At root, American pop is Latin music as much as anything else, from country's Mexican DNA to the Cuban syncopations that seeded jazz, rock & roll, disco, salsa and hip-hop. So an apparent trifle like Cardi's B's "I Like It" is, in fact, a pan-Latin masterstroke packed with history, a hit based on "I Like It Like That" – the genre-defining 1967 single by Latin boogaloo king Pete
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