If you’ve ever dreamed of heading backstage at a Bad Bunny concert—and who hasn’t?—you’re in luck: Vogue recently stole a glimpse behind the curtain at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where Benito’s Most Wanted tour stopped for a string of sold-out dates earlier this month.
With just four hours to go before showtime, one would expect a little chaos—or, at the very least, a few nerves. But Bad Bunny is cool as they come; he checks his watch and merely shrugs. While on tour, his normal routine goes like this: he wakes up, he has a little breakfast, he works out, and he’s on his way. Oh, and he doesn’t need more than four or five hours of sleep. As it turns out, the Latin rap superstar (and 2024 Met Gala co-chair) is also very nearly superhuman.
Yet not even he was immune to the anxieties of turning 30. When asked why he wanted to release his fifth solo studio album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana, before exiting his 20s, he replies, rather sagely, “There are things that I say in the album that I don’t want to say after I’m 30…In my 30s, I want to focus on new things.”
Among the other treats in this round of 73 Questions? Our faithful interviewer, Joe, throwing out a few questions in Spanish; Bad Bunny reciting—or attempting to recite, anyway—a list of tongue twisters on the spot (“So random,” is his hilarious reaction); and the Puerto Rico native discussing the finer points of puertorriqueño slang, as well as what he loves most about his hometown of Vega Baja. Watch the full thing above.
Interviewed by Joe Sabia
Director of Photography: Jess Dunlap
Editor: Evan Allan
Senior Producer: Naomi Nishi
Producer: Gigi Chavarria
1st AC: Hannah Lasure
2nd AC: Annie Mara
Gaffer: Jonathan Alvarado
Grip: Austin LoCicero
Audio: Nicole Maupin
Color: Oliver Eid
Audio Mix: Nick Cipriano, BANG
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Production Assistant: Noah Bierbrier
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Digital Video English: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed on Location: Barclays Center
Special Thanks: Grace Lauson & Tomas Sandoval