Killing Me Softly With My Song

Problems for Mexican balladeers:

A popular Mexican music style could be the culprit behind the many brutal killings of musicians there, the Telegraph reported.

Assassins have burnt, shot or suffocated at least 15 Mexican musicians in the past two years and according to the newspaper they've all included narco corrdos, or drug ballads, in their set lists.

The drug ballads have a folksy sound, but contain explicit lyrics about execution-style hits, drug seizures and trafficking kingpins — often with real names. The Telegraph compared it to American gangster rap.

And although the ballads are banned on Mexican raido, that style of music has become very popular.

Maybe if we'd done that when rap first came along we could have stomped out that junk before it got so big.