For three years in a row, Bad Bunny has been the world's most streamed artist on Spotify. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TITI ME PREGUNTO") BAD BUNNY: (Rapping in Spanish). MARTÍNEZ: Bad Bunny is at the ...
Paige Hall's Crane Room thumped unusually loudly yesterday as students enjoyed a symposium that examined the juggernaut genre of reggaeton, which combines reggae and hip-hop musical influences with ...
The first time I heard "El Abayarde," I thought, "Who is this dude straight dropping fire lyrics on these reggaeton beats?!" Until then, reggaeton had been (at least to me) party music. It was my ...
‘I like reggaeton,” said a caller to Miss Jones’ morning show on WQHT (97. 1 FM) yesterday. “But does every song have to have the same beat? Therein lies one of the questions radio programmers are ...
The long, winding, and often forked road that has led us to contemporary reggaeton has been traced often over the last decade. In the beginning it moved fast: in early-'90s Jamaica, Steely & Clive's ...
It’s a foggy May evening at La Marina, a bar and lounge nestled along the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan. Behind the dock, sweltering Caribbean dance grooves blast from an outdoor sound ...
Today on Latin Roots from World Cafe, NPR's Jasmine Garsd discusses the history of Reggaeton. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Garsd spent her teenage years hooked on Argentine rock. Garsd moved to ...