Talk:Daddy Yankee

message: There's currently a suspicion that Daddy Yankee has died today due to a car accident. Can someone please verify this information? Best, Jonayo! Selena 4 ever 00:05, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death? 

message: I have reversed the user edition Bluefist as incorrect. Daddy Yankee is a reggaeton singer. Not a rapper. Someone please include references from reliable sources that show you are a rapper.--Thknny (talk) 21:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: See new section down below regarding this ThanksL3X1 My Complaint Desk 18:25, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapper? 

message: I seriously doubt the credibility of the story. AK-47 and "the bullet was never removed from his hip". Come ON! And it's sourced from MTV website which is as credible as a teen's facetube account. Le Grand Bleu (talk) 03:53, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shooting accident 

message: Is there any evidence proving that Daddy Yankee started his career in 1990 in the album Playero 34 with the song "So' Persígueme, No Te Detengas"? I don't even think it's a real song, as I can't find one source of its existence. If not, it should say 1992 and Playero 37 instead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.31.195.245 (talk) 22:15, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years active 

message: What are all the pairs of double parentheses in the discography about? I thought they were an error for double brackets, which would link to a article, but the one that I changed produced a redlink, meaning there was no article by that name, so I changed it back. Are they actually part of the titles? Is somebody using them under the impression that they are a kind of quotation mark? I'm not going to remove or change them because I'm not familiar with this singer or the conventions of Latino Reggaeton, but somebody knowledgeable ought to have a look at this. --Thnidu (talk) 05:18, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ((Double parentheses)) 

message: 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". http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/branding/1099489/daddy-yankee-puerto-rican-rapper-to-release-signature-headphones
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)
thread_title:  Rapper or no??? 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Daddy Yankee's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "billboard2014":
From Barrio Fino: 
From Jowell & Randy: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 04:01, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Daddy Yankee]] 

message: Katherine.Holt (talk) 16:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularity of Despacito 

message: Daddy Yankee was born in 1977, not in 1976.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.221.176.31 (talk) 03:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's one - https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daddy-yankee-mn0000559405/biography?1658652717608. Although I'm not sure how reliable AllMusic is (WP:ALLMUSIC)). Kiwipete (talk) 09:01, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year error 

message: The mixtape he “debuted” on is listed as both 1991 and 1994, so something’s wrong. Doubtful he released (let alone coined the genre “reggaeton”) at 14 years old, but I’ll leave that to a more informed person to determine. 174.198.1.136 (talk) 05:12, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: The article doesn't cite any source about this news. 176.200.83.11 (talk) 22:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retairement to dedicate to the Christian faith