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stepping razor wrote:I aint got a clue what reggaeton is, never heard of it.has it anything to do with reggae just cos its got it in the title reggaeton?
peace

Ites!

by one side reggaeton is a continuation of latin ragga an also basically it can be defined as a mix of tings which origins a hardcore-ragga/dancehall-slackness/rude-possee an gangsta-rap, yunno

ina mi neighbourhood mi live together wid reggaeton ting evryday an really can seh dat it giv more bad vibez dan gud tings. obviously nuh all de people who shape reggaeton ting a equal but mostly reggaeton is based ina unfounded an nuff aggresiv - even violent - behaviour an it´s based too ina totally denigration of de Women


JAH BLESS

Reggaeton in the begginigs was following Jamaican dancehall.Tunes like Dirtsman "hot this year" Shabba's "dem bow & trailer load" Buju's & Megas tunes and the likes of those artist.The main themes was violence, drugs, police abuse, sex & was an expression of the ghetto people of the island.Later the Djs start to make loops of the "dem bow" base track and start adding their own music.Nowadays the music got so little so say

ha, even such yutes as noreaga cant change di program, he just go wid de flow as i hear and the biggest one is pit bull i think and him like rule it and real gngsta and etc

Like the muzik can't undastand the lyrics unles its ina combination style w/ a JA artist