Bad Bunny talks to Rolling Stone about his phone-throwing controversy. 'That person got right on me, leaned directly on my body,' Bad Bunny says, adding that he feels bad but his immediate instinct was to toss the phone. More:
Bad Bunny took time off after Coachella? Of course he didn’t. Five days after the performance, he’s trekking out to Lucerne Valley — the dry, cracked terrain that’s served as a backdrop for Westerns like— to shoot the video for his newest song, “Where She Goes.” The moody, lovelorn track tells the story of a one-night stand over a breakneck Jersey-club beat.
All of it has culminated in a level of fame that means he’s virtually everywhere — even at Walmart, where, just the other day, one of his team members found an entire unauthorized Bad Bunny magazine. There’s a copy of it sitting in front of me, so I flip through it and find a quiz inside called the Rabbit Test. I hand it to him and joke that he should take it. Some stuff, like what profession his mom and dad had in Puerto Rico , is easy.
There’s a kind of levity to how he says it. He’s finding the humor in all of this, smiling slyly and refusing to take things too seriously. But he’s also being honest: “Check this,” he continues. “Before 2022 was over, I said in an interview, ‘2023 is going to be for me, to rest, to work on my physical health, on my mental health, to have my space, to enjoy, to be happy.’ And then 2023 starts withGUCCI JUMPER. CAMPERLAB EKI BOOTS. OTTOLINGER TWISTED SUNGLASSES. MARTINE ALI EARRINGS.
Did he feel bad about it? “The next day! The next day, the next day,” he says, throwing his hands in the air. But he felt his personal space had been invaded, and he adds that he didn’t toss it into the ocean, as some outlets reported. “Bro, that cellphone didn’t break. It exists. It bothers me that people haven’t said that. I didn’t throw that phone into the water. I threw it into some bushes.” He claims the woman picked it up right where it landed. “She has it.
“It struck me that I think a lot of younger people don’t know how big he was,” Martínez explains. “People are like, ‘Oh, Bad Bunny is breaking ground with gringos!’ No, papi — José Feliciano was breaking ground with gringos since the Seventies, you hear me? He was doing worldwide tours, he was in London, singing in English, singing to Anglophone audiences.”
Martínez’s gestures often culminate in more direct action, too, like when he cut his 2019 tour in Europe short to join Puerto Rico’s protests against then-Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. Last July, he blasted LUMA Energy — the private company that’s mismanaged Puerto Rico’s power grid — and current Gov. Pedro Pierluisi at a show in San Juan: “Pierluisi and all the dick suckers who run Puerto Rico, fuck off.
Martínez seemed to address the furor in an impromptu speech at Coachella: “You won’t get to know the real me through a video on Instagram, an interview, or a TikTok. If you really want to get to know me, I invite you to my home.” Living in California has let Martínez “experiment with new routines, new places, meeting new people,” as he puts it. L.A. also allows him to move around a little more easily; in Puerto Rico, he tends to cause a scene when he goes out. “I like to go eat at a restaurant calmly, go see a movie, relax, go for a walk,” he says of L.A. But eventually, he’ll go back. “Puerto Rico’s my home,” he says. “I don’t see myself getting old anywhere other than Puerto Rico.
What’s it been like to have people so invested in his personal life? “I keep living,” he says. “Fans are always going to want to know more, but I don’t focus on that. I’m always going to keep living my way.” Some of those newer artists include the guys from Grupo Frontera, who Martínez brought onstage the second week of Coachella to play “un x100to,” a song they’d collaborated on. Martínez helped curates Future 25, a list featuring our favorite artists on the rise, suggesting everyone from the innovative singer-songwriter-violinist Sudan Archives to Puerto Rican acts like trap dynamo Young Miko, trailblazing rapper Villano Antillano, and urbano singer Omar Courtz.
Surely, being a global superstar comes with some pressure? Martínez rejects the question. “If I ever feel pressure, it’s because it’s coming from me. If I want to do something better, it’s because of me. I don’t let myself give into pressure from other people, I don’t feel pressure to be the best. Never, ever, ever. I do this because I love it.”
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