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this like the best coffee I've ever had in my life oh yeah you look good I've had seven already hello welcome to Puerto rgo always love to be here this is the first time I've talked to anybody without hearing their
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music in 15 years no way you going to play me some stuff yeah let's go yeah of course I'm excited to hear this music first of all need my phone I need do you have uh yeah I do I have I do please let me get my stuff it's true in the rarest of
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occasions I flew to Puerto Rico at the end of last year to interview Bad Bunny having not even heard his new album I mean to be fair it wasn't even finished now it is and we all have and we know it was worth it absolute fire so let's get into the making of it with the one and only iconic Bad Bunny at home in Puerto Rico all [Music] right what that's the first song bro what is that that that's the first song that's crazy thank you what is at the
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beginning what's the the original song is um York I'm not sure but I think it's from the 70s the grand kumbo Rico like one of the biggest um salsa uh band from from Puerto Rico they they still play in in they like Legends and and bro you flipped that crazy it's it's it's a famous song it's like like very iconic song especially in New York at the summer cuz he's talking about York it's like summer in New York uh I had this song long time
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ago um and I was waiting for this moment to to flip it yeah completely crushed it can I hear another one thank you of course so I'm gonna I'm gonna gonna show you the first three songs uhhuh that one that one is like we were in New York but
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now I'm going to take you to Puerto Rico and then we're going to we're going to stay here it's like I'm gonna take you to [Music] PR crazy this like a very basic regon but is is the is the basic basic I call this
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like to me that Sound is like a very simple that sometimes people want to like artist and that's that's okay like they want to make very complicated the sound and they some forget about the just the basic sound that people love you sound super
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connected thanks yeah I'm um I'm a better artist every day and I going to show you one more yeah What's this called B in Unforgettable dance this one is my favorite one it's like a drink on [Music] [Music] [Music]
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to wow man wow thank you thank you that was emotional yeah for me as a listener I can't imagine how that has been for you to make I think it's one of my best experience ever Crea music well I have a lot of great moment creative
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music but definitely this this one is is is top five best moment of my life creating music because it's a very special it's a song that I had in my mind for like maybe two years the whole compan position the the whole song it
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was in my mind way before the the song um was created so now that I can listen to it you realized it realized is is one of the best feelings ever um the whole song is is made with new Young Musicians from Puerto Rico like all of them are like 20 years old 21 22 like they they're really young kids straight from the uh mus like like the public music school from Puerto Rico so the the whole process was like see them bringing that passion and and and
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energy the the motion the it's I so emotion listen to because everybody is playing at such a a passionate and high level mhm and there so much Bel and you can feel it feel you can feel it that this song these guys are really giving
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everything on the song giving their soul their passion their heart and you can feel it and that's what I really love I can feel it in everything that you're doing on the rck with so father the songs you just played me cover three
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very distinct areas but there's through line here which is here and you've always been here but I feel like somehow and you tell us but there been a a deeper connection has been formed with something yeah yeah it is and and and
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you just listen to three songs yeah I'm scared there's more there's more and and I like that you said that right now like I always been here but now you can feel like a de and deeper connection with this project um I was saying the other
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day sometime when you far from something you can you can see it better yeah yeah yeah someone said to me you have to leave sometimes to be able to come back trly appreciate it and there's a lot of things from not only from my country and my
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culture cuz I always been appreciating my my my my country and my my culture and my people but also from my personal life from my from my career from everything things that I that I now really appreciate more than than
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before I've been leaving a lot of new experience last two years I met a lot of people from different countries from different culture and I had to share my culture my my ciria it's not the same talk to another Puerto
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Rican about Puerto Rico or or also with another Latino about country but talk to people from USA from Canada from from Russia from Germany about your country you start to understand another thing that you you oh wow this this is this is
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crazy and see how people react to the things that you are telling to them is is mind-blowing and and and all that things made me think about who I am and and and what I really represent cuz I always say I represent my my my my country my people around the world but now is I think I I have another purpose you know what I mean like is that to say that you've come to terms with your success so that it it no longer drives you as much as it would
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have done in the first 5 to 10 years that you have enough distance from what success means you know number one this number one that award here award there world's biggest artists are great mhm but this is more important right yeah yes that's what I feel that's what I mean that's what I want to say to the world but especially to my people um being here was my dream I always dream but I was asking to myself what what what is the
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reason to me be here like what is the reason to me be in this position like number one on the is breaking these records what's next a lot of artists they go crazy thinking about what next cuz they think the next thing is just I
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don't know be breaking more break more records or or be bigger and no now stadiums no now we're going to we're going to go to the Moon I don't know how you know yeah and I realized that there's there's other things that you need that
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sometimes are more important than that and and that's the next level I always look at it when you're when you're chasing something and your eyes are on success or ambition or whatever it is you're chasing and then you get it you start
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getting chased by other people MH and the only thing that breaks that spell I've noticed in the Arts is when people come home no one's going to chase you here they just want you to be happy right at the end of the day like they
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want you to be proud of where you're from and build what you've built here do you feel like it's a different kind of Chase you're looking for something new now yeah also I just want to enjoy I want to enjoy my life what I'm doing and create music and do the same thing that I've been doing cuz I know that there's there's a lot of people that listen to my music that they want something and I think um that's what I'm doing with this
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project um it's like a deeper journey journey to show people who who really I am where I come from and everything you said I just love everything that you said because is is the I I'm grateful that people can understand what I'm trying to say with this project and you only listen to two songs and you already got it so oh it's deep the music is beautiful and deep and it sounds like you've been reflecting on the people in your life too have you
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been reflecting on your history on your life on your family yeah definitely definitely I'm still young but I just turned 30 and I remember when I when I turned uh 20 I was depressed I thought that the I thought that I was going to to die it
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was the the end of my life I was oh my God I'm 20 I'm a old man I'm I'm about to die this is the this is the end I remember what was going on in your life at the time what was happening I was a student I was I was
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doing I was on normal guy studing and working on the on the on the grocery store you unfulfilled I'm a very emotional person and sometime I over think everything um so I'm just learning to not to think too much and
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just um trust in the life in God in the process and and everything and and enjoy the moment but n 30 people start to ask you like when you going to marry when you when you going to have kids when you going to and this is is you start to
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think like am I am I wrong like and there's a lot of thoughts that that start to come to your mind and yeah definitely I've been reflection [Music] and also about my career I'm what I've been doing all these years I'm about to turn 10 years in in the in the in the industry in in and that's crazy cuz sometime I feel that I'm I'm a rookie this is my first year this is my this is my first album to me you know well in some ways it is because if you
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think about so sente right and how that that album is in the Apple music is 100 best albums of all time and I think at the time when you spoke to Ebro you said I've made my best album when you make an album you love as much as that you love
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as much as that in a way it frees you doesn't it um is one of the best thing that I ever created so I felt free creating that that album more than the other ones um um I think that I I found myself creating that that album when when
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I made the like the Mambo the the the I really found myself and and and my sound and what I really like to do and to so now that I know what make me feel happy let's let's do it and let's what I want what what I really feeling talk about the making of This Album and where you made it I know environment's important to you did you make it in Puerto Rico 100% there's a couple song that I that I record um in I said like I remember I was I had
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to work cuz I wanted to to to finish the album but I said I don't want to record any song out from Puerto Rico so I was working on Happ Gilmore and Co still in in in New York so I stayed for two month in New York so I was like
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the only place that I going to record beside Puerto Rico is going to be New York so I was staying in this house and they had like a like a like a office and we went to a Puerto Rican souvenir shop we filled the the the whole off
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like there was like 2,000 flags and Co and it was like like the most Newan place ever and uh uh I recall a couple songs there I think like two maybe three but the whole album is made here so let's talk about life here look people are going to love seeing you around mhm mhm but if you want to go to like a residente show like just hypothetically and jump around and smash a beer can on your no one's going to bother you too
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much right they're going to they're happy you're here having a good time right yeah I remember the first time that I came here I came here by myself Alan I park right there that's you can't park there because the public transportation through there so you can park there so I said it I don't care cuz I remember before that time the last time that I went to a place by myself alone and life had changed right so you're like how is this go what's
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going to happen yeah what's going to happen and I felt so good that I since that day I start to to go to AB not not to everywhere I know where to go but I have this dream someday in my life can be like everywhere going everywhere
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where I want and share with the people and yeah I know that always there going to be people they going to ask me for a picture or I'm happy with people saying hi and talk to to me and have a conversation isn't it just about people treating you
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like a human being though yeah that's what I want that's what I yeah and people I think they they feel in it this is human right thank you love your music this yeah yeah that's weird it's not human that's weird also if you want a picture you can ask for a picture but no one has private right in this time famous people no famous people no one has privacy today you you can see someone like eating I don't know the coffee and he's drinking
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in a weird way sometime start to yeah record so that's is a bigger that's that that problem is bigger than mine I think but let know to the people that I'm I'm a human like them and you live here man like and I live here I
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don't want to move there's a lot of artist and when they turn big they they they move to to other places cuz they feel that they can be anymore around but I don't want to do that H yeah I like another place I like I like New York and
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I want to I want to have a place there just to go couple weeks couple months I don't know and and uh also I want to I don't know someday I want to I want to a house I don't know Switzerland but I want to leave here
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forever that's that's I remember when I was a kid and my and my mom she bought uh ticket to go to to New York and and to Connecticut and um to busy uh family and when she told us to the family you know what like a surprise we are going to to
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USA I start to cry I was 12 and I start to cry but cry because I didn't want to leave I was no I don't want to go I don't want to live here I won't was going to be here in Puerto Rico and my parents was laughing like what the this guy is crazy like yo we going to come back it's just for two weeks now I'm traveling around the world the whole time and always so yes but it's like a feeling that I always been feeling my whole life
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your friends you got friends living around here you have a lot of friends still here how how old is your oldest [Laughter] friendship uh 20 years 20 years he is one of the guy that are drinking beer with me in the beach you met him when you were 10 you know him that long yeah yeah so he's my what kind of childhood did you have man with your parents like you've created such an amazing creative life for yourself was it a creative household
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was it a reaction to a strict upbringing like what what kind of upbringing did you have as a kid I had a beautiful childhood I think um I lived with my parents both of them thanks God that they still alive um I went to public school um my mom was
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very strict with the grades and my dad was was always making you know us laughing and and and making jokes and so I really I could say that I had a a a very happy childhood um very with my with my grandparents with
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my uncles aunties my cousins [Music] how they worked so hard to give everything to us to me I'm I'm a I'm a brother so did that affect your ambition coming from a a household that was built on a foundation of hard work did that did that kind of drive you to want to achieve things in your life maybe I know I I'm sure that I learned a lot of feeling from my parents like I learned that from my mom my mom was like a psycho with the she always
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wanted to be in places like 10 minutes before so I'm always the first one in everywhere yeah you on time today do you know how rare it is yeah I really I like to respect that all the time you know I know that you
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came here from from far I know that you really so I don't want to make you wa from me and arst don't if I have like a like a like a din at 8 I'm there like 7 7:40 wow waiting and then I feel like a like a dumb like I'm the dumbest arst of all times
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and my dad was like he always was helping others and giving to the others in the neighborhood like I remember ER my dad was always giving and helping like the the people from the neighborhood and and that part of me like to give to the others definitely going learn from my from my dad and yeah because you've been doing that from dot a lot of people tend to start a philanthropic experience once they've reached a certain threshold I feel like
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good bunny and what you've been doing you started even before you reached the most amount of people that it was a priority very early on um what has been the sort of the most Vivid and overwhelming experience for you since you started good bunny I told you before like I'm I'm always overthinking everything also something that I really think about is when you try to do positive things to change people life neighborhood life to try to to to
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push young people to do good things and positive things and see how the whole system work backwards [Music] e what I love so much every time I come here is um just the spirit of this place and how strong the identity is of this
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place of Puerto Rico and the fact that it's it's kind of considered technically like an unincorporated part of the Mainland of the United States but how that sort of influenced the mentality of the people and of your Generation by
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generation as you grow up in terms of your identity yeah we we are about to turn like and we still peran there's a lot of thing that I could say right now um what I can say is that I really feel proud about my my
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people about my country about my culture and about how they be resistant and people that did it before people who Inspire the new generation to keep fighting and keep there there there's there's a lot of other things that I could say about the
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influence because obviously we have this [Music] um that this bridge I don't I don't know or or this link with the people who go to to the states and or mag for when you um when you played this new music to your to your family for the
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first time to your parents for the first time and it had all this beautiful influence yeah there there's a song that I talk about how they met each other wow based on the story they told you yeah it's the last song of the project yeah
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wow amazing you spoke to your parents you you speak to other members of your family did you did you look for stories and things to ultimately translate into this album so I'm going to tell you I Did It For the First Time not for the first time but in a long time I did it again this year and it felt good cuz I said I don't talk to my family enough I don't I I maybe don't know then enough I should take more photos yes yes yes like
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I like I basic question to my dad like what was your dream when when you was a kid that type of question basic question and I I learned a lot of new things from my parents from my grandparents also and it was very natural it was like a day that we start to talk and and it wasn't me trying to find things or it was like a very natural conversation was it emotional it was it was to me it was cuz I learned great things that I said what
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the I didn't know that I I didn't know that great stories about about my family about my my grandpa my grandmother my and he was very special and very inspiring that's part of the concept I'm glad that you said that like I should take more
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pictures um cuz that what that means is is more than just a picture is more like about the moment about the the the history like [Music] I want to talk about some of the artists that you work with on the record one of
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the things I love about your music is that you are always searching for new artists to inspire you so who did you work with on this record that we've never heard of or I've never heard of um they are like a like a group from
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Puerto Rico and to me I'm a big fan of of them they really really make great music they have like a very different and unique sound they combine like Caribbean instrument and Caribbean sound with like a like a something new and
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and I just love them the songs the lyrics is very refreshing also um so life show if you haven't listen yet you should the they should we they from here they young [Music] um this a it's a plan plan group is like a like a RM from Puerto Rico and
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and I think that they they're being very special in this project because we been doing a lot of things and I I really you know what's what's my favorite part about to collaborate with all these artists that I'm telling you is no
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matter how far big whatever I could be obviously I I know a lot of big artists and Superstars and I feel happy that I connect more with these people that I really feel more connected and I really feel more I feel I feel good I feel comfortable I
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feel free I feel happy in this environment in this place with these artist with these people with their friend with the with the group there's no you have to try yeah and to me it's hard to make friends no matter
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what it was hard in high school so um I have like a it's hard to me sometime to even to say hi not because I'm a cuz you're shy yeah is that what ultimately you were you were presenting yourself to some degree in a hidden environment when you first came out you're mased up was that out of shyness mhm wow most of the time because I'm I'm I'm a shy person you is a a is a real it's so funny though isn't it cuz when you sort
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of decide that you're going to come out and present yourself and you and you and your mask because you're shy it draws more attention to you because people want to pull the mask down and see who you really are so you so I suppose you
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have to at some point take the mask off otherwise people are always going to be more fascinated in a strange way the other day that I went to this concert that I went crazy I was about to wear a Mas love see I love to see that and then
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he said yeah what is the differ with the MK without mask people all that is mean so and they loved it everyone loved it yeah yeah that's that was that is one of my best day of my life it was very very very very special did it feel like something changed that night that you that you've got a sense of Freedom that perhaps you haven't felt before where it was like I don't have to necessarily be beholden or trapped by my own success or
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fame or whatever you want to call it definitely I felt something different than I I felt free people that was around me especially people from here like the most people that was it was people from from other places
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that came here for the concert you know people from Spain people from from USA Colombia Venezuela people from here they were like very there's a long story behind that night but resid when when it was K he had a concert here uh back in 20
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2014 and um I bought the tickets to go I was in college I was 20 May yeah I was 20 I was 20 and I was going to this concert with two friends one of them it was like the the the craziest K fan ever and he left he went to the United States
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like a like a week before the concert and we was like what the he went we don't say anything and he won he just disappeared just yeah yeah and I sold the tickets I didn't want to go anymore so I sold the tickets and I sold it
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to one of my best friend right now but I didn't know him at all on that time so he went to that concert because me like technically and when I saw the pictures and the videos from that coner that was epic I was like I was sad that about that I saw the those tickets but you got a friendship out of it yes and now I was on that concert with one of the guys that I was going that time and with the guy that I sold the tickets on that time and he felt
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like like I went to the full circle yeah and this is a whole theme of this record it seems to me which is that life is catching up to your success mhm that when you were 20 years old and miserable that you wanted to be where you were a year or two ago that that you wanted to run and see the world and Chase it down right but life's ultimately want life to catch up to you and so it can be one big experience yeah and it feels to me like what we're
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talking about the whole theme Here is that you're now able to incorporate the life you want into the life you've made right the success you have he it's beautiful how life there's things that you don't understand at the time but then Sol like with the time you you you you you going to receive those answers well I have a tough question for you on behalf of the good people of Europe which is that you you know you've you''ve toured
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Faithfully these albums there are parts of the world that are still waiting for this modern bad buny experience unless I'm wrong you haven't really done a proper tour outside of the Americas for a long time and and I can't even think
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of a a propa tour in Europe that you've done so what's been keeping you from traveling further a field on these tours and I know quarantine and Co being one of those elements but are you ready to do a world tour I'm going to be honest
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with you I really want to go around the world cuz I know the war is waiting like I know this Spain is is been waiting for me I feel like fans ready especially with this album yeah and you know the the the funniest part I'm dra my my bit for the
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world right now trying to encourage you I'm not going yet I failed we're making plans to go but it's not going to be this year can I ask you what why it's taken you some time to get past the Americas [Music]
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but definitely I want I wanted to go I want I want to it's crazy when you think that I haven't performed any of my songs like and I feel this album is so beautifully created to to present this deep and Rich musical history that you
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you put through this beautiful modern filter so Tastefully done and so ready to put on the biggest stages around the world I agree and we we're going to do it I promise that I'm going very soon uh we trying to finally go to Europe and
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and uh and other parts of the world thank you for answering that question I know fans will be happy to he that I want to say that that I think based on what you played me and where you are in your life this could be your biggest album yeah personally I definitely uh but yeah I don't I'm I'm not looking for to to compete or or overpass I'm not looking for over or may like it's all about that like I overpass myself and the work that
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I have done before and and keep having fun and keep exploring and doing things that I feel comfortable with it or that I feel happy and definitely this album is Dad is is is like a I keep finding my my myself and and and exploring who I am
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as a person and as an artist and even just like performance- wise when I hear the way you're singing on this pushing yourself vocally Melody I felt was an addition to your rhythmic performance now I feel like you are melodic first
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that's how it feels to me do you know what I mean yeah yeah thank you for that yeah and I and is it's crazy cuz you you listen three songs they're they're they're really crazy uh songs that I tried different things different Melodies obviously there there's a lot of bad Bon sound nice is there a song on the album that you feel has unlocked something for you as a performer as a vocalist the one song where you're like wow I went
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somewhere and I know I can go somewhere new now there's a song called b b is like a ho definitely I I did something I said oh this is this is something different that I can do also with the with the rhythms the I like how how I
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Flo like on the on the on the Rhythm and I said whoa I want to do this again I want to I want to try more stuff like this definitely there's a lot of things that I did for this project that made me think about how much of what else more I
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could do your timing to release this album is really poignant you know and I think it must me a lot to you to know that you know you arrived at a point in your life where being from Puerto Rico resonated with you in a much deeper way especially some of the stuff that was been in the press and the world gasped at that statement and I don't even want to say it out loud the world just gasped at it and it must have been for you nice
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to know that you were already in process making a body of work that was going to beautifully contradict that statement with love and and pride that's all always the the goal like bring happiness and bring joy to people no matter what is
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happening around the world no matter how up we are that's one of the reason that I create and I make music is I feel that there's nothing bad happening in the world and in my life when I'm creating music I hope that
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people who feel bad to also when they listen to my music like Fu I don't know I'm I'm I'm I had a bad day today but now I'm listening to this and and I feel better that's the goal that's the purpose always about my project the the
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the the time and the the the the specific time the release is is also to make families to connect when the young guys or whatever whoever played my my album and maybe their their uncles or they grandparents they they they can say oh I
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know that sample I know that stuff this guy is doing that like terrible let me show you let me show you original you know what I mean um that's what I want make families to the same thing that I did this year that I told you about knowing my my my family better knowing these stories I want to families after hear this this album make them like to start conversation that they never had before or for that's definitely one of my purpose of this album