The Nigel Longwood Show: Los Razos

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Nigel: Hello, I'm Nigel Longwood, and I'm here in the studio with Los Razos, a Norteño band who are famous, or rather, infamous for their vulgar lyrics, concerning such issues as immigration across the US-Mexico border, the black market and social strife. Ladies and gentlemen, Los Razos.

Nigel: Sacramento, are Mexicans in the U.S. capable of improving living conditions in Mexico?

Sacramento: Yes, of course, we have to f**k you up so that our people are better off, of course, motherf**ker.

Nigel: Why do you think bad things sometimes happen to good people?

Sacramento: Because some people are a**holes here. There are some gringos that are d**ks; they take advantage of Mexicans because we are outside of our country. But wait until they go over there, and then they will see how we can come down on them. Ñaca!

Nigel: Sacra, you've been in the US for 27 years, when are you planning to release your first English album?

Sacramento: Maybe, I imagine, in the next album. I just need to improve better, because now I can say: “Hey gringo, you, you this and me, f**king mojado, you f**king lazy, f**king güero.”

Nigel: That said...do you think that it is possible to write a good corrido in English?

Sacramento: In puro Razos style, full of four letter words, yes. Four letter words, it’s for me. Because I know how to say: F**king ho, f**king b*tch ...

Band member: You suckin suckin ...

Sacramento: You suckin suckin suckin ... to me.

Nigel: On that subject, who is your favorite rapper or your favorite rap group?

Sacramento: Well, I never got into rappers, I never paid attention to it – until one day I heard my son singing that sh*t. And it made me want to get into it, like for example:

“Fat bitches, dog and bald skull
I'm a bad ass b*tch f**ker every day,
of the crazy stuff I am the king,
take out the coke and pass it on dude”

Nigel: Who works harder, the Mexicans or the Chinese?

Sacramento: [...] Mexicans of course. They don't have a chance against Mexicans who work the hardest and are more intelligent than those dudes. They don't stand a chance against Mexicans.

Nigel: Which California Governor did you most like: Dukemeijan, Wilson, Davis or Schwarzenegger?

Sacramento: The one that breaks my balls is Chacherneger, that f**ker won't give us a drivers license to my people who drive to work, not a single f**king license. He is an a**hole, that f**ker.

Nigel: Do you think you are selling the fantasy of characters that are above the law to people who are actually quite powerless in society?

Sacramento: No, no way. We are selling the truth; we sell the truth in our songs, if that is what you are referring to. We are selling the truth because he and I, we were coke addicts, potheads and womanizers.

Nigel: Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, who is your favorite?

Sacramento: Well, I don't know who those dudes are. The one I know is Maná. That is my favorite group. Maná, because they are Mexicans, that's why I like them.

Nigel: You’re named after someone who gave you work when you first arrived in the US, if you hadn’t ended up in music, what would you be doing instead?

Sacramento: If I was not a musician, personally, I was already prepared when I came from Mexico because I knew how to do construction work. If God had not given me the opportunity to work as a musician, that is what I would have done, construction work.

Reynaldo: When we got here we didn't work as musicians. I started working as a landscaper, blowing leafs. I would arrive home with my hands all dirty. But we earned our daily bread, work is beautiful and one has to work hard.

Sacramento: You got to work with balls.

Reynaldo: Work with balls to get things going.

Nigel: So guys, are you Mexicans or Latinos?

Sacramento: Well, this says it all.

Reynaldo: Mexicans 100%

Sacramento: Mexican all the way to the log ... to the log!

Nigel: Should drugs be legalized in the US?

Sacramento: I don't think so. It’s not good for them to be legalized here in this country, because the way it is, the f**king whiteboys get high as f**k. So if you legalize them, they are going to go crazier than they already are, the f**kers...

Band member: they are going to freeze themselves...

Sacramento: It's the f**king ice that they like ...

Band member: They are gonna lose their teeth ...

Sacramento: They are gonna lose their teeth, the motherf**kers ...

Nigel: Tax day is coming up in the U.S. in a few days, do you think taxes here are too high or two low?

Sacramento: For that they hound you to charge you, you better not owe them a f**king nickel because… a while ago we were doing an interview in Huntington Park, for two seconds they gave us a ticket, just because we were greeting our people. Just because we ran over two seconds and we forgot to put the f**king quarter there in the parking meter, they gave us the ticket. And if we don't pay it, next year it will be like 600 bucks. And it was a f**king Latino who did that sh*t, f**king a**holes...

Nigel: Do you think bilingual education is a good thing or a bad thing?

Sacramento: No, it's f**king great. A bilingual person is f**king great, at least we know how to defend ourselves when they curse our mothers or that they say that we suck. It is good so we can respond back to the f**kers.

Reynaldo: The same way they talk to us it is the way we will talk to them. If they don't understand us, at least we are even.

Nigel: Sacra, this is a very important question. A lot of people want to know the answer, are you a tit man or an ass man?

Sacramento: La papa! The p***y! You understand? The potato, the big potato.

Nigel: Muchos cortan la ramita, pero dejan la raíz. Which part of your Mexican roots are you most proud of?

Sacramento: The roots…that’s a different question…that is another question altogether. Many cut off the leaf but leave the roots, which is another thing. It’s about pot, marijuana. They cut the leaf – wham, wham – but they leave the f**king root intact and then pot grows. That is the correct question. Many cut the leaf, but they leave the root and then the pot comes out again so they can f**k with it.

Nigel: Guest worker program, good idea or bad idea?

Sacramento: I wish all of my people of Latin America that the U.S. shows some compassion to all Latinos that come here to work our asses off so just so they can feed of the f**king welfare.

Nigel: Sacramento, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen that was Los Razos.