an "understanding" with the government -- yet the music remains enormously popular.
             The problem is that the lyrics of Narcocorridos are strong, dealing with drugs, alcohol, and guns. Interpreters and authors of this type of music find these songs to be normal, just as any other song, because they have to do with real life, day to day, issues, even though they may not relate to them personally. Just as any other genre of music, Narcocorridos have an audience that is for and an audience that is against. The audience that is for Narcocorridos says that they are culture driven songs of their native "pueblo". But the audience that is against it, claim that these songs praise drugs, alcohol and weapons that they are degenerating and are a bad influence to anyone who listens to them.
             It all started more than a century ago when German immigrants arrived in Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico to work in breweries. With them, came the polka-like music they were accustomed to in their own land.
             Narcocorridos have their origin in the time of the Mexican Revolution. They tell the adventures and deeds of leaders back in the day. In the beginning of the decade of 1970, there was a new flowing current of music derived with the song Contrabando y Traición. This song, with which Los Tigres Del Norte rose to the top, talks about a couple of smugglers that go on a long trip with the tires of their car full of marihuana.
             The lyrics in a narcocorrido are strong. As mentioned before, they tell the story about someone whose voice is not heard or someone who can't tell their story because they have no way, song writers tell it as it is. They have no limits or restrictions as to what they should and should not say. The language may be nice and sweet but it seems as if authors express themselves better when their language is vulgar and rude. The ingredients for a narcocorrido aren't big catchy phrases, special song structure or a per...