It’s a foggy May evening at La Marina, a bar and lounge nestled along the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan. Behind the dock, sweltering Caribbean dance grooves blast from an outdoor sound ...

Decades ago, Ivy Queen was preparing for the biggest audition of her life: She was about to rap in front of Puerto Rico’s legendary DJ Negro to prove that she had the skills to become a member of the ...

Reggaeton’s aggressive, beat-driven music exists primarily to move you and get you close, but its lyrics are full of tales of street fighting, defiant boasts (tiraera) by rival rappers and DJs from ...