A Mexican genre blending traditional corridos with trap elements and slowed tempos.
The idea to fuse the two genres was proposed by Dan Sanchez who wrote Natanael's first corrido tumbado, "Soy el Diablo".
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A Mexican genre blending traditional corridos with trap elements and slowed tempos. Peso Pluma, Natanael Cano, and Junior H turned it into the biggest Latin genre of 2023.
"Every house party in LA has corrido tumbado on rotation."
Corridos tumbados is a Mexican music genre blending traditional corridos with trap beats, popularised by Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano. Some songs reference drug-trafficking culture; worth a conversation about lyrical content. The genre itself is mainstream. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
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From the urban musical genre called grime.
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Corridos tumbados is a Mexican music genre blending traditional corridos with trap beats, popularised by Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano. Some songs reference drug-trafficking culture; worth a conversation about lyrical content. The genre itself is mainstream. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
Corridos tumbados is the name of a Mexican music subgenre (the singular is "corrido tumbado") that fuses traditional corridos with trap and hip-hop production. Use in music writing. Formal equivalent: "the corridos tumbados genre." Common non-native mistake: confusing with traditional corridos. Tumbado specifically signals the modern fusion. Pluralisation: corridos tumbados follows Spanish pluralisation conventions in English writing. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
“The idea to fuse the two genres was proposed by Dan Sanchez who wrote Natanael's first corrido tumbado, "Soy el Diablo".”
“06. [↑](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corridos_tumbados#cite_ref-:0_6-0)[«¿Qué es el corrido tumbado, la música que canta Natanael Cano?»](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/musica/que-es-el-corrido-tumbado-la-musica-que-canta-natanael-cano/). _El Universal_.”
“03. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corridos_tumbados#cite_ref-3 "Jump up")**["¿Qué es el corrido tumbado, la música que canta Natanael Cano?"](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/musica/que-es-el-corrido-tumbado-la-musica-que-canta-natanael-cano/). _[El Universal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Universal_(Mexico_City) "El Universal (Mexico City)")_ (in Spanish).”
“Y en el Top 50 Global de Spotify, el tema **"Un x100to"** que interpretan los texanos de Grupo Frontera y el puertorriqueño Bad Bunny, que también es un corrido tumbado, se ubicó en el primer sitio.”
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Peso Pluma's Coachella 2023 set was the moment corrido tumbado broke past bilingual audiences — a traditional Mexican regional genre blended with trap rose to global charts with no translation. Natanael Cano's earlier albums laid the groundwork; Peso made it a main stage.
"Peso at Coachella 2023. Corrido tumbado's pop moment."
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