Draft:Cuerno Azulado

"Cuerno Azulado" is an unreleased song by Mexican singers Natanael Cano and Gabito Ballesteros. Intended to be part on Cano's album Nata Montana (2023) as its first track, the song was unavailable to play by the album's release, later being removed from the album. Lyrically, it makes references to the Mexican government's relations with organized crime, the AK-47, Mexican former drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and his son Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar

Background
Natanael Cano announced the release date for his album Nata Montana, which would feature fellow artists Peso Pluma and Junior H, among others. "Cuerno Azulado" was listed as the first track on the album. In an interview with El Universal, Cano told them, also referring to "Cuerno Azulado": "I had an offer from [ Andrés Manuel López Obrador]; he wanted me to sing for him, he asked me how much I charged; I told him that I would do it for free for him, and that’s where the conversation ended. Now that he talked about los tumbados, precisely in [Nata Montana], there is a rather sensitive song." "I don’t like to support [singing about narcos]. I know it’s wrong, but it’s what I have to live with; I don’t mind talking about it. What I don’t like is to influence people. I prefer to influence them about something else, less about organized crime. I see it in my nephews who send me pictures with fake guns, others with skimasks, and I say, 'Güey, that’s not right.' I live it, that’s why I don’t like it." At the release of Nata Montana, on 29 June 2023, Cano took to Instagram and posted a Live video, saying that "Cuerno Azulado" was removed from the album from streaming services, adding that he wasn't able to appeal for release and had accepted it. Alongside the removal of the song, the album was released in its wrong title and another track, "Viejo Lobo" (with Luis R. Conriquez), was released a different version excluding vocals by Conriquez.

Live performances
A TikTok video, in a 9 September 2023 show at the Festival Arre HSBC in Mexico City, showed Cano reading a note that he was handed to by someone in the crowd. The video was compared to Chalino Sánchez, who also recieved a note from the crowd which would lead to his death.