Bad Bunny, the first Hispanic to win the Grammy for Best Album of the Year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos. The story behind the myth: how Bad Bunny changed the rules.

Like countless Puerto Ricans, the life of global superstar Bad Bunny ―Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio― has unfolded amid blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption, and oppression. This backdrop has not only shaped his journey but also highlights the enduring impact of colonialism in Puerto Rico, a theme that resonates in many of his songs.

This book offers a revealing and exciting perspective: a journey through the island’s past and present, and at the same time, a window into a possible future, told through one of the most universal and committed voices of our time. Based on exclusive interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists, and grounded in rigorous ethnographic research, the authors reconstruct Bad Bunny in his full dimension: artist and symbol, global phenomenon and chronicler of his country.

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, creators of the acclaimed Bad Bunny Syllabus, show how Bad Bunny fits into a long Puerto Rican tradition that knows how to combine celebration with protest. The result is a powerful and contemporary portrait that places his music—and what it awakens in millions of people—at the center of the major conversations of our time: identity, power, inequality, diaspora, and everyday resistance.