Talk:Daddy Yankee

I have seen several editors attempt to remove or add "rapper" to his BLP. However, the sources are contradictory.

• I am not going to accept this source http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/daddy-yankee.html because it appears to just be facts aggregated from Wikipedia, and it neither confirms nor denies him being a rapper. It calls him a "World Music Singer" and a "Popular Latin recording artist".
• Google displayed this hit: http://www.axs.com/the-top-10-best-daddy-yankee-songs-83194. It says "For anybody that says that reggaeton is not really rapping, let us point you to “Gata Gangster.” This single is basically Puerto Rican rap, and that’s a good thing as the track is easily listenable and likeable, unlike most of the gangster rap that’s out today." That is what it says for number 9. check out the desc. for 7 and 4. Daddy Yankee may be the closest thing to a Spanish gangster rapper since, well, anybody.…though most of his tunes were geared towards “Latin gangster rap,”…
• Billboard in 2012 called him both "Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican Rapper" and "Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee " and "The Grammy-winning rapper" and "said the rapper". ^[1]

So it is obvious to me at least that these music sites consider him to be a rapper, either because of his work, or because they consider Reggae/reggaeton to be rap. I am calling this RfC (my second) to see what yall think, and to save me having to prove this over and over again as editors attempt to change one way or the other. Nominator has very little bias towards or against the subject. L3X1 My Complaint Desk 18:35, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

• He is not a rapper is a singer but seeing that the edit made by the user Flippyinvader being this does not hit me at all I had to remove that and take references. 1 148.0.106.205 (talk) 20:00, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
• famousbirthdays.com is not reliable, so should be ignored. --Ronz (talk) 01:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

  From what this article says about him, as well as what is in Reggaeton, it seems like "rapper" applies. For editors that think otherwise, please clearly explain what type of sources you feel would be needed to convince you of the same. --Ronz (talk) 01:23, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

• Sources:
  • New York Times - he started rapping in Spanish...Spend time with Daddy Yankee, and inevitably, as rappers tend to do...Like any good rapper, Daddy Yankee practices a stylized brand of showmanship...Daddy Yankee was among a handful of aspiring young rappers...the new album, titled "El Cartel," will have Yankee rapping in a mix of Spanish and English
  • Puerto Rico Herald - reggaeton rapper Daddy Yankee
  • NBC New York - Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee
  • Billboard - including day-in-the-life footage of the rapper
  • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - rapper Daddy Yankee
  • Chicago Tribune - Puerto Rican rapper and former John McCain endorser Daddy Yankee Isaidnoway (talk) 07:10, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
• Include - "Rapper" should be included in the BLP as supported in the numerous reliable sources listed above. Meatsgains (talk) 03:35, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose: He's a singer-songwriter who integrated some rap elements into some of his stuff here and there. Most of those sources are the sort that confuse rapping and hip-hop (Billboard, too – they divide all of music into a tiny handful of categories, so it's habitual for them to overgeneralize). Hardly any modern pop singers don't occasionally introduce rap elements into their music. Hell, that goes back to at least Blondie's song "Rapture" (1980); doesn't make Debbie Harry a rapper. Having "done a little rap" doesn't make you a rapper. If I draw two pictures of my cats, that doesn't make me "an illustrator". Rapper is an occupation and/or a stance as an artist/entertainer, including an alignment with a particular subculture. When a singer-songwriter just does a rap track, they're a singer-songwriter who did a rap track, not a rapper. "Some RS said it" doesn't mean we automatically include something, especially if it's misleading/confusing for readers. Show me Daddy Yankee self-identifying as a rapper, then I have no objection. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 15:15, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

  Without sources, that's all original research on your part. If major music sources don't make the distinction that you're arguing, why should we? --Ronz (talk) 18:26, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

  I'm a rapper, but I know music. I know about registers, scales, tone. The fact that I rap doesn’t mean I don't understand what needs to happen vocally. and "I'm rapping in the song, in Spanglish," he said. Isaidnoway (talk) 19:51, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

• Comment by Nom Consensus appears to be he is a rapper, due to quotes and sources. I'll wait another week to close this in case any more editors step forward either for or against. L3X1 My Complaint Desk 03:15, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
• Include per the many sources listed by Isaidnoway. Famous Birthdays may not be an RS, but major publications like The New York Times and Chicago Tribune sure are. Add how Daddy Yankee himself said that he's a rapper in an interview with Billboard and it's safe to say that we have more than enough to reliably go on when we say that Daddy Yankee is a rapper. Blurp92 (talk) 20:44, 27 February 2017 (UTC)