LOUD
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Reggaeton has now taken over the world. The scene has moved to Miami, where most of the biggest players are living and recording. As the music becomes increasingly commercial, some artists fight to keep the genre’s original rebel spirit alive.
Medellín, Colombia becomes a new reggaeton mecca thanks to a new generation of artists and producers. J Balvin, Maluma and others find a more commercial sound, and set the stage for reggaeton’s global takeover.
Media is quick to pronounce the death of reggaeton, but soon Puerto Rican artists like Nicky Jam find a new promised land and the genre gets a spark of new life in Medellín, Colombia.
After “Gasolina”, music labels bet big on the genre and scramble to sign artists like Don Omar and Wisin y Yandel. But when a culture from the streets and corporate America collide, it isn’t always pretty. Meanwhile, artists battle for the regg
In the early 2000s, two artists emerged to take reggaeton to the next level. Tego Calderon’s smooth flows and message of Black pride wins new fans for the genre and Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” blasts out of Puerto Rico to become a global hit, mar
“El underground” becomes Reggaeton and it spreads like wildfire. Lyrics about street topics evolve into sex jams. A trend of sexually explicit videos leads a telenovela star-turned-senator to launch a crusade to regulate perreo.
In the early 90s, a wave of drug-related violence in Puerto Rico leads the government to launch the "Mano Dura” policy of invading and occupying housing projects with the National Guard, and underground music gets caught up in the crackdown. At
On the edge of Viejo San Juan, PR in 1991 there was a tiny night club. The Noise was DJ Negro's place, where the "underground "movement was born, and where Ivy Queen got her big break. The Noise was a sweaty rap battle mixed with a rave — to th
El General arrives in Brooklyn in the mid-80s to find a booming dancehall scene underway, and links up with Jamaican producers who start recording and promoting Panamanian artists. Around the same time, a Spanish-language hip-hop revolution is
First stop: Panamá. We meet three Afro-Panamanian friends — all descendants of West Indian canal workers— who start translating Jamaican dancehall songs into Spanish, and performing them at neighborhood soundsystem parties. Renato makes the fir
Reggaeton started the way most great movements start, en las calles. Introducing LOUD: The History of Reggaeton, hosted by Ivy Queen. We take you from Panamanian buses to the shores of Puerto Rico to the loud streets of New York City. Tune in W
Like all great movements, it started in the streets. From Panama to Puerto Rico, New York to Colombia, Ivy Queen tells the story of how reggaeton became the world's soundtrack. LOUD: The History of Reggaeton. Listen free, only on Spotify.
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