Bad Bunny has been sued over a voice recording sampled on “Solo de Mi” and “EoO”—companion songs featured on 2018’s X 100pre and final yr’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos—Billboard stories. The plaintiff, Tainaly Y. Serrano Rivera, claims producer Roberto Rosado solicited the recording from her after they have been theater college students on the Interamerican College of Arecibo. The lawsuit argues that Rivera, having by no means agreed to its industrial use or signed a contract, is entitled to $16 million in privateness violation and publicity rights, on the idea that Dangerous Bunny performs the pattern in-concert and has used it to promote merchandise. Rosado and Dangerous Bunny’s label Rimas are additionally named as defendants.
The lyric in query—“Mira, puñeta, no me quiten el perreo”—actually interprets as “Rattling, don’t take away my perreo!,” referring to the reggaeton subgenre. However, as Tatiana Lee Rodriguez writes in Pitchfork’s evaluation of Debí Tirar Más Fotos, it’s “extra just like the Boricua model of ‘Bitch, don’t kill my vibe!’” The lyric has develop into a meme, incessantly showing on social media and message boards.
This isn’t the primary time Dangerous Bunny has been sued for sampled voice recordings. In 2023, his ex-girlfriend Carliz de la Cruz Hernández launched a authorized battle—nonetheless ongoing—over the alleged use of her voice with out permission on two songs.
Dangerous Bunny’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to request for remark.
