Daddy Yankee is American.
=== 20132015: King Daddy ===On October 29, 2013, Daddy Yankee released a mixtape entitled "King Daddy", produced by Los De La Nazza (Musicologo & Menes), as part the Imperio Nazza Mixtapes series and was released as a digital-format only
Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term comes from the Dutch Janneke, a diminutive form of the given name Jan (John) which would be Anglicized by New Englanders as "Yankee" due to the Dutch pronunciation of J being the same as the English Y

