EMICIDA AND MCK BETWEEN RIMA AND THE FIGHT: A READING OF RAP IN ANGOLA AND BRAZIL

Abstract

This text analyzes the aesthetic productions Rap Crespo, by the Angolan rapper MCK, and Ismália, by the Brazilian rapper Emicida. The aim is to discuss the approximations, differences and dialogues in the artistic productions of Angolan and Brazilian rappers from a critical and decolonial perspective, articulating historical experience and aesthetic experience. Separated by the Atlantic Ocean, Angola and Brazil are made up of different cultures and ways of life, but maintain a historical and linguistic proximity; both countries were colonized by the Portuguese, who imposed an imaginary, a language and forced these populations to undergo a violent process of enslavement and forced dispersion. Therefore, these multiple realities that cross the post-colonial context carry slavocratic and colonial heritages, so the artists/activists of these two spaces maintain interconnections in the search for the reconstruction of imaginaries linked to black populations from narratives and artistic practices that produce a new looking at black experiences in the world against the violence that dehumanizes black bodies. Thus, supported by Angolan and Brazilian artistic production, we seek to think about the mobilization of “other texts” in Brazilian education, based on laws such as 10.639/03 and 11.645/08 that make the teaching of ethnic and racial relations mandatory in national education, thus leading to possible paths of anti-racist struggle through decolonial education.

Keywords: Rap, decoloniality, Angola, Brazil