From Saturday Night Live to the sets of Happy Gilmore 2 and even all the way out to sunny San Francisco for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, it’s safe to say it’s been quite the year for Bad Bunny. Alongside all of that, he just collected his first Grammy award for album of the year with his 2025 release, Debi Tirar Mas Fotos.

Debi Tirar Mas Fotos becomes the firs Spanish Language album to take home album of the year honors, and it is not a surprise to many. Bad Bunny’s newest project tackles a variety of topics, but mainly the many current issues surrounding Bad Bunny’s homeland of Puerto Rico.

The United States colonized Puerto Rico in the late 19th century, and since then, the island has struggled at times due to a lack of support and freedom, from the American mainland. Bad Bunny tackles many of these issues and more in the new track and calls on everyone to support Puerto Rico and to help do better for the island nation.

Perhaps the most startling track from this album, “Lo que le paso en Hawaii” speaks to the history and culture of the island kingdoms of Hawaii that the United States stripped away of the years of its occupation, and the concerns that Puerto Rico could suffer the same fate.

Bad Bunny proved in his last album, nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana, that he could branch out into other genres and blend them with other sounds. In this project, he stays true to his heart and to his home in a touching tribute to a beautiful island.

Full English Transcript of the Acceptance Speech (Forbes):

“Puerto Rico, believe me when I tell you we are much bigger than [this]. Thank you to God, thank you to the Academy, thank you to all the people who have believed in me throughout my career, to all the people who worked on this album, thank you mom for giving birth to me in Puerto Rico. I love you.

I want to dedicate this award to all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams.

To all the dreamers, to everyone who has lost a loved one and still had to move forward and carry on with great strength, this award is for you. Thank you for so much love, I love you. To all the Latinos around the entire world, and to all the artists who came before and deserved to be on this stage receiving this award, thank you very much.”