Bad Bunny had to make a tough decision in a politically charged landscape.
For the “DtMF” artist, choosing not to perform in the United States during his upcoming Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour wasn’t made lightly.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate—I’ve performed there many times,” Bad Bunny emphasized to i-D Magazine in an interview published Sept. 10. “But there was the issue of—like, f–king ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
The Grammy winner noted that with him performing 30 shows during his residency in Puerto Rico from July to September before embarking on his world tour, U.S. residents can still perreo to his award-winning tracks.
“For a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an unincorporated territory of the U.S.,” Bad Bunny (real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) added, “people from the US could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world.”