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Revolution will come from the bottom,
from the roots, from the mud.
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One for the love, two for the money
Crazy life, Capão
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I'm a warrior of faith
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One for the love, two for the money
Crazy life, Capão
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I'm a warrior of faith
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If crime is a disease
I know the infection
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But I still won't ruin anybody's plans
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So, one for the love, two for the money
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Three for Africa and four for the brothers
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Who are at war and not afraid to fail
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Say what you will
Only God can judge
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Film them.
Film all these police cars, bro.
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We've all watched Dr. Dre's concert.
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The dudes walked onto the stage
through the screen,
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like an image that's…
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Three-dimensional.
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A three-dimensional image!
From outer space.
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It's futuristic.
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So we watch that, and we get inspired.
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"Whoa, that's what's up."
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"Let's rap, because that's what's on!"
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And then we wake up.
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Check this out.
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That's our stage.
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For you and those
who didn't become shark food.
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Those who came
from the other side of the continent,
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who suffered
the botched transatlantic transplant.
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For the naturally strong.
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This is for you.
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-Does Racionais do any social work?
-Here.
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This is our social work.
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Music that changes people's attitudes,
gets into their minds.
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MOUSETRAP IN CAPÃO
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The most violent weekend of all time.
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A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
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End racism! Now! Now!
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When the police officers approached him,
they didn't ask for any explanation.
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They just shot him with machine guns.
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Murdered in the next bedroom,
in his sleep,
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23-year-old Wanderley,
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whom Ms. Ivanda swears is a working man.
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Then I came back bigger.
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São Paulo, Brazil.
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This is Racionais MC's!
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Capão Redondo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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The South Side, in the 1970s,
was still almost rural.
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There were still lots of horses, cattle,
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dirt roads, fences, lots of soccer fields,
lots of kites, you know?
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I was just trying to get by.
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I wasn't going anywhere.
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The way I was back then,
I wouldn't have made it.
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Completely empty-minded. Empty.
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Ready to become a thief.
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I went to an all-white school,
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so they made fun of me
because of my hair, my lips.
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They even had racist nursery rhymes.
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When they came at me, I'd react poorly.
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I'd get violent. I'd draw blood.
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Because my Barrabaz heart
For loving too much
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Would be tried in absentia
It is the law
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If they knew what I know
They wouldn't love, ha!
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Being a recording artist or a singer
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felt as distant as Saturn or Jupiter.
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I knew we would be heard eventually.
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I knew that.
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It was more romantic and naive, like,
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"I want Black people to hear me."
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"I need them to hear me."
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"I need to get into their hearts."
You know?
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I used to live in a war zone.
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I lived in the most dangerous area
of the South Side.
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My street ended in a wooded area.
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Every day, there'd be a new corpse there.
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But there was a soccer field there.
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Our relationship with corpses
became natural.
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You'd see someone who was hanged, or shot,
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and they'd be left there for days.
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That's exactly what the 1980s were like.
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It's a challenge to make people aware
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of what is actually happening.
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My mother and Brown's mother were friends.
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They both went
to Seu Isaac's Candomblé house.
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We became family,
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even though not by blood,
since we were little.
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We've been stuck together ever since.
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I remember vaguely us living
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in the Santa Rita family backyard
in the '70s.
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Because it was a Candomblé yard,
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the family would shelter people.
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When Sunday services were over,
it all turned into samba.
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Sundays were all about samba, cookouts.
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So we grew up surrounded by music.
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During the '80s, the North Side had
many violent neighborhoods.
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But they were further back.
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Where I used to live in Mazzei,
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there was some violence, but not as much.
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At the time,
most parties were still home affairs.
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That was the culture, you know?
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So there was always a party to go to.
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There's this sense of brotherhood
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which dates back 400, 500 years.
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We were together in past lives.
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My family always liked to party,
and it's a large family.
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I used to live in Vila Mazzei,
and when I was 14, I started going out.
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EDI ROCK'S MOTHER
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It was formative.
I carry it with me to this day.
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It's how I got to know music,
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the streets, the world, life.
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I also met KL Jay in Mazzei.
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There was a crowd gathered around,
and KL Jay was dancing in the middle.
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He even had Ray Parker's hair,
like Michael Jackson.
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The man was a legend even then.
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Through breakdancing
We made a pact
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Another duo from São Paulo
Tried their luck
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Through the darkness, yeah
And the damp night air
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We came up with the cure
Which contained venom
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I can see it in people's eyes
when they're leaving a concert.
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Our mission here is
to make people feel good and uplifted.
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It's powerful, it's a mission.
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We're here to accomplish a mission.
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Through music.
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We rocked at rapping.
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Remember the video
we went to the white guy's house?
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Edi Rock and I are from the North Side.
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Brown and Blue, the South Side.
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That's an awesome beat.
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How did you use to go downtown? By bus?
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-There was no subway back then.
-Bus until Praça da Bandeira.
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Bus, subway, bus.
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The bus to Praça da Bandeira,
then the subway to Santana…
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We'd leave from here.
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Capão.
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We'd get on the bus, and it'd take
an hour and a half to get downtown.
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It was a real journey,
almost a spiritual one.
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You'd leave a place of poverty
to a place where all the lights were on.
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Going downtown when we were broke,
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when we got hungry on the bus,
it was like we'd feed on the lights.
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And the shop windows.
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The shop windows, the clothes.
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We'd go to record stores
to see the posters, the cover art.
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Or the sneakers that were in style.
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Man, Galeria was like being in Harlem.
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The songs, the barbershops,
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the record stores…
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All the gestures and rituals
of Black youth.
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We really identified with that.
It was beautiful to see.
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Going downtown was like going to New York.
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Seeing Black people from all over,
North, West, East Sides.
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We began going to dance parties.
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We'd leave the South Side
to go to a dance party.
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I liked being in the middle of it.
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They'd play great music,
Black people all around. I loved it.
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We started our own team.
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KL Jay and I.
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We'd play in the hood
what we heard at the parties.
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We'd bring downtown to the hood.
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The teams had a tradition
of bringing over international groups.
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First time I saw one of them,
like Kool Moe Dee,
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I thought, "Wow, we can do that."
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You'd sing a rhyme,
while a DJ scratched some records.
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Rap music, my rap music,
came to me in '88, '87.
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I was 17 years old.
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I worked at a warehouse
on Brigadeiro Luís Antônio Avenue.
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We unloaded trucks.
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When they were late, I used to write.
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I was an office boy
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and I'd get off at São Bento
to get to my job at the company.
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A lot of names came from there.
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Thaíde, DJ Hum,
MC Jack, Backspin, Os Gêmeos…
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São Bento was the meeting place
for Brazilian hip-hop.
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Look at how powerful that place was.
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Starting now,
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two hours of the best sounds in São Paulo,
with the Zimbabwe team.
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The sound of the people.
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We were at São Bento one day.
A guy showed up and asked,
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"Who are the guys from Capão
who say they can sing?"
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I said, "That's me!"
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He asked. I never said I was great.
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RAP COMPETITION
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"Yeah, there's this rap competition
or something. Let's sign up."
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"Let's sign up and stuff."
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"What will be our name?"
"Let's just come up with one."
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We came up with B. B Boys and signed up.
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We rapped twice and won the competition.
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Holy shit, we just signed up and won!
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"B" dot "B" Boys, you know? B. B Boys.
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Bad Black Boys. What did you expect, bro?
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We were 17.
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B. B Boys is our name
We are the B. B Boys
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Hip-hop is our dance
And rap is our voice
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Came from the underground
Who'd have thought?
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This is no American ghetto
It's Brazilian
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Anything can happen
No one can avoid it
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We kill and we die
For no reason, yeah
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We ended up at Edifício Copan.
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We got there, a group was recording
and Edi Rock and KL Jay were there.
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"What's up, DJ!" I remember it exactly.
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He flinched back, like this.
We were thugs from the South Side.
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Kleber was always discreet.
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"My name is Edi--"
And then he went, "Rock!"
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"My name is Edi,"
and then Kleber would scratch "rock."
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"That's dope! That's crazy.
That's the New York style, man."
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We became their fans.
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My name is Edi Rock
And now I'm gonna show you
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Rap is an art
And that's why I'm gonna sing
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So turn up your radio and listen
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To what I say
I'm sure you're gonna love it
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We decided to merge
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the B. B Boys, Brown and Blue
and Edi Night and KL Night,
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Edi Rock and KL Jay.
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We started hanging out together.
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I met Milton Sales,
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who is an important part
of our history, you know?
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He was part…
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of our pre-history.
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Before we were Racionais.
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Milton was responsible for the meeting
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of KL Jay, Edi Rock, Brown, and Blue.
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That was the first time
I heard my voice in a recording.
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He was a big Bob Marley fan,
and he'd managed a reggae band.
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MUSICAL ACTIVIST
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And he was sure that we'd be like
the Brazilian version of Bob Marley,
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talking about the lives of our people.
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If he disagreed with our politics
in one line or another, he'd question it.
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He pointed us in the right direction.
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"Talk about this, because it's necessary
and no one's talking about it."
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"You have rhythm, you're good with a beat.
You gotta use that to defend the people."
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I didn't even have hot water, bro.
How could I defend the people?
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Stupid racists, leave us alone
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'Cause the poor families
Can't take it anymore
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We all know it, and they fear it
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The indifference that's felt
Towards the ones in need
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They come
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With authority
And always prejudice
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And suddenly our space becomes
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A living hell
And how can we claim our rights
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If we are just citizens
And they are the system?
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Disinformation is our main issue
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But even so, we aim to be equal
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Stupid racists, leave us alone
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Rap took me out of Capão, in a way.
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I got a job far away.
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KL Jay lived on the North Side,
so we'd stay over at his house.
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That might have stopped us
from dying there.
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You know?
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Capão had nothing to offer back then.
249
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Nothing but mud and getting shot.
250
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S. LUÍS CEMETARY
251
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Brown and I started working together.
252
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He was unemployed.
253
00:16:07,466 --> 00:16:12,346
I was an office boy at a firm downtown,
so I got him a job there.
254
00:16:12,429 --> 00:16:14,932
We started seeing each other every day.
255
00:16:16,558 --> 00:16:18,852
We got an invitation from Zimbabwe.
256
00:16:19,895 --> 00:16:22,398
They invited Edi Rock, and I went along.
257
00:16:22,481 --> 00:16:26,318
Zimbabwe had a party network in the hood.
258
00:16:26,402 --> 00:16:28,570
At the time, we called them Bailes Black,
259
00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:32,866
because 90% of the clientele was Black.
260
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Maybe even 99% were Black.
261
00:16:35,285 --> 00:16:39,289
After a while, we began to grow and expand
262
00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:44,128
to the point
where we needed live performers,
263
00:16:44,211 --> 00:16:45,587
because we didn't have any.
264
00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:48,340
We had to get Carlos Zafé,
who was from Rio,
265
00:16:48,841 --> 00:16:51,301
Banda Black Rio, who was from Rio,
266
00:16:51,385 --> 00:16:53,387
Tim Maia, who was from Rio…
267
00:16:53,470 --> 00:16:58,308
Maybe if we had a record label,
we could spotlight something of our own.
268
00:16:58,392 --> 00:17:00,978
We wanted to be the Brazilian Motown.
269
00:17:01,478 --> 00:17:04,982
Only Black music, only Black people.
270
00:17:05,065 --> 00:17:07,651
We developed a compilation album,
Consciência Black.
271
00:17:07,735 --> 00:17:09,361
It would feature several MCs,
272
00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:12,406
and whoever stood out
would get their own LP.
273
00:17:12,489 --> 00:17:16,869
KL Jay arrived with a James Brown record.
274
00:17:16,952 --> 00:17:20,664
He sampled an incredible James Brown song,
275
00:17:21,165 --> 00:17:22,291
and I rapped over it.
276
00:17:22,374 --> 00:17:28,589
When I rapped, everyone was impressed.
"Fucking dope, bro! That's real ghetto!"
277
00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:31,425
The tape got to the guys at Zimbabwe.
278
00:17:31,508 --> 00:17:33,594
They didn't even know who was singing.
279
00:17:33,677 --> 00:17:35,387
"Who's singing this?"
280
00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:37,181
"It's those guys from--" "Who?"
281
00:17:37,264 --> 00:17:41,894
We're Racionais MC's. Ice Blue,
Mano Brown, KL Jay, and I, Edi Rock
282
00:17:41,977 --> 00:17:43,520
You good, Mano Brown?
283
00:17:43,604 --> 00:17:46,690
Not really, bro
Who's bringing back the innocent victims?
284
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:50,110
But life goes on
So what? Who cares?
285
00:17:50,694 --> 00:17:52,946
Society just slams its doors anyway
286
00:17:53,030 --> 00:17:54,907
What's up, Ice Blue?
Panic!
287
00:17:54,990 --> 00:17:56,533
VIOLENCE TAKES OVER SOUTH SIDE
288
00:17:56,617 --> 00:17:59,328
So, when the day goes dark
289
00:17:59,411 --> 00:18:01,663
Only those who are there
Know what goes on
290
00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,041
It seems to me that ignorance always wins
291
00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:06,794
And we're all alone
No one wants to hear our voice
292
00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:08,712
Filled with reasons
Gauged in fists
293
00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:11,173
With no witness to commit
294
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:14,051
And you'd better believe
The truth is made to omit
295
00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:16,303
Because who can guarantee my future?
296
00:18:16,386 --> 00:18:18,889
"Pânico na Zona Sul"
called out the vigilantes.
297
00:18:18,972 --> 00:18:21,975
No one would say it.
We all knew it, but no one would say it.
298
00:18:22,059 --> 00:18:24,853
But "Pânico na Zona Sul" denounced them.
299
00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:28,524
That's fucking brave, you know?
300
00:18:29,024 --> 00:18:30,526
And speaking directly.
301
00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:33,278
Avengers, they call themselves
302
00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:36,073
They kill and humiliate and fire pell-mell
303
00:18:36,156 --> 00:18:38,492
And the police show no will
304
00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:41,245
To investigate the truth
305
00:18:41,328 --> 00:18:42,996
Because it's just inconvenient
306
00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,083
Why would they help
Those they deem delinquent?
307
00:18:46,166 --> 00:18:48,710
And so the story goes on without a hitch
308
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,171
Panic in the South Side persists
309
00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:52,923
Panic in the South Side
310
00:18:53,757 --> 00:18:55,175
Panic in the South Side
311
00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:57,553
Panic in the South Side
312
00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:03,600
Let's say it was a fork in the road.
313
00:19:05,060 --> 00:19:06,895
Like Atom Ant.
314
00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:11,024
It was small and unknown, but strong.
315
00:19:11,108 --> 00:19:12,860
A lot of people
316
00:19:13,902 --> 00:19:15,404
started paying attention.
317
00:19:24,037 --> 00:19:26,790
So we naturally got together.
318
00:19:26,874 --> 00:19:30,210
We shared the same desire
319
00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:33,672
to make powerful music
for people to listen to.
320
00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:37,009
Back then. For the ghetto to listen to,
for Black people,
321
00:19:37,092 --> 00:19:40,971
for the persecuted, the oppressed.
322
00:19:41,638 --> 00:19:46,226
I often felt guilty
for not being from a favela, a slum.
323
00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:51,106
Then I found out Jorge Ben wasn't either,
so I thought, "It's all good!"
324
00:19:56,737 --> 00:19:59,698
This is our thing!
325
00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:03,952
The South is ours!
326
00:20:06,663 --> 00:20:08,624
We'd go to Mrs. Maria's
327
00:20:08,707 --> 00:20:11,001
to rehearse at Kleber's.
328
00:20:11,084 --> 00:20:12,753
Mrs. Maria had to put up with us.
329
00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:13,670
KL JAY'S MOM
330
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:16,089
We made a lot of noise, all day long.
331
00:20:18,008 --> 00:20:22,429
Zimbabwe made an offer to record an LP.
332
00:20:22,512 --> 00:20:24,514
That album took too long to come out.
333
00:20:24,598 --> 00:20:27,267
When it finally did,
the group had been weakened.
334
00:20:27,809 --> 00:20:31,146
We were doing gigs,
but it wasn't enough for me,
335
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,731
because I had a child,
336
00:20:32,814 --> 00:20:36,526
I had two brothers, I paid rent.
337
00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:39,696
And I quit my job,
but the record wasn't out yet.
338
00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:41,740
Damn.
339
00:20:42,658 --> 00:20:46,161
The record wouldn't come out.
It just wouldn't.
340
00:20:47,704 --> 00:20:52,000
Nothing was happening.
I had no job, I had nothing.
341
00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:56,296
One day Serafim shows up with the record,
Holocausto Urbano, in his hands.
342
00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:57,589
He said, "Here it is."
343
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:03,220
Damn! We all hugged,
saying "Fuck, it's finally out!"
344
00:21:03,303 --> 00:21:06,098
Damn, Holocausto Urbano is out!
345
00:21:09,643 --> 00:21:12,271
The songs were even more aggressive.
346
00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:16,275
It wasn't our intention,
but the times called for it, you know?
347
00:21:16,358 --> 00:21:19,444
It was a cry
that was stuck in our throats.
348
00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:22,364
I'mma tell you why the world's like this
349
00:21:22,447 --> 00:21:24,825
It could be better, but it's so bad
350
00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:27,661
Hard times, living is hard
351
00:21:27,744 --> 00:21:29,204
We look for a real reason
352
00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:31,540
But no one knows
Hard
353
00:21:32,207 --> 00:21:33,292
Hard times
354
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:36,378
KL Jay!
355
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:38,338
Hard times…
356
00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:40,132
So things started happening,
357
00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:43,719
like Brown marrying my cousin Eliane.
358
00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:52,936
There was an album release party,
and we took the bus back.
359
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,398
We were going through Largo 13 de Maio,
360
00:21:56,898 --> 00:22:00,610
and everyone was very happy. So, so happy.
361
00:22:01,194 --> 00:22:04,531
We left without paying the bus fare.
So we just started walking.
362
00:22:05,449 --> 00:22:07,075
The driver called us out.
363
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,161
We just walked away in silence.
364
00:22:09,244 --> 00:22:11,705
Once we were far away,
the police stopped us.
365
00:22:11,788 --> 00:22:14,291
The driver called them
and they came running.
366
00:22:14,791 --> 00:22:16,501
They made us face the wall.
367
00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:19,004
We took a heavy beating.
368
00:22:19,087 --> 00:22:21,631
A heavy beating.
369
00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:23,884
Especially Blue and Brown.
370
00:22:23,967 --> 00:22:29,765
The officer made Brown face the wall
as he crouched down,
371
00:22:29,848 --> 00:22:35,103
then he punched him between the legs,
driving his fists up from the floor.
372
00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:40,442
My hands were cuffed behind my back.
The officer punched me in the face.
373
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:41,443
I was in cuffs.
374
00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:46,490
Then the officer said,
375
00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:51,495
"You're going into custody.
And you ladies can go home."
376
00:22:51,578 --> 00:22:53,246
I said, "I'm not going."
377
00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:59,044
I'm absolutely sure that if I'd left,
they would've been murdered.
378
00:22:59,127 --> 00:23:03,882
It was outrageous.
Everybody was utterly outraged.
379
00:23:03,965 --> 00:23:08,220
You put out a record,
and on the way home, you get beat up.
380
00:23:08,303 --> 00:23:13,266
Our lyrics already talked
about protesting and urban issues.
381
00:23:13,350 --> 00:23:17,312
It was resistance and confrontation
382
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:23,985
to all the oppression and repression
we suffered even after the dictatorship.
383
00:23:29,157 --> 00:23:32,619
The '80s were a terrible time
for Brazilian Black people.
384
00:23:32,702 --> 00:23:37,457
FROM 1970 TO 1980,
THE WHITE POPULATION WENT FROM 61% TO 55%
385
00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:41,420
OVER TEN YEARS, BLACK PEOPLE
ROSE FROM 28% TO 38% OF THE POPULATION
386
00:23:41,503 --> 00:23:45,549
FOLLOWING THIS TREND, BY THE YEAR 2000
BLACK PEOPLE COULD NUMBER 60%
387
00:23:45,632 --> 00:23:50,971
AND COULD RULE OVER BRAZILIAN POLITICS
BY OCCUPYING ALL KEY POSITIONS.
388
00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:52,889
WE MUST INITIATE BIRTH CONTROL
389
00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:55,016
It's crazy, isn't it?
390
00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:57,686
The guy puts out a statement…
391
00:23:57,769 --> 00:23:58,687
MASS STERILIZATION
392
00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:04,109
…saying Black women can't have children
because we can't become a majority.
393
00:24:04,192 --> 00:24:06,361
And therefore, take the power.
394
00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:08,822
CONTROL OF BLACK BIRTH RATES
395
00:24:08,905 --> 00:24:10,824
It was the extermination of that time.
396
00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:15,120
A new democracy was born,
though it didn't really exist.
397
00:24:15,745 --> 00:24:20,041
It was born in a transition
between the clenched fist of the military,
398
00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:22,919
in tandem with an economic crisis.
399
00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:30,010
The type of racism we experience in Brazil
is the type that empties Black people.
400
00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:31,678
Not even hatred was left.
401
00:24:31,761 --> 00:24:35,765
And hatred can be
a useful emotion in a war, you know?
402
00:24:36,349 --> 00:24:39,436
Feeling hatred is one thing,
but feeling nothing is another.
403
00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:42,856
As soon as we started
feeling ambitious about rap,
404
00:24:42,939 --> 00:24:45,442
we became one with Public Enemy,
405
00:24:45,525 --> 00:24:48,987
even though they didn't know we existed.
406
00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:50,489
You feel me?
407
00:24:52,908 --> 00:24:57,287
Wherever they are, I want to be there too,
even if from afar, or just in thought.
408
00:24:57,787 --> 00:25:01,625
These names started coming up,
like Malcolm X and whatnot.
409
00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:05,962
We wanted to learn about these things.
So I went to a Black Power movement party.
410
00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:09,174
And from there on,
other rappers started going too.
411
00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:12,344
We had to bring together two things…
412
00:25:12,427 --> 00:25:13,345
AGAINST RACISM
413
00:25:13,428 --> 00:25:15,639
…that were related but were separated.
414
00:25:15,722 --> 00:25:18,892
The organized Black movement,
415
00:25:18,975 --> 00:25:22,062
with Black people who went to school
and were aware of things,
416
00:25:22,145 --> 00:25:26,107
but didn't have access
to the Black youth who weren't aware.
417
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:30,070
Racionais had access
to these young people.
418
00:25:30,153 --> 00:25:32,030
That's when things started happening.
419
00:25:32,781 --> 00:25:38,161
There was going to be a march
to bring Black people together,
420
00:25:38,245 --> 00:25:42,249
and there was a rumor
that some skinheads were going too
421
00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:43,708
to give everyone a beating.
422
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:47,462
We were at Geledés,
and everyone was so terrified.
423
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:48,505
THE BLACK IMAGE
424
00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:50,632
"No, it's no good. We should cancel it…"
425
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:51,967
"What?"
426
00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:56,888
"Hold on. We're going to the hood
and we'll be right back."
427
00:25:56,972 --> 00:26:01,101
We came back armed and said,
"Get this march going. We're coming."
428
00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:05,438
"Let's see if those baldies dare show up.
We'll light them up."
429
00:26:05,522 --> 00:26:09,401
Two families came together.
The political Black movement,
430
00:26:09,484 --> 00:26:11,653
and these new kids who sang.
431
00:26:13,196 --> 00:26:15,073
Narrow-minded
Narrow-minded
432
00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:18,243
You don't listen to me
Or don't get what I say
433
00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:21,955
I try to warn you
You call me a dumb nigga
434
00:26:22,038 --> 00:26:24,958
Primitive and angry
You know it
435
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,378
We are playing with a fixed deck
436
00:26:28,461 --> 00:26:34,134
You have two ways out
Be aware or drown in your own apathy
437
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,219
Choose your path
One less virus
438
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:40,015
Be a true, pure, and informed Black man
439
00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:43,143
Or just be another narrow-minded brother
440
00:26:44,352 --> 00:26:45,437
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
441
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,605
Narrow-minded brother
442
00:26:46,688 --> 00:26:49,649
Narrow-minded brother
One less virus
443
00:26:50,483 --> 00:26:52,944
One less virus
Choose your path
444
00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:55,530
ESCOLHA SEU CAMINHO
RACIONAIS MC'S 1992
445
00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:59,159
We didn't even know
if Racionais would become something,
446
00:26:59,242 --> 00:27:02,203
which way the fight was going,
or who was our adversary.
447
00:27:02,287 --> 00:27:03,913
It was everybody.
448
00:27:03,997 --> 00:27:06,416
Even our own ignorance was our adversary.
449
00:27:06,499 --> 00:27:10,420
Not knowing our cause, inexperience.
Everything was our adversary.
450
00:27:11,004 --> 00:27:12,547
Considering all this,
451
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:15,216
it's truly phenomenal
that we did all that.
452
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,762
The orishas and spirits
must have interfered, bro.
453
00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:20,972
We weren't smart enough to have done that.
454
00:27:21,806 --> 00:27:22,682
For real.
455
00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:25,352
These photos.
456
00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:41,576
EDI ROCK'S FATHER
457
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,536
That's the same funk song that…
458
00:27:46,956 --> 00:27:48,416
This was at Zimbabwe.
459
00:27:49,292 --> 00:27:51,753
-Bro, what about the girlfriend?
-At Zimbabwe.
460
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:52,962
-Oh, yeah?
-Yeah.
461
00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:02,806
Back then we loved to smoke a joint
in the car while listening to Jorge Ben.
462
00:28:04,391 --> 00:28:08,186
I wanted to be like him,
sing like that, you know?
463
00:28:08,269 --> 00:28:12,232
I could visualize my neighborhood
while listening to his music.
464
00:28:15,068 --> 00:28:20,573
It's not easy to join a political idea
465
00:28:21,282 --> 00:28:22,659
with a dancing beat.
466
00:28:22,742 --> 00:28:25,662
It's knowledge we didn't have yet.
467
00:28:27,706 --> 00:28:29,541
His vocabulary was amazing.
468
00:28:29,624 --> 00:28:31,835
And it was loaded with rhythm in itself.
469
00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:37,507
I noticed this one backing track,
in the middle of the harmonies, like this,
470
00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:41,553
"Carol, Carolina"
471
00:28:41,636 --> 00:28:46,224
I said, "Wow, that's dope!
That vocal is Arab. It was Africa!"
472
00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:50,562
Those were the songs I was into
473
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:55,483
during the making of Raio X do Brasil.
474
00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:01,573
1993
We're fucking back
475
00:29:01,656 --> 00:29:02,741
Racionais
476
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:06,327
Using and abusing
Our freedom of speech
477
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,872
One of the few rights
478
00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:11,374
Young Black people
Still have in this country
479
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:16,004
You're entering the world of information
480
00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:20,175
Self-knowledge, denunciation, and fun
481
00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:22,552
This is the X-ray of Brazil
482
00:29:23,052 --> 00:29:24,262
Welcome
483
00:29:30,226 --> 00:29:31,352
KL Jay!
484
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:34,063
Tear it up!
485
00:29:51,372 --> 00:29:54,876
KL Jay, the rabid dog from North Side.
486
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:55,794
Yo!
487
00:29:57,545 --> 00:29:59,005
Wanna see something?
488
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,550
What's up, South Side?
489
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:10,558
You good?
490
00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:13,311
I'm rooting for the North Side.
491
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:15,021
I'm rooting for the East Side.
492
00:30:15,104 --> 00:30:16,606
I'm rooting for the West Side.
493
00:30:16,689 --> 00:30:18,107
I'm rooting for peace
494
00:30:18,191 --> 00:30:20,860
to all the poor communities
in the South Side!
495
00:30:25,198 --> 00:30:27,116
A weekend at the park
496
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,165
The weekend's here
And we all want to have some fun
497
00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:36,459
Summertime, all is joy
498
00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:39,170
January in São Paulo, South Side
499
00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:41,631
Everyone's relaxing
Under the warm blue sky
500
00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:43,508
I want to enjoy the sun
501
00:30:43,591 --> 00:30:46,052
Meet my homies
And shoot some hoops
502
00:30:46,135 --> 00:30:47,720
No trouble
503
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:50,181
I'm an hour away from my hood
504
00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,892
Soon, I wanna see everyone in peace
505
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:55,103
One, two, three cars on the sidewalk
506
00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:57,689
All the rich boys are happy and lively
507
00:30:57,772 --> 00:31:00,358
In open garages, they wash their rides
508
00:31:00,441 --> 00:31:02,944
They're wasting water and having a party
509
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:05,238
Look at all these people
510
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:07,866
Ice cream shops, cinemas
And the pools are heated
511
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,618
Look at all the rich boys and girls
512
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,413
Drown that bitch in the pool
513
00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:16,708
There are go-karts, I can see them
514
00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:19,502
Just like the ones I saw yesterday on TV
515
00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:22,005
Check out that hot club
516
00:31:22,088 --> 00:31:24,716
Check out the Black kid
Looking in from the outside
517
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,427
He can't even remember
The money he needs to take
518
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:30,096
To his drunk father yelling at the bar
519
00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:32,765
He can't even remember yesterday
Today or the future
520
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:35,059
He just dreams through the wall
521
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:37,103
In the hood, the joy remains the same
522
00:31:37,186 --> 00:31:39,731
It's almost noon, everyone is euphoric
523
00:31:39,814 --> 00:31:42,317
This is where my brothers and homies live
524
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,028
And most around here look like me
525
00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:47,363
Here I'm a big deal, I rule the crowd
526
00:31:47,447 --> 00:31:50,366
People have been in a samba
Since 10:00 a.m.
527
00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:53,202
Pay attention to the beat
And mind the chord
528
00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:55,204
What do you say, Mano Brown?
529
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:56,748
Preach for the order
530
00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:58,833
The number one champion in low income
531
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:01,711
The South Side community is dignified
532
00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:04,213
There's a body on the stairs
As an old lady comes
533
00:32:04,297 --> 00:32:06,716
Police! Death! Police! Help!
534
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:12,013
Black and poor people
really related to the song back then.
535
00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:13,723
That was the great revolution,
536
00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:16,726
when we became popular.
537
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:32,325
Our first hurdle was reaching the hood.
538
00:32:32,408 --> 00:32:34,327
Until then, we couldn't.
539
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:38,331
Who was interested in those ideas?
"Voz Ativa," "Negro Limitado"?
540
00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:42,585
Some students, some teachers.
541
00:32:43,378 --> 00:32:46,714
Some specialists.
Some, always just "some."
542
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,425
When "Homem na Estrada" came out,
we broke through.
543
00:32:55,014 --> 00:32:56,557
Who rules everything?
544
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:57,642
The rich.
545
00:32:57,725 --> 00:32:59,686
Who condemns? The rich.
546
00:32:59,769 --> 00:33:01,020
Who are the legislators?
547
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:02,063
The rich.
548
00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:04,857
I've never seen a rich thief die.
549
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:09,028
Many of my homies didn't make it to 23.
550
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:11,823
They're either in jail, or they're dead.
551
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:17,370
Everybody can live in peace
and have everything within their rights.
552
00:33:17,453 --> 00:33:20,873
But there are people
who feel entitled to deny you all that
553
00:33:20,957 --> 00:33:23,584
just because they think you're inferior.
554
00:33:24,252 --> 00:33:27,338
Everybody here can be whatever they want.
555
00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:30,341
Councilmen, congressmen,
teachers, lawyers,
556
00:33:30,425 --> 00:33:33,428
soccer players,
samba singers, or rap singers.
557
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,808
A man on the road starts his life over
558
00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:42,311
His purpose, his freedom
559
00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:44,647
Have been lost, subtracted
560
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,567
He means to prove to himself
That he really has changed
561
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:51,029
That he has recovered
And wants to live in peace
562
00:33:51,112 --> 00:33:52,572
To never look back
563
00:33:52,655 --> 00:33:54,741
To tell crime "never again"
564
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:57,869
Because his childhood was no bed of roses
565
00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:01,164
From juvie, only painful memories
566
00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:04,000
Yes, making money, getting rich, at last
567
00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:07,086
Many have died dreaming that high
568
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:10,173
But tell me who can be happy
And not desperate
569
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:13,468
To see their child born in poverty
570
00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:16,387
In a place where fun was the bar
571
00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:19,849
And Candomblé, for a blessing
572
00:34:19,932 --> 00:34:23,227
This sets the stage
For the story I'm gonna tell
573
00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:26,064
A man on the road
574
00:34:27,273 --> 00:34:31,694
That's when I reached the heart
of the Brazilian people. Their soul.
575
00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:35,323
How do you talk about Black and white
or poor and rich to Brazilians?
576
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:36,824
They're not from the Bronx.
577
00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:41,287
They weren't born to
"whites only" or "Blacks only" bathrooms.
578
00:34:41,370 --> 00:34:45,291
It's a different perspective,
a different sensibility, you know?
579
00:34:45,374 --> 00:34:48,127
The song exploded overnight.
580
00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:52,006
For every ten cars that drove by,
eight were playing "Homem na Estrada."
581
00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:53,216
My God…
582
00:34:53,299 --> 00:34:58,012
The song started playing on radio stations
that didn't play just Black music,
583
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:00,139
or Black party music.
584
00:35:00,223 --> 00:35:03,392
It started playing all over Brazil.
585
00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:06,145
Everyone was happy
that the song was being played.
586
00:35:06,229 --> 00:35:07,772
The LPs were selling.
587
00:35:07,855 --> 00:35:10,817
"I need to talk to you," Brown said.
588
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,946
"Serafa, here's the deal.
I'm really upset, man."
589
00:35:15,696 --> 00:35:19,367
"This is bullshit, Serafa. What the hell?"
590
00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:21,702
"My song is playing everywhere."
591
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:28,584
"It's playing on rich people's stations,
even on religious stations."
592
00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:31,254
"I didn't write my song
to be played everywhere."
593
00:35:31,337 --> 00:35:32,672
"Why are they playing it?"
594
00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:35,007
"You call them
and get it pulled off the air."
595
00:35:35,091 --> 00:35:39,595
"I had no power to put it there.
How can I get it pulled?"
596
00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:42,723
They take your freedom
Your family, your morale
597
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,560
Even after you leave prison
598
00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:48,521
You'll forever be known
As a former inmate
599
00:35:48,604 --> 00:35:50,398
I don't trust the police…
600
00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:51,524
Those motherfuckers!
601
00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:55,862
When Racionais got famous
with "Homem na Estrada,"
602
00:35:55,945 --> 00:35:58,698
the line "I don't trust the police,
those motherfuckers"
603
00:35:58,781 --> 00:36:00,324
got stuck in people's heads.
604
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:03,911
The police just went,
"What? Who are those guys?"
605
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:06,289
And they came after us.
606
00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:08,541
We recorded that line,
607
00:36:09,083 --> 00:36:13,045
and we played concerts where we sang it.
608
00:36:13,629 --> 00:36:15,381
The audience would repeat it.
609
00:36:15,464 --> 00:36:19,760
50,000 people repeated it,
100,000 people repeated it.
610
00:36:20,678 --> 00:36:25,224
During a concert in Anhangabaú,
the police were doing security.
611
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:30,730
Everyone sang "I don't trust the police,
those motherfuckers." What happened?
612
00:36:31,772 --> 00:36:33,566
The fucking show was over.
613
00:36:33,649 --> 00:36:36,027
The police would just end the show.
614
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:40,448
Every police officer dreamed
of starting something with Racionais.
615
00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:46,204
All police stations in a neighborhood
were alerted when I went to sing.
616
00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:49,749
They'd say,
"Anyone can sing here but those guys."
617
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:51,959
"They aren't allowed here in my precinct."
618
00:36:52,585 --> 00:36:55,546
It was a matter of honor
for the cops, at the time.
619
00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:57,965
"Anyone can come but them."
620
00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:00,468
We risked getting shot on the way out.
621
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,184
I was in the kitchen and the phone rang.
622
00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:11,687
"Hey, tell your son
623
00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:14,065
we're going to kill him."
624
00:37:14,148 --> 00:37:15,608
ICE BLUE'S MOTHER
625
00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:18,569
"He's going to stop
badmouthing the police."
626
00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:21,322
"They think they're so great."
627
00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:24,784
I told them, "Before you kill him,
you come here and kill me first."
628
00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:28,955
My spiritual guide is called Ogum-de-Lei.
629
00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:31,457
He takes care of us.
630
00:37:32,291 --> 00:37:34,126
Ana was always with them.
631
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:36,170
MANO BROWN'S MOTHER
632
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:38,714
This one here is also my friend,
she's my friend…
633
00:37:38,798 --> 00:37:40,174
Where's…?
634
00:37:41,175 --> 00:37:43,761
She'd follow her son everywhere.
635
00:37:43,844 --> 00:37:46,681
She'd travel everywhere with them.
636
00:37:47,473 --> 00:37:48,766
Get outta here!
637
00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:55,398
She was very close with him. Very close.
638
00:37:55,481 --> 00:37:57,275
It was just the two of them.
639
00:37:57,358 --> 00:38:00,945
She followed everything,
she even knew all the lyrics.
640
00:38:01,028 --> 00:38:02,154
Yo, Blue.
641
00:38:02,738 --> 00:38:06,575
Since we are actually going
to the police station,
642
00:38:06,659 --> 00:38:09,704
because you know we have to go,
no way out of it.
643
00:38:10,579 --> 00:38:12,081
That's the system.
644
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:16,335
We want to see our people
645
00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:19,505
get away from alcohol, get away from blow,
646
00:38:20,172 --> 00:38:23,134
get away from crack, get away from crime.
647
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:27,221
But some people want to see us
in more and more trouble and dying.
648
00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:28,139
For real.
649
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:31,183
The rich become more powerful,
and our people get fucked.
650
00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:32,101
For real.
651
00:38:32,184 --> 00:38:34,770
If you say it's not what you want,
you're dangerous.
652
00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:35,688
3RD PRECINCT
653
00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:40,818
Once you define which side you're on,
confrontation automatically follows.
654
00:38:42,695 --> 00:38:45,406
Everything we said
was what they didn't want to hear.
655
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:50,119
We behaved exactly the way
they didn't want us to behave.
656
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,330
Would you please leave?
657
00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:54,749
The persecution started.
658
00:38:55,499 --> 00:38:59,712
When we got to the station,
the chief was terrified.
659
00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:01,964
"Who is responsible for this?"
660
00:39:02,048 --> 00:39:04,050
"Who's the officer in charge?"
661
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,261
"You've brought me some trouble."
662
00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:10,348
"Three attorneys, one senator,
663
00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:13,392
two congressmen, and the mayor
calling me on the phone."
664
00:39:13,976 --> 00:39:16,479
That's when Racionais showed its strength.
665
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:22,943
Are you ready for war?
666
00:39:26,489 --> 00:39:28,491
Are you ready for war?
667
00:39:35,748 --> 00:39:36,832
One for all,
668
00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:39,794
and all for one!
669
00:39:40,961 --> 00:39:41,879
KL Jay!
670
00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:57,895
Make some noise!
671
00:40:01,690 --> 00:40:03,317
Racionais!
672
00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:06,070
Racionais!
673
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:07,613
Racionais!
674
00:40:07,696 --> 00:40:09,073
Good people!
675
00:40:09,156 --> 00:40:10,574
Good people!
676
00:40:10,658 --> 00:40:12,118
Praise God!
677
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:13,577
Praise God!
678
00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:14,829
The greatest!
679
00:40:14,912 --> 00:40:16,038
The greatest!
680
00:40:16,122 --> 00:40:18,290
From the streets of São Paulo
to the world…
681
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,921
ANGRY, RADICAL, RACIONAIS MCS
682
00:40:24,004 --> 00:40:27,758
THEY'RE BLACK, ANGRY, AND MEAN,
AND THEY TAKE NO PRISONERS.
683
00:40:31,053 --> 00:40:34,014
We started performing
outside of São Paulo.
684
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:36,183
We started traveling.
685
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:39,103
We'd get on a bus and go
686
00:40:39,186 --> 00:40:41,397
where the music had to go,
no way around it.
687
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,399
Rap had to get there.
688
00:40:43,899 --> 00:40:48,154
Then, we were told
to get a business license.
689
00:40:48,237 --> 00:40:51,031
We had the paperwork,
an office and everything.
690
00:40:51,532 --> 00:40:54,827
Then our accountant told us
we could start carrying guns.
691
00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:56,328
And I said, "Really?"
692
00:40:56,412 --> 00:40:58,497
We're armed and dangerous. Come at us.
693
00:40:58,581 --> 00:41:00,499
We were thinking like
694
00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:02,251
a gang.
695
00:41:02,334 --> 00:41:04,086
That's why we have that reputation.
696
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:07,131
"Oh, my, Racionais!"
697
00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:11,844
Because when we'd get to the venues,
they were hostile.
698
00:41:11,927 --> 00:41:16,974
We didn't play on this side of the tracks.
We played in places like Fundão,
699
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:21,187
where things really went down.
700
00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:23,314
So we couldn't be like wimps.
701
00:41:23,397 --> 00:41:27,193
We had to be tough, always ready.
702
00:41:27,276 --> 00:41:30,488
Don't take the cameras off
of those guys, all right?
703
00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:31,447
Fuck…
704
00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:34,033
When we got to the party in Pelotas,
705
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:40,623
a ton of cops.
Those huge, white cops, very strong.
706
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:43,501
They were kicking some kids.
707
00:41:44,668 --> 00:41:46,504
So KL Jay goes to talk to them.
708
00:41:47,421 --> 00:41:50,508
And they hit a boy
with the butt of their gun.
709
00:41:50,591 --> 00:41:51,926
He was bleeding.
710
00:41:52,009 --> 00:41:56,805
One of our cousins
noticed one of the cops slip up
711
00:41:56,889 --> 00:42:00,184
so he took his gun and got on the bus.
712
00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:03,604
Suddenly, the bus was surrounded,
713
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:06,023
and we were stuck inside.
714
00:42:06,106 --> 00:42:08,025
Then, Priscilla shows up.
715
00:42:09,485 --> 00:42:14,031
"Excuse me, I'm their manager.
I'll talk to them. Don't worry."
716
00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:18,911
The bus door opens, Priscilla walks in.
717
00:42:19,870 --> 00:42:23,249
Minutes later, we're at the windows
pointing our guns at the police.
718
00:42:23,332 --> 00:42:27,419
"Fuck you, assholes!"
719
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:31,465
Word! The boys are all gathered,
so let's have some fun.
720
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:34,593
I wanna see everybody just chilling,
no trouble.
721
00:42:34,677 --> 00:42:38,472
Edi Rock, KL Jay,
Ice Blue, and Mano Brown.
722
00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:40,015
We were not wrong.
723
00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:44,645
The cop made it easy to take his gun,
and he wanted to hurt us.
724
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:47,273
"Take your gun and go, all right?"
725
00:42:47,856 --> 00:42:50,276
And then they let the bus go.
726
00:42:50,776 --> 00:42:54,738
But on the road, when we were about
727
00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:58,826
ten kilometers from where
it all had gone down,
728
00:42:58,909 --> 00:43:02,329
they shot up the bus.
729
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,832
Many shots were fired.
730
00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:08,919
That bus company never
rented us a bus again.
731
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:11,672
-Go fuck yourself!
-No, you go fuck yourself!
732
00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,049
-Fuck you!
-I don't just scold!
733
00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:16,135
Don't touch me! I'm a police officer!
734
00:43:16,218 --> 00:43:17,386
So what?
735
00:43:33,152 --> 00:43:39,116
After all the persecution,
we had our first flight as a band.
736
00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:42,286
We're here, we've made it. Right, man?
737
00:43:42,369 --> 00:43:44,455
Right? Come on, man.
738
00:43:44,538 --> 00:43:47,499
I had never flown before.
The first time was with Racionais.
739
00:43:47,583 --> 00:43:49,918
-There's André, the co-pilot.
-André's here.
740
00:43:50,002 --> 00:43:51,629
How many are left to board?
741
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,466
Here's the deal. You guys are skinny,
742
00:43:55,549 --> 00:43:57,593
so you gotta switch.
Us four won't fit.
743
00:43:57,676 --> 00:43:59,136
Let's get ready for takeoff.
744
00:43:59,219 --> 00:44:02,640
Everyone's inside. Ready for takeoff.
745
00:44:06,101 --> 00:44:06,977
Oh, come on…
746
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:08,979
Let me say something.
747
00:44:09,063 --> 00:44:11,774
Help!
748
00:44:15,736 --> 00:44:21,200
We only really started travelling
after '94.
749
00:44:21,283 --> 00:44:22,451
Before then, not much.
750
00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:24,495
We did go to Brasília.
751
00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:27,164
Those pictures were in Brasília.
752
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:31,585
-Did we go by bus?
-I don't remember. Not by plane.
753
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,630
So how did we go?
I remember it was fucking awful.
754
00:44:34,713 --> 00:44:37,758
Remember that time
Cabelo forgot our paycheck at…
755
00:44:44,556 --> 00:44:47,726
"Our manager is an idiot! You're an--"
756
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:50,479
Cabelo came back holding the money.
757
00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:52,439
"Is it money you want?"
758
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:56,527
When I first got
759
00:44:57,736 --> 00:45:00,864
my paychecks
along with the money from sales,
760
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:02,825
I had no idea.
761
00:45:02,908 --> 00:45:05,619
I was like, "What am I supposed to do
with this money?"
762
00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:09,331
Milton put it on the table, and I said,
"Whoa Milton, what is that?"
763
00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:13,919
"Where am I going with this money?
I'm not taking this anywhere."
764
00:45:14,002 --> 00:45:18,298
"But it's your money."
I was like, "All this money is mine?"
765
00:45:18,382 --> 00:45:21,760
I bought a new motorbike,
and when I showed up everyone was like,
766
00:45:21,844 --> 00:45:25,764
"Are you showing off now?
They won't understand."
767
00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:26,849
I said, "Bro."
768
00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:31,770
"Because we're Black and political,
we're not allowed to have a nice ride?"
769
00:45:31,854 --> 00:45:32,896
"What the hell?"
770
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:36,775
"Then I'll just quit,
become a thug and have my own shit."
771
00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:37,818
"How's that?"
772
00:45:40,904 --> 00:45:42,656
"Can I ride my bike, then?"
773
00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:45,451
"I bought it with my own money
and no one else's."
774
00:45:47,828 --> 00:45:48,662
"All right?"
775
00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:50,664
"Fine."
776
00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:56,170
And when they least expected it,
I bought a green Silverado truck.
777
00:45:56,253 --> 00:45:57,337
Wow!
778
00:45:57,838 --> 00:46:00,507
"Hey, I needed a car
to move my bikes around."
779
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:12,936
Capão Redondo, South Side,
Ice-T and Racionais. All right?
780
00:46:23,363 --> 00:46:24,573
The sound of the favela.
781
00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:27,326
Peace.
782
00:46:28,327 --> 00:46:30,412
RACIONAIS AND PUBLIC ENEMY
783
00:46:30,496 --> 00:46:35,542
We had really started
making our living from music.
784
00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:40,756
We were really being rewarded.
785
00:46:41,340 --> 00:46:43,217
I couldn't sit at home.
786
00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:45,803
I was single. I was never home.
I had money, so…
787
00:46:45,886 --> 00:46:48,472
Sometimes I'd spend a whole week
without going home.
788
00:46:48,555 --> 00:46:49,932
My mom would go crazy.
789
00:46:50,432 --> 00:46:51,975
"Edivaldo, boy!"
790
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:55,229
I'd to go to clubs
with Edi Rock all the time.
791
00:46:55,312 --> 00:46:58,023
We used to go to Clubhouse,
just the two of us.
792
00:46:58,524 --> 00:46:59,942
Many times.
793
00:47:00,484 --> 00:47:04,279
It was a time of transition between
794
00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:11,870
being poor kids,
making money and being famous.
795
00:47:11,954 --> 00:47:14,665
You will go through some bad times
796
00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:17,000
if you're not…
797
00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:19,419
responsible, let's say.
798
00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:21,505
I was very irresponsible, very immature.
799
00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:30,430
We were driving to a concert, and I…
800
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:33,350
On the highway, on Marginal,
801
00:47:33,433 --> 00:47:36,520
I stepped on the gas.
We were running a bit late.
802
00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:40,566
A van drove into the middle of the road.
I was following the car in front,
803
00:47:40,649 --> 00:47:42,651
which swerved, and I missed it.
804
00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:47,364
I hit the car.
It drove into a streetlamp.
805
00:47:47,447 --> 00:47:50,784
And because we didn't wear
seatbelts back then,
806
00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:54,496
the driver hit his head on the…
807
00:47:55,664 --> 00:47:58,458
He suffered head trauma and passed away.
808
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:01,753
COLLISION WITH RAPPERS' CAR
LEAVES ONE DEAD
809
00:48:02,337 --> 00:48:06,550
My car flipped,
and I ended up in the hospital.
810
00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:08,594
It was horrible.
811
00:48:09,094 --> 00:48:11,346
I was happy, and suddenly, bam!
812
00:48:11,430 --> 00:48:14,391
The world falls apart.
I was like, "What the hell?"
813
00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:21,398
I involved the guys
in something that wasn't their fault.
814
00:48:21,481 --> 00:48:22,482
It was serious.
815
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:24,610
The group could've ended right there.
816
00:48:25,903 --> 00:48:30,741
Every time we put out an album,
something came along with it.
817
00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:34,119
There was Edi Rock's accident,
Blue lost a son.
818
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,330
Yeah…
819
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:38,832
We had to be strong.
820
00:48:40,334 --> 00:48:44,630
All of that happened in the same year
that the record came out.
821
00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:48,634
Our first taste of success
was followed by death.
822
00:48:50,177 --> 00:48:52,846
Money started to run out.
823
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:55,724
I had bills to pay,
but how was I supposed to pay them?
824
00:48:56,725 --> 00:48:58,685
It was a horrible time.
825
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:01,980
It was punishing.
I was living in front of a cemetery.
826
00:49:02,064 --> 00:49:04,816
There were no windows,
so the house was covered in mold.
827
00:49:06,443 --> 00:49:10,656
I thought, "Damn it, bro.
You can't live here, you know?"
828
00:49:10,739 --> 00:49:12,741
"Look at your situation. Well?"
829
00:49:17,245 --> 00:49:19,206
I was living in Cohab.
830
00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:21,708
I thought my life was about to get better.
831
00:49:22,584 --> 00:49:25,045
Living in Cohab
I learned that it could get worse.
832
00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:29,216
Cohab was harsher,
despite the neighborhood.
833
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:31,218
It was less romantic, you know?
834
00:49:31,301 --> 00:49:32,970
Weird things happened there.
835
00:49:34,471 --> 00:49:36,556
My daughter was born.
836
00:49:37,057 --> 00:49:39,017
Then my second daughter was born.
837
00:49:40,268 --> 00:49:42,270
I had to become more grounded.
838
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:46,024
I always ask to be a guiding light.
839
00:49:46,525 --> 00:49:48,652
Brown said, "Let's make the next record."
840
00:49:48,735 --> 00:49:50,737
"But where do I start?"
841
00:49:50,821 --> 00:49:51,863
You know, like…
842
00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:56,994
Politics had come
to a boiling point in Brazil.
843
00:49:57,911 --> 00:50:00,747
Hip-hop was taking over the world.
844
00:50:01,248 --> 00:50:06,169
A more liberatory position
began to blossom.
845
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:13,010
By then, we had already been convinced,
846
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,055
by outside forces, that we had a mission.
847
00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:29,985
I'd experienced a new way of living,
and that went into the music.
848
00:50:33,530 --> 00:50:35,365
That was our gothic phase.
849
00:50:36,324 --> 00:50:39,703
Heavier language, more hardcore.
850
00:50:51,923 --> 00:50:55,385
This record was an intense dive,
a deep dive into hell.
851
00:50:57,304 --> 00:51:01,016
60% of underprivileged young people
with no criminal record
852
00:51:01,099 --> 00:51:03,101
have suffered police violence.
853
00:51:03,935 --> 00:51:07,898
Of every four people killed by police,
three are Black.
854
00:51:08,482 --> 00:51:12,736
Only 2% of college students
in Brazil are Black.
855
00:51:12,819 --> 00:51:17,157
Every four hours, a young Black person
is violently killed in São Paulo.
856
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:20,118
I'm Primo Preto, another survivor.
857
00:51:29,127 --> 00:51:32,297
We speak for the people, you know?
858
00:51:32,380 --> 00:51:34,883
We are a voice
for those who are voiceless.
859
00:51:34,966 --> 00:51:41,431
People identify with what we sing,
what we say, how we dress.
860
00:51:41,515 --> 00:51:43,308
And our beat is powerful,
861
00:51:43,391 --> 00:51:45,602
it's irresistible. You can't help it.
862
00:51:45,685 --> 00:51:48,230
Violently peaceful and truthful
863
00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:50,315
I've come to hijack your reasoning
864
00:51:50,398 --> 00:51:53,485
To shake your blood
And your nervous system
865
00:51:53,568 --> 00:51:56,279
And that's not enough,
Brown's like a rabid dog
866
00:51:56,363 --> 00:51:59,157
Number one, a terrorist from the hood
867
00:51:59,241 --> 00:52:01,576
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
I have something for you
868
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:04,704
A poisonous rap or a shower of bullets
869
00:52:04,788 --> 00:52:07,290
And the prophecy came true as predicted
870
00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:09,835
-One-nine-nine-seven!
-A.D.
871
00:52:09,918 --> 00:52:12,003
Black fury is reborn once more
872
00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:15,006
Racionais, chapter 4, verse 3
873
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:16,800
The record was a phenomenon.
874
00:52:16,883 --> 00:52:19,219
All the songs were hits.
875
00:52:19,302 --> 00:52:22,764
The idea was to become popular
among the kids.
876
00:52:23,348 --> 00:52:24,599
Among our peers.
877
00:52:26,268 --> 00:52:28,436
I joined during "Sobrevivendo no Inferno."
878
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,982
My phone number was on the cover.
And it wouldn't stop ringing.
879
00:52:32,065 --> 00:52:32,899
PRODUCER
880
00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:34,609
They'd have three shows a night.
881
00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:36,528
I was actually the support.
882
00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:40,073
I was available 24/7. I had to be alert.
883
00:52:40,157 --> 00:52:46,246
If something happened, I had to be ready
to contact a friend or a lawyer.
884
00:52:46,830 --> 00:52:50,208
I'd monitor them over the phone,
"So? Are you there yet?"
885
00:52:50,292 --> 00:52:56,047
Meire's number served
as hospital, police station, ER, bank.
886
00:52:56,131 --> 00:52:58,633
So Meire took on the difficult part.
887
00:52:58,717 --> 00:53:03,597
I often say Meire is the black box
to Racionais' flying plane.
888
00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:11,605
Until then, I was the one
booking our concerts.
889
00:53:11,688 --> 00:53:16,735
She took over,
from the phone in her house.
890
00:53:17,319 --> 00:53:19,988
So I could let go
and focus on the creative process.
891
00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:23,783
Each person has their process, right?
892
00:53:24,826 --> 00:53:28,872
The energy comes out
of your entrails, your arteries,
893
00:53:28,955 --> 00:53:31,374
and enters the machine, you know?
894
00:53:32,334 --> 00:53:34,836
Like a ghost, or a spirit.
895
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,257
It goes in the machine, you sample it,
make some sounds, and it comes out.
896
00:53:40,550 --> 00:53:43,345
I can talk about "Mágico de Oz,"
for example.
897
00:53:43,428 --> 00:53:45,263
I was at home with Edi Rock.
898
00:53:45,347 --> 00:53:50,560
I was showing him the lyrics.
He said, "Dope. Let's pick a sample."
899
00:53:50,644 --> 00:53:53,355
And I showed him an Isley Brothers record.
900
00:53:53,438 --> 00:53:57,943
The song was slow, so I said,
"Check out what it sounds like at 45."
901
00:53:58,610 --> 00:54:00,445
So I pressed the button and…
902
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:08,453
And he just said,
"Wow! I want that! Awesome!"
903
00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:15,794
It's all about reflection, brother
904
00:54:15,877 --> 00:54:18,004
It's all about thinking
905
00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:21,174
The police always set a bad example
906
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:24,636
Washes my streets with blood
And drives hatred further in
907
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,430
Inside the corners of the city
908
00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:30,392
Inside the extremes of simplicity
909
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:33,144
My freedom was stolen
910
00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:36,690
My dignity violated
No!
911
00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:38,024
Brothers need to get real
912
00:54:38,108 --> 00:54:40,652
Stop killing and cursing each other
913
00:54:40,735 --> 00:54:42,821
Take that shit away from here
914
00:54:42,904 --> 00:54:45,615
God forbid, I don't want
A son of mine to die
915
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:49,035
Or one of my relatives
To swallow a bullet
916
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,746
Do I have to die
For God to hear my voice?
917
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:54,791
Or do I have to turn this place
Into the magical land of Oz?
918
00:54:58,295 --> 00:54:59,129
Yo…
919
00:54:59,212 --> 00:55:00,463
JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
920
00:55:00,547 --> 00:55:03,550
No one was born to live locked up
921
00:55:04,050 --> 00:55:05,677
or within four walls,
922
00:55:06,177 --> 00:55:09,514
or to walk with their heads down
and their hands behind their back.
923
00:55:10,223 --> 00:55:13,727
So if you're all in the same system,
924
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:19,190
if all of you are suffering,
everybody's from the same place,
925
00:55:19,274 --> 00:55:22,777
from suffering and poverty. You know?
926
00:55:23,445 --> 00:55:27,198
Some have a father who drinks,
some don't even have a father, like me.
927
00:55:27,282 --> 00:55:30,368
Some had to pull strings
to help their mothers.
928
00:55:30,994 --> 00:55:33,121
No one here is better than anyone.
929
00:55:33,204 --> 00:55:35,623
Everyone makes mistakes,
everyone has flaws.
930
00:55:36,124 --> 00:55:38,793
We can't point fingers
and want punishment,
931
00:55:38,877 --> 00:55:41,755
because you're all being punished
and nobody likes it.
932
00:55:42,380 --> 00:55:43,673
-Right?
-Yeah!
933
00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:47,010
Chase yours, I'll chase mine.
That's the magic formula for peace.
934
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:51,306
This damn place is a minefield
935
00:55:52,390 --> 00:55:55,393
How many times I thought of
Throwing myself off?
936
00:55:55,477 --> 00:55:58,438
But my hood is all I have
937
00:55:58,521 --> 00:56:01,900
My life is here, I can't just leave
938
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:05,153
Escaping is too easy, but I won't
939
00:56:05,236 --> 00:56:08,114
I won't betray
Who I was, who I am
940
00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:11,117
I like where I'm going and where I've been
941
00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:14,329
Teachings from the favela
Were too good for me
942
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,083
That song is about its time,
so people liked it.
943
00:56:18,166 --> 00:56:19,626
It was a blessed time.
944
00:56:19,709 --> 00:56:21,503
Because that was my reality.
945
00:56:22,003 --> 00:56:26,508
I lived there. I understand why people
946
00:56:27,967 --> 00:56:29,511
hold on to that song.
947
00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:31,513
That's a blessed song.
948
00:56:33,681 --> 00:56:34,516
Yo…
949
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:40,605
Does anyone remember when this happened?
950
00:56:40,688 --> 00:56:46,528
Maybe a large portion of you
were children and won't recall.
951
00:56:47,028 --> 00:56:49,447
But the rest of you will remember.
952
00:56:50,281 --> 00:56:54,411
It's a part of Brazilian history
that was recently written.
953
00:56:54,494 --> 00:56:57,997
Like it happened
in Vigário and Candelária.
954
00:56:58,498 --> 00:57:01,501
And it happens in São Paulo
all the time too.
955
00:57:01,584 --> 00:57:04,546
Another part of Brazilian history
that was written in blood.
956
00:57:06,297 --> 00:57:10,343
341 riot police officers from São Paulo
957
00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:14,389
received orders to invade
the 9th pavilion of Carandiru prison.
958
00:57:14,472 --> 00:57:15,390
WE WANT OUR RIGHTS
959
00:57:15,473 --> 00:57:17,725
Soldiers were meant to contain a riot.
960
00:57:17,809 --> 00:57:20,186
WE ARE IN MOURNING
961
00:57:20,270 --> 00:57:23,064
During the operation,
111 inmates were killed.
962
00:57:23,148 --> 00:57:28,611
São Paulo, October 1st, 1992.
963
00:57:28,695 --> 00:57:29,863
8:00 a.m.
964
00:57:30,905 --> 00:57:32,866
Here I am, another day
965
00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:35,452
Under the bloodthirsty gaze of the lookout
966
00:57:35,535 --> 00:57:37,912
You don't know what it's like to walk
967
00:57:37,996 --> 00:57:41,040
With your head in the sights of an HK
968
00:57:41,124 --> 00:57:44,169
A German machine gun, or maybe from Israel
969
00:57:44,252 --> 00:57:46,880
Shreds thieves up like paper
970
00:57:47,964 --> 00:57:50,425
Here's the deal,
I didn't want to write that song.
971
00:57:51,384 --> 00:57:53,761
The guys from the 9th pavilion asked me.
972
00:57:53,845 --> 00:57:57,474
"Nobody talked about it
and now you have to."
973
00:57:57,557 --> 00:58:00,643
Some of my friends in prison
and others were watching
974
00:58:00,727 --> 00:58:02,854
this chat on the soccer field.
975
00:58:03,438 --> 00:58:07,942
I was introduced to a guy
who was older than me.
976
00:58:08,735 --> 00:58:09,569
Jocenir.
977
00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:14,574
He had written a political piece
about the slaughter.
978
00:58:15,074 --> 00:58:17,869
When they introduced us
on the field in the 8th pavilion
979
00:58:17,952 --> 00:58:19,621
during the game,
980
00:58:20,163 --> 00:58:23,458
it was so hot,
and we were smoking joints this thick.
981
00:58:24,167 --> 00:58:26,711
I read it and went, "That's dope!"
982
00:58:26,794 --> 00:58:29,797
I left with his lyrics
and he thought nothing of it.
983
00:58:29,881 --> 00:58:34,677
I looked for him a year later,
but he was in a different prison.
984
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:37,096
It took me a year to find him again.
985
00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:38,973
And the song had blown up.
986
00:58:40,141 --> 00:58:41,017
You feel me?
987
00:58:41,643 --> 00:58:44,604
It blew up because
we shot the video at the prison,
988
00:58:44,687 --> 00:58:48,399
and the video won
the MTV Brazil People's Choice award.
989
00:58:48,483 --> 00:58:49,400
The song blew up.
990
00:58:49,484 --> 00:58:51,444
Racionais MC's!
991
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:57,575
BEST RAP VIDEO
"DIÁRIO DE UM DETENTO," RACIONAIS MC'S
992
00:59:07,043 --> 00:59:10,004
It was a milestone
for the entire movement. Not just for us.
993
00:59:10,588 --> 00:59:14,217
For us, it was like the World Cup.
Everyone was watching and cheering.
994
00:59:14,300 --> 00:59:16,886
We went up there
and gave a nine-minute-long speech,
995
00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:20,807
just giving shout-outs to people,
talking about favelas, the prison system.
996
00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:25,478
Many people didn't believe in our music.
997
00:59:25,562 --> 00:59:28,022
They said rap ain't music.
998
00:59:28,106 --> 00:59:29,107
But here's the deal.
999
00:59:29,190 --> 00:59:31,776
Racionais has a mission
and we're not gonna stop.
1000
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,822
Our music is from the hood.
1001
00:59:35,905 --> 00:59:39,158
It's the music of Black people.
From Black people to Black people.
1002
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:43,454
The four boys from the favela
still live in the favela,
1003
00:59:43,538 --> 00:59:44,998
but we now have a voice.
1004
00:59:45,081 --> 00:59:46,583
We're here to stay.
1005
00:59:49,294 --> 00:59:52,213
The artists who rock the world are here.
1006
00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:59,512
Brazil, Racionais MC's,
"Diário de um Detento."
1007
01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:08,563
The album went abroad. We went abroad.
1008
01:00:08,646 --> 01:00:14,777
We went to California, New York,
Germany, Japan a few times.
1009
01:00:14,861 --> 01:00:18,823
He told me to go have breakfast
and walked away.
1010
01:00:18,906 --> 01:00:21,034
I asked him to wait, then the door closed.
1011
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:22,994
Now I'm waiting for the key.
1012
01:00:28,791 --> 01:00:29,876
Thanks.
1013
01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:33,212
I could see Brazil differently
from the outside.
1014
01:00:33,296 --> 01:00:37,383
There's a way of being
that's different from what's out there.
1015
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:40,303
-It's best not to try to understand it.
-What's up, man?
1016
01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:42,221
Hey, how are things?
1017
01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:45,058
Cool. I'm here with the boys.
Look, here they are.
1018
01:00:45,183 --> 01:00:46,559
DJONGA
NEW-GENERATION RAPPER
1019
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:48,186
-Yo, yo.
-Yo, bro!
1020
01:00:48,269 --> 01:00:50,063
Look at the rappers!
1021
01:00:50,146 --> 01:00:51,022
Yo, yo.
1022
01:00:51,689 --> 01:00:54,359
The bank robbery's in progress.
Check out the project.
1023
01:00:55,109 --> 01:00:56,194
That's how I like it.
1024
01:00:56,277 --> 01:00:58,488
-See how they're doing.
-Take over the world?
1025
01:00:58,571 --> 01:00:59,864
Rule the world.
1026
01:00:59,947 --> 01:01:03,576
There are a lot of good people,
many songwriters, thinkers,
1027
01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:06,829
who are opening up the dialogue,
broadening perspectives,
1028
01:01:06,913 --> 01:01:08,790
renewing the fight.
1029
01:01:08,873 --> 01:01:10,792
My mother's ancestors came from here.
1030
01:01:10,875 --> 01:01:13,544
East Africa. The Cushitic people.
1031
01:01:13,628 --> 01:01:17,465
They're very old people
who inhabited this entire region. Look.
1032
01:01:17,548 --> 01:01:20,009
-That's rare, right?
-It's rare.
1033
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:22,804
Most come from this side here.
1034
01:01:22,887 --> 01:01:25,348
Yeah. Brazil mostly came
from this middle section.
1035
01:01:25,848 --> 01:01:27,433
And from here, too. Benin.
1036
01:01:28,017 --> 01:01:30,603
My mother's ancestors
also have blood from Benin.
1037
01:01:30,687 --> 01:01:35,149
They left from here to there
and went from the port to Brazil.
1038
01:01:35,233 --> 01:01:38,611
I often say Sobrevivendo no Inferno
was my liberation from slavery.
1039
01:01:43,282 --> 01:01:44,659
Good evening.
1040
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:47,704
I'm William. I'm from Zimbabwe Records.
1041
01:01:47,787 --> 01:01:51,499
We are here to give the gold record
1042
01:01:51,999 --> 01:01:55,169
and platinum record to Racionais!
1043
01:01:55,253 --> 01:01:59,882
For their hard work, with no publicity.
You all did this.
1044
01:02:04,846 --> 01:02:06,597
This is Mano Brown.
1045
01:02:07,849 --> 01:02:09,851
He let us run out of gas.
1046
01:02:10,518 --> 01:02:13,104
Can you believe it?
1047
01:02:13,187 --> 01:02:14,522
Mano Brown…
1048
01:02:16,649 --> 01:02:18,735
from Racionais MC's!
1049
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:26,492
Racionais extended to many other people,
not just the four of us.
1050
01:02:26,576 --> 01:02:30,079
It's always been about the legacy
and our allies.
1051
01:02:30,163 --> 01:02:34,625
Each one of us had connections
with other artists.
1052
01:02:34,709 --> 01:02:36,794
That was the intention, you know?
1053
01:02:36,878 --> 01:02:40,339
To promote new artists
and keep the machine going, right?
1054
01:02:40,423 --> 01:02:46,304
Ed Loco is teaching us
how to distribute power to our people.
1055
01:02:46,387 --> 01:02:50,099
Tell us a bit about
setting up a studio to help the groups.
1056
01:02:51,184 --> 01:02:55,563
I'm still small,
just starting out from home,
1057
01:02:55,646 --> 01:02:58,566
doing what I can to help the movement.
1058
01:02:58,649 --> 01:03:00,693
Racionais were more mature,
1059
01:03:01,444 --> 01:03:04,113
more independent
when it came to making music.
1060
01:03:04,197 --> 01:03:07,283
We had our own equipment,
and we could do it at home.
1061
01:03:07,366 --> 01:03:10,536
Dexter got an offer
and started recording from prison.
1062
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,622
We were called in to produce the album.
1063
01:03:12,705 --> 01:03:17,251
There was an ongoing project at the jail
that allowed weekday visits.
1064
01:03:17,835 --> 01:03:19,212
We'd stay and talk to him,
1065
01:03:19,295 --> 01:03:23,216
and the movement leaders
came to talk to me.
1066
01:03:23,299 --> 01:03:26,344
There were a lot of rap groups in jail.
1067
01:03:26,427 --> 01:03:27,804
It was a social phenomenon.
1068
01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:31,182
"Diário de um Detento."
Because we shot the video there,
1069
01:03:31,265 --> 01:03:32,683
it opened their minds.
1070
01:03:33,184 --> 01:03:35,853
They had free time, being stuck in there.
1071
01:03:35,937 --> 01:03:38,648
So they started rapping,
all these new groups.
1072
01:03:51,327 --> 01:03:54,622
When we started listening to Racionais,
good God!
1073
01:03:54,705 --> 01:03:56,624
Black people became deeply moved
1074
01:03:57,667 --> 01:03:59,126
in all the different hoods.
1075
01:03:59,794 --> 01:04:01,045
It was an awakening.
1076
01:04:01,128 --> 01:04:06,342
An awakening, a wake-up call,
a call to arms, a demand for attention…
1077
01:04:06,425 --> 01:04:08,135
It was everything you can imagine.
1078
01:04:15,518 --> 01:04:18,938
I asked for that gothic lettering
on the cover
1079
01:04:19,021 --> 01:04:21,065
because rappers from LA used them.
1080
01:04:21,148 --> 01:04:22,191
It went well,
1081
01:04:22,275 --> 01:04:25,570
with the symbols and everything.
I wanted that for my CD.
1082
01:04:27,738 --> 01:04:29,657
We put that cross on the cover,
1083
01:04:29,740 --> 01:04:32,827
and some guys showed up
at the concerts carrying giant bibles,
1084
01:04:32,910 --> 01:04:34,161
dressed like priests.
1085
01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:35,746
Some extremists.
1086
01:04:35,830 --> 01:04:41,669
Mixing thoughts of race, God, and crime.
Feel me?
1087
01:04:41,752 --> 01:04:44,463
-You're hurting me, okay?
-Coquinho! Close the window.
1088
01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:46,632
You're going to hurt your arm, bro!
1089
01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:47,758
Oh, God…
1090
01:04:48,509 --> 01:04:50,094
His arm could snap on the spot.
1091
01:04:50,177 --> 01:04:52,096
-Yeah!
-Damn, son!
1092
01:04:55,224 --> 01:04:58,728
Yeah. 1998.
1093
01:04:59,645 --> 01:05:04,442
Mano Brown, KL Jay, Ice Blue, Edi Rock.
1094
01:05:05,109 --> 01:05:07,320
South Side, North Side.
1095
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:13,284
The voice of the favela
that is part of it.
1096
01:05:15,661 --> 01:05:18,497
"Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
1097
01:05:18,998 --> 01:05:20,666
I shall fear no evil,
1098
01:05:21,459 --> 01:05:22,919
for You are with me."
1099
01:05:24,295 --> 01:05:26,172
We're in this bitch, son!
1100
01:05:26,255 --> 01:05:27,548
So what did I notice?
1101
01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:30,593
That record was becoming an exorcism.
1102
01:05:31,135 --> 01:05:34,722
When I sang it in the shows,
repeating those words,
1103
01:05:34,805 --> 01:05:37,308
the same thing over and over,
everybody together,
1104
01:05:37,808 --> 01:05:39,727
it was the worst possible atmosphere.
1105
01:05:40,519 --> 01:05:43,189
I didn't like it.
I'd sing them without heart.
1106
01:05:43,272 --> 01:05:46,233
I was no longer enjoying the party.
1107
01:05:46,317 --> 01:05:48,444
We came from a spiritual background.
1108
01:05:49,362 --> 01:05:51,822
And those songs mentioned pools of blood.
1109
01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:54,283
People were listening to it at home,
1110
01:05:54,367 --> 01:05:56,577
at places where you should be having fun.
1111
01:05:56,661 --> 01:05:58,955
For the love of God. That's dangerous.
1112
01:06:00,247 --> 01:06:01,415
It had to change.
1113
01:06:01,499 --> 01:06:03,834
I believe in the power of words,
of repetition.
1114
01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:05,586
Yo, here's the deal…
1115
01:06:11,342 --> 01:06:13,094
When I saw dead bodies at my shows,
1116
01:06:13,177 --> 01:06:16,597
wearing Racionais' T-shirts,
I started to think.
1117
01:06:16,681 --> 01:06:19,308
When they threw that corpse
at my feet in Bauru,
1118
01:06:20,267 --> 01:06:23,938
I was already rethinking other stuff.
1119
01:06:24,522 --> 01:06:27,817
I was even questioning
how useless I was for everything.
1120
01:06:28,317 --> 01:06:30,444
What would they do
if someone was shot?
1121
01:06:30,528 --> 01:06:31,946
They'd throw him at my feet.
1122
01:06:33,823 --> 01:06:34,657
You know?
1123
01:06:38,452 --> 01:06:41,747
People were stepping over him
to ask for autographs. I saw it.
1124
01:06:42,581 --> 01:06:45,376
He was writhing in pain
and people were stepping on him,
1125
01:06:45,876 --> 01:06:47,003
asking for autographs.
1126
01:06:54,385 --> 01:06:57,388
-Stop, bro. Yo, guys, stop.
-This is bullshit, all right?
1127
01:06:58,264 --> 01:07:01,726
Am I a clown to talk about peace
while you kill each other down there?
1128
01:07:01,809 --> 01:07:02,977
Yo, fuck you!
1129
01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:05,563
Am I crazy to be talking about peace?
1130
01:07:05,646 --> 01:07:07,523
Let me tell you this.
1131
01:07:08,024 --> 01:07:12,069
The system doesn't care
if there are ten dead guys outside, okay?
1132
01:07:12,153 --> 01:07:13,988
They want all of you fucking dead.
1133
01:07:14,071 --> 01:07:16,282
All you've got is each other, you feel me?
1134
01:07:16,365 --> 01:07:18,284
And your brains. Right?
1135
01:07:18,367 --> 01:07:19,410
Let me say this,
1136
01:07:19,493 --> 01:07:22,163
Sobrevivendo no Inferno
drove us away from the favela.
1137
01:07:22,246 --> 01:07:23,873
College kids loved it.
1138
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:27,251
When I realized that,
I had to use a new strategy.
1139
01:07:27,334 --> 01:07:29,253
I told them, "Let's disappear, bro."
1140
01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:35,259
"Everything is wrong.
I'm not enjoying this. It's getting old."
1141
01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:38,846
One day, Brown said,
1142
01:07:40,222 --> 01:07:41,599
"How many shows are left?"
1143
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,560
Bam. "Just this many?"
1144
01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:48,647
"Let's do them
and then let's quit, indefinitely."
1145
01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:50,983
"What do you mean? We're going to starve."
1146
01:07:51,067 --> 01:07:53,903
"Deal with it.
Didn't you use to be a gangster?"
1147
01:07:56,030 --> 01:07:59,075
"Deal with it. Is singing all you can do?"
1148
01:07:59,658 --> 01:08:02,369
"Let's use what we have.
Let's start over."
1149
01:08:15,049 --> 01:08:18,094
And we went back to living in the hood.
1150
01:08:18,177 --> 01:08:21,388
We spent time there
and breathed in that air.
1151
01:08:21,472 --> 01:08:26,560
After we left the scene,
I got to go back and go even deeper.
1152
01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:31,816
I went back to Jardim Leblon, to my roots,
1153
01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:34,443
to check on my people. I went back there.
1154
01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:40,825
Shout-out to Brazil, especially São Paulo.
1155
01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:44,120
Let's talk about these 500 years,
this lie.
1156
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:46,997
Fuck the 500th anniversary of discovery!
1157
01:08:47,665 --> 01:08:50,126
Pedro Álvares Cabral
and Christopher Columbus,
1158
01:08:50,209 --> 01:08:51,752
those shameless Europeans,
1159
01:08:51,836 --> 01:08:54,255
they came over here
and slaughtered everybody.
1160
01:08:54,338 --> 01:08:56,423
And at school
they're treated like heroes.
1161
01:08:57,007 --> 01:08:58,217
Fuck that, bro!
1162
01:08:58,300 --> 01:09:01,470
Yo, next week we'll have
UTen Play, all right? Bye.
1163
01:09:03,055 --> 01:09:05,891
Like it or not,
the year 2000 was a turning point.
1164
01:09:05,975 --> 01:09:09,311
Everything from the '90s
began to look like the '90s.
1165
01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:12,231
From 2000 on, there was no other way.
1166
01:09:12,314 --> 01:09:14,525
When the subway and Lula arrived,
1167
01:09:14,608 --> 01:09:16,819
modernity came to Capão.
1168
01:09:16,902 --> 01:09:19,238
Along with PCC and everything else.
1169
01:09:29,039 --> 01:09:32,710
BACACHERI - ROAD AND RAILWAY
AIRPORT - BR116 SÃO PAULO
1170
01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:57,109
CARANDIRU DETENTION HOUSE
SÃO PAULO
1171
01:10:11,665 --> 01:10:14,418
Next Station, Capão Redondo.
1172
01:10:17,630 --> 01:10:19,506
Then, I understood it all over again.
1173
01:10:20,090 --> 01:10:22,801
There was a new generation
of addicts, crazy people,
1174
01:10:22,885 --> 01:10:26,180
sad people, people suffering again
for new reasons.
1175
01:10:27,139 --> 01:10:32,102
But I also saw people overcoming
all of that with such fucking poise.
1176
01:10:32,186 --> 01:10:34,313
Overcoming disease, poverty…
1177
01:10:34,396 --> 01:10:37,733
Not crying or complaining,
but elegantly, bro.
1178
01:10:38,984 --> 01:10:40,277
Beautifully.
1179
01:10:46,700 --> 01:10:50,955
At that time,
there was a friend of ours, DJ Nel.
1180
01:10:51,580 --> 01:10:56,710
During the transition between records,
I became friends with this guy,
1181
01:10:56,794 --> 01:10:59,421
and he started telling me
about other things.
1182
01:11:00,297 --> 01:11:01,799
Other sounds.
1183
01:11:01,882 --> 01:11:04,551
He said, "Man, you gotta listen
to Milton Nascimento."
1184
01:11:05,761 --> 01:11:07,513
"You gotta listen to Miles Davis."
1185
01:11:08,305 --> 01:11:11,517
"You gotta listen to Clube da Esquina."
1186
01:11:12,393 --> 01:11:14,603
"Your sound has no dimension."
1187
01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:19,900
"It's like a stone
to the listener's face."
1188
01:11:23,279 --> 01:11:25,572
"It needs more layers, bro."
1189
01:11:25,656 --> 01:11:27,408
I asked, "More layers?"
1190
01:11:27,491 --> 01:11:31,912
"You gotta know about LSD."
1191
01:11:33,747 --> 01:11:37,334
He would go on about water and wilderness
1192
01:11:37,835 --> 01:11:40,546
He would keep playing music,
drink wine, smoke a joint,
1193
01:11:40,629 --> 01:11:42,881
in the middle of the afternoon,
for ten bucks.
1194
01:11:46,510 --> 01:11:47,928
That was his deal.
1195
01:11:48,012 --> 01:11:50,973
I thought, "Wow, that's cool!
I wouldn't have noticed it."
1196
01:11:51,056 --> 01:11:54,727
"Bro, enjoy the moment,
just enjoy what you can, you know?"
1197
01:11:54,810 --> 01:11:57,438
"Not everything is
about society and stuff."
1198
01:11:57,521 --> 01:11:59,606
"We can't even handle all of that."
1199
01:12:00,107 --> 01:12:02,609
"Know yourself first."
1200
01:12:03,110 --> 01:12:06,030
All I did was agree with him.
I knew nothing, bro.
1201
01:12:06,864 --> 01:12:09,575
It was a wacko advising an idiot, me.
1202
01:12:09,658 --> 01:12:11,910
I thought I was the man,
but I was an idiot.
1203
01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:13,954
I didn't know shit. I'd just agree.
1204
01:12:15,873 --> 01:12:18,083
That was missing in the last record.
1205
01:12:18,584 --> 01:12:20,044
This new dimension.
1206
01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:23,297
When I found out about it, I was in love.
1207
01:12:32,765 --> 01:12:34,558
He really feels the music.
1208
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:38,645
I started going to the dam when it rained.
1209
01:12:40,981 --> 01:12:42,858
I went when no one else was there.
1210
01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:46,362
When it was all just for me.
1211
01:12:46,862 --> 01:12:48,781
The gray light…
1212
01:12:49,281 --> 01:12:51,283
It was somewhat introspective.
1213
01:12:52,034 --> 01:12:55,329
Wind, thunder…
1214
01:12:57,122 --> 01:12:58,207
neurosis…
1215
01:12:58,707 --> 01:13:02,169
It was a perspective we hadn't accessed
1216
01:13:03,337 --> 01:13:04,505
in the last record,
1217
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:10,469
the feelings of weakness we share
that remain unspoken.
1218
01:13:24,983 --> 01:13:25,984
Your blessing, Mom
1219
01:13:26,485 --> 01:13:29,113
We begin our transmission
1220
01:13:29,196 --> 01:13:31,907
This is your Exodus radio
1221
01:13:31,990 --> 01:13:33,117
Hey, hey
1222
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,077
Let's wake up, let's wake up
1223
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,621
'Cause the sun doesn't wait
Come on, let's wake up
1224
01:13:37,704 --> 01:13:38,997
Time never gets tired
1225
01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:40,374
You asked for it
1226
01:13:40,457 --> 01:13:43,710
You asked for an opportunity
A second chance
1227
01:13:43,794 --> 01:13:45,587
God is good, isn't He?
1228
01:13:45,671 --> 01:13:48,006
Hey, a new day just for you
1229
01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:50,092
What an awesome blue sky!
1230
01:13:50,175 --> 01:13:51,844
Let's wake up, let's wake up
1231
01:13:51,927 --> 01:13:54,680
Look at your face
I trust you in this war
1232
01:13:54,763 --> 01:13:56,765
Sloth is the enemy of victory
1233
01:13:56,849 --> 01:14:00,060
There's no place for the weak
The coward dies without even trying
1234
01:14:00,144 --> 01:14:02,229
I'll tell you the truth, things are tough
1235
01:14:02,312 --> 01:14:06,066
There is no trust, not even in yourself
And enemies come for free
1236
01:14:06,150 --> 01:14:08,777
It's a concrete jungle
It crushes the humble
1237
01:14:08,861 --> 01:14:10,946
You're as big as your dream
1238
01:14:11,029 --> 01:14:12,698
Do the right thing, do your thing
1239
01:14:12,781 --> 01:14:16,118
Let's wake up, let's wake up
Hold your head high with sincerity
1240
01:14:16,201 --> 01:14:18,370
What are you scared of?
It's never been easy
1241
01:14:18,454 --> 01:14:20,372
Gather your pieces and join the fight
1242
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,708
But remember, whatever happens
1243
01:14:22,791 --> 01:14:24,877
There's nothing like
A day after the other
1244
01:14:26,211 --> 01:14:27,546
We're back, brothers!
1245
01:14:33,343 --> 01:14:35,179
You're in the streets of São Paulo
1246
01:14:35,262 --> 01:14:38,098
Where boys keep their feelings
On the soles of their feet
1247
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:40,309
It's not pessimism
It's just what it's like
1248
01:14:40,893 --> 01:14:43,520
Living and living large
The boys blow smoke
1249
01:14:43,604 --> 01:14:44,980
That's the sweet venom…
1250
01:14:45,063 --> 01:14:46,482
Uh! Canela!
1251
01:14:47,399 --> 01:14:50,235
I tripped, but I came back for you
1252
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:51,737
I came back for the brothers
1253
01:14:51,820 --> 01:14:54,781
And consequently, for the green
1254
01:14:55,616 --> 01:14:57,451
And Lord
1255
01:14:57,534 --> 01:14:58,911
Is it good!
1256
01:15:00,078 --> 01:15:01,663
That's how it is
1257
01:15:01,747 --> 01:15:04,333
My mind is a maze
And my heart weeps
1258
01:15:04,416 --> 01:15:06,919
It weeps now but will laugh later
1259
01:15:09,004 --> 01:15:11,632
Come with me, brother, come with me
1260
01:15:11,715 --> 01:15:13,091
We focused on our hood.
1261
01:15:13,175 --> 01:15:17,638
The brothers, the get-togethers,
our families. Our roots.
1262
01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:27,940
A band of madmen
Gathered around street corners
1263
01:15:28,023 --> 01:15:30,442
And said, "Let's make this shit happen!"
1264
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:32,653
By all means necessary
1265
01:15:32,736 --> 01:15:33,779
Do it yourself
1266
01:15:33,862 --> 01:15:36,031
You for us, us for ourselves
1267
01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:38,825
For us and our peers
1268
01:15:38,909 --> 01:15:40,160
And for our neighbor
1269
01:15:40,244 --> 01:15:41,161
And that's that
1270
01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:43,956
I feel what I can, nerves and bones, yeah
1271
01:15:44,039 --> 01:15:46,875
If we are who we are
A mesh of chromosomes
1272
01:15:47,376 --> 01:15:49,253
With strengths and weaknesses
1273
01:15:49,836 --> 01:15:52,631
That's that and that's how it is
1274
01:15:54,216 --> 01:15:56,009
Have faith, for God is just
1275
01:15:56,093 --> 01:15:58,303
Never forget, brother,
1276
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:01,473
Hold your head up high
1277
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,600
No matter what or when
1278
01:16:03,684 --> 01:16:07,020
Have faith
Because flowers grow even in the dump
1279
01:16:07,104 --> 01:16:09,856
Pray for us, pastor, remember us
1280
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:12,568
Tonight's service is still going well
1281
01:16:12,651 --> 01:16:15,320
I admire the believers
Please, excuse me
1282
01:16:15,404 --> 01:16:18,323
What a rip-off, what a scheme
My apologies
1283
01:16:18,407 --> 01:16:21,743
Sometimes I feel a little insecure
1284
01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:24,705
Like a mutt
With no faith in the future
1285
01:16:24,788 --> 01:16:28,000
Then someone comes along? Who is who?
Who could that be, brother?
1286
01:16:28,083 --> 01:16:29,835
Get me a toy that pierces clothes…
1287
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,927
I'm pretentious enough to say
I embodied the spirit
1288
01:16:39,011 --> 01:16:40,846
of the São Paulo hood that day.
1289
01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:44,391
All of its codes.
1290
01:16:50,564 --> 01:16:52,065
I'm a warrior of rap
1291
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:53,775
Always in high voltage
1292
01:16:53,859 --> 01:16:56,570
One for one, God for all
I'm here just passing through
1293
01:16:56,653 --> 01:16:59,698
Crazy life
I'm not cut out to be a victim
1294
01:16:59,781 --> 01:17:02,492
Justice and freedom
My cause is legit
1295
01:17:02,576 --> 01:17:05,537
My rap starts the choir of the mad
And the romantic
1296
01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:07,873
I wear a child's smile wherever I
1297
01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:09,291
Go
For the brothers
1298
01:17:09,374 --> 01:17:11,710
I offer my presence
1299
01:17:11,793 --> 01:17:14,129
Maybe it's confusing
But it's real and intense
1300
01:17:14,212 --> 01:17:16,882
My best Marvin Gaye
Saturday on the highway
1301
01:17:16,965 --> 01:17:20,010
Whatever will be, will be
And we ride to the end
1302
01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:22,638
Call on me, call on us
Wherever we're needed
1303
01:17:22,721 --> 01:17:25,557
In Paradise or on judgment day, pastor
1304
01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:28,810
Call on me and on the brothers
It's what I ask
1305
01:17:28,894 --> 01:17:32,105
Favela, Fundão
Immortalized in my poetry
1306
01:17:32,189 --> 01:17:33,190
Crazy life
1307
01:17:34,566 --> 01:17:38,904
The people from the hood,
they understood themselves there.
1308
01:17:38,987 --> 01:17:42,574
It wasn't restricted to Brown or Blue,
it was for a lot of people.
1309
01:17:45,619 --> 01:17:50,290
They organized one street and the next,
and the next, starting a chain reaction.
1310
01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:54,628
A lot of teams, names,
and labels were born in the hood,
1311
01:17:54,711 --> 01:17:56,797
a lot of different colored hats.
1312
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:59,341
A lot of collectives
were born from that moment.
1313
01:18:00,050 --> 01:18:01,718
It's a mixture, you know,
1314
01:18:01,802 --> 01:18:07,265
of ambition with affront,
self-esteem, independence…
1315
01:18:09,309 --> 01:18:14,022
And that's how we really managed
to bring the hood along with us. Everyone.
1316
01:18:14,106 --> 01:18:19,361
People who didn't like rap
liked representing their hood.
1317
01:18:19,444 --> 01:18:21,780
And not lowering their head for anyone.
1318
01:18:21,863 --> 01:18:25,992
The people no longer seemed
so oppressed and deluded.
1319
01:18:26,076 --> 01:18:29,371
If you pay attention,
with its rights and wrongs,
1320
01:18:29,454 --> 01:18:32,833
the hood has its opinions
and is setting things in motion.
1321
01:18:32,916 --> 01:18:35,335
"Yeah, that's right,
let's do it, et cetera."
1322
01:18:35,419 --> 01:18:38,380
It was really happening there.
1323
01:18:38,463 --> 01:18:41,550
Our line of thinking before this album
1324
01:18:41,633 --> 01:18:47,305
was of a submissive, ignorant hood.
Alienated. Get it?
1325
01:18:47,389 --> 01:18:48,974
Which I refute in this record.
1326
01:18:55,731 --> 01:18:59,901
It's our first time playing an open event,
in the middle of the night, in São Paulo.
1327
01:18:59,985 --> 01:19:04,030
Right at dawn, at 4:00 a.m.,
maybe 5:00 a.m.
1328
01:19:05,991 --> 01:19:08,452
For those heading to work,
1329
01:19:08,535 --> 01:19:10,537
grab your coat and your beanie,
1330
01:19:10,620 --> 01:19:13,290
because it is ten degrees in São Paulo.
1331
01:19:14,791 --> 01:19:18,044
The full moon lights the streets of Capão
1332
01:19:18,128 --> 01:19:20,714
God alone is above us
Humble, right?
1333
01:19:20,797 --> 01:19:24,134
Cheers! Clink!
Women and loud music
1334
01:19:24,217 --> 01:19:26,720
White wine
A good lawyer for everyone
1335
01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:29,806
It's cold as fuck
1336
01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:33,226
But what to do?
Tuesdays are no good for partying
1337
01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:35,979
It has never changed, and it never will
1338
01:19:36,062 --> 01:19:39,149
The scent of a bonfire fills the air
1339
01:19:39,649 --> 01:19:41,651
Sunday, early morning in São Paulo.
1340
01:19:41,735 --> 01:19:43,403
Turmoil and vandalism
1341
01:19:43,487 --> 01:19:47,365
at a Racionais MC's show
during Virada Cultural de São Paulo.
1342
01:19:47,449 --> 01:19:49,743
…at rap group Racionais MC's show.
1343
01:19:49,826 --> 01:19:52,412
Racionais MC's.
1344
01:19:52,496 --> 01:19:53,830
…of Racionais MC's.
1345
01:19:54,331 --> 01:19:58,126
Praça da Sé became a true war zone.
1346
01:20:00,128 --> 01:20:03,423
People desperately attempted
to escape from the confrontation.
1347
01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:07,928
Come here, man! Come here, man!
1348
01:20:08,011 --> 01:20:11,056
Couldn't the police have avoided it?
1349
01:20:13,225 --> 01:20:15,393
That was a poem.
1350
01:20:16,436 --> 01:20:18,772
Let me tell you where it started.
1351
01:20:19,272 --> 01:20:20,816
It was like this.
1352
01:20:20,899 --> 01:20:22,359
There was this boy.
1353
01:20:22,943 --> 01:20:25,237
The cops were chasing him.
1354
01:20:25,821 --> 01:20:28,156
A Black kid. And he dodged the police.
1355
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:29,950
It was raining. The floor was wet.
1356
01:20:30,033 --> 01:20:32,869
The cop fell down
and couldn't get back up.
1357
01:20:32,953 --> 01:20:36,498
The cop was screaming in pain.
And the other cops went after the boy.
1358
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,584
A lot of them. And he was running.
1359
01:20:40,085 --> 01:20:41,378
So I said on stage,
1360
01:20:41,461 --> 01:20:46,132
"Yeah, the military police was created
to catch runaway slaves."
1361
01:20:46,216 --> 01:20:49,678
"Careful with those guns.
Don't shoot anybody!"
1362
01:20:53,515 --> 01:20:57,936
The rap group asked the crowd
to step away from the officers. In vain.
1363
01:20:58,019 --> 01:21:00,814
Step away from the cops! Leave them alone!
1364
01:21:01,565 --> 01:21:06,444
A fight broke out,
and then it was like it parted.
1365
01:21:06,528 --> 01:21:08,655
The cops to one side
and kids to the other.
1366
01:21:08,738 --> 01:21:09,823
Hell broke loose.
1367
01:21:09,906 --> 01:21:12,701
I felt like I was in a war zone.
1368
01:21:13,285 --> 01:21:16,329
Boys with sticks and stones
The police with rifles and bombs
1369
01:21:16,413 --> 01:21:19,416
Cars on fire
Steel doors close
1370
01:21:19,499 --> 01:21:22,669
A mother calls for a son
While she gets shot
1371
01:21:22,752 --> 01:21:25,589
Someone lost someone
The soul is in the trigger
1372
01:21:25,672 --> 01:21:27,257
Run away to the subway
1373
01:21:27,340 --> 01:21:29,050
Trouble in the hallway
1374
01:21:29,134 --> 01:21:32,095
Someone was trampled
And there they stayed
1375
01:21:32,178 --> 01:21:35,223
In the adjacent streets
The scene went on
1376
01:21:35,307 --> 01:21:39,311
War and destruction
The world at an end
1377
01:21:50,071 --> 01:21:52,991
It was never a sure thing.
It was always tense.
1378
01:21:53,825 --> 01:21:57,621
They forbade us
from performing in the open,
1379
01:21:57,704 --> 01:22:02,292
and they started
their persecution campaign.
1380
01:22:02,792 --> 01:22:06,588
Because we were said
to be a danger to society,
1381
01:22:06,671 --> 01:22:10,383
a danger to public security,
or to the security of society.
1382
01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:16,264
It was the State, the police. Anyway.
1383
01:22:16,348 --> 01:22:17,432
It was a setup
1384
01:22:17,515 --> 01:22:19,976
because everything
was being done by the book,
1385
01:22:20,060 --> 01:22:22,812
the contracts and everything.
1386
01:22:22,896 --> 01:22:25,440
There was no reason
for that to happen so suddenly
1387
01:22:25,523 --> 01:22:30,070
and for Racionais to be banned
from performing in São Paulo.
1388
01:22:30,153 --> 01:22:33,907
I really think it was political,
some kind of setup.
1389
01:22:36,618 --> 01:22:38,787
It felt like it'd be all over
at any moment.
1390
01:22:56,012 --> 01:22:57,639
What am I?
1391
01:22:57,722 --> 01:23:01,935
I'm clear and salty
I fit inside an eye, but I weigh a ton
1392
01:23:02,018 --> 01:23:04,437
I taste like the sea
And I can be discreet
1393
01:23:04,521 --> 01:23:07,357
I'm a tenant of pain
Where I prefer to live
1394
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:10,402
In the dead of the night
I'm a hostage of vengeance
1395
01:23:10,485 --> 01:23:13,029
I'm a sister to despair
I'm hope's worst nemesis
1396
01:23:13,113 --> 01:23:15,949
I can be caused by the vermin, mundane
1397
01:23:16,032 --> 01:23:18,910
Or by the love
Of your cruel flower's thorn
1398
01:23:18,994 --> 01:23:21,663
I'm a lover of drama
I come to your bed
1399
01:23:21,746 --> 01:23:24,541
Willingly
Without permission, you make me suffer
1400
01:23:24,624 --> 01:23:27,419
I thought I was strong
1401
01:23:27,919 --> 01:23:30,380
I'll be weak
When others come
1402
01:23:30,463 --> 01:23:33,216
If things are tough and the going is slow
1403
01:23:33,299 --> 01:23:35,885
Right now, let me walk against the wind
1404
01:23:35,969 --> 01:23:38,847
Why be tough if your heart is vulnerable?
1405
01:23:38,930 --> 01:23:41,766
Well, not the wind
It's soft but relentless and cold
1406
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:42,684
And I'm warm
1407
01:23:42,767 --> 01:23:44,644
I smeared the poet's morose sentence
1408
01:23:44,728 --> 01:23:47,689
I ran down the prophet's brown semblance
1409
01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:51,276
The worms clear the way
As a man's tear falls
1410
01:23:51,359 --> 01:23:53,445
This is your lifelong struggle
1411
01:23:53,528 --> 01:23:56,072
They say men don't cry
Yeah, right
1412
01:23:56,156 --> 01:23:59,200
Don't follow the crowd, brother
Jesus wept
1413
01:23:59,284 --> 01:24:02,579
Damn, brother, I'mma tell you
And I may be high
1414
01:24:02,662 --> 01:24:04,581
But the world is well fit to end
1415
01:24:04,664 --> 01:24:07,208
What can you do
When the fortress trembles
1416
01:24:07,292 --> 01:24:10,211
And all the good around you
Gets corrupted?
1417
01:24:10,962 --> 01:24:17,427
Everybody who stressed the importance
of the Black revolution was persecuted.
1418
01:24:17,510 --> 01:24:19,429
And therefore, silenced.
1419
01:24:19,512 --> 01:24:23,725
Everything I did and do
is based on Marighella's code.
1420
01:24:24,517 --> 01:24:28,438
The interval between records
was ten years.
1421
01:24:28,521 --> 01:24:33,443
Marighella was the kick-start
to our comeback.
1422
01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:39,908
Quiet, or you'll die. Quiet.
1423
01:24:40,992 --> 01:24:43,036
Move, move! Move, goddammit!
1424
01:24:44,370 --> 01:24:45,789
On your knees, motherfucker!
1425
01:24:47,957 --> 01:24:50,919
Freedom Radio is on the air.
1426
01:24:51,002 --> 01:24:53,630
It's what the hood
thinks about Marighella.
1427
01:24:54,464 --> 01:24:57,509
A lot of people could relate
to a lot of things.
1428
01:24:58,176 --> 01:25:00,845
Guys who'd never heard of him
were interested.
1429
01:25:02,013 --> 01:25:03,389
…Carlos Marighella.
1430
01:25:04,307 --> 01:25:08,269
He was an angel at the same time.
He had those simple dreams.
1431
01:25:08,353 --> 01:25:09,521
Dreams of equality.
1432
01:25:12,690 --> 01:25:14,067
Stand for the General
1433
01:25:14,150 --> 01:25:15,777
A thousand faces of a loyal man
1434
01:25:15,860 --> 01:25:17,195
Come on!
1435
01:25:17,779 --> 01:25:19,531
Stand for the General
1436
01:25:19,614 --> 01:25:22,367
A thousand faces of a loyal man
Protector of the crowds
1437
01:25:22,450 --> 01:25:24,536
Three reincarnations of celebrity thugs
1438
01:25:24,619 --> 01:25:28,540
With brilliant brains gathered in Heaven
The destination for the faithful
1439
01:25:28,623 --> 01:25:30,375
If God wants fealty
Consummate…
1440
01:25:30,458 --> 01:25:33,545
You only get first place
a few times in life.
1441
01:25:33,628 --> 01:25:36,047
And with this video
we took first place again.
1442
01:25:36,131 --> 01:25:38,133
Racionais MC's!
1443
01:25:40,677 --> 01:25:41,928
We're alive!
1444
01:25:44,472 --> 01:25:47,433
And to close out the best VMB of all time,
1445
01:25:47,934 --> 01:25:50,603
the best VMB concert of all time,
1446
01:25:50,687 --> 01:25:52,897
I give you, Racionais!
1447
01:25:52,981 --> 01:25:57,068
Then we performed live
on MTV after many years.
1448
01:25:57,569 --> 01:26:01,281
And on TV. We had been on MTV in '98.
1449
01:26:01,364 --> 01:26:03,199
How many years later? Fourteen.
1450
01:26:03,283 --> 01:26:06,911
We had a new outlook,
with all that change,
1451
01:26:06,995 --> 01:26:11,958
all that experience,
all that coming together, strongly.
1452
01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:15,295
That's where Eliane came along
1453
01:26:16,713 --> 01:26:19,257
and said, "We gotta do this together."
1454
01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:23,386
Racionais, in my opinion,
they achieved this breakthrough.
1455
01:26:23,469 --> 01:26:27,765
From the low self-esteem
and the lack of courage itself,
1456
01:26:28,266 --> 01:26:30,393
and they make us brave.
1457
01:26:30,894 --> 01:26:34,647
So we can go there and do it.
"I can do it and I will do it."
1458
01:26:34,731 --> 01:26:37,775
This happened to me
and to a lot of people.
1459
01:26:37,859 --> 01:26:41,613
I hear this daily.
"Racionais changed my life."
1460
01:26:41,696 --> 01:26:45,325
"I heard this Racionais song
and it changed my life."
1461
01:26:45,408 --> 01:26:48,036
"I started studying because of Racionais."
1462
01:26:48,620 --> 01:26:53,124
Racionais had left
Virada Cultural in 2007,
1463
01:26:53,208 --> 01:26:56,502
after that whole incident, on bad terms.
1464
01:26:56,586 --> 01:27:01,716
But then, their management
called them back to perform.
1465
01:27:01,799 --> 01:27:05,470
"Hey, the time has come. Let's do it."
1466
01:27:06,554 --> 01:27:09,891
All I said was, "The police can stay."
1467
01:27:09,974 --> 01:27:13,061
"There's no need for that.
There will be no trouble."
1468
01:27:13,144 --> 01:27:14,854
"Racionais will communicate."
1469
01:27:14,938 --> 01:27:18,858
The audiences keep watching
and paying attention to what they say.
1470
01:27:18,942 --> 01:27:23,029
It's like a channel, an umbilical cord.
1471
01:27:23,112 --> 01:27:26,574
And people get very angry
when that channel is interrupted.
1472
01:27:27,325 --> 01:27:30,411
We eventually reached an agreement.
1473
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:35,124
The police would stay in the back
and not within the crowd.
1474
01:27:36,251 --> 01:27:37,669
And everything was fine.
1475
01:27:37,752 --> 01:27:42,882
There were 100,000 people
at a Racionais' concert, without incident.
1476
01:27:46,719 --> 01:27:48,054
Racionais MC's!
1477
01:27:48,721 --> 01:27:50,765
Listening to Racionais
1478
01:27:51,516 --> 01:27:52,558
went viral.
1479
01:27:53,142 --> 01:27:56,479
Brown invited me to participate
in the video for "Marighella."
1480
01:27:56,562 --> 01:27:57,939
It was an honor to be able
1481
01:27:58,022 --> 01:28:01,526
to describe the story of a Brazilian hero,
1482
01:28:02,026 --> 01:28:05,697
together with my heroes, Racionais.
1483
01:28:06,489 --> 01:28:10,243
I'm reminded of a quote by Malcolm X.
1484
01:28:10,326 --> 01:28:14,163
He once said the only people
who have truly changed history
1485
01:28:14,247 --> 01:28:17,709
are those who changed
man's concept of himself.
1486
01:28:18,376 --> 01:28:22,797
Racionais did that. You know? They did it.
1487
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:26,467
They didn't change just one person.
They changed an entire generation.
1488
01:28:26,551 --> 01:28:29,846
It's necessary to believe
That the dream is possible
1489
01:28:29,929 --> 01:28:33,266
The sky is the limit
And you, brother, are unbeatable
1490
01:28:33,349 --> 01:28:36,394
The bad times will pass
It's just a phase
1491
01:28:36,477 --> 01:28:39,605
The suffering only feeds your courage
1492
01:28:39,689 --> 01:28:42,233
Then we started looking for venues.
1493
01:28:42,734 --> 01:28:46,404
Let's map out the top venues
and we'll only perform at those.
1494
01:28:46,988 --> 01:28:51,451
But then people would say,
"You're bringing Racionais here?"
1495
01:28:51,534 --> 01:28:55,955
"They'll destroy everything!
Their audience will break everything."
1496
01:28:56,039 --> 01:28:57,290
I said, "No, they won't."
1497
01:28:57,373 --> 01:29:02,628
After 30 years, all you want
is that people get back home intact.
1498
01:29:04,005 --> 01:29:06,174
That's the kind of cliché
I can do without.
1499
01:29:07,008 --> 01:29:09,260
A dead body at the end
of a Racionais concert.
1500
01:29:18,353 --> 01:29:20,396
This one is for you
1501
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:22,940
Stay alive
1502
01:29:24,609 --> 01:29:26,402
Stay alive
1503
01:29:27,945 --> 01:29:32,950
A lot of people at that concert had never
set foot in a place like that before.
1504
01:29:39,791 --> 01:29:43,544
QUAD STUDIOS
NEW YORK - 2014
1505
01:29:43,628 --> 01:29:46,422
Then they decided to make the album.
1506
01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:49,008
They went to New York to record the album.
1507
01:29:55,348 --> 01:29:58,726
Got it? It can't be ba-dum,
and then ba-dum-dum together.
1508
01:29:58,810 --> 01:29:59,644
It's…
1509
01:30:00,728 --> 01:30:01,562
It's…
1510
01:30:06,818 --> 01:30:07,652
Right?
1511
01:30:08,820 --> 01:30:14,200
Don't you have one single bass drum
to do what these three are trying to do?
1512
01:30:14,283 --> 01:30:16,202
Because I made that one at home.
1513
01:30:16,285 --> 01:30:20,373
But I think it will never be as good
as the real, original heavy bass drum.
1514
01:30:20,957 --> 01:30:21,833
You know?
1515
01:30:23,584 --> 01:30:25,670
The world had changed since 2002.
1516
01:30:27,088 --> 01:30:28,423
Thirteen years later.
1517
01:30:29,006 --> 01:30:35,221
It seemed like Brazil
had really entered a phase of progress.
1518
01:30:35,805 --> 01:30:41,436
We could see it in the people,
food, drinks, clothes, watches.
1519
01:30:41,519 --> 01:30:42,812
Real life.
1520
01:30:43,396 --> 01:30:46,524
That has an impact on the streets.
And in the music as well.
1521
01:30:48,359 --> 01:30:49,569
All right, it's all set.
1522
01:30:49,652 --> 01:30:53,865
Soon, the boys will be there
to collect the money from the water tower.
1523
01:30:53,948 --> 01:30:57,034
Attention! This is a work of fiction.
1524
01:30:57,743 --> 01:31:00,496
Any similarity to anyone's reality…
1525
01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:04,417
is mere coincidence.
1526
01:31:04,500 --> 01:31:05,835
Here's the deal, B.
1527
01:31:06,544 --> 01:31:08,796
There's a bunch of pigs in the street.
1528
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:10,214
Things could go south.
1529
01:31:10,965 --> 01:31:13,634
Copy that. Tell the boys to stay alert,
1530
01:31:13,718 --> 01:31:18,389
to make sure they're not being followed,
and their phones are working. Over.
1531
01:31:19,557 --> 01:31:22,685
Got it. The pieces are clean.
I'll bring them over.
1532
01:31:22,768 --> 01:31:25,855
Same bat-place, same time. Over, bro.
1533
01:31:26,856 --> 01:31:30,109
Everyone is aware things are crazy,
1534
01:31:30,860 --> 01:31:34,155
the going is slow, and we got this.
1535
01:31:34,238 --> 01:31:35,740
Colors and values…
1536
01:31:38,826 --> 01:31:40,620
We've taken over!
1537
01:31:41,662 --> 01:31:42,622
Over.
1538
01:31:48,419 --> 01:31:52,798
We are what we are
1539
01:31:52,882 --> 01:31:57,094
Colors and values
1540
01:31:57,178 --> 01:32:02,725
We are what we are
Colors and values
1541
01:32:02,808 --> 01:32:07,230
Funk Conspiracy
International in Jamaica, Queens
1542
01:32:07,313 --> 01:32:09,774
Fundão, Sabin
A job for me
1543
01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:11,609
If God made me like this
1544
01:32:11,692 --> 01:32:14,111
Then we're good, son
I bought some green
1545
01:32:14,195 --> 01:32:16,906
Clouds and black sheep always follow me
1546
01:32:16,989 --> 01:32:19,909
The dark times come
And it was us, too
1547
01:32:19,992 --> 01:32:22,620
I walk, walk, walk the thin dotted line
1548
01:32:22,703 --> 01:32:25,957
On the land whose hero killed
A million Indians
1549
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,043
Around the edges
Black man is king
1550
01:32:29,126 --> 01:32:32,004
It doesn't matter if you like us or not
1551
01:32:32,088 --> 01:32:34,632
Degrade myself just to please you?
Never!
1552
01:32:34,715 --> 01:32:37,343
Because I don't say it
They think I don't know it
1553
01:32:37,426 --> 01:32:40,555
São Paulo has a lot of money to try
1554
01:32:40,638 --> 01:32:42,807
Without losing the focus
Check the flow
1555
01:32:42,890 --> 01:32:45,226
You see, Cross Fox, Tucson, X5, bam
1556
01:32:45,309 --> 01:32:47,228
Black and golden yellow, it's opulent
1557
01:32:47,311 --> 01:32:51,607
We are what we are
1558
01:32:51,691 --> 01:32:53,109
Colors and values
1559
01:32:56,028 --> 01:32:57,321
2014
COLORS AND VALUES
1560
01:32:58,155 --> 01:33:01,701
That's rap. Business, real life.
1561
01:33:01,784 --> 01:33:03,119
The behind the scenes.
1562
01:33:03,619 --> 01:33:07,582
It's life on the table, perspective,
invested dreams, a lot of things.
1563
01:33:08,416 --> 01:33:11,502
I'm a business leader,
a clan patriarch. I know everything.
1564
01:33:12,670 --> 01:33:15,840
From philosophy to romanticism to…
1565
01:33:16,757 --> 01:33:18,718
It's more serious than it seems.
1566
01:33:18,801 --> 01:33:20,177
That's what Racionais is.
1567
01:33:40,531 --> 01:33:41,866
Oh, I see!
1568
01:33:42,450 --> 01:33:46,829
I want them to go beyond what I did,
these new kids, these new rappers.
1569
01:33:46,912 --> 01:33:50,416
I want them to go beyond,
because I aim to go beyond.
1570
01:33:50,499 --> 01:33:52,043
If they don't, I will.
1571
01:33:52,877 --> 01:33:54,003
To make it happen.
1572
01:33:56,631 --> 01:34:00,343
Shout-outs, shout-outs, shout-outs
Shout-outs, here we are, awesome
1573
01:34:00,426 --> 01:34:02,345
Hail the race
Progress for us
1574
01:34:02,428 --> 01:34:04,889
Expanding business
In the back of the club
1575
01:34:04,972 --> 01:34:07,683
Slaying the dragon of sloth and idleness
1576
01:34:07,767 --> 01:34:10,227
A united family will crush a boycott
1577
01:34:10,311 --> 01:34:12,897
Let's go, Pixote
Hollywood doesn't wait
1578
01:34:12,980 --> 01:34:15,941
Black people in the new era
1579
01:34:16,442 --> 01:34:19,236
Gotta make it happen
Gotta make it happen, why not?
1580
01:34:20,404 --> 01:34:23,866
Every year that goes by,
I plan to go further in.
1581
01:34:25,117 --> 01:34:25,951
You know?
1582
01:34:26,577 --> 01:34:29,080
Because the pressure
for me to leave is immense.
1583
01:34:29,580 --> 01:34:30,998
From all sides.
1584
01:34:31,707 --> 01:34:33,668
Got it? I have to invest to stay.
1585
01:34:34,168 --> 01:34:39,548
It's not free, staying in the favela
and keeping a close watch. It's costly.
1586
01:34:43,386 --> 01:34:45,054
I'm a boy from a favela.
1587
01:34:45,137 --> 01:34:48,724
When I saw a cool bike, I wanted one too.
1588
01:34:49,308 --> 01:34:53,145
And it's cool that people know
I didn't steal mine.
1589
01:34:53,229 --> 01:34:56,899
Isn't it nice?
Isn't it nicer if people know that?
1590
01:34:56,982 --> 01:35:00,152
That your dream of having a red Fireblade
1591
01:35:00,236 --> 01:35:03,030
A Repsol CBR, A VMAX, a pad
1592
01:35:03,114 --> 01:35:06,283
An Audi R8 GT, a Carrera Porsche
1593
01:35:06,367 --> 01:35:09,578
A Zenith on the wrist
Or a Patek Philippe
1594
01:35:09,662 --> 01:35:12,331
A gold chain
With diamonds and sapphires
1595
01:35:12,415 --> 01:35:15,668
A necklace people can't believe
1596
01:35:15,751 --> 01:35:19,046
A Black boy with no father who persists
1597
01:35:19,130 --> 01:35:22,591
Can make it to the store
See a new car and say
1598
01:35:22,675 --> 01:35:24,927
"I want it, I'll buy it full price!"
1599
01:35:25,010 --> 01:35:26,512
But even if you can pay
1600
01:35:26,595 --> 01:35:29,014
Some will still be suspicious
1601
01:35:29,098 --> 01:35:32,059
Because racism has been in disguise
For centuries
1602
01:35:32,143 --> 01:35:34,854
They don't accept your status
Or your skin tone
1603
01:35:35,938 --> 01:35:39,442
I like to eat.
I like going to restaurants.
1604
01:35:39,525 --> 01:35:44,071
And Black people don't go
to restaurants in São Paulo.
1605
01:35:44,155 --> 01:35:45,448
But Blue goes.
1606
01:35:46,699 --> 01:35:51,412
I realized I was getting haircuts to go
to those places, staying within the norm…
1607
01:35:52,455 --> 01:35:54,915
I thought, "Damn, bro."
1608
01:35:54,999 --> 01:36:00,671
"The time has come for me
to grow out my hair, get more tattoos…"
1609
01:36:01,172 --> 01:36:05,843
"I wanna go there and cause a scene.
1610
01:36:05,926 --> 01:36:09,430
"I want them uncomfortable
in my presence."
1611
01:36:09,513 --> 01:36:11,682
There's no going back. We're here to stay.
1612
01:36:12,266 --> 01:36:14,101
Slave quarters are over.
1613
01:36:14,685 --> 01:36:18,272
More than half of the Brazilian population
consider themselves Black.
1614
01:36:18,355 --> 01:36:20,149
BLACK POPULATION RISES BY 32%
1615
01:36:20,232 --> 01:36:23,611
In Rio de Janeiro, Marielle was
the fifth most-voted council member…
1616
01:36:23,694 --> 01:36:25,780
It's happening. We can see it!
1617
01:36:25,863 --> 01:36:28,199
We can feel it. We start seeing it.
1618
01:36:28,282 --> 01:36:30,284
"Damn, Black people are making it, bro!"
1619
01:36:30,785 --> 01:36:33,704
One of the country's top universities
1620
01:36:33,788 --> 01:36:38,501
will include Racionais
in the 2020 curriculum for their SATs.
1621
01:36:40,211 --> 01:36:42,338
RACIONAIS MC'S ARE BRAZIL'S PUBLIC ENEMY
1622
01:36:42,421 --> 01:36:45,966
I wasn't thinking about a yacht or…
1623
01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:50,471
No, I just thought about
white sneakers and really blue jeans.
1624
01:36:51,555 --> 01:36:53,182
That was this thug's dream.
1625
01:36:53,265 --> 01:36:56,227
I thought, "Damn,
white sneakers and really blue jeans."
1626
01:36:56,310 --> 01:36:58,312
"And as soon as I get some money,
1627
01:36:59,063 --> 01:37:01,440
I'll spend it all on cookies and pudding
1628
01:37:01,524 --> 01:37:03,984
and eat until I'm sick."
1629
01:37:10,825 --> 01:37:13,077
I look back while I'm singing
1630
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,287
and I see Kleber up there,
1631
01:37:15,788 --> 01:37:20,251
that fucking amazing stage,
that enormous table,
1632
01:37:20,334 --> 01:37:26,382
and he's still scratching like he did
when we used to rehearse at…
1633
01:37:26,465 --> 01:37:28,217
Damn, that's dope.
1634
01:37:31,011 --> 01:37:33,556
It's very moving. It's fucking dope.
1635
01:37:45,109 --> 01:37:46,694
…set up a stage to sing…
1636
01:37:46,777 --> 01:37:49,613
-No, that one was in…
-That day I almost died?
1637
01:37:50,281 --> 01:37:51,323
Do you remember it?
1638
01:37:51,407 --> 01:37:55,661
Milton had scheduled to meet us
at 6:00 a.m. in Taboão, to load the truck.
1639
01:37:55,744 --> 01:37:59,373
I remember that. Wasn't he angry as fuck,
cursing us out?
1640
01:37:59,456 --> 01:38:00,416
At 6:00 a.m.
1641
01:38:00,499 --> 01:38:01,750
"Aren't you artists?"
1642
01:38:01,834 --> 01:38:03,627
-He showed up…
-When did he arrive?
1643
01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:04,712
At 12:00 p.m., man.
1644
01:38:04,795 --> 01:38:07,131
The owner of the venue was happy.
1645
01:38:07,631 --> 01:38:11,260
He placed a guitar on the floor
and said, "See this guitar?"
1646
01:38:11,343 --> 01:38:14,513
"I like this guitar
more than I like my wife."
1647
01:38:14,597 --> 01:38:18,726
"This is a '66 guitar,
from festivals and stuff."
1648
01:38:18,809 --> 01:38:19,852
"Wow, awesome."
1649
01:38:19,935 --> 01:38:22,062
It was awesome.
The guitar on the floor…
1650
01:38:22,146 --> 01:38:24,440
And we were just admiring it.
1651
01:38:26,233 --> 01:38:28,485
I was so angry, there were so many boxes,
1652
01:38:28,569 --> 01:38:30,487
I had unloaded a bunch of them.
1653
01:38:30,571 --> 01:38:33,073
There was a horn on top of a box.
1654
01:38:33,574 --> 01:38:36,744
The horn slipped
and he couldn't catch it in time.
1655
01:38:36,827 --> 01:38:38,495
Guess where the horn fell.
1656
01:38:39,204 --> 01:38:42,583
-On the guitar.
-On the guitar! Bro!
1657
01:38:42,666 --> 01:38:48,047
The box fell on his head, so I was like,
"Blue! Are you all right?"
1658
01:38:48,130 --> 01:38:51,175
And the guy… "Fuck him! My guitar!"
1659
01:38:52,426 --> 01:38:54,053
Tore off the butt of the guitar.
1660
01:38:54,136 --> 01:38:55,387
-That curvy part.
-Wow.
1661
01:38:55,471 --> 01:38:57,473
It tore off part of the guitar.
1662
01:38:57,556 --> 01:39:01,060
The guy, "What was that?!"
When he looked at the guitar, he went,
1663
01:39:01,143 --> 01:39:03,145
"What the hell did you do?"
1664
01:39:07,316 --> 01:39:10,027
"You imbeciles!"
1665
01:39:13,197 --> 01:39:15,282
"Imbeciles" isn't enough…
1666
01:39:17,117 --> 01:39:18,827
Thirty-one years later.
1667
01:39:23,540 --> 01:39:25,584
It's a different moment, you know?
1668
01:39:26,085 --> 01:39:28,671
But I'll always be here.
My roots are here,
1669
01:39:28,754 --> 01:39:31,340
because this is a nice moment
to be with the family.
1670
01:39:31,423 --> 01:39:32,967
It's my roots, man.
1671
01:39:33,050 --> 01:39:36,261
The simplest things, you know?
1672
01:39:36,845 --> 01:39:39,598
That's where the true value is.
1673
01:39:39,682 --> 01:39:42,434
Somebody you love
and who loves you to be by your side.
1674
01:39:57,574 --> 01:40:02,579
All of this makes you look at yourself,
at life, at the past…
1675
01:40:02,663 --> 01:40:05,124
A connection with myself from way back.
1676
01:40:05,207 --> 01:40:10,087
As if I was waking up
in my house in the hood, back in '87.
1677
01:40:10,170 --> 01:40:14,633
If I can't go back and see myself there,
I won't understand the guys now.
1678
01:40:15,884 --> 01:40:16,802
D major.
1679
01:40:16,885 --> 01:40:20,014
When the rooster crows
Announcing a new day
1680
01:40:20,097 --> 01:40:21,682
RACIONAIS AND SANTA RITA FAMILY
1681
01:40:21,765 --> 01:40:25,769
Bless us, Our Lady of the Rosary
Pray for our joy
1682
01:40:25,853 --> 01:40:30,274
Bless us, Our Lady of the Rosary
Pray for our joy
1683
01:40:30,357 --> 01:40:31,275
Let me tell you!
1684
01:40:31,984 --> 01:40:36,321
Forgive me if I have asked for your help
With our Father too many times
1685
01:40:36,822 --> 01:40:41,326
May the blood of my brothers
Never again stain the earth
1686
01:40:41,410 --> 01:40:45,831
May the cry that once called for war
Become a chorus for peace
1687
01:40:45,914 --> 01:40:49,626
Flowers bloom even in the dump
As Racionais once sang
1688
01:40:49,710 --> 01:40:50,794
Racionais
1689
01:40:50,878 --> 01:40:55,174
May the cry that once called for war
Become a chorus for peace
1690
01:40:55,257 --> 01:40:58,761
Flowers bloom even in the dump
As Racionais once sang
1691
01:40:58,844 --> 01:40:59,762
When the rooster…
1692
01:40:59,845 --> 01:41:02,473
When the rooster crows
Announcing a new day
1693
01:41:02,556 --> 01:41:06,810
A lot of our upbringing came from them,
from their family, you know?
1694
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:09,605
Our discipline and our outlook on life.
1695
01:41:09,688 --> 01:41:13,067
The stage was always full
because everybody was there.
1696
01:41:13,150 --> 01:41:15,277
Our cousins were always with us.
1697
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:17,571
That line, "I do my own security"?
1698
01:41:18,405 --> 01:41:19,656
That's the deal.
1699
01:41:20,324 --> 01:41:21,700
Only us.
1700
01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:27,456
Throughout these 30 years of Racionais,
1701
01:41:27,539 --> 01:41:32,211
being alive is impressive in itself.
1702
01:41:32,711 --> 01:41:35,172
All four of us? Impressive.
1703
01:41:35,255 --> 01:41:38,050
Because it was hard.
1704
01:41:38,550 --> 01:41:40,928
A lot of protection, a lot of prayers.
1705
01:41:42,012 --> 01:41:46,892
A lot of blessings.
My Orishas looking out for me.
1706
01:41:47,684 --> 01:41:50,145
If we stopped to think about the dangers,
1707
01:41:50,854 --> 01:41:53,232
we wouldn't have moved.
1708
01:41:53,315 --> 01:41:55,234
Because danger was always there.
1709
01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,028
Before, during, and after.
1710
01:41:58,654 --> 01:42:02,950
A traditional brand was accused of racism
by a Black customer in Salvador.
1711
01:42:03,033 --> 01:42:07,412
The parents of a young girl claim
their daughter was a victim of racism.
1712
01:42:07,496 --> 01:42:11,416
The Naval officer was arrested
after shooting a neighbor to death,
1713
01:42:11,500 --> 01:42:13,418
mistaking him for a robber.
1714
01:42:13,502 --> 01:42:14,670
The victim was Black.
1715
01:42:14,753 --> 01:42:17,840
The ten-year-old boy was murdered
by police while trying to…
1716
01:42:17,923 --> 01:42:21,593
Five young men were killed
by military police officers,
1717
01:42:21,677 --> 01:42:26,515
with no less than 111 bullets
shot at the young men's car.
1718
01:42:26,598 --> 01:42:31,019
It's unacceptable that every 23 minutes
a young Black man is murdered.
1719
01:42:31,103 --> 01:42:35,190
It's unacceptable that every 23 minutes
a Black woman will stand by a grave
1720
01:42:35,274 --> 01:42:36,817
burying her Black son.
1721
01:42:36,900 --> 01:42:41,071
Black people are in enemy territory.
Really, in enemy territory.
1722
01:42:41,155 --> 01:42:42,906
I can see my children being killed.
1723
01:42:42,990 --> 01:42:46,702
And I'm transported back
to the Brazil from 500 years ago.
1724
01:42:48,954 --> 01:42:52,666
At these times, people look for a leader.
1725
01:42:52,749 --> 01:42:54,668
"Racism? I got it!"
1726
01:42:54,751 --> 01:42:57,337
But that's not it.
It's not just about Black people.
1727
01:42:57,421 --> 01:42:59,715
Racism is wrong, injustice is wrong.
1728
01:42:59,798 --> 01:43:00,924
You have to speak up.
1729
01:43:01,008 --> 01:43:04,344
If you're white and see a Black person
being targeted, speak up.
1730
01:43:04,428 --> 01:43:06,847
We're in enemy territory, man.
1731
01:43:09,057 --> 01:43:09,933
You see?
1732
01:43:12,060 --> 01:43:15,355
In Haiti, the Black population
had taken over by force.
1733
01:43:15,439 --> 01:43:18,358
Slave labor landed there
and became the country's majority.
1734
01:43:20,152 --> 01:43:24,072
And the fear of a Black majority
taking over hit Brazil too.
1735
01:43:24,156 --> 01:43:26,950
Councilwoman Marielle Franco
has died in Rio de Janeiro.
1736
01:43:27,034 --> 01:43:32,414
She was murdered on Wednesday evening,
when her car was shot.
1737
01:43:32,497 --> 01:43:36,210
They are afraid.
Afraid of Planet Black. Afraid!
1738
01:43:37,044 --> 01:43:40,339
The rise of Black people
in society is tough, bro.
1739
01:43:40,422 --> 01:43:43,592
The higher the rung, the bigger the enemy.
1740
01:43:43,675 --> 01:43:45,969
They don't get any less powerful, no.
1741
01:43:46,053 --> 01:43:49,306
The more power you gain,
the more powerful your foes.
1742
01:43:49,389 --> 01:43:53,894
There's no rest! There's no rest!
The government is killing Black women!
1743
01:43:53,977 --> 01:43:55,896
They're killing our children!
1744
01:43:55,979 --> 01:43:58,440
-We can't take it anymore.
-Enough!
1745
01:43:58,523 --> 01:44:00,692
Enough racism!
1746
01:44:00,776 --> 01:44:02,694
Enough murder!
1747
01:44:02,778 --> 01:44:04,112
Enough racism!
1748
01:44:04,196 --> 01:44:06,031
BLACK MOTHERS
CAN'T TAKE MORE TEARS
1749
01:44:06,114 --> 01:44:10,661
It's been a while since we've seen
a political force for the Black people,
1750
01:44:10,744 --> 01:44:11,954
for the majority.
1751
01:44:12,037 --> 01:44:14,206
It has only gotten bigger.
1752
01:44:14,289 --> 01:44:16,458
They tried to silence us,
but we got bigger.
1753
01:44:21,296 --> 01:44:23,507
Stupid racists, leave us alone!
1754
01:44:24,091 --> 01:44:29,054
Stupid racists, leave us alone!
1755
01:44:30,097 --> 01:44:32,933
This genocide is happening
out in the open.
1756
01:44:33,016 --> 01:44:36,812
But it's gonna change.
1757
01:44:37,729 --> 01:44:38,897
It's gonna change.
1758
01:44:38,981 --> 01:44:40,607
BLACK LIVES MATTER
1759
01:44:40,691 --> 01:44:43,986
Survival is daily,
and the fight is constant, all the time.
1760
01:44:44,069 --> 01:44:45,237
There's no rest.
1761
01:44:49,574 --> 01:44:53,328
Racionais didn't invent the cause.
The cause is much greater than Racionais.
1762
01:44:53,412 --> 01:44:56,540
A lot of people came before us
hitting that same key.
1763
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:00,544
No fanfare, or an album cover,
1764
01:45:00,627 --> 01:45:03,005
or a music video,
but the fight is the same.
1765
01:45:03,672 --> 01:45:05,590
With or without spotlights.
1766
01:45:05,674 --> 01:45:12,222
In the '70s, when I was born,
Black people were doing the '70s rituals.
1767
01:45:12,723 --> 01:45:16,560
With the hair, clothes,
and struggles of that time.
1768
01:45:16,643 --> 01:45:18,812
With the body movement of that time.
1769
01:45:18,895 --> 01:45:20,689
And it's happening again.
1770
01:45:20,772 --> 01:45:24,735
This thing with the new aesthetics…
1771
01:45:26,278 --> 01:45:28,196
A new ritual. A new worship.
1772
01:45:29,573 --> 01:45:32,409
If you don't think the Palmeiras stadium
1773
01:45:33,035 --> 01:45:34,828
filled with 15,000 people
1774
01:45:35,495 --> 01:45:38,999
waiting for James Brown to sing
is an act of worship…
1775
01:45:40,334 --> 01:45:41,501
That's worship.
1776
01:45:43,587 --> 01:45:44,755
That's spiritual.
1777
01:45:57,309 --> 01:45:59,936
We sing about freedom, right?
1778
01:46:00,020 --> 01:46:02,522
And it speaks for itself, in all corners.
1779
01:46:03,023 --> 01:46:06,651
It comes from Africa, and it's very rich.
1780
01:46:16,912 --> 01:46:21,416
Black music is very spiritual by itself.
1781
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:23,877
Racionais has always been about that.
1782
01:46:23,960 --> 01:46:28,548
We didn't know it at the time
because we were 19.
1783
01:46:29,049 --> 01:46:31,593
We're 50 now.
1784
01:46:31,676 --> 01:46:33,887
With a different perspective.
1785
01:46:34,388 --> 01:46:35,305
And more power.
1786
01:46:49,236 --> 01:46:50,070
Cheers!
1787
01:46:52,114 --> 01:46:53,990
Come on!
1788
01:46:54,074 --> 01:46:57,160
Black drama
Between the success and the mud
1789
01:46:57,244 --> 01:47:01,206
Money, trouble, envy, luxury, fame
Black drama
1790
01:47:01,289 --> 01:47:06,336
Frizzy hair, dark skin, wounds, and brands
Looking for a cure
1791
01:47:06,420 --> 01:47:09,256
Black drama
Tries to see and sees nothing
1792
01:47:09,339 --> 01:47:12,717
Except for a fading star in the distance
1793
01:47:12,801 --> 01:47:15,303
Feel the drama
In the price and the charges
1794
01:47:15,387 --> 01:47:18,140
In love, in hatred
In the misguided vengeance
1795
01:47:18,223 --> 01:47:21,268
Black drama
I know who's scheming and who's with me
1796
01:47:21,351 --> 01:47:24,688
The burden that I bear
To be more than a fuck-up
1797
01:47:24,771 --> 01:47:27,524
The drama of jail and favelas
1798
01:47:27,607 --> 01:47:30,527
Graves and blood, sirens
Cries and candlelight
1799
01:47:31,111 --> 01:47:33,905
A passenger from Brazil
São Paulo, the agony
1800
01:47:33,989 --> 01:47:36,741
Surviving through honor and cowardice
1801
01:47:36,825 --> 01:47:39,119
Hoods, alleys, and hovels
1802
01:47:39,202 --> 01:47:42,622
You must be thinking
What this has to do with you
1803
01:47:42,706 --> 01:47:45,750
AGAINST THE GENOCIDE OF BLACK PEOPLE
MOURNING - RACISM KILLS
1804
01:47:45,834 --> 01:47:51,298
The feeling that made me fight
in rap and in Racionais was rage.
1805
01:47:51,923 --> 01:47:54,217
It wasn't joy, comfort,
and a full stomach.
1806
01:47:54,301 --> 01:47:57,888
Quite the opposite,
an empty stomach, hatred, ambition.
1807
01:48:01,308 --> 01:48:05,687
Crime, soccer, music… Damn
1808
01:48:07,147 --> 01:48:09,524
I also couldn't escape it
I'm just another man
1809
01:48:10,150 --> 01:48:13,820
Forrest Gump is a fairy tale
I'd rather tell a real story
1810
01:48:15,697 --> 01:48:16,865
I'll tell my own
1811
01:48:17,365 --> 01:48:19,367
Look, it'd be a good movie
1812
01:48:19,451 --> 01:48:22,078
A Black mother with her son in her arms
1813
01:48:22,162 --> 01:48:24,956
Alone in a forest of steel and concrete
1814
01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:27,667
Look and look again
At the face in the crowd
1815
01:48:27,751 --> 01:48:31,171
The crowd is a monster
Without a face or a heart
1816
01:48:31,254 --> 01:48:34,132
Hey, São Paulo, land of skyscrapers
1817
01:48:34,216 --> 01:48:37,260
The drizzle rips the flesh
It's the tower of Babel
1818
01:48:37,344 --> 01:48:40,180
Brazilian family, two against the world
1819
01:48:40,263 --> 01:48:43,266
A single mother to a promising bum
1820
01:48:43,350 --> 01:48:46,144
Lights, camera, action
And recording, the scene goes
1821
01:48:46,228 --> 01:48:49,314
The bastard, another fatherless brown boy
1822
01:48:49,397 --> 01:48:52,108
Hey, slave lord, I know who you are
1823
01:48:52,192 --> 01:48:55,111
You can't hack it alone
You can't hack it on your feet
1824
01:48:55,195 --> 01:48:57,948
You said it was good
And the hood echoed back
1825
01:48:58,031 --> 01:49:00,575
We also have whisky, Red Bull
Nike, assault rifles
1826
01:49:00,659 --> 01:49:02,994
I admit it, your cars are nice
1827
01:49:03,078 --> 01:49:06,206
And I can't make the Internet
Or cassettes
1828
01:49:06,289 --> 01:49:08,959
Or the sick cars
I might be a little late
1829
01:49:09,042 --> 01:49:10,961
I think I am
1830
01:49:11,044 --> 01:49:13,129
But your game is rigged
And I can't fit in
1831
01:49:13,213 --> 01:49:15,674
I'm a lot of trouble
From Carnaval to Carnaval
1832
01:49:15,757 --> 01:49:19,261
I'm from the jungle
I'm a lion in your backyard
1833
01:49:30,397 --> 01:49:33,900
You're already a survivor of a massacre,
a genocide, bro.
1834
01:49:34,818 --> 01:49:38,530
Naturally,
the strongest survivor of the genocide,
1835
01:49:38,613 --> 01:49:41,074
who suffered the botched
transatlantic transplant.
1836
01:49:41,157 --> 01:49:42,742
You didn't become shark food.
1837
01:49:43,535 --> 01:49:46,580
Your ancestors were fucking strong.
1838
01:49:48,415 --> 01:49:49,749
They don't sell that idea.
1839
01:49:54,296 --> 01:49:55,672
Alone, we're weak.
1840
01:49:55,755 --> 01:49:57,507
Together, we're powerful.
1841
01:50:05,265 --> 01:50:09,144
Nowadays, my passion is music.
For my race, for sure, first and foremost.
1842
01:50:09,227 --> 01:50:10,895
But I make music for them.
1843
01:50:11,396 --> 01:50:12,772
It's my way to do politics.
1844
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:16,484
Because
1845
01:50:17,193 --> 01:50:19,738
the revolution needs a heart.
1846
01:56:13,758 --> 01:56:18,763
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