The name is a portmanteau of the Afro-Haitian Rara and Rabòday, sub-genre of Rabòday Music which get its stylistic origin from Rasin music (Haitian Root Music).
Key stylistic element:
Vocals include a blend of SingRapping, chanted Vocals with lots of Collisions, Calls and Reponses which are sung in Haitian Creole, usually Feature a Folk-Lead artist, guest artist or Backing Vocalist or a Rapper who 'd contribute a guest verse.
Other Key elements:
Singable folk-based melodies that's loaded with raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes and cryptic, bawdy and pithy lyrics and full of "Voye pwen,” (Haitian Creole) or “sending a point.” (English) which means to indirectly accuse/speak of someone, to imply, to give a hint, to indirectly place the blame on an
individualThe concept usually includes using Electromechanic musical instruments and
Electronic Music Technology or
Electronic Musical Instruments , which is distributed via digital audio formats over
the Internet.
Rara-Bòday is often played in Afro-Creole Music Festivals, inghtclubs from mainly the Afro-Creole and Afro-Latino American and Crenglish speaking countries of the Caribbean, the Antilles such as Haiti, Dominican Républicain (DR)
Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, Martinique, Dominica, Panama, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Trinidad
Brasil, Hondunras and Columbia as well as Canada, France, Western Africa and Haitian communities in the Untited States most notably New Orleans.