Garcia." In 200 words or less (to match your column length), who was this incredibly funny, talented guy and what in hell happened to him?ĭear Gabacho: "Se Me Paro"! Literally translating as "It Stood Up," but Mexican Spanish for "I Got Hard"-as in, "My Chorizo is Ready to Get Into Your Pink Taco" hard! By the legendary Jonny Chingas, the Blowfly of Chicano rap! Man, I hadn't heard that song-a raunchy doo-wop Spanglish retelling of a homeboy getting it on with his heina, complete with moans and mecos-in years. I wrote to ask them if they had any more Jonny Chingas recordings and received a single-sentence reply: "Hey man, I think the vato's dead." Running a Google search now, there seems to be no info whatsoever on who the dude was, other than his name, Raúl Garcia, which matches the credits on the original Billionaire LP: "R. A dozen years later, just after the Internet came in, I ran a search on AltaVista and got a single result, for a little indie record company in East L.A. The record (especially the title cut and "El Corrido del Bato Loco") was funnier than shit (and musically not too bad).
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I looked closer, saw what was written in small print on the license plate of the car on the cover ("se me paro" ), and went, "Holy shit! I've gotta have this!" I flipped through it for a bit and then stopped dead when I saw the Jonny Chingas Pachuco LP. Dear Mexican: In 1983 or 1984, I was walking home from work down Haight Street in San Francisco one evening and stopped into Watusi Records to look through the dollar cutout bin.
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