Are Narcocorridos the Latin Gangsta Rap?

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Performance
Andres "El Macizo" Márquez, 22, performs at El Rodeo Night Club in Pico Rivera, California. The fast-paced ballads that Marquez plas, called narcocorridos celebrate the lives and crimes of the drug lords of Mexico.

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