There are endless sonic offshoots and subgenres that are also part of this story, like the brega funk-inspired styles dominating Brazil’s pop charts today or the bachata-reggaetón concoctions that once ruled airwaves in the mid-’00s. While these include chart-toppers and social milestones, our writers also wanted to document an alternate history of these movements-one that shines some light on its black, queer, feminist, and political origins and futures, in the hopes of highlighting some of the voices who are often pushed out of the mainstream. We’ve curated a collection of tracks for each of these genres, ordered chronologically, in an attempt to show how the music has evolved over time. These genres represent thriving movements with profound histories and specialized sounds: reggaeton’s driving riddims, melodic refrains, and rapid-fire rhymes Dominican dembow’s addictive, hyperspeed hooks champeta urbana’s collision of hip-hop and Congolese and South African folk hip-hop en español’s rap reimaginings for Spanish speakers Latin trap’s gritty bravado and baile funk’s irresistible remixing of Miami bass and hip-hop. Here, to open a discussion on urbano, we will focus on six of the movement’s pillars: reggaeton, hip-hop en español, Latin trap, dembow, champeta urbana, and Brazilian funk (or baile funk, as it’s Anglicized in the U.S.).
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