Bad Bunny brought his record-breaking Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour home to Puerto Rico on Saturday (Aug. 22).
Speaking to a packed Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, the artist addressed the crowd with a pointed speech about the island's water shortages, chronic power failures, and what he called a deliberate effort to displace its people.
"I can't bring water to those who don't have water. I can't bring electricity to people whose power goes out every day. What I want to give you today is a little bit of joy,” he said. “This chaos, this disaster is created on purpose to try to play with our emotions, to try to give up, to leave, so they can continue to sell this island part by part and fulfill its mission of a Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans."
"What I want to bring you today is the will to keep feeling this pride of being from here,” he continued. “What I want to give you today is hope and strength to fight and continue to defend this land."
The speech came days after Puerto Rico entered active water rationing amid an ongoing drought. Residents in parts of San Juan had already been filling jugs from tanker trucks as supplies ran short.
Inside the stadium, thousands joined chants of "Esencia no va!" (“Esencia won’t happen!”) in a rejection of a proposed luxury resort development on the island.
The night-one show is part of the "Cerramos en Casa" ("We Close at Home") run, a homecoming finale capping a 55-date global campaign that crossed five continents and 22 cities since its November 2025 kickoff. The tour earned $467.5 million, making it highest-grossing run by a male Latin artist in history.
The Debí Tirar Más Fotos album, released Jan. 5, 2025, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in February 2026, becoming the first album recorded entirely in Spanish to take that prize.
