50 Cent slams Grammys for closed captioning fail during Bad Bunny performance

Bad Bunny opened Sunday’s Grammy awards with an exciting medley of his songs, but viewers at home were met with some lazy closed captioning which rapper 50 Cent has called out.

While the Puerto Rican rapper and singer performed in Spanish, the captions wrote “Singing in non-English” and “Speaking in non-English”. This occurred again when Bad Bunny was granted the award for Best Música Urbana Album.

This decision was met with outcry on social media and 50 Cent joined in via Instagram to call out the Grammy awards for blundering both Bad Bunny’s performance and acceptance speech.

“The Grammys need to be check about this,” he wrote. “Fvcking @badbunnypr bigger than everybody right now and you can’t pay for closed caption. Wtf is this speaking Non-English. FIX IT!”

US congressman also speaks out

It wasn’t just fans and artists that the Grammys upset. Rep. Robert Garcia, Member of Congress and Latino immigrant, wrote a letter to detail his frustrations.

“For too many Spanish-Speaking Americans, it felt disrespectful of our place in our shared society, and of our contributions to our shared culture,” Garcia wrote. “For the hearing impaired community, this failure was hurtful.”

Bad Bunny made history

The 2023 Grammys marks the first in history to feature an all-Spanish opening act and Bad Bunny took time in his acceptance speech to acknowledge both old and new artists.

“It’s easy because I just made this album with love and passion, and nothing else,” Bad Bunny said in his acceptance speech. “And when you do things with love and passion, everything is easier, the life is easier.

“I want to dedicate this award to Puerto Rico, the capital of reggaeton in the world. I want to dedicate the award to all the legends and especially all the new artists, not just the legends, but also the new ones that are keeping this movement alive and refreshing it. To all the new talent, let’s continue taking this genre to the next level.”