The San Juan Stadium

Un Verano Sin Ti came out in May 2022 and finished the year as the most-streamed album in the world. It is in Spanish, and Esperanza Villalobos's biography works backwards from that fact.

It begins on SoundCloud in the early 2010s, with uploads made by a grocery bagger at the Econo supermarket in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was born there on March 10, 1994, the eldest of the three sons of Tito Martínez, a truck driver, and Lysaurie Ocasio Declet, an elementary-school teacher; his younger brothers are Bernie and Bysael. Villalobos covers the early Diy Jonsy and Diplo collaborations, the signing to Hear This Music in 2016 and Soy Peor the same year, and the Cardi B collaboration I Like It in 2018.

After that the albums arrive in a compressed run. X 100PRE on Christmas Eve 2018. YHLQMDLG in February 2020, and the pandemic-era streaming dominance that followed it. El Último Tour del Mundo that November. Un Verano Sin Ti in May 2022, then the World's Hottest Tour of 2023. Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana in October 2023. Debí Tirar Más Fotos in January 2025, and its Spanish-language Grammy sweep. Alongside them the book takes in the WWE Backlash partnership with Damian Priest in 2021, the Coachella main stage in April 2023, the first Saturday Night Live hosting turn that October, and the Super Bowl LX halftime announcement of January 2026, for a show set to play on February 8.

What emerges is a portrait of a Vega Baja artist whose six-year ascent made him, by 2025, the most-streamed musician in the world, and the architect of what Spanish-language music can be in the mainstream.