Puerto Rico has a rich musical history, shaped by artists from both the island and its diaspora. Still, few have reached the heights of its latest leading light, Bad Bunny.

The 31-year-old artist is arguably the world’s biggest pop star. Like his predecessors, Bad Bunny — real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — has achieved that success with a distinctive style. The Latin trap star’s sound is influenced by salsa, merengue and reggaeton, among other genres. And like those offerings, the lyrics to Bad Bunny’s songs are delivered entirely in Spanish.

With that, here’s what you need to know about Bad Bunny’s lyrics — namely, whether he has any songs in English.

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Does Bad Bunny have songs in English?

None of Bad Bunny’s tracks are in English. The Puerto Rican artist has spurned the language for his native tongue, Spanish.

Bad Bunny’s Spanish is distinctive in its own right, with the 31-year-old trading bars with a Caribbean dialect marked by “many skipped consonants, Spanglish, neologisms, and argot that it borders on Creole”, wrote Puerto Rican anthropology professor Yarimar Bonilla in a 2023 New York Times article.

Bad Bunny is proficient in English, regularly conducting interviews with American media in the language. He hasn’t ruled out performing in English, either. In a 2023 interview with Vanity Fair, Bad Bunny admitted that he’ll cross the language plain at some point — on his own terms.

“I am never going to do it just because someone says I need to do it to reach a certain audience,” Bad Bunny said.

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Why does Bad Bunny only sing in Spanish?

There’s a practical reason why Bad Bunny chooses to sing in Spanish. He feels more comfortable doing so.

“It’s not like I hate the idea” Bad Bunny said of performing in English. “It’s just that I feel more comfortable in my own language. I think in Spanish, I feel in Spanish, I eat in Spanish, I sing in Spanish.”

Bad Bunny’s embrace of his native tongue is hardly apolitical, however. Bad Bunny hails from Puerto Rico, a self-governing archipelago and island organized as an “unincorporated territory” of the United States. Puerto Rico’s more than 3 million inhabitants are, indeed, U.S. citizens. But they weren’t granted citizenship until 1917, 19 years after the U.S.’ invasion of the land, then considered a colony of Spain.

Spain ceded the island to the United States following its defeat in the Spanish-American War. The following few decades were marked by racial discrimination — in 1901, the U.S. Supreme Court issued rulings against the residents of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, all of whom became new territories of the United States as a result of its victory in the Spanish-American War. The court ruled that the indigenous populations who were sprawled across the archipelagos were “alien races” and “savage tribes” who were unable to understand “Anglo-Saxon principles”, according to Harvard Political Review.

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Puerto Ricans were not permitted to vote for their own governor until 1947. They have no political representation in Congress, save for a single non-voting delegate. The island is billions of dollars in debt. But, the Jones Act — a statute put into law in 1920 mandating, among other things, that Puerto Rico can only receive goods shipped from on American ports from American ships — has curtailed economic development on the island, according to a 2019 study.

All of that is to say, Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States — and by proxy, its official language, English — is checkered, pockmarked by a history of colonialism, conquest and exploitation. Many other Latin American countries have faced those issues at the hands of the United States. As such, it’s understandable why Bad Bunny could favor his native language as opposed to one imposed upon his land and people.

“They want to take away the river and also the beach, they want my neighborhood and grandma to leave,” Bad Bunny penned his 2025 song, “Lo Que Le Paso A Hawaii.” “Don’t let go of the flag… I don’t want them to do with you what happened to Hawaii.”

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Bad Bunny most popular songs

Here is a look at Bad Bunny’s most popular songs. 

*Indicates song is a collaboration with others, and Bad Bunny was featured on the track

Does Bad Bunny write his own songs?

Bad Bunny does write his own music. He was listed as a writer on each of his 17 tracks on “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, while much of his music features symbolism and imagery distinctive to his personal experience.

That’s not to say Bad Bunny doesn’t work with other songwriters. He fields ideas from other writers, too, as evidenced by the “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” track credits, which includes dozens of other writers. Nevertheless, the lyrics are more or less his own.

Will Bad Bunny sing in English at the Super Bowl?

It’s unlikely that Bad Bunny will croon in English come Super Bowl Sunday. His discography doesn’t really accommodate for that — none of Bad Bunny’s highest-profile releases feature full English verses from him.

It’s possible a featured guest could trade some bars in English. But even then, that would likely only last for a fleeting moment before Bad Bunny returns to the Spanish language, of which he has shown so much command over.