From "give me more gas" to "don't take away my perreo": two lawsuits against Bad Bunny give voice to the women leading the reggaeton battle
The artist faces paying up to 49 million euros for the use of voice samples in his songs, a common practice in the genre from which the performers often do not benefit.
Every time Bad Bunny sang EoO live, from his album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (2024), during his recently finished European tour, the music would stop before the bridge. Thousands of people would be left expectant and a sound would burst in robotically, a voice saying "Pe," but it would cut off. "Pe... Pe... Pe..." it would repeat faster and faster while on the screen appeared the word that wouldn't finish being pronounced: PERREO.
After a few seconds of tension, finally, the audio would sound complete. A woman claiming: "Look, damn it, don't take away my perreo," with a Boricua accent. That voice is today at the center of a lawsuit against the singer for 16 million dollars (14 million euros).
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