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I'm Felix Contreras.

We're listening to Kepena by Maluma and J. Belvin.

It has spent a number of weeks on the Billboard Latin music charts,

and it currently has 159 million views on YouTube.

It's just the latest example of how the genre that has become known as Latin Urban

has dominated the music industry, not just here in the U.S. and in Latin America, but all over the world, really.

This week we're going to take a look back at the last decade and how Latin urban became such an influential genre.

We're going to look at it from a music industry perspective, from a sociological perspective,

and we're also going to hear from one of the artists who was part of the earliest days of reggaeton,

long before it became part of Latin Urban.

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