Two lawsuits against Bad Bunny illustrate the battle fought by women who lend their voices to reggaeton

Every time Bad Bunny did a live performance of EoO, from his 2024 album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, during his recently ended European tour, the music stopped right before the musical bridge. Thousands of people waited expectantly as a robotic sound was heard, a voice saying “Pe“, then being cut off. ”Pe... Pe... Pe...“, it came increasingly fast, yet never fully saying the entire word, which was instead shown on a screen: PERREO. After a few tense seconds, the audio track was finally delivered in full, with the woman’s voice saying: ”Mira, puñeta, no me quiten el perreo” (loosely translated as ‘Hey, asshole, don’t take the perreo from me’), with a Puerto Rican accent. That voice is now at the center of a $16 million lawsuit against the singer.

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