And yet Bad Bunny is probably the open political artist who was booked for the spot of the half. Martínez Ocasio has consistently used his music to speak out about a number of political and social issues, especially those that concern Puerto Rico and other marginalized communities. His 2018 hit “Estamos Bien” became a hymn of resilience after the hurricane María, which was subtle on the neglect of Puerto Rico by the US government during the crisis. In 2019 he released “Afilando Los Cuchillos” alongside Resident and Ile, a diss track that was aimed at Puerto Ricardo Roselló’s governor after the leak of offensive telegram chats. The song quickly became an unofficial soundtrack of the mass protests that pushed Rosselló, and Bad Bunny even paused on his European tour to join the demonstrators on the streets of Viejo San Juan. In 2020, in the middle of the protests by George Floyd and the global rise of the Black Lives Matter movement “Compositor del Año”, he had a piece of spoken word that condemned anti-black police force and US racist hypocrisy, which explains: “A black man with a weapon is a criminal, but if he is white, it is a hobby.”
