These guys grew up with the drug war and their bloody style of corridos have quickly become the most popular in the genre.Įl Komander's popular debut El Katch was instrumental in establishing the controversial Movimento Alterado as a serious force in the corrido business. On “Sanguinarios del M1”, which racked up tens of millions of views on YouTube, Bukanas De Culiacan, El Komander, Los Buitres and others try to outdo each other with violent imagery. This complication record is the perfect introduction to the “Alternative Movement”, an increasingly popular group of corrido artists whose Facebook page details their mantra as “a new genre offering worship to bullets and death.” Like a hip-hop collective's mix-tape, this album showcases the crew who release music under the Twiins Music Group, a small music empire run by brothers Adolfo and Omar Valenzuela. Los Tigres del Norte certainly didn't mind being off the airwaves– they've sold 32 million records in their long career. Though often a banned song gains street cred and becomes even more popular. The title of this album, which translates to Banned Ballads, likely refers to the fact that narcocorridos are often banned from Mexican radio stations, as the government says the songs promote and glorify narcocultura. Legend has it that Zeta cartel took personal offense to the corrido and ordered the hit on Elizalde. On the album's fifth track - “A Mis Enemigos (To My Enemies) - Elizalde brazenly addresses rival cartels, calling them “snakes.” Those enemies would eventually catch up to him: the singer was gunned down in 2006 after a concert during which he sung the song. La Historia de los Exitos is a greatest hits compilation of Sonora-born Elizalde, a beloved and tragic figure in the corrido world. The ten albums below are indispensable pieces of the genre's long and bloody history. While the accordion and horn driven music may be inaccessible to many English listeners, the stories behind the music are shocking and incredible. Since the Mexican drug war began in 2006, the genre has exploded in popularity and the lyrics have kept pace with the brutal violence unfolding in the streets. Narcocorridos, or “drug ballads”, are songs that soundtrack the world of narcoculutra.
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