O Hip Hop como valor cultural afro-brasileiro: identidade e política no Rap brasileiro e na poesia moçambicana

Abstract

This paper aims to recognize the hip hop movement as an Afro-Brazilian cultural value, the from its four elements, namely rap, dj, graffiti and breakdance. Parallel to this, we seek to identify the possible relations between Brazilian rap and Mozambican poetry. The research is divided into three chapters, with their respective subtitles. In the first chapter, entitled “Brief history about hip hop, its elements and its influences, we try to make a short historiographical journey about the origin of the hip hop movement. The second chapter,“ African orality in freestyle, is observed as rap dates back to the practices of traditional African griots, highlighting the rhyming battles, which are influencing the emergence of new rappers on the national hip hop scene. The third chapter “Brazilian rap, orality and Mozambican poetry” draws a parallel between these two black artistic productions, reflecting theoretically and analytically on the influence of African orality on Brazilian rap, on Mozambique's “combat poetry” and observing from a cross-cultural perspective the discursive-decolonial similarities between the poetic productions of Noêmia de Souza and José Craveirinha, and rap artists such as Racionais and Thaíde.