“Te Boté” (I dumped you) began as a track by the Puerto Rican duo Nio García and Casper Mágico with Darell; the 2018 remix added Nicky Jam, Ozuna and Bad Bunny, and became one of the most-watched reggaeton videos ever. The story: she cheated, he ended it, and now she sees him out every night having the time of his life without her.
Each singer takes a verse with his own flow, so you hear six versions of Caribbean Spanish in one song — a hard but brilliant listening workout.
“Botar” means to throw away in the Caribbean (in Spain it means to bounce). “Te boté” — I threw you out — is the punchline. Learn the clipped words (pa’, to’, ’ta) and the night-out vocabulary first.