Racionais McS' Sobrevivendo No Inferno Pardue Derek

Specifikacia Racionais McS' Sobrevivendo No Inferno Pardue Derek

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip hop scene in Sao Paulo and firmly establishing themselves as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when rappers needed to defend the very idea that their work was indeed music and a time when neighborhoods such as Capao Redondo, from where Racionais' frontman Mano Brown hailed, often topped homicide statistics, Sobrevivendo empowered as it provoked. As one journalist noted, "the underworld of the Sao Paulo's working-class suburbs is dominated by cheap thrills and provides little space for representation." Sobrevivendo changed all of that; a brutal but invigorating imagination was born.The lure of Sobrevivendo is the particular combination of word and sound that powerfully