Rap and repression: a broken rhyme

Abstract

The purpose of this article is based on the study of the relations between the Brazilian rap and its reflections on the instances of repression, especially with the police. From the lyrics of the songs and rhymes - created in urban cultural manifestations, the objective is to  build up a brief cut of the complicated forms of contracts between security politics and street art. The understanding that rhyme is usually the only instrument of speech of these urban rap artists, and considering this bellicosity is not recent in the trajectory of the movement, it is fundamental to verify how the forms of confrontation with the apparatuses of repression are given and updated.