There’s notable Puerto Rican rappers and a whole scene for Mexican rappers, why no Dominican rappers?

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

Sound more exotic and bytches

It's most likely because they are thirsty for their women.
DR is a shyt hole. Dominicans haven't contributed pretty much anything thing to the world or the united states.

 

[The War Report]

Juelz ain't Dominican. He just had a Dominican nanny. He said it himself.

 

[The War Report]

Imma say that JuJu is prob the best Dominican rapper who was really down with that Hip Hop shyt. Who really repped that Dominican shyt on wax. Them other rappers y'all mention don't really rep it like that, if at all.


Y'all gotta understand that if Dominicans are rapping now, they're most likely rapping in Spanish. Especially now that Dembow is predominate music coming out of the island. Dominicans be in their fukking universe, doing their own thing. Obviously you see the influences from outside in urban culture over there.

 

[BulletProof]

Great. This collectively represents some of the worst stage names ever chosen by a rapper

I’m in Arizona right now so I was just thinking about AZ’s name

You forgot Juelz Santanna, chico.

AZ stands for Anthony Cruz like Marshall Mathers stands for Eminem.

Honestly, are rap names typically great to begin with though?

The vast majority of them are pretty stupid.

Especially all that Lil and Young shyt thats popping right now.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Please with the so and so is “half Dominican”. OP asked about Dominicans period.

Growing up in NYC, Dominicans mainly stayed with their culture of music of Bachata and Merengue, and didn’t seek to adapt to Black music. Puerto Rock youth had a different relationship with Black youth, a tight relationship of respect to each other’s culture of music. It’s unexplainable. Also, where I was living, PR and DR kids didn’t mess with each other, and since PR gravitated toward the Black man, I guess DR were like “Mi no Black papi”, and kept to themselves. Hip hop wasn’t a DR thing for some odd reason. Back then PR treated DR like Jamaicans used to treated Haitians. Like they were lower, but that’s another story.

When hip hop was poppin off, Dominicans were just starting to migrate to the States. That wave was happening while rap had already made a mark. When Dominicans moved, there was a giant language barrier that Puerto Ricans didn’t have to worry about since they had 2+ decades rooted in NY.

That and Dominicans had their own underground genre they were playing on the low: bachata. That shyt was taboo til the early 90s. We related more with reggae, dancehall (Dominicans loved Shabba Ranks so much they spun off a sub genre off one of his songs— Dem Bow).

The DR hip-hop generation that was really into hip hop were late 70s born at the earliest, but mostly 80s born. Those are the ones you generally hear from. Otherwise, we’re mostly insular since you gotta still have a connection with your roots and that usually means playing a healthy dose of merengue, salsa, bachata, reggaeton and everything in between. That’s a lot of music to sift through and they’re generally rigid. It’s not that Dominicans aren’t into it; they just apply it differently and mainly through their native tongue. Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican but for all intents and purposes Un Verano Sin Ti is a record and that became one of the biggest albums of the year.

 

[SCJoe]

Dave East is a single/ feature on a hit away from being national. I just think he doesn’t care. His last album was solid.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Please with the so and so is “half Dominican”. OP asked about Dominicans period.

Growing up in NYC, Dominicans mainly stayed with their culture of music of Bachata and Merengue, and didn’t seek to adapt to Black music.

Dominicans came more in the 1980s and never got to soak the/a certain type of swagger you needed for Rap

Juju is the only "pure Dominican" rapper of note I can think of

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but if you notice, Dominicans were singing R&B and mixing it with Bachata (they called in bachata urbana back then) in the early 2000s because at that time they had been in the USA for 20 years or so and R&b was bigger than HipHop in the early 2000s. That's how you got Ventura/Romeo Santos/Xtreme type artists

Puerto Rock youth had a different relationship with Black youth, a tight relationship of respect to each other’s culture of music. It’s unexplainable. Also, where I was living, PR and DR kids didn’t mess with each other, and since PR gravitated toward the Black man, I guess DR were like “Mi no Black papi”, and kept to themselves. Hip hop wasn’t a DR thing for some odd reason. Back then PR treated DR like Jamaicans used to treated Haitians. Like they were lower, but that’s another story.

Yup big factors

by the mid 1980s and into the 1990s you had Ricans getting down with Nation Of Islam and 5% Nation,......had Ricans saying they were "Black and Proud"




The FOB Dominicans that had only been here for 5-15 years were probably when they saw and heard that


Dominicans trying to get down with HipHop during the 1980s and even into the mid 1990s would have got them ran out by both, Black and Puerto Ricans.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Estee Nack

 

[BulletProof]

There's way more, but I'm from the west like you so idk them all.

I think Jim Jones or that wave dude is dominican too. Dipset is full of Afro-Latinos though.

Jimmy's a Rican/Aruban.

He's on his Dutch Carribean Tusken Raider desert people shyt.

The only set he actually reps.

 

[maxamusa]

Crazy. Why would someone lie about being Dominican?

I saw some Netflix thing about hiphop and Dave east was on it....they interviewed his folks....they were southern/creole. unless that was his step pops but it didn't seem that way.

When reggaton blew up I remember a lot of people all of a sudden had hispanic in them

idk y he got the ink...think his BM is Dominican or something tho

I like dudes music but his story is strange anyway...he reps like 8 different PJs in 8 different boroughs

 

[QU Hectic]

Sacario is Dominican and he showed promise back in ‘02. I won’t even post the song he’s most known for cause they only have the remix from The Transporter soundtrack cause that shyt is hot mud. The original was
There was also a Dominican cat from Jersey name Nucci Reyo around the same time. Dude was dope but I forgot the DJ he was affiliated with. And of course the most famous Dominicans



Edit :
Here’s some Nucci Reyo stuff

 

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

I saw some Netflix thing about hiphop and Dave east was on it....they interviewed his folks....they were southern/creole. unless that was his step pops but it didn't seem that way.

When reggaton blew up I remember a lot of people all of a sudden had hispanic in them

idk y he got the ink...think his BM is Dominican or something tho

I like dudes music but his story is strange anyway...he reps like 8 different PJs in 8 different boroughs

You have to be crazy to want to rep Dominican over FBA/ADOS/Black American.

 

[mson]

It's most likely because they are thirsty for their women.
DR is a shyt hole. Dominicans haven't contributed pretty much anything thing to the world or the united states.

What about baseball?

 

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

What about baseball?

Black Americans are better at it. Plus, black Americans Like Jackie Robinson and curt flood( changed free agency) opened the door for these Dominicans to make it in baseball. As I said, what did they contribute?

 

[mson]

Black Americans are better at it. Plus, black Americans Like Jackie Robinson and curt flood( changed free agency) opened the door for these Dominicans to make it in baseball. As I said, what did they contribute?
[Bombast.

They still contributed great baseball players. And I'm pretty sure there are more Dominican all stars than AA allstars.