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Speaker 1: This is becoming an icon. Last episode, we told you

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Speaker 1: all about Bad Bunny and his journey to superstardom, how

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Speaker 1: the music industry. Homeboy spread his wings and were featured

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Speaker 1: According to me, I was gonna say, where did you

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Speaker 1: fact check that? Joseph think just me? I like it

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Speaker 1: with Cardi b and Jay Balvin had taken Bad Bunny's

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Speaker 1: career to new heights and beneath them, well, he was

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Speaker 1: determined to stay there. He rushed to release his debut

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Speaker 1: I'm talking Jlo Maluma. Bad Bunny was not throwing away

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Speaker 1: his Joseph. Yeah, we don't have Clarence for him on songs.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well then he wasn't going to lose himself

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Speaker 1: afford eminem either, Like can I just okay, just sin

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna tell you all about Bad Bunny's career

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Speaker 1: it was on the rise, and he was on the

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Speaker 1: verge of kicking off a cultural renaissance. But before the

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Speaker 1: world heard him Ryme with Cardi b his beloved island

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Speaker 1: faced a challenge it hadn't seen in generations, and Bad

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Speaker 1: Bunny put everything in Boosa. I'm your host, Liliana Vaskaz

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Speaker 1: and I'm Joseph Carrillo and this is Becoming an Icon

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Speaker 1: a weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 1: how today's most famous Latin X stars have shaped pop

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Speaker 1: culture and given the world some expressable Sit back and

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Speaker 1: get comfortable because we are going in the only way

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Speaker 1: we know how. With Buena has resays, sound cheese and

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Speaker 1: on our journey to find out what makes them so icon.

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Speaker 1: It quick trigger warning. We can't talk about bad money

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Speaker 1: and not mention how a hurricane Madia halted his world domination.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to get a little emo up in here.

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Speaker 1: But just for a minute, Hey, not to worry. I

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Speaker 1: brought the tissues. As you're trusted host, we do have

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Speaker 1: a responsibility to tell you everything that makes these artists icons,

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Speaker 1: and this is important. But afterwards, Can we take a

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Speaker 1: betil break and shake that ass. There's always time for that.

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Speaker 1: The bond between Beneathal and Puerto Rico runs deep. In

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Speaker 1: an interview with Apple Music, he said this, I keep

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Speaker 1: making music from here to the walls. I just want

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Speaker 1: people to feel like they're really here on the island

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Speaker 1: in the Caribbean. The best part of all my accomplishments

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Speaker 1: I just want people to understand that you can be

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Speaker 1: on display like never before when Hurricane Maria made landfall

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. Well, the rest of the world kept going.

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Speaker 1: Life on the island stopped for everyone, three point four

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Speaker 1: million people with no electricity. Now I still get goosebumps

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Speaker 1: thinking about Hurricane Maria. Joseph, where were you when you

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Speaker 1: heard the news? Well, actually I was back in New York,

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Speaker 1: what happened is nuts. Think about how many people on

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Speaker 1: This wasn't something that affected a small population. The entire

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Speaker 1: just brought to light the disparity that exists for these

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rican's lost during Hurricane Marie was over four thousand,

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Speaker 1: six hundred and forty five people. It was the worst

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Speaker 1: been Nito. On the one year anniversary of Maria, he

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Speaker 1: They tell their stories through their music, and that night,

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Speaker 1: He was just showing proof of you know what, we

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Speaker 1: so pissed that Benito came out wearing a shirt that said,

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Speaker 1: that album. I mean, he was collaborating with major players

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Speaker 1: freaking album? Well, clearly hiding out with rerease album Don't

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Speaker 1: Get Me started. On December twenty third, Eljolo tweeted that

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Speaker 1: he would be dropping an album that night. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny who stole Christmas. Think like buy Mariah. All

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Speaker 1: I want for Christmas is Benito exactly. Santa had to

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Speaker 1: suddenly became all about him. Florimbut was everywhere and it's

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Speaker 1: you know, jingle bells and when Bad Bunny drops a

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Speaker 1: cover art of the album, which would later become a

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Speaker 1: was meant to look like fire burning, right, then you

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Speaker 1: zero zero pr That shit could be anything. But also

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Speaker 1: another thing about the billboards that they were only going

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Speaker 1: into how beneath the prioritizes his success right exactly, He's

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Speaker 1: not interested in global superstardom. What he wanted and what

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Speaker 1: partner in crime, his Colombian counterpart, his minister in this

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny released Oasses, an eight track collaborative album with

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Speaker 1: Jose Alvaro Osorio Baldwin, also known as Jay Balvin. The

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. So Jay Balvin was visiting Puerto Rico for

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Speaker 1: a show at Choli when DJ Luian, already confident in

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny as an artist, introduced the two. So on

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Speaker 1: March third, twenty seventeen, they released Citola Mister and Mister

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Speaker 1: to earn the two artists a Latin Grammy nomination for

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Speaker 1: Jay Balvin's personal style. When I've watched the video, I

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Speaker 1: Like big hits. The two of them went on to

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Speaker 1: collab on more tracks like since Bali that with Prince Royce,

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Speaker 1: so fucking angry that Bad Bunny did not hop on

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Speaker 1: Jay Balvin hinted at a possible album with the Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rican rapper. Balvin shared, he likes what I like, and

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny was wearing, Like, how many hundreds and thousands

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Speaker 1: I was actually in Miami at the Super Bowl. Now

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Speaker 1: That's what he does. We don't know. I'm gonna correct

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Speaker 1: If people thought Porciempre was experimental, yhlq MDLG was out

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. The boots, the makeup, the hair, the breastplates.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, Bad Bunny is in full on a door

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Speaker 1: rag serving looks. My favorite part of that video. We've

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Speaker 1: take it. I was shook because I don't know. When

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Speaker 1: you're watching the video, you kind of just can't really

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Speaker 1: make out what's happening, and then they fully stand up

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Speaker 1: and they start twerking on the car next to him.

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Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is everything. That video

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Speaker 1: gives people life. Like you hear that about me, It's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the song gives me life. No, that video gives me life.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that video gave beneath the life

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Speaker 1: in a new way. I think him being able to

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Speaker 1: express his feelings about gender norms and breaking through barriers

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Speaker 1: when it comes to gender norms all came through in

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Speaker 1: this video and video was perfect timing because it was

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Speaker 1: released under the album Yo Agua and if Bad Bunny

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Speaker 1: wants to be in a breastplate in drag red latex

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Speaker 1: world on display, guess what, that's exactly what he did

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Speaker 1: in the video. Yeah, and you know, he was kind

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Speaker 1: of making it seem like he q feels like that girl,

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Speaker 1: you know, like he does he does, and the visuals

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Speaker 1: are so powerful, but the song and the words are

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Speaker 1: really powerful. And here's what he said about it. He said,

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Speaker 1: I wrote it from the perspective of a woman. I

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Speaker 1: wanted a woman's voice to sing it, because it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean the same thing when a man sings it. But

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Speaker 1: I do feel like that woman sometimes. And even in

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Speaker 1: the final frame of the video, he denounces sexual harassment

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Speaker 1: of women and reads, if she doesn't want to dance

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Speaker 1: with you, respect her. She tworks alone. Y hlq md

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Speaker 1: LG became Spotify's streamed album globally in twenty twenty. Not

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Speaker 1: in Spain, not in Mexico or even Latin America. No

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny success had no boundaries, Sin Barrera Henny, his

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Speaker 1: music is global. The world had zero chill when it

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Speaker 1: came to Bad Funny. He was the world's biggest pop star,

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Speaker 1: adored by fans and critics alike. But if you listen

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Speaker 1: to the last song of the album, he was also

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Speaker 1: ready to call it quits and go out while he

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Speaker 1: was on top. In that song, he says, in nine months,

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Speaker 1: I'll release another to retire calmly like Miguel Wait wait, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: Little tell me the truth. Did he retire? Well, Joseph,

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Speaker 1: you'll just have to listen to the next episode to

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Speaker 1: find out. You the next episode of Becoming an Icon,

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny's retirement beneatho at the met Gala and when

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