Michelle

[Mamello🧚🏽‍♀️ @MelloFelicia1]

Pleaaaaaaassseeeeee!!! I am begging! Use CANVA templates for your flyers! I cant take it anymore 😭

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Bad Bunny walked out in a #64 jersey with “OCASIO” on the back.

Not Bad Bunny.

Not Benito.

His real name.

His family name.

Then he grabbed the mic and said:

“My name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. And if today I’m here at the Super Bowl, it’s because I never, never stopped believing in myself.”

In Spanish.
No translation.
Even the jumbotron was in Spanish.

And I watched the whole thing with a translator on.

Because the message was that important to me.

They said he was “un-American.”

They said nobody would understand him.

They said having him perform was “ridiculous.”

And he SHOWED OUT!

He brought out Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.

He staged a wedding on the field.

He recreated a bodega.

He gave us a whole scene of family and love.

He humanized an entire culture on the world’s biggest stage.

All in his native language.

And he didn’t flinch.

His lyrics were clear messages:

“They want to take the river from me, and the beach too. They want my neighborhood and for my grandma to leave.”

“I should have taken more photos when I had you. Hopefully my loved ones will never move.”

And that last line:

“Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden.”

Hopefully my loved ones will never move.

That’s about families being separated.

Forced to leave.

Displacement.

Yeah, he didn’t chase the mainstream.

He made the mainstream come to him.

He put his family name on his back and told 120 million people exactly who he is.

And I’m here for ALL of it!👏🏽

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BENITO.

📸: Chris Graythen/Getty Images

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

stop posting about my family business please

[𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗 @gio__palace]

mom: who sold our house?

me at the bad bunny superbowl performance

[Ashley Nicole Moss @AshNicoleMoss]

we don’t care that you don’t speak Spanish, you have 5 months to learn

[Charli Huxley @ImKnotTheOne]

All I’m gonna say is…. the universe gives you what you put out…

[Ari @ariarianaetc]

Having friends that have been around for half your lifetime is such a blessing

[IV. @ivourth]

wow, Destiny’s Child reunion…my dream date. and she knows that

[⋆.˚🦋༘⋆ @luvherout]

Me starting off my wedding vows like :

[b @AYOWHITTT]

LATINO LOVE WON IN TRUMPS AMERICA

[Ari @ariarianaetc]

One of my best friends got engaged in February, another over the weekend, and at least one more before the end of the year.. I can’t say enough how happy I am 😭😭 my girls deserve it all.

[Michelle @mmichelle_____]

@StuckOnAriana It’s her fanbase smh living in this delusional that she deserves to win it all

[cousin faith @wetsykcin]

This is how long every weekend should feel