Why aren't Jamaican Dancehall artists blowing up like spanish reggaeton artists have the past year?

[Shadow King]

Why are nikkas bringing up colorism when dark skin island artists have seen success?

Like others have said dancehall artists aren't understandable to non-Caribbean brehs and they're in their own realm which isn't that big. American Latinos are a bigger demographic and despite different slang are united enough through the Spanish language for Central and South Americans to latch to a new reggaeton artist coming from PR or DR.

 

[OfTheCross]

I mean the dancehall sound itself has blown up massively indeed but thats only if American/Canadian artists attach themselves to it or jack it entirely for themselves.

Meanwhile, the You got reggaeton guys like J Balvin blowing up all by themselves, and that's before the English speaking world catches wind of it

What does the Latinos have that the Jamaicans don't that's making their artists blow up like this

there are many more latinos than caribbeans. also, carribbean latinos, i.e, Dominicans, Cubans, and PRs are the cool ones. So all other countries follow what's hot

 

[BigMan]

Population/audience (roughly 700 million Latin Americans vs. 6 million in the english speaking Islands)
visa issues

 

[BigMan]

Reggaeton? Big? I can't even name 1 artist.

location: central africa
ok buddy

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

son doesn't like Jamaicans or Caribbean people don't bother

 

[THEREALBRAND]

He a fukking lame who puts out basura. straight up clown shyt

Hear. This. Music

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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.

yeah.....that's why I came to the conclusion that most of latin american youth regardless of origin are listening to the same latin acts because most of these songs are not in the american top 40 but doing huge youtube numbers

 

[Somebody]

i can’t get wit spanish trap cause it sound like they took a melody from a rap song in english and jus translated it

Dancehall is too raw, and patois is almost another language. They influenced UK a lot, kids which aren't even Jamaican be making dancehall , and afrobeats here.

The latin american population is way larger on a whhole.
Both music genres are under heavy rap/trap influence point blank period.
The narrative of dancehall doesnt coincidence with the lgbt agenda.
Dancehall slang changes rapidly and most listeners dont have means to stay current or aware.
Patois in and of itself is hard to understand to foreigners when you speak fast, imagine toasting. (Aidonia)

TBH.. It depends on where you at. Cause down here that Latin america shyt gets no play unless you specifically go to a spanish bar.

i thought spanish was actually another language


but word, the spanish speaking population is big enough to where it might seem international, but it’s still prolly mostly exclusively spanish ppl listening.

 

[ChatGPT-5]

location: central africa
ok buddy

son doesn't like Jamaicans or Caribbean people don't bother

?

 

[BigMan]

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of course reggaeton probably isn't big in central africa breh

 

[froggle]

Haven't heard a groundbreaking riddim in several years. The overproof riddim the last one which came to mind.

Imo lack of "authentic" riddims and the homophobia hurt the crossover appeal.

I remember when I'm so special was bubbling then Mavado dropped that wack ass video

Everybody and their Granny is a "producer" now and the accessibility to make music has hurt dancehall immensely. A lot of these guys dont even know what a real instrument is and also dont understand or respect the past. Dancehall is straight garbage now and you have white people coming to the island and making popular beats now, its disgusting

Also the young talent is being stifled ridiculously. Off the top I can only think of Alkaline (who start fall off wid his all the same sounding beats), Poppy, Konshens and Aidonia who get the bus.

Content wise its dig out gal and make marrow fly. So once again coming back to the producers, who arent real producers to begin with......the thing is just straight turning on the radio in the 90s and early 2000s, you got a vibe. I turn on the radio now and that's even a song

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

yeah.....that's why I came to the conclusion that most of latin american youth regardless of origin are listening to the same latin acts because most of these songs are not in the american top 40 but doing huge youtube numbers

Country of origin as well.
The Kondzilla channel is on FIRE with views and there couldn't be that many brazilian americans...
Caribbean hip hop (it's a thing) doesn't do super numbers but a lot of it is dope.

 

[ChatGPT-5]

of course reggaeton probably isn't big in central africa breh

the point is, if it was big, I would have heard about it....because it's big.

 

[BigMan]

the point is, if it was big, I would have heard about it....because it's big.

That’s not how it works
Y’all speak Spanish In Central Africa?

 

[ChatGPT-5]

That’s not how it works
Y’all speak Spanish In Central Africa?

I know a Balie Funk artist and I don't speak portuguese and I know a K Pop band and I don't speak Korean. Your point?

 

[BigMan]

I know a Balie Funk artist and I don't speak portuguese and I know a K Pop band and I don't speak Korean. Your point?

Your region is a negligible market so your Ignorance is meaningless
You’re embarassing yourself, reggaeton and popular spanish language music are getting hundreds of millions of views and these artists are touring worldwide