Tainy has a penchant for extending his outros and dotting them with surprise flourishes. Old-school touches throughout ground the project’s imagination. On “Si Te Vas,” the Brooklyn-born, Guyana-raised rapper Saint Jhn fires off rhymes in Spanish and English over Tainy’s casual Afrobeat riff - a hint of the cross-cultural, globally-minded way that Tainy has been envisioning reggaeton’s future. The addition exemplifies the willingness of Yandel and Tainy to join forces with artists primed to carry the torch next. Rauw Alejandro, the rising star whose recent album Vice Versa blasted to the top of the charts this month, dips into the slow groove of “Una Más” and adds dimension to Yandel’s verses through his ability to go up-tempo. Despite how active they’ve both been over the years, Yandel and Tainy have repeatedly returned to each other’s orbit - and on Dynasty, a nimble, eight-song project, they team up again to celebrate their long-running collaboration.ĭynasty has only two featured artists, and both choices are intentional. A decade and a half later, Tainy is one of the most ubiquitous producers on the global pop landscape, masterminding tracks for Bad Bunny and Selena Gomez, while Yandel boasts a prolific career that’s avoided complacency, thanks to an openness to new styles (unexpected entries into his recent catalogue include sad-boy trap on the Eladio Carrion track “Discoteca”). He was in his twenties when he started working with Tainy, a production prodigy whose beats slapped so hard that he was signed by the hitmakers Luny Tunes when he was just 15. The Puerto Rican rapper Yandel, for example, started making music as part of the duo Wisin y Yandel more than two decades ago. But while newer acts have had to dig deep to capture the throwback energy that everyone is after, some veterans have been around long enough to pull from their past to shape the present. Artists from Bad Bunny to Rauw Alejandro have offered up tributes to the sounds of their predecessors, reminding listeners that there’s plenty of history to excavate despite the genre’s relative youth. Reggaeton isn’t all that old in the grand scheme of things, yet there’s an industry-wide yearning for the halcyon days of early perreo, which was fostered in Puerto Rico’s Black communities in the Nineties and 2000s.

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