El Paso Texas
aka El Chuco
In El Paso Texas thousands of cultural murals have been painted since the 1960s.
Colorful murals can be found throughout this big border city and similar to San Diego's Chicano Park, El Paso muralists often paint pictures with themes that depict the Azteca and Mestizo heritage.
There is no doubt that El Paso features more murals than any other Texas city, with San Antonio's West Side following in at second.
El Paso muralists often paint pictures of recognized political Chicano activist Ruben Salazar who was killed by police at an East Los Angeles political protest.
El Paso
Through My Eyes
By. Mr Casper
It was in the late 80’s and early 90’s when Chuco Town was blasting. Gang banging was hard and low riding was even harder. I was young, dumb and feeling good.
It was all about 40 ounse Mickey’s, red hair llesca and sensual cajeta brown Chuketas who were only a phone call away. Simon ESE, not a worry in the world, just me, my homitos and my cocaine white 79 Cutlass Supreme.
I remember my best friend Mr. Happy (Vito Attaguile RIP) and that loco always had the hook-ups. Always the finest rucas on his books. Babes from Jefferson, Riverside, Bell Air, Burges, Austin High, Andres, yeah get the picture.
We’d go down to the Goodtime Car Wash on Paisano and wash and wax the Cutlass, from its flawless body right down to its 13 inch 100 Spoke Wire Rim Roadsters. Then as the sun was about to set I’d head out to the chante , tirar playa and iron my best pair of dickies.
Mr. Happy and me would then cruise up Alameda while hitting the switches and thumping to Cypress Hill . It wouldn’t take long before we’d come across some sexy ass cholitas looking for some true O.G.’s . We never let it get to our heads. We never thought of our selves as “players”. We just thought that having all Chuco’s most beautiful girls in the Cutlass was the way life was supposed to be.
Then I remember the times we’d get chased out of Ascarate Park by the cops. Those porkys couldn’t stand the sight of low riders. But having them hate on us low-lows was kind of flattering. Hey, when people hate on a player that means the players doing it right. Simon as the saying goes “dogs don’t bark at park cars”. They bark at shiny ones that get everyone looking.
Like I mentioned before, Chuco was the place to be during those times. The bumper to bumpers in Hidden Valley shopping center. Those were the muthaf@#kin days!
Quotes
"A Chicano kid grows up with walls of many kinds around him. When somebody is born into that situation, there are several things he can do. He can ignore the walls and sink into apathy. Or he can become violent and try to blow up the walls. But there is a third way, a way that people have used for centuries. And that is to perform a kind of ritual magic to neutralize the force of the walls by decorating them with signs, symbols, and art. Chicano street writers choose this third way." - Gusmano Cesaretti, Street Writers (1975)
"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy." – Pablo Picasso 1945
"Art is composed of two important elements, which are Form and Content. Form is the harmonious arrangement of color, value, line, shape and texture. Context is the subject matter and the concept that the artist is trying to convey to the viewer." - Emigdio Vasquez | Professional Artist
"Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order." - Luis J. Rodriguez
The Way That We Live
By: Danny "Blue" Corral
You ain't ready for the truth a cholo about to bring,
The estilo we have ain't a fad it's in our genes.
So sit back ese, pay attention and get your pinches facts right-
Being a cholo is from the heart, we're pachuquenos till we die!
Somos , El Paso, Juaritos, y Los Angeles-
Las 3 ciudades , Los tres lugares de los pachucos originales.
We started and originated this Mexican gangster shit-
we're the real motherf@#kerz who are still true to it!
Don't nothing change ese, been having tramos creesed up-
since way back in the days, when the 1st cholos came up outta juaritos, sporting tandos and called themselves pachucos-
veteranos looking up to them, now they calling us cholos.
History shows the raza from El paso & Juaritos took the local style to Califas in the 20's and the 30's-
started the trend in East l.A. then they had the zoot suit riots in the 40's-
The estilo spread like wild fire throughout the barrios of aztlan-
we carry the style in our hearts, representing it with pride-
with odds against us, faced the stereo type, w/ heads high-
now they wanna go and hate cause the Mexicanos are on the rise!
Con sangre de Indio Aztlanero, somos cholos pachuquenos till the day we f#2kin die!
En el Barrio pistiando con los homies, o en las calles cruising and lowriding-
it's part of this vida loca we live and ese ain't nothing changing-
Somos vatos orgullosos with a style that was created by our gente, for our gente and f#@k! who ever try to hate it!
To us it's more than style, it's the way we live our everyday lives-
It's a firme sacred thing, that we will always keep alive!
From the lil P-Wees, to the old school veteranos -
La choliada (El Gangsterim) esta en el Cora y con orgullo lo representamos.
We are honored to be descendants
of the O.G. Pachuquenos-
un saludo a todos los Aztecas, los Guerreros Aztlaneros-
This is for califas, Juaritos, and that wicked Chuco Town-
straight prideful gangsters, we had to put this rola down-
We had to school and educate some of you, on who brought this lifestyle out-
because some of you don't know shit about what the f@#k you're talking about!
So pay attention ese, cause we just gonna do this one time!
Show you how we represent this cholo gangster vida, full of brown pride!
Chuco Town
Next time your passing through El Paso stop by Lincoln Park. The park is right under a massive snake-like freeway overpass full of colorful murals.It is truely an amazing experience to walk by and trip out on mural after mural.
Painted on every one of the freeways concrete pillars is a story EL Paso's history.
El Paso Texas
aka El Chuco
In El Paso Texas thousands of cultural murals have been painted since the 1960s.
Colorful murals can be found throughout this big border city and similar to San Diego's Chicano Park, El Paso muralists often paint pictures with themes that depict the Azteca and Mestizo heritage.
There is no doubt that El Paso features more murals than any other Texas city, with San Antonio's West Side following in at second.
El Paso muralists often paint pictures of recognized political Chicano activist Ruben Salazar who was killed by police at an East Los Angeles political protest.
The Way That We Live
By: Danny "Blue" Corral
You ain't ready for the truth a cholo about to bring,
The estilo we have ain't a fad it's in our genes.
So sit back ese, pay attention and get your pinches facts right-
Being a cholo is from the heart, we pachuquenos till we die!
Somos , el Paso, Juaritos, y Los Angeles-
Las 3 ciudades , Los tres lugares de los pachucos originales.
We started and originated this Mexican gangster shit-
we're the real motherf@#kerz who are still true to it!
Don't nothing change ese, been having tramos creesed up-
since way back in the days, when the 1st cholos came up outta juaritos, sporting tandos and called themselves pachucos-
veteranos looking up to them, now they calling us cholos.
History shows the raza from El paso & Juaritos took the local style to Califas in the 20's and the 30's-
started the trend in East l.A. then they had the zoot suit riots in the 40's-
The estilo spread like wild fire throughout the barrios of aztlan-
we carry the style in our hearts, representing it with pride-
with odds against us, faced the stereo type, w/ heads high-
now they wanna go and hate cause the Mexicanos are on the rise!
Con sangre de Indio Aztlanero, somos cholos pachuquenos till the day we f#2kin die!
En el Barrio pistiando con los homies, o en las calles cruising and lowriding-
it's part of this vida loca we live and ese ain't nothing changing-
Somos vatos orgullosos with a style that was created by our gente, for our gente and f#@k! who ever try to hate it!
To us it's more than style, it's the way we live our everyday lives-
It's a firme sacred thing, that we will always keep alive!
From the lil P-Wees, to the old school veteranos -
La choliada (El Gangsterim) esta en el Cora y con orgullo lo representamos.
We are honored to be descendants
of the O.G. Pachuquenos-
un saludo a todos los Aztecas, los Guerreros Aztlaneros-
This is for califas, Juaritos, and that wicked Chuco Town-
straight prideful gangsters, we had to put this rola down-
We had to school and educate some of you, on who brought this lifestyle out-
because some of you don't know shit about what the f@#k you're talking about!
So pay attention ese, cause we just gonna do this one time!
Show you how we represent this cholo gangster vida, full of brown pride!
El Paso Texas
aka El Chuco
In El Paso Texas thousands of cultural murals have been painted since the 1960s.
Colorful murals can be found throughout this big border city and similar to San Diego's Chicano Park, El Paso muralists often paint pictures with themes that depict the Azteca and Mestizo heritage.
There is no doubt that El Paso features more murals than any other Texas city, with San Antonio's West Side following in at second.
El Paso muralists often paint pictures of recognized political Chicano activist Ruben Salazar who was killed by police at an East Los Angeles political protest.
