Reggeaton

zuco74 · Posted: 23 Jun 2005 08:56 AM Post subject: Reggeaton

I mean seriously, does anybody really like this crap.

Oh man, its horrible….

Twisted Evil

Venue Magazine · Posted: 23 Jun 2005 09:37 AM Post subject:

It is very popular right now, and personally I like it but that is just my oppinon. Many other People like it to so I would go as far as saying it is crap.

zuco74 · Posted: 23 Jun 2005 10:56 AM Post subject:

Big Slick · Back in Calecia Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 193

lol....well personally, there are only a couple of songs out there that i like, because i've tried listening to a whole cd and honestly, after about 15 minutes, all that shit starts sounding the same....i dont know why, but it reminds me of house music...lol Confused

zuco74 · Posted: 23 Jun 2005 02:35 PM Post subject:

Americano · Posted: 23 Jun 2005 03:17 PM Post subject:

Just for those of us who aren't up on this, what is this music all about?

pato · Posted: 24 Jun 2005 08:20 AM Post subject:

Reggeaton is a mix between Hip - Hop, Reggea (I'm sure you guessed that one), and Latin beats. The difference here is that no one get's killed and no women get's degraded. I'll take Reggeaton over Hip-Hop any day.

Big Slick · Back in Calecia Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 193

excuse me sir...just because the word reggae is in reggaeton, it doesnt mean its actually sampled...listen carefully, you will not find an ounce of reggae in that shit....

zuco74 · Posted: 24 Jun 2005 12:53 PM Post subject:

berimbau · Posted: 25 Jun 2005 01:26 PM Post subject:

I lived in Miami and the caribbean for some time and I am a big fan of caribbean and latin music in general, from danzón to roots rock reggae. Caribbean countries are some of the most prolific areas in terms of popular new rhythms. Cuba for example may have more than 100 popular types since the son, danzon, habanera, montuno, guaracha, cha-cha-cha, mambo, etc. all based on the clave, or key pulse that comes from African roots. Then you have Puerto Rican sones, bomba, plena, and Dominican merengues, bachatas, etc.

Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago, and the rest of the english-speaking antilles/west indies also developed their own rhytms calypso, ska, rock-steady, reggae, dancehall, based on a similar continuous beat. And the french antilles (Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haiti) have their zouk, compas, and ragga. (zouk is really cool by the way)

And now this ragga/dancehall/reggaeton pan-caribbean beat is really popular; it has been brewing in the islands since the 70's, at least, and has made it to Panama, the Dominican Republic, Purto Rico, and on to Miami, NY, Boston, Chicago, Houston...in the past 10 years. Now were hearing it in the west coast (through Don Francisco's sabado gigante, hehehe). I think that, like everything that sounds in the radio, the popular versions get too tedious. I listen to some tego calderon. But again this is dance music, not intricate melodic/harmonic composition. The best thing about reggaeton has to be the way girls move, and "el perreo" or the grind' dem. big up! yeah.