Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Quotes about dancehall (2 Quotes)
But when the infectious beat of reggaetn, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro-Caribbean beats, became popular on the Spanish-speaking island, many local rappers abandoned standard hip-hop breakbeats. Latinos are children of la rumba, ... When people play drums it gets our attention right away. When we saw that, we realized there wasn't so much interest in hip-hop here anymore. We started to incorporate the ideas we had doing hip-hop with the base of dancehall and reggae en Espaol.