Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network. They are based in Lanham, Maryland.

The current company took shape when University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company.

Imprints[link]

• AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from SAGE Publications)
• Bernan Press (acquired 2008)
• Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the Evangelist.^[1])
• Government Institutes (acquired 2004)
• Ivan R. Dee, Publisher (acquired 1998)
• Jason Aronson (acquired 2003)
• Lexington Books (acquired 1998)
• Rowman & Littlefield Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999)
• Rowman & Littlefield (acquired 1988 by UPA)
  • Philip Turner Books (founded 2009)
• Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995)
• Taylor Trade (acquired 2001)
  • Bridge Works (acquired 2000)
  • Cooper Square Press (founded 1961 by Rowman & Littlefield, acquired 1988 by UPA)
  • The Derrydale Press (acquired 1999)
  • Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA)
  • M. Evans (acquired 2005)
  • Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000)
• Sheed & Ward (founded in the 1920s in London by Frank Sheed and his wife, Maisie Ward, both prominent in the Catholic Action movement; acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred Heart)
• SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware)
• Hamilton Books (founded 2003)
• University Press of America (founded 1975)
• Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
• Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross)
• The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications)

Distribution[link]

• Bucknell University Press
• Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Lehigh University Press
• University of Delaware Press
• Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

See also[link]

• List of book distributors

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Anthony Daniels
Theodore Dalrymple (pseudonym)
Born	(1949-10-11) 11 October 1949 (age 62) London, England
Residence	England / France
Occupation	Author, journalist, doctor, psychiatrist
Notable work(s)	Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Our Culture, What's Left of It Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
Influenced by	Shakespeare, Johnson, Orwell
Political movement	Conservatism
Religion	None (atheist)

Anthony (A.M.) Daniels (born 11 October 1949), who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in places including a number of Sub-Saharan African countries and the east end of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham^[1] and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.

Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow.^[2] In addition to City Journal, his work frequently appears in The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, and Axess magasin. He is the author of a number of books, including Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What's Left of It, and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.

In his writing, Daniels frequently argues that the liberal and progressive views prevalent within Western intellectual circles minimise the responsibility of individuals for their own actions and undermine traditional mores, contributing to the formation within rich countries of an underclass afflicted by endemic violence, criminality, sexually transmitted diseases, welfare dependency, and drug abuse. Much of Dalrymple's writing is based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill.

Although he is occasionally accused of being a pessimist and a misanthrope, his defenders praise his persistently conservative philosophy, which they describe as being anti-ideological, sceptical, rational and empiricist. In 2010, Daniel Hannan wrote that Dalrymple's work "takes pessimism about human nature to a new level. Yet its tone is never patronising, shrill or hectoring. Once you get past the initial shock of reading about battered wives, petty crooks and junkies from a non-Left perspective, you find humanity and pathos".^[3]

In 2011, Dalrymple received the 2011 Freedom Prize from the Flemish think-tank Libera!.^[4]

Life[link]

His father was a Communist businessman of Russian ancestry, while his Jewish mother was born in Germany and came to England as a refugee from the Nazi regime.^[5]

His work as a doctor took him to Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia), Tanzania, South Africa and the Gilbert Islands. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1990, where he worked in London and Birmingham.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005 he retired early as a consultant psychiatrist, writing in the Sunday Telegraph: "Retired at last! Retired at last! Thank God Almighty, retired at last! Such are the feelings of almost all hospital consultants and general practitioners who retire from the National Health Service after many years of service: years that increasingly have been ones of drudgery, servitude and subordination to politicians and their henchmen, the managers, who utter Pecksniffian pieties as they secure the advancement of their own inglorious careers." He now divides his time (with his wife, Dr Agnes C. Nalpas) between homes in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and France, and continues to write.

Regarding his pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple, Daniels says he "chose a name that sounded suitably dyspeptic, that of a gouty old man looking out of the window of his London club, port in hand, lamenting the degenerating state of the world".^[6]

He is an atheist, but has criticised anti-theism and says that "to regret religion...is to regret our civilisation and its monuments, its achievements, and its legacy".^[7] Although raised as a Christian, he began doubting the existence of a God at age nine. He became an atheist at about age fourteen in response to a moment in a school assembly.^[7]

Daniels has also used the pen names Edward Theberton and Thursday Msigwa^[8] and possibly yet another pen name.^[6]

Writing[link]

Daniels began sending unsolicited articles to The Spectator in the early 1980s; his first published work, entitled A Bit of a Myth appeared in the magazine in August 1983 under the name A.M. Daniels. Charles Moore wrote in 2004 that "Theodore Dalrymple, then writing under a different pseudonym, is the only writer I have ever chosen to publish on the basis of unsolicited articles".^[9] Between 1984 and 1991 Daniels published articles in The Spectator under the pseudonym Edward Theberton.

Daniels has written extensively on culture, art, politics, education, and medicine—often drawing on his experiences as a doctor and psychiatrist in Africa and the United Kingdom. The historian Noel Malcolm has described Daniels's written accounts of his experiences working at a prison and a public hospital in Birmingham as "journalistic gold",^[10] and Charles Moore observed that "it was only when he returned to Britain that he found what he considered to be true barbarism—the cheerless, self-pitying hedonism and brutality of the dependency culture. Now he is its unmatched chronicler".^[9] Daniel Hannan wrote in 2011 that Dalrymple "writes about Koestler's essays and Ethiopian religious art and Nietzschean eternal recurrence – subjects which, in Britain, are generally reserved for the reliably Left-of-Centre figures who appear on Start the Week and Newsnight Review. It is Theodore's misfortune to occupy a place beyond the mental co-ordinates of most commissioning editors".^[4]

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, a collection of essays was published in book form in 2001 (in America, as Dalrymple had little luck with British publishers). The essays, which the Manhattan Institute had first begun publishing in City Journal in 1994, deal with themes such as personal responsibility, the mentality of society as a whole, and the troubles of the lower class, which Dalrymple commonly terms the "underclass". As part of his research for the book, Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide.

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses, published in 2005, is another collection of essays in which he contends that the middle class's abandonment of traditional cultural and behavioural aspirations has, by example, fostered routine incivility and militant ignorance among the poor. He examines diverse themes and figures in the book including Shakespeare, Marx, Virginia Woolf, food deserts and volitional underclass malnutrition, recreational vulgarity, and the legalisation of drugs. One of the essays in the book, "When Islam Breaks Down", was named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks in the New York Times.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Dalrymple's British publisher Monday Books announced it was to publish two books. The first, Not With a Bang But A Whimper, appeared in August 2009. It is different from the US book of the same name, though some of the author's essays appear in both books. In October 2009, Monday Books published Second Opinion, a further collection of Dalrymple essays, this time dealing exclusively with his work in a British hospital and prison.^[11] Dalrymple's most recent book, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality, which analyses how sentimentality has become culturally entrenched in British society with seriously harmful effects, appeared in 2010.

Themes[link]

Daniels's writing has some recurring themes.^[12]

• The cause of much contemporary misery in Western countries—criminality, domestic violence, drug addiction, aggressive youths, hooliganism, broken families—is the nihilistic, decadent and/or self-destructive behaviour of people who do not know how to live. Both the smoothing over of this behaviour, and the medicalisation of the problems that emerge as a corollary of this behaviour, are forms of indifference. Someone has to tell those people, patiently and with understanding for the particulars of the case, that they have to live differently.^[13]
• Poverty does not explain aggressive, criminal and self-destructive behaviour. In an African slum you will find among the very poor, living in dreadful circumstances, dignity and decency in abundance, which are painfully lacking in an average English suburb, although its inhabitants are much wealthier.^[14]
• An attitude characterised by gratefulness and having obligations towards others has been replaced—with awful consequences—by an awareness of "rights" and a sense of entitlement, without responsibilities. This leads to resentment as the rights become violated by parents, authorities, bureaucracies and others in general.^[15]
• One of the things that makes Islam (or, more accurately, Islamism) attractive to young westernised Muslim men is the opportunity it gives them to dominate women.^[16]
• Technocratic or bureaucratic solutions to the problems of mankind produce disasters in cases where the nature of man is the root cause of those problems.
• It is a myth, when going "cold turkey" from an opiate such as heroin, that the withdrawal symptoms are virtually unbearable; they are in fact rarely worse than flu.^[17][18]
• Criminality is much more often the cause of drug addiction than its consequence.
• Sentimentality, which is becoming entrenched in British society, is "the progenitor, the godparent, the midwife of brutality".^[19]
• High culture and refined aesthetic tastes are worth defending, and despite the protestations of non-judgmentalists who say all expression is equal, they are superior to popular culture.^[20][21][22]
• The ideology of the Welfare State is used to diminish personal responsibility. Erosion of personal responsibility makes people dependent on institutions and favours the existence of a threatening and vulnerable underclass.
• Moral relativism can easily be a trick of an egotistical mind to silence the voice of conscience.^[23]
• Multiculturalism and cultural relativism are at odds with common sense.^[24]
• The decline of civilised behaviour—self-restraint, modesty, zeal, humility, irony, detachment—ruins social and personal life.^[25]
• The root cause of our contemporary cultural poverty is intellectual dishonesty. First, the intellectuals (more specifically, left-wing ones) have destroyed the foundation of culture, and second, they refuse to acknowledge it by resorting to the caves of political correctness.
• Beyond and above all other nations in the world, Britain is the place where all the evils summarised above are most clearly manifest.^[26]

Bibliography[link]

• Coups and Cocaine: Two Journeys in South America (1986)
• Fool or Physician: The Memoirs of a Sceptical Doctor (1987)
• Zanzibar to Timbuktu (1988)
• Filosofa's Republic (1989) (published under the pen name Thursday Msigwa)
• Sweet Waist of America: Journeys around Guatemala (1990)
• The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World (1991) (published in the U.S. as Utopias Elsewhere)
• Monrovia Mon Amour: A Visit to Liberia (1992)
• If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor (1994)
• So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer (1996)
• If Symptoms Still Persist (1996)
• Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares (1998)
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine (2001)
• Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) ISBN 1-56663-382-6
• Violence, Disorder and Incivility in British Hospitals: The Case For Zero Tolerance (book published by the Social Affairs Unit, 2002) ISBN 0-907631-97-5
• Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) ISBN 1-56663-643-4
• Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies And The Addiction Bureaucracy (2006) ISBN 1-59403-087-1 (published in the U.K. as Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy ISBN 1-905641-59-1)
• Making Bad Decisions. About the Way we Think of Social Problems (2006) (Dr. J. Tans Lecture 2006; published by Studium Generale Maastricht, The Netherlands. Lecture read on Wednesday 15 November 2006. ISBN 978-90-78769-01-9)
• In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas (2007) ISBN 1-59403-202-5
• Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (US edition) (2008) ISBN 1-56663-795-3
• Second Opinion. A Doctor's Notes from the Inner City (2009) ISBN 978-1-906308-12-4
• Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (UK edition; contains three essays that are not in the US edition) (2009) ISBN 978-1-906308-10-0
• The New Vichy Syndrome. Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism (2010) ISBN 978-1-59403-372-8
• Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality (2010) ISBN 1-906142-61-0
• Vrijheid en oprechtheid. (Freedom and integrety), Pelckmans (2011), together with Bart De Wever

References[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Theodore Dalrymple

External links[link]

• Manhattan Institute Scholar—Theodore Dalrymple
• Archive of City Journal columns
• Archive of New English Review columns
• The Skeptical Doctor (detailed biography, links to current writings, book reviews, speeches and interviews)
• Theodore Dalrymple Forum A forum for the discussion of topics written about by Theodore Dalrymple
• An interview with Theodore Dalrymple about modern society for Dutch public television
• "The Moral Roots of Economic Crisis" 2009 Galbraith Lecture at Memorial University's Harris Centre
• The Skeptical Doctor (Channel on YouTube dedicated to Theodore Dalrymple)

Dennis O’Driscoll (1954 to present) is an Irish poet, essayist, critic, and editor born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Although not widely recognized in the United States, he is considered one of the best European poets of his time. In all, he has written nine books of poetry, three chapbooks, and two collections of essays and reviews. The majority of his works can be characterized by the use of economic language and the recurring motifs of mortality and the fragility of everyday life. As he ages, O'Driscoll's works become more fluid and thoughtful as well as more frequent, and, according to some sources, like Alan Brownjohn of The Sunday Times for instance, even though he is younger than some of the poetic greats, "at best he is already their equal."^[1]

Life and career[link]

Born on January 1, 1954 in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, O'Driscoll was the child of James and Catherine F., a salesman/horticulturist and a homemaker. He was educated by The Congregation of Christian Brothers and then studied Law at University College, Dublin1972-75. After completing his secondary education, at age sixteen (1970), O'Driscoll was offered a job at Ireland's Office of the Revenue Commissioners the internal revenue and customs service. Specializing in "death duties, stamp duties, and customs,"^[2] he was employed for over thirty years full-time. Later, in the 1970s and 80's, O'Driscoll held many part-time jobs and positions in association with his writing. He took, for instance, a position as part-time editor of Tax Briefing, a technical journal produced in Ireland, as well as reviewing poetry for Hibernia, and The Crane Bag. He also served on the council of the Irish United Nations Association from 1975-80. After this, he married Julie O'Callaghan, a writer, in September 1985. In 1987, he temporarily became a writer-in-residence at the National University of Ireland. He has also served as editor of Poetry Ireland Review as well as two textbook anthologies entitled The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry, and Quote Poet Unquote. After thirty-eight years in Revenue, in early 2008, O'Driscoll was asked to write a poem marking the opening of the Revenue Museum in Dublin Castle, marking the first time his job and his art would intermingle. This poem, At The Revenue Museum, which was originally brought to life to be printed in a program for the opening ceremony, now hangs as an exhibit in the museum itself. O'Driscoll stayed in the revenue business for as long as he did due to the advice of a colleague, who told him, "If you ever leave your job, you will stop writing."^[3] Thus, revenue became a sort of fall back option for him; a career that paid regularly and provided a pension. Whereas poetry was his art. Even so, in his memoir entitled, Sing for the Taxman, O'Driscoll states, "I have always regarded myself as a civil servant rather than a 'poet' or 'artist' - words I would find embarrassing and presumptuous to ascribe to myself."^[4]

Critical Works[link]

Prior to the publication of his own poems, O'Driscoll published widely in journals and other print publications as both an essayist and poetry reviewer, for which he was very widely known. In fact,The Times Literary Supplement has called him "one of Ireland's most respected critics of poetry."^[5] During this time he contributed upwards of two-hundred essays and reviews to various publications. Some of the better known periodicals he has been published in are Poetry, The London Magazine, Harvard Review, The Southern Review, and Poetry Review.

He has published a collection of literary criticism entitled Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams, which contains a selection of his essays and reviews. A new collection of his essays, The Outnumbered Poet,is forthcoming from Gallery Press.

Stepping Stones, an acclaimed 500-page volume of his interviews with Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney, was published in 2008.

He is editor of A Michael Hamburger Reader, scheduled for publication by Anvil Press in 2013.

Books and Works[link]

Apart from his contributions to the academic review community, O'Driscoll has published a large number of poems in journals as well. His poetry publications include:

• Kist (Dolmen Press, 1982)
• Hidden Extras (Anvil Press Poetry, London/Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1987)
• Long Story Short (Anvil Press Poetry/Dedalus Press, 1993)
• Quality Time (Anvil Press Poetry, 1997)
• Weather Permitting (Anvil Press Poetry, 1999), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize 2001
• Exemplary Damages (Anvil Press Poetry, 2002)
• New and Selected Poems (Anvil Press Poetry, 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
• Reality Check (Anvil Press Poetry, 2007/ Copper Canyon Press, US, 2008), was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize
• Dear Life (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012/ Copper Canyon Press, US, 2013),

He has also published three chapbooks. These are:

• The Bottom Line (Dedalus Editions, 1994)
• 50 O’Clock (Happy Dragons' Press, UK, 2005)[4]
• All the Living (Traffic Street Press, Minnesota, 2008).

O'Driscoll's poems are often written to contain the major motifs of death and the banality of everyday life in a fluid and discursive style and an economic language base. In an interview, O'Driscoll claimed his sympathy towards writing in the language that is standard to the time period in which one lives. More often than not, O'Driscoll's poems are shrouded by darker thematic content, but every so often his poems can be satiric and even clownish. Despite this, O'Driscoll is know widely for his fundamental compassion for the human condition. The purpose of his poems in often not to stand by and be passively entertaining, but, rather, to challenge te emotional content of the reader's life.

Awards[link]

Due to the notability of his works, O'Driscoll as received numerous awards and recognition from countries around the world. These include:

• Lannan Literary Award
• E.M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center of Irish Studies in Minnesota
• Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for New and Selected Poems
• Shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award for Reality Check
• Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
• Honorary doctorate in literature by University College, Dublin

He has also been asked to give readings of his work in such places as the Poetry Room in Harvard University, the Poetry International in London as well as the Hay-on-Wye and Cheltenham festivals of literature.

References[link]

• "Dennis O'Driscoll." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Sep. 2011.
• O'Driscoll, Dennis. "Interview by Kieran Owens." The Event Guide. Interview by Kieran Owens. 12 2002. Web. <http://dennisodriscoll.com/interviews/interview-by-kieran-owens>.
• "About Dennis O'Driscoll." Dennis O'Driscoll. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://dennisodriscoll.com/>.
• O'Driscoll, Dennis. "Sing for the Taxman." Poetry Magazine. 05 2009: n. page. Print. <http://www.famouspoetryandpoets.com/biography/1570/Dennis_ODriscoll>.
• Cotter, Patrick. "Dennis O'Driscoll." Ireland-Poetry International Web. N.p., 23 06 2008. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://www.poetryinternational.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=11728>.
• Kirsch, Adam. "I Sing Electric: Dennis O'Driscoll's wired, modern picture of Dublin." Slate Magazine. 16 04 2003: n. page. Web. 21 Sep. 2011. <http://www.slate.com/id/2081596/>.
• Garner, Dwight. "Poetry: Read it When You're Drunk." New York Times. (2008): n. page. Web. 21 Sep. 2011. <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/poetry-read-it-when-youre-drunk/>
• O'Driscoll, Dennis. "The Taxman Cometh: A Notebook." Poetry Daily Prose. N.p., 05 2009. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_o%27driscoll3.php>.

Notes[link]

1. ^ "On Poetry." Dennis O'Driscoll. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://dennisodriscoll.com/>.
2. ^ O'Driscoll, Dennis. "The Taxman Cometh: A Notebook." Poetry Daily Prose. N.p., 05 2009. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_o%27driscoll3.php>.
3. ^ O'Driscoll, Dennis. "The Taxman Comethe: A Notebook." Poetry Daily Prose. N.p., 05 2009. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_o%27driscoll3.php>.
4. ^ O'Driscoll, Dennis. "Sing for the Taxman." Poetry Magazine. 05 2009: n. page. Print. <http://www.famouspoetryandpoets.com/biography/1570/Dennis_ODriscoll>.
5. ^ "About Dennis O'Driscoll." Dennis O'Driscoll. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sep 2011. <http://dennisodriscoll.com/>.

External links[link]

• Dennis O'Driscoll website
• Dennis O'Driscoll interview, Mark Thwaite, Ready Steady Book
• "I Sing Ireland Electric Dennis O'Driscoll's wired, modern picture of Dublin.", Adam Kirsch, April 16, 2003, Slate
• Audio: Dennis O'Driscoll reads "Some Wonder Am I" from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

Images[link]

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Cartel de Santa
Background information
Origin	Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Genres	Hip hop, Rap
Years active	1996–present
Website	Official MySpace page
Members
Mono , Big Man MC Babo MC Dharius Rowan Rabia, Mery Dee, DJ Agustín,

Cartel de Santa is a Mexican band from the "barrio de la Aurora", Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. The band started playing in 1996 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and is currently composed of Eduardo Davalos de Luna, also known as MC Babo (lead vocals), MC Dharius, Rowan Rabia (beatmaker) and DJ Agustín (only in live shows).^[1] They have been referred to as one of the most notable Mexican hip-hop artists.^[2]

History[link]

Cartel de Santa started playing in 1996, when MC Babo and some friends began by singing improvised rap songs.

The group became famous in 2003, when the band released its first self-titled album. The album includes hits such as "Perros", "Todas mueren por mi" and "La pelotona".^[3] The album was produced by Jason Roberts^[4] who had previously worked with artists such as Cypress Hill, Ice Cube, House of Pain, Guns N' Roses, Control Machete, and Plastilina Mosh. This contributed to the fame of the band.

That same year, the group released a video clip of the song "Perros". This video was broadcast across Latin America on MTV.^[5]

A year later, in 2004, a new album was released, Cartel de Santa, Vol. 2, which included hits as "Blah, blah, blah", "La llamada" and "El arte del engaño".^[3] Cartel de Santa Vol. 2 counted with the collaboration of other artists, such as Tego Calderón, in "Conexión Puerto Rico", and Mr. Pomel, in "Crónica Babilonia".

In 2007, Cartel de Santa recorded its third album, named Cartel de Santa, Volumen Prohibido. It included the singles "Cheka Wey" featuring female hip-hop artist Mery Dee. A few months after the album release, the lead vocalist, Babo, was arrested for the killing of a fellow band member. During a confrontation with Juan Miguel Chávez, an old rival, on the street, Babo shot a warning shot, which instead hit former band member Ulises. Eduardo Dávalos, Babo, turned himself in to the Ministerial Police of Nuevo Leon state.^[6] He later wrote a song about the incident while in prison in which he expresses his regret over the killing of Ulises. The band released a compilation album, Cartel de Santa, Greatest Hits, aimed at rising funds to be used to set the vocalist free. MC Babo was liberated from prison nine months later, with help of Sony Music,^[1] after the group paid about 130,000 pesos as bail.^[7]

In February 2008, the band released its fourth album, Cartel de Santa, Vol IV. Some of the songs recount Babo's memories during the months he was in prison. The album was meant as a message to fans that "el Cartel" would keep making music. The first single of this album was "Hay mamita" which also has a music videoclip.^[1]

In March 2010, Babo announced on the band's Myspace the release of another album. The fifth album was released in May 2010 with the name "Vol. V: Sincopa". Like their last work, Volume V showed a better sound and beats quality. Cartel de Santa was nominated for the Latin Grammys as a result of their new release.

Controversy[link]

In April 2007, El Babo turned himself in to Mexican police officials claiming that he accidentally shot and killed his fellow band member. While at a house in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, MC Babo learned that the group's driver was allegedly going to the home to settle a dispute, then he shot the driver, Juan Miguel Chavez Pimentel, El Micky, in the leg upon his arrival. El Babo claimed that one of the shots from his .38 revolver ricocheted off of the floor and killed his friend Ulises 'Buenrostro',^[8] the matter is still under police investigation.^[9]

On January 2008, el Babo was released from Jail after 9 months of incarceration, after the group paid a bail of about 130,000 pesos.^[7]

[edit] Discography^[10]

• 2003: Cartel de Santa (RCA Records)
• 2004: Cartel de Santa, Vol. II (RCA Records)
• 2007: Cartel de Santa, Volumen ProIIIbido (Norte)
• 2007: Cartel de Santa, Greatest Hits
• 2008: Cartel de Santa, Vol. IV (Sony BMG)
• 2010: Cartel de Santa, Vol. V (Sony BMG)
• 2011: Cartel de Santa, Vol. V.1

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Cartel de Santa on Myspace
• Allmusic