May 4, 2012 · Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with some classic Mexican narco ballads-think gangster rap with tubas and accordions. Mexican corridos are a kind of story-song reaching back to the ballads of medieval...

A narcocorrido (Spanish pronunciation: [naɾkokoˈriðo], "narco-corrido" or drug ballad) is a subgenre of the Regional Mexican corrido (narrative ballad) genre, from which several other genres have evolved.

Oct 10, 2009 · The news of Mexico's bloody cartel war is reflected in a controversial folk-music genre called narcocorridos, or drug ballads. They're like journalism put to song — telling stories of drug...

May 28, 2013 · For the uninitiated, narcocorridos (translation: “drug ballads”) are Mexican songs about drug traffickers and their exploits. Think 90s gansta rap set against the backdrop of the ultraviolent...

Nov 1, 2010 · Driven by a tuba, an accordion, drums and a guitar, narcocorridos sound like polka pumped up on meth. By turns frenetic and mournful, the songs celebrate the violent lives — and grisly deaths —...

Feb 11, 2023 · M1 was the codename of a notorious Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker, Manuel Torres Felix - or "the Crazy One" - who was gunned down in a firefight with Mexican soldiers in 2012.

May 3, 2023 · “Corridos bélicos” means “warlike,” and its lyrics are mainly focused on drug trafficking and the ongoing cartel turf battles in Mexico. But both often fall under the …

Nov 7, 2013 · These explicit lyrics belong to musical group BuKnas de Culican, a major recording artists on the Los Angeles-based record label TWIINS Culican, and they are an example of the increasingly popular...

Jan 22, 2025 · Thousands of people have been murdered by drug cartels in Mexico or have disappeared over several decades. The Council on Foreign Relations estimates that since 2006, when Mexico stepped up its...

Nov 29, 2010 · The classic Mexican ballad — amped up and updated to tell tall tales about drug kingpins — is gaining popularity both south and north of the border.