Songs for El Chapo

BBC ^ | 3/17/16 | Matt Dancizo (video)

[ek_hornbeck]

While cartels make parts of Mexico dangerous, their cultural impact is felt over the border in southern California

Narco-corridos, or "drug ballads" narrative songs where singers tell of imagined or real-life drug war stories.

While the songs brag about murder or other violent exploits, some who study narco-corridos say the music not unlike the gangster rap of the 1990s - reflecting violence that already exists.

[ek_hornbeck]

Notorious drug kingpins are now folk heroes to on both sides of the border - just the sort of culture that open borders enthusiasts from both parties believe we need more of. This must be what George W. Bush had in mind when he said that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande."

[scooby321]

Most Mexican Cartels have their own Bands to communicate messages to other Cartels and the people who they are going to kill.

[over3Owithabrain]

They’re going to be singing Pink Floyd’s The Wall in about 10 months

[dfwgator]

They’re going to be singing Pink Floyd’s The Wall in about 10 months

Post of the Day!

[Texan5]

“All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall”...

[ek_hornbeck]

I’d much prefer it if many of the illegals were to start singing “Going home, going home...”

[George Washington Axe]

or how about the Christmas song ‘POLICE GOT ME NOW”