Reggaeton first emerged in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s and is characterized by a mix of Jamaican dancehall beats with a ...

It’s a month for spookiness, and Tainy knows it. Last week, the superstar producer caused a stir among his millions of followers on social media when he erased all posts from his Instagram page. Soon ...

A new wave of Latinx artists – among them, Kelman Duran, DJ Python and Tomasa del Real – are shaping the world-conquering reggaeton sound made famous by Daddy Yankee and J Balvin into radical sounds.

Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico’s stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay. “That was my childhood,” confesses Farruko of the ...

Let's face it: We're still playing our favorite reggaetón tracks from more than a decade ago — oh, those Pepe jeans and Baby Phat days. Sure we might recall the feelings when Rakim & Ken-y dropped ...

It has not been determined whether or not the singer suffered a self-inflicted wound, authorities said Johnny Louis/Getty Cuban reggaeton artist El Taiger, real name Jose Manuel Carbajal Zadivar, is ...

For three years in a row, Bad Bunny has been the world's most streamed artist on Spotify. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TITI ME PREGUNTO") BAD BUNNY: (Rapping in Spanish). MARTÍNEZ: Bad Bunny is at the ...

L.A. organizers hope to increase Latino civic participation with block parties, drag shows — and even a reggaeton-themed ...

"Gasolina" is Yankee's encore, and the boisterous crowd has been anxiously awaiting the familiar, roaring motors all night. Yankee wants the payoff — the screams, the singing along, the perreo — ...

Maidel “La Sista” Canales vividly recalls the “reggaeton fever” of the Nineties. At 16, Canales and her brother, four years her senior, formed the rap duo “Los Brothers,” performing in the streets of ...

Then there’s Mexican American dynamo Becky G, who scored a slot at Coachella in April, bringing out Natti Natasha and Peso Pluma as special guests. Her biting breakup anthem “Mamiii,” a collaboration ...

A host of fusions between the two genres arrived this year, with implications for both the underground and the mainstream. By Isabelia Herrera It takes nerve to stretch the boundaries of reggaeton, a ...