Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.
To do this documentary, the director Pedro Henrique Fávero featured 42 characters - among MCs, DJs and producers - to make a detailed map of its kind in the country. Without mincing words, they speak openly here about 8 topics proposed by the film and try to understand Hip Hop in Brazil. The result is a collection of stories from a lot of fighting, where there are many eternal start-end-start, overcoming the difficulties of being understood and feeling of belonging to a group and many clichés.
The documentary shows the awakening of the poor youth to social consciousness in the identification of life that imitates art with art that imitates life. It is the São Paulo chapter of the cultural history of national rap in the voice of its main exponents.
Marcos Fernandes de Omena (São Paulo, August 17, 1973), better known as Dexter, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He adopted the alias Dexter in the mid-90s, reading the autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr, when he discovered that one of his sons was called Dexter, which means several adjectives such as: right, correct, freedom, etc.
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