El LP Lyrics in English by Los Tucanes De Tijuana
El LP is a classic narcocorrido: Los Tucanes de Tijuana tell the life story of a man named Guadalupe, whose nickname ("su clave") is LP. He was born in El Chilar in San Ignacio, Sinaloa, and grew up in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa and the city corridos keep coming back to.
The song is full of winks. He is called an agricultor (farmer) who checks his parcelas (plots of land) from a racer (a dirt bike or quad), and what he grows is "pura de la buena", the good stuff. Best line: "Antes Lupe vendía pan, también paletas y helados", he used to sell bread, ice lollies and ice cream, and now he sells something "para hornear" (for baking), "el famoso polvo blanco". You can guess it is not flour. Animalitos de Perú y de Panamá travel all the way to territorio gringo, and billetales (piles of cash) come back to Culiacán.
It ends on the soft side every corrido hero gets: he adores his family, his daughters and his wife. Useful words here: plebada (Sinaloa slang for a group of young guys), carnal (brother or close friend) and al cien ("at a hundred", fully loyal).
