Latinos, how do you feel about jamaicans hating on reggaeton?

Question

I don't think that they are really hatin on the music I think that they are mad that everyone feels like its latino power alone and that jamaicans had nothing to do with our sucess. We have our festivals with reggaeton and we show our countries flags but there aren't any jamaican flags. I think that is a problem and i'm a latino myself. Most of the credict does belong to the jamaicans because they are the ones who introduced us to the reggae sound. Jamaicans went to Panama to work on the canal and brought reggae with them. It WAS THEN that we started producing our own reggae taken from jamaican roots reggae. I just think that we owe it to them to tell em thanks that's all. I mean if jamaicans were to do the same with lets say salsa we would want credict to right?

Remember that salsa is a music that has a lot of infleuences from african music. Jamaicans ancestors are from Africa and they are not the mixed type of people like ricans. Jamaicans practice an african faith called rastafarianism. To my knowlege Rico is not known for rastafarianism. Jamaicans love Africa and some of them consider Africa their real home.

Answer 1

Well i havent been keeping up with raggaeton lately but i am a raggae fan. I can remember first hearing some Dominican friends from New York exposing me to Raggaeton way back in 1996! I dont think there is anything wrong with Latin artists- especially rappers, using raggae as a foundation to build thier music. All major genres take thier styles from some other culture or genre.
Black artists are by this point, used to other people using thier music. It had been going on ever since they invented jazz in the early to mid 1900's. And jazz was taken from marching band music. Most black artists just ask that people give props where props are due. Like how Eminimem readily admits that he uses black music to get rich. And noone i know has a real problem with Enimem. But this raggaeton thing isnt a black and white issue because most of the pioneers of raggaeton were Panamanians and Dominicans who were both black and white. I think what the Jamaicans want is for the next time a major raggaeton rapper or dj is on tv or radio, to just simply acknowledge that yes, this music is built on what the Jamaicans started.
I really hope that there are no Jamaicans going on tv and the airways and actually "hating" on raggaeton because all music is beautiful and we should be embracing how much it connects different people instead of hating on new artists and genres.

Answer 2

Being Jamaican - I don't really hate reggaeton, but I just don't care for the sound. Actually my best friend is Notch who use to be with a group called Born Jamericans and now he's solo doing reggaeton. There are a few songs that sound good but for me most of them got that old style sound to it with some kind of booty shaking kinda thing going on. And true Notch gives up the props to the Lations for their music and I am proud of him for the crossover.

Answer 3

I don't think so. Culturally Jamaicans are neither here nor there, as an adaptation of English culture mixed with caribbean by African colonial slaves; whereas Latinos are a real mixture of races (from spaniards to indians to blacks) and flavors. If Jamaicans were to take Salsa and use it as their own that would just give us Latinos something to laugh about.

Answer 4

The beat is an entire scouse borrow yet this is a west indian rythem that has been around considering before Regga. This rythem became ordinarily performed on the Congas.It now tailored throught the Drum device bass drum and snare and area stick. This rythem is common in the two west indian and latino lifestyle ! the adolescents is basically jumpping on the bandwagon ! This from a prior college musician from the recording marketplace!

Answer 5

It's great and vibrant music.
You can't be hatin' on music! it's all interrelated and built on each other. Styles blend all the time sometimes successfully, and sometimes not.

I think reggaeton is a successful blend.

Answer 6

even though im not latino i really like reggaeton!!