Musician convicted in drug case

A musician's ballads of the travails and glories of narcotics trafficking became a focal point this month as the government won its first conviction in a massive drug and gang racketeering case that swept up more than two dozen defendants, many from Monterey County.

[Sarcastically Grinning]

Aint America Great?

[US Marshal]

You Gang Bangers are in for a big surprise. We are going to be making a few arrests in the next few months. You can run but you can't hide. All the necessary evidence is in our possession....Turn yourself in now and we will go light on you!

[Bubba]

Let this be a lesson to the young punks that join? they talk tough and say things like we don't like rats well there will be a time when you will rat, all have talk the talk and sooner or later they are singing like a bird. Pinche Ratas

[Hey Dill Hole]

I love it how these big bad-a$$ gang members roll over, pee on their bellys and rat like big dogs. What happened to that code you had? I thought you weren't supposed to cooperate with the placas? It was either spill your guts...or spend the next several years in cage with another sweaty man exchanging pruno and bodily fluids! All that while some other gangster is back in the barrio punking your old lady and raising your sons to be cranksters and your daughters to be norteno pin cushions! You gangsters got a great life!

[PiinkyandNoBrain]

El Potro de Sinaloa sings ...

Fuen en un caro de la 'Chrysler'
Un Automobile '300'
Se subio Chuy y Mauricio. Felizes y muy contentos.
Como ivan a imajinarse.
Que los bajarian ya muertos.

Fueron Cuatro Sientas libras de Mota que abian soltado
Que jugada del Destino.
Miren como les pagaron
le dieron Rite a Contriario
I les pago con Balasos

En el Asiento de atras ya la muerte iva planiando
quedarse con el dinero I Desidio asesinarlos.
Chuy quedo a lado derecho
y Mauricio a lotro lado.

Ortra tumba San Ignacio y dos familias yorando
Faltan dos admiradores a Canelos de Durango
En bromas y boracheras.
Alvaro los a Estranado

Rancho el chirlar sinaloa ya no volveras a verlos
que toquen Vida Mafiosa del grupo de Los Canelos.
Sin en vida fuimos alegres
Brindemos por los requerdos.

[PiinkyandNoBrain]

Translation of this corrido for those who don't speak spanish.

This is very similar to the previous translation. Maybe this clarifies the story a little bit. It is the typical mafia life. In mexico, these start off poor. They run into good fortune. Someone kills them for greed or for revenge (in this case, it was both). That someone tends to keep the money. Relatives are mourning and sad. Life goes on without them.

Here it is verse by verse. It's a pretty good song. This is known as a NARCO-CORRIDO. Usually, corridos are written after someone dies and they tell the story of that person. Corridos tend to make martyrs of people that we would normally consider criminals. In Mexico and in many poor countries, these give people HOPE.

Enjoy! Also, look into "El Inicio de Chuy y Mauricio" - this one talks about how they got into the mess outlined below - poverty, hard work and a desire to leave both.

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Chuy and Mauricio boarded a Chrysler 300 in a state of happiness and content. How could they know that they would be taken off dead?

They delivered 400 pounds of marijuana. What a play of destiny. Look how they were paid. They gave a ride to the enemy (a woman). And they were paid with bullet shots.

In the back seat, death (same woman) was planning to keep the money and decided to assassinate them. Chuy was found in the passengers side (right side) and Mauricio in the drivers side (left side).

Another tomb in San Ignacio and two families were crying. Two admirers of Canelos de Durango are missing (Chuy & Mauricio). In joking and drunkenness, Alvaro (a friend) has missed them.

Chilar (like a chile patch) Ranch in Sinaloa, you will no longer see them. So play Vida Mafiosa (Mafia Life) Canelos de Durango (group). If in life we were happy. Let’s toast for the memories.

[PiinkyandNoBrain]

El Inicio by El Potro de Sinaloa - This is part 1 of the previous corrido.

Estado de Sinaloa
fue en el rancho de El Chilar
nacieron Chuy y Mauricio
no imaginen es verdad
haya entre cerros y arroyos
sembraban pa cosechar.

Los invadia la pobreza
sufirmientos mas y mas
la luna en la madrugada
los miraban caminar
el sol llegaba y se iba
como los hacia sudar.

Para cerrar la jornada
la lluvia debia empapar
sombrero ropa y huaraches
se tenian que reventar
pisando lodo entre montes
y el frio se lucia mas.

Parecia manto de estrellas
el que la noche alumbraba
testigos de chuy y mauricio
que muy tristes se marchaban
despues los vi por Tijuana
y tambien por Ensenada.

El Chilar se encuentra triste
porque ya no regresaron
Ajoya y El Platanar
La Caña y todos los ranchos
y el puente de San Ignacio
ya jamas los ha mirado.

Llegaron a california
con alvaro trabajaron
el destino y un traidor
sus ilusiones truncaban
hay un corrido que cuenta
el desenlace del drama.

[PiinkyandNoBrain]

Here's what this one says in English for those who don't speak spanish (mas o menos).

Sinaloa state
In the Chile Patch ranch
Chuy and Mauricio were born
Don't imagine it, it's the truth
Between mountains and arroyos
They planted and picked crops

They were overwhelmed by poverty
Suffering over and over
The moon in the early morning
would watch them walk
The sun would come and go
How it made them sweat

To close out the day
The rain would soak
their sombreros, clothing and sandals
The straps would have to break
Walking in mud among the hills
And the cold was more pronounced

It looked like a blanket of stars
That which the night illuminated
Witnesses of Chuy y Mauricio
Who regretfully had to leave
Later on I saw them by Tijuana
And also by Ensenada

The Chile Patch Ranch finds itself sad
Because they never returned
Ajoya (a place in La Sierra Madre for drug trade) and El Platanar (The Banana Patch)
La Cana (the cane) and all the ranches
And the bridge of San Ignacio
They have never again been seen

They got to California
They worked with Alvaro (a person)
Destiny and one traitor
Squashed their illusions/dreams
There's a corrido that tells
The details of this drama

[Serendipity]

US Marshal wrote:

You Gang Bangers are in for a big surprise. We are going to be making a few arrests in the next few months. You can run but you can't hide. All the necessary evidence is in our possession....Turn yourself in now and we will go light on you!

That's one of the problems - law enforcement going 'light' on these criminals. They should have the book thrown at them. Otherwise, the message to wannabe gangsters is, go ahead and do the crime,'cause you may not have to do the time.

[PinkyandNoBrain]

Corridos are nothing but songs about people's lives. Some involve the Narco. Some involve love. Some involve tragedy. They involve all kinds of things. Open up your mind a little Salinas. I recommend Dr. Dre, NWA, Tupac and the like as well. As gangsterish as all of this is, some have good music and good lyrics.

Or you can eat some grapes. Funny, isn't Salinas one of the places that is highly dependent on migrant workers from Mexico?

[Hey Dill Hole]

PinkyandNoBrain wrote:

Corridos are nothing but songs about people's lives. Some involve the Narco. Some involve love. Some involve tragedy. They involve all kinds of things. Open up your mind a little Salinas. I recommend Dr. Dre, NWA, Tupac and the like as well. As gangsterish as all of this is, some have good music and good lyrics.
Or you can eat some grapes. Funny, isn't Salinas one of the places that is highly dependent on migrant workers from Mexico?

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..it's a duck! Migrant workers are a different story than the drug runners.

[PinkyandNoBrain]

Yep. What's your point? I think we are in agreement.

Songs about drug dealers or the little mermaid are not responsible for people's actions. Just like Ozzy Osbourne was not found guilty of teenage suicides because of the song Suicide Solution. This is no different. If we write a song that says shoot yourself and someone does, they need to be held accountable for their own actions.

How's this different than voting Democrat or Republican? We created a mess and we should sleep in it.

[PinkyandNoBrain]

Speaking of Ducks, I hear Deming has the Duck races. Some people there don't like them. I'd like to stop by some day.

[Salinas Gang Bangers]

Salinas wrote:

<quoted text>I am not going to spend my time reading a bunch of Mexican B.S,

I think I will also pass on reading this writing. It is beyond B.S. Sorry Pancho.....

[PinkyandNoBrain]

Looks like you too spent the time to do what you said you wouldn't do. Brings to question your credibility.