Bad Bunny will not compromise. The Puerto Rican rapper is on the new cover of GQ, and in the issue he opens up about everything from starring in a movie with Brad Pitt to staying true to himself amid his rise to global stardom. READ MORE: Bad Bunny Strips Down Naked In ‘Moscow Mule’ Music Video “I was never on a mission to be like, Oh, this is what I’m going to do,” Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, says. “It happened organically.
Like, I’ve never made a song saying, ‘This is going to go worldwide.’ I never made a song thinking, Man, this is for the world.
This is to capture the gringo audience. Never. On the contrary, I make songs as if only Puerto Ricans were going to listen to them.
I still think I’m there making music, and it’s for Puerto Ricans. I forget the entire world listens to me.” As a Latino artist, Bad Bunny has also blazed a trail by infiltrating the American mainstream despite sticking to Spanish-language recording. “The Latino audience would always undervalue their artist,” he says of past Latin pop success. “Sometimes, Latinos would want to record with an American, and because they’re American, they’d think, I have to do it.
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