Narco-Corrido: Gangsta Rap Music With A Mexican Flavor

TIJUANA, MEXICO - OCTOBER 3: Los Tucanes, with star singer Mario Quintero (C), enjoy their just completed state of the art, hi-tech studio October 3, 2003 in Tijuana, Mexico. Los Tucanes are one of the most successful Narco-Corrido bands in Mexico and the U.S. and have sold over 10 million albums. Quintero had the band's new studios built in Tijuana's tough auto repair shop district, where he arrived at age 13 looking for work. Today, Los Tucanes travels to their weekly concerts in Mexico and the U.S. on a private jet parked across the border at the San Diego airport. Narco-Corrido bands, a genre of music that includes a mix of crude lyrics about Mexican drug dealers, their exploits and traditional Mexican music, are hugely popular and banned from being played on the radio in several Mexican states. (Photo by Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images)