"Bombón" is a song by Puerto Rican rapper

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with Dominican rapper

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and American rapper

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. It was released on March 24, 2022 simultaneously with Daddy Yankee's eighth and final studio album, ''

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'', among various other singles from the record. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Venezuelan director Daniel Durán. It was written by Daddy Yankee, El Alfa, Lil Jon, Mexican producer David "Scott Summers" Macías, Puerto Rican producer Ovimael "OMB" Maldonado and American production duo Play-N-Skillz members Juan Salinas and Oscar Salinas, while Spanish duo

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members Antonio Romero and Rafael Ruíz received songwriting credits for their single "

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" (1993), which the song interpolates. It was produced by Daddy Yankee, Play-N-Skillz and Scott Summers. It is a

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song that received mixed reviews from music critics; some commented positively about it, while others criticized Lil Jon's ad-libs. Commercially, it reached number three in Nicaragua, 10 in El Salvador, 11 in Honduras, 19 in the Dominican Republic, 33 on ''

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chart and at 88 in Spain. It became a

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trend and was nominated for Best Social Dance Challenge at the 19th Premios Juventud.

Background and composition

"Bombón" was written by

, David "Scott Summers" Macías, Ovimael "OMB" Maldonado and Play-N-Skillz members Juan Salinas and Oscar Salinas, while Spanish duo

members Antonio Romero and Rafael Ruíz received songwriting credits for their single "

" (1993), which is briefly

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during El Alfa's verse. It was produced and programmed by Daddy Yankee, Play-N-Skillz and Scott Summers, recorded by OMB, and mixed and mastered by American audio engineers Luis Barrera Jr. and Michael Fuller, respectively. It is a

song with a duration of three minutes and two seconds. It is the first collaboration between Daddy Yankee and El Alfa; the latter posted that referred to the song as "one of the best moments" of his career and to Daddy Yankee as his idol. Daddy Yankee had previously worked together with Lil Jon on the remix versions of their singles "

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" and "

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" (both 2004).

Reception

Lucas Villa of ''

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'' referred to "Bombón" as an "explosive dembow banger" in which ''Legendaddy''s "ass-shaking continues to go off the Richter scale".

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's Jeanette Hernandez selected it among the album's best songs and wrote that it "transports us to the beginning of addy Yankee'scareer," with "the help of El Alfa and Lil Jon’s essential ad-libs".

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included it on their "Essential Guide to Daddy Yankee" list, part of their Songbook editorial series. On the other hand, ''

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''s Gary Suárez described it as "cringeworthy" due to Lil Jon "vomit nghis ancient ad-libs," which "

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the presence of Dominican dembow demigod El Alfa" and "reduces the track to something from a Miami hotel pool party in 2012." Isabelia Herrera of ''

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'' found it "virtually unlistenable" and referred to it as an "egregious misstep," describing it as "college spring-break music, complete with 'Yeah!' ad-libs from an era long gone." "Bombón" was nominated for a Premio Juventud for Best Social Dance Challenge at the 19th Premios Juventud.

Commercial performance

Following the release of Daddy Yankee's seventh and final record, ''Legendaddy'', "Bombón" debuted and peaked at number 33 on ''

''s

chart and at 88 in Spain. It also reached number three in Nicaragua, 10 in El Salvador, 11 in Honduras and 19 in the Dominican Republic. It became a

trend and was used in over 2.5 million videos on the platform.

Credits and personnel

– vocals,

songwriting A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

*Luis Barrera Jr. –

mixing engineer A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...

, immersive mixing engineer *Michael Fuller –

mastering engineer A mastering engineer is a person skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distr ...

– vocals, songwriting *OMB –

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

, songwriting * Play-N-Skillz – producer, programming, songwriting *

– songwriting *Scott Summers – producer, programming, songwriting *

– vocals, producer, programming, songwriting

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Notes

References

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