Superstar Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny and his record label Rimas Entertainment are being sued for $16 million over allegations they used a woman’s voice in two songs without permission or compensation.
Tainaly Y. Serrano Rivera filed the lawsuit last week (January 5) in a court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claiming her recorded voice appears in Bad Bunny‘s 2018 track Solo de Mí from the album X 100pre and in EoO from his 2025 album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which won Album of the Year at the recent Latin Grammy Awards and received six nominations at the upcoming Grammy Awards.
The recordings feature Serrano saying “Mira, puñeta, no me quiten el perreo,” according to the 32-page complaint, which you can read here.
The lawsuit claims producer Roberto J. Rosado, known professionally as La Paciencia, asked Serrano to record the phrase in 2018 while both were students at the Interamerican University of Arecibo. Serrano sent the audio via WhatsApp voice note but said she received no explanation about how it would be used and signed no contract or licensing agreement.
The phrase, which roughly translates to “Look, damn it, don’t take away my twerking,” has been included in two of Bad Bunny’s songs and in other local and international settings, the complaint said.
Serrano alleges the recording was used not only in the two songs but also in concerts, promotions and merch sales. Bad Bunny’s Residency concert series at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot ran 31 shows from July 11 to September 20, 2025, during which the phrase was allegedly played.
The lawsuit highlighted the commercial success of both songs in question. The song EoO alone has been streamed over 757 million times on Spotify and has accumulated 88 million YouTube views, according to the complaint.
Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was Spotify‘s most-streamed artist globally in 2025 generating more than 19.8 billion streams on the platform throughout the year. His album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, also topped Spotify’s global album charts for 2025.
“The popularity of the album Debí Tirar Más Fotos and, particularly, the song EoO caused thousands of Martinez fans to continuously make assumptions that the album and the song in question are dedicated to nostalgia, to remember the beginnings of the artist and the old school of reggaeton,” according to a translated copy of the complaint in Spanish.
The lawsuit added: “This is because, after so much time, the artist used and included again, the voice of the plaintiff, Tainaly Y. Serrano Rivera.”
Serrano’s legal team is pursuing multiple claims under Puerto Rico law. The lawsuit invokes Puerto Rico’s Act No. 55-2012, the Moral Rights of Authors Act, which protects creators’ rights to attribution and integrity of work. It also cites Act No. 139-2011, the Right of Publicity Act, which prohibits unauthorized use of a person’s voice, name or other identifiable attributes.
In addition to the $16 million in damages and fines, the lawsuit also demands Bad Bunny and his team to refrain from using the recording.
Meanwhile, Rolling Stone reported that Jose M. Marxuach Fagot and Joanna Bocanegra Ocasio, the lawyers representing Serrano, previously represented Bad Bunny’s former girlfriend Carliz De La Cruz Hernández in a similar 2023 lawsuit over alleged unauthorized voice use.
That case moved to federal court before being returned to Puerto Rico jurisdiction, where it remains pending.
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