Bad Bunny performs during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption
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Bad Bunny exalts Puerto Rico in his music of resistance. Getty Images hide caption
The rapper Residente is just one Latin hip-hop artist Alt.Latino has featured on the show. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny and Grupo Frontera are featured on this week's episode of Alt.Latino. Eric Rojas hide caption
Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Bad Bunny, Grupo Frontera, Becky G and more
Bad Bunny (center) recently made waves with "un x100to," a collaboration with the regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera. Eric Rojas hide caption
Why regional Mexican's current explosion catapults the genre to new heights
Bad Bunny exalts Puerto Rico in his music of resistance. Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny, performing in Miami on Aug. 12, 2022. The Puerto Rican superstar's wordplay was front-of-mind for Alt.Latino co-host Anamaria Sayre this year. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny, pictured performing on stage in Philadelphia in September, finished his international tour in Mexico City last weekend — but many fans were denied entry after being told their tickets were illegitimate. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Roc Nation hide caption
Bad Bunny has a preternatural gift for realness, one that he wields with fluidity, because that is what Caribbeanness demands. It makes his fame feel delightful and deviant. Illustration: Simone Noronha for NPR hide caption
Rosalía's Motomami is one of the best Latin albums of 2022. Gotham/Getty Images/Photo Illustration: Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption
Roséwave is light and breezy, but not necessarily unsophisticated — the sound of an experience kissed by sweet summer heat. Vanessa Leroy/NPR hide caption
NPR Music's best music of May includes (from top left, clockwise) Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Julia Reidy, Ravyn Lenae and Ethel Cain. Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Raquel Berrios of the band Buscabulla, performing on April 15, 2018 in Indio, Calif. Kyle Grillot/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What it means for pop music to raise awareness about intimate partner violence
On his new album Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny opts for personal intimacy and cultural specificity, anchoring his music in the Caribbean. Eric Rojas hide caption
Bad Bunny performs onstage in Miami during "The Last Tour Of The World" on April 1, 2022. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Projects released by Rauw Alejandro, Camila Cabello, and Nathy Peluso are included in NPR Music's Best Latin music of 2021. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR; Getty Images hide caption