Bad Bunny sued for allegedly sampling pioneering reggaeton mixtapes without permission
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completemusicupdate.comBad Bunny has been sued over allegedly uncleared samples on his track ‘Safaera’, which appeared on his 2020 album ‘YHLQMDLG’.The lawsuit has been filed by BM Records, which was an early champion of the reggaeton genre as it was first emerging in Puerto Rico in the 1990s.
Of particular note, it released a series of influential mixtapes by DJ Playero, from which it now argues Bad Bunny borrowed when making ‘Safaera’.In its lawsuit, BM Records notes how a Pitchfork review called ‘Safaera’ “a five-minute tribute to DJ Playero’s genre defining mixtapes of the 1990s”, while another review dubbed it “a journey through DJ Playero style underground – complete with cut-and-paste sampling”.Yet, the label claims, while other samples used in the Bad.
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