Singer Irving Alvarez performs a narcocorrido — or drug ballads — at Los Guitarrazos, an event in Mexico City that highlights regional Mexican music. In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of ...

In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel. I like to work/ And if the ...

With songs chronicling the lives of drug traffickers or railing against violence, Mexican ballad singers are enjoying success. With songs chronicling the lives of drug traffickers or railing against ...

On January 5th Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán in the north-western state of Sinaloa. He is a son of Joaquín Guzmán, an infamous drug lord better known as “El Chapo”. Irate gunmen took ...

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - The more Mexican authorities try to stamp out violent drug ballads celebrating the joys of narcotics trafficking, the more their fame spreads like wildfire, fanned by the ...

I’ve been thinking about making a post here & there of some great old tunes that are constantly in rotation via my iTunes. This week I’ve been bumping Eminem’s “Drug Ballad” non-stop…like literally!

In a packed nightclub in Mexico City, hundreds of young people sang along as a band played a popular song narrating the life of a foot soldier for the Sinaloa drug cartel. I like to work/ And if the ...