The Beat That Changed Pop Music | AJ+

Lock me in a room with the flood of formula Latino songs with this same beat, song after song after song, and I would confess to anything, just to end it.

Not reggae tone…
Reggaeton.
Say it correctly.

Big up to Jamaica and dancehall artist and producers…but this video make it look like in the Latin community there was No previous culture of dance music before reggaeton!. Spanish speaking Caribbean countries have a HUGE history and heritage on music, just alone, Puerto Rico, Cuba and RDC have created countless musical trends for years (salsa, merengue, rumba,mambo, danzon, guaguanco,etc), styles that are still highly appreciate ( and danced!) across the whole continent. Latin America is fertile ground for music creation and innovation due centuries of many times forced integration of people and cultures.
Africa and the Americas (the entire continent it is) will keep the world dancing and singing for years to come!

Reggaeton is Spanish Reggae Music, Panama 🇵🇦 is the pioneer of Reggaeton not Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, like the Quote said- A lie can travel halfway around the world 🌎 while the truth is putting on it shoe ( learn the true history of Reggaeton not His- Story of Reggaeton) 😳🤔

😳🤔😡, Why when there is talk about Reggaeton, no one hardly mentions that Reggaeton originally in Panama 🇵🇦 when Jamaican went to work in Panama 🇵🇦 and brought Reggae Music with them, my all time favorite Pioneer Panama 🇵🇦 Reggaeton Artist is EL GENERAL ( like the timeless African Proverb said- Until the Lions 🦁 have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter) 😳🤔

Why do they always focus so much on Puerto Rico, as if when they arrived on the scene, the rest of the world had stopped making music? This kind of narrative is what has the whole planet confused and an entire generation completely disconnected from history, due to the way the timeline is constantly and incorrectly constructed. And that's what keeps the culture fired up, because "respect isn't just about a recognition mention." There's a systematic tendency to erase from the timeline the parallel efforts of all the countries that were there before, during, and now. They make it seem like nothing was as important before Yankee came out with "Gasolina." WTF!

Haven't you ever wondered why Nando Boom and El General were in New York in 1990? In Panama, reggae was censored by the military and Noriega. Then, the United States invasion destroyed the economy and caused many deaths. This pushed forward what had already started and been established in Panama in the 80s from a different place. But even with all the post-invasion drama, a second generation of artists emerged, reviving the scene and turning it into a pillar of communication and expression in the neighborhoods. So, in Panama, reggae is lived differently, and we never got stuck in the same four rhythms of our brothers from Jamaica, repeated over and over, inventing a name to claim it as a genre we created, because for us it always was, and will continue to be, reggae.

It kills me how they pronounce reggaeton 😭😭😭

Reggaeton is GARBAGE!!! yeah I said it, whaaaaat!!

it all sounds the same. try to tell me it doesn;t. try to tell me i don't udnerstand. but i do. i'm not a dumb ape in a club.

Why are women talking about music they have no business talking about .

It never started as "an expression of afro-carribean identity." The people who created it just wanted to create good music, and they were influenced by the music around them. They didn't sit around one day, rubbing their chins and say to themselves: "Hmmmm. Ok. I want to express my afro-carribean identity. How do I go about that? EUREKA! I GOT IT!!! I'll create the dembow beat!!!"
Also, saying that reggaeton "became associated" with crime, misogyny, drugs and vulgarity is wholly disingenuous: as if the genre was an innocent victim. I love reaggaeton. But reggaeton IS misogynistic, vulgar, and romanticizes drugs and crime. So is/does hip-hop. So much so that the artists that avoid this route do so with a specific, moral agenda: they're making a point not to.
And just because some women are involved, doesn't cancel out the sexist nature of the lyrics. Strippers are rarely innocent victims of the misogyny they're peddling. Some women are also sex traffickers.
This video is far less a history lesson of the origins of reggaeton than a fluff, formulaic, tirade about the 'poor, victimized blacks'. Poverty breeds crime. Racism, class prejudice, and tribalism exist everywhere in the world. Far less in the west: whether you believe it or not (I've traveled all over the globe and have seen it first-hand).
Everyone is a victim of everything and everyone else.
I'm so tired of this woke crap.

Unique? That's the biggest laugh I've had in days!!!

Criminals are part of the equation, yo!

I have no idea how anyone can listen to this same beat all night and not want to slam their head in a door.

Reggeaton roots is ‘poop’.

That can only explain its low musical quality

Reggaeton went to shit when it left the Caribbean:/

Best Documentary on the origins of Reggaeton..

Dancehall was created from Hip-Hop rhythms and sounds. Reggaeton was created from Dancehall, and Dancehall from Hip-Hop.

Afrobeats is also heavily influenced by reggae and dancehall. I like those genres of music, but they have to give credit to the Jamaican culture. If those guys weren't experimenting with new sounds, and comming with creative ways to deliver their music. It most likely wouldn't have been possible.

Hip Hop was created by a Jamaican. Dj Cool Herc. The same dance hall beat Big Impact in America. Dem Bow song was made popular by Shaba Ranks, but he was not the originator of that lyrics. Is a youth called Jimmy San from East Kingston Jamaica. That is what was said of the history of Dem Bow. Now the originator of these lyrics is not known to the world and I guess he never benefited from his creation. Sad

I’m sorry but whites Hispanics/Latinos, who whitewashed reggaeton decades ago, being mad that European artists are “whitewashing” reggaeton is hilarious.

THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS SAY TO JAMAICANS STOP ALLOWING PEOPLE TO COPY YOUR CULTURE WHEN THEY DO AND CREATE SOMETHING FROM OUR CULTURE THEN THEY TURN AROUND AND SAY NO WE DIDN'T COPY THIS FROM JAMAICANS.

These ungrateful latinos are saying reggaeton didn't came from reggae .when the origins of rhe music is in the beginning of the name.