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Cause the music sounded like A$$
And it was simply nothing more than a blantant commercial ripoff of OLD SCHOOL DANCEHALL RIDDEMS (BEATS) like the classic "DEM BOW" (THEY SUCK) - SHABBA RANKS
Dem Bow Shabba Ranks - YouTube
Since you like droppin knowledge, time for you to learn about it.
DEM BOW is pretty much an homage to Shabba Ranks. When Shabba blew up, heads out in Panama, DR and PR loved that shyt, so much that they used that beat for every track, to the point where that particular style of reggaeton is simply called dem bow. It's only a rip off of something if you don't acknowledge the source. Not only is the source acknowledged, it's named after the source.
Now I don't like reggaeton myself, but not only was it not commercial, even to this day, it's simply a mix of reggae and the latin hip hop that doesn't spread much further than the confines of Latin America and the people who live here. The genre truly didn't get anywhere near commercial til Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Tego Calderon started signing US Major Label deals.
El General (the reggaeton GAWD as far as I'm concerned) did what you hear in those Taco Bell commercials-- take a popular song, sing it in Spanish and then boom- subgenre born.