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Why aren't Jamaican Dancehall artists blowing up like spanish reggaeton artists have the past year?
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Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
beats are ULTRA repetitive, low influence value, stifled by weird obscenity laws in their own country, and it's literally a derivitive amalgam style made in DIRECT RESPONSE to hip hop, from delivery to application.
Latin America has a larger population/diaspora and "Latin trap" does more numbers than quality domestic trap...in fact, there was only 1 "tropical house" (not reggaeton) song that blew up in comparison.
Reggae and Dancehall wouldn't exist if not for the influence of AAs.
We can do what we want with that little music, fam.
Latin America has a larger population/diaspora and "Latin trap" does more numbers than quality domestic trap...in fact, there was only 1 "tropical house" (not reggaeton) song that blew up in comparison.
Reggae and Dancehall wouldn't exist if not for the influence of AAs.
We can do what we want with that little music, fam.
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
beenie man wasn't light, he was popping.
It's not colorism.
Dancehall is also "locked" into riddims with minimal variance...moreso than the worst cloned trap "type beat".
They got whole albums of one riddim.
It's not colorism.
Dancehall is also "locked" into riddims with minimal variance...moreso than the worst cloned trap "type beat".
They got whole albums of one riddim.
I do not agree with this how many times have you been to Jamaica?
If you had said lovers rock you would have had a point because singers literally used to sample old Blues songs and Refix the beat
Eg Bitty McLean - Walk away
But bashment or Dancehall is very Jamaican hence you see nothing like it on other islands
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
I just know that "Spanish Trap" is 
. Bad Bunny 
Who are some dancehall artists we need to know these days?
. Bad Bunny Who are some dancehall artists we need to know these days?
Reggaeton? Big? I can't even name 1 artist.
Aye man just cause you don't know don't mean it's not big breh. It's taking over. They've been had a heavy presence on youtube, and now that streaming and Youtube hits can count towards charting, we might see and hear a bit more from dudes like Luis Fonsi(Despacito is the most viewed video ever right now at close to 5 billion views) and J Balvin (Mi Gente actually did and charted well on radio and still does). When dudes like Ozuna and Maluma get that radio love out here to it's gonna be a wild time for reggaeton artists.
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
Ain't this the dumbest shyt
Real reasons are:
Post Vybz, dancehall has gotten too hardcore, and too hardcore in a way that is too culturally specific to Jamaica to resonate over here beyond an urban club level.
Dancehall in general is in a creative rut. This combined with the above has allowed for once the vulturing of dancehall music to be successfully sold back to Jamaica. American artists are filling the void for Jamaicans for bubblegum, feel good dancehall.
The world is finally paying attention to African music, and african pop and dance music is in a commercial golden era. The western mainstream audience doesn't know the difference.
The increased hardcore shift in the music years ago led to a rebirth of roots reggae. A sizable portion of the younger, talented artists grew up with a distaste for the over westernization of Jamaica music and are doubling down on the basics and making it their own again.
For the first time since the 80's, the most popular Jamaican artist isn't a dancehall artist. It's Chronixx, who doesn't make club music.
Chronixx's music is phenomenal, but it's not the sort of shyt that's going to slide into contemporary urban radio around the world inbetween stripper and opiate anthems.
So, as it stands now, Jamaican music, by and large, is not for the world.
Something similar happened with Puerto Rico. They're back buzzing now on the global stage, but that's after a lengthy run of insularity. They threw the reggaeton shyt of the early 00's in the bushes and went to their roots with bachata and Aventura/Romeo Santos running the scene. After that a younger generation came through with the more western influence.
It'll probably be the same in Jamaica. Some kids who are 12-13 now are going to mix the roots reggae with whatever the dominant urban vibe is 5-7 years from now and be on some new shyt.
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
you just said what I said with more words, detail, and omission of "latinos are way deeper"/have a more spread out diaspora.Ain't this the dumbest shyt
Real reasons are:
Post Vybz, dancehall has gotten too hardcore, and too hardcore in a way that is too culturally specific to Jamaica to resonate over here beyond an urban club level.
Dancehall in general is in a creative rut. This combined with the above has allowed for once the vulturing of dancehall music to be successfully sold back to Jamaica. American artists are filling the void for Jamaicans for bubblegum, feel good dancehall.
The world is finally paying attention to African music, and african pop and dance music is in a commercial golden era. The western mainstream audience doesn't know the difference.
The increased hardcore shift in the music years ago led to a rebirth of roots reggae. A sizable portion of the younger, talented artists grew up with a distaste for the over westernization of Jamaica music and are doubling down on the basics and making it their own again.
For the first time since the 80's, the most popular Jamaican artist isn't a dancehall artist. It's Chronixx, who doesn't make club music.
Chronixx's music is phenomenal, but it's not the sort of shyt that's going to slide into contemporary urban radio around the world inbetween stripper and opiate anthems.
So, as it stands now, Jamaican music, by and large, is not for the world.
Something similar happened with Puerto Rico. They're back buzzing now on the global stage, but that's after a lengthy run of insularity. They threw the reggaeton shyt of the early 00's in the bushes and went to their roots with bachata and Aventura/Romeo Santos running the scene. After that a younger generation came through with the more western influence.
It'll probably be the same in Jamaica. Some kids who are 12-13 now are going to mix the roots reggae with whatever the dominant urban vibe is 5-7 years from now and be on some new shyt.
Plus that Major Lazer experiment...
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
No, everything you said was wrong
Literally the only song that pops in my head when I think reggaeton 
Cuz Carribeans dont fukk with faggits. That Summer Damian Marley was hot with Welcome to Jamrock..Elephant Man with his Mainstream run..Busy Signal was killing it..
but my favorite
My brother friend was bumping this busy signal album when I was in yard few weeks back ... lol shyt was mad funny
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
Dancehall is "rapped" and was made after electro and hip hop. It wasn't created in a vacuum. Just like grime is rap, 2 step is basic house, and jungle is sped up breaks.
Don't need to go there, enough of y'all are here.
I see jamo flags every day.
Toasters = mcs = "deejays".
clash = battle.
44 mil = big bank.
Frida Giezman
Banned
They don’t call it reggaeton anymoreReggaeton? Big? I can't even name 1 artist.
They call it Latin trap I guess and a lot of it is fire if you ask me
The bytches love it too
But if you can’t inderstand what they’re saying I guess it’s not as appealing
When I hang around my Dominican nikkas they put me on to a lot of fire
LolDancehall is "rapped" and was made after electro and hip hop. It wasn't created in a vacuum. Just like grime is rap, 2 step is basic house, and jungle is sped up breaks.
Don't need to go there, enough of y'all are here.
I see jamo flags every day.
Toasters = mcs = "deejays".
clash = battle.
44 mil = big bank.
Spanish Town is nothing like Suphtin Blvd
But ur whole narrative is always
‘We AA we started everything”
“they are rhyming their words they copied rap”
Nah mate we give credit where credit is due and AA are a large influence all over the Globe indeed
However Dancehall is something that arose out of a downtown party culture totally exclusive to Caribbean shubeens more specifically Jamaica and is historical, political and social Climate.