P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

By: Vanessa Díaz, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

"Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera/Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera." (Here they killed people for taking out the flag/that's why I bring it anywhere I want now.)—LA MuDANZA

Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption, and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the "Bad Bunny Syllabus"—demonstrate Bad Bunny's place in a long tradition of infusing joy and protest into music and honor the many, evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.

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Excellent Analysis

These scholars did a fantastic job recounting the echoes of Puerto Rican history and culture in Bad Bunny’s music. They also offered necessary critiques and their sources were impeccable.

Beyond Benito, this book taught me so much about PR.

I loved how easily digestible it was. As someone vaguely familiar with Puerto Rican history, this book made many things click. I highly recommend it. I love music and history. This is the perfect mix.

I would love to hear this from a Boriqua voice

the content of the book and everything was great I love listening and learning
but come on FNPR needed a Boriqua voice. it was a hard listen with the Pertorican slang and Spanish words mispronounced. Someone that is a proud Boricua should be the narrator.

I wish it was a puertorican reader

Stacy did okay but I wish the reader would have been a Puerto Rican person. The accent was all wrong… the R’s were are wrong!