Bad Bunny
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
Birthplace Almirante Sur, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Birth Date March 10, 1994
Ethnicity Southern European
Overview Puerto Rican [Spanish, possibly other]
Nationality Puerto Rican
Career Rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor
Color Season Dark Winter
Notes and Motifs
His songs include “Diles,” “Soy Peor,” “I Like It,” “Mia,” “Dákiti,” and “Un x100to.”
Appeared on the show Narcos: Mexico and in the films F9 and Bullet Train
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Bunny: "Now I do whatever I want."
Bunny: “If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything—why can’t I?”
Bunny: “If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.”
Bunny: "The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back."
Bunny: "The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers - keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance."
Bunny: “Sometimes nothing is happening and all that disaster just happens in your mind.”
Bunny: "When I get dressed, it's like freestyling."
Bunny: "A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'"
Bunny: "Music belongs to the people. To no one else."
Bunny: "Simple goes a long way."
Bunny: “For a moment, it seemed like it was the end of the world. It’s as if I spent my final tour of 2032 advancing the word from 2020.”
Bunny: "Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience."
Bunny: "I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on."
Bunny: “You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago—even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.”
Bunny: "Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!"
Bunny: "When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need."
Bunny: "It's an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop."
Bunny: "She's a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one."
Bunny: "I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity."
Bunny: "To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level."
Bunny: "I can dance to just about anything."
Bunny: “Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.”
Bunny: "I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I'm an icon. The world decides all of that."
Bunny: "You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change."
Bunny: “Dreamers, keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals.”
Bunny: “You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.”
Bunny: "I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn't like to look like anyone else."
Bunny: “If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.”
Bunny: "I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It's easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere."
Bunny: "Music has the power to inspire the world."
Bunny: “If I went out to play basketball with other kids when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.”
Bunny: “My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.”
Bunny: “When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal, but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.”
Bunny: “It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.”
Bunny: “I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‘X100PRE’ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music—it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.”
Bunny: “I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence—to sometimes try to do what I can.”
Bunny: “I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.”
Bunny: “We’re making the music that the people are asking us for.”
Bunny: “I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.”
Bunny: “To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And it’s representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.”
Bunny: “When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.”
Bunny: “When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‘Bad Bunny.’”
Bunny: “The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.”
Bunny: "Ultimately, I'm not doing that much. I'm only doing what a human being who feels wants to do - in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people."
Bunny: “When someone teaches you something new, you never forget that person.”
Bunny: “I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.”
Bunny: “I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.”
Bunny: “The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, seven dollars. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.”
Bunny: “If I have the chance to say something, I will say it—but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem as if I were a lawmaker.”
Bunny: “I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.”
Bunny: “For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.”
Bunny: “I always liked different things, rare things.”
Bunny: “Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do—in my way, without stepping out of my flow while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.”
Bunny: “I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue.”
Bunny: “When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.”
Bunny: “My Mami and Papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume and turn it back down when it’s over.”
Bunny: “I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.”
Bunny: “We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.”
Bunny: “A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‘Wow, that movie or that show or whatever—turned out really well.’”
Bunny: “When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.”
Bunny: “No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell me what to say, how is someone else going to?”
Bunny: “I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.”
Bunny: “I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.”
Bunny: “Some people are making music just for numbers and views.”
Bunny: “Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was five, it didn’t exist—not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.”
Bunny: “You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.”
[On his hit single, MIA]
Bunny: “Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‘MIA.’ That’s the best part of it.”
Bunny: “Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are—you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But, maybe I get carried away by some trends.”
Bunny: “When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.”
Bunny: “I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.”
Bunny: “I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.”
Bunny: “I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.”
Bunny: “Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‘Perreos’ of Plan B.”
Bunny: “People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.”