Cuba Banned Reggaeton and People Are Surprisingly OK with That

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same exact drums on every single song

That's what makes it Reggaeton.

Does that warrant it being banned?


Let me just refresh some of your memories in here:

During the 80s and Early 90s, there were CACs in this country that wanted to ban HipHop/Rap music for being lewd and "sounding the same".

This happened twenty years ago in America:

Navarro warned record store owners that selling the album might be prosecutable. The 2 Live Crew then filed a suit against Navarro. That June, U.S. district court Judge Jose Gonzalez ruled the album obscene and illegal to sell. Charles Freeman, a local retailer, was arrested two days later, after selling a copy to an undercover police officer. This was followed by the arrest of three members of The 2 Live Crew after they performed some material from the album at a nightclub. They were acquitted soon after, as professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. testified at their trial in defense of their lyrics. Freeman's conviction was overturned on appeal as well.[1]
In 1992, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned the obscenity ruling from Judge Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear Broward County's appeal. As in the Freeman case, Gates testified on behalf of The 2 Live Crew, arguing that the material that the county alleged was profane actually had important roots in African-American vernacular, games, and literary traditions and should be protected


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That's what makes it Reggaeton.

Does that warrant it being banned?

:whoa: I didn't say anything about having it banned, and no other genre uses the EXACT drums throughout every song and then says, well that's what makes it jazz, that's what makes it rock, that's what makes it hip hop, etc
 
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