What is reggaeton music?

Answer 1

Latin music you can dance to!


Reggetón is a form of dance music which became popular with Latin American (Latino) youth during the early 1990s and spread to North American, European, Asian, and Australian audiences during the first few years of the 21st century. Reggaetón blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba and plena, as well as that of hip hop. The music is also combined with rapping (generally) in Spanish. Reggaetón has given the Hispanic youth, starting with those of Panama and Puerto Rico, a musical genre that they can consider their own. The influence of this genre has spread to the wider Latino communities in the United States, as well as the Latin American audience.

While it takes influences from hip hop and Jamaican dancehall, it would be wrong to define reggaetón as the ‘Hispanic’- or ‘Latino’- version of either of these genres; reggaetón has its own specific beat and rhythm, whereas Latino hip hop is simply hip hop recorded by artists of Latino descent.

Answer 2

Reggaeton blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba and plena, as well as that of hip hop

Answer 3

take reaggae, turn it into simething you could dance to, and give it a latino spin

Answer 4

it's latin urban music