Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Hello friends, Hispanic Heritage months
Speaker 1: just wrapped up. But before we go, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about reggaeton. And if you don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: you've probably heard the unmistakable beat of reggaeton before, especially
Speaker 1: if you have upstairs neighbors. Can you keep it down
Speaker 1: up there? I will not like this song. The rest
Speaker 1: of this music go back as far as the seventies
Speaker 1: and as far as south as Panama. It could have
Speaker 1: started further south, but the beats are so big they
Speaker 1: don't fit to the canal. It was here in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties when music artists started putting Spanish lyrics over
Speaker 1: Jamaican dance hall songs, creating a new sound of reggae.
Speaker 1: And that's Spanio. And honestly, I'm glad I wasn't there,
Speaker 1: because watching Spanish words and dance hall music timing together
Speaker 1: for the first time, not even two sexty to handle,
Speaker 1: there's no way you didn't leave that dance floor too pregnant.
Speaker 1: It's like being the Jelly and the Diego Lunar and
Speaker 1: add Bunny Sandwich, Oh Delicious, two of reggaeton's earliest pioneers,
Speaker 1: were Leonardo and Gotta func Franco would later be known
Speaker 1: as El Hannad and even looked like if the Fresh
Speaker 1: Prince got sent to military school instead of bel Air.
Speaker 1: These two and other artists grew their news sounds like
Speaker 1: giving tapes to bus drivers who would bump their music.
Speaker 1: It's basically the way rappers in Atlanta give their singles
Speaker 1: the strip club DJ's, except in this case, you hope
Speaker 1: people jam out to your music while running late for work.
Speaker 1: El hand to New York City, where he began spreading
Speaker 1: early reggaetone in the club. It almostn't happen, though, because
Speaker 1: while he was in New York, El Hanad I also
Speaker 1: pursued a degree in business administration in an effort to
Speaker 1: get a real job. You have to wonder what if
Speaker 1: that path had worked out. He'd beat an office going Ernstein,
Speaker 1: y'all speaking, how might I direct your call? Thankfully, he
Speaker 1: was sucked back into music, hosting parties and performing. In
Speaker 1: nine he put out the song through Boom Boom, a
Speaker 1: tribute to the power of the person Doom Boom Boom
Speaker 1: and l Handado's cover Blew Up. It was a hit
Speaker 1: in mainland America in Puerto Rico and spread to Central
Speaker 1: and South America. The music was spreading so fast it
Speaker 1: would have made COVID jokes. Not too far from Brooklyn
Speaker 1: on Long Island, the defining beat of reggaeton the demn
Speaker 1: bot rhythm, popularized by Panamanian rapper Nandel Boom. The sound
Speaker 1: was originally created by Jamaican dance hall musician Chap Rank,
Speaker 1: who looks like a blade, became a DJ instead of
Speaker 1: fighting vampires. From there, the sound moved to a different
Speaker 1: Long Island, Puerto Rico. And here is where all the
Speaker 1: Panamanian and New York ingredients finally mixed together to make
Speaker 1: something special like Sofrito for your ears. It took over
Speaker 1: at the club called The Noise, founded by the Quincy
Speaker 1: Jones of reggaeton DJ Negro. He had been selling hot
Speaker 1: dogs on the street to get by and then had
Speaker 1: an idea to start a club. It was there that
Speaker 1: the genre became known as l underground and created a
Speaker 1: whole new generation of artists like E. D. Queen. They
Speaker 1: also popularized reggaetones more famous and that ail oh I
Speaker 1: know this dance, this is just me and two thousand
Speaker 1: five this is the dance you do when you don't
Speaker 1: want to pay for drinks. At one point, Puerto Rico's
Speaker 1: government crackdown on ill underground and tried to regulate the
Speaker 1: lyrics and Betty ol dance move, but all that did
Speaker 1: was make l underground more popular. This was like when
Speaker 1: your parents tell you how to date somebody, but then
Speaker 1: that person gets asked, I'm sorry, mama, you made some
Speaker 1: good points, but I can watch clothes off his stomach. Later,
Speaker 1: the genre exploded all of the mainstream with the release
Speaker 1: of the Hits of Gasolina by Daddy Yankee in two
Speaker 1: thousand four, and Daddy Yankee was everywhere MTV, Time Magazine,
Speaker 1: even the campaign trip. I just want to say thank you, Daddy.
Speaker 1: Ain't kid. That's right. You know a genre is big
Speaker 1: when the old white Republicans started calling for a little while,
Speaker 1: reggaetone was huge, but then the record companies moved on
Speaker 1: and it disappeared in much of America, which basically means
Speaker 1: most American side. It didn't exist anymore. We're like a
Speaker 1: baby who falls topekaboo but was latin Us. But even
Speaker 1: as America forgot about it, reggaeton went through a rebirth
Speaker 1: in Mena and Colombia, the city you recognized from Narcos.
Speaker 1: Colombian artists like Jay Balvin, Raykhon, and Carol g gave
Speaker 1: reggaeton a new, more mainstream sound with lyrics that focus
Speaker 1: less on violence and more on sex and romance. Like
Speaker 1: if Neo became Neo. It grew and grew in popularity
Speaker 1: until America caught on again with That's Right. Luis Fonsi
Speaker 1: and Daddy Yankee took over the globe with Death by Cito.
Speaker 1: It was number one for sixteen weeks. This song was
Speaker 1: so popular even the racist we're learning in Spanish como
Speaker 1: say d s go back to your own country. And
Speaker 1: since Death Basito, reggaetne has kept its hold in America,
Speaker 1: which is great because this is a genre that is
Speaker 1: still evolving and becoming more inclusive. You know, it grew
Speaker 1: out of a rich Hispanic heritage of Oh seriously that
Speaker 1: neighbor again? Hey, sorry about before? Can you actually turn
Speaker 1: it up? Everyone downstairs started dancing and I just want
Speaker 1: to keep the party going. Okay, I don't know how
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