Comments on: Bone-shaking volume

By: pobrecito

pobrecito — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:33:27 +0000

Good clip eat beans errrr urbanista. Los malos muchachos siempre hacen las Mamas grito.

By: urbanista

urbanista — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:46:55 +0000

I accidentally put the anti-spam word in the name box (eatbeans)… sorry guys. They also quoted a song that actually gets a lot of play in Nayarit at a local “jaripeos” and “bailes”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts6xNnrN17c

By: eatbeans

eatbeans — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:35:07 +0000

Great article it even mentioned the Chalino shootout in Coachella, although it fails to mention that he shot and killed the wrong man.

By: soledadenmasa

soledadenmasa — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:30:30 +0000

Chavo,
What song is it? I’d like to hear it. I thought Los Tigres del Norte had stopped writing new narcocorridos, but I guess I’m wrong.

Javier,
I’ve thought about the same thing! I think it’s just something that can’t be sold, but found out through friends, like the journalist.

By: loveandhatela

loveandhatela — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:04:11 +0000

Once again another reason why the New York Times is a better newspaper than the El Lay Times.
Instead the LA Times been hawking their “new” website…hazme el pinche favor..lol

And i call it first…I want a 3 some with Pedro and Lupillo.

- im on team Jenny Rivera…not Graciela Beltran

Y soledadenmasa dame 3 de Negra Modelo por favor

By: M. Saldivar Galindo

M. Saldivar Galindo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:01:32 +0000

Not knowledgeable about Narco corridos aside from hearing it once in a while and having family members who expose me to it at family parties, yet I have many times stopped to listen and see a militancy and Mexican Pride that is strengthened when hundreds or thousands of miles away from home; sometimes the lyrics and tone are closely related to identity, to the “us” vs “them” feelings of the oppressed — very similar to the “Thug Life” and “all white people are ‘blue-eyed devils’ mentality”. Whether this is simplistic, accurate, healthy, or damaging is a far more complex issue.

Overall, a huge amount of expressive art is a release of unfiltered emotion, thoughts and ideas, not diplomatic or PC discourse, so que vivan los narco corridos, que Viva Mexico, Cabrones!

By: RobThomas

RobThomas — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:17:52 +0000

Vidalia, great point. So much for the NY Times’ “travel” section. Looks like their travel dept. is nothing more than a temporary stop for laid off writers from other departments, including the world news crime blotter, as this would indicate.

By: Vidalia

Vidalia — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:11:34 +0000

Do you think they wrote this story for journalistic cred or do you think they’re trying to encourage New Yorkers to fly to LA and cruise around Southgate and South Central? The article also doesn’t seem to have an end.

By: EL CHAVO!

EL CHAVO! — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:36:47 +0000

I’m a fan of much of this “narco” music, mostly because they usually tell interesting stories about the method by which they make their living. I just heard a new one (to me) today by Los Tigres which basically suggested all drug dealers should form an alliance to defeat La Perra that is the DEA. Besides being a decent song, the letra was way more intriguing than anything you hear in English.