Bad Bunny Spanish Broken Down. Understand Bad Bunny’s Spanish

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Today we take a look at Bad Bunny's Spanish in an effort to understand Bad Bunny's lyrics.

I will also look into the influence of reggaeton on language.

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Transcript
Open with Vete eh eh eh

What’s up my people today I will be breaking down the Spanish of Bad Bunny
So I am a big fan of his music love it, but to be 100% honest with you I barely understand what he says when he sings… It’s like mumble rap. Bunch of words and then references to sex
Ehh ehh ehh let’s smoke …ehhe ehehhehe. Lets dance
Stay until the end because I have an exclusive Reggaeton glossary of terms
So Bad Bunny also known as Benito Martinez Ocasio, no relationship to AOC I believe, was born and raised in Puerto Rico.
I have described some characteristics of Puerto Rican accent like dropping the s, changing some r to L’s, but I am super curious to listen to Bad Bunny. So here we go!

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I really love how he performs even when he talks. It’s like he moves here. He moved there then he looks you like this. Signature bad bunny ehh

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Man he is super expressive. He slows his speech, quiets his vice and then throws a musical rant. It’s amazing

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I think some Puerto Ricans may disagree but he is a perfect example of Puerto Rican accent.
Something I appreciate about him is that he is super proud of his Puerto Rican origin. He signs with the accent and with the slang of Puerto Rico. Kind of saying that he won’t adapt to anything. He will bring his culture unapologetically to the world. He iis a very proud puerto rican
To break down his accent we need to look at two things he is: He is Puerto Rican and he is a Reggaeton Trap artist.

So a closer look to PR accent. So alright I already mention 2 characteristics of the PR accent dropping some S and changing some R to L so instead of cantar he would say canta
They also have other characteristics that we can see in bad bunny’s speech and music.
They drop the d in words ending in ado
So instead of cuidado they say cuidao

For these reasons a lot of people say that the accent from Puerto Rico is a lazy accent, but come on

We cannot say one accent or language is lazy. The accent is like this because it has been influenced by an Andalusian accent that presents some similar characteristics to the ones I described!

A lot of people also say that Puerto Ricans speak using Spanglish so like the throw English words here and there. I noticed maybe a couple of times that Bad Bunny used English. I am starting to think that this is more a stereotype than anything esle. I feel Spanglish is becoming more of a global phenomenon. I mean we are starting to use a lot of Spanglish in Colombia too. What do you guys think?

So Bad Bunny is also a reggaeton artist.

Adn Reggaeton artists have their own particular way of Speaking. I notice it more with the vocabulary that they have and use in the songs. I think in this interview we heard from bad bunny he spoke very clear but when he sings he uses this particular lingo, so let’s take a look at some words he uses in his songs that are not so common in “normal” Spanish

So here we go, as promised, with the Reggaeton Glossary
I am just going to present 5 words but these 5 words will help you understand so much.
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So we start with Roncar= Show off . It normally means to snore but in this case in the reggaeton case it means to show off. Normally a lot of reggaeton artist roncan muchos they show off a lot. I hope they mean that and not that they have sleep apnea. (zoom on sleep apnea)
Our next word is Janguear= Hang out and this one means to hang out. So yes it is Spansglish in its maximum expression. You often hear Bad Bunny saying Jangueal vamo a jangeal. The first time I heard this I was like….

Our next word is Bicho= Male reproductive system yes and it means whatever the editor put on text…
This one is not to be confused with Bichote or Bichote which is somebody who is bad.

Our fourth word is Chambear: To Work this means to work but bad Bunny let me ask you… Is it work like when you dig a whole or work like Missy Elliot says.

Our last word is pichear: To ignore somebody you probably heard this one in the song yo perreo sola which I made a video of at some point
And wouldn’t you know it means to ignore somebody which just opened the world to me understanding that song.

Alright That is it for today…

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