Ramtin Arablui

I think that it definitely showed the intention behind him as an artist, which is that you want to listen to my music?

You're going to learn some history.

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So I was traveling with my family on vacation.

We were in Portugal.

I'm a bit of a workaholic.

And so I had promised my partner, my kid, my therapist, that I was going to leave my computer behind for that break.

On December 24 of 2024, Christmas Eve,

I was added by three different people in Instagram.

And so I immediately got a message from one of them, who's a producer for Bad Bunny, and asked me if I was interested in having a potential collaboration with Benito.

You know, my heart dropped.

I immediately said yes.

The record in question was Bad Bunny's 2025 album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, I Should Have Taken More Photos, which made history at the 2026 Grammys as the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year.

They basically said, so Benito wanted to use his platform to amplify Puerto Rican history.

The idea was to have Jorrell write quick explainers of different moments in Puerto Rican history that would be the backdrop or visualizers that would play in the background of Bad Bunny songs on YouTube.

Benito really wanted the history of political repression in Puerto Rico throughout the 20th century.

There's no such thing as objectivity in historical writing and historical thinking.

And so I think that for Benito, this is also a political move.

Bad Bunny has created a whole universe around Debí Tirar Más Fotos, or DTMF for short, that is unapologetically a celebration of Puerto Rico and a kind of political treatise on the future of the island.