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Reparto music traces back to the mid-2000s with its first exponents such as the late Elvis Manuel, Adonic MC, El Uniko, and Chocolate MC. The latter of the four is often credited for giving the genre its name when he cleverly added the Cuban clave to his 2010 reggaetón song “Parapapampan.” Deriving from the barrios or housing projects in Cuba, where aspiring artists would create their own homemade reggaetón and sing about street life powered by local slang, reparto music features a blend of drums derived from reggaetón, hip hop, timba, son, and Cuban folk music in general.
Though the urban genre has been around for more than decade, a new generation of artists is helping power its international success that is today heard in Spain, Peru, Miami and globally, thanks to social media. Some of these Cuban acts, including Bebeshito, L Kimii, El Chulo, Dale Pututi and El Taiger, who died from a gunshot in 2024, have even graced the Billboard charts with their reparto-influenced songs. Meanwhile, Latin superstars such as Daddy Yankee, Nacho, and Bad Gyal, have already experimented with reparto music.
“The Dominican Republic has its dembow, Puerto Rico has its reggaetón — today Colombia is taking over Afrobeats, and I think that’s going to happen with Cuba as well,” Venezuelan artist, Nacho, previously told Billboard. “Reparto is a wealth of rhythms combined: there’s son, there’s salsa, there’s timba, there’s reggaetón. There’s a bit of everything, and I’ve been in love with that genre for a long time.” — JESSICA ROIZ
