Bad Bunny is taking over the world with his new album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. One of the songs, “NUEVAYoL,” is rapidly gaining attention online as a love letter to New York City and Latin culture.
With the track, Benito samples “Un Verano en Nueva York” by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and Andy Montañez, a Puerto Rican salsa hit from the ’70s.
There are multiple cultural lyrical references to everyone from Big Pun to Juan Soto to Frida Kahlo to Willie Colón, a Puerto Rican salsa singer born in 1950, and his debut album titled EL MALO.
He also references a bar called Caribbean Social Club, popularly known as Tonita’s because owner María Antonia Cay, located in Brooklyn, New York.
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