Savage Odes to Mexican Drug Cartels Are Becoming Increasingly Popular Adam Taylor - SFGate
go to original November 13, 2013

Check it out in the clip above from forthcoming documentary "Narco Cultura" by Shaul Schwarz. (Business Insider)

While a man holds a bazooka on stage, dozens of people in El Paso, Texas sing the chorus:

“With an AK-47 and a bazooka on my shoulder / Cross my path and I’ll chop your head off / We’re bloodthirsty, crazy, and we like to kill!"

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 genre of songs glorifying Mexican drug cartels.

The members of BuKnas de Culican grew up in the States and have had little experience of life in Mexico. However, their music is written in homage to the lives of members of Mexico's notoriously violent drug cartels — the "narcos" who dominate life in places like Juárez, just over the border from Texas. The songs they perform are known as "narcocorridos," an update on traditional corridos to reflect the modern Mexican lifestyle (you may recognize the style from "Breaking Bad," even if you know little about Mexican cartels).

The song above specifically mentions the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, the notorious "el Chapo," and alleged drug trafficker Manuel Torres Félix, who was killed in a clash with the Mexican army last year.

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