I’ve managed to add several events that Benito has attended recently including Saturday Night Live and The Billboard Latin Music Awards to the gallery!

On the penultimate night of his sold-out 31-show residency in San Juan, a visibly emotional Bad Bunny stood in front of the towering “mountain” he had ordered erected on the floor of the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot and delivered a message of love.

“Value every minute, every second that life and God gifts us,” he told the crowd of 15,000, his voice shaking at times. “Thank you, thank you. And to those who one day left Puerto Rico dreaming of coming back, and to those of us who are still here, I don’t want to leave!”

“I don’t want to leave” — No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí — the name Bad Bunny gave his Puerto Rican residency, is intrinsically tied to his album DeBÍ TiRAR Más FOToS (I Should Have Taken More Photos), a love letter to Puerto Rico and the island’s music that Bad Bunny dedicated on its back cover “to all the Puerto Ricans around the world.”

It may as well have said, “To all the world around Puerto Rico.” Since the album’s Jan. 5 release (on the eve of Three Kings’ Day, a significant holiday on the island) and since the July 11 launch of the residency, “No me quiero ir de aquí” has become a rallying cry of pride for both Puerto Ricans and the multicultural global diaspora that has seen itself reflected in Bad Bunny’s most autochthonous songs.

Just nine months after its release, the success of DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — which spent four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — has been breathtaking, particularly for an album that delves into styles like plena and salsa and that Bad Bunny describes as a labor of love with “zero” commercial expectations. Globally, it’s a phenomenon, a unifier of cultures, an incentive to dance, an enraptured call for love and celebration. It all boils down to Bad Bunny’s island, with its dichotomy of stunning natural beauty and miasma of economical issues, the place he calls home and says he “always returns to.” As his star has risen, the performer born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio has become the most passionate and effective ambassador in Puerto Rican history. Come February, he’ll have his biggest platform yet when he headlines the Super Bowl LX halftime show in Santa Clara, Calif.

Hundreds of thousands of fans — who can now distinguish between a plena and a salsa and know that the old man in Bad Bunny’s videos is 90-year-old Puerto Rican actor Jacobo Morales — flocked to Puerto Rico to see the residency, which ran from July to September. Once there, audiences experienced a “party de marquesina” (backyard party) set to the backdrop of the production’s massive mountain and its now-iconic casita (little house) ­— designed to resemble the houses found in a typical Puerto Rican neighborhood — built inside the Coliseo. A host of celebrities, from LeBron James to Jon Hamm, partied at the casita, and dozens of artists — including Young Miko, Arcángel, Ricky Martin and Rubén Blades — performed as guests at the show.

Among them was longtime pal Residente (real name: René Pérez Joglar), the irreverent Puerto Rican rapper known for incisive lyrics, social pronouncements and his passion for the island’s politics. In Bad Bunny, he found a similar, though gentler, iconoclast. The two became fast friends after meeting for dinner at a San Juan restaurant in December 2017 and collaborated musically on the 2019 singles “Bellacoso” and “Afilando los Cuchillos,” the latter an incendiary anti-government track released after Bunny and Residente paid a surprise nighttime visit to then-­governor Ricky Rosselló.

Rosselló would resign his post that same year, but the friendship between the two musicians has endured. After performing once at Bad Bunny’s residency and attending as a guest a second time, Residente sat down to interview his friend for Billboard. The wide-ranging conversation — which took place the day after the engagement’s penultimate show, weeks before Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl announcement — spanned nostalgia, music, film and, of course, Puerto Rican pride.

Photos have been released from Bad Bunny’s Shoot from Billboard and I have added them to the gallery.

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Bad Bunny says he’s not just performing at the Super Bowl LX halftime show for himself … he’s doing it for his culture.

The singer-songwriter chatted with Apple Music’s Zane and Ebro to talk about the exciting announcement made last night during Sunday Night Football between the Packers and the Cowboys.

Check out the clip … Bad Bunny says he’s relieved the news is out because he had to keep the secret under wraps for so long … and it’s like a weight has been lifted.

He explains he took the job to represent his family and friends proudly … as well as Puerto Rico and Latino people all over the world. Bad Bunny says he plans to enjoy and embrace the moment … and he wants the world to see what “our music, our culture” are all about!

He doesn’t know exactly what the show is going to look like yet, he admits … but he promises to put on a good one — adding his rookie mindset keeps him hungry to put on amazing spectacles.

As for the size of the audience … listen to the clip yourself — sounds like BB’s trying not to think about it!

The show’s only a few months away … Bad Bunny’s got some motivation that will keep him working hard!

Bad Bunny will have to turn down invites to Super Bowl LX watch parties next year … ’cause he is headlining the halftime show at the event in Santa Clara!

The news was announced during halftime of the Sunday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys … two teams with Super Bowl aspirations of their own.

The pick here makes a ton of sense … Bad Bunny’s one of the biggest stars in the world — with tons of fans in regions where the NFL is working to gain more of a foothold like South America. Plus he’s currently on tour — so, he’ll be well-practiced and ready to take on one of the world’s biggest stages in a few months

Last year, Kendrick Lamar took the stage as the Super Bowl LIX performer … with the success of his Drake diss track “Not Like Us” certainly playing a role in landing the gig.

The NFL is no stranger to locking down top talent for the SB halftime show. We’ve seen Kendrick, Usher and Rihanna in recent years … and Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA featured Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent — paying tribute to West Coast rap with their performance.

Prince, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Madonna and Michael Jackson have also performed at the big game.

We’ll see you at the big game, Bad Bunny!

I’ve added several photos of Benito performing the last day of his PR residency.

I finally gotten around to sorting and capping and adding screencaptures of Benito in his breakout performance in Happy Gilmore 2. Enjoy the caps!

A few days ago Benito and the cast attended the New York Premiere of his new film that’s out now Caught Stealing and I’ve managed to add several photos of the event.

Finally have sat down and added the numerous photos of Benito attending Happy Gilmore 2 including him promoting it with Adam Sandler at Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Screencaptures to follow soon!

I’ve finally added close to 200 photos of Benito attending the Met Gala on Monday. I put a pause on adding these as I was getting new photos daily. It’s honestly so hard to say which look I liked most. He honestly never disappoints. I really like both last year and this year on him.

Last night our boy was at the IHeartRadio Music Awards looking very good and took pics with numerous friends like Becky G and Benson Boone. He even performed at the show. I’ve added numerous photos of the event!