(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DTMF")
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
Bad Bunny made history at the Grammys when he became the first artist to win album of the year for a Spanish-speaking project, "DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS." In addition to the top prize, Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio took home two other Grammys and used his time on stage to share a message.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
BAD BUNNY: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say ICE out.
(CHEERING)
MARTÍNEZ: Now he's set to headline this year's Super Bowl halftime show. To find out what might be in store for Sunday's show, we called a Bad Bunny expert. Petra Rivera-Rideau chairs the American studies department at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She's the co-author of The Bad Bunny Syllabus and a new book called "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became The Global Voice Of Puerto Rican Resistance." And I started by asking if she was surprised by the backlash from some following the announcement of El Conejo Malo's Super Bowl halftime show.
PETRA RIVERA-RIDEAU: Well, I was definitely not surprised by the backlash to his sel
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