Bad Bunny doesn’t care if others are bothered by the fact they don’t always understand what he is trying to say through song because of regional dialects (and you’d assume non-fluent listener) language barriers. That’s not his problem. That’s your work to do to educate yourself on the context. You can start by poring through the translated lyrics over at Genius or something. Regardless, music in itself is a language that can easily transcend, and his sixth full-length album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, is a statement of purpose from the international pop megastar that, if anything, makes you interested to go out and better round yourself on the culture behind it.

Not to play down the impact of 2023’s nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana in being a deserved transitional victory lap on the heels of 2022’s Un Verano Sin Ti, a sleek and cohesive streaming giant double album that defined the state of modern Latin pop, but his latest 17-track listen feels more like its proper event follow-up in how it merges that era with that of Puerto Rico’s storied musical history. He threads his pulse and needle through the country’s past festive influences in bringing salsa, plena, and música jíbara to bigger stages as it moves through the neon footprints of the now in his reggaeton-fused dance steps.

For Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, he uses this moment as much as one to celebrate his roots as much as he does to reground himself into them — a reminder that no matter how big his star gets, Puerto Rico is his home and he remembers where he came from. If you take one thing away from DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, it’s that he plans on making sure the rest of the world knows of the gifts this island has sewn into the the musical landscape.

Highlights: “EL CLúB”, “PIToRRO DE COCO”, “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii”

Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is available now on Rimas.

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