The music can be successful, but in Mexico, it has been a source of controversy. Along with their popularity, corridos tumbados raise controversy precisely because of their lyrical themes, in a ...

Hector Amaya, a communications professor at USC Annenberg who studies narcoculture in Mexico and the U.S., told The Courier Journal there are two types of audiences behind the corrido explosion ...

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 ...

Narcocorridos, or 'drug ballads,' tell the story of the cartel culture in Mexico. The songs are catching on in the U.S. and abroad.