The excitement, and controversy, surrounding the lyrical content of corridos tumbados in Mexico in many ways mirrors decades of debate in the United States over the real-life implications of rap ...

Why Do Corridos Tumbados Generate Controversy? In Mexico, even the president has an opinion on what Natanael Cano, Luis R. Conriquez and others sing.

“Corridos bélicos” means “warlike,” and its lyrics are mainly focused on drug trafficking and the ongoing cartel turf battles in Mexico.

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum plans to reduce the popularity of “narco corridos,” a musical genre often linked to drug cartel violence. Sheinbaum vowed to launch a campaign to promote ...

Luis R Conriquez talks about the narcocorridos ban and the chaos at his Mexico show.

The songs ended up converging into a new musical subgenre and, eventually, into a cultural movement that exalted consumption: the so-called “altered corrido” movement, the Spanish word corrido ...

Phoenix (AZ) — Los primos Gabriel y Martiniano Berrelleza no olvidan sus duros inicios como indocumentados en Estados Unidos, ni siquiera ahora cuando al frente del grupo Los Cuates de Sinaloa ...