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Who you tryin’ to get crazy with, esse?  Don’t you know I’m LOCO?

This isn’t a funny story.  I shouldn’t laugh when people die.  But, remember how I’m inappropriate?  I warned you.

Apparently, the shit is going down in Mexico these days.  Obviously there are the drug cartel wars.  Also, Spring Break was just a few months ago; I hear that Cancun still has not replenished its cache of tiny test tubes.

There’s also some sort of literal Battle of the Bands going on down in Mexico, except this time, it’s not a bunch of pimply emo kids making Loud Musical Noises in some dive bar, and competing to be crowned Most Likely to Get Laid Later.  Oh, no.  This is some Serious Shit:

Sergio Vega – known as El Shaka – has been shot dead just hours after he denied reports he had been murdered.

The 40-year-old Mexican singer was shot and killed on Saturday (June 26) while driving his red Cadillac, according to Mexican media. He was on his way to a concert in Sinaloa state.

Hours before the shooting, Vega told the website La Oreja that earlier rumours and reports of his murder had been mistaken. He said he had increased his security measures after the murders of other artists.

Vega was signed to Disa Records, and his latest album, “Quién Es Usted?” peaked at No.29 on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart last year. His most recent single, “Millonario de Amor,” was beginning to get airplay on the regional Mexican airplay chart last month.

Vega is the latest casualty in a string of high-profile murders that have rocked the regional Mexican music world since the murder of banda singer Valentín Elizalde in November 2006. In the ensuing year, more than 10 regional Mexican musicians were murdered, including Sergio Gomez, leader of duranguense group K-Paz de la Sierra.

The following year, four members of Herederos de Sinaloa were killed in an ambush, and in 2009, the drummer for Conjunto Atardecer was shot to death in an attack that also left four others dead.

Also last year, Juan Carlos Casillas Castañeda, whose company Producciones Esperanza booked and managed regional Mexican artists, was shot to death as he left a wedding.

Most recently, on June 12, in what appears to be a case of random violence, the son of Mexican singer Joan Sebastian was killed in a bar fight. José Sebastian Figueroa was shot by a security guard outside a bar in Cuernavaca. Four years earlier, in August, 2006, another of Sebastian’s sons, Trigo Figuero, was shot and killed after a concert by his father in Texas.

Um, Mexico?  I don’t mean to interrupt… but… WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON DOWN THERE?  This reads like a movie script written by an eight year-old.

It’s like Blade Runner meets La Bamba.