Music and Fashion Glamorizing Mexico's Drug War?

There's a hot, new cultural trend among young Mexican-Americans -- similar to the early development of hip hop. Music is at the core of Movimiento Alterado, but it's also about fashion and language. It's alternative, it's largely underground — and it finds its inspiration in the brutal Mexican drug war. From our Fronteras Desk, Jill Replogle takes us to meet several Southern California Mexican--Americans who are shaping it.

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[Chapulinazuladomx]

que basura! tipo la basura del regeton! I am Mexicano, Mexican-Mexican, and I say this is garbage! the guy is doing business and that's good in America where people buy anything, but promoting violence and drugs and all that shit should be criminalized.

[ewonvel88]

im mexican american and consider this music to be nothing but shit, but hey it sells and thats all that matters in a capitalistic society.

[2tooful]

fuck you all haters, i drive by my neighborhood blasting to this hell yeah, love the look of the haters when i drive by.

[oceanside26]

im mex-american too and that musica "alterado" is whack ...