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Cubanito 20.02
12+ albums
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Cubanito 20.02, formed in 2002, as their name suggests, and released their first album, Soy Cubanito, in 2003. The origins of the group are in hip hop. In the mid-1990s, the three members, Haniel Gonzalez Martinez, Javier Duran Webb, and José Angel Sastre Perez, were listening to rap sounds coming from the U.S. They shortened their names to Flipper, El Doctor, and White, and they got themselves some bandanas, baseball caps and extra-baggy jeans. Their first group was called Primera Base and they scored a direct hit with their performance at the Havana Rap Festival in 1995. The formation of Cubanito 20.02, formed by ex-members of Primera Base, was one of the first major significations of the switch from hip hop to reggaeton in Havana. Despite the lyrics from the first album's title track ("I'm a rapper first and foremost, whether you like it or not..."), their first big radio hit in Havana, Matame, features a reggaeton sound. The switch from “underground” hip hop with Primera Base to the sensual beats of reggaeton with Cubanito 20.02 was controversial because reggae was seen by many "pure" hip hop artists as having a "retarding effect" while "eroding traditional genres". The popular hip hop group Los Aldeanos (group site) released a parody of Matame as a criticism of the burgeoning popularity of reggaeton over hip hop. With the new reggaeton sounds influenced by Jamaican ragga, Cubanito 20.02 became more financially successful by appealing to the youth culture. Through Cub
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Soy Cubanito
Tocame
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Reggeaton Latin Hits
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La Fórmula
Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura
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Latino! Greatest Hits - 56 Latin Top Hits (Original Versions!)
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Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura (New Cuba Sound)
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Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura - New Cuba Sound [Disc 2]
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Latin Garden 2
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Gusto Latino 2008 Latin Top Hits (Salsa Bachata Merengue Reggaeton)
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Latino! Greatest Hits: 56 Latin Top Hits (Original Versions!)
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Latino! Greatest Hits (World Version)