Brazilian hip hop

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Brazilian hip hop is one of the world's major hip hop scenes, with active rap, break dance, and graffiti scenes, especially in São Paulo, where groups tend to have a more international style, influenced by old school hip hop and gangsta rap.

São Paulo's hip hop scene is largely influenced by social inequality and racial factors. Rappers like Racionais MC's focus on criticizing the city's unequal wealth distribution, the lack of opportunity given to children growing up in the slums, and São Paulo state's corrupt government, and avidly promote an anti drug-use agenda.

In other major cities like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, hip hop also appears in fusion styles. In Recife, '90s born manguebeat mixes regional folk styles as maracatu and coco with hardcore punk rock and hip hop. In Rio de Janeiro in the late '90s, bands such as Marcelo D2's Planet Hemp opened the way to hip hop and samba fusions. Brazilian funk was considered somewhat naive until its sudden "rediscovery" in 2000s, following the international fad towards the "exotic" style.

A new movement has started to make use of the Brazilian hip hop and creative music scene to keep favela residents out of trouble with the ever dangerous and ever evasive Brazilian druglords versus the Brazilian police force drug war. A brave new documentary has been made about this subject entitled Favela Rising. Their Afro Reggae movement's music features styles also interesting to avid listeners of Brazilian hip hop, as well as other genres too.

There are also artists of Brazilian heritage active in other countries, such the UK grime MC Aggro, who burst onto the scene in 2006 with his hit song, Free Yard.

Contents 1 Artists 1.1 São Paulo 1.2 Rio de Janeiro 1.3 Recife (manguebeat) 1.4 Minas Gerais 2 Films 3 External links

[edit] Artists

[edit] São Paulo

• Racionais MC's
• Thaide
• DJ Hum
• Rappin' Hood
• Pavilhão Nove

[edit] Rio de Janeiro

• MV Bill
• Marcelo D2
• Gabriel, O Pensador

[edit] Recife (manguebeat)

• Chico Science
• Mundo Livre S/A

[edit] Minas Gerais

Gurila Mangani[1]

Intruzversus[2]

[edit] Films

• São Paulo, le rap de la saturation. Directed by Yves Billon.

[edit] External links

• [3]
• "Brazilian Rap", from AllBrazilianMusic site
• ", from the project by dre urhahn and jeroen koolhaas, check the movie Firmeza Total on hiphop in Sao Paulo and Rio
• "Brazilian Hip-Hop Material and Ideology: A Case of Cultural Design", by Derek Pardue (March 2005)

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