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How Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’ Fueled Reggaeton’s Global Takeover

How Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’ Fueled Reggaeton’s Global Takeover

Update: 2024-07-03
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Daddy Yankee’s original plan was to become a baseball player. However when a stray bullet hit him at age 17, he pivoted to focusing on his other passion: music. The Puerto Rican star ended up becoming an integral part of the creation and explosion of reggaeton, a Spanish-language genre that fuses dancehall and soca with hip-hop. 

It was his 2004 breakout hit “Gasolina” and album Barrio Fino that helped bring reggaeton worldwide, breaking the seal for it to become the most popular genre of music in the world and for Daddy Yankee to become its most influential artist. “Gasolina” was just the start for Daddy Yankee, who has gone on to create many more decades of innovative, fresh and extremely popular music for every club and block party around the world. On this week’s episode hosts Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos discuss the success of “Gasolina” and are joined by their Rolling Stone colleague, Julyssa Lopez, who wrote a 2022 cover story on Daddy Yankee. Together they dive into Daddy Yankee's career and the evolution of reggaeton, highlighting its rise to global dominance.

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How Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’ Fueled Reggaeton’s Global Takeover

How Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’ Fueled Reggaeton’s Global Takeover

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