Boss AC

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Boss AC is a Portuguese rapper originally from Cape Verde. His albums include Ritmo, Amor e Palavras and TPC.

He is considered by many to be the best Portuguese-language rapper, bacause of his flow style and his songs' contents.^{[citation needed]} He is allegedly respected in most Portuguese countries. His most popular songs include: "Dinero", "Baza Baza", and "Doa quem doer". Although he lives in Portugal, he spends a lot of his time in Africa, especially Angola. He has collaborated with many Angolan rappers, most notably Gutto, when they collaborated for Dinero.

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Portugal is not only fado and folklore, but also Pop-rock, Rock, Hard-rock, heavy metal and Hip hop. Nowadays it has become an influence to the younger generation. This phenomenon appeared in the 90´s when a group of urban artists, most of them from Lisbon, started to shake the music panorama in Portugal. One of those revolutionaries was Boss Ac. Boss Ac started his career in 1994 with an album called “Rapública”, a compilation album, which joined together the new faces of the hip hop movement. In this album, he was one of the interpreters and producers. After that, Boss Ac records his first album, “Mandachuva”, in the USA with Troy Hightower’s help. This album was a mixture of ragga, soul, r&b, different styles but all turning around the main one, hip hop. Boss Ac felt the need to experience new things and to start going in different directions. So, he decided to get together with Gutto, another “son of Rapública” making the due “No Stress”. Together, they produced music and went on a tour all over the world. In 2002 Boss Ac produced his second album called “Rimar contra a maré”, a more autobiographical album, which was all written and produced by him. This album had definitely much more rap than the other one, as well as more space to the African and Portuguese traditional sonorities. “Rimar contra a maré” was a success! Due to his creativity, Boss Ac continued his search for new successes, always with Gutto’s help, and from that insistence was born “Ritmo, Amor e Palavras”, his last album. It was recorded in 2005 and it’s an album with a powerful love declaration, words carefully chosen and an incredible mixture of rhythms. To produce “Ritmo, Amor e Palavras” Boss Ac had the help of different people from many areas, for example, Plos (Plugwon),The La Soul, Da Weasel, Sam the Kid, Kevin Mercer, Pedro Aires Magalhães, Berg, Carla Moreira, Rita Reis, Dj Konecta or Kalú and many more! 2005 was a year of surprises and achievements, including the nomination to the MTV European Music Awards in the category of Best Portuguese Act. For now, the urban Portuguese poet continues his journey through the hip hop music, trying to offer his fans more poetry sang, said and spitted with anger in a stylish way.