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[Translation from English to Spanish ] The narcocorrido is a Mexican style of ballad that draws from mariachi, blues...

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The narcocorrido is a Mexican style of ballad that draws from mariachi, blues and country music elements, with a tempo and accordion accompaniment straight out of polka. It's a strange brew. Stranger still are the lyrics, which find melodious ways to exalt violent, ruthless drug dealers, the kind who assassinate cops and decapitate snitches. Actual drug trafficking gangs often commission the songs, both inspiring and taking inspiration from their grisly lyrics. In the documentary "Narco Cultura" narcocorrido producers and musicians brag that their folksy genre is about to become "the next hip hop," a popular form born in the dreams and frustrations of poor people.

El narcocorrido es un estilo mexicano de balada que toma elementos del mariachi, blues y el country, con un tempo y acompañamiento de acordeón tomados del polka. Es una mezcla extraña. Pero más extrañas aún son las letras, que, mediante el uso de melodías, exaltan a la violencia, a los narcotraficantes, los que asesinan policías y decapitan a sus víctimas. De hecho, grupos de narcotráfico suelen financiar la producción de estas canciones; éstas se inspiran en ellos y ellos, a su vez, se inspiran por los mensajes de las mismas. En el documental "Narco Cultura", los productores de narcocorridos y los músicos presumen sobre su género popular diciendo que "se convertirá en el próximo hip hop", una forma popular nacida de los sueños y frustraciones de la gente pobre.

The narcocorrido has corralled legions of fans in America.
The film profiles Edgar Quintero, an American singer whose handsome chubbiness and homicidal lyrics reminded me of (to keep the nascent-hip hop comparisons going) young Ice Cube but whose humble, ingratiating demeanor is more Young MC or Will Smith. Why is this happily married father of an infant selling murder music? Maybe because that music furnishes the modest but comfortable suburban lifestyle he enjoys in Los Angeles.

El narcocorrido se ha hecho de legiones de fans en América.
El filme trata sobre Edgar Quintero, un cantante americano cuyo aspecto robusto y bien parecido y letras homicidas me recuerdan a (para mantener las comparaciones con el hip hop) el joven Ice Cube cuyo carácter humilde era más parecido al de Young MC o Will Smith. ¿Por qué un hombre de familia, felizmente casado y con un hijo, vende música que habla sobre asesinatos? Quizás sea porque esta música es la que le permite darle una vida modesta pero confortable en los suburbios de Los Angeles.

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