September 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Bad Bunny is the Artist America didnt know it needed. This week he streamed his concert from Puerto Rico bc due to the ICE raids, he chose not to tour here in the contiguous united states. And calling good is the biggest understatement. Come see the Beautiful ending live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Cools Media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, off rip, let's get this off top. There's only
one hundred and thirty seats at the Allegiant Theater. This
is the same place that we did Santa University with
Jamie Loftus, a crowd favorite. I am doing a live
performance of The Beautiful Endling Me and Matt Alsowski Killing
the Beat Softly will come together. We're gonna perform this album.
It's the only time we're doing this poetry record. Come
(00:27):
through my wife refer to her by her prefix Doctor
Almazaragoza Petti will be reading from her book chin Gana
Finding Your Inner Badass for Healing Yep and a Gral
came up with an incredible poet. We actually went to
high school together, Kat Miguel simply Kat. She'll be doing
some poetry too, So I want to start the show
with that. So y'all buy a ticket. It's the Allegiant Theater.
(00:51):
You can go to my website links in the show notes.
Let's get busy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah's get you out. The music stops. So what if
been all bald?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let it go? What all change?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What if the all falved?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Let it go? What if it all what if it
all died? What if they're all balmed, let it go.
What it been all? What have been all changes? Begging
you to briefly Well, turns out the answer was post tribulation.
If you guys were wondering post trip, we did not
(01:31):
get raptured on Tuesday. You are going to be stuck
to live in the tribulation where a president tells moms
that apparently it's default their children got autism because they
took Thailand all. Definitely text the homeboy doctor Cave from
the House of Pod to be like, what this man
talking about? He was willing to inform me that while
(01:53):
there are some correlations between thailand All and autism, correlation,
as anyone who cares at all about logic, is not causality.
And what the overwhelming sense of science has proven, I
mean overwhelming, not even close, that the marker of autism
is just DNA. It's just genetic, okay, And it's not
(02:16):
a sickness, it's just something a brain does, okay. So
in a time where your president tells you to not
take Tayland Hall, and a time where the Christians thought
they was gonna get raptured out of suffering, at a
time where somebody's white supremacy is erased by the presentation
of the gospel. Apparently, it turns out what we needed
(02:38):
was a little ratchet Puerto Rican boy who says, out
of nowhere, listen, man, is Davy Bunny s artista the America?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No sibiak tap being with me?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What I said was Bad Bunny was the artist America
didn't know it needed. Let me cook for a second.
First of all, y'all act like Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Ain't America number one?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
However, due to the continual ice raids and the contiguous
United States.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Bad Bunny who is?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I mean, forget Drake, like forget everybody you think is
the biggest artist in the world. We talk about somebody
who is just on top of the Latino world.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And the world of any youngling that wants to dance.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The entirety diaspora of gorgeous descendants of Native Spanish and
African blood have got they souls wrapped up by this
little puppy made the decision to not take his tour
to the United States because he understands who gonna come
(04:02):
to his concerts, and who comes to his concerts are
people that Ice would be really itching to grab because
if you're not paying attention. The Supreme Court said you
can racially profile. So where else would you go except
for Smorgasborg of people you could capture?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Then that a bad bunny concert.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So instead he took his new album, which I'm gonna
go ahead and speak English for y'all, just he who
has ears to hear. But just for the point of that,
I just don't want to lose nothing. In translation, the
name of his newest album is called I should have
Taken more Pictures. Remember all this is in Spanish, and
in the cover of it is a photo of a
(04:42):
plastic like outdoor chair. And if you are from the
equator in any way, you have sat on one of
those chairs. Right, So the imagery and the metaphor of
this album is really about Puerto Rico. It's really about
Porto ric And that's a funny side note. When I
was a kid, I used to wish I was Puerto Rican.
(05:03):
Let me tell you why, my little black brain was
just Remember I grew up in a Latino neighborhood, but
I had a black panther father.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I loved being black and still do. There was never
no part of me they ever didn't want to be black.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
However, I really did wish I could participate in the
Spanish and Latino festivity.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The compromise was to be Puerto Rican because then you
get to still be black.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And also.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's how my little brain made sense of it all.
It's like, I don't want to not be black no more.
But man, they would break dance. They was DJ's They
was in our same hoods and then bred. Like I
try to tell you, man, all the girls like the
Porto with them little curly head Puerto Rican boys.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I was like, damn man, niggas could dance. I was like, yo.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But back to my point, this particular record. Honestly, I
got to tell you this record and why I'm bringing
this up as a point. So he did a thirty
day residency of his concert in and around Puerto Rico,
and then the final one now again, I'm gonna do
this all in English just for the rest of y'all.
The name of the concert is I don't want to
(06:11):
leave this place. The play on words about like this
being about a woman, but ultimately it's about Puerto Rico.
Everybody got it immediately that it's like he's talking about
Puerto Rico. And his you know, his homesland. Now, if
you know any Puerto Ricans, I don't know, nobody mo
proud of their homeland in Puerto Rican, boy, then they
will put that flag on a grain of rice like
you like nobody love, nobody loved. Ain't naces like Puerto
(06:34):
Rico do that little beautiful island. That's the first thing
out their mouth whenever you see. But since he wasn't
bringing it to the States, and let's be real, he hasn't.
In like I said, there's sixty five million Latinos in America,
so it's he's got quite.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
A fan base.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Some of our friends and family like flew to Puerto
Rico to go see the concert because it's that serious.
But he streamed it on Amazon Prime, which, like I said,
on internet, Uh yeah, we're all compromised. I know, man,
at this point, it's infrastructure. But he streamed it on
Amazon Prime. Now, my first gen Mexican wife was like
(07:11):
nobody bothered me for the next three hours, for which
I was like, hey, hey, hey, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, I'll watch this with you this too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is gonna be too cirsure, chirkure, whatever color.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Anyway, I was like, you're not Finna, You're not gonna
watch something like this without your man's you know herself saying. Anyway,
he proceeded to open up this show with the production
where the stage was literally a hilly island that he
made look like Puerto Rico, like it's it's I mean
(07:45):
a whole tree, right. He got the Dimbalez, he got
a full Puerto Rican like.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Sasa band on stage.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He brought out at the end the legend Mark Anthony
maybe and obviously me and my wife lost it when
he did that. It was really a passing of the
torch what he did for this show, and first of all,
doing three hours of music, the production, the dance, even
the people he chose to put on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
See a lot of times in the Latino.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Spaces, there's a lot of colorism that happens, but where
they oftentimes ignore their African roots or the darkness that's
part of their culture. He had purposefully you could tell
the guys on the corn guys were African. They were
black Puerto Ricans, dreadlocks, dark as hell, right, acknowledging this
(08:37):
part of their culture. If you're really in the hip hop,
you might remember Big puns, saying in his I'm not
a player, I just fuck a lot, which is the
actual song, not crush a lot anyway, And the chant
at the end is bad equa modana bud equadna morena
moreno is like African. So he's giving his shout out
(09:00):
to the African American community for its role in making
Puerto Rico and making hip hop right anyway. So what
I'm saying is you don't always see that you usually
see if you turn on Universion or Telemundo the people on.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The stage are light as hell. Right. He didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
This was akin to what Kendrick Lamar's pop out was
a year ago when he did his show at the
Inglewood Form. What Kendrick did at that show whyatt united
the West so much was it was so much more
than the battle with Drake.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It was so much more than that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What he did was he took it, He took his moment,
and he made it about all of us. He wasn't
the star. The coast was the star. He put on
artists who never would have had a chance to do
like this. He brought out Tyler the Creator like he
had DJ must do a whole power set, and then
at the end when he brought everybody on stage to
dance and chill, and like us who are from here,
(10:00):
we're able to look at that and say, man, it's
people from hoods that have not got along for generations,
but they're all up there celebrating a moment that united
a scene in a time when we really needed it.
I would argue that, I mean, I'm not Puerto Rican,
neither is my wife, but we never felt so proud
(10:20):
to be Puerto Rican. Listen, he put on such a
professional show. And if you know Bad Bunny's music, as
he started he ratchets hell, it is booty shaken, gi raton.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I just want to put it in music.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But the growth in his artistry is the growth that
we really would have wished Drake would have done. Drake
stayed childish, Drake stayed adolescent with his music to where
it's just about partying. Bad Bunny made party music and
then grew up, and his grown up music is just
as much of a party. He understood how to make
(10:58):
something bigger than just his career, and he put on
display diversity, history, culture, music, celebration, pain. He talked about gentrification,
He talked about political prisoners, He talked about political corruption,
He talked about hurricane and bad infrastructure, and desires and
(11:18):
hopes and dreams all in one concert. He recognized his elders.
He put on people after him, generations before. It was diverse,
it was beautiful and this three and a half moment
of celebration. If you would have just opened yourself, even
if you don't speak the language, there would have been
no way for you to not be raptured in the
beauty of that. Bad Bunny grew up and became the
(11:41):
artist we needed at this moment. And here's the crazy part.
He wasn't even talking to me. He is celebrating his
own culture. But if you are willing to open up
your heart to be willing to participate in things in
a very respectful way without trying to appropriate it or
put yourself in the moment, but just be a part
(12:03):
you at the cookout, get a plate and enjoy, and
just act like you belong, even if you don't know
the words.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Just enjoy the music.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I gotta tell you, man, what Bad Bunny did in
streaming this thing. This is the moment we need. Let's
I just man, if all of America could just sit
down and shake the ass to bad Bunny. Even the
position that Puerto Rico is to where it's like the
stepchild of America, still a pride in your community, a
(12:33):
celebration of who you are and where you're going, not
as a hate to anybody else, not as a slight
to anybody else, but an establishment of the validity of
your personhood, of your story, and your position in society,
and all of your contributions to us.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I have a tattoo on my arm that was one
of my first tattoos, so it's pretty faded now. But
and I also accidentally burnt my arm yesterday or this week.
And one of my little side gigs shout out Family Industries,
I was heat pressing some merch because you know, sometimes
the pod money don't make it to the end of
(13:15):
the year, so I gotta find other gigs. Although y'all
could come to the Beautiful End Link show on the
twenty second at the Allegiant Theater please pull up ticket
link in bio. But the quote that's on my arm
was from a nineteenth century like naturalist painter illustrator from America.
(13:37):
Say it was Robert Henry and he said, and I
wrote it on my arm. The presence of good art
will unconsciously refine a community, and poor art will do
it incalculable harm. I don't need no AI Baby, I
don't need no crunched MP three's. You need to go
out and you need to see live music of people
who love their music.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It refines the community. Y'all taping a whip
Cools Media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Okay, off rip, let's get this off top. There's only
one hundred and thirty seats at the Allegiant Theater. This
is the same place that we did Santa University with
Jamie Loftus, a crowd favorite. I am doing a live
performance of The Beautiful Endling Me and Matt Alsowski Killing
the Beat Softly will come together. We're gonna perform this album.
It's the only time we're doing this poetry record. Come
(00:27):
through my wife refer to her by her prefix Doctor
Almazaragoza Petti will be reading from her book chin Gana
Finding Your Inner Badass for Healing Yep and a Gral
came up with an incredible poet. We actually went to
high school together, Kat Miguel simply Kat. She'll be doing
some poetry too, So I want to start the show
with that. So y'all buy a ticket. It's the Allegiant Theater.
(00:51):
You can go to my website links in the show notes.
Let's get busy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah's get you out. The music stops. So what if
been all bald?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Let it go? What all change?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What if the all falved?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Let it go? What if it all what if it
all died? What if they're all balmed, let it go.
What it been all? What have been all changes? Begging
you to briefly Well, turns out the answer was post tribulation.
If you guys were wondering post trip, we did not
(01:31):
get raptured on Tuesday. You are going to be stuck
to live in the tribulation where a president tells moms
that apparently it's default their children got autism because they
took Thailand all. Definitely text the homeboy doctor Cave from
the House of Pod to be like, what this man
talking about? He was willing to inform me that while
(01:53):
there are some correlations between thailand All and autism, correlation,
as anyone who cares at all about logic, is not causality.
And what the overwhelming sense of science has proven, I
mean overwhelming, not even close, that the marker of autism
is just DNA. It's just genetic, okay, And it's not
(02:16):
a sickness, it's just something a brain does, okay. So
in a time where your president tells you to not
take Tayland Hall, and a time where the Christians thought
they was gonna get raptured out of suffering, at a
time where somebody's white supremacy is erased by the presentation
of the gospel. Apparently, it turns out what we needed
(02:38):
was a little ratchet Puerto Rican boy who says, out
of nowhere, listen, man, is Davy Bunny s artista the America?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
No sibiak tap being with me?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What I said was Bad Bunny was the artist America
didn't know it needed. Let me cook for a second.
First of all, y'all act like Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Ain't America number one?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
However, due to the continual ice raids and the contiguous
United States.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Bad Bunny who is?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I mean, forget Drake, like forget everybody you think is
the biggest artist in the world. We talk about somebody
who is just on top of the Latino world.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And the world of any youngling that wants to dance.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The entirety diaspora of gorgeous descendants of Native Spanish and
African blood have got they souls wrapped up by this
little puppy made the decision to not take his tour
to the United States because he understands who gonna come
(04:02):
to his concerts, and who comes to his concerts are
people that Ice would be really itching to grab because
if you're not paying attention. The Supreme Court said you
can racially profile. So where else would you go except
for Smorgasborg of people you could capture?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Then that a bad bunny concert.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So instead he took his new album, which I'm gonna
go ahead and speak English for y'all, just he who
has ears to hear. But just for the point of that,
I just don't want to lose nothing. In translation, the
name of his newest album is called I should have
Taken more Pictures. Remember all this is in Spanish, and
in the cover of it is a photo of a
(04:42):
plastic like outdoor chair. And if you are from the
equator in any way, you have sat on one of
those chairs. Right, So the imagery and the metaphor of
this album is really about Puerto Rico. It's really about
Porto ric And that's a funny side note. When I
was a kid, I used to wish I was Puerto Rican.
(05:03):
Let me tell you why, my little black brain was
just Remember I grew up in a Latino neighborhood, but
I had a black panther father.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I loved being black and still do. There was never
no part of me they ever didn't want to be black.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
However, I really did wish I could participate in the
Spanish and Latino festivity.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The compromise was to be Puerto Rican because then you
get to still be black.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And also.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's how my little brain made sense of it all.
It's like, I don't want to not be black no more.
But man, they would break dance. They was DJ's They
was in our same hoods and then bred. Like I
try to tell you, man, all the girls like the
Porto with them little curly head Puerto Rican boys.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I was like, damn man, niggas could dance. I was like, yo.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But back to my point, this particular record. Honestly, I
got to tell you this record and why I'm bringing
this up as a point. So he did a thirty
day residency of his concert in and around Puerto Rico,
and then the final one now again, I'm gonna do
this all in English just for the rest of y'all.
The name of the concert is I don't want to
(06:11):
leave this place. The play on words about like this
being about a woman, but ultimately it's about Puerto Rico.
Everybody got it immediately that it's like he's talking about
Puerto Rico. And his you know, his homesland. Now, if
you know any Puerto Ricans, I don't know, nobody mo
proud of their homeland in Puerto Rican, boy, then they
will put that flag on a grain of rice like
you like nobody love, nobody loved. Ain't naces like Puerto
(06:34):
Rico do that little beautiful island. That's the first thing
out their mouth whenever you see. But since he wasn't
bringing it to the States, and let's be real, he hasn't.
In like I said, there's sixty five million Latinos in America,
so it's he's got quite.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
A fan base.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Some of our friends and family like flew to Puerto
Rico to go see the concert because it's that serious.
But he streamed it on Amazon Prime, which, like I said,
on internet, Uh yeah, we're all compromised. I know, man,
at this point, it's infrastructure. But he streamed it on
Amazon Prime. Now, my first gen Mexican wife was like
(07:11):
nobody bothered me for the next three hours, for which
I was like, hey, hey, hey, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, I'll watch this with you this too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is gonna be too cirsure, chirkure, whatever color.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Anyway, I was like, you're not Finna, You're not gonna
watch something like this without your man's you know herself saying. Anyway,
he proceeded to open up this show with the production
where the stage was literally a hilly island that he
made look like Puerto Rico, like it's it's I mean
(07:45):
a whole tree, right. He got the Dimbalez, he got
a full Puerto Rican like.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Sasa band on stage.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He brought out at the end the legend Mark Anthony
maybe and obviously me and my wife lost it when
he did that. It was really a passing of the
torch what he did for this show, and first of all,
doing three hours of music, the production, the dance, even
the people he chose to put on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
See a lot of times in the Latino.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Spaces, there's a lot of colorism that happens, but where
they oftentimes ignore their African roots or the darkness that's
part of their culture. He had purposefully you could tell
the guys on the corn guys were African. They were
black Puerto Ricans, dreadlocks, dark as hell, right, acknowledging this
(08:37):
part of their culture. If you're really in the hip hop,
you might remember Big puns, saying in his I'm not
a player, I just fuck a lot, which is the
actual song, not crush a lot anyway, And the chant
at the end is bad equa modana bud equadna morena
moreno is like African. So he's giving his shout out
(09:00):
to the African American community for its role in making
Puerto Rico and making hip hop right anyway. So what
I'm saying is you don't always see that you usually
see if you turn on Universion or Telemundo the people on.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
The stage are light as hell. Right. He didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
This was akin to what Kendrick Lamar's pop out was
a year ago when he did his show at the
Inglewood Form. What Kendrick did at that show whyatt united
the West so much was it was so much more
than the battle with Drake.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It was so much more than that.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What he did was he took it, He took his moment,
and he made it about all of us. He wasn't
the star. The coast was the star. He put on
artists who never would have had a chance to do
like this. He brought out Tyler the Creator like he
had DJ must do a whole power set, and then
at the end when he brought everybody on stage to
dance and chill, and like us who are from here,
(10:00):
we're able to look at that and say, man, it's
people from hoods that have not got along for generations,
but they're all up there celebrating a moment that united
a scene in a time when we really needed it.
I would argue that, I mean, I'm not Puerto Rican,
neither is my wife, but we never felt so proud
(10:20):
to be Puerto Rican. Listen, he put on such a
professional show. And if you know Bad Bunny's music, as
he started he ratchets hell, it is booty shaken, gi raton.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I just want to put it in music.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But the growth in his artistry is the growth that
we really would have wished Drake would have done. Drake
stayed childish, Drake stayed adolescent with his music to where
it's just about partying. Bad Bunny made party music and
then grew up, and his grown up music is just
as much of a party. He understood how to make
(10:58):
something bigger than just his career, and he put on
display diversity, history, culture, music, celebration, pain. He talked about gentrification,
He talked about political prisoners, He talked about political corruption,
He talked about hurricane and bad infrastructure, and desires and
(11:18):
hopes and dreams all in one concert. He recognized his elders.
He put on people after him, generations before. It was diverse,
it was beautiful and this three and a half moment
of celebration. If you would have just opened yourself, even
if you don't speak the language, there would have been
no way for you to not be raptured in the
beauty of that. Bad Bunny grew up and became the
(11:41):
artist we needed at this moment. And here's the crazy part.
He wasn't even talking to me. He is celebrating his
own culture. But if you are willing to open up
your heart to be willing to participate in things in
a very respectful way without trying to appropriate it or
put yourself in the moment, but just be a part
(12:03):
you at the cookout, get a plate and enjoy, and
just act like you belong, even if you don't know
the words.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Just enjoy the music.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I gotta tell you, man, what Bad Bunny did in
streaming this thing. This is the moment we need. Let's
I just man, if all of America could just sit
down and shake the ass to bad Bunny. Even the
position that Puerto Rico is to where it's like the
stepchild of America, still a pride in your community, a
(12:33):
celebration of who you are and where you're going, not
as a hate to anybody else, not as a slight
to anybody else, but an establishment of the validity of
your personhood, of your story, and your position in society,
and all of your contributions to us.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I have a tattoo on my arm that was one
of my first tattoos, so it's pretty faded now. But
and I also accidentally burnt my arm yesterday or this week.
And one of my little side gigs shout out Family Industries,
I was heat pressing some merch because you know, sometimes
the pod money don't make it to the end of
(13:15):
the year, so I gotta find other gigs. Although y'all
could come to the Beautiful End Link show on the
twenty second at the Allegiant Theater please pull up ticket
link in bio. But the quote that's on my arm
was from a nineteenth century like naturalist painter illustrator from America.
(13:37):
Say it was Robert Henry and he said, and I
wrote it on my arm. The presence of good art
will unconsciously refine a community, and poor art will do
it incalculable harm. I don't need no AI Baby, I
don't need no crunched MP three's. You need to go
out and you need to see live music of people
who love their music.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It refines the community. Y'all taping a whip
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