintorera del mar” [The Female Shark] chronicles the tragedy of an American lawyer who came to Puerto Rico to defend the interests of a US-owned sugar mill in the Southern town of Guánica. The allegorical figure of the shark that swallows the lawyer symbolizes the island’s fight against U.S. intervention and economic exploitation of the island. Plena is played with a güiro and three “panderos de plena” Jibaro music comes from the country side of the island, our music from the mountains. Jíbaros, the Taíno word for “People of the Forest,” are the mountain people of Puerto Rico who created their own distinct musical style. Jíbaro music evolved from the trovador music brought in the late 16th century by soldiers, farmers, and artisians of the Spanish province of Andalusia. A mixture of the Spanish influence offered by trovadormusic and the African and indigenous music styles that existed on the island culminated into what is now jíbaro music. The jíbaros developed the guitar-like “cuatro” a characteristic element of a jíbaro ensemble and now the national instrument of Puerto Rico. Bomba dates back to the beginning of the Spanish colonial period (1493-1898). The practice was developed by West African enslaved people and their descendants, who worked in sugar plantations along the coast of Puerto Rico (Ferreras, 2005). The towns of Mayagüez, San Juan, Loíza, and Ponce, among others, were the cradle of the various styles that make up this genre. In these areas, cane workers released feelings of sadness, anger, and resistance through fiery drums played in dance gatherings called Bailes de Bomba (Bomba Dances). Enslaved people also used them to celebrate baptisms and marriages, communicate with each other, and plan rebellions (Cartagena, 2004). The roots of this tradition can be traced to people of Ghana, and the etymology of the word “bomba” to the Akan and Bantu languages of Africa. None of this rhythms are salsa.

[@ingvf]

Professor I LOVE YOU THIS IS THE BEST WAY ANYBODY CAN EXPLAIN IT WOW IM BLOWN AWAY

[@jonathanestremera5949]

I was born , raised and still live in Puerto Rico and i cannot tell you how important this alhun is to us , hiw many times ive cried listening to it and how much fun it is

[@veila0924]

Unexpected review out of you, yet not surprising. I love when non-Spanish creators make videos like these, remind me of when Fantano came out and praised Natalia Lafourcade. Just completely out of left field for him.

[@onemindchannel]

Just listened to this yesterday, great timing AVAA 🔥

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

I was born in Mexico 🇲🇽 and I live in Atlanta Georgia. I love bad bunny new album, you did an incredible job reviewing it. Keep up the amazing work 🙌🏼

[@thaliacuadrado]

Primera vez en su canal. Thank you, Benito is the best. ❤

[@ellieptique]

AAVA, buen vídeo como de costumbre, I'm so glad to see you appreciating the album even with the cultural differences and the whole language barrier that might make people stay away from this and not engage in a meaningful way with it. Hope you do some more reviews of other spanish-speaking music as there is so much good stuff out there :)

[@icecream_marchesa9216]

I remember watching a video of FD Signifier (I usually agree with his takes) and he mentioned Bad Bunny as "the Puertorican Drake" or "Latino Drake" or something like that. That, specially coming from him, didn't seat good with me because Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is NOT a Drake by any means. He is not a colonizer. He is a true artist, the product of his culture, he writes his own songs, he gives back to Puerto Rico with words and with actions. I'm Cuban but, as for many Latinos and Caribbeans, his music has inspired me and speaks to our souls. And, as we say in Cuba: Ya quisiera Drake por un día de gloria ser el musicazo y la persona que es Benito! Thanks for this video, is amazing ❤

[@mari98_]

lol I remember that exact take!! I felt that FD would be even more interested in the analytical take of somebody like Bad Bunny being able to surpass the superstardom of Drake well also being committed to the types integrity, and authenticity that Bad Bunny does through a cultural angle. I think it would only make him a bigger hater of Drake lol

[@icecream_marchesa9216]

@@mari98_ I agree!! Maybe I will find the video and leave a comment to FD. Hopefully he will find it and check Benito's work from a different angle!

[@Yvy-temp]

AVAA❤ this was a great analysis thank you for being yourself and also a great communicator

[@rogeliomarzan4511]

That old man that you mentioned is Jacobo Morales, a puertorrican artist and director nominated to the Oscar in 1989 in the category of Best Foreign Film, and you read it right “FOREIGN“ which also scream loudly about the confusing and conflicting colonial relation between the country of Puerto Rico and the USA, which at the end runs parallel with the whole theme of this album. Because, it’s not only a great mix of pop, reggaeton, or salsa, or boricua folk music, this nostalgic album is kind of “Protesta” and a new version (in Lo que le pasó a Hawaii) of the “célèbre” Lamento Borincano from Rafael Hernandez.

[@professorskye]

Thanks for the info. A great actor

[@rogeliomarzan4511]

@@professorskye Thank you for this amazing review. Despite the physical, cultural, and language distances, you not only understood it but also felt it! That is profound.

[@Guts-blood]

Puerto Rico is a colony; let's not try to hide the sun with a finger.

[@noelpolanco5338]

We have ALL THE SAME BENEFITS RIGHTS POWER OF BEING AMERICAN

[@eldavie9127]

​@@noelpolanco5338Really? Cause I can't vote for my president.

[@noelpolanco5338]

@eldavie9127 I do many of us have home in the states also. We just can't do it if we live full time in PR. Other than that we have all the rights and power

[@joevuzekaz2030]

Who cares

[@joevuzekaz2030]

What is a colony and what it means

[@ernestoroldan2832]

Thank you for this video, as a puertorrican we need more of this kind of videos. People don't understand our culture. Yes we are US citizens, but we are also the more diverse, culturally speaking. We're the only Spanish speakers part of the US so we have influence from many cultures. Caribbean, Latin and South American even from Jamaica. And that's the beauty of my Island, we embrace them all.

[@lesliebeebe-tm9md]

I’m here because of Bad Bunny’s “Lo que Paso a Hawaii” as a Native Hawaiian, I am more “Bunny Curious” 🤣 I can relate to his perspective on island politics.