Zouk — the dance music of Guadeloupe and Martinique, built by Kassav' (Jacob Desvarieux, Pierre-Édouard Décimus, Jocelyne Béroard) in the early 1980s out of gwoka drumming, kompa and studio funk. Zouk means "party".
How it sits: the kick plays every beat, and over it the rim (cross-stick, standing in for the drum machine's "tchak") plays the 3-3-2 of the bar in eighths: beat 1, the "and" of 2, beat 4, with a lighter extra on the "and" of 3. The shaker ticks sixteenths with the off-sixteenths pushed, and a low tom answers on the "a" of 2 and 4, the gwoka bula's echo. The bass leans on the same 3-3-2 — long root, fifth on the "and" of 2, next chord on 3 — and the guitar picks clean sixteenth arpeggios through the minor i–iv–V–i.
Listen for the rim against the steady kick: three uneven hits over four even ones is the zouk lilt.
Practice: tap the kick with your foot, clap only the rim, then hum the bass on top.