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What this video is

Released in the spring of 1991, 'Temptation' arrived at the precise moment freestyle music—born in New York's Latino communities of the early 1980s—achieved its widest commercial reach. Corina Katt Ayala, born to Puerto Rican parents and raised in Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx, embodied the genre's demographic core. The single peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the 12-inch Singles Sales chart,…

Why it matters

As one of the highest-charting freestyle records ever, 'Temptation' stands as a primary document of Latin freestyle's commercial apex. The music video is a key artifact demonstrating how the genre's aesthetics—choreography-forward performance, high-saturation visuals, rapid editing synchronized to…