{"id":52733,"date":"2014-03-01T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52733"},"modified":"2014-03-01T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:39:34","slug":"narco-cultura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52733","title":{"rendered":"Narco Cultura"},"content":{"rendered":"

This documentary<\/a> will turn your stomach at the number of Mexicans dancing to songs glorifying drug dealers. Here are some sample lyrics: \u201cWith an AK-47 and a bazooka on my shoulder\/Cross my path and I\u2019ll chop your head off\/We\u2019re bloodthirsty, crazy and we like to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wikipedia says<\/a>: A narcocorrido (Spanish pronunciation: [narkoko\u02c8ri\u00f0o], Drug Ballad) is a type of Mexican music and song tradition which evolved out of the norte\u00f1o folk corrido tradition. This type of music is heard on both sides of the US\u2013Mexican border. It uses a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers\u2014the narco comes from “narcotics”\u2014have been dated by Juan Ram\u00edrez-Pimienta to the 1930s. Early corridos (non-narco) go back as far to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap.<\/p>\n

Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include real dates and places.[3] The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of illegal activities such as murder, torture, racketeering, extortion, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and sometimes political protest due to government corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This documentary will turn your stomach at the number of Mexicans dancing to songs glorifying drug dealers. Here are some sample lyrics: \u201cWith an AK-47 and a bazooka on my shoulder\/Cross my path and I\u2019ll chop your head off\/We\u2019re bloodthirsty, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t