Molotov

The debut album from these Latino rapcore bad-asses may draw a bit from the Rage Against the Machine handbook, but the album (released in 1997) is not only every bit as effective as anything RATM ever did, it's straight up funkier. We're talking moments of Meters-level funkiness. These guys have way better album covers, too.

Too many recent "rock en español" hypes (Negu Gorriak, Niños con Bombas, Todos Tus
Muertos) prove only that gratuitously pissed-off slam-dance funk can sound repulsive no
matter what tongue it's rapped in. But two Mexican posses now exploding throughout Latin
America with alternative-rock takes on hip-hop suggest a future for roch en español
regardless. In fact, especially given their partly English vocals, it's not hard to im... More >