SNL En Espanol! Bad Bunny Takes On SNL Hosting…
Bad Bunny helped Saturday Night Live kick off its 51st season on Oct. 4 and took time to handle conservative critics of his upcoming 2026 Super Bowl Halftime efficiency.
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Bad Bunny, whose real title is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, took to the stage in NY for the first time since making the choice not to carry his massively standard live performance tour to US cities due to the menace of ICE raids. He used the show’s platform to handle the rampant racism and ignorance that adopted his historic Super Bowl announcement.
“You may not know but I’m doing the Super Bowl Halftime show and I’m very happy,” he said. “And I think everyone is very happy about it, even Fox News. No, but really I am very excited to be doing the Super Bowl and I know that people all around the world, who love my music, are also happy.”
He continued, in Spanish, saying,
“Especially for all Latinos and Latinas around the world, and for those right here in the U.S. for every particular person who has labored arduous and opened doorways for others. This achievement just isn’t only mine, it’s a shared accomplishment that demonstrates the legacy and contributions we’ve made in this nation one thing that no one can take away or erase. And if you didn’t perceive that, you’ve 4 months to study.”
Heard you, señor!
It was also the first time in the show’s historical past that a performer closed a season and then was introduced back to help open the next, NBC News reviews. Bad Bunny has appeared on the show three other occasions with his first look being in 2020; however, his latest internet hosting duties appeared to ship a big message to detractors that he has no plans to relent to the onslaught of negativity.
During a podcast look, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stoked the flames of division around Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl efficiency saying that ICE Agents can be “all over” the big sport festivities to make arrests, NBC News reviews. This adopted President Trump‘s impassioned response to the announcement in which he called the NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny “shameful.” Trump’s advisor, Corey Lewandowski, also had selection phrases for the league during an look on the The Benny Show where he echoed Noem’s threats of ICE arrests.
“There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,” he said, according to VICE News. “Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you and apprehend you and put you in a detention facility and deport you. Know that is a very real situation under this administration, which is contrary to how it used to be. It’s so shameful they’ve decided to pick somebody who seems to hate America so much to represent them at the Halftime Show, there are plenty of great bands and entertainment people who could be playing at that show that would be bringing people together and not separating them.”
It is price noting that the NFL entered into an settlement with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation back in 2019, giving the company free rein over the league’s live music strategy. The contract was said to be half of the NFL’s Inspire Change initiative, which was the league’s considerably apologetic response to how it dealt with Colin Kaepernick’s courageous stance against police brutality. The transfer by Jay was controversial at the time but he and Roc Nation have given the world’s largest stage to various and fearless voices every yr since. As beforehand reported by BOSSIP, Roc Nation and the NFL prolonged their partnership last yr for an undisclosed quantity of time.
According to the NFL, the Inspire Change marketing campaign has resulted in $55 million in grants to social justice organizations, and staff contributions have resulted in more than $248 million to “change-driven” non-profits.
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