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Nikola Jokic amasses triple-double, Nuggets come back in last minute to escape Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Salvaging this road trip was not easy for the Nuggets, but they got the job done at the last minute on two consecutive nights.
Trailing the Hornets by four with 52 seconds remaining, Denver ended the game on a 7-0 run to escape with a 107-104 victory Saturday and return home on a two-game winning streak. Nikola Jokic went for 28 points, 13 rebounds and 17 assists, scoring five points in the last 45 seconds after amassing eight in the final minute Friday night at Philadelphia.
“That team never quit. They kept on coming at us,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “Just proud of our group for not panicking.”
Christian Braun added 24 points and 11 assists on a night when the Nuggets (30-19) couldn’t buy a 3-pointer, finishing 7 for 37 as a team.
Malone used a timeout with 3:20 to go after Miles Bridges attacked a Jamal Murray switch to tie the game at 98, setting up another tense road ending. Denver had scored only eight points in the fourth quarter at that point.
With exactly two minutes left, Jokic thought he put Denver on top 102-100, but the Hornets challenged a goal-tending call, revealing that Jokic seemingly grazed the ball with his finger while it was over the cylinder first. The basket was eliminated, and Bridges scored the next four points. The Nuggets were in danger of a 1-4 road trip.
Jokic answered with a 3-point play. Then the Nuggets were able to get the ball out of Bridges’ hands when he targeted Murray again. CU alum KJ Simpson missed an open three, and Jokic was fouled 70 feet from the basket after securing the rebound. After is free throws gave Denver a one-point edge, Bridges rushed a bad shot, leading to a run-out layup for Murray.
The star guard disrupted Nick Smith Jr. on a game-tying 3-point attempt before time expired.
“We were trying to avoid the (Murray on Bridges) switch, because Bridges is so big and strong, when he gets downhill, he’s a load,” Malone said. “So we were trying to keep Aaron matched up to him, and you saw late in the game as we closed on that 7-0 run, Jamal was showing so we could keep Aaron matched up to him. Obviously, sometimes when you do put two on the ball, you’re going to give something up, and you have to rely on some fly-around mentality behind that.”
Russell Westbrook (left hamstring) and Peyton Watson (right knee) missed their first game of the season after they both limped to the bench with separate injuries Friday during the fourth quarter. Michael Malone did not express grave concern for either of them, but he wasn’t able to share specific return timelines, either.
“I think we’ll have a much better idea when we get back to Denver and after we … let the injuries calm down a little bit and then have our docs look at them,” he said. “I think Peyton just knocked knees a little bit last night.”
Their absences caused wrinkles to the rotation, some new and some old. Braun, two games removed from being benched to accommodate the Westbrook-Jokic two-man dynamic, was suddenly back in the starting five by default. The Nuggets were playing their opening-day starting lineup for the first time since Christmas.
“It’s funny,” Malone said. “I made the decision going into the Knicks game to take (Braun) out of the starting lineup, and here he is a few nights later, playing 38 minutes. … I felt that he was everywhere. He was attacking. He was shooting the 3-ball with confidence. He was guarding. I think tonight was a snapshot into all the different areas CB can help you win in.”
Without Watson, Zeke Nnaji checked in at the four next to Jokic and eventually shared the second-unit frontcourt with Aaron Gordon. It was Nnaji’s first time on the court for six or more minutes since Nov. 10, 2024, and he capitalized with five blocks. The 24-year-old was the most impactful defender perhaps for either team, guarding Bridges and handling switches effectively. As Charlotte was threatening in the fourth quarter, the Nuggets extended their lead to seven twice in a row with Nnaji buckets at the rim assisted by Gordon. He viciously blocked Josh Green with five minutes left to preserve a tie game.
Murray followed his 31-point double-double in Philadelphia with a more inefficient night. But he got going in the third quarter for 12 of his 20 points in an eight-minute stretch, one of the only periods of the game when Denver wasn’t defending.
“We were playing well for most of the game, and we just kind of — myself included — got too relaxed I guess with a team that’s still playing hard at home,” Murray said.
Malone’s biggest pregame concern about the lowly Hornets was their offensive rebounding. They rank second in the NBA in second-chance points. They ended up with 17 on Saturday, but Denver scored 28 on fast breaks.
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In a thrilling game against the Charlotte Hornets, Nikola Jokic led the Denver Nuggets to a nail-biting victory with a last-minute comeback. Jokic put on a show, recording a triple-double with 30 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists. His all-around dominance on the court was instrumental in the Nuggets’ late-game surge.Despite trailing for most of the game, the Nuggets never gave up and managed to claw their way back in the final minutes. Jokic’s leadership and clutch play down the stretch helped secure the win for Denver, as they escaped Charlotte with a 110-108 victory.
This game was just another reminder of Jokic’s incredible talent and ability to take over in crucial moments. With him leading the way, the Nuggets look like a formidable force in the Western Conference this season.
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Friday means New Country, and today you get the new album from Kane Brown called “The High Road,” featuring his hit “Miles On It” and his latest single “Backseat Driver.” Also, mom-to-be Lauren Alaina is out with her new single today called “Those Kind of Women.”
Another new single that I got excited about when I first heard about the collaboration is out today. Wherever you listen to music, go find “Place They Call Home” by Castellows featuring Flatland Cavalry.
One of the tracks on Kane Brown’s new album is “Haunted,” featuring Jelly Roll. In a recent interview, Kane told the story about how he believed Jelly Roll hated him, but now they are close friends, play a lot of Call of Duty together, and randomly Facetime each other at 3 am.
As much as Bailey Zimmerman beat himself up about his drunken performance and Crash My Playa and later apologized, some of his country peers are lifting him up and showing him grace. Morgan Wallen said, “I thought you sounded great,” Chase Rice said, “Been there” and Meghan Patrick complimented him for owning it and told him to learn from it and move on.
Blake Shelton is opening up about what he calls one of the biggest mistakes of his life. Blake says it’s the barbed wire tattoo on his left forearm. He swore when he got it in 2005 he’d never get another one; to this day, it’s the only tattoo he has.
Hey y’all, it’s JJ here with your weekly dose of country music news! Today we’ve got a jam-packed episode of New Music Friday, with some juicy gossip thrown in for good measure. Let’s dive in!First up, did Jelly Roll hate Kane Brown? Rumors have been swirling that the two country artists had some bad blood between them, but Jelly Roll set the record straight in a recent interview. He explained that there was some miscommunication between them, but that they’re all good now. Phew, crisis averted!
Next, let’s talk about Blake Shelton’s biggest mistake. The country superstar recently admitted that his biggest regret was not recording a duet with his fiancée, Gwen Stefani, sooner. Fans have been clamoring for a collaboration between the two for years, so here’s hoping they hit the studio soon!
And finally, let’s highlight some of the hottest new releases in country music this week. From Luke Combs’ latest single to Miranda Lambert’s upcoming album, there’s no shortage of great music to check out. So grab your cowboy hat and boots, and get ready to two-step the night away!
That’s all for this week’s JJ’s Country Music Minute. Stay tuned for more country music news and gossip next time. And as always, keep it country, y’all!
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Dorian Finney-Smith had his best overall game as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. The forward finished with 16 points, knocking down four 3-pointers in the Lakers’ victory over the Washington Wizards while still providing his normal solid defense.
Finney-Smith did so in just 22 minutes as he has been on a minute restriction while dealing with an ongoing ankle injury. And even though he isn’t the biggest fan of limited minutes, he is still having fun playing with his Lakers teammates.
“A lot going on, it’s been a crazy two weeks. But I get to play the game I love,” Finney-Smith said after the win. “The minute restriction has been tough sometimes when you’re trying to find your groove with the team. Today I probably played for the longest stretch in the first half and I felt like my lungs were gonna collapse. But it’s been fun, it’s been fun playing with these guys and just trying to collect some wins and keep it going.”
It is great to hear Finney-Smith enjoying his time with the Lakers and playing with his teammates, but he is also a competitor who wants to be on the court as much as possible. In fact he would thank the Lakers staff for preventing himself from making his injury worse as he felt he did earlier this season.
“Just fighting through injuries. Me being me and not wanting to sit,” Finney-Smith responded when asked about the injury that caused this minute restriction. “Probably made it worse earlier in the year. I got a shot before a game and I played the next game so sometimes I hurt myself. Shoutout to the staff and the trainers in there, they’re helping me save myself from making it worse. I’ve been begging to play more minutes but it is what it is.”
Most important now is that the injury is improving and Finney-Smith is getting closer to be 100%. “It’s good. It’s been getting better,” he noted. “That’s all I got. I can play defense.”
Playing defense and knocking down 3-pointers is why the Lakers acquired Finney-Smith so if he is doing that at a high level, the Lakers will be better for it and everyone in the organization will be happy.
LeBron James, Anthony Davis pushing for Lakers to make trades
Acquiring Dorian Finney-Smith was an important move for the Lakers, but there are still a couple of weeks until the trade deadline and LeBron James and Anthony Davis are reportedly hoping for another big move to bring this team closer to contender status.
A recent report stated that LeBron and Davis are concerned about the Lakers’ ability to make a move before the deadline and that the duo feel this team are only a piece or two away from championship contention. The report added that the Lakers are willing to part with their valuable first-round picks, but only for players who will help this team for years to come, not just a short-term move.
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Dallas Mavericks forward Dorian Finney-Smith recently opened up about the minute restriction he is facing while playing against the Los Angeles Lakers. In a post-game interview, Finney-Smith admitted that it has been tough not being able to play as much as he would like, but he understands the importance of taking care of his ankle.Finney-Smith has been dealing with an ankle injury that has limited his playing time in recent games. Despite the frustration of not being able to contribute as much as he would like, he remains focused on getting healthy and returning to full strength.
“It’s definitely tough not being able to be out there as much as I want to be,” Finney-Smith said. “But I know that I need to take care of my ankle and make sure that I am fully healthy before pushing myself too hard. The good news is that my ankle is getting better every day, and I am confident that I will be back to playing at full capacity soon.”
Fans of the Mavericks are surely eager to see Finney-Smith back on the court at full strength, and his dedication to his recovery is a promising sign for the team’s future success. In the meantime, Finney-Smith is focused on doing whatever it takes to get back to playing at the level he knows he is capable of.
Stay tuned for updates on Finney-Smith’s progress and return to the court with the Mavericks.
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Italy Star’s Fitness For Inter Milan Vs Empoli Serie A Clash A Last Minute Decision The fitness of midfielder Davide Frattesi for today’s Serie A clash between Inter Milan and Empoli will be a last minute decision.
This according to today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, via FCInterNews.
Frattesi has been dealing with a slight muscle problem in the last few days.
There is no serious injury for the former Sassuolo midfielder. However he has suffered from some muscular fatigue which has prevented him from training normally.
Davide Frattesi Fitness For Inter Vs Empoli Clash A Last Minute Decision
In the meantime, there have also been many transfer rumours about Frattesi.
Reportedly, the 25-year-old wants to leave Inter due to a lack of playing time. He wants to join Roma, and the Giallorossi want to sign him.
That would not be the reason for Frattesi to potentially drop out of the squad for today’s Serie A clash with Empoli, however.
Frattesi’s fitness is a genuine doubt.
The Corriere report that it will likely go down to the wire.
Frattesi has not been at his best after Wednesday’s Serie A match against Empoli. Therefore, he has hardly had an ideal period of training.
However, there is still every chance that the Italian international will make the squad this evening.
Italy star, fitness for Inter Milan vs Empoli Serie A clash, a last-minute decisionIn a thrilling turn of events, Italy star, who was previously uncertain for the upcoming Inter Milan vs Empoli Serie A clash, has been declared fit to play in the crucial match. The decision comes as a last-minute surprise, as fans and pundits alike were unsure whether the player would be able to recover in time.
The player, who has been instrumental in Inter Milan’s success this season, has been battling a nagging injury in recent weeks. However, after receiving intensive treatment and working closely with the club’s medical staff, he has been given the green light to take the field against Empoli.
This news comes as a huge relief to Inter Milan fans, who were anxiously awaiting an update on the player’s fitness. With the team fighting for the Serie A title, having one of their key players available for the match against Empoli is a major boost.
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Real Madrid Midfielder Last Minute Withdrawal From Las Palmas Game
Real Madrid will face Las Palmas in a matter of hours. If they avoid defeat, they will look to go to the top of the La Liga table.
Carlo Ancelotti was already without Eduardo Camavinga with an injury picked up against Celta Vigo in the Copa del Rey. He has learned just hours before kick-off that Aurelien Tchouameni will also be unavailable, suffering from slight discomfort in his left leg.
Official: Tchouameni suffers from discomfort in his left leg.
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This means Ancelotti will be without both French midfielders and Luka Modric, who is suspended for the game. Jude Bellingham, Federico Valverde, and Dani Ceballos will likely start in a midfield three.
Los Blancos will have a young and inexperienced substitutes bench, with Arda Guler the only midfielder who has regularly featured for the first team.
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Real Madrid midfielder, Toni Kroos, has suffered a last-minute injury and will not be able to play in the upcoming game against Las Palmas.This unexpected setback has left fans disappointed as Kroos has been a key player for Real Madrid this season. The German midfielder’s absence will surely be felt on the pitch, as his creativity and vision have been crucial in the team’s recent success.
It is still unclear how long Kroos will be sidelined for, but his presence will be sorely missed in the upcoming match. Let’s hope for a speedy recovery for the talented midfielder and that he can return to action soon. In the meantime, Real Madrid will have to find a way to cope without one of their star players.
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BRITTANY LUSE, HOST:
Hello, hello. I’m Brittany Luse, and you’re listening to IT’S BEEN A MINUTE from NPR, a show about what’s going on in culture and why it doesn’t happen by accident.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
LUSE: What are some of the assumptions that people should be aware of coming into this album?
CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Mm. Mm.
LUSE: OK.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Vale, Alana. You go. You go.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DTMF”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
LUSE: If you somehow haven’t heard Bad Bunny’s latest album, “DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS,” has me, the charts, social media and Puerto Rico in a frenzy. For non-Spanish speakers, the album’s title translates to I should have taken more photos. And there’s a deep nostalgia that’s palpable beyond the album’s title. It’s a rich, sonic cultural text that blends traditional Puerto Rican genres like salsa. And the pulsating reggaeton Bad Bunny is known for.
ALANA CASANOVA-BURGESS: I think Bad Bunny is definitely saying we need to revive these older genres. All of this is also part of the Puerto Rican legacy, and we need to continue listening to what it has to say as we move forward together.
LUSE: But this album is way more than just good beats. In the sounds of the cuatro and the call-and-response of the plena, Bad Bunny is highlighting Puerto Rico’s complicated political history and present. He sings about gentrification on the island, the neglected infrastructure and the possibility of Puerto Rican independence.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: He says, like, I want them to put on a song of mine the day that Hostos returns. And Hostos was a Puerto Rican independence activist.
LUSE: Is that who the community College in New York is named after? Hostos?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yes, girl.
LUSE: I didn’t know that.
In a time where speaking out about politics feels like a minefield for artists, “DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS” has come out swinging. So I called up writer Carina del Valle Schorske…
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: A delight.
LUSE: …And the host of the podcast “La Brega,” Alana Casanova-Burgess…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Thank you for having me.
LUSE: …To get into Bad Bunny’s ode to the island and to break down if this nostalgia is for something being lost or something being taken.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
LUSE: What’s been happening in Puerto Rico recently that makes this album so potent right now?
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Well, I’m talking to you from San Juan. And I think what’s been happening in Puerto Rico has been happening for a really long time. There’s been a housing crisis. There’s been – I guess you could call it a brain drain. There’s been just a lot of young people leaving the island. That’s been happening since Maria, but it’s been happening before that because there’s been an austerity crisis here. And in fact, there’s even a generation called generacion de la crisis, hijes de la crisis – right? – like, children of the crisis. On the album, there’s a track called “BOKeTE,” which means pothole.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “BOKETE”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And that is because, you know, you drive around, and there are so many potholes. The electricity goes out all the time, right? There was – I think people probably saw in the news, New Year’s Eve, there was an island-wide blackout that lasted for some communities several days. There’s just this sense of abandonment by the government that kind of wants to invite people from the U.S. and from abroad to enjoy tax incentives here so that they can move here, not really contribute financially to the island and that that displaces people who are from here. So that “DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS,” there are several references on the album to leaving – right? – to, like, being gone. And there’s, like, a romantic sense to it. But it also is really about what is happening to PR today.
LUSE: To that point, Bad Bunny has called this album his most Puerto Rican album. I wonder, what are some songs or references made in this album that really stood out to you as quintessentially Puerto Rican?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: You have to talk about these rhythms, right? Many people would not have guessed that a salsa song would be the No. 1 song in the world. But that’s what “BAILE INoLVIDABLE” is. It’s a salsa song.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “BAILE INOLVIDABLE”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And I think he’s clearly trying to place himself alongside dance floor classics like “CAfe CON RON” or “La Vida Es Un Carnaval” or something like that, but also, you know, older rhythms like plena, which is a folk music that’s often called the singing newspaper, great artists, like Rafael Cortijo, who would narrate contemporary issues through this folk music. He has a few kind of references to plena on this album, but probably one of the most straightforward is “CAFe CON RON,” which is completely imbued with the classic call-and response-between the sonero and that really tight coro, the backup singers he has there.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “CAFE CON RON”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: It’s on the surface sort of simple. It’s like, come up to our little mount town and party. We’ll have coffee in the morning and rum in the evening. But I actually see it as part of this kind of broader land-back politics that Alana was alluding to because it’s talking about how getting up to the mountains isn’t easy, right? The politics of presence require effort. And I feel like that’s what Bad Bunny is talking about. You know, if the beaches are being taken over by tourists, as he says in a bolero later on the album, in the green interior, you can still catch a breath, you know, (speaking Spanish).
LUSE: Right. For listeners who don’t know, Puerto Rico’s beaches are, by law, supposed to be open to the public. But luxury hotels and investors, possibly lured in by tax incentives, have been coming in and building on the coast, which not only affects the environment, but also displaces locals and stops them from accessing a beach that’s always previously been available to them.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: You know, it’s interesting to think also about when the album came out, which is the eve – vispera – of Reyes, Three Kings Day. So Puerto Rico has just, like, the longest and most intense Christmas period…
LUSE: (Laughter).
CASANOVA-BURGESS: …In the world.
LUSE: it’s nonstop. It’s the biggest deal ever.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Absolutely. And so I don’t think the release date of this album is accidental. There’s also this instrument called the cuatro, which is kind of a guitar, but not, and that’s played in the mountains a lot, and you hear that in this album. So I hear all of that that’s very Puerto Rican. And so, you know, even as he’s, like, celebrating Puerto Ricanness (ph), and I think at this point, probably, this is a good time to talk about jibaros. So a jibaro is a figure, like a Puerto Rican, like, mountain person peasant, except peasant has this, I think, sort of negative connotation.
LUSE: Right.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: But a jibaro is, like, someone who wears, like, a straw hat, who holds a machete, who works in the plantations often. And that imagery, that symbolism has been used historically in Puerto Rico to sort of describe, like, a quintessential Puerto Ricanness. This is what Puerto Rican culture is, you know, almost like our cowboy.
LUSE: I was just going to say, is it kind of like the cowboy is thought of here?
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Yeah.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: That’s a great parallel. I wouldn’t have thought of that.
LUSE: Like, a real kind of person, but also like a mythical figure…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Yes.
LUSE: …In a way.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Exactly, who has particular values, very traditional, very of the earth, you know? And there are some people who, I think, rightly, also cringe at that imagery because it is so old-school, because it doesn’t leave a lot of room for things like reggaeton, for Blackness. In the same way that cowboy is limited, jibaro is limited. It’s also been a symbol that’s been used politically in Puerto Rico.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yes.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Also visually, you know, he put out this short film that takes place in a platanal, which is a plantain plantation. You know, so when Carina was mentioning earlier this, like, fleeing the plantation or return to the plantation, that’s part of the jibaro aesthetic.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yes.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And so I don’t think Bad Bunny is giving us answers, and I don’t even know if these are the questions that he’s intending to pose. He’s a very intentional artist. But the questions that I come out of the album with are like, well, what do we imagine Puerto Rican culture to be? Is it the jibaro? What’s the jibaro in 2025, you know? You know, in the same way that, like, what does a cowboy do for us?
LUSE: People were asking that question a lot the past couple of years, just off of Beyonce’s…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Exactly.
LUSE: …Like, past two albums.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Yeah.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: A distinction I would kind of make with “Cowboy Carter,” though they’re both very scholarly archival projects and very innovative sonically, at the same time, I think a point of difference is the way kind of those politics are lived out explicitly…
LUSE: I mean…
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: …In the public sphere because…
LUSE: Absolutely. Absolutely (laughter).
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: …You know. Everybody wants to ask Bad Bunny about trash island or about the Latino vote, but that’s not really relevant in Puerto Rico, where people can’t vote for president. What is relevant was the major election for governor that happened also in November of last year. Juan Dalmau was a candidate supported, actually, by an alliance between the old Independence Party and a younger kind of decolonial coalition.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: He came in second, which is unheard of.
LUSE: Sounds very notable.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And Bad Bunny also endorsed him – like, came out very clearly, and also encouraged young people to get their election card to register to vote.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yeah. He bought billboards across the country, you know?
LUSE: Oh.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: And he showed up to a rally with artists like Residente, who’s been a musical mentor, and artists from the ’70s, like Roy Brown, who was kind of part of this left, populist folk music movement back then. And there’s this photograph of Bad Bunny embracing Roy Brown. And I think where the older generation had often been very critical of reggaeton and stuff like that, he’s kind of making a play for their support in this moment where it feels like Puerto Rico needs unity.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
LUSE: Coming up…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Here, the political parties are organized around status.
LUSE: As in the literal status of the island, like whether the island should continue to be a territory of the U.S. or should become a U.S. state or should become an independent nation. Bad Bunny has thoughts about all of it when we get back.
You mentioned, Alana, that he’s a very intentional artist, and it sounds like both in some of the major ways that he’s expressed his politics, and also – I mean, in real life, and then also through his art, especially on this album, there is a lot of intentionality with how he’s approaching a lot of these references and thinking through things. But I want to kind of zoom out a little bit. A lot of our listeners are based in the mainland United States and may not, for various reasons, understand the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. What are some of the assumptions that people should be aware of coming into this album?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.
LUSE: OK. Alana (laughter).
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Vale, Alana. You go. You go.
LUSE: I was going to say, please, share with the class.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: All right. So we were just talking about him endorsing an independence candidate. And what’s important about that is that here, the political parties are organized around status.
LUSE: As in the literal status of the island, like whether the island should continue to be a territory of the U.S. or should become a U.S. state or should become an independent nation.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And the Independence Party in Puerto Rico has been so attacked and suppressed for so long, not only by the United States, but also by other political parties here. The other two being one that’s pro-statehood and one that’s pro-status quo – colonial status. And so I think, you know, what you hear in the States is, oh, why couldn’t Puerto Rico be a state?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Assuming that that’s the liberal position.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Assuming that that’s the liberal position, However, the statehood party here is very conservative. And, you know, it’s complicated. There are shades of that, but that’s what’s happening here. And it did not escape anybody’s notice that Bad Bunny not only was endorsing an independence candidate in this election, but also, he showed up to vote in a light blue shirt. People know what the Puerto Rican flag looks like, probably, because Puerto Ricans, we can never stop waving it.
(LAUGHTER)
CASANOVA-BURGESS: But there are actually several, right? And some Americans don’t know this. So the one that you see most often in the States, probably, is, like, one that has the blue of the U.S. flag, like that kind of navy darker blue.
LUSE: Yeah. Like in the triangle with the white star…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Yeah
LUSE: …In the middle.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Yeah. That one is sort of, like, pro-statehood or pro-commonwealth status.
LUSE: Interesting.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: There’s another flag, which is – the blue is light blue in the triangle, and that one is pro-independence. And so when you see, like, a light blue flag, you know that that is someone who wants independence. And it comes from a different flag, which is la bandera de Lares, which also has that light blue.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: The original Puerto Rican flag.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: The original Puerto Rican flag. And…
LUSE: Wow. I didn’t know that.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: …Bad Bunny makes reference to la bandera de azul clarito in “LA MuDANZA.”
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LA MUDANZA”)
BAD BUNNY: (Rapping in Spanish).
CASANOVA-BURGESS: He says, like, the day that I die, I don’t want them to forget my face. And I want them to put on a song of mine the day that Hostos returns – and on the coffin, a flag – a light blue flag. So like, very openly talking about independence, but also making a reference that’s very – like a historical Easter egg. You know, I think he’s inviting people who don’t know who Hostos is to Google. And Hostos was a Puerto Rican independence activist.
LUSE: Is that who the community college in New York is named after – Hostos?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yes, girl.
LUSE: I didn’t know that. OK, go ahead.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: And Hostos died in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, and he’s buried there. And he said that he did not want to be buried in Puerto Rico until it was a free country. So what Benito is doing in that line is sort of imagining, like, a day that Hostos could be buried here.
LUSE: Also, when compared to how colonialism played out in the archipelago of Hawaii.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Which he also mentions in the album.
LUSE: Right, which he has an entire song about on the album.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “LO QUE LE PASO A HAWAII”)
BAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish).
LUSE: In thinking about what could potentially happen if the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States did escalate to statehood, I would feel very strangely about someone like Logan…
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Logan Paul…
LUSE: …Paul.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: …Who boxes under the Puerto Rican flag – like, the most offensive thing (laughter).
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Not to quote, you know, Malcolm X’s letter to the grassroots, but land is the basis for all independence, you know? When somebody like Larry Ellison can buy an entire island of the Hawaiian archipelago, that’s the very fundamentals of a place, right? So if you don’t have, you know, Native ownership of the land, you’ve lost the battle.
LUSE: I’m sorry. I’m absorbing everything (laughter) that you all have said. So much of what you both are saying and also how sometimes I feel connected to parts of this album or almost like it’ll, like, strike a chord within me – not being from Puerto Rico (laughter), not being Puerto Rican and not being part of the Puerto Rican diaspora – is that, like, when my husband and I started dating and we were going home to visit each other’s families – he’s from Puerto Rico, and I’m from the Detroit area – and both of us kind of seeing when we went to visit each other, what long-term disinvestment in people looks like…
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Yes.
LUSE: …And what long-term disinvestment in a place that perhaps people think doesn’t have a lot of value looks like. And over time, things have changed drastically both in Detroit and also in Puerto Rico. Just seeing things change rapidly around you, I feel sometimes like I am losing contact with a version of the world that I knew or the Detroit area that I grew up in. And that is something that I think, unfortunately, how “El Apagon” from “Un Verano Sin Ti” or this album in general is resonating with people all across Latin America. But I also wouldn’t be surprised, as we continue to see this roll out, if this is something that also resonates across to other people of color across the United States who are also being displaced in major cities.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: A hundred percent.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: You know, one of the symbols of the album is the sapo concho.
LUSE: Right, a frog that is indigenous to Puerto Rico and that is kind of like the mascot for this album.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: He’s a very particular frog in that he is in danger of extinction because the places that he lives in Puerto Rico are being developed. I loved that symbol. “DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS,” right? Like, I wish I had taken more pictures – of my neighborhood, of my grandma, of my aunt, of my – you know? It’s a complicated nostalgia because sometimes it’s this gauziness – right? – and I feel this.
I think in the diaspora, we can often imagine Puerto Rico as, like, better than it is, you know, like, a lot of that imagery, the jibaro imagery – right? – of the platanal, of the plantains, and of the, you know, this, like, romantic countryside. You know, when you’re away, you forget about the blackouts. You forget about the potholes. It’s such a relatable album. And I think the more specific that he gets, the more relatable the album is. Do you miss a thing you can’t have back, ever (laughter)?
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: I mean, I do – I feel like I wanted to echo also something, Brittany, you were saying, like, about Detroit, right? Detroit and Puerto Rico have in common people around the world enjoying their music, whether it’s Motown or techno or salsa or reggaeton, without having any curiosity about the conditions that produced that music. And I feel like Bad Bunny is trying to – beginning to try to sort of mend that connection between the sounds that we all love and enjoy and the kind of reality of the people and place that produced that sound.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
LUSE: You said it all with that. Carina, Alana, I have just treasured this conversation so much. Thank you both so much.
CASANOVA-BURGESS: Thank you.
DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Just an honor and a delight.
LUSE: That was writer and literary translator Carina Del Valle Schorske and the host of the podcast “La Brega,” Alana Casanova-Burgess. And for those who want to hear the album live, Bad Bunny just announced a 21-date residency in Puerto Rico, titled “No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui,” or “I Don’t Want To Leave Here.” The first nine shows of the residency will be exclusive to residents of the island.
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