Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Narco "Hip Hop Voice Of The Street Pirate" Rappers Rap About Death - Still Cant' Get Listed By "Southern Poverty Law Center"


Reynosa, Mexico (CNN) -- At first blush, there wouldn't seem much glamour in slicing up a rival into several pieces or beheading an enemy with a home-made garrote.
But that's not how two young Mexicans who go by the names of Cano and Blunt see the drug trade. They live in the border city of Reynosa, and to meet them we traveled to a poor, scruffy area near the city's airport.
Cano and Blunt are not traffickers or hit-men. They are rappers who make their living busting rhymes for the guys with the biggest guns.
Their music -- they themselves refer to it as narco-rap -- glamorizes the killings, the 'capos' and the camaraderie of fighting the drug war against the army and the "federales."
Alejandro Coronado (Cano) and Mauro Vasquez (Blunt) are both in their 20s, both shaven headed. Both used to work in a U.S.-owned assembly plant making auto parts.
But times have changed. Now they have a luxury SUV, female fans and street cred.

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