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From Reggae to Reggaeton: The origins of El Género Pt.2 (SPOILER ALERT)

Last week we explored how reggae and dance hall blew up in Panama after the “Canal Zone” was returned to the country in 1973 and how this led to the credited originators of reggae en español, Renato, Reggae Sam, and Frankito AKA El General.

In this post, I hope to put together the pieces that form Reggaeton as a genre, but I may not get to it all so at the very least I hope to map out how they came together and where.

So, it’s 1985, and Renato, Reggae Sam, and Frankito have pioneered and popularized Panamanian Dance Hall and Reggae, starting a localized boom in the Spanish-speaking world.

However, Frankito earned a scholarship to study business administration in New York. With the support and encouragement of his friends, he left for Brooklyn where his mom was already living. Knees deep in three jobs he had little time for music for while but eventually fell into the much richer and long-standing dance hall scene in NY whose Spanish-language sector was only just budding. Freestyling at underground dance hall parties throughout is where he adopted the name and persona El General.

In 1990, Michael McDonald, a studio owner, and reggae producer took El General into the studio when he saw a growing interest in the Latin community in dance hall and reggae. He figured it would be smart to cater to that audience and had El General cover Little Lenny’s Punnany Tegereg in Spanish.

The genre blew up all over Latin nations and diasporas, but especially in Puerto Rico where hip hop had been trending since the mid-80s.

Thanks to the back-and-forth migratory patterns of the Puerto Rican diaspora, music sharing was inevitable, and rhythms and sounds migrated as often as we did. Primos would bring all the trends to Puerto Rico with them when they stayed over the Summer vacation, while others brought it back from NY after their Summer in the States.

Around the time El General was just stepping off the plane in NY, two guys who’d come to be, debatably the first big names in Spanish-language Rap, Vico C and DJ Negro. They essentially did the same thing that Renato, Reggae Sam, and Frankito did for Reggae en español for rap: after experimenting on cassette tapes and observing the musical wave of the moment, they saw a demand to fulfill for those who vibed with the beats but not the lyrics, due to the language barrier.

After concert promoter, Jorge Orqueño booked them to open for Public Enemy, and the popularity of their mixtape, La Recta Final, Vico C and DJ Negro had pioneered a new aspiration for kids de los caserillos (from the projects). They rapped about real-life issues in the hood and lots of young people could identify.

Ivy Queen, the host of the podcast that this retelling is from, said (paraphrasing) ‘it was like going from black and white to seeing the picture in full color’.

When Vico C and DJ Negro split in 1991, still at the height of their popularity, the reggae/dance hall craze was still fresh.

In order to guarantee success independently and on his own terms, DJ Negro opened a club in La Perla, a caserillo in San Juan, Puerto Rico: The Noise.

Here, following in tradition, he offered freestyling opportunities to anybody who could rap over hip hop or dance hall, inviting people from PR to NY to Panama. With word spreading and its popularity growing, The Noise became the place to want to make your debut, to see if you have what it takes.

With the pressure of an audience instructed to throw drinks and boo whoever wasn’t good off the stage, and one of the biggest names of Spanish-language rap scrutinizing them, hopeful artists would get on stage and rap over a mixtape interchanging between popular reggae and dance hall rhythms and hip-hop beats.

I think I will cut this here, as I promised, at the crossroads where the two genres cohabited the same venue and started to marry.  

I’ll continue this ‘til the end of its origins, the birth of reggaeton as its own genre.

Source:

LOUD: The History of Reggaeton

Episode 2. The New York

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Pero ninguno sabe

que ella solo quiere que la miren dentro

Donde hay sentimiento

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Hoy es 5 de Septiembre Mi hija cumple 13 Una edad de confusiones Y de nuevos horizontes Dentro de su corta vida Yo le ofrezco mi amistad Cuando tenga la necesidad Cuando tenga un problema bien grande Y no encuentre salida

Vico C - 5 de septiembre 

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!La gente habla sin parar, sin tan siquiera entender¡

Vico C

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