Drug and crime culture have been "cool" in this country before rap came along:
A lot of nightclub cokehead Napoleon pricks want to "be" Scarface.
Posted on 06/23/2010 12:38:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...Cano tells me they compose many of their songs by special request...
"With some of the songs, they send me lists and they ask for a song about this and that and we do it. But I don't anything about how the narcos work," Cano grins. And he's certainly not about to tell me who "they" are.
But listen to the music and it's clear. "They" are members of the Gulf Cartel.
Since the start of this year, the Gulf Cartel has been fighting its former hit squad, the Zetas, for control of Reynosa and a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border.
There are clear signs the Gulf Cartel has now gained supremacy -- and one of those signs is that Cano and Blunt dare publicly to sing the praises of just one side.
Perhaps the most brazen track on their webpage playlist is "Metro Tres."
"He used to work for the government. Now he's a top bandit. If you try and cross him you'll end up in concrete. And with his assault rifle, he'll send you straight to hell," go some of the lines.
Metro Three, a pudgy-faced 37-year-old whose real name is Samuel Flores Borrego is a former Mexican cop who went rogue. Now according to the locals and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), he's the alleged head of Gulf Cartel operations in Reynosa. The DEA has put a $5 million price tag on his head.
...They are aware their music stirs controversy and may be interpreted as glorifying the drug trade.
"People have criticized our music but nobody can tell you what to listen to. If critics come and offer me money not to sing then I'll stop. But if they're not offering anything then they can shut up," Blunt said...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You mean we have to PAY people not to sing c-rap?
Sounds like extortion to me. Book 'em Danno!
What sissys’ and bitchaucrats do not wish to comprehend; when fighting a war kill the enemy and bad guys first then work on social niceties! Are we at war with Illegal Drug Industry or just American Citizenry.
This comes from the US - rap is something that is so disgusting it should never have been allowed on US airwaves. Instead, songs about killing cops, raping women, selling drugs, etc. are not only OK, but were at various times at the top of the charts. Even now, while they’re a little tamer, they still glorify the black gansta lifestyle (even if the singer is white).
I remember being in Europe and hearing a teenage ice-cream store employee in a non-English speaking country singing along in a language she didn’t understand words that were roughly “kill the pig (cop).” I asked her (in her language) if she knew what it meant and she said no, she just liked the rhythm.
Mexico has a new TV series about a Mexican drug-gang member’s girlfriend and her trials and tribulations, which are portrayed as sort of normal. Thanks to the US acceptance of the drug and crime culture represented by rap, we can’t say anything about this. It’s all cool.
I’m really disgusted. Calderon had to go and plead on bended knee with Bambi to give more support in the anti-drug effort, but frankly, as long as we continue to be the biggest buyers and the place where that culture is glorified, Mexico and all the other supplier countries will remain the pits that they are now.
Now their “sponsors” are giving them the lyrics.
But then, gangsters have bankrolled the music industry for decades. Who do you think ran the jukebox racket?
The record labels and artist management went as far as making up how many times this or that guy had “got shot” and how many times he’d gone to jail.
Murderous singers is nothing new, Leadbelly got off deathrow twice because of his music.
But he wasn’t held up as someone to emulate because of his criminal ways.
Rap is about ego. “I’m great I’m great I’m great” “You suck you suck you suck”
The origins of rap? If you ask me is the jump rope calls that the girls in the neighborhoods used to sing while BABYSITTING their younger (soon to be “rap innovator”) brothers.
Drug and crime culture have been "cool" in this country before rap came along:
A lot of nightclub cokehead Napoleon pricks want to "be" Scarface.
Dead musicians achieve immortality because they can’t ruin their track record with bad cuts recorded later in life when they’ve gotten old, fat, and mellow.
An illustration of this musical genre. Breaking Bad opened one episode with such a performance. It’s actually good music.
Drawback is some musicians have been murdered by the enemies of the people they sing for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L1rWWWZnxs
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