Narco Music is the Soundtrack to the Mexican War on Drugs (Part 2/3)

Watch Part 3 on now: Mexico’s narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country’s drug war. The songs are filled with catchy, detailed narrations of beheadings, executions, coked-out nights, and a strangely consistent obsession with Buchanan’s whiskey. With lyrics like “We’re bloddy and a little twisted / We love killing / Mass kidnappings are the way they should be done / All my crew with gold-plated AKs / Shooting up their bo