



The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. And now that Jennifer Lopez is approaching menopause, we need a new ‘round-the-way fillet. Enter La La. The MySpace barrio hoochie with the cut-off Raiders jersey to match her equally ghetto vocal chords. A tipster wrote in to say he spotted her recently on an episode of Alex’s favorite show, “LA Ink” getting a tattoo. No me digas! We appreciate her not missing one chicano cliché in this video, either. See if you can spot them all, won’t you?

1. Raised by abuelita
2. Virgen de Guadalupe mural
3. Necklace with name
4. Those nails!
5. All the religious iconography
6. Mexican flag
7. Pictures of her friends around the mirror
8. The can of hairspray by her mirror
9. there’s a charro at the beginning
10. lowrider
11. Old-school baseball cap in your gang color
12. the Oldsmobile
13. the small meals with the large ass drinks
14. The single mamacitas reference (2:30)
15. rosary around the neck and that pompadour (I think)
16. All those damn gold bracelets.
17. The pristine white shoes. At the beach.
18. that purple sweater (go lakers!)
there must be more.
Posted by Diego | January 11, 2008
I full-out donkey laughed when I read that title. And burned my esophagus with my café con leche in the process.
Posted by Latin_Princess | January 11, 2008
at first i thought this was funny, but now i’m just bewildered and embarassed. bring J.Lo back!
Posted by planet claire | January 11, 2008
CHOLA ALERT!! … She’s so classy, but wasn’t La La a dumbass VJ on MTV?
This really makes me appreciate and miss J.Lo.
Posted by Yasuri Yamileth | January 11, 2008
TFW?!? What about the homies figures. Those shits are totes cliched. And mad collectible, apparently.
Also…the massive styrofoam cups enclosing the massive drinks Diego refers to. Entirely and completely barrio. I was secretly hoping for an Orange Bang logo to appear.
And: tight chola pants. Hello?
y…EastLos shoot location. What happened to Pacoima, Sylmar, or Canoga Park? Plenty of raza outside of Boyle Heights, etc., and still in L.A. and still chicano.
What’s more important, perhaps, are the continuity errors.
@Yasuri. I think that the VJ you’re referring to(entertainer) is a Nuyorican currently in and engaged to Carmelo Anthony. Close but no tamale.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | January 11, 2008
and don’t forget the I’m so hard and down but still so fiiiiine look she has on her face!
Posted by pocachica | January 11, 2008
@ pocho: Dude, Pacoima and Sylmar are far too ghetto. Far more ghetto than that video needed to be.
And where did you see cholos in Canoga Park? haha.
Posted by Dan | January 11, 2008
ijole lmao….i just saw the youtube comments….
Posted by andar_de_pelo_suelto | January 11, 2008
Ay, ay, ay! I better break out my size 42 Dickies and my Joker shirt! Well, to be fair, she’s the mouthpiece of the neglected Chicano community!
@ pocho_guey_al_norte:
Suppossedly it’s in and around Van Nuys. “Where I’m [she’s] from.”
@ Dan: Cholos in Canoga Park? Check out Sherman Way and Variel.
Posted by ChupaCaBrooklyn | January 11, 2008
You know, there are times when I get homesick, and I reflect back growing up a young Spic-a-rella in TX, but this one is not one of them.
I did not see a SINGLE can of AquaNet and a lighter at 1:36 in this video. Estas Bratz don’t know nothing about esquina!
Posted by Janie A Go-Go | January 11, 2008
@Dan: Try the area marked off between Topanga and Winnetka to the west and east (esp. DeSoto), and Vanowen and Roscoe/maybe Parthenia to the south and north. Many happened to roll with CPA. Ring a bell? There or Lanark Park.
That was not a funny haha.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | January 11, 2008
@ChupaCaBrooklyn: Funny you mention VN, so thanks for the check. Here at work I had to keep the sound low, so no auditory cues. All visual. My bad.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | January 11, 2008
That music is as about as Latino as Vanilla Ice is R&B.
BOOOOO!
Posted by geronimo | January 11, 2008
Grammy? Latin Grammy?
Oh yeah. Hell yeah.
Posted by Juanzo | January 11, 2008
2008 Nominee for MEL??Anyone?
Posted by pocachica | January 11, 2008
I recommend, maybe prematurely, an ALMA award nomination. I can see Edward James Olmos gettin’ totally jealous by her steppin’ in on his action.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | January 11, 2008
I just noticed the Barbie doll in the vestido tradicional at the beginning. I f****** love this video.
Posted by Diego | January 11, 2008
Oh shiiiit. I totally have… um, had… the Mexican Barbie shown at the beginning.
Posted by ...dijo Alex | January 11, 2008
Thats why I hate cholas from LA, the SF ones have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more class….NOT!
Who would produce that video, seriously needs to get tortured and then shot. The only thing missing is the little loca mole.
Posted by latinogamer | January 11, 2008
I jus threw up a lil in my mouth rite now. Who told this breezy she can sing? Her homegirls?
Posted by xica_xicana | January 11, 2008
they forgot to add the thong hanging out as cholas tend sag their pants…
Posted by latinogamer | January 11, 2008
@ latingamer:
The real down home cholas are in Oakland
Don’t loook at me puppet….don’t look at me!!!!!!
Posted by xica_xicana | January 11, 2008
@xica_xicana
and they all hangout at that mall in Hayward…talking shit to anyone who looks at their way…seriously why would anyone want to look at those missed abortions is beyond me….
Posted by latinogamer | January 11, 2008
LOL yea they really fuck up my Southland experience
Posted by xica_xicana | January 11, 2008
is it me or does this chick look mad old?
damn this song is wack too.
i’m sorry mexicanas and R&B dont mix…
maybe if she was rican or cuban or costa rican . .
Posted by brooklyn alvaro | January 11, 2008
Wait, let me get this straight cause I’m a suburban Latino. So, you ghetto Mexicans DO collect homies which you picked up from the tiendita in your low rider passing the big mural of La Virgen wearing big gold necklaces so that everyone knows your name. Huh. I guess what my primo Benny told me was true.
Posted by bornAgainChicano | January 12, 2008
que la fregada
If her abuela raised such a ‘lady’ why is she got her top up so we can see the bra?La cabrona looks way too old to be doing that kind of non sense.
I thought the LA/Coast xicano artists were supposed to be all cutting edge? Ni maiz
BTW homies are played out unless you collect the ghetto perros
Sadgirl indeed
Posted by ChaChaGirl | January 13, 2008
you know, there’s no cholas in south la, and well… i really wished there were some when i was growing up!
i know, it’s sad, but i missed out on a lot of mexican experiences because of it!
Posted by ivette | January 17, 2008