El Karma recounts the rise and fall of a daring smuggler who leaves his humble birthplace in Aguas Calientes, plunges into the high-stakes underworld of Culiacán, and quickly amasses wealth by trafficking drugs to Los Angeles; yet the same fast life that fills his pockets soon targets his family, triggering a violent chain of retaliation in which he hunts down would-be kidnappers, storms their hideout, and meets his own end in a hail of bullets—proving the song’s haunting lesson that whatever energy we unleash eventually circles back, because el karma viene y se va, and not even the fiercest outlaw can outrun the Reaper.