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Daddy Yankee calls himself a "salsa boy" on Track Star*

Biggie, Jamaican dancehall and Héctor Lavoe turn a song-guessing game into a tour of the reggaeton star's musical roots.

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Testing Daddy Yankee's Music Knowledge

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0:15Daddy Yankee identifies Biggie's "Hypnotize" and explains the rapper's influence on him.
1:02Shabba Ranks' "Dem Bow" prompts an explanation of Jamaican dancehall's influence on reggaeton.
4:38Working with Diljit Dosanjh brings Daddy Yankee face to face with his music's reach in India.
5:31Héctor Lavoe's "El Cantante" leads to Daddy Yankee's declaration that he is a salsa boy at heart.
6:34He spots the "Poison" sample in Lisa M's "Tu Pum Pum" before identifying the artist.
8:16Daddy Yankee credits Beat Street as an early inspiration and explains why creating in the studio remains fun.

Daddy Yankee hears something inside Lisa M's "Tu Pum Pum" before he lands on the artist: the sample of Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison." It's a revealing moment in a music quiz that keeps becoming a conversation about how records connect.

Posted four days ago, "Testing Daddy Yankee's Music Knowledge" has added about 62,000 views in a day, a sharp acceleration from its earlier pace. The Track Star* channel's upload presents an episode of the street-interview show, with host Jack playing songs for the Puerto Rican artist to identify.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" gets an instant answer. Shabba Ranks' "Dem Bow" opens a discussion of Jamaican dancehall's influence on reggaeton. But Héctor Lavoe's "El Cantante" brings out a particularly personal declaration: "Salsa, I'm a salsa boy, man, from the heart."

Daddy Yankee sings along and names Frankie Ruiz and Ismael Rivera among the salsa greats who shaped his listening. The conversation also reaches Myke Towers, a collaborator on his new project La Postal, and his experience of hearing his music's impact as far away as India.

Viewers pick up on those connections, with comments recalling reggaeton's presence in early-2000s New York and pointing back to the dancehall records discussed in the interview.

Asked about his continuing appetite for studio work, Daddy Yankee gives a simpler answer than any genre history: "I love to create music, it's like, I have so much fun in the studio."

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He's right; all those dancehall artists were amazing and their music still kills it today.
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the early 2000 reggaetom was heard everyone where in NYC it was crazy how huge it was
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Love the humility that shines through here!
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