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By Rafael Velasquez |Staff Writer| A growing popularity of the Mexican musical genre, narcocorridos which is Spanish for "drug ballads," has taken place within mainstream pop culture over the past decade, especially among Mexican communities in Southern California. Modern artists such as American-born Gerardo Ortiz, El Komander, and LA based band, Los BuKnas de Culiacan, have drastically steered the sound of traditional Mexican norteño music into a more aggressive style with more explicitly violent lyrics. Their sound changed from that of older narcocorrido artists such as the now-deceased Chalino Sanchez and Los Tucanes de Tijuana, who were considered pioneers of the genre in the … [Read more...] about Narcorridos makes its way to mainstream pop culture