The music of Mexico has always favoured vivid storytellers, and that includes a long history of rugged hip-hop wordsmiths. But unlike earlier Mexican rappers, new-school MCs like Alemán, Gera MX and Charles Ans are finally embracing Mexico's unique brand of funk, dropping party-starting bars over the floor-filling beat of cumbia. And even when spitting over the digital slap of trap, crews like Homegrown Mafia bring the straight-from-the-streets rhymes and raw-and-real lyricism of Mexico's corrido tradition into the era of speaker-rattling bass. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.