Political-social Rap Songs in Mexico: Analysis of the Discourse of “Gimme the Power” and “El País de las Maravillas”

Abstract

In Mexico, drug trafficking is part of the capitalist socioeconomic organization, a highly profitable activity for the criminal economy. In turn, it has become a sociocultural phenomenon that contributes to the production of bodies and subjectivities. The objective of this article is to contribute to reflections on studies of masculinities in various contexts such as drug trafficking and its impact on the masculinization of the subject, through the creation of dystopian gender fictions. The hermeneutic method was used to study the social construction of masculine identities in complex social phenomena such as drug trafficking. The construction of this article is based on gender and masculinity studies to understand that the emergence of new masculine paradigms is not precisely linked to emancipatory processes. Because capitalism as a civilizational project by imposing an ideal type of human being, men find in drug trafficking and the excessive use of violence a tool of empowerment to comply with the imposed demands and be recognized as subjects, modern human beings that fit perfectly into the capitalist economy, despite their dystopian representation.