November 3, 2025 • 67 mins
I've contributed to so many Reggaeton lists over the course of my career. For COMPLEX Magazine, for Rollingstone, etc. Well, this is my hot take, these are, in my opinion, my Top 25 Reggaeton Albums of All Time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Me Scott as some songs. So being a professional on
the Latin music space, I've been invited to contribute to
and help curate leggaton lest throughout my career, most notably
the Rolling Stone Top one hundred Reggaton Songs of All Time.
My ads to the list were all popping, by the way.
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E Queen was listed as number two by Glory glow
Is stood at number fifty, True by Lorna number forty five,
and Osuna number forty two, number twelve. All my picks
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in the top fifty, by the way. And while contributing
is fun, I have my own ideas. I try not
to share too much online because the people who have
no sort of direction and you know, for the and
I'm writing my book and that's where I'll release the
real heat. But this is my show and I'll buy it.
But in a different way. Instead of top raggaton songs,
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I'll give you top reggaton albums, I'll give you something
which I think is a bit harder albums, meaning the
entire project, not a song on the project, but the
curation of the entire project. One thing I'm not able
to do, mostly because of time and what it would
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take for me to meditate on this, because I'm not
like some of y'all. I really can't with how some
people can hear a project and go yo, that's five.
I need to have it on replay for like three
days and then learn the lyrics and really immerse myself
in what the artists are saying. So looking at projects
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like from concept to songs included, artists included, or SLOs
featuring the little decisions in between, it's a look mame fascino.
So with all of that said, I want to get
into what I would call the top twenty five reggaeton
albums of all time. Yes co presenting this is hard,
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just so unclear. Twenty five is not much. If this
is one hundred, i'd be a little less stressed out.
But twenty five, that's not a lot of albums to
really choose from. Considering the dare I say hundreds or
thousands that exist perro La Macello, And again these are
my takes, dumos, I don't think these are in any
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particular order either. This disclaimer, I think that's even harder.
And that's where I wave the white flag for now.
So akitamo Anda Gata top twenty five albums of Rayaton
Digo Yo. Okay, let's go to Sunstone is. There's so
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many places where I can start from, but let's go
ahead and get into Badio Fino by that Yankee, because
you know it's on my list. This project, the entire project,
was a master class and self investing. Dy put in
thirty thousand dollars into the Gasolina music video himself, his words,
not mine. He went to Universal and he and mine
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and he said that they would offer him ten or
fifteen thousand dollars. And to give you a picture in
regards to budgets, back then, this is two thousand and
four and Anglo there were one million dollar music videos
being made, So fifteen or ten thousand dollars that doesn't
demonstrate a lot of faith. So this project was a
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big not for nothing middle finger up to naysayers in
the industry and to those who don't find the value
of investing into Ragaton, a problem that persists into this day.
Ask me how I know so Barrio Fino Digo Yo.
And again I'm classifying these albums as the best by
saying that these are albums that marked the course of
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raggaton history. Dig yo, okay okay. Barrio Fino is honestly
one of the best twenty one of the top twenty
five best albums of all time. And then to get
into the music, of course, Barrio Fino, I, for the record,
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thoroughly enjoy Old Daddy Yankees music. I said, old as
an older like te Prinzibio, King Daddylina like you lok
and with your slept on Salo divida, santif esos Hi,
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I'm got them, American Melao and Melo gives said goals,
moheres wow, Lokeaso extended and an outro. Of course, didn't
say any of these songs in order, because since when
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do I like things chronologically? Bero mihinte. This is an
album that I would say is a no skip album.
I would say that there are different songs on this
album that marks the course of history. Everybody remembers where
they were or has a memory with Gasolina when it
first came out. I can tell you how many family
parties I was in. But we do this thing. We're like, well,
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like the adults will put the kids like in a
circle and be like by la laila, and they'll like
throw money at you and they're like little contests or whatever.
I was in the fifth grade or the fourth grade
when it's on came out just to give you an idea.
You don't want to a baby, but when media, because
I remember when the song came out, I remember singing
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loke paso paso and dedicating it to my little boyfriends
when I was a pre teen. Not even was sexy.
No medej solo is like come on that that call
and respond with the women and portfol king Daddy has
bd ellen Bohe is so sexy and it's so setan,
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and in my opinion, it's the best song on the
album after Gasolina, because Gasolina has like its own thing.
But personally, yes, I'm gonna play ellen Bo, especially if
I'm DJ Barrio Fino because of what it was able
to mark in history as like the standard as to
what can happen when Regaton is invested into properly. Barrio
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Fino because of the creative direction, I mean the pictures,
the videos, the the way that it put cartel records
on the map. I just missed that time when like
these artists would like shout out their records on tracks
and whatnot, Like it was it was truly something to
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keep the hype alive. Betro Barrio Fino set a standard
five six, but there's a so they go yo. I
had to start there. It is the first one that
come off the dome. Easy basign Atlantux is what comes
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to minds next. This is a project with songs the
hands and intro your voi VOI boy and You're gonna
see ya. I don't say the control La yahlo asajo
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as a tempo A go yeah with Angel dos perdona bandida.
Don't say it because it's don't say I don't say
a remix El Mirame solo too. In comparis. This is
the debut studio album by the Puerto Rican reggaeton Duozy Lenox.
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It came out of May fourth, two thousand and four,
and in my opinion, it's one of the top twenty
five reggaeton albums of all time. I think the Zany
Lennox well personally, I think Zanny Lennox as a reggaeton
duo are the epitome of black excellence in reggaeton. Side
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note individually, I love them because they're so different, different voices,
different cadences, different Castillos, and they both when they come
together is something that is just so unique. Zanni Len.
I think this debut album of theirs really showcase what
it is that they're capable of, and I think that
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everything that they've done going forward can all be traced
back to this album. I don't think that's true for
every project. Sometimes artists do a project and it could
be like a one off and then it's so completely
left field of who they are or who they want
to like exemplify that like it really doesn't matter in
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the sense of like looking at everything collectively. But this
album doesn't do that. Is really the blueprint for you
to understand who Zilnox is and to not give them
their due in regard to what it is that they've
contributed to Tegaton culture at large would be disrespectful, I
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think in comparison to like all of the projects that
they have, which this was really hard by the way.
I think Motivans, that's an album that I love. It's
the uh, the sequel to this the series in sadly
maybe the last one will get because as we know,
they have since split. But I think again, even the
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songs within this album marks moments in history. Everybody remembers
where they were when they first saw the music video
of Zanny Lenox Young Zanney Lennux in that that HOOPI
with the girls in Don't Say Ya. Everybody knows a
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moment of like being either dedicated that song or dedicating
it to somebody else. The amount of King signetras that
I've seen featuring Don Saga, That's how you know it's
real when it permeates King Seneto culture and past that.
I think that this album really encapsulates, like the beauty
of the melodies are shared with Joanny Lenox. I know
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that Zion goes off on his own and does the
perfect Mandy, but I think there's control your voice Don't
Say Ya Aura Bandida for example. They all really like
hone in on what makes zan Leny Lennox and by extension,
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everything that they've touched going forward two thousand and foward
to twenty twenty five. So, in my opinion, this is
one of the top Regatton albums Top twenty five. This
is not getting easier, you guys. Math Flow Bye, in
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my opinion, is a no skip album. In my opinion, Okay,
I know a lot of you're hearing math Flow not
mass Flow. Loves Benjamins not mass Flow, Los Los Benjamins
not I know, I know, but you guys, this is
my list, Go do your list. In my opinion, math
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Flow by is an album that demonstrates a standard for
reggaeton music production in regards to quality and versatility. I
think they did that. I think math Flow Byega literally
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set a precedent, and I think it inspired other artists
around them to really try to aspire to what it
is that they may with my Flow. I think one
of the things that I particularly enjoy from this album
is that Yesega had their business has on, but this
album is still so hood in certain ways that like,
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while they may have had their eyes on the money,
they had their ears by Lakaye, and I appreciate that
because by Kayla Aventura enter Tuiyo Bilando met joking as
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Begada Bega Damaduana Sola to Savis met perro Qui Sierra.
I think that this album sonically is very solid, and
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I think that this set the tone for again well
doing tons set out to create From that point forward,
I think you're gonna hear elements of Masso and Los
Benjamins ian As Benjamin's Contino. When I was curating this
list and I was listening yes to all of these albums,
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which took forever. By the way, I was counting the
number of songs that I consider hits. And you know,
I don't think that every album I picked has like
the most per se, and I don't think albums should
be looked at in that way. I when I look
at music, like people who like listen to an album, go,
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that's fire, move on. I have to really hear everything.
And I'm scaling on concept. I'm scaling on vision, I'm
scaling on the collectiveness of the project that principolin. I'm
thinking about all these things. I'm thinking about who's in it,
I'm thinking about who's not. And I'm comparing hits. Right,
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maybe one song is so dope that it beats the
categorization of two other whole songs, like it weighs differently.
So that's kind of the way that I look at music.
And so my flow hoolomuno especially, I mean, God Damn
from song number two Gayla Noucher all the way to
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song number I'm gonna go with thirteen. And there's twenty
songs on the project, I wouldn't skip anything. I wouldn't
skip anything. I'm not saying that I would going afterwards.
I'm just saying that, like tangibly, if I was DJing
and I had to like put together a set, all
of those songs are going in the set. All of
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those songs are going in an old school DJ better
one on one type set. So in my opinion, and
how how hard is that, Like how like that's really
really difficult to achieve like strength bangers for like that
amount of songs straight. We're in a time where people
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are curating very very harshly, you know what goes into
a project because oil and THEA people are thinking about commercialization,
they're thinking about they're thinking about a little bit for
these people, a little bit for those people, you know,
because Latinos were very diverse. It's someone bim peaky, Iqua
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mas tomba, la conga, Sia, mashicana etcterapeo, intenso et the Carolina.
You know what I mean that Carolina Puerto Rico would
appreciate so and that's okay. So with that sign, I
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feel like mass Flow learning Toombs Volume one and no
Riega can forget nor Riega. I think that this is
one of the top twenty five albums of all time,
and particularly I Am Up So I really like I'm
telling you Gun to My Head, go Ah and jocki Agui, Bailando, Provocas, Bega, Dama,
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Enter Toyo. They're all bangers, Metalsa, song A and Kayla.
There are things that I appreciate from each song individually,
but this is not about reviewing the individual songs. I
want project. This is about top twenty five and we
got a lot to go, so I'm gonna stop here
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and move on to the next. Okay, up next is
for sure House of Pleasure by Plumby. We're at Project
number four is Mayo, Claro, Po Pollock and Instagram plan
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Bi are like El Final, but I'm I am a
plan the stand. I think that they were ahead of
their time. I think the industry didn't know what to
do with them. I think that now they're shining, and
they could have been so much more ahead if people
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just like really tapped into them and Sex who are
no longer a duo. They now exist independently. But their project,
House of Pleasure, in my opinion, is a no skip album.
I think it's perfect. I think that it fully encapsulates
who they are artistically, Blambay sex, the sex duo, like
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what how about Bero in regards to sex, Like, let's
talk about it in regards to sex and regards to
music that is twenty one plus Bada Las Babies Chic.
I think House of Pleasure is like a masterpiece in
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the sense of talking about that exactly pleasure. What would
it look like if there was, okay, a house of pleasure,
like an actual house. I'm not gonna say a brothel
like no, but like an actual house, an adult house,
a play house, a play room, guess I go, and
different fantasies needed to be spoken about and put it
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into music form and have it be sexy and have
it really like demonstrate the perfect formula the loc I
think House of Pleasure really knocks it out the Park.
House of Pleasure came out on July twenty and twenty ten.
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It is made in collaboration, right. I need to start
shutting up the producers, because lord, they're the ones woman
this happened Raffi, Pina Fino, Co Malay, DJ Blast, Nelly,
Mambo Kings and the Coach I Los Magnificos are some
of the masterminds behind this project and the songs. Of course,
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it's a intro. We love a intro. Those who love
music love and intro. I'm not talking to y'all who'll
be looking for these two minutes one minute TikTok songs.
I can't stand y'all. Borraso, yoras, bari, serraoso, House of
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Pleasure and Outro miss Ah Mories. I think that. And
let me tell you, it was really hard to pick
between House of Pleasure and Loving Sex. And I'll tell
you why I picked between them because I spent like
maybe a whole hour staring at both of them. So
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first of all, Loving Sex is the top tier album.
It has Fronteo no intro, but as Fronteo, it has
Chooka Pa Piso Fanatica which knocks out like four songs
any day, anytime, and Matallero with Alexi Fido U Don
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Delos Conciotino, so goa Sego Nux Gandi Gandhi Gandhi Siro
with Amato and Loving Sex just plumb. I think that
this album is solid. I do think that House of
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Pleasure hits harder. I think that House of pleasure in
regards to bin Puti and regards to the fantasies that
are described pennintended because of course loving Sex has a
song fanaticas and swad, but House a Pleasure gives you
the blueprint as to what's going on in the bedroom.
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You know me some honest, I think House a Pleasure
is it is literally dare I say perfect? I think
that their their lyricism really hits that much harder in
this project, and I think that this is really the
project that blumber going forward even now as individuals. That's
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what they're trying to Emily, and so by that in
it of itself, it's it's the best album that they
have With that said, shout beer because I love that
old school last album Oh my God, and shout out
to go of course, which is where we hear them.
But Hou's a pleasure for me. It does that for me.
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You see me Scott at some Son and we'll be
right back with more of the top twenty five albums
of all time right after these messages. The fifth album
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that I'm mentioning, and again all of these are out
of order. I'll give you which twenty five albums, but
I will not rank them for you, y'all gotta wait
for that is bald by listening under Birthday, the meal
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gay Almaso, by westening on there, and first of all,
we sing on there has a lot of music. I
every year. I'm sure I've said this several times throughout
the course of this podcast journey have in my top
like artists in my Spotify rap Is always be singing
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on there for the past four years, which is very impressive.
And if I had to guess why, it's because they
have more than twenty albums. Like, if it's one thing
about them, they made a formula of their own, they
understand it. They go in the studio, they stick to
said formula. They make brand new songs like new subjects,
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but same formula, the same way they put it together.
It's two of them, so it's half the effort each. Really,
Oh no, that's that's we've seen, of course, And they
go yok Yo's formula and they don't venture out too
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too much unless they're doing stuff like balladas, which they
do here and there and things of that nature. But
really we're singing there on those handios and shout out
to Nasty, which was the first episode of podcast. Who's
been with them every step of the way, you know
the present, so who has helped develop their sound? But
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with that said, Balmundo, Oh my god. It's the fourth
studio album by this duo. It came out on November eight,
two thousand and five, on the label Machetta Music, which
turns oney next year. Shout out to Machetta Music. And
this project has songs like Dale Manieta, Ya Balleta solo,
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n mak Yo Lavaria, Kaya Kaye Hero Singing, ne Kada
since Sansas Young Tabla no so Lento, your Kio Rakata
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remix Rakata hip Hop remix, Yam traversion. Oh my god.
First of all, do you know how dope you gotta
be to like be confident enough? And people don't do
this anymore? And this is kind of what I'm talking
about in burgers to artistry and really understanding yourself. How
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is it that they have yam rakata and not just
one other version, but two other versions? And mind you
call this as well because they have more than one.
Don't say ga, but it's like we're singing. And then
I think that ever since they made this album, the
cultural impact that this album has they've been using it
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as a blueprint throughout the course of their career. And
I'm not mad at it if you like We Sing,
and you're an not mad at it either. Now, I
at this point have mentioned a couple of things that
I consider criteria as to how to classify these albums
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as the top twenty five. I've been saying things like, oh,
the artists have been trying to emulate it. Oh, you
remember where you were when certain songs came out, That
some of the songs mark moments in history, and some
of the songs are so strong in comparison to like
songs of that and other projects that it can even
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be way differently if we're gonna be fair or be honest.
And I think that Balmundo, for example, is something that
not just set the path for We Sit and Daid,
but for Perel in general. And I think that they've
been on that course like their whole career, even up
until this point. And I think they achieved it with
this album. Before bal Mundo, We Sing, and they had
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Los Reesnevo Millennial two thousand, they had the Noueblos a
Viejos two thousand and one, they had the Oltra Maneira
two thousand and two, and then Mivida My Life two
thousand and three, and then Balmundo I think up until then,
and I mean, oh my god. I'm looking at their
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music through music streaming and the amount of streams that
they have and the amount of songs that they have
in these projects. One thing about we sing and they
have never been lazy at any point in their career,
which is hilarious. Look at this work ethic I'm talking about.
The first project had ten songs, the second one had thirteen,
the other one had fifteen, and then Palmundo Nopo Mivida
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My Life has twenty five, and then we're back at
twenty three. But my point is is that there's just
so much music that's to me like every song is
another chance to prove yourself, and the amount of songs,
in my opinion, matters, especially back then where people were
going against reggaeton so much about or poor whatever. It's like, okay,
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but look at how how hard people were working to
try to make something out of nothing, really just taking
a chance of putting themselves out there, which is terrifying.
You know, you try going out there writing a song
saying it's a hit and then having to defend it
on the stage. I'll wait, like someone na fasci. Bal
Mundo to me really set a precedent in regards to
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like pehrel and like quality perel. And they're not the
only product to do so, but they're definitely an example,
like an example. I particularly Okay, for those of your listening,
you never heard of Wee, you never heard of Palmundo.
You're catching up and you're using this as something like
a guide. I particularly like I particularly like balle Yankee.
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I love La Baria because it's so quirky and like
out of here. I love Rakata is like it's like
it's like a second coming of Gasolina. Really and oh
my god, it really crossed over, not just like within
the Latin sector, but also I feel like hip hop,
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and I don't blame them for having a hip hop version.
It's like Rakata was really a cultural moment in it
of itself. Okay, Mira la Biang is good, Yo yo
kietto Bellie your kio. I'm not saying the lyrics right,
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but that's how it goes. Your kiroo is also fired too,
and shout out to mister Phillips, who's on their song dal.
I don't see him around much anymore in the Latin
music space. That man was crucial to this era and
to this evolution of this music. He's a trinidaddy and
creative producer, singer, songwriter who was frequent on a lot
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of early and whoever we have since seen like pretty
much fade out of the music. I wonder why I'll
check in with him THEMEO. He's actually one of my
first support is when I credit shout out to him.
Moving forward. I love creating this with no ranking because
it means I can go in any chaotic order that
I want to. The next project on this episode is
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oh yeah, let's get into it and shout out to
Tego is, in my opinion, the epitome of black excellence
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in general and regedon. I think Elavayalder is a no
skip albums. No, I didn't if you're paying attention, But
this project in particular is a no skip album ba
Loisa Dominicanasa in particular set the precedent for the evolution
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of raggaton, like black centered raggaton, like San Dunge, not
just setting it on a different b per se but
the way that Elayalde incorporates sounds fully encapsulates the prestige
of the Afro Caribbean influence, including salsa, jazz, hip hop,
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and pereo all on one project. And I think that
tego Cade really set the precedent as to how artists
like when they're looking outside the box, right, because no,
I own right, you don't know what I'm talking about
in a better one on one way break it down
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in musicology, beerro loque, saving, saving and for those who
don't try to keep up with me. There's different types
of reggaeton. It's not just one sound that's reg romantico.
This reggaeton that is marii aantoso or quote unquote of
the delinquents. That's like from the streets. That's where you'll
hear like reggaeton, like a lot of marching and it's
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like dark that sounds like it's like for a war,
and that's like you know, easily to be crossed over
like drill or trap music or like gangst the rap.
You know, marianteo. And then there's san donge, which is
like souper black at its core. There's beako, which is
like that that nasty reggaeton my favorite, and so on
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and so forth. There's reggaeton that like its primary concern
is to try to make you dance, and then there's
Mascomo Gio that has like these dance hall elements a
lot of people are shutting away from because of this lawsuit,
but we're not here for that right now. With that
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saying is truly excellent. The way that they go really
studied black blackness in general and then said I'm going
to incorporate all of all of this sonically. Honestly, it
was genius in bab Bonnie has your your in. They
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are amazing projects, and they're all that goo inspired. They're
all that go coding. For anyone who's like looking to
draw out a map, you can easily make the the
the arrows coming from into those products. It's as if
they dissected it and said, how can I make this
my own and digo yo that that has been happening
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a ton throughout the course of Tragaton history, especially where
blackness is concerned. I'm gonna go with that stego coded
I don't care look at but yeah, for those of
you who have never heard this project before, you're gonna hear.
You're gonna hear salsa, You're gonna hear jazz, You're gonna
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hear hip hop, You're gonna hear perreal, You're gonna hear
like the Blackest example made by a man, because made
by a woman. I would say that Mahestan Negro by
La Sista, but made by a man, and that has
been consumed in the mainstream, and that has made an impact,
that's for sure, you see. Moving forward, I was particularly
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happy to like analyze this project because this has really
been a really nice, uh trip down memory lane. I
know people are like, girl, you are historian, but like
I try not to stay there because otherwise I get
so dated. I have to stay up today with what's
going on right now, the gay leens of the world,
the fades of the world, the cafes of the world, Mexa,
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these different things. I'd be having to look forward. Otherwise
y'all are gonna get stick of me always talking about
the same stuff. But with that said, this has really
been a nice trip down memory lane, if I do
say so myself. And with that said, Top of the
Line by Tito Bombino is my seventh album that I'm
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including on this list, and they handed the same thing.
This has been really hard to pick between El Patron
and Top of the Line and it's my time. In
my opinion, they're like all almost on the same level
on my personal taste regarding their hits. Remember how I
said about weighing them, and I went with the Top
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of the Line because of its versatility of the hits.
All of these projects have versatility. And side note, you
know reggaeton songs are bangers when people have the urge
to translate them into other genres on the same exact projects.
This man has remixes of songs with La India and
salsa and other Salcero's right there while the originals is
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existing and as we've seen in Palmundo, like that also
existed with hip hop. But La India is quite literally
a legend in salsa, and I would say that it's
quite harder to get a salcero or salcera onto a
regathon track than a hip hop artist onto reggathon track
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because of the respectability politics. So the fact that she
felt so comfortable there and wanted to compart to Cone,
I think speaks volumes as to the impact of his song.
And the quality of the music which can be looked
at as anti black, but at the end of the
day sat as black music. It's just you know, how
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people classify things as music versus non music is what
I'm talking about. For people who care about that stuff,
I don't. With that said, top of the line has
guile me. Are the ones that do it for me?
And in my opinion, these songs are so weighted against
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other songs that, yes, it makes the project stand out
in comparison. Is someone that has always surprised me. Because
if you close your eyes and you think of an
artist that has short hair, right, think of a nia
long cut because he do have a neong cut. Think
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of an artist as a Nea long cut for hair,
and then has a button down, long sleeve shirt right
that has like a pattern on it. Let's make the
pattern colorful, right, not too colorful. Let's go with like
light blue. He's not so fla important. But then the
pants are bell bombs? Are you thinking you about to
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hear something like this? Yeah? The truth is Tito has
been surprising me my whole life. Hector t has like
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been something that leaves me in all the more I
stare at them because or the discography or like old pictures,
because it's like, how on earth these two get together.
They're so opposite. And above all, Tito floppy shampoo done,
Penal done, you know, moisturized that it's like I just
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would not think to hear something like this, But you
know why I love it. It's because it's it's just
proof that this sort of reality, which is what I
think Manienteo is. It's a reflection of reality. You don't
want people to talk about guns and things of that nature,
take it out the street, take it out of real life.
Until then art mimiced life. So I think it's lovely
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that he has that aesthetic and he's able to jump
into this sound and has done it his whole career
while being a pappy shampoo, while being fenal, while being
you know, that has certainly been surprising, but it has
also been refreshing and breathtaking. And Top of the Line
is one of the top twenty five albums of Regaton
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of all time. I think that, you know, it's exemplary
of who Tito is. In Tito's influence and he is
the artist that you saw at Charlie sail Away, Bad
Bunny he's the artist that you see still collaborating with
artists who are charting. He's the artist who not for nothing.
I don't think he gets the flowers that he deserves.
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And I say that because his artistic integrity and creative process.
If you hear his discography from beginning to end, there
has been an evolution and one that just gets stronger
and stronger. So like I just I don't know. I
think for all that he's influenced, especially with her Throat
and on his own as well, he just doesn't gotten
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that due. And I think Top of the Line is
the best way to consume deetle Me and Scott at Sun.
Soon we'll be right back with more of the top
twenty five albums of Pagathon of all time right after
these messages. Oh my god, me Hunter Okay, I think,
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if I must say so myself, that the Masterpiece by
Rakimik and why that was released on Valentine's Day. Of
course it was Valentine's Day in two thousand and six.
I was in the sixth grade. Oh my god, I
was in the sixth grade, stinging my heart out like
a little Papetulo broke my heart. Oh my god, or
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as if I knew what that means. Masterpiece by Rakimik
and why stands on its own. I will argue this
till the ends of time. I D make it, Sack Lollo,
make it, especially because Masterpiece Maestra is a romantic album.
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It talked about heartbreak, It talked about like closure, It
talked about friendship, It talked about letting go, It talked
about getting what you want. Honestly, the versatility and romance
and romantic this is honestly a masterclass, the masterpiece. The
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songs are dam Dame, Ghettos down again, May he swe
with Grucito, set Oh Demon, Mamadas, Adios nomos Indiaco, the
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lassan Claes where seat that, oh Jam, the Lakya Soy
with Crucito, Amigo with Justin. They make Crucito again and
they make way way with Carlito's Way. I love so
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many things about this album, and I know if you
love reggaeton for real, for real, and you know what
you're talking about, you're gonna agree with me on the
following things. One, I love we love that Kimika and
Wine introduced us on the mainstream level to Crusito. I
love that Crusito is actually not Puerto Rican. If I'm
not mistaking, he is from Honduras. If I'm not mistaken,
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let me verify that real quick. Crucito, Yes, I'm not wrong,
he's from Honduras. I just love that because Central Americans
we never get our due, so like, we never get
a moment. And yes, Panamanians are Central Americans, so like
and so like, we don't ever get that's never recognized
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because Central American taghaton, that's never a conversation. So I
love that he was included and mainstreamed like the ownA.
I love that they spoke about love in so many
different ways. I love the features of this project. Nikki
jans On here a couple of times, the man Dooby
and his feelings, So I think that is so on brand.
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Here we go with La India again, La India. I
just love reggaeton and Mosquitolo. Is the versatility in the
subject matter, it's the versatility in the production. I love
that you hear violins like a lot of instrument The
instrumentation on this project is truly like incredible and lakimeiha
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and why I think that they balance themselves so well
on like a commercial level on every single one of
these tracks, which yes, I'm gonna go ahead and say
it again, it's a no skip album to the point
where most people can wrap Rakim's part. We love all
the rappers and duos, we do, but sometimes they'd be
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doing their thing, they'd be mad artistic, they'd be going
mad fast, they'd be you know, the the bars be
little complex, and sometimes people just give up after a while.
Let's keep it funky, that's the truth. But Rakim and
in this project masterpiece, I think that, you know, like
if I had to wrap gun to my head and
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or for a thousand dollars, probably gott to be so
violent to like yeah Mama no, to grucy malis down,
I can like bar for bar, like let's go massive,
challenge bet No. I think that they really understood who
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they were. I don't know who was in charge of
artistic development this project, but honestly, Brava and the Gag
is in twenty twenty five, people are still looking to
them to perform these songs all over Latin America and
even in the US. So it's the project that is
truly the test against time. It's classic, classic, massive moving
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forward I sure am a yapper. I want to get
through this list, and I feel like I've been giving
amazing goldigos, but I'm a tighten up. Next project is
Da Badono Man. Of course it's on this list. The
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last Don Badono Mine is a project that came out
in two thousand and three. Is the project that we
think put William on the map, definitely with that song,
the focus track. I think that that track first of
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all should say featuring Glody Glow. I've said this throughout
the course of my career because Iahina then like SENSI,
so shouldn't she be featured? Shouldn't it be said featuring
Glory Glow? And I guess it's an overall comment that
I have throughout a lot of these tracks. On these
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on these projects, there are so many women who were
integral to, like the the essensia of these projects, the
sensy of these tracks, whether there were muses over the
songwriting or muses in the sense of their actual moaning
on these tracks, or the muses who were like part
of the column response that were like crucial to like
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a lot of these and these goroshin like not being
able to say, imagine taking that out of the imagine
taking Glory out of Gasolina, Like, so shouldn't it say
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featuring Glory. I don't know, It's just my thoughts, bro.
But with that said, Daledon is definitely the project that
made everyone fall in love with don and I think
for that reason alone. You know, of course he has
breakoup moments and other songs and projects we all love.
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King of Kings. King of Kings is a solid album,
thumb being oh my god, this is so hard. But
for me personally, this is my list. Dal Is is
the album that did it for me. This is Gatha's
top twenty five lists. Okay, but yeah. King of Kings
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is ironically his second album. It was released in two
thousand and six, three years after his debut album. It
charted and it's one of the best selling reggaeton albums
of all times. That project has Guente and Helito, which
is not reggaeton but is like Let's be for real.
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That's one of the best songs ever Saloid so Belly Danza.
I think that project is solid as well. I just
think Donald Man Dalon paved the path for this project
to come forward, and I think that speaks about that
that tells you everything, because again it's not always the
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first one that does it, but the fact that it
did it, I think that deserves flowers in it of itself.
Moving on, I know people probably weren't thinking about this project,
but this is Gata's list. Look at I absolutely adore
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Bereloham by Alexei Ifio. It came out in on January
twenty first, twenty eleven. It's their fifth studio album. See
what I mean by the Puerto Rican reggaetndo Alexei Fido.
I think that this album is quite literally perfect. I
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love blam blam the haaven regarded contes en erhiya la
trampa donegarey, come on, come on Primeveso by Lando Condre
by Lando Conre and Memiro Okay Camuflah Zombie Malaconduta. It's
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the songs, it's the featurings, it's the impact. It's the
way that as a DJ, I had to make a
pero playlist. I'm pulling from here so many hits. Let
let's be for real, gm Mala. This project is a masterpiece.
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It's a better masterpiece, and it charted, which I don't
care about charts, but artists care about charts, the culture
cares about charts, and I think that this project quite
literally like encapsulates some of the best of them. And
it was hard picking in between Perlohia and the Pupils
because the Pipils has se and has t buron which
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everybody knows, and I got alone, but they got young.
The other project is a lot more solid as a collective,
and so for that reason alone, I think that it's
really it's really that sorry, I think feminine, not masculine.
It's really that girl in regards to project Me and
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Scott as Sonson. We'll be right back with more of
the top twenty five albums of Tagaton of all time
right after these messages moving on. I think I would
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be a liar if I said I don't care about awards.
I submitted for Grammys didn't get them. I will one
day mark my words. But I think, considering the fact
that Ragaton didn't even have its own category up until recently,
speaks volumes and so for sole by Alexei Filo, oh yeah,
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I did that. I did that thing, or put multiple
albums by one artist on on the list Man single letters,
which I was looking for before so the l this
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is a project and I Have Bro came out on
November thirteenth, two thousand and seven, and is a Latin
Grammy nominated album. It's their third studio album and digo yo.
They put their foot into this project. They really put
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their foot into this project. I think that in regards
to reggelas and just making hits and just a collective,
this is a project of hits. It really is. They
threw a Medenga on there just for fundsies with but
even then it hits, it goes like perfectly like whoever
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mixed mastered as well, they did a did a bomb
job nals. But this project, I think it's just solid
and that for me, I remember where I was when
it came out. I remember what I felt when it
came out. I remember like real memories of people being
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like put that back if you ever try to skip it.
I remember people just not being tired of Alexi feel
like to the like and I say that because we
like they dropped and dropped. It felt like they were
dropping a lot. I know this is before current culture.
This is lime wire days, and so you know, you
really download what you want to hear and then you
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play it, but it felt like they were everywhere, and
I think this project did that for them as well
as well as with the last one that I mentioned.
So for damn sure, I'm getting nervous because it's not
that many left. Okay, I'm run down the list because
you're not about to hit me? Really for Life to
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masuelto No b Yo, Oh, they say, by your Sona.
He thought I was just going old school. Nah, We're
gonna bring it to the to the present, they say, Well,
Sona by search Plaero specifically, I know that's a mixtape,
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are gonna be like Girl? But they go, yo, that's
a solid project. After the Seaco by Rao by Johnny
Boy by No Glori Glow by Glory Glow and the
Perfec Fake Melody by Zion and La by various artists
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and Go Star Music las Amilia. But hector at father, Okay,
Y're not about to hit me. I'm gonna go with
because I think I genuinely I'm gonna say the same
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things over and over. But these are projects I will
defend with the thesis with the class with a with
a whole episode in and of itself. For each project,
I swear to God, but running down the listen, I'm
doing this by memory. Y'all won't believe me. I'll go backwards,
go Star music, Las Amilia by Hector and Father Hi
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no I Naivia with Victor Manuel and Yomo Trao Theras
with and Zion the Haulers my rolling Stone Top one
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hundred nominations of Okay, like, I'm gonna just run down
the list with the songs of these products. Okay, that's
go seller familiar, the Perfect Melody by Zion, Fantasma, Okay,
Zum Dad best the Ras which was really sad, and
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they go yo, got in your body too. I think
Zion did that, and I do think the Perfect Melody
is a great example of the perfect melody. Bloody Glow,
which of course made it to my nominations of the
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top Reggatton songs, the top one hundred on the Rolling
Stone list. Digo yo, let's be for real. That song,
by the way, is banned in different countries till this day.
I think Bloody Glow ran so could walk. All of
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this is subjective, y'all will not bully me. I'm also
thinking about a besme a Garsalon by no Vejori Man
their run was short lived, but it was so impactful.
I hear Novejori and I don't know if it's fair
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to do this or not, but I hear Nojori and
I hear I think of Also Jadiel, I think of Also,
I think of Also, who are all geniuses in their
own respective rights. I think that their project I was
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released in twenty eleven, so many memories for me. This
is Gata's list, not your list, but my list. I
think was amazing and after the Saco by Rau surprised me.
Keep it real with you. That was such a versatile project.
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And I don't mean that in an insulting way. Braw
is an amazing artist. I am truly a fan. It
just surprised me because it's like, oh my god, it's
like one of the best contemporary examples that like you
can make reggaeton sound new in the two thousand, the
twenty twenties, and like respect Lorasis because that's a conversation
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that I think comes up a lot in culture. Do
not jo. But one thing that I think he does
great in his project is whatever I think he knocked
it out the park. So Strawberry Kiwi is nasty. I
love it. Relo Nisty, I love it. Bensandote is adorable.
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I love that song. Psal nah Rao really put his
foot into this project. I love this project. I think
this project is a great example. Ahsona, I know, is
a figure that a lot of people don't want to
hear about, and the music that he made in twenty seventeen,
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I'd be a whole liar. It'd be a historical if
I didn't say that for contemporary thing at home that
he didn't like. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing Ohsuna anywhere.
And I'm talking about in American spaces. I'm talking about
in Latino spaces. I don't care what the space is branded.
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You could not not hear they like through mekyere My people.
I feel like I often ponder, I'll be honest on
what music would look like today if he didn't have
that controversy. Because the whole that Alson I had on us,
we could not wait. You could not go to the club.
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And I mean for years on end without hearing music
by Asna through Photo Sipparo. They like it to make
Aris Kiero Repetti all of these songs, Oh my god,
el far Sante, Get out of here, no kerrem I'll
say all of these songs are quite literally like perfect,
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and there's so many more. I just think this project
August twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, as a historian and as
a lover of reaton and as a project that marks
culture and moments. Oh my god, this is definitely an example,
you know, so agin. I don't know if this is
mean of me, but I kind of want to leave
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young in adult a little bit just because I feel like, so,
I'll be honest with you, I'm gonna wrap up with
the top songs of hmm, should I Dodi Randira, ram
alway Yo, no bad yo. What we're gonna do for
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sentimental reasons. First of all, when this project came out,
I was in the seventh grade No business periando, but
here it was Adios istan Aggressive though. First of all,
I miss when that era, when there'd be like fifteen
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remixes of a song. For those who don't know, there
is Aggressivo, Aggressivo remix Place, Welcome to the remix Aggressive,
all those and Aggressive tres four versions of this song,
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and at some point there's just like eight different people
on this song. Every I think it's like eight bars.
There's different people on the song in aggressive and remix
and then dress and etcetera. That song marked Reggaeton for
absolutely sure, and the fact that Jolie Randi are behind
it tells you everything. I think that Jolie Randi deserves
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so much Flowers. They literally have held Pereo down their
entire career against so much scrutiny, against so much just
shit talking from other people. Jolie Randi really did that,
and I put them I think. I say this, and
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I think as well of Plumbet, of course, because way
ahead of their time, they focused more on sex. Of course,
because sex and Jolie Randi they like noiero Plumbet non
of their versatility, but the specific like bread and butter
of Jolie Randy was dancing like was dancing in plum Bet,
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was fucking was dancing a yok Ria guyeteo e yoki ria.
So like I think, honestly, we gotta be grateful for
the not just the bangers they give us, but the
bangers that allow us to really be dancing with somebody's
son her daughter in the corner like I'm sorry, like no,
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this entire project is like, Wow, it's only eight songs
Retostang out of the four Bahs, which I've never actually
called it that because lime wire you download it and
it says something else let's do it, which is not
at all. I don't know what they were thinking. Which
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let's be for real itando joel Irandi. I think it's
a perfect way for me to end this. This is
top twenty five albums of all time. If you want
my other thoughts, you're just gonna have to listen closely
to this podcast. I'm gonna be doing more curation stuff
like this for a while. I do want you guys
to get a grip from me as to what I
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think of the culture, because they go yo so behind that.
That's all I got to say this time. Aron forgetola
gat that top twenty five Regatto albums of all time.
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and
Me Scott as some songs. So being a professional on
the Latin music space, I've been invited to contribute to
and help curate leggaton lest throughout my career, most notably
the Rolling Stone Top one hundred Reggaton Songs of All Time.
My ads to the list were all popping, by the way.
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E Queen was listed as number two by Glory glow
Is stood at number fifty, True by Lorna number forty five,
and Osuna number forty two, number twelve. All my picks
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in the top fifty, by the way. And while contributing
is fun, I have my own ideas. I try not
to share too much online because the people who have
no sort of direction and you know, for the and
I'm writing my book and that's where I'll release the
real heat. But this is my show and I'll buy it.
But in a different way. Instead of top raggaton songs,
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I'll give you top reggaton albums, I'll give you something
which I think is a bit harder albums, meaning the
entire project, not a song on the project, but the
curation of the entire project. One thing I'm not able
to do, mostly because of time and what it would
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take for me to meditate on this, because I'm not
like some of y'all. I really can't with how some
people can hear a project and go yo, that's five.
I need to have it on replay for like three
days and then learn the lyrics and really immerse myself
in what the artists are saying. So looking at projects
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like from concept to songs included, artists included, or SLOs
featuring the little decisions in between, it's a look mame fascino.
So with all of that said, I want to get
into what I would call the top twenty five reggaeton
albums of all time. Yes co presenting this is hard,
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just so unclear. Twenty five is not much. If this
is one hundred, i'd be a little less stressed out.
But twenty five, that's not a lot of albums to
really choose from. Considering the dare I say hundreds or
thousands that exist perro La Macello, And again these are
my takes, dumos, I don't think these are in any
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particular order either. This disclaimer, I think that's even harder.
And that's where I wave the white flag for now.
So akitamo Anda Gata top twenty five albums of Rayaton
Digo Yo. Okay, let's go to Sunstone is. There's so
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many places where I can start from, but let's go
ahead and get into Badio Fino by that Yankee, because
you know it's on my list. This project, the entire project,
was a master class and self investing. Dy put in
thirty thousand dollars into the Gasolina music video himself, his words,
not mine. He went to Universal and he and mine
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and he said that they would offer him ten or
fifteen thousand dollars. And to give you a picture in
regards to budgets, back then, this is two thousand and
four and Anglo there were one million dollar music videos
being made, So fifteen or ten thousand dollars that doesn't
demonstrate a lot of faith. So this project was a
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big not for nothing middle finger up to naysayers in
the industry and to those who don't find the value
of investing into Ragaton, a problem that persists into this day.
Ask me how I know so Barrio Fino Digo Yo.
And again I'm classifying these albums as the best by
saying that these are albums that marked the course of
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raggaton history. Dig yo, okay okay. Barrio Fino is honestly
one of the best twenty one of the top twenty
five best albums of all time. And then to get
into the music, of course, Barrio Fino, I, for the record,
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thoroughly enjoy Old Daddy Yankees music. I said, old as
an older like te Prinzibio, King Daddylina like you lok
and with your slept on Salo divida, santif esos Hi,
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I'm got them, American Melao and Melo gives said goals,
moheres wow, Lokeaso extended and an outro. Of course, didn't
say any of these songs in order, because since when
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do I like things chronologically? Bero mihinte. This is an
album that I would say is a no skip album.
I would say that there are different songs on this
album that marks the course of history. Everybody remembers where
they were or has a memory with Gasolina when it
first came out. I can tell you how many family
parties I was in. But we do this thing. We're like, well,
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like the adults will put the kids like in a
circle and be like by la laila, and they'll like
throw money at you and they're like little contests or whatever.
I was in the fifth grade or the fourth grade
when it's on came out just to give you an idea.
You don't want to a baby, but when media, because
I remember when the song came out, I remember singing
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loke paso paso and dedicating it to my little boyfriends
when I was a pre teen. Not even was sexy.
No medej solo is like come on that that call
and respond with the women and portfol king Daddy has
bd ellen Bohe is so sexy and it's so setan,
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and in my opinion, it's the best song on the
album after Gasolina, because Gasolina has like its own thing.
But personally, yes, I'm gonna play ellen Bo, especially if
I'm DJ Barrio Fino because of what it was able
to mark in history as like the standard as to
what can happen when Regaton is invested into properly. Barrio
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Fino because of the creative direction, I mean the pictures,
the videos, the the way that it put cartel records
on the map. I just missed that time when like
these artists would like shout out their records on tracks
and whatnot, Like it was it was truly something to
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keep the hype alive. Betro Barrio Fino set a standard
five six, but there's a so they go yo. I
had to start there. It is the first one that
come off the dome. Easy basign Atlantux is what comes
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to minds next. This is a project with songs the
hands and intro your voi VOI boy and You're gonna
see ya. I don't say the control La yahlo asajo
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as a tempo A go yeah with Angel dos perdona bandida.
Don't say it because it's don't say I don't say
a remix El Mirame solo too. In comparis. This is
the debut studio album by the Puerto Rican reggaeton Duozy Lenox.
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It came out of May fourth, two thousand and four,
and in my opinion, it's one of the top twenty
five reggaeton albums of all time. I think the Zany
Lennox well personally, I think Zanny Lennox as a reggaeton
duo are the epitome of black excellence in reggaeton. Side
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note individually, I love them because they're so different, different voices,
different cadences, different Castillos, and they both when they come
together is something that is just so unique. Zanni Len.
I think this debut album of theirs really showcase what
it is that they're capable of, and I think that
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everything that they've done going forward can all be traced
back to this album. I don't think that's true for
every project. Sometimes artists do a project and it could
be like a one off and then it's so completely
left field of who they are or who they want
to like exemplify that like it really doesn't matter in
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the sense of like looking at everything collectively. But this
album doesn't do that. Is really the blueprint for you
to understand who Zilnox is and to not give them
their due in regard to what it is that they've
contributed to Tegaton culture at large would be disrespectful, I
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think in comparison to like all of the projects that
they have, which this was really hard by the way.
I think Motivans, that's an album that I love. It's
the uh, the sequel to this the series in sadly
maybe the last one will get because as we know,
they have since split. But I think again, even the
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songs within this album marks moments in history. Everybody remembers
where they were when they first saw the music video
of Zanny Lenox Young Zanney Lennux in that that HOOPI
with the girls in Don't Say Ya. Everybody knows a
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moment of like being either dedicated that song or dedicating
it to somebody else. The amount of King signetras that
I've seen featuring Don Saga, That's how you know it's
real when it permeates King Seneto culture and past that.
I think that this album really encapsulates, like the beauty
of the melodies are shared with Joanny Lenox. I know
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that Zion goes off on his own and does the
perfect Mandy, but I think there's control your voice Don't
Say Ya Aura Bandida for example. They all really like
hone in on what makes zan Leny Lennox and by extension,
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everything that they've touched going forward two thousand and foward
to twenty twenty five. So, in my opinion, this is
one of the top Regatton albums Top twenty five. This
is not getting easier, you guys. Math Flow Bye, in
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my opinion, is a no skip album. In my opinion, Okay,
I know a lot of you're hearing math Flow not
mass Flow. Loves Benjamins not mass Flow, Los Los Benjamins
not I know, I know, but you guys, this is
my list, Go do your list. In my opinion, math
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Flow by is an album that demonstrates a standard for
reggaeton music production in regards to quality and versatility. I
think they did that. I think math Flow Byega literally
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set a precedent, and I think it inspired other artists
around them to really try to aspire to what it
is that they may with my Flow. I think one
of the things that I particularly enjoy from this album
is that Yesega had their business has on, but this
album is still so hood in certain ways that like,
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while they may have had their eyes on the money,
they had their ears by Lakaye, and I appreciate that
because by Kayla Aventura enter Tuiyo Bilando met joking as
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Begada Bega Damaduana Sola to Savis met perro Qui Sierra.
I think that this album sonically is very solid, and
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I think that this set the tone for again well
doing tons set out to create From that point forward,
I think you're gonna hear elements of Masso and Los
Benjamins ian As Benjamin's Contino. When I was curating this
list and I was listening yes to all of these albums,
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which took forever. By the way, I was counting the
number of songs that I consider hits. And you know,
I don't think that every album I picked has like
the most per se, and I don't think albums should
be looked at in that way. I when I look
at music, like people who like listen to an album, go,
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that's fire, move on. I have to really hear everything.
And I'm scaling on concept. I'm scaling on vision, I'm
scaling on the collectiveness of the project that principolin. I'm
thinking about all these things. I'm thinking about who's in it,
I'm thinking about who's not. And I'm comparing hits. Right,
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maybe one song is so dope that it beats the
categorization of two other whole songs, like it weighs differently.
So that's kind of the way that I look at music.
And so my flow hoolomuno especially, I mean, God Damn
from song number two Gayla Noucher all the way to
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song number I'm gonna go with thirteen. And there's twenty
songs on the project, I wouldn't skip anything. I wouldn't
skip anything. I'm not saying that I would going afterwards.
I'm just saying that, like tangibly, if I was DJing
and I had to like put together a set, all
of those songs are going in the set. All of
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those songs are going in an old school DJ better
one on one type set. So in my opinion, and
how how hard is that, Like how like that's really
really difficult to achieve like strength bangers for like that
amount of songs straight. We're in a time where people
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are curating very very harshly, you know what goes into
a project because oil and THEA people are thinking about commercialization,
they're thinking about they're thinking about a little bit for
these people, a little bit for those people, you know,
because Latinos were very diverse. It's someone bim peaky, Iqua
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mas tomba, la conga, Sia, mashicana etcterapeo, intenso et the Carolina.
You know what I mean that Carolina Puerto Rico would
appreciate so and that's okay. So with that sign, I
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feel like mass Flow learning Toombs Volume one and no
Riega can forget nor Riega. I think that this is
one of the top twenty five albums of all time,
and particularly I Am Up So I really like I'm
telling you Gun to My Head, go Ah and jocki Agui, Bailando, Provocas, Bega, Dama,
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Enter Toyo. They're all bangers, Metalsa, song A and Kayla.
There are things that I appreciate from each song individually,
but this is not about reviewing the individual songs. I
want project. This is about top twenty five and we
got a lot to go, so I'm gonna stop here
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and move on to the next. Okay, up next is
for sure House of Pleasure by Plumby. We're at Project
number four is Mayo, Claro, Po Pollock and Instagram plan
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Bi are like El Final, but I'm I am a
plan the stand. I think that they were ahead of
their time. I think the industry didn't know what to
do with them. I think that now they're shining, and
they could have been so much more ahead if people
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just like really tapped into them and Sex who are
no longer a duo. They now exist independently. But their project,
House of Pleasure, in my opinion, is a no skip album.
I think it's perfect. I think that it fully encapsulates
who they are artistically, Blambay sex, the sex duo, like
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what how about Bero in regards to sex, Like, let's
talk about it in regards to sex and regards to
music that is twenty one plus Bada Las Babies Chic.
I think House of Pleasure is like a masterpiece in
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the sense of talking about that exactly pleasure. What would
it look like if there was, okay, a house of pleasure,
like an actual house. I'm not gonna say a brothel
like no, but like an actual house, an adult house,
a play house, a play room, guess I go, and
different fantasies needed to be spoken about and put it
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into music form and have it be sexy and have
it really like demonstrate the perfect formula the loc I
think House of Pleasure really knocks it out the Park.
House of Pleasure came out on July twenty and twenty ten.
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It is made in collaboration, right. I need to start
shutting up the producers, because lord, they're the ones woman
this happened Raffi, Pina Fino, Co Malay, DJ Blast, Nelly,
Mambo Kings and the Coach I Los Magnificos are some
of the masterminds behind this project and the songs. Of course,
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it's a intro. We love a intro. Those who love
music love and intro. I'm not talking to y'all who'll
be looking for these two minutes one minute TikTok songs.
I can't stand y'all. Borraso, yoras, bari, serraoso, House of
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Pleasure and Outro miss Ah Mories. I think that. And
let me tell you, it was really hard to pick
between House of Pleasure and Loving Sex. And I'll tell
you why I picked between them because I spent like
maybe a whole hour staring at both of them. So
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first of all, Loving Sex is the top tier album.
It has Fronteo no intro, but as Fronteo, it has
Chooka Pa Piso Fanatica which knocks out like four songs
any day, anytime, and Matallero with Alexi Fido U Don
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Delos Conciotino, so goa Sego Nux Gandi Gandhi Gandhi Siro
with Amato and Loving Sex just plumb. I think that
this album is solid. I do think that House of
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Pleasure hits harder. I think that House of pleasure in
regards to bin Puti and regards to the fantasies that
are described pennintended because of course loving Sex has a
song fanaticas and swad, but House a Pleasure gives you
the blueprint as to what's going on in the bedroom.
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You know me some honest, I think House a Pleasure
is it is literally dare I say perfect? I think
that their their lyricism really hits that much harder in
this project, and I think that this is really the
project that blumber going forward even now as individuals. That's
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what they're trying to Emily, and so by that in
it of itself, it's it's the best album that they
have With that said, shout beer because I love that
old school last album Oh my God, and shout out
to go of course, which is where we hear them.
But Hou's a pleasure for me. It does that for me.
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You see me Scott at some Son and we'll be
right back with more of the top twenty five albums
of all time right after these messages. The fifth album
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that I'm mentioning, and again all of these are out
of order. I'll give you which twenty five albums, but
I will not rank them for you, y'all gotta wait
for that is bald by listening under Birthday, the meal
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gay Almaso, by westening on there, and first of all,
we sing on there has a lot of music. I
every year. I'm sure I've said this several times throughout
the course of this podcast journey have in my top
like artists in my Spotify rap Is always be singing
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on there for the past four years, which is very impressive.
And if I had to guess why, it's because they
have more than twenty albums. Like, if it's one thing
about them, they made a formula of their own, they
understand it. They go in the studio, they stick to
said formula. They make brand new songs like new subjects,
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but same formula, the same way they put it together.
It's two of them, so it's half the effort each. Really,
Oh no, that's that's we've seen, of course, And they
go yok Yo's formula and they don't venture out too
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too much unless they're doing stuff like balladas, which they
do here and there and things of that nature. But
really we're singing there on those handios and shout out
to Nasty, which was the first episode of podcast. Who's
been with them every step of the way, you know
the present, so who has helped develop their sound? But
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with that said, Balmundo, Oh my god. It's the fourth
studio album by this duo. It came out on November eight,
two thousand and five, on the label Machetta Music, which
turns oney next year. Shout out to Machetta Music. And
this project has songs like Dale Manieta, Ya Balleta solo,
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n mak Yo Lavaria, Kaya Kaye Hero Singing, ne Kada
since Sansas Young Tabla no so Lento, your Kio Rakata
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remix Rakata hip Hop remix, Yam traversion. Oh my god.
First of all, do you know how dope you gotta
be to like be confident enough? And people don't do
this anymore? And this is kind of what I'm talking
about in burgers to artistry and really understanding yourself. How
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is it that they have yam rakata and not just
one other version, but two other versions? And mind you
call this as well because they have more than one.
Don't say ga, but it's like we're singing. And then
I think that ever since they made this album, the
cultural impact that this album has they've been using it
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as a blueprint throughout the course of their career. And
I'm not mad at it if you like We Sing,
and you're an not mad at it either. Now, I
at this point have mentioned a couple of things that
I consider criteria as to how to classify these albums
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as the top twenty five. I've been saying things like, oh,
the artists have been trying to emulate it. Oh, you
remember where you were when certain songs came out, That
some of the songs mark moments in history, and some
of the songs are so strong in comparison to like
songs of that and other projects that it can even
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be way differently if we're gonna be fair or be honest.
And I think that Balmundo, for example, is something that
not just set the path for We Sit and Daid,
but for Perel in general. And I think that they've
been on that course like their whole career, even up
until this point. And I think they achieved it with
this album. Before bal Mundo, We Sing, and they had
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Los Reesnevo Millennial two thousand, they had the Noueblos a
Viejos two thousand and one, they had the Oltra Maneira
two thousand and two, and then Mivida My Life two
thousand and three, and then Balmundo I think up until then,
and I mean, oh my god. I'm looking at their
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music through music streaming and the amount of streams that
they have and the amount of songs that they have
in these projects. One thing about we sing and they
have never been lazy at any point in their career,
which is hilarious. Look at this work ethic I'm talking about.
The first project had ten songs, the second one had thirteen,
the other one had fifteen, and then Palmundo Nopo Mivida
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My Life has twenty five, and then we're back at
twenty three. But my point is is that there's just
so much music that's to me like every song is
another chance to prove yourself, and the amount of songs,
in my opinion, matters, especially back then where people were
going against reggaeton so much about or poor whatever. It's like, okay,
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but look at how how hard people were working to
try to make something out of nothing, really just taking
a chance of putting themselves out there, which is terrifying.
You know, you try going out there writing a song
saying it's a hit and then having to defend it
on the stage. I'll wait, like someone na fasci. Bal
Mundo to me really set a precedent in regards to
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like pehrel and like quality perel. And they're not the
only product to do so, but they're definitely an example,
like an example. I particularly Okay, for those of your listening,
you never heard of Wee, you never heard of Palmundo.
You're catching up and you're using this as something like
a guide. I particularly like I particularly like balle Yankee.
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I love La Baria because it's so quirky and like
out of here. I love Rakata is like it's like
it's like a second coming of Gasolina. Really and oh
my god, it really crossed over, not just like within
the Latin sector, but also I feel like hip hop,
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and I don't blame them for having a hip hop version.
It's like Rakata was really a cultural moment in it
of itself. Okay, Mira la Biang is good, Yo yo
kietto Bellie your kio. I'm not saying the lyrics right,
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but that's how it goes. Your kiroo is also fired too,
and shout out to mister Phillips, who's on their song dal.
I don't see him around much anymore in the Latin
music space. That man was crucial to this era and
to this evolution of this music. He's a trinidaddy and
creative producer, singer, songwriter who was frequent on a lot
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of early and whoever we have since seen like pretty
much fade out of the music. I wonder why I'll
check in with him THEMEO. He's actually one of my
first support is when I credit shout out to him.
Moving forward. I love creating this with no ranking because
it means I can go in any chaotic order that
I want to. The next project on this episode is
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oh yeah, let's get into it and shout out to
Tego is, in my opinion, the epitome of black excellence
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in general and regedon. I think Elavayalder is a no
skip albums. No, I didn't if you're paying attention, But
this project in particular is a no skip album ba
Loisa Dominicanasa in particular set the precedent for the evolution
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of raggaton, like black centered raggaton, like San Dunge, not
just setting it on a different b per se but
the way that Elayalde incorporates sounds fully encapsulates the prestige
of the Afro Caribbean influence, including salsa, jazz, hip hop,
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and pereo all on one project. And I think that
tego Cade really set the precedent as to how artists
like when they're looking outside the box, right, because no,
I own right, you don't know what I'm talking about
in a better one on one way break it down
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in musicology, beerro loque, saving, saving and for those who
don't try to keep up with me. There's different types
of reggaeton. It's not just one sound that's reg romantico.
This reggaeton that is marii aantoso or quote unquote of
the delinquents. That's like from the streets. That's where you'll
hear like reggaeton, like a lot of marching and it's
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like dark that sounds like it's like for a war,
and that's like you know, easily to be crossed over
like drill or trap music or like gangst the rap.
You know, marianteo. And then there's san donge, which is
like souper black at its core. There's beako, which is
like that that nasty reggaeton my favorite, and so on
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and so forth. There's reggaeton that like its primary concern
is to try to make you dance, and then there's
Mascomo Gio that has like these dance hall elements a
lot of people are shutting away from because of this lawsuit,
but we're not here for that right now. With that
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saying is truly excellent. The way that they go really
studied black blackness in general and then said I'm going
to incorporate all of all of this sonically. Honestly, it
was genius in bab Bonnie has your your in. They
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are amazing projects, and they're all that goo inspired. They're
all that go coding. For anyone who's like looking to
draw out a map, you can easily make the the
the arrows coming from into those products. It's as if
they dissected it and said, how can I make this
my own and digo yo that that has been happening
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a ton throughout the course of Tragaton history, especially where
blackness is concerned. I'm gonna go with that stego coded
I don't care look at but yeah, for those of
you who have never heard this project before, you're gonna hear.
You're gonna hear salsa, You're gonna hear jazz, You're gonna
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hear hip hop, You're gonna hear perreal, You're gonna hear
like the Blackest example made by a man, because made
by a woman. I would say that Mahestan Negro by
La Sista, but made by a man, and that has
been consumed in the mainstream, and that has made an impact,
that's for sure, you see. Moving forward, I was particularly
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happy to like analyze this project because this has really
been a really nice, uh trip down memory lane. I
know people are like, girl, you are historian, but like
I try not to stay there because otherwise I get
so dated. I have to stay up today with what's
going on right now, the gay leens of the world,
the fades of the world, the cafes of the world, Mexa,
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these different things. I'd be having to look forward. Otherwise
y'all are gonna get stick of me always talking about
the same stuff. But with that said, this has really
been a nice trip down memory lane, if I do
say so myself. And with that said, Top of the
Line by Tito Bombino is my seventh album that I'm
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including on this list, and they handed the same thing.
This has been really hard to pick between El Patron
and Top of the Line and it's my time. In
my opinion, they're like all almost on the same level
on my personal taste regarding their hits. Remember how I
said about weighing them, and I went with the Top
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of the Line because of its versatility of the hits.
All of these projects have versatility. And side note, you
know reggaeton songs are bangers when people have the urge
to translate them into other genres on the same exact projects.
This man has remixes of songs with La India and
salsa and other Salcero's right there while the originals is
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existing and as we've seen in Palmundo, like that also
existed with hip hop. But La India is quite literally
a legend in salsa, and I would say that it's
quite harder to get a salcero or salcera onto a
regathon track than a hip hop artist onto reggathon track
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because of the respectability politics. So the fact that she
felt so comfortable there and wanted to compart to Cone,
I think speaks volumes as to the impact of his song.
And the quality of the music which can be looked
at as anti black, but at the end of the
day sat as black music. It's just you know, how
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people classify things as music versus non music is what
I'm talking about. For people who care about that stuff,
I don't. With that said, top of the line has
guile me. Are the ones that do it for me?
And in my opinion, these songs are so weighted against
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other songs that, yes, it makes the project stand out
in comparison. Is someone that has always surprised me. Because
if you close your eyes and you think of an
artist that has short hair, right, think of a nia
long cut because he do have a neong cut. Think
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of an artist as a Nea long cut for hair,
and then has a button down, long sleeve shirt right
that has like a pattern on it. Let's make the
pattern colorful, right, not too colorful. Let's go with like
light blue. He's not so fla important. But then the
pants are bell bombs? Are you thinking you about to
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hear something like this? Yeah? The truth is Tito has
been surprising me my whole life. Hector t has like
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been something that leaves me in all the more I
stare at them because or the discography or like old pictures,
because it's like, how on earth these two get together.
They're so opposite. And above all, Tito floppy shampoo done,
Penal done, you know, moisturized that it's like I just
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would not think to hear something like this, But you
know why I love it. It's because it's it's just
proof that this sort of reality, which is what I
think Manienteo is. It's a reflection of reality. You don't
want people to talk about guns and things of that nature,
take it out the street, take it out of real life.
Until then art mimiced life. So I think it's lovely
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that he has that aesthetic and he's able to jump
into this sound and has done it his whole career
while being a pappy shampoo, while being fenal, while being
you know, that has certainly been surprising, but it has
also been refreshing and breathtaking. And Top of the Line
is one of the top twenty five albums of Regaton
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of all time. I think that, you know, it's exemplary
of who Tito is. In Tito's influence and he is
the artist that you saw at Charlie sail Away, Bad
Bunny he's the artist that you see still collaborating with
artists who are charting. He's the artist who not for nothing.
I don't think he gets the flowers that he deserves.
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And I say that because his artistic integrity and creative process.
If you hear his discography from beginning to end, there
has been an evolution and one that just gets stronger
and stronger. So like I just I don't know. I
think for all that he's influenced, especially with her Throat
and on his own as well, he just doesn't gotten
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that due. And I think Top of the Line is
the best way to consume deetle Me and Scott at Sun.
Soon we'll be right back with more of the top
twenty five albums of Pagathon of all time right after
these messages. Oh my god, me Hunter Okay, I think,
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if I must say so myself, that the Masterpiece by
Rakimik and why that was released on Valentine's Day. Of
course it was Valentine's Day in two thousand and six.
I was in the sixth grade. Oh my god, I
was in the sixth grade, stinging my heart out like
a little Papetulo broke my heart. Oh my god, or
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as if I knew what that means. Masterpiece by Rakimik
and why stands on its own. I will argue this
till the ends of time. I D make it, Sack Lollo,
make it, especially because Masterpiece Maestra is a romantic album.
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It talked about heartbreak, It talked about like closure, It
talked about friendship, It talked about letting go, It talked
about getting what you want. Honestly, the versatility and romance
and romantic this is honestly a masterclass, the masterpiece. The
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songs are dam Dame, Ghettos down again, May he swe
with Grucito, set Oh Demon, Mamadas, Adios nomos Indiaco, the
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lassan Claes where seat that, oh Jam, the Lakya Soy
with Crucito, Amigo with Justin. They make Crucito again and
they make way way with Carlito's Way. I love so
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many things about this album, and I know if you
love reggaeton for real, for real, and you know what
you're talking about, you're gonna agree with me on the
following things. One, I love we love that Kimika and
Wine introduced us on the mainstream level to Crusito. I
love that Crusito is actually not Puerto Rican. If I'm
not mistaking, he is from Honduras. If I'm not mistaken,
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let me verify that real quick. Crucito, Yes, I'm not wrong,
he's from Honduras. I just love that because Central Americans
we never get our due, so like, we never get
a moment. And yes, Panamanians are Central Americans, so like
and so like, we don't ever get that's never recognized
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because Central American taghaton, that's never a conversation. So I
love that he was included and mainstreamed like the ownA.
I love that they spoke about love in so many
different ways. I love the features of this project. Nikki
jans On here a couple of times, the man Dooby
and his feelings, So I think that is so on brand.
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Here we go with La India again, La India. I
just love reggaeton and Mosquitolo. Is the versatility in the
subject matter, it's the versatility in the production. I love
that you hear violins like a lot of instrument The
instrumentation on this project is truly like incredible and lakimeiha
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and why I think that they balance themselves so well
on like a commercial level on every single one of
these tracks, which yes, I'm gonna go ahead and say
it again, it's a no skip album to the point
where most people can wrap Rakim's part. We love all
the rappers and duos, we do, but sometimes they'd be
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doing their thing, they'd be mad artistic, they'd be going
mad fast, they'd be you know, the the bars be
little complex, and sometimes people just give up after a while.
Let's keep it funky, that's the truth. But Rakim and
in this project masterpiece, I think that, you know, like
if I had to wrap gun to my head and
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or for a thousand dollars, probably gott to be so
violent to like yeah Mama no, to grucy malis down,
I can like bar for bar, like let's go massive,
challenge bet No. I think that they really understood who
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they were. I don't know who was in charge of
artistic development this project, but honestly, Brava and the Gag
is in twenty twenty five, people are still looking to
them to perform these songs all over Latin America and
even in the US. So it's the project that is
truly the test against time. It's classic, classic, massive moving
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forward I sure am a yapper. I want to get
through this list, and I feel like I've been giving
amazing goldigos, but I'm a tighten up. Next project is
Da Badono Man. Of course it's on this list. The
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last Don Badono Mine is a project that came out
in two thousand and three. Is the project that we
think put William on the map, definitely with that song,
the focus track. I think that that track first of
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all should say featuring Glody Glow. I've said this throughout
the course of my career because Iahina then like SENSI,
so shouldn't she be featured? Shouldn't it be said featuring
Glory Glow? And I guess it's an overall comment that
I have throughout a lot of these tracks. On these
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on these projects, there are so many women who were
integral to, like the the essensia of these projects, the
sensy of these tracks, whether there were muses over the
songwriting or muses in the sense of their actual moaning
on these tracks, or the muses who were like part
of the column response that were like crucial to like
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a lot of these and these goroshin like not being
able to say, imagine taking that out of the imagine
taking Glory out of Gasolina, Like, so shouldn't it say
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featuring Glory. I don't know, It's just my thoughts, bro.
But with that said, Daledon is definitely the project that
made everyone fall in love with don and I think
for that reason alone. You know, of course he has
breakoup moments and other songs and projects we all love.
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King of Kings. King of Kings is a solid album,
thumb being oh my god, this is so hard. But
for me personally, this is my list. Dal Is is
the album that did it for me. This is Gatha's
top twenty five lists. Okay, but yeah. King of Kings
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is ironically his second album. It was released in two
thousand and six, three years after his debut album. It
charted and it's one of the best selling reggaeton albums
of all times. That project has Guente and Helito, which
is not reggaeton but is like Let's be for real.
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That's one of the best songs ever Saloid so Belly Danza.
I think that project is solid as well. I just
think Donald Man Dalon paved the path for this project
to come forward, and I think that speaks about that
that tells you everything, because again it's not always the
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first one that does it, but the fact that it
did it, I think that deserves flowers in it of itself.
Moving on, I know people probably weren't thinking about this project,
but this is Gata's list. Look at I absolutely adore
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Bereloham by Alexei Ifio. It came out in on January
twenty first, twenty eleven. It's their fifth studio album. See
what I mean by the Puerto Rican reggaetndo Alexei Fido.
I think that this album is quite literally perfect. I
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love blam blam the haaven regarded contes en erhiya la
trampa donegarey, come on, come on Primeveso by Lando Condre
by Lando Conre and Memiro Okay Camuflah Zombie Malaconduta. It's
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the songs, it's the featurings, it's the impact. It's the
way that as a DJ, I had to make a
pero playlist. I'm pulling from here so many hits. Let
let's be for real, gm Mala. This project is a masterpiece.
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It's a better masterpiece, and it charted, which I don't
care about charts, but artists care about charts, the culture
cares about charts, and I think that this project quite
literally like encapsulates some of the best of them. And
it was hard picking in between Perlohia and the Pupils
because the Pipils has se and has t buron which
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everybody knows, and I got alone, but they got young.
The other project is a lot more solid as a collective,
and so for that reason alone, I think that it's
really it's really that sorry, I think feminine, not masculine.
It's really that girl in regards to project Me and
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Scott as Sonson. We'll be right back with more of
the top twenty five albums of Tagaton of all time
right after these messages moving on. I think I would
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be a liar if I said I don't care about awards.
I submitted for Grammys didn't get them. I will one
day mark my words. But I think, considering the fact
that Ragaton didn't even have its own category up until recently,
speaks volumes and so for sole by Alexei Filo, oh yeah,
(54:01):
I did that. I did that thing, or put multiple
albums by one artist on on the list Man single letters,
which I was looking for before so the l this
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is a project and I Have Bro came out on
November thirteenth, two thousand and seven, and is a Latin
Grammy nominated album. It's their third studio album and digo yo.
They put their foot into this project. They really put
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their foot into this project. I think that in regards
to reggelas and just making hits and just a collective,
this is a project of hits. It really is. They
threw a Medenga on there just for fundsies with but
even then it hits, it goes like perfectly like whoever
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mixed mastered as well, they did a did a bomb
job nals. But this project, I think it's just solid
and that for me, I remember where I was when
it came out. I remember what I felt when it
came out. I remember like real memories of people being
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like put that back if you ever try to skip it.
I remember people just not being tired of Alexi feel
like to the like and I say that because we
like they dropped and dropped. It felt like they were
dropping a lot. I know this is before current culture.
This is lime wire days, and so you know, you
really download what you want to hear and then you
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play it, but it felt like they were everywhere, and
I think this project did that for them as well
as well as with the last one that I mentioned.
So for damn sure, I'm getting nervous because it's not
that many left. Okay, I'm run down the list because
you're not about to hit me? Really for Life to
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masuelto No b Yo, Oh, they say, by your Sona.
He thought I was just going old school. Nah, We're
gonna bring it to the to the present, they say, Well,
Sona by search Plaero specifically, I know that's a mixtape,
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are gonna be like Girl? But they go, yo, that's
a solid project. After the Seaco by Rao by Johnny
Boy by No Glori Glow by Glory Glow and the
Perfec Fake Melody by Zion and La by various artists
(57:13):
and Go Star Music las Amilia. But hector at father, Okay,
Y're not about to hit me. I'm gonna go with
because I think I genuinely I'm gonna say the same
(57:34):
things over and over. But these are projects I will
defend with the thesis with the class with a with
a whole episode in and of itself. For each project,
I swear to God, but running down the listen, I'm
doing this by memory. Y'all won't believe me. I'll go backwards,
go Star music, Las Amilia by Hector and Father Hi
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no I Naivia with Victor Manuel and Yomo Trao Theras
with and Zion the Haulers my rolling Stone Top one
(58:28):
hundred nominations of Okay, like, I'm gonna just run down
the list with the songs of these products. Okay, that's
go seller familiar, the Perfect Melody by Zion, Fantasma, Okay,
Zum Dad best the Ras which was really sad, and
(58:54):
they go yo, got in your body too. I think
Zion did that, and I do think the Perfect Melody
is a great example of the perfect melody. Bloody Glow,
which of course made it to my nominations of the
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top Reggatton songs, the top one hundred on the Rolling
Stone list. Digo yo, let's be for real. That song,
by the way, is banned in different countries till this day.
I think Bloody Glow ran so could walk. All of
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this is subjective, y'all will not bully me. I'm also
thinking about a besme a Garsalon by no Vejori Man
their run was short lived, but it was so impactful.
I hear Novejori and I don't know if it's fair
(01:00:01):
to do this or not, but I hear Nojori and
I hear I think of Also Jadiel, I think of Also,
I think of Also, who are all geniuses in their
own respective rights. I think that their project I was
(01:00:22):
released in twenty eleven, so many memories for me. This
is Gata's list, not your list, but my list. I
think was amazing and after the Saco by Rau surprised me.
Keep it real with you. That was such a versatile project.
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And I don't mean that in an insulting way. Braw
is an amazing artist. I am truly a fan. It
just surprised me because it's like, oh my god, it's
like one of the best contemporary examples that like you
can make reggaeton sound new in the two thousand, the
twenty twenties, and like respect Lorasis because that's a conversation
(01:01:17):
that I think comes up a lot in culture. Do
not jo. But one thing that I think he does
great in his project is whatever I think he knocked
it out the park. So Strawberry Kiwi is nasty. I
love it. Relo Nisty, I love it. Bensandote is adorable.
(01:01:41):
I love that song. Psal nah Rao really put his
foot into this project. I love this project. I think
this project is a great example. Ahsona, I know, is
a figure that a lot of people don't want to
hear about, and the music that he made in twenty seventeen,
(01:02:11):
I'd be a whole liar. It'd be a historical if
I didn't say that for contemporary thing at home that
he didn't like. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing Ohsuna anywhere.
And I'm talking about in American spaces. I'm talking about
in Latino spaces. I don't care what the space is branded.
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You could not not hear they like through mekyere My people.
I feel like I often ponder, I'll be honest on
what music would look like today if he didn't have
that controversy. Because the whole that Alson I had on us,
we could not wait. You could not go to the club.
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And I mean for years on end without hearing music
by Asna through Photo Sipparo. They like it to make
Aris Kiero Repetti all of these songs, Oh my god,
el far Sante, Get out of here, no kerrem I'll
say all of these songs are quite literally like perfect,
(01:03:18):
and there's so many more. I just think this project
August twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, as a historian and as
a lover of reaton and as a project that marks
culture and moments. Oh my god, this is definitely an example,
you know, so agin. I don't know if this is
mean of me, but I kind of want to leave
(01:03:39):
young in adult a little bit just because I feel like, so,
I'll be honest with you, I'm gonna wrap up with
the top songs of hmm, should I Dodi Randira, ram
alway Yo, no bad yo. What we're gonna do for
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sentimental reasons. First of all, when this project came out,
I was in the seventh grade No business periando, but
here it was Adios istan Aggressive though. First of all,
I miss when that era, when there'd be like fifteen
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remixes of a song. For those who don't know, there
is Aggressivo, Aggressivo remix Place, Welcome to the remix Aggressive,
all those and Aggressive tres four versions of this song,
(01:04:47):
and at some point there's just like eight different people
on this song. Every I think it's like eight bars.
There's different people on the song in aggressive and remix
and then dress and etcetera. That song marked Reggaeton for
absolutely sure, and the fact that Jolie Randi are behind
it tells you everything. I think that Jolie Randi deserves
(01:05:09):
so much Flowers. They literally have held Pereo down their
entire career against so much scrutiny, against so much just
shit talking from other people. Jolie Randi really did that,
and I put them I think. I say this, and
(01:05:31):
I think as well of Plumbet, of course, because way
ahead of their time, they focused more on sex. Of course,
because sex and Jolie Randi they like noiero Plumbet non
of their versatility, but the specific like bread and butter
of Jolie Randy was dancing like was dancing in plum Bet,
(01:05:53):
was fucking was dancing a yok Ria guyeteo e yoki ria.
So like I think, honestly, we gotta be grateful for
the not just the bangers they give us, but the
bangers that allow us to really be dancing with somebody's
son her daughter in the corner like I'm sorry, like no,
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this entire project is like, Wow, it's only eight songs
Retostang out of the four Bahs, which I've never actually
called it that because lime wire you download it and
it says something else let's do it, which is not
at all. I don't know what they were thinking. Which
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let's be for real itando joel Irandi. I think it's
a perfect way for me to end this. This is
top twenty five albums of all time. If you want
my other thoughts, you're just gonna have to listen closely
to this podcast. I'm gonna be doing more curation stuff
like this for a while. I do want you guys
to get a grip from me as to what I
(01:07:04):
think of the culture, because they go yo so behind that.
That's all I got to say this time. Aron forgetola
gat that top twenty five Regatto albums of all time.
Me scotta son SONI you know what time it is.
Tampalas Flores Podcast is an Ihartmedia production, A co executive
(01:07:29):
produced Shake It Easy Media The Kiero music composition with
Happy Vibes The Kiero produced by Grace Gonstale. The Kiero
Shout out to my production assistants Yomi Aveo and Kayla
Ecleston the Kiero. And this is edited by Walking Cutler. TAKEO,
I'm your host Legata, so you're right here next week
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