Kevin E G Perry: Bad Bunny's meteoric rise from grocery store bagger to Grammy awards and a Super Bowl stage MAGA can't silence
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Kevin E G Perry: Bad Bunny's meteoric rise from grocery store bagger to Grammy awards and a Super Bowl stage MAGA can't silence
"Puerto Rican trap titan headlined the Half-time show while Donald Trump supporters tuned in to an an 'All-American' alternative"
"Donald Trump certainly knows now who Bad Bunny is now. Last October, the president claimed he had "never heard" of the trailblazing 31-year-old, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio."
"As recently as 2016, Ocasio was working as a grocery store bagger in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, uploading tracks to SoundCloud between shifts. Today, he has made himself simply inescapable."
Bad Bunny, a 31-year-old Puerto Rican trap star born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, headlined the halftime show while some Donald Trump supporters watched an 'All-American' alternative. Donald Trump had previously claimed he had "never heard" of Bad Bunny. As recently as 2016, Bad Bunny worked as a grocery store bagger in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, and uploaded tracks to SoundCloud between shifts. Rapid mainstream success turned him from an underground SoundCloud artist into an inescapable global figure who now commands major live-event visibility.
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