RFI: Reggaeton.

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Well....what is it? I keep seeing the word everywhere. Is it a play on words? Is it supposed to rhyme with 'megaton'? Is it some hybrid of reggae and....something else?

This is an honest question and not a piss-take.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Use the search function, essay!

Naw, Alex it's a sort of Puerto Rican take on Dancehall

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Use the search function, seriously. Francis explained the origin of the term on one of my old salsa threads.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Influenced by the greedy, mysogynistic tendencies in American mainstream hip-hop, and informed by colonial insularity, it grows out of being a subculture, takes the country by storm, undergoes a namechange, and is now from thereafter as "reggaeton"= reggae + reventón/party, named after a popular '97 (i believe) production by local DJ Nelson.

Is anyone here listening to salsa? Other Latin music?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

the article linked at the beginning of this thread was my primer on the subject (and includes pronunciation!)

hmmm, i pick up the USA Today for no good reason and discover they want to tell us about the reggaeton

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 10 November 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

2005 Rolling Reggaeton Thread

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

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