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CARAMANICA<\/strong> At Coachella in 2023, you brought out Jos\u00e9 Feliciano. I wonder when you think of the Puerto Rican music of the \u201970s and the \u201980s, what do you hear in common with what you do?<\/p>\n BAD BUNNY <\/strong>When you really, really listen to the music from back in the day, it\u2019s the same thing. I know that people say, Nah, music in the old days, it was different. And it\u2019s true in some ways. But when you listen to the lyrics, when you listen to the stories, it\u2019s the same. I\u2019ve been listening to a lot of Chuito el de Bayam\u00f3n, an artist from Puerto Rico from the \u201940s and \u201950s \u2014 m\u00fasica j\u00edbara, m\u00fasica t\u00edpica \u2014 and all the songs are about things I can relate to. Wait, he\u2019s singing about this \u2014 I was living that two weeks ago.<\/p>\n COSCARELLI<\/strong> Take me back to just before the U.S. election. There\u2019s this Trump rally at Madison Square Garden and a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, makes his disparaging comments<\/a> about Puerto Rico. You decide it\u2019s time to say something<\/a>. What was going through your mind?<\/p>\n BAD BUNNY<\/strong> I didn\u2019t feel any pressure to say something, I did it because I felt it. I was angry at the time, because I was here in New York. I was like, \u201cWell, this guy\u2019s right here \u2014 we should go \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n It was a real moment of frustration. Yeah, I know, he\u2019s a comedian, blah, blah, blah, blah. But that wasn\u2019t a stand-up comedy show. It was supposed to be a political rally. I didn\u2019t know he was a comedian \u2014 he was in a suit, I was like, oh, he\u2019s a politician. Then people told me, no, it\u2019s a comedian. It wasn\u2019t funny. For a lot of reasons. I have a great sense of humor. And I like dark humor. But there\u2019s places and there\u2019s circumstances for that.<\/p>\n COSCARELLI <\/strong>Then, a couple of weeks later, a big story coming out of the election was that many Latino voters moved to the right. How did you reconcile those two things in your head?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n