El Gordo: Fat beats,
fat bass, fat rhymes
Plenty of bands around the world carry the name El Gordo. With such a ubiquitous name, it's fitting, then, that the Milwaukee rap group El Gordo is striving for its own identity within the Mexican-American community.

One the cover: The members of El Gordo - (from left) Chris Ortiz, Noel Artega and Lorenzo Vazquez hang out at Joe's Barber Extraordinaire, Ortiz's family-owned Bay View barbershop.

Photo by C.Taylor.

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