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[coins jingle]
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["1 Por Amor, 2 Por Dinheiro" plays]
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Revolution will come from the bottom,
from the roots.
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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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Yo, film all these police cars, bro.
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[sirens blaring]
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We've all watched Dr. Dre's concert.
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The dude walks on the stage
through a screen, like it was…
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-[man] Three-dimensional.
-Exactly! A three-dimensional image.
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It's futuristic.
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So we watch that,
and we get inspired like,
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"Wow, man, let's rap,
because… that's what's going on!"
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Check this out.
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Right there, that's our stage.
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[hip-hop beat plays]
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[crowd cheers]
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For those who didn't become shark food.
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Those 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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[interviewer] Do Racionais do social work?
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Here. This is our social work.
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Music that changes people's attitudes,
gets into their minds.
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[man] One, two, three, four!
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[soul sample plays]
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One, two, three, four!
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[no audible dialogue]
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[rapping in Portuguese]
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HUMAN MOUSETRAP IN CAPÃO
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[reporter 1] The most violent weekend
of all time.
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A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
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[chanting] End racism! Now! Now!
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[woman] The police didn't even ask
for an explanation.
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They just shot him with machine guns.
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[reporter 2] 23-year-old Wanderley
was murdered in the next bedroom,
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in his sleep,
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Ms. Ivanda says he was a hard-working man.
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[man] I came back bigger.
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[rapper] São Paulo, Brazil.
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[rapper] This is Racionais MC's!
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[gunshot]
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[shell clatters]
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[rapper] Capão Redondo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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[man 1] The South Side, in the 1970s,
was still almost rural.
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Horses, cattle, dirt roads, fences,
soccer fields, lots of kites, you know?
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[Mano Brown] I was living
for the sake of living.
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The way I was back then,
I wouldn't have made it.
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Completely empty-minded,
ready to become a thief.
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I went to a all-white school,
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so they made fun of me
for my hair, my lips.
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When they came at me, I reacted 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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[Mano Brown] Being a recording artist
or a singer,
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that felt as distant as Saturn or Jupiter.
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I knew we would be heard eventually.
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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." Got it?
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[man 2] I used to live in a war zone,
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,
right near the soccer field.
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The corpses became natural to us.
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Somebody who'd be hanged or shot
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would be left there
for two, three, four days.
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That's exactly what the 1980s were like.
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[rapping in Portuguese]
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It's a challenge making people aware
of what is actually happening.
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Mine and Brown's mother were friends.
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And they both went
to the Seu Isaac's Candomblé house.
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I remember vaguely us living
in the Santa Rita family backyard
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back in the 1970s.
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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
and barbecue cookouts.
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So we grew up surrounded by music.
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[singing in Portuguese]
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["O Mau e o Bem" plays]
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[man 3] The North Side during the 1980s,
had a lot of very violent places.
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Where I lived in Mazzei,
there was some violence, but not as much.
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At the time,
most parties were still at home.
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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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[song continues]
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[KL Jay] There's this sense of brotherhood
which goes back 400, 500 years,
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Like we were together in our past lives.
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[Edi] I had a large family,
and we liked to party.
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I lived in Vila Mazzei,
and when I was 14, I started going out.
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It was formative.
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I carry it 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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KL Jay was dancing
in the middle of a crowd.
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He even had Ray Parker's hair,
like Michael Jackson.
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He 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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[Edi Rock] I can see it in people's eyes
when the concert is over.
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Our mission is to make them feel good
and uplifted.
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The record's dope, right?
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[KL Jay] It's powerful.
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We're here to accomplish a mission
through music.
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[funk rhythm plays]
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[Mano Brown] Yeah, see.
We rocked at rapping.
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Hey. Remember that video
when we went to that white guy's house?
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[KL Jay] Edi Rock and I were from
the North Side.
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Brown and Blue, the South Side.
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-[Ice Blue] That's a fuckin' awesome beat.
-[Mano Brown] It is.
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-[Edi Rock] How'd you go? Bus?
-[Mano Brown] For real.
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-[Edi Rock] Was there a subway?
-[Ice Blue] Bus til Bandeira.
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[Mano Brown] You gotta take a bus,
a subway, another bus.
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Yeah, we had to take the bus
to Bandeira Square.
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-Subway to Santana…
-[Ice Blue] Bandeira, subway.
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-[Mano Brown] Remember we left from here.
-[Ice Blue] Yeah, yeah. Capão.
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We took the bus.
It took a 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 left a place of poverty
for a place where all the lights were on.
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["De Volta A Cena" plays]
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[Mano Brown] Going downtown
when we were broke,
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we'd even get hungry on the bus,
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But we fed on the lights
and the shop windows.
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The clothes.
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We'd go to the record stores
on Paulista Avenue to look at the posters,
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at the art covers,
the sneakers people were wearing.
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Man, Galeria was like being in Harlem.
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The music, the barbershops,
all the gestures.
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The rituals of Black youth.
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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.
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[funk music plays]
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[Ice Blue] We started going to parties.
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We would leave the South Side
to find a party.
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[KL Jay] I liked
being in the middle of it.
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Black people all around,
I played the coolest music.
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[Edi Rock] We formed our own team.
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KL Jay and I.
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We played in the hood
what we heard at the parties.
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We took downtown to the hood.
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The teams had this tradition
of bringing over international groups.
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When I saw one of them for the first time,
like Kool Moe Dee,
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I thought, "Wow, we can do that."
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You'd just sing a rhyme,
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while a DJ scratched some records
in the back. Easy.
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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
at Brigadeiro Luís Antônio Avenue.
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We unloaded trucks as they came in.
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When they were late, I wrote.
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I was an office boy
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and I got 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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A powerful place.
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[hip-hop plays]
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[radio DJ] 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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[music continues]
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[Mano Brown] We were at São Bento.
A guy shows up and said,
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"Who are the guys from Capão who said
they're fuckin' great at singing?"
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I said, "Me!" [chuckles]
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I mean, he asked.
I wasn't trying to brag, but, you know.
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RAP COMPETITION
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[Ice Blue] "Yeah, there's
this rap competition. Let's sign up, bro."
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"What will our name be?"
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"Let's just come up with one."
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So we came up with B. B Boys
and signed up.
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We sang two raps and won the competition.
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Holy shit, we joined and just won!
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"B" dot "B" Boys, you know? B. B Boys.
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Bad Black Boys. What'd you expect?
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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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♪ We came from the underground
Who would've thought? ♪
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♪ This is no American ghetto
This is Brazilian periphery ♪
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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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[Mano Brown] We ended up
at Edifício Copan.
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There were some people recording,
and Edi Rock and KL Jay were there.
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"What's up, DJ!" And he flinched back.
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We were thugs from South Side.
[clears throat]
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Kleber was always discreet.
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"My name is Edi…" And he went, "Rock!"
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"My name is Edi."
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Then he pointed at Kleber
who went "rock, rock, rock."
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I said, "Bro!"
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"That's fuckin' dope!
That's New York style, bro."
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[chuckles] We became their fans, you know.
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[hip-hop beat plays]
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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 the B. B Boys,
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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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["Mano na Porta do Bar" plays]
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[Edi Rock] I met Milton Sales,
who is an important part of our history.
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[Mano Brown] Milton… he was a part of our
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pre-history.
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Way before we were called Racionais.
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So Milton was responsible for the meeting
of KL Jay, Edi Rock, Brown, and Blue.
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He was a big Bob Marley fan,
and he managed a reggae band.
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He was sure that we'd be like
the Brazilian Bob Marley,
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talking about the lives of our people.
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If he disagreed with the politics
in our lines, he'd question it.
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He pointed us in the right direction.
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"Hey. You guys should talk about this,
'cause no one else is."
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"Hey. You have swing.
You're good with beats and samba."
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He said, "You have to use that
to defend the people."
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Dude, I didn't even have
a hot shower, bro.
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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 is felt
Towards the ones in need ♪
240
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♪ They come ♪
241
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♪ With authority
And always prejudice ♪
242
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♪ And suddenly our space becomes ♪
243
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♪ A living hell
And how can we claim our rights ♪
244
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♪ If we are just citizens
And they are the system? ♪
245
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♪ Disinformation is our main issue ♪
246
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♪ But even so, we aim to be equal ♪
247
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♪ Stupid racists, leave us alone ♪
248
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[Mano Brown] Rap took me out of Capão.
249
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I took a job far away.
250
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KL Jay lived on the North Side,
so that's where we stayed.
251
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That might have stopped us
from dying there. You know?
252
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Because Capão had nothing to offer…
but mud…
253
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and getting shot.
254
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S. LUÍS CEMETARY
255
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["Somos o Que Somos" plays]
256
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[KL Jay] Brown was unemployed.
257
00:16:06,006 --> 00:16:07,883
I worked as an office boy
at a firm downtown,
258
00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:10,219
so I told him I'd get him a job there.
259
00:16:10,719 --> 00:16:13,806
It was great. We started seeing each other
every single day.
260
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[upbeat music plays]
261
00:16:17,476 --> 00:16:20,229
[Mano Brown] That's when Edi Rock
got the invite from Zimbabwe.
262
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So he went, and I tagged along.
263
00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:25,901
[Edi Rock] Zimbabwe had a party network
in the hoods.
264
00:16:27,861 --> 00:16:32,616
At the time, we called them Bailes Black,
because 90% of the clientele was Black.
265
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Maybe even 99%.
266
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SERAFIM
GRAVADORA ZIMBABWE
267
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After a while, we began to grow and expand
268
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to the point where we saw the need
to have live performers,
269
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:44,503
because we didn't have any.
270
00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:48,465
We had to get Carlos Dafé,
Banda Black Rio, Tim Maia,
271
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all of whom were from Rio.
272
00:16:50,467 --> 00:16:54,513
Maybe if we had a record label, we could
begin to spotlight something of our own.
273
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We wanted to be
like a Brazilian Motown, you know?
274
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Only Black music, only Black people.
275
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We came up with a compilation album
called Consciência Black
276
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that would feature several MCs,
277
00:17:09,236 --> 00:17:11,572
and whoever stood out
would get their own LP.
278
00:17:13,198 --> 00:17:15,909
KL Jay arrived with a James Brown record.
279
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He made a loop
of a fuckin' amazing James Brown song,
280
00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:22,291
and I put my rap over it.
281
00:17:22,833 --> 00:17:26,336
When I put my rap over it,
everyone said, "Fucking dope, bro!"
282
00:17:26,837 --> 00:17:28,005
"That's real ghetto!"
283
00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:30,591
The tape got to the guys at Zimbabwe,
284
00:17:30,674 --> 00:17:32,843
and they didn't even know
it was me singing.
285
00:17:33,677 --> 00:17:34,762
"Who's singing this?"
286
00:17:35,262 --> 00:17:36,597
"Oh, it's those guys from…"
287
00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:37,514
"Who?"
288
00:17:37,598 --> 00:17:41,894
We're Racionais MC's. Ice Blue,
Mano Brown, KL Jay, and I, Edi Rock
289
00:17:41,977 --> 00:17:43,520
You good, Mano Brown?
290
00:17:43,604 --> 00:17:46,690
[Mano Brown] Not really, bro
Who's bringing back the innocent victims?
291
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:50,110
[Ice Blue] But life goes on
So what? Who cares?
292
00:17:50,694 --> 00:17:52,988
[KL Jay] Society just
slams its doors anyway
293
00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:54,907
-[Edi Rock] What's up, Ice Blue?
-[man] Panic!
294
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VIOLENCE TAKES OVER SÃO PAULO SOUTH SIDE
295
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♪ So, when the day goes dark ♪
296
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♪ Only those who are there
Know what goes on ♪
297
00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,041
♪ It seems to me
That ignorance always wins ♪
298
00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:06,794
♪ And we're all alone
No one wants to hear our voice ♪
299
00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:08,712
♪ Which is filled with reasons
Gauged in fists ♪
300
00:18:08,796 --> 00:18:11,173
♪ With no witness to commit ♪
301
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:14,051
♪ And you'd better believe
The truth is made to omit ♪
302
00:18:14,134 --> 00:18:16,303
♪ Because who can guarantee my future? ♪
303
00:18:17,971 --> 00:18:20,808
[KL Jay] "Pânico na Zona Sul"
was telling on the vigilantes.
304
00:18:20,891 --> 00:18:22,935
No one would say it, but we all knew it.
305
00:18:23,018 --> 00:18:25,813
It denounced them, bro.
That's fucking brave, you know?
306
00:18:28,774 --> 00:18:30,567
And with straightforward language.
307
00:18:30,651 --> 00:18:33,320
♪ Avengers, they call themselves ♪
308
00:18:33,403 --> 00:18:36,073
♪ They kill and humiliate
And fire pell-mell ♪
309
00:18:36,156 --> 00:18:38,200
♪ And the police show no will ♪
310
00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:41,245
♪ To investigate the truth ♪
311
00:18:41,328 --> 00:18:42,996
♪ Because it's just inconvenient ♪
312
00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,291
♪ Why would they help
Those they deem delinquent? ♪
313
00:18:46,375 --> 00:18:48,710
♪ And so the story goes on
Without a hitch ♪
314
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,171
♪ Panic in the South Side persists ♪
315
00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:52,923
♪ Panic in the South Side ♪
316
00:18:53,757 --> 00:18:55,175
♪ Panic in the South Side ♪
317
00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:57,553
♪ Panic in the South Side ♪
318
00:19:01,765 --> 00:19:03,600
[KL Jay] It was a fork in the road.
319
00:19:06,019 --> 00:19:07,771
Like the Atom Ant.
320
00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:10,065
It was small and unknown, but strong.
321
00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:12,985
A lot of people started paying attention.
322
00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:18,115
["Hey Boy" plays]
323
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:27,916
[KL Jay] So naturally
we got together, you know?
324
00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:31,587
We shared the same desire
to make powerful music
325
00:19:31,670 --> 00:19:32,880
for people to listen to.
326
00:19:34,923 --> 00:19:37,843
For the ghetto to listen to,
for Black people,
327
00:19:38,343 --> 00:19:40,053
for the persecuted, the oppressed.
328
00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:45,809
I often felt guilty
for not being from a favela.
329
00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:48,729
But, when I found out
that Jorge Ben wasn't either,
330
00:19:48,812 --> 00:19:51,398
I thought… [laughs] "Oh, it's all good!"
331
00:19:51,481 --> 00:19:52,691
[laughs]
332
00:19:52,774 --> 00:19:54,776
["Foi Num Baile Black" plays]
333
00:19:57,696 --> 00:19:59,323
That's us! That's our thing!
334
00:19:59,406 --> 00:20:01,783
It's us. South Side. Our thing.
335
00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:11,001
[Ice Blue] When we went to Mrs. Maria's
to rehearse at Kleber's.
336
00:20:11,084 --> 00:20:13,086
Mrs. Maria had to put up with us.
337
00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:16,131
and all that fuckin' racket we made
all day long, bro.
338
00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:17,925
[chuckles]
339
00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:21,136
Zimbabwe made an offer to record an LP.
340
00:20:23,597 --> 00:20:25,474
[Mano Brown] The album took too long
to come out.
341
00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:27,267
The group was struggling by then.
342
00:20:28,977 --> 00:20:32,105
We were doing some gigs,
but, for me, that wasn't enough.
343
00:20:32,189 --> 00:20:34,149
I had a son. I had two brothers.
344
00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:35,359
I had rent to pay.
345
00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:40,072
[Ice Blue] I quit my job,
but the record wasn't out yet.
346
00:20:42,991 --> 00:20:45,994
Damn. The record wouldn't come out.
It just wouldn't.
347
00:20:48,538 --> 00:20:51,458
Then suddenly comes Serafim
with the record,
348
00:20:51,541 --> 00:20:54,002
Holocausto Urbano, in his hands.
349
00:20:54,086 --> 00:20:56,213
He said, "Here it is."
350
00:20:56,296 --> 00:20:58,090
["Tempos Difíceis" plays]
351
00:20:58,173 --> 00:21:02,094
[exclaims] Damn! We all hugged,
saying "Fuck, it's finally out!"
352
00:21:02,177 --> 00:21:05,555
"Damn! Holocausto Urbano is out!"
353
00:21:05,639 --> 00:21:07,641
[song continues]
354
00:21:11,311 --> 00:21:13,480
[Edi Rock] The songs were
even more aggressive.
355
00:21:13,563 --> 00:21:17,317
That wasn't our intention,
but I think those times asked for it.
356
00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,444
It was a cry
that was stuck in our throats.
357
00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:22,364
♪ I'mma tell you
why the world's like this ♪
358
00:21:22,447 --> 00:21:24,825
♪ It could be better but it's so bad ♪
359
00:21:24,908 --> 00:21:27,661
♪ Hard times, living is hard ♪
360
00:21:27,744 --> 00:21:29,204
♪ We look for a real reason ♪
361
00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:31,540
♪ But no one knows
Hard ♪
362
00:21:32,207 --> 00:21:33,292
♪ Hard times ♪
363
00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:36,378
♪ KL Jay! ♪
364
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:38,338
♪ Hard times… ♪
365
00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:41,216
Things started happening.
366
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,176
Brown married my cousin Eliane.
367
00:21:50,142 --> 00:21:53,854
There was an album release party,
and we took the bus back.
368
00:21:53,937 --> 00:21:56,148
We were going through Largo 13 de Maio,
369
00:21:56,231 --> 00:21:58,817
and everyone was so… so happy.
370
00:22:02,446 --> 00:22:04,906
We got off the back of the bus
without paying.
371
00:22:05,949 --> 00:22:07,159
The driver called out.
372
00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:09,870
We walked away without saying nothing.
373
00:22:09,953 --> 00:22:12,289
We were already far away
when the police stopped us.
374
00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:14,499
Called the cops and they came running.
375
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,668
They put us on the wall and, man!
376
00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:18,879
[scoffs] They gave us a beating.
377
00:22:20,672 --> 00:22:24,092
They took a heavy beating,
especially Blue and Brown.
378
00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:27,929
The policeman made Brown face the wall
as he crouched down,
379
00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:32,517
then he punched him between the legs,
driving his fists up from the floor.
380
00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:41,068
I was in cuffs, and he officer punched me
right in the face.
381
00:22:45,447 --> 00:22:47,032
Then the officer said,
382
00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:48,742
"You're going into custody."
383
00:22:50,077 --> 00:22:52,079
"And you ladies can go home."
384
00:22:52,662 --> 00:22:55,123
I said, "I'm not going home."
385
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:59,044
I'm absolutely sure that, if I'd left,
they would've been murdered.
386
00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:03,548
It was outrageous.
Everybody was utterly outraged.
387
00:23:03,632 --> 00:23:05,884
You put out a record. You're going home.
388
00:23:05,967 --> 00:23:07,344
Then you get beat up.
389
00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:13,266
Our lyrics already talked
about protesting and urban issues.
390
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:18,730
It was confrontation and resistance
391
00:23:18,814 --> 00:23:23,276
to all the oppression and repression
that we suffered after the dictatorship.
392
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,278
[funk music plays]
393
00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:32,619
The '80s were a terrible time
for Brazilian Black people.
394
00:23:32,702 --> 00:23:37,457
FROM 1970 TO 1980,
THE WHITE POPULATION WENT FROM 61% TO 55%
395
00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:42,671
OVER TEN YEARS, BLACK PEOPLE
ROSE FROM 28% TO 38% OF THE POPULATION
396
00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:47,467
FOLLOWING THIS TREND, BY THE YEAR 2000
BLACK PEOPLE COULD NUMBER 60%
397
00:23:47,551 --> 00:23:52,180
AND COULD RULE OVER BRAZILIAN POLITICS
BY OCCUPYING ALL KEY POSITIONS.
398
00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,474
WE MUST INITIATE BIRTH CONTROL
399
00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:56,101
[Ice Blue] It's crazy, isn't it?
400
00:23:57,018 --> 00:23:58,687
The guy puts out a statement
401
00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:01,189
saying Black women can't have children
402
00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:05,152
because Black people can't
become a majority and take the power.
403
00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:08,822
CONTROL OF BLACK BIRTH RATES
404
00:24:09,865 --> 00:24:11,825
It was about extermination.
405
00:24:11,908 --> 00:24:15,120
A new democracy was born,
though it didn't really exist.
406
00:24:15,203 --> 00:24:17,372
And people didn't even know
what it was like.
407
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:21,209
Because it was born in a transition
between the clenched fist of the military,
408
00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:23,795
in tandem with an economic crisis.
409
00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:30,760
The type of racism we experience in Brazil
is the type that empties Black people.
410
00:24:31,261 --> 00:24:32,804
Not even hatred was left.
411
00:24:32,888 --> 00:24:35,557
And hatred can be a useful emotion
in war, you know?
412
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,853
Feeling hatred is one thing,
but feeling nothing is another.
413
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,107
As soon as we started feeling
ambitious about rap,
414
00:24:44,608 --> 00:24:46,318
we became like Public Enemy,
415
00:24:46,818 --> 00:24:49,112
even though they didn't even know
we existed.
416
00:24:49,613 --> 00:24:50,489
You know?
417
00:24:53,408 --> 00:24:56,745
Wherever Public Enemy is,
that's where I wanted to be too.
418
00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:02,250
These names started coming up,
like Malcolm X.
419
00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:06,171
We wanted to learn about these things,
so I went to a Black movement party.
420
00:25:06,254 --> 00:25:08,089
Other rappers started going too.
421
00:25:11,551 --> 00:25:15,222
We had to bring together two things
that were related but separate.
422
00:25:15,722 --> 00:25:17,307
The organized Black movement,
423
00:25:17,390 --> 00:25:20,352
comprised of older
and more educated Black activists
424
00:25:20,435 --> 00:25:22,062
who, while they were making headway,
425
00:25:22,145 --> 00:25:24,689
didn't have access
to a certain demographic,
426
00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:27,025
Black youth who weren't
aware of the movement.
427
00:25:27,108 --> 00:25:29,277
Racionais had access to that youth.
428
00:25:30,153 --> 00:25:32,030
That's when things started happening.
429
00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:37,160
[Ice Blue] There was gonna be a march
to bring Black people together,
430
00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:40,413
but a rumor came up
that some skinheads were gonna be there
431
00:25:40,497 --> 00:25:42,582
and give everyone a beating or something.
432
00:25:44,167 --> 00:25:47,462
We were at Geledés,
and everyone was terrified.
433
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:50,006
"No, it's no good. We should cancel it."
434
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:52,008
We said, "What?"
435
00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:53,426
"Just a sec, bro."
436
00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:56,888
"We're going to the hood real quick,
and we'll be right back."
437
00:25:56,972 --> 00:26:01,643
We came back armed and said,
"Get this march going, we're coming."
438
00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:05,438
Let's see if those baldies
will dare show up. We'll light 'em up."
439
00:26:06,815 --> 00:26:09,943
[Mano Brown] Two families came together,
the political Black movement,
440
00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:11,611
and these new kids who sang.
441
00:26:11,695 --> 00:26:13,113
["Negro Limitado" plays]
442
00:26:13,196 --> 00:26:15,073
♪ Narrow-minded
Narrow-minded ♪
443
00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:18,243
♪ You don't listen to me
Or don't get what I say ♪
444
00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:21,830
♪ I try to warn you
You call me a dumb nigga ♪
445
00:26:21,913 --> 00:26:24,958
♪ Primitive and angry
You know it ♪
446
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,253
♪ We are playing with a fixed deck ♪
447
00:26:28,336 --> 00:26:34,134
♪ You have two ways out
Be aware or drown in your own apathy ♪
448
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,219
-♪ Choose your path ♪
-♪ One less virus ♪
449
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:40,015
♪ Be a true, pure,
And informed Black man ♪
450
00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:43,143
♪ Or just be another
Narrow-minded brother ♪
451
00:26:44,352 --> 00:26:45,437
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
452
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,605
♪ Narrow-minded brother ♪
453
00:26:46,688 --> 00:26:49,649
-♪ Narrow-minded brother ♪
-♪ One less virus ♪
454
00:26:50,483 --> 00:26:52,986
-♪ One less virus ♪
-♪ Choose your path ♪
455
00:26:57,157 --> 00:27:00,243
[Mano Brown] We didn't know who we were,
if we'd ever become something,
456
00:27:00,327 --> 00:27:03,204
which way the fight was going,
or who our adversary was.
457
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:04,748
Everything was our adversary.
458
00:27:05,832 --> 00:27:08,043
Even our own ignorance was our adversary.
459
00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:09,628
Not knowing our cause.
460
00:27:10,503 --> 00:27:11,713
Considering all this,
461
00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:14,049
it's really phenomenal
that we did all that.
462
00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:15,383
[chuckles]
463
00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:17,677
The orishas must have interfered, bro.
464
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:20,513
We weren't intelligent enough
to have done all that.
465
00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:22,682
For real.
466
00:27:24,225 --> 00:27:25,935
[KL Jay] Man, lookin' at those photos.
467
00:27:26,019 --> 00:27:27,020
[scoffs]
468
00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:31,191
["Amor Distante" plays]
469
00:27:31,274 --> 00:27:32,942
[whistles a tune]
470
00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:43,536
[Edi Rock] That's the same funk song.
471
00:27:46,956 --> 00:27:48,416
[Mano Brown] This was at Zimbabwe.
472
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,835
-[Ice Blue] I remember that girl.
-[Mano Brown] Did you know?
473
00:27:51,586 --> 00:27:53,630
-[Mano Brown] Yeah?
-[Mano Brown] Yeah. At Zimbabwe.
474
00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:56,966
[mellow music plays]
475
00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:02,597
[Mano Brown] Back then we'd smoke a joint
in the car, listening to Jorge Ben.
476
00:28:06,017 --> 00:28:08,770
I wanted to be like him,
sing like that, you know?
477
00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:12,941
I could visualize my neighborhood
while listening to his music.
478
00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:18,947
It's not that easy to join
a political idea with a dancing beat.
479
00:28:20,490 --> 00:28:22,826
It's knowledge we didn't have yet.
You know?
480
00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,252
His vocabulary was amazing.
It was loaded with rhythm.
481
00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:35,547
I pay attention to this one backing track,
482
00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:37,882
right in the middle of the harmonies,
like this,
483
00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:40,260
♪ "Carol, Carolina" ♪
484
00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:43,138
[chuckles] I said, "Wow, that's dope!"
485
00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:46,349
"He just sang the vocal in Arabic.
He went to Africa!"
486
00:28:49,436 --> 00:28:53,440
Those were the songs I was into
during the making of Raio X do Brasil.
487
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,985
["Fim de Semana no Parque" plays]
488
00:28:57,068 --> 00:29:01,614
♪ 1993
We're fucking back ♪
489
00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:02,741
♪ Racionais ♪
490
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:06,327
♪ Using and abusing
Our freedom of speech ♪
491
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,872
♪ One of the few rights ♪
492
00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:11,374
♪ Young Black people
Still have in this country ♪
493
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:16,004
♪ You're entering
The world of information ♪
494
00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:20,175
♪ Self-knowledge, denunciation, and fun ♪
495
00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:22,552
♪ This is the X-ray of Brazil ♪
496
00:29:23,052 --> 00:29:24,262
♪ Welcome ♪
497
00:29:24,345 --> 00:29:26,347
[playing beat and scratching record]
498
00:29:30,226 --> 00:29:31,352
[Edi Rock] KL Jay!
499
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:34,063
[Edi Rock] Tear it up!
500
00:29:35,815 --> 00:29:37,817
[scratching rapidly]
501
00:29:39,694 --> 00:29:41,696
[spectators cheer]
502
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:50,163
-[music ends]
-[cheering continues]
503
00:29:51,372 --> 00:29:54,876
[Ice Blue] KL Jay,
the rabid dog from North Side.
504
00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:55,794
Yo!
505
00:29:55,877 --> 00:29:57,420
[spectators yelling]
506
00:29:57,504 --> 00:29:58,755
Wanna see something?
507
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,967
What's up, my people from the South Side?
508
00:30:03,051 --> 00:30:05,053
[spectators cheer]
509
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:06,679
[Mano Brown] Yo, DJ.
510
00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:10,767
[chuckles] Everything cool?
511
00:30:11,726 --> 00:30:13,311
I'm rooting for the North Side.
512
00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:15,063
[Edi Rock] I'm rooting for the East Side.
513
00:30:15,146 --> 00:30:17,273
I'm rooting for the West Side.
514
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:20,819
I'm rooting for peace to all
the poor communities from the South Side!
515
00:30:20,902 --> 00:30:22,779
[spectators cheer]
516
00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:25,114
[Racionais MC's performing
"Fim de Semana no Parque"]
517
00:30:25,198 --> 00:30:27,116
♪ A weekend at the park ♪
518
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:31,246
[spectators rap along]
519
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,165
♪ The weekend's here
And we all want to have some fun ♪
520
00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:36,459
♪ Summertime, all is joy ♪
521
00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:39,087
♪ January in São Paulo, South Side ♪
522
00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:41,631
♪ Everyone's relaxing
Under the warm blue sky ♪
523
00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:43,508
♪ I want to enjoy the sun ♪
524
00:30:43,591 --> 00:30:46,052
♪ Meet my homies
And shoot some hoops ♪
525
00:30:46,135 --> 00:30:47,720
♪ No trouble ♪
526
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:50,181
♪ I'm an hour away from my hood ♪
527
00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,892
♪ Soon, I wanna see everyone in peace ♪
528
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:55,103
♪ One, two, three cars on the sidewalk ♪
529
00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:57,689
♪ All the rich boys are happy and lively ♪
530
00:30:57,772 --> 00:31:00,358
♪ In open garages, they wash their rides ♪
531
00:31:00,441 --> 00:31:02,944
♪ They're wasting water
And having a party ♪
532
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:05,238
♪ Look at all these people ♪
533
00:31:05,321 --> 00:31:07,866
♪ Ice cream shops, cinemas
And the pools are heated ♪
534
00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,618
♪ Look at all the rich boys and girls ♪
535
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,413
♪ Drown that bitch in the pool ♪
536
00:31:14,247 --> 00:31:16,708
♪ There are go-karts, I can see them ♪
537
00:31:16,791 --> 00:31:19,502
♪ Just like the ones
I saw yesterday on TV ♪
538
00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:22,005
♪ Check out that hot club ♪
539
00:31:22,088 --> 00:31:24,716
♪ Check out the Black kid
Looking in from the outside ♪
540
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:27,427
♪ He can't even remember
The money he needs to take ♪
541
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:30,096
♪ To his drunk father yelling at the bar ♪
542
00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:32,765
♪ He can't even remember yesterday
Today or the future ♪
543
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:35,059
♪ He just dreams through the wall ♪
544
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:37,103
♪ In the hood, the joy remains the same ♪
545
00:31:37,186 --> 00:31:39,731
♪ It's almost noon, everyone is euphoric ♪
546
00:31:39,814 --> 00:31:42,317
♪ This is where
My brothers and homies live ♪
547
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,028
♪ And most around here look like me ♪
548
00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:47,363
♪ Here I'm a big deal, I rule the crowd ♪
549
00:31:47,447 --> 00:31:50,366
♪ People have been in a samba
Since 10:00 a.m. ♪
550
00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:53,202
♪ Pay attention to the beat
And mind the chord ♪
551
00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:55,204
♪ What do you say, Mano Brown? ♪
552
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:56,748
♪ Preach for the order ♪
553
00:31:56,831 --> 00:31:58,833
♪ The number one champion in low income ♪
554
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:01,711
♪ The South Side community is dignified ♪
555
00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:04,172
♪ There's a body on the stairs
As an old lady comes ♪
556
00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:06,716
♪ Police! Death! Police! Help! ♪
557
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:12,180
Back then, many Black and poor people
fuckin' related to that song a lot.
558
00:32:12,263 --> 00:32:13,723
That was the great revolution,
559
00:32:15,516 --> 00:32:16,726
when we became popular.
560
00:32:16,809 --> 00:32:18,811
["Fim de Semana no Parque" plays]
561
00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:34,494
[Mano Brown] Our first hurdle was getting
into the hood. Until then, we couldn't.
562
00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:39,999
Who was interested in those ideas?
"Voz Ativa," "Negro Limitado"?
563
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,712
Some students, some teachers,
some specialists. Always just "some."
564
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:49,050
When "Homem na Estrada" came out,
that's when we broke through.
565
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:52,512
["Homem na Estrada" plays]
566
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:58,059
Who rules everything?
567
00:32:58,142 --> 00:32:58,977
The rich.
568
00:32:59,727 --> 00:33:01,020
Who sits in judgment?
569
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:02,021
The rich.
570
00:33:02,855 --> 00:33:04,565
Who are the ones in congress?
571
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:05,483
The rich.
572
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:07,694
I've never seen a rich thief die.
573
00:33:08,194 --> 00:33:10,530
Many of my homies
haven't even made it to 23.
574
00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:13,449
They've either been arrested,
or they're dead.
575
00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:17,537
Everybody can live in peace
and have everything within their rights.
576
00:33:18,037 --> 00:33:20,373
But there are people
who feel entitled to deny you of that
577
00:33:20,456 --> 00:33:22,375
just because they think you're inferior.
578
00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:25,169
Everybody here could be
whatever they want.
579
00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:28,006
Councilmen, congressmen,
teachers, lawyers,
580
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:31,092
soccer players, samba singers, or rap.
581
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,763
[performing "Homem na Estrada"]
582
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,808
♪ A man on the road starts his life over ♪
583
00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:42,311
♪ His purpose, his freedom ♪
584
00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:44,647
♪ Have been lost, subtracted ♪
585
00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:47,567
♪ He means to prove to himself
That he really has changed ♪
586
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:51,029
♪ That he has recovered
And wants to live in peace ♪
587
00:33:51,112 --> 00:33:52,572
♪ To never look back ♪
588
00:33:52,655 --> 00:33:54,741
♪ To tell crime "never again" ♪
589
00:33:54,824 --> 00:33:57,869
♪ Because his childhood
Was no bed of roses ♪
590
00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:01,164
♪ From juvie, only painful memories ♪
591
00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:04,000
♪ Yes, making money,
Getting rich, at last ♪
592
00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:07,086
♪ Many have died dreaming that high ♪
593
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:10,173
♪ But tell me who can be happy
And not desperate ♪
594
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:13,468
♪ To see their child born in poverty ♪
595
00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:16,387
♪ In a place where fun was the bar ♪
596
00:34:16,471 --> 00:34:19,849
♪ And Candomblé, for a blessing ♪
597
00:34:19,932 --> 00:34:23,227
♪ This sets the stage
For the story I'm gonna tell ♪
598
00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:26,064
♪ A man on the road ♪
599
00:34:28,608 --> 00:34:31,694
That's when I entered the hearts
and souls of the Brazilian people.
600
00:34:32,195 --> 00:34:35,448
How do you talk about Black and white
or poor and rich to Brazilians?
601
00:34:35,948 --> 00:34:37,075
They're not from the Bronx.
602
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:40,953
They weren't born into
"whites only" or "Blacks only" bathrooms.
603
00:34:41,037 --> 00:34:44,123
It's a different perspective,
a different sensibility.
604
00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:48,127
The song exploded overnight.
605
00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,088
For every ten cars that drove by,
606
00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:52,673
eight were listening
to "Homem na Estrada."
607
00:34:54,592 --> 00:34:56,511
The song started playing on radio stations
608
00:34:56,594 --> 00:34:58,888
that didn't belong
to the Black circuit, you know?
609
00:34:58,971 --> 00:35:00,932
The Black parties where we played it.
610
00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:02,934
It started playing all over Brazil.
611
00:35:05,812 --> 00:35:08,856
Everyone was happy because the songs
were playing on the radio.
612
00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:10,316
We were selling the LPs.
613
00:35:10,399 --> 00:35:13,236
But Brown said,
"Serafim, I need to talk to you."
614
00:35:14,487 --> 00:35:15,696
"Here's the deal."
615
00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:16,948
"I'm really upset, man."
616
00:35:17,031 --> 00:35:18,533
"This is bullshit, Serafa."
617
00:35:18,616 --> 00:35:20,034
"My song is playing everywhere."
618
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:23,788
"It's playing on rich people's
radio stations, even on religious radio."
619
00:35:25,331 --> 00:35:27,500
"I didn't write my songs
to be played everywhere."
620
00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:28,584
"Why are they playing it?"
621
00:35:30,336 --> 00:35:32,588
"You call them
and get it pulled off the air."
622
00:35:33,172 --> 00:35:34,215
I told him,
623
00:35:34,298 --> 00:35:37,093
"I don't even have the power
to put it there in the first place."
624
00:35:37,176 --> 00:35:38,302
"How can I get it pulled?"
625
00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:42,723
♪ They take your freedom
Your family, your morale ♪
626
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,560
♪ Even after you leave prison ♪
627
00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:48,521
♪ You'll forever be known
As a former inmate ♪
628
00:35:48,604 --> 00:35:50,398
♪ I don't trust the police… ♪
629
00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:51,524
♪ Those motherfuckers! ♪
630
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:56,195
When Racionais became famous
with "Homem na Estrada,"
631
00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:59,532
in that line "I don't trust the police,
those motherfuckers"
632
00:35:59,615 --> 00:36:01,284
got stuck in people's heads.
633
00:36:01,367 --> 00:36:03,995
The police just went,
"Who are those guys?"
634
00:36:04,078 --> 00:36:05,705
And they came after us.
635
00:36:09,083 --> 00:36:12,295
We recorded that line,
and we sang it at concerts.
636
00:36:12,378 --> 00:36:13,796
The audience repeated it.
637
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,466
50,000 people repeated it.
100,000 people repeated it.
638
00:36:17,967 --> 00:36:21,762
During a concert in Anhangabaú,
security was being done by the police,
639
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:26,225
and everyone sang "I don't trust
the police, those motherfuckers."
640
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:28,311
What do you think happened?
641
00:36:32,356 --> 00:36:34,442
The fucking police just ended the show.
642
00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:40,990
[Ice Blue] Every police officer dreamed
of starting something with Racionais.
643
00:36:43,993 --> 00:36:46,495
[Mano Brown] The police stations
in the neighborhood were alerted
644
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:47,747
when I went to sing.
645
00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:50,833
They said, "Anyone can sing here
but those guys."
646
00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:55,588
"Those guys aren't allowed
in my precinct."
647
00:36:55,671 --> 00:36:58,382
It was a matter of honor
for the cops, at the time.
648
00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:00,468
We risked getting shot
on the way out, brother.
649
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:08,643
[woman] I was in the kitchen
when the telephone rang.
650
00:37:09,352 --> 00:37:12,271
"Hey, tell your son
we're going to kill him."
651
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:16,484
"We'll teach that arrogant kid
to badmouth the police again."
652
00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:17,652
MS. LOURDES
ICE BLUE'S MOTHER
653
00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:20,238
So I told them, "If you want to kill him,
654
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:23,824
you're gonna have to come here
and kill me first."
655
00:37:24,825 --> 00:37:27,954
My spiritual father is called Ogum-de-Lei.
656
00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:30,039
He takes care of us.
657
00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:34,126
Ana was always with them.
658
00:37:35,711 --> 00:37:38,756
This one here is also my friend.
Where's my friend? Where'd they…?
659
00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:40,007
MS. ANA
MANO BROWN'S MOTHER
660
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:41,509
Over there?
661
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:43,386
[Lourdes] She'd follow her son everywhere.
662
00:37:43,469 --> 00:37:45,721
She'd travel everywhere with them.
663
00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:49,350
[laughs] Get outta here!
664
00:37:51,227 --> 00:37:53,562
[Lourdes] She was very close to her son.
665
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:55,398
Well, it was just the two of them.
666
00:37:55,481 --> 00:37:57,275
She followed everything he did.
667
00:37:57,358 --> 00:38:00,569
She even knew the lyrics to all his songs.
668
00:38:01,070 --> 00:38:02,154
[Mano Brown] Yo, Blue.
669
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:07,827
[Mano Brown] We're actually gonna
take a walk to the police station.
670
00:38:08,327 --> 00:38:09,996
'Cause, you know, we gotta go.
671
00:38:10,496 --> 00:38:12,623
There's no way out of it.
That's the system.
672
00:38:13,624 --> 00:38:17,211
We want to see our people
away from alcohol, away from blow,
673
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:19,505
away from crack, away from crime.
674
00:38:20,506 --> 00:38:22,842
But some people want to see us
in more and more trouble
675
00:38:23,342 --> 00:38:28,139
-So that more and more of us die.
-[Ice Blue] That's right.
676
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:31,017
While the rich get richer,
and our people get fucked.
677
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,018
[Ice Blue] Yeah.
678
00:38:32,101 --> 00:38:34,770
And, if you say that's not what you want,
you're dangerous.
679
00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:35,688
3RD POLICE PRECINCT
680
00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:40,818
[Mano Brown] Once you define which side
you're on, confrontation follows.
681
00:38:43,404 --> 00:38:45,781
[Ice Blue] We said exactly
what they didn't want to hear.
682
00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,534
And we acted exactly the way
they didn't want us to act.
683
00:38:50,786 --> 00:38:51,829
Please leave.
684
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,166
[Edi Rock] They started persecuting us.
685
00:38:57,668 --> 00:39:00,546
[Ice Blue] When we got to the station,
the chief was terrified.
686
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,340
"Who is responsible for this?"
687
00:39:02,423 --> 00:39:04,467
"Which officer is in charge of this?"
688
00:39:04,550 --> 00:39:06,886
"See the trouble
you've brought to my station?"
689
00:39:06,969 --> 00:39:09,263
"Three attorneys, one senator,
690
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,266
two congressmen, and the mayor
calling me on the phone."
691
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:15,394
That's when Racionais
showed their strength.
692
00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:18,481
-[sirens blaring]
-[spectators cheering]
693
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:22,777
Are you ready for war?
694
00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,074
Are you ready for war?
695
00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:36,832
One for all,
696
00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:39,377
and all for one!
697
00:39:40,961 --> 00:39:41,879
KL Jay!
698
00:39:45,841 --> 00:39:47,843
[shouts]
699
00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:57,686
I want more noise!
700
00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:03,317
[Mano Brown] Racionais!
701
00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:06,070
[Mano Brown] Racionais!
702
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:07,738
[spectators] Racionais!
703
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,033
-[Mano Brown] Good people!
-[spectators in Portuguese] Good people!
704
00:40:11,117 --> 00:40:12,118
[Mano Brown] Faith in God!
705
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:14,036
[spectators in Portuguese] Faith in God!
706
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,329
[Mano Brown] The greatest!
707
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:16,414
[spectators] The greatest!
708
00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:18,999
[Mano Brown] From the streets of São Paulo
to the world…
709
00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:20,835
[spectators cheer]
710
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:23,921
ANGRY, RADICAL, RACIONAIS MCS
711
00:40:24,004 --> 00:40:27,758
THEY'RE BLACK, ANGRY, AND MEAN,
AND THEY TAKE NO PRISONERS.
712
00:40:32,012 --> 00:40:35,391
[Edi Rock] We started traveling
and doing concerts outside of São Paulo.
713
00:40:38,310 --> 00:40:41,230
[Ice Blue] We got on a bus
and went where the music had to go.
714
00:40:41,313 --> 00:40:42,398
No way around it.
715
00:40:42,481 --> 00:40:43,816
Rap had to get there.
716
00:40:43,899 --> 00:40:46,152
Then, we were told to open a company.
717
00:40:47,736 --> 00:40:50,948
We had the paperwork,
an office and everything.
718
00:40:51,031 --> 00:40:54,743
Then the accountant said,
"You get to carry guns now."
719
00:40:54,827 --> 00:40:56,078
I said, "Really?"
720
00:40:57,163 --> 00:40:58,497
We're armed and dangerous.
721
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:00,458
Come at us if you want.
722
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:06,422
That's why we have that reputation.
723
00:41:06,505 --> 00:41:09,425
"Oh my, Racionais! Ah!"
724
00:41:09,967 --> 00:41:13,512
'Cause when we got to the venues,
the venues were hostile.
725
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:17,099
We didn't play on this side of the tracks.
726
00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:21,604
We played in places like Fundão,
where things really went down.
727
00:41:21,687 --> 00:41:24,273
So we couldn't be like wimps.
728
00:41:24,356 --> 00:41:27,193
We had to be tough, ready.
729
00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:29,737
[Mano Brown] Don't take the cameras
off those guys.
730
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:31,947
Fuck…
731
00:41:34,533 --> 00:41:38,454
When we got to the party in Pelotas,
there were tons of cops.
732
00:41:38,537 --> 00:41:41,207
Those huge, white cops, very strong.
733
00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:44,668
They were just kicking some kids.
734
00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,379
So KL Jay goes to talk to them.
735
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:50,299
And they hit a boy
with the butt of their gun.
736
00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:51,926
He was bleeding.
737
00:41:52,426 --> 00:41:56,305
One of our cousins who was with us
noticed one of the cops slip up,
738
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,933
and he took his gun and got to the bus.
739
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:02,561
Suddenly, the bus was surrounded,
and we were stuck inside.
740
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:06,023
Then, Priscilla shows up.
741
00:42:06,732 --> 00:42:07,816
And she goes…
742
00:42:10,569 --> 00:42:13,531
[in high-pitched voice] "Excuse me,
I'm their manager. I'll talk to them."
743
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:14,657
"Don't worry."
744
00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:18,369
The bus doors open, Priscilla walks in.
745
00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:20,162
Couple of minutes later,
746
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:23,582
we were in the windows
pointing our guns at the police.
747
00:42:23,666 --> 00:42:25,584
[yells] "Fuck you, assholes!"
748
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:29,797
[Ice Blue in Portuguese] Word!
The boys are all gathered,
749
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,465
so let's have some fun.
750
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:34,593
I wanna see everybody just chilling,
no trouble.
751
00:42:34,677 --> 00:42:38,472
Edi Rock, KL Jay,
Ice Blue, and Mano Brown.
752
00:42:39,557 --> 00:42:41,016
We were not wrong.
753
00:42:41,517 --> 00:42:43,936
The cop made it easy to take his gun.
754
00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:47,273
And he wanted to hurt us.
755
00:42:47,856 --> 00:42:49,942
"Take your gun and go, all right?"
756
00:42:50,025 --> 00:42:51,151
"All right."
757
00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:53,654
And then they let the bus go.
758
00:42:53,737 --> 00:42:54,947
But on the road,
759
00:42:55,030 --> 00:42:58,826
when we were about 10 kilometers
from where it all had gone down,
760
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:01,036
they shot up the bus.
761
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:04,540
Many shots were fired.
762
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:05,874
Shoot.
763
00:43:05,958 --> 00:43:08,919
That bus company never
rented us a bus again.
764
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:11,547
-[policeman] You're fucked.
-[Mano Brown] You're the one fucked.
765
00:43:11,630 --> 00:43:14,300
[policeman] No I'm not.
I don't just scold!
766
00:43:14,383 --> 00:43:16,719
-[Mano Brown] So what? Fuck you.
-[policeman] I'm the police.
767
00:43:16,802 --> 00:43:17,970
[Mano Brown] So what? So what?
768
00:43:18,053 --> 00:43:19,305
[speaks Portuguese]
769
00:43:19,388 --> 00:43:21,390
["Fio da Navalha" plays]
770
00:43:21,473 --> 00:43:23,017
[no audible dialogue]
771
00:43:25,477 --> 00:43:28,314
[group chattering and laughing]
772
00:43:34,570 --> 00:43:37,823
[Edi Rock] After all the persecution,
we had our first flight as a band.
773
00:43:41,285 --> 00:43:42,286
We made it. Right, man?
774
00:43:42,369 --> 00:43:43,954
I'd never flown before.
775
00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:46,332
The first time was with Racionais.
776
00:43:47,082 --> 00:43:49,710
-Is that André, the co-pilot?
-[man 1] Yeah. André's here.
777
00:43:49,793 --> 00:43:51,211
[Mano Brown] How many left to board?
778
00:43:54,006 --> 00:43:55,132
[man 2] You guys are skinny.
779
00:43:55,215 --> 00:43:57,801
You gotta switch with us
'cause we don't fit here.
780
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,512
[pilot] All right, everyone's inside.
781
00:44:00,596 --> 00:44:02,056
Let's get ready for takeoff.
782
00:44:06,101 --> 00:44:07,394
-[laughs]
-Come on…
783
00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:08,979
[Ice Blue] Hey. Let me say something.
784
00:44:09,063 --> 00:44:11,774
[both] Help!
785
00:44:16,945 --> 00:44:20,783
Let me say this, we only
really started travelling after '94.
786
00:44:21,283 --> 00:44:23,035
Before then, not much.
787
00:44:23,786 --> 00:44:25,204
We did go to Brasília.
788
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:26,914
Those photos were in Brasília.
789
00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:31,585
-[KL Jay] We took the bus, right?
-[Mano Brown] Can't remember. Not plane.
790
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,630
Man, how did we go?
I remember it was fucking awful.
791
00:44:35,297 --> 00:44:37,174
Remember that time
Cabelo forgot our paycheck?
792
00:44:37,758 --> 00:44:40,552
[laughing]
793
00:44:40,636 --> 00:44:42,137
[all chuckle]
794
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:46,850
[Mano Brown] Our manager was an idiot!
795
00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:48,143
[scoffs]
796
00:44:48,227 --> 00:44:50,729
Cabelo came back
with the money in his hand.
797
00:44:50,813 --> 00:44:52,022
"Is it money you want?"
798
00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:54,525
[all chuckle]
799
00:44:56,568 --> 00:45:00,656
When I first got my paychecks
along with the money from record sales,
800
00:45:00,739 --> 00:45:01,990
I had no idea.
801
00:45:02,074 --> 00:45:04,952
I was like, "What am I supposed to do
with this money?"
802
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:06,495
Milton put the money on the table,
803
00:45:06,578 --> 00:45:08,997
and I was like,
"Whoa, Milton. What is that?"
804
00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:10,999
"Where am I going with all this money?"
805
00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:13,877
"I'm not walking around
with this much money on me."
806
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:15,045
"But it's your money."
807
00:45:15,129 --> 00:45:17,881
I was like, "Whoa.
All this money is mine?"
808
00:45:18,382 --> 00:45:21,510
I bought a new motorbike,
and when I showed up with the bike,
809
00:45:21,593 --> 00:45:22,553
they were all like,
810
00:45:22,636 --> 00:45:25,180
"Are you showing off now?
They won't understand."
811
00:45:25,264 --> 00:45:26,140
I was like,
812
00:45:26,223 --> 00:45:28,642
"So just because
we're Black and political,
813
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:30,728
we're not allowed to have a nice ride?"
814
00:45:30,811 --> 00:45:31,854
"What the hell?"
815
00:45:31,937 --> 00:45:34,273
"If that's the case,
then I'll just quit the band,
816
00:45:34,356 --> 00:45:36,483
and become a thug and have my own shit."
817
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:37,568
"How's that?"
818
00:45:39,236 --> 00:45:40,404
[groans]
819
00:45:41,488 --> 00:45:43,073
"Can I ride my bike, then?"
820
00:45:43,157 --> 00:45:44,742
"I bought it with my own money."
821
00:45:50,164 --> 00:45:51,039
"All right?"
822
00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:52,082
"Fine."
823
00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:54,334
And when they least expected it… damn!
824
00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:56,754
I bought a green Silverado truck. Wow!
825
00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:59,923
I told 'em, "Hey, I needed a car
to move my bikes around."
826
00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:02,718
["Cissy Strut" plays]
827
00:46:04,261 --> 00:46:05,179
We're tryin'.
828
00:46:05,262 --> 00:46:06,597
[chuckles]
829
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:12,936
Capão Redondo, South Side,
Ice-T, Racionais. All right?
830
00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:15,522
It's rugged down here.
It's real, though, you know?
831
00:46:15,606 --> 00:46:17,232
I think some of the people
in South Central
832
00:46:17,316 --> 00:46:19,485
need to come out here
and see what it's really like.
833
00:46:20,068 --> 00:46:23,405
And this is Ice-T co-launching
with the Racionais MC's.
834
00:46:23,489 --> 00:46:26,408
-[Mano Brown] Sounds of the favela.
-MTV Brazil.
835
00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:27,326
Peace.
836
00:46:27,409 --> 00:46:28,243
Peace.
837
00:46:28,327 --> 00:46:30,412
RACIONAIS AND PUBLIC ENEMY
SÃO PAULO. BRAZIL
838
00:46:32,206 --> 00:46:35,375
[Ice Blue] We had really started
making our living from music.
839
00:46:37,336 --> 00:46:39,713
We were really being rewarded.
840
00:46:42,341 --> 00:46:43,759
I couldn't sit at home.
841
00:46:43,842 --> 00:46:45,636
I was single, and I had money.
842
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,222
Sometimes I'd spend a whole week
without going home.
843
00:46:48,722 --> 00:46:50,182
My mother went crazy.
844
00:46:50,265 --> 00:46:51,558
"Edivaldo, boy!"
845
00:46:53,852 --> 00:46:56,146
[Ice Blue] I used to hang out
with Edi Rock all the time.
846
00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:58,357
We went to Clubhouse, just the two of us.
847
00:46:58,857 --> 00:46:59,942
Many times.
848
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,947
It was a time of transition
between… you know,
849
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:11,870
being poor kids,
making money, and being famous.
850
00:47:12,454 --> 00:47:16,583
Let's say, you will go through
some bad times if you're not responsible.
851
00:47:17,292 --> 00:47:20,587
I was very irresponsible, very immature.
852
00:47:21,588 --> 00:47:24,091
["A Vítima" plays]
853
00:47:28,554 --> 00:47:33,350
We were driving to a concert,
on the highway, on Marginal, of course.
854
00:47:33,433 --> 00:47:36,103
I stepped on the gas
because we were running a bit late.
855
00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:38,689
-A van drove into the road.
-[tires screech]
856
00:47:38,772 --> 00:47:42,234
I was following the car in front,
which swerved, and I missed it.
857
00:47:46,697 --> 00:47:49,324
I hit the car,
and it drove into a streetlamp.
858
00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:51,910
And because people didn't wear seatbelts
back then,
859
00:47:51,994 --> 00:47:53,203
the driver hit his head.
860
00:47:56,415 --> 00:47:58,041
He died of a head trauma.
861
00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:02,880
COLLISION WITH RAPPERS' CAR
LEAVES ONE DEAD
862
00:48:02,963 --> 00:48:05,591
My car flipped over. I was hospitalized.
863
00:48:05,674 --> 00:48:07,050
POLICE ALLEGE ILLEGAL STREET RACES
864
00:48:07,134 --> 00:48:08,051
It was terrible.
865
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:09,011
SINGER DENIES
866
00:48:09,094 --> 00:48:11,346
I was happy, and suddenly, bam!
867
00:48:11,430 --> 00:48:14,391
The world falls apart.
I was like, "God damn it!"
868
00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:21,565
I involved the guys
in something that wasn't their fault.
869
00:48:21,648 --> 00:48:22,649
It was serious.
870
00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:24,610
The group could've ended right there.
871
00:48:27,362 --> 00:48:30,240
[Mano Brown] With every album,
something came along with it.
872
00:48:32,743 --> 00:48:34,286
There was Edi Rock's accident.
873
00:48:35,287 --> 00:48:36,330
Blue lost a son.
874
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:38,332
We had to be strong.
875
00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:44,212
All that happened
the same year the record came out.
876
00:48:45,005 --> 00:48:48,425
Our first taste of success
came with death.
877
00:48:51,136 --> 00:48:52,846
[KL Jay] Money started to run out.
878
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:55,641
I had bills to pay,
but how was I supposed to pay them?
879
00:48:56,224 --> 00:48:57,476
It was kind of punishing.
880
00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,270
At that time, I was living
in front of a cemetery
881
00:49:00,354 --> 00:49:03,190
with no windows,
so the house was covered in mold.
882
00:49:07,486 --> 00:49:10,656
I thought, "Damn, bro.
You can't live here, you know?"
883
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:12,699
"Look at your situation."
884
00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:20,082
[Mano Brown] I was living in Cohab.
885
00:49:20,582 --> 00:49:22,876
Just when I thought my life
was about to get better,
886
00:49:23,377 --> 00:49:25,003
I learned that it could get worse.
887
00:49:25,587 --> 00:49:28,423
Cohab was harsher, despite the asphalt.
888
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,300
Less romantic, you know?
889
00:49:31,093 --> 00:49:32,803
Some weird things happened there.
890
00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:38,976
[Edi Rock] My daughter was born,
and then my second daughter was born.
891
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:40,978
I had to become more grounded.
892
00:49:43,647 --> 00:49:45,816
I always ask to be a guiding light.
893
00:49:45,899 --> 00:49:49,403
One day, Brown came to me and said,
"Bro, let's make the next record."
894
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,989
I didn't even know where to start.
895
00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:56,284
[Mano Brown] Politics reached
a boiling point in Brazil.
896
00:49:58,370 --> 00:49:59,621
["Expresso da Meia-Noite" plays]
897
00:49:59,705 --> 00:50:01,707
[KL Jay] Hip Hop was
taking over the world.
898
00:50:02,207 --> 00:50:04,751
A more libertarian position
began to blossom.
899
00:50:10,716 --> 00:50:14,761
[Mano Brown] By then, we had already
been convinced by outside forces
900
00:50:14,845 --> 00:50:16,054
that we had a mission.
901
00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:19,683
[bell tolls]
902
00:50:22,686 --> 00:50:24,688
[singer vocalizing]
903
00:50:27,232 --> 00:50:29,109
[Mano Brown] I'd experienced
a new way of living,
904
00:50:29,192 --> 00:50:30,861
and that went into the music.
905
00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:35,365
That was our gothic phase.
906
00:50:37,242 --> 00:50:39,703
Heavier language, more hardcore.
907
00:50:41,621 --> 00:50:44,916
-[bell tolls]
-[man continues vocalizing]
908
00:50:52,758 --> 00:50:54,968
[Mano Brown] This record was
a deep dive into hell.
909
00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:57,137
["Capítulo 4, Versículo 3" plays]
910
00:50:57,220 --> 00:51:00,974
[man] 60% of underprivileged young people
with no criminal record
911
00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:03,101
have suffered police violence.
912
00:51:03,935 --> 00:51:07,898
Of every four people killed by police,
three are Black.
913
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,694
Only 2% of college students
in Brazil are Black.
914
00:51:12,778 --> 00:51:17,074
Every four hours a young Black person
is violently killed in São Paulo.
915
00:51:17,157 --> 00:51:20,118
I'm Primo Preto, another survivor.
916
00:51:20,202 --> 00:51:24,289
[song continues]
917
00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:32,964
[KL Jay] We speak for the people.
918
00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:35,884
We are a voice
for those who are voiceless.
919
00:51:35,967 --> 00:51:39,679
People identify with what we sing,
what we say, how we dress.
920
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:42,766
And our beat is powerful.
It's irresistible. You know, bro?
921
00:51:42,849 --> 00:51:43,934
You can't help it.
922
00:51:45,685 --> 00:51:48,271
♪ Violently peaceful and truthful ♪
923
00:51:48,355 --> 00:51:50,357
♪ I've come to hijack your reasoning ♪
924
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,485
♪ To shake your blood
And your nervous system ♪
925
00:51:53,568 --> 00:51:56,279
♪ And that's not enough,
Brown's like a rabid dog ♪
926
00:51:56,363 --> 00:51:59,157
♪ Number one, a terrorist from the hood ♪
927
00:51:59,241 --> 00:52:01,535
♪ Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
I've got something for you ♪
928
00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:04,621
♪ A poisonous rap or a shower of bullets ♪
929
00:52:04,704 --> 00:52:07,040
♪ And the prophecy came
True as predicted ♪
930
00:52:07,124 --> 00:52:09,793
-♪ One-nine-nine-seven! ♪
-♪ A.D. ♪
931
00:52:09,876 --> 00:52:12,003
♪ Black fury is reborn once more ♪
932
00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:15,006
♪ Racionais, chapter 4, verse 3 ♪
933
00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:17,634
[Mano Brown] The record was a phenomenon.
934
00:52:17,717 --> 00:52:19,386
All the songs were hits.
935
00:52:19,469 --> 00:52:22,514
The idea was really to make it popular
among kids, you know?
936
00:52:23,306 --> 00:52:24,599
Among our peers.
937
00:52:27,602 --> 00:52:30,355
I joined them on the tour
"Sobrevivendo no Inferno."
938
00:52:30,438 --> 00:52:32,399
My phone number was
on the cover of the album,
939
00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:34,025
and it didn't stop ringing.
940
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:36,444
They had two, three shows every night.
941
00:52:36,528 --> 00:52:37,612
So I was the support.
942
00:52:37,696 --> 00:52:41,241
I had to be alert 24/7
because something could come up.
943
00:52:41,324 --> 00:52:44,995
So I had to always be ready
to contact a friend or a lawyer.
944
00:52:45,078 --> 00:52:46,913
So I'd monitor them over the phone.
945
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,708
"So? Are you there yet?
Are you on your way there?"
946
00:52:51,877 --> 00:52:58,633
Meire's number served
as hospital, police station, ER, bank.
947
00:52:58,717 --> 00:53:02,762
I often say she's the black box
of Racionais' airplane.
948
00:53:02,846 --> 00:53:05,515
["Qual Mentira Vou Acreditar" plays]
949
00:53:10,437 --> 00:53:13,857
[KL Jay] Until then, I was the one
responsible for booking the concerts.
950
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:16,234
She took over,
from the phone in her house.
951
00:53:16,318 --> 00:53:19,571
So I was able to go
and focus on the creative process.
952
00:53:21,907 --> 00:53:23,783
Everyone has their own process.
953
00:53:26,661 --> 00:53:29,623
The energy comes out
of your entrails, your arteries,
954
00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:33,210
and enters the machine
like a ghost or a spirit.
955
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:35,212
It goes in the machine, you press play,
956
00:53:35,295 --> 00:53:38,506
you sample it and make the music,
and it comes out.
957
00:53:41,968 --> 00:53:44,095
I can talk about "Mágico de Oz."
958
00:53:44,179 --> 00:53:45,680
I was at home with Edi Rock.
959
00:53:45,764 --> 00:53:48,767
[Edi Rock] I showed him the lyrics.
He said, "Damn, bro. Awesome."
960
00:53:48,850 --> 00:53:50,060
"Let's find a sample."
961
00:53:52,312 --> 00:53:54,981
And I showed him an Isley Brothers record.
962
00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:59,361
The song was slow, so I said,
"Check out what it sounds like at 45."
963
00:53:59,444 --> 00:54:00,278
And it was like…
964
00:54:00,362 --> 00:54:03,740
-[imitates rhythm]
-[sample plays]
965
00:54:05,450 --> 00:54:08,036
And he just said, "Wow! I want that!"
966
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:10,664
["Mágico de Oz" plays]
967
00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:15,794
♪ It's all about reflection, brother ♪
968
00:54:15,877 --> 00:54:18,004
♪ It's all about thinking
Ha! ♪
969
00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:21,174
♪ The police always set a bad example ♪
970
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:24,636
♪ Washes my streets with blood
And drives hatred further in ♪
971
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,430
♪ Inside the corners of the city ♪
972
00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:30,392
♪ Inside the extremes of simplicity ♪
973
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:33,144
♪ My freedom was stolen ♪
974
00:54:33,228 --> 00:54:36,690
♪ My dignity violated
No! ♪
975
00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:38,024
♪ Brothers need to get real ♪
976
00:54:38,108 --> 00:54:40,652
♪ Stop killing and cursing each other ♪
977
00:54:40,735 --> 00:54:42,821
♪ Take that shit away from here ♪
978
00:54:42,904 --> 00:54:45,615
♪ God forbid, I don't want
A son of mine to die ♪
979
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:49,035
♪ Or one of my relatives
To swallow a bullet ♪
980
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:51,746
♪ Do I have to die
For God to hear my voice? ♪
981
00:54:51,830 --> 00:54:54,791
♪ Or do I have to turn this place
Into the magical land of Oz? ♪
982
00:54:54,874 --> 00:54:56,876
[song ends]
983
00:54:58,461 --> 00:54:59,296
[Mano Brown] Yo…
984
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:01,631
FEBEM
JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY
985
00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:04,634
[Mano Brown] No one is born
to live locked up or within four walls.
986
00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:06,678
Or to wake up with their heads down
987
00:55:06,761 --> 00:55:08,596
and their hands behind their back,
all right?
988
00:55:09,097 --> 00:55:12,851
So, if you're all in the same system,
if you're all suffering,
989
00:55:12,934 --> 00:55:16,813
everybody's coming from the same place,
from suffering and poverty. You know?
990
00:55:19,524 --> 00:55:23,903
Some people have a father who drinks,
some don't even have a father, like me.
991
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:27,324
Some had to pull strings
to help their mothers, you know?
992
00:55:27,991 --> 00:55:29,784
No one here is better than anyone.
993
00:55:29,868 --> 00:55:31,745
Everyone makes mistakes.
994
00:55:31,828 --> 00:55:33,079
Everyone has flaws.
995
00:55:33,788 --> 00:55:36,041
We can't point fingers
and want to punish others,
996
00:55:36,124 --> 00:55:38,918
because you're all being punished,
and nobody likes it.
997
00:55:42,380 --> 00:55:43,673
-Right?
-[spectators] Yeah!
998
00:55:43,757 --> 00:55:47,427
Chase yours, I'll chase mine.
That's the magic formula for peace.
999
00:55:47,510 --> 00:55:48,970
[performing "Formula Mágica de Paz"]
1000
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:51,306
♪ This damn place is a minefield ♪
1001
00:55:52,390 --> 00:55:55,185
♪ How many times I thought of
Throwing myself off? ♪
1002
00:55:55,268 --> 00:55:58,438
♪ But my hood is all I have ♪
1003
00:55:58,521 --> 00:56:01,775
♪ My life is here, I can't just leave ♪
1004
00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:05,028
♪ Escaping is too easy, but I won't ♪
1005
00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:08,114
♪ I won't betray
Who I was, who I am ♪
1006
00:56:08,198 --> 00:56:10,992
♪ I like where I'm going
And where I've been ♪
1007
00:56:11,076 --> 00:56:14,329
♪ Teachings from the favela
Were too good for me ♪
1008
00:56:16,539 --> 00:56:18,041
That song was topical.
1009
00:56:18,124 --> 00:56:20,377
It was timely, so people liked it.
1010
00:56:20,877 --> 00:56:22,545
It was illuminated time, you know?
1011
00:56:22,629 --> 00:56:24,547
Because it was my reality, you know?
1012
00:56:25,173 --> 00:56:27,759
So I understand
why people hold on to that song.
1013
00:56:28,510 --> 00:56:29,677
That's a blessed song.
1014
00:56:33,681 --> 00:56:34,516
[Mano Brown] Yo…
1015
00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:39,687
Does anyone remember this occurred?
1016
00:56:40,438 --> 00:56:44,567
Maybe a large portion of you were children
at the time and don't recall.
1017
00:56:45,568 --> 00:56:47,737
But most of the rest of you will remember.
1018
00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:50,573
It's a part of Brazilian history
that was recently written.
1019
00:56:51,449 --> 00:56:54,160
Like it happened
in Vigário and Candelária.
1020
00:56:55,286 --> 00:56:58,456
And it happened in São Paulo
and all the time too, you know?
1021
00:56:58,540 --> 00:57:02,127
One more part of Brazilian history
that was written in blood.
1022
00:57:03,670 --> 00:57:06,214
[tense music plays]
1023
00:57:06,297 --> 00:57:07,674
DETENTION FACILITY
1024
00:57:07,757 --> 00:57:10,385
[reporter] 341 riot officers
from São Paulo
1025
00:57:10,468 --> 00:57:13,888
were ordered to invade
the 9th pavilion of Carandiru prison.
1026
00:57:14,472 --> 00:57:15,306
WE WANT OUR RIGHTS
1027
00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:18,518
The soldiers were supposed to contain
a riot by the inmates.
1028
00:57:18,601 --> 00:57:20,186
WE ARE IN MOURNING
1029
00:57:20,270 --> 00:57:23,440
During the operation,
111 inmates were killed.
1030
00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:28,611
[Mano Brown] São Paulo, October 1st, 1992.
1031
00:57:28,695 --> 00:57:29,863
8:00 a.m.
1032
00:57:30,905 --> 00:57:32,866
♪ Here I am, another day ♪
1033
00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:35,452
♪ Under the bloodthirsty gaze
Of the lookout ♪
1034
00:57:35,535 --> 00:57:37,912
♪ You don't know what it's like to walk ♪
1035
00:57:37,996 --> 00:57:41,040
♪ With your head in the sights of an HK ♪
1036
00:57:41,124 --> 00:57:44,085
♪ A German machine gun,
Or maybe from Israel ♪
1037
00:57:44,169 --> 00:57:46,880
♪ Shreds thieves up like paper ♪
1038
00:57:49,507 --> 00:57:51,176
I didn't want to write that song.
1039
00:57:51,676 --> 00:57:54,179
The guys from the 9th pavilion
asked me to do it.
1040
00:57:54,262 --> 00:57:56,431
I told them, "But the moment is gone."
1041
00:57:56,514 --> 00:57:59,976
They said, "No. No one's talked about it.
You gotta do it."
1042
00:58:00,768 --> 00:58:03,438
Some of my friends from jail
and a lot of other people
1043
00:58:03,521 --> 00:58:06,357
were watching this conversation
on the 8th pavilion soccer field.
1044
00:58:06,858 --> 00:58:10,862
Someone introduced me to this guy
who was older than me, Jocenir.
1045
00:58:12,030 --> 00:58:14,574
He'd written a political piece
about the slaughter.
1046
00:58:16,784 --> 00:58:19,496
When they introduced us,
on the 8th pavilion soccer field
1047
00:58:19,579 --> 00:58:20,580
during the game,
1048
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,501
it was so hot, and we were smoking
some joints this thick.
1049
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:27,504
I read it and went, "That's dope!"
1050
00:58:28,004 --> 00:58:30,507
I left with his lyrics
and thought nothing of it.
1051
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,970
I looked for him a year later,
but he was in a different prison.
1052
00:58:36,721 --> 00:58:38,932
It took me a year to find him again.
1053
00:58:39,015 --> 00:58:40,517
And the song had blown up.
1054
00:58:42,227 --> 00:58:44,812
It blew up
because we shot the video at the prison,
1055
00:58:45,355 --> 00:58:48,399
and the video won
the MTV Brazil People's Choice award.
1056
00:58:49,484 --> 00:58:51,444
[both] Racionais MC's!
1057
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:52,570
[woman] Whoo!
1058
00:58:52,654 --> 00:58:54,531
VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS BRAZIL
MTV - 1998
1059
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:57,575
BEST RAP VIDEO
"DIÁRIO DE UM DETENTO," RACIONAIS MC'S
1060
00:58:57,659 --> 00:58:59,494
[shouts in Portuguese]
1061
00:58:59,577 --> 00:59:01,246
["Diário de um Detento" plays]
1062
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:03,331
[rapping in Portuguese]
1063
00:59:07,460 --> 00:59:10,838
[Mano Brown] It was a milestone,
not just for us, but for the movement.
1064
00:59:10,922 --> 00:59:15,343
For us, it was like the World Cup,
everyone was watching and cheering.
1065
00:59:15,426 --> 00:59:17,428
We got up there
and gave a nine-minute-long speech,
1066
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:19,264
just giving shout-outs to people.
1067
00:59:19,347 --> 00:59:21,766
We started talking about favelas
and jail time.
1068
00:59:23,434 --> 00:59:25,603
[Ice Blue] Many people didn't believe
in our music.
1069
00:59:25,687 --> 00:59:27,480
They said rap ain't music.
1070
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:28,940
But here's the deal.
1071
00:59:29,023 --> 00:59:31,776
Racionais has a mission,
and we're not gonna stop.
1072
00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:33,778
Our music is from the hood.
1073
00:59:33,861 --> 00:59:35,697
It's the music of Black people.
1074
00:59:35,780 --> 00:59:37,907
From Black people to Black people.
1075
00:59:37,991 --> 00:59:41,578
The four boys from the favela
still live in the favela,
1076
00:59:41,661 --> 00:59:44,247
but here's the thing, we now have a voice.
1077
00:59:44,330 --> 00:59:45,415
We're here to stay.
1078
00:59:46,124 --> 00:59:47,875
[cheering]
1079
00:59:47,959 --> 00:59:49,502
…the artists who rock the world.
1080
00:59:49,586 --> 00:59:52,213
[announcer] The artists who rock the world
are here.
1081
00:59:52,839 --> 00:59:54,591
International viewer's choice.
1082
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:59,512
Brazil, Racionais MC's,
"Diário de um Detento."
1083
00:59:59,596 --> 01:00:01,431
["Diário de um Detento" plays]
1084
01:00:01,514 --> 01:00:04,017
[rapping in Portuguese]
1085
01:00:07,353 --> 01:00:09,272
[Edi Rock] The album went abroad.
We went abroad.
1086
01:00:09,939 --> 01:00:14,777
We went to California, New York,
Germany, Japan a few times.
1087
01:00:14,861 --> 01:00:17,655
He told me to go and have breakfast,
and walked away.
1088
01:00:17,739 --> 01:00:20,325
I asked him to wait up,
then the door closed.
1089
01:00:20,408 --> 01:00:21,826
Now I'm waiting for the key.
1090
01:00:28,082 --> 01:00:29,876
-[KL Jay sighs] Thanks.
-[dialogue indistinct]
1091
01:00:32,003 --> 01:00:34,130
[Mano Brown] I could see Brazil
differently from outside.
1092
01:00:34,213 --> 01:00:36,716
There's a way of being
that's different from there.
1093
01:00:37,216 --> 01:00:39,677
-[Ice Blue] Don't try to understand it.
-[Mano Brown] What's up?
1094
01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:42,221
Hey, what's good, my boy?
1095
01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:43,348
DJONGA
NEW-GENERATION RAPPER
1096
01:00:43,431 --> 01:00:46,559
[Mano Brown] Cool. I'm here with the boys.
Look. Look, here they are.
1097
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:48,519
-Yo!
-Yo, yo.
1098
01:00:48,603 --> 01:00:50,063
Look at the rappers!
1099
01:00:50,146 --> 01:00:51,022
What's up? Yo.
1100
01:00:52,398 --> 01:00:54,317
The bank robbery's in progress. Look.
1101
01:00:54,984 --> 01:00:56,778
Nice, nice. That's how I like it.
1102
01:00:56,861 --> 01:00:59,864
-[Mano Brown] Look how they're doing.
-Taking over the world, huh? Way to go!
1103
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:04,202
[Mano Brown] There's a lot of good people,
songwriters, thinkers,
1104
01:01:04,285 --> 01:01:07,372
who are open to dialogue,
broadening perspectives,
1105
01:01:07,455 --> 01:01:08,498
renewing the fight.
1106
01:01:09,457 --> 01:01:12,627
My mother's ancestors
came from East Africa.
1107
01:01:12,710 --> 01:01:13,544
The Cushitic people.
1108
01:01:14,629 --> 01:01:17,006
They're a very old people
living in this region.
1109
01:01:18,049 --> 01:01:20,009
-[Edi Rock] That's rare, right?
-[Mano Brown] Rare.
1110
01:01:20,093 --> 01:01:21,969
-Mm-hmm.
-[Edi Rock] Most come from this side.
1111
01:01:23,388 --> 01:01:27,392
[Mano Brown] Yeah. Brazilians mostly came
from the middle section and from Benin.
1112
01:01:29,602 --> 01:01:32,689
They left from here, crossed the ocean,
and came here.
1113
01:01:32,772 --> 01:01:34,524
They came from Benin to Brazil.
1114
01:01:35,441 --> 01:01:38,945
I often say Sobrevivendo no Inferno
was my manumission.
1115
01:01:39,028 --> 01:01:41,030
[cheering]
1116
01:01:45,743 --> 01:01:49,747
Good evening, good evening.
I'm William. I'm from Zimbabwe Records.
1117
01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:53,042
We are here to give
the gold and platinum record to Racionais!
1118
01:01:53,126 --> 01:01:57,004
For their hard work, with no publicity.
You all did this.
1119
01:01:57,088 --> 01:01:59,465
[cheering continues]
1120
01:02:01,676 --> 01:02:03,928
[funk rhythm plays]
1121
01:02:06,347 --> 01:02:08,349
[man] Hey! This is Mano Brown.
1122
01:02:08,433 --> 01:02:11,352
[chuckles] He let us run out of gas.
Can you believe it?
1123
01:02:11,436 --> 01:02:12,895
Mano Brown!
1124
01:02:14,230 --> 01:02:16,065
[all laugh]
1125
01:02:16,649 --> 01:02:18,735
[man] From Racionais MC's!
1126
01:02:18,818 --> 01:02:20,820
[laughing continues]
1127
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,950
[Mano Brown] See, Racionais extended
to many other people,
1128
01:02:26,033 --> 01:02:27,535
not just the four of us.
1129
01:02:27,618 --> 01:02:30,079
It's always been about the legacy
and our allies.
1130
01:02:31,789 --> 01:02:34,625
So each one of us had connections
with other artists.
1131
01:02:34,709 --> 01:02:36,377
That was the intention, you know?
1132
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:39,380
To promote new artists
and keep the machine going, right?
1133
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:45,219
Ed Loco is teaching us
how to distribute power to our people.
1134
01:02:45,303 --> 01:02:48,973
Tell us a little bit about
setting up a studio to help the groups.
1135
01:02:52,935 --> 01:02:55,563
I'm still small,
just starting out from home, you know?
1136
01:02:55,646 --> 01:02:57,565
Doing what I can to help the movement.
1137
01:03:00,193 --> 01:03:01,819
Racionais were more mature,
1138
01:03:01,903 --> 01:03:04,322
more independent
when it came to making music.
1139
01:03:04,405 --> 01:03:05,656
We had our own equipment.
1140
01:03:05,740 --> 01:03:07,283
We could do it at home.
1141
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:10,536
[Edi Rock] Dexter got an offer
and started recording from jail.
1142
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,622
And we were called in
to produce the album.
1143
01:03:13,498 --> 01:03:17,251
There was an ongoing project at the jail
that allowed weekday visits.
1144
01:03:17,335 --> 01:03:19,212
We would stay and talk to all the inmates.
1145
01:03:19,295 --> 01:03:22,089
All the movement leaders
would come to talk to me.
1146
01:03:22,590 --> 01:03:24,550
There were a lot of rap groups in jail.
1147
01:03:24,634 --> 01:03:26,093
It was a social phenomenon.
1148
01:03:26,844 --> 01:03:28,429
"Diário de um Detento."
1149
01:03:29,388 --> 01:03:31,849
All because of the video
we shot there, you know?
1150
01:03:31,933 --> 01:03:33,184
It opened their minds.
1151
01:03:33,684 --> 01:03:35,853
They had free time, being stuck there,
1152
01:03:35,937 --> 01:03:38,648
so they started rapping,
all these new groups.
1153
01:03:38,731 --> 01:03:39,774
[both yell]
1154
01:03:39,857 --> 01:03:41,984
[yells in Portuguese]
1155
01:03:42,068 --> 01:03:45,863
[crowd chattering]
1156
01:03:45,947 --> 01:03:49,575
[crowd cheering]
1157
01:03:52,745 --> 01:03:55,832
When we started listening to Racionais…
Good God!
1158
01:03:55,915 --> 01:03:58,876
Black people were deeply moved
in all the different hoods.
1159
01:04:00,753 --> 01:04:01,838
It was an awakening.
1160
01:04:01,921 --> 01:04:05,466
A wake-up call,
a call to arms, a demand for attention…
1161
01:04:05,550 --> 01:04:07,635
It was anything you can imagine.
1162
01:04:08,219 --> 01:04:11,931
["Diário de um Detento" plays]
1163
01:04:16,477 --> 01:04:18,521
[Mano Brown] I asked for
gothic lettering on the cover
1164
01:04:18,604 --> 01:04:20,523
because rappers from LA were using it.
1165
01:04:21,023 --> 01:04:23,526
It went well
with the symbols and everything.
1166
01:04:23,609 --> 01:04:24,986
I wanted that for my CD.
1167
01:04:29,782 --> 01:04:31,659
We put that cross on the cover,
1168
01:04:31,742 --> 01:04:33,411
and some guys showed up at the concerts
1169
01:04:33,494 --> 01:04:35,746
carrying these huge bibles,
dressed like priests.
1170
01:04:35,830 --> 01:04:37,290
Extremists, you know?
1171
01:04:38,249 --> 01:04:41,252
Mixing thoughts of race, God, and crime.
Get it?
1172
01:04:42,378 --> 01:04:44,505
-[Edi Rock] You're hurting me.
-[Ice Blue] Close the window.
1173
01:04:44,589 --> 01:04:46,132
You're gonna hurt your arm, bro!
1174
01:04:46,716 --> 01:04:48,009
[Edi Rock] Whoa, watch it.
1175
01:04:48,509 --> 01:04:50,094
[Mano Brown] His arm'll snap on the spot.
1176
01:04:50,177 --> 01:04:52,096
-[Ice Blue] Careful, man.
-[KL Jay] Damn, son!
1177
01:04:52,179 --> 01:04:55,141
[crowd cheering]
1178
01:04:57,476 --> 01:04:59,770
[Mano Brown] Yeah. 1998.
1179
01:05:00,563 --> 01:05:04,483
Mano Brown, KL Jay, Ice Blue, Edi Rock.
1180
01:05:05,109 --> 01:05:07,069
South Side, North Side.
1181
01:05:07,737 --> 01:05:09,155
The voice of the favelas.
1182
01:05:10,114 --> 01:05:11,282
That is the part of it.
1183
01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:14,744
"Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
1184
01:05:17,163 --> 01:05:20,958
I shall fear no evil,
for you are all with me."
1185
01:05:21,751 --> 01:05:24,170
We're in this bitch… son.
1186
01:05:27,256 --> 01:05:30,593
[Mano Brown] So what I did notice,
that record was becoming an exorcism.
1187
01:05:31,135 --> 01:05:33,846
When I sang it at shows,
repeating those same words,
1188
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:36,724
the same things over and over,
everybody together,
1189
01:05:37,224 --> 01:05:39,435
it was the worst possible atmosphere.
1190
01:05:39,518 --> 01:05:41,729
I didn't like it. I sang without heart.
1191
01:05:42,229 --> 01:05:44,899
I was no longer
enjoying the party, you know?
1192
01:05:44,982 --> 01:05:46,067
See, the thing is,
1193
01:05:46,817 --> 01:05:49,278
we come from a spiritual background, bro.
1194
01:05:49,362 --> 01:05:51,322
Those songs mentioned pools of blood.
1195
01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:55,660
People were listening to it at home,
at places where you should be having fun.
1196
01:05:55,743 --> 01:05:56,953
That's dangerous.
1197
01:05:58,245 --> 01:05:59,413
That had to change.
1198
01:05:59,914 --> 01:06:01,540
I believe in the power of words.
1199
01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:05,586
[Mano Brown] Yo, here's the deal…
1200
01:06:06,212 --> 01:06:10,174
-[gunshots]
-[crowd screaming]
1201
01:06:11,342 --> 01:06:13,886
[Mano Brown] When I saw
dead bodies at my shows,
1202
01:06:13,970 --> 01:06:17,473
wearing Racionais' T-shirts,
I started to think.
1203
01:06:17,556 --> 01:06:20,184
When they threw that dead guy
at my feet in Bauru,
1204
01:06:20,267 --> 01:06:23,270
right there, I was
already rethinking things.
1205
01:06:23,896 --> 01:06:26,273
I was even questioning how useful I was.
1206
01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:29,819
People didn't even know what to do
when somebody was shot.
1207
01:06:29,902 --> 01:06:31,988
They just threw him at my feet, bro.
1208
01:06:33,823 --> 01:06:34,657
You know?
1209
01:06:38,786 --> 01:06:41,747
People were stepping over him
to ask for autographs.
1210
01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:45,209
He was writhing in pain
and they were stepping on him,
1211
01:06:45,292 --> 01:06:47,294
asking for pictures and autographs.
1212
01:06:47,878 --> 01:06:49,380
[performing "Capítulo 4, Versículo 3"]
1213
01:06:49,463 --> 01:06:51,090
[rapping in Portuguese]
1214
01:06:54,927 --> 01:06:58,639
-[Mano Brown] Stop, bro. People, stop!
-[Edi Rock] Bullshit, all right?
1215
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:00,808
[Edi Rock] Yo. Am I a clown
to talk about peace
1216
01:07:00,891 --> 01:07:02,601
while you kill each other down there?
1217
01:07:02,685 --> 01:07:03,644
Yo, fuck you!
1218
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:05,688
Am I crazy to be talking about peace?
1219
01:07:06,188 --> 01:07:07,565
[Mano Brown] Let me tell you this.
1220
01:07:07,648 --> 01:07:10,526
The system doesn't care
if there are ten dead guys outside,
1221
01:07:10,609 --> 01:07:11,777
you know what I'm saying?
1222
01:07:12,361 --> 01:07:13,988
They want all of you fucking dead.
1223
01:07:14,822 --> 01:07:16,866
All you've got is each other, you feel me?
1224
01:07:16,949 --> 01:07:18,451
And your brains. Right?
1225
01:07:18,951 --> 01:07:21,495
[Mano Brown] Sobrevivendo no Inferno
was the record
1226
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:23,873
that drove us away from the favelas
the most.
1227
01:07:24,457 --> 01:07:26,375
College kids were the ones who loved it.
1228
01:07:26,876 --> 01:07:30,463
When I realized that,
I had to use a new strategy, man.
1229
01:07:30,963 --> 01:07:33,090
I told them, "Let's disappear, bro."
1230
01:07:33,174 --> 01:07:34,341
"Everything is wrong."
1231
01:07:34,842 --> 01:07:37,053
"I'm not enjoying this. It's getting old."
1232
01:07:37,678 --> 01:07:38,929
One day, Brown said,
1233
01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:41,640
"Bro, how many shows are left?"
1234
01:07:43,768 --> 01:07:44,769
Bam. "Just this many?"
1235
01:07:44,852 --> 01:07:47,563
"Let's do them,
and then let's quit, indefinitely."
1236
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,485
"What do you mean?
So we're just gonna starve?"
1237
01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:53,903
"What, deal with it?"
1238
01:07:56,113 --> 01:07:58,032
"Didn't you use to be a gangster?"
1239
01:07:58,115 --> 01:07:59,325
"Is singing all you can do?"
1240
01:07:59,825 --> 01:08:01,952
"Let's use what we have.
Let's start over."
1241
01:08:02,453 --> 01:08:04,455
-[thunder rumbling]
-[wind chimes clinking]
1242
01:08:08,084 --> 01:08:10,044
[thunder cracks]
1243
01:08:12,046 --> 01:08:14,507
["Salve" plays]
1244
01:08:16,133 --> 01:08:18,385
[Ice Blue] Man, we went back
to living in the hood.
1245
01:08:18,469 --> 01:08:20,846
We spent time there and breathed that air.
1246
01:08:22,348 --> 01:08:26,560
[Mano Brown] After we left the scene,
I got to go back and go even deeper.
1247
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:32,316
I went back to Jardim Leblon,
to my roots, to check on my people.
1248
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:33,442
I went back there.
1249
01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:40,825
Shout-outs to Brazil,
especially São Paulo.
1250
01:08:41,867 --> 01:08:44,120
Let me tell you about these 500 years.
1251
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:45,121
This lie.
1252
01:08:45,204 --> 01:08:47,540
Fuck the 500th anniversary of discovery!
1253
01:08:47,623 --> 01:08:50,292
Pedro Álvares Cabral
and Christopher Columbus,
1254
01:08:50,376 --> 01:08:51,752
those shameless Europeans,
1255
01:08:51,836 --> 01:08:54,255
they came over here
and slaughtered everybody.
1256
01:08:54,338 --> 01:08:57,049
And at school they're treated like heroes.
1257
01:08:57,133 --> 01:08:58,217
Fuck that, bro!
1258
01:08:58,300 --> 01:09:01,137
Yo, next week we'll have
UTen Play, all right? Bye.
1259
01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:07,184
[Mano Brown] Whether you like it or not,
the year 2000 was a turning point.
1260
01:09:07,685 --> 01:09:10,437
Everything from the '90s
began to look like the '90s.
1261
01:09:11,021 --> 01:09:12,106
There was no other way.
1262
01:09:12,606 --> 01:09:15,860
When the subway arrived at Capão,
and Lula was elected,
1263
01:09:16,569 --> 01:09:20,698
a modern outlook came to Capão,
along with PCC and everything else.
1264
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,082
[Racionais MC's rapping in Portuguese]
1265
01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:57,109
CARANDIRU DETENTION HOUSE
SÃO PAULO
1266
01:10:11,665 --> 01:10:14,418
[subway announcer]
Next Station, Capão Redondo.
1267
01:10:19,590 --> 01:10:22,009
[Mano Brown] Then, I understood it
all over again.
1268
01:10:22,885 --> 01:10:27,014
There was a whole new generation
of addicts, crazy people, sad people,
1269
01:10:27,097 --> 01:10:29,225
people suffering for new reasons, already.
1270
01:10:29,725 --> 01:10:33,854
But I also saw people overcoming
all of that with such fucking poise.
1271
01:10:34,355 --> 01:10:36,440
Overcoming disease, poverty…
1272
01:10:36,523 --> 01:10:40,277
Not crying or complaining,
but elegantly, bro. Beautifully.
1273
01:10:41,278 --> 01:10:43,280
[berimbau playing]
1274
01:10:47,868 --> 01:10:51,830
During that phase,
there was a friend of ours, DJ Nel.
1275
01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:56,460
During the transition between records,
I made friends with this guy,
1276
01:10:58,712 --> 01:11:02,800
and he started telling me
about other things, other sounds.
1277
01:11:04,885 --> 01:11:08,305
He said, "Man,
you gotta listen to Milton Nascimento."
1278
01:11:08,389 --> 01:11:10,224
"You gotta listen to Miles Davis."
1279
01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:12,643
"You gotta listen to Clube da Esquina."
1280
01:11:13,143 --> 01:11:14,645
"Your sound has no dimension."
1281
01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:18,691
"It's like a stone to the client's face,
that music of yours."
1282
01:11:19,191 --> 01:11:22,695
[bowing a steady tune on bass]
1283
01:11:25,364 --> 01:11:27,116
"It needs more layers, bro."
1284
01:11:27,199 --> 01:11:28,867
"Me? More layers?"
1285
01:11:28,951 --> 01:11:30,869
"You gotta know about lisergy."
1286
01:11:34,832 --> 01:11:36,959
He'd go on about water and wilderness
1287
01:11:37,042 --> 01:11:40,045
He kept playing music,
drinking that wine, smoking that joint,
1288
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:43,132
in the middle of the afternoon,
with only ten reais, bro.
1289
01:11:47,052 --> 01:11:48,178
That was his deal.
1290
01:11:48,262 --> 01:11:51,807
I thought, "Wow, that's cool!
I wouldn't have noticed."
1291
01:11:52,349 --> 01:11:56,437
"Bro, enjoy the moment.
Just enjoy what you can, you know?"
1292
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,981
"Not everything is
about society and stuff."
1293
01:11:59,064 --> 01:12:01,358
"And we don't even have the mind
to handle all that."
1294
01:12:01,442 --> 01:12:02,609
"Know yourself first."
1295
01:12:03,110 --> 01:12:06,030
All I did was agree with him.
I knew nothing, bro.
1296
01:12:06,113 --> 01:12:08,907
It was a wacko advising an idiot, me.
1297
01:12:09,491 --> 01:12:12,703
I thought I was the man,
but I was just an idiot.
1298
01:12:12,786 --> 01:12:17,082
I didn't know shit, so I just said,
"Wow. That's true."
1299
01:12:17,583 --> 01:12:19,710
That's what was missing
from the last record.
1300
01:12:19,793 --> 01:12:21,003
This new dimension.
1301
01:12:21,086 --> 01:12:23,547
When I found out about it, I was in love.
1302
01:12:27,801 --> 01:12:30,804
[DJ Nel] It's like a guitar,
but with no frets. See?
1303
01:12:30,888 --> 01:12:31,889
[Mano Brown] Oh, yeah?
1304
01:12:31,972 --> 01:12:33,974
[Ice Blue] He really feels the music.
1305
01:12:36,018 --> 01:12:38,479
[Mano Brown] I started going to the dam
when it rained.
1306
01:12:42,900 --> 01:12:44,610
I went when no one else was there.
1307
01:12:45,110 --> 01:12:46,528
When it was all just for me.
1308
01:12:47,654 --> 01:12:49,698
That was the deal, the gray light.
1309
01:12:50,199 --> 01:12:53,577
It was something…
It was somewhat introspective, you know.
1310
01:12:53,660 --> 01:12:55,621
Wind, thunder, neurosis…
1311
01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:03,337
It was a perspective
we hadn't accessed in the last record.
1312
01:13:04,671 --> 01:13:08,384
The feeling of weakness which we share,
but that remains unspoken.
1313
01:13:19,228 --> 01:13:21,230
[alarm clock beeps]
1314
01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:24,400
["Sou + Você" plays]
1315
01:13:24,983 --> 01:13:25,984
♪ Your blessing, Mom ♪
1316
01:13:26,485 --> 01:13:29,113
♪ We begin our transmission ♪
1317
01:13:29,196 --> 01:13:31,907
♪ This is your Exodus radio ♪
1318
01:13:31,990 --> 01:13:33,117
♪ Hey, hey ♪
1319
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,077
♪ Let's wake up, let's wake up ♪
1320
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,621
♪ Because the sun doesn't wait
Come on, let's wake up ♪
1321
01:13:37,704 --> 01:13:38,997
♪ Time never gets tired ♪
1322
01:13:39,081 --> 01:13:40,374
♪ You asked for it ♪
1323
01:13:40,457 --> 01:13:43,710
♪ You asked for an opportunity
A second chance ♪
1324
01:13:43,794 --> 01:13:45,587
♪ God is good, isn't He? ♪
1325
01:13:45,671 --> 01:13:48,006
♪ Hey, a new day just for you ♪
1326
01:13:48,090 --> 01:13:50,092
♪ What an awesome blue sky! ♪
1327
01:13:50,175 --> 01:13:51,844
♪ Let's wake up, let's wake up ♪
1328
01:13:51,927 --> 01:13:54,680
♪ Look at your face
I trust you in this war ♪
1329
01:13:54,763 --> 01:13:56,765
♪ Sloth is the enemy of victory ♪
1330
01:13:56,849 --> 01:14:00,060
♪ There's no place for the weak
And the coward dies without even trying ♪
1331
01:14:00,144 --> 01:14:02,229
♪ I'll tell you the truth
Things are tough ♪
1332
01:14:02,312 --> 01:14:04,148
♪ There is no trust
Not even in yourself ♪
1333
01:14:04,231 --> 01:14:06,066
♪ And enemies come for free ♪
1334
01:14:06,150 --> 01:14:08,777
♪ It's a concrete jungle
It crushes the humble ♪
1335
01:14:08,861 --> 01:14:10,946
♪ You're as big as your dream ♪
1336
01:14:11,029 --> 01:14:12,656
♪ Do the right thing, do your thing ♪
1337
01:14:12,739 --> 01:14:16,118
♪ Let's wake up, let's wake up
Hold your head high with sincerity ♪
1338
01:14:16,201 --> 01:14:18,370
♪ What are you so scared of?
It's never been easy ♪
1339
01:14:18,454 --> 01:14:20,372
♪ Gather your pieces and join the fight ♪
1340
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,708
♪ But remember, whatever happens ♪
1341
01:14:22,791 --> 01:14:25,043
♪ There's nothing like
A day after the other ♪
1342
01:14:26,211 --> 01:14:27,880
[Ice Blue]
We're back, brothers!
1343
01:14:27,963 --> 01:14:30,257
["Vivão e Vivendo" plays]
1344
01:14:33,260 --> 01:14:35,512
[high-pitched voice]
♪ You're in the streets of São Paulo ♪
1345
01:14:35,596 --> 01:14:38,223
♪ Where boys keep their feelings
On the soles of their feet ♪
1346
01:14:38,307 --> 01:14:40,893
♪ That's not pessimism
It's just what it's like ♪
1347
01:14:40,976 --> 01:14:43,520
♪ Living and living large
The boys blow smoke ♪
1348
01:14:43,604 --> 01:14:44,646
♪ That's the sweet venom… ♪
1349
01:14:44,730 --> 01:14:45,981
Uh! My shin!
1350
01:14:46,064 --> 01:14:47,441
[rapper coughs]
1351
01:14:47,524 --> 01:14:50,235
♪ I tripped, but I came back for you ♪
1352
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:51,737
♪ I came back for the brothers ♪
1353
01:14:51,820 --> 01:14:54,781
♪ And consequently, for the green ♪
1354
01:14:55,616 --> 01:14:57,451
♪ And Lord ♪
1355
01:14:57,534 --> 01:14:58,702
♪ Is it good! ♪
1356
01:14:58,785 --> 01:14:59,995
[rapper laughs]
1357
01:15:00,078 --> 01:15:01,663
♪ That's how it is ♪
1358
01:15:01,747 --> 01:15:04,500
♪ My mind is a maze
And my heart weeps ♪
1359
01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:06,919
♪ It weeps now but will laugh later ♪
1360
01:15:07,794 --> 01:15:08,921
[rapper laughs]
1361
01:15:09,004 --> 01:15:11,632
♪ Come with me, brother, come with me ♪
1362
01:15:12,341 --> 01:15:13,717
We focused on our hood.
1363
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:17,638
The brothers, the get-togethers,
our families. Our roots.
1364
01:15:17,721 --> 01:15:19,723
["Vida Loka, Pt. 1" plays]
1365
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,940
[Mano Brown] ♪ A band of madmen
Gathered around street corners ♪
1366
01:15:28,023 --> 01:15:30,442
♪ And said
"Let's make this shit happen!" ♪
1367
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:32,653
♪ By all means necessary ♪
1368
01:15:32,736 --> 01:15:33,779
♪ Do it yourself ♪
1369
01:15:33,862 --> 01:15:36,031
♪ You for us, us for ourselves ♪
1370
01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:38,825
♪ For us and our peers ♪
1371
01:15:38,909 --> 01:15:40,160
♪ And for our neighbor ♪
1372
01:15:40,244 --> 01:15:41,119
♪ And that's that ♪
1373
01:15:41,203 --> 01:15:43,956
♪ I feel what I can,
Nerves and bones, yeah ♪
1374
01:15:44,039 --> 01:15:46,875
♪ If we are who we are
A mesh of chromosomes ♪
1375
01:15:47,376 --> 01:15:49,253
♪ With strengths and weaknesses ♪
1376
01:15:49,836 --> 01:15:52,631
♪ That's that and that's how it is ♪
1377
01:15:54,216 --> 01:15:56,009
♪ Have faith, for God is just ♪
1378
01:15:56,093 --> 01:15:58,303
♪ Never forget, brother ♪
1379
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:01,473
♪ Hold your head up high ♪
1380
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,600
♪ No matter what or when ♪
1381
01:16:03,684 --> 01:16:07,020
♪ Have faith
Because flowers grow even in the dump ♪
1382
01:16:07,104 --> 01:16:09,856
♪ Pray for us, pastor, remember us ♪
1383
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:12,568
♪ Tonight's service is still going well ♪
1384
01:16:12,651 --> 01:16:15,320
♪ I admire the believers
Please, excuse me ♪
1385
01:16:15,404 --> 01:16:18,323
♪ What a rip-off, what a scheme
My apologies ♪
1386
01:16:18,407 --> 01:16:21,743
♪ Sometimes I feel a little insecure ♪
1387
01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:24,705
♪ Like a mutt
With no faith in the future ♪
1388
01:16:24,788 --> 01:16:28,000
♪ Then someone comes along? Who is who?
Who could that be, brother? ♪
1389
01:16:28,083 --> 01:16:29,626
♪ Get me a toy that pierces clothes… ♪
1390
01:16:29,710 --> 01:16:31,712
[cheering]
1391
01:16:35,799 --> 01:16:37,551
I'm pretentious enough to say
1392
01:16:37,634 --> 01:16:40,846
I embodied the spirit
of the São Paulo hood that day, bro.
1393
01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:43,765
All of its codes.
1394
01:16:44,808 --> 01:16:46,435
[cheering]
1395
01:16:46,518 --> 01:16:49,271
[chanting in Portuguese]
1396
01:16:50,564 --> 01:16:52,065
♪ I'm a warrior of rap ♪
1397
01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:53,442
♪ Always in high voltage ♪
1398
01:16:53,525 --> 01:16:56,570
♪ One for one, God for all
I'm here just passing through ♪
1399
01:16:56,653 --> 01:16:59,698
♪ Crazy life
I'm not cut out to be a victim ♪
1400
01:16:59,781 --> 01:17:02,492
♪ Justice and freedom
My cause is legit ♪
1401
01:17:02,576 --> 01:17:05,704
♪ My rap starts the choir of the mad
And the romantic ♪
1402
01:17:05,787 --> 01:17:07,873
♪ I wear a child's smile wherever I go ♪
1403
01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:09,291
♪ For the brothers ♪
1404
01:17:09,374 --> 01:17:11,501
[audience rapping]
♪ I offer my presence ♪
1405
01:17:11,585 --> 01:17:14,129
♪ Maybe it's confusing
But it's real and intense ♪
1406
01:17:14,212 --> 01:17:16,798
♪ My best Marvin Gaye
Saturday on the highway ♪
1407
01:17:16,882 --> 01:17:20,010
♪ Whatever will be, will be
And we ride to the end ♪
1408
01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:22,554
♪ Call on me, call on us
Wherever we're needed ♪
1409
01:17:22,638 --> 01:17:25,557
♪ In Paradise or on judgment day, pastor ♪
1410
01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:28,685
♪ Call on me and on the brothers
It's what I ask ♪
1411
01:17:28,769 --> 01:17:31,229
♪ Favela, Fundão
Immortalized in my poetry ♪
1412
01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:32,981
♪ Crazy life ♪
1413
01:17:34,941 --> 01:17:38,570
[Mano Brown] The people from the hood,
they understood themselves there.
1414
01:17:38,654 --> 01:17:41,448
They saw it wasn't
restricted to Brown or Blue.
1415
01:17:41,531 --> 01:17:43,158
It was for all the people.
1416
01:17:46,870 --> 01:17:51,500
They organized one street and the next,
and the next, started a chain reaction.
1417
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:55,045
A lot of teams, names,
and labels were born in the hood,
1418
01:17:55,128 --> 01:17:56,755
a lot of different colored hats.
1419
01:17:57,422 --> 01:17:59,883
A lot of collectives
were born from that moment.
1420
01:18:01,593 --> 01:18:03,053
[KL Jay] It's a mixture, you know?
1421
01:18:03,136 --> 01:18:06,431
Of ambition with affront,
self-esteem, independence…
1422
01:18:11,478 --> 01:18:15,315
[Mano Brown] And that's how we managed
to bring the hood along with us. Everyone.
1423
01:18:16,483 --> 01:18:19,820
People who didn't like rap started liking
the concept of representing their hood
1424
01:18:19,903 --> 01:18:21,822
and not lowering their head for anyone.
1425
01:18:21,905 --> 01:18:25,325
People no longer needed
to seem oppressed and deluded.
1426
01:18:25,409 --> 01:18:28,620
If you pay attention,
with its rights and its wrongs,
1427
01:18:28,704 --> 01:18:31,790
the hood had its opinions
and is setting things in motion.
1428
01:18:32,332 --> 01:18:34,960
"Yeah, that's right.
Let's do it, et cetera."
1429
01:18:35,043 --> 01:18:37,295
That's something
that was really happening there.
1430
01:18:39,506 --> 01:18:41,758
Because our line of thinking
before this album
1431
01:18:41,842 --> 01:18:44,219
was of a submissive, ignorant hood.
1432
01:18:45,512 --> 01:18:46,596
Alienated. Get it?
1433
01:18:47,097 --> 01:18:48,557
Which I refute in this album.
1434
01:18:49,057 --> 01:18:51,059
["Eu Sou 157" plays]
1435
01:18:56,732 --> 01:19:01,194
It's our first time playing an open event,
in the middle of the night, in São Paulo.
1436
01:19:01,278 --> 01:19:03,822
Right at dawn, 4:00 a.m., maybe 5:00 a.m.
1437
01:19:05,991 --> 01:19:08,452
[man] For those heading to work,
1438
01:19:08,535 --> 01:19:10,537
grab your coat and your beanie,
1439
01:19:10,620 --> 01:19:13,290
because it is ten degrees in São Paulo.
1440
01:19:14,791 --> 01:19:18,003
♪ The full moon lights
The streets of Capão ♪
1441
01:19:18,086 --> 01:19:20,714
♪ God alone is above us
Humble, right? ♪
1442
01:19:20,797 --> 01:19:24,134
♪ Cheers! Clink!
Women and loud music ♪
1443
01:19:24,217 --> 01:19:26,720
♪ White wine
A good lawyer for everyone ♪
1444
01:19:26,803 --> 01:19:28,221
[coughs]
1445
01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:29,848
♪ It's cold as fuck ♪
1446
01:19:29,931 --> 01:19:33,226
♪ But what to do?
Tuesdays are no good for partying ♪
1447
01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:35,979
♪ It has never changed
And it never will ♪
1448
01:19:36,062 --> 01:19:39,149
♪ The scent of a bonfire fills the air ♪
1449
01:19:39,649 --> 01:19:42,110
[reporter 1] …early Sunday morning
in São Paulo.
1450
01:19:42,861 --> 01:19:45,906
[reporter 2] Turmoil and vandalism
at a Racionais MC's show
1451
01:19:45,989 --> 01:19:47,365
during Virada de São Paulo.
1452
01:19:47,449 --> 01:19:49,743
[reporter 3 in Portuguese]
…rap group Racionais MC's show.
1453
01:19:49,826 --> 01:19:52,412
[reporter 4] …Racionais MC's…
1454
01:19:52,496 --> 01:19:53,830
[reporter 5] …of Racionais MC's.
1455
01:19:54,331 --> 01:19:55,582
PRAÇA DA SÉ
1456
01:19:55,665 --> 01:19:58,126
[reporter 6] Praça da Sé became
a true war zone.
1457
01:19:58,210 --> 01:19:59,503
[siren blaring]
1458
01:20:00,504 --> 01:20:03,840
[reporter 6] People desperately tried
to escape the confrontation.
1459
01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:07,803
[reporter 7] Come here, man! Come here!
1460
01:20:09,137 --> 01:20:11,223
[reporter 6] Couldn't the police
have avoided it?
1461
01:20:13,225 --> 01:20:14,810
[Mano Brown] Ah, man, that was a story.
1462
01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:20,315
Let me tell you where it started.
It was like this.
1463
01:20:21,358 --> 01:20:22,359
There was this boy.
1464
01:20:22,859 --> 01:20:24,820
The cops were chasing him, Black kid.
1465
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:27,155
And he dodged the police.
1466
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:29,449
It was raining, so the ground was wet.
1467
01:20:30,116 --> 01:20:32,369
The cop fell down
and couldn't get back up.
1468
01:20:32,452 --> 01:20:35,539
All the other cops went
viciously after the boy, a lot of 'em.
1469
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,960
And he was so fast, so I said on stage,
1470
01:20:40,836 --> 01:20:44,756
"Yeah, the military police was created
to catch runaway slaves."
1471
01:20:46,216 --> 01:20:47,551
Careful with those guns.
1472
01:20:48,051 --> 01:20:50,262
Careful with those guns.
Don't shoot anybody!
1473
01:20:53,515 --> 01:20:57,936
[reporter 8] The rap group asked the crowd
to step away from the officers.
1474
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:00,188
[Mano Brown] Hey!
Step away from those cops!
1475
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,527
A fight broke out,
and then it was like it parted.
1476
01:21:06,027 --> 01:21:08,363
The cops to one side
and the kids to the other.
1477
01:21:08,446 --> 01:21:10,657
That's when it all went to fuckin' hell.
1478
01:21:10,740 --> 01:21:12,284
[KL Jay] It felt like a war zone.
1479
01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:13,201
["A Praça" plays]
1480
01:21:13,285 --> 01:21:16,288
♪ The boys with sticks and stones
The police with rifles and bombs ♪
1481
01:21:16,371 --> 01:21:19,332
♪ Cars on fire
Steel doors close ♪
1482
01:21:19,416 --> 01:21:22,669
♪ A mother calls for a son
While she gets shot ♪
1483
01:21:22,752 --> 01:21:25,589
♪ Someone lost someone
The soul is in the trigger ♪
1484
01:21:25,672 --> 01:21:27,257
♪ Run away to the subway ♪
1485
01:21:27,340 --> 01:21:29,050
♪ Trouble in the hallway ♪
1486
01:21:29,134 --> 01:21:32,095
♪ Someone was trampled
And there they stayed ♪
1487
01:21:32,178 --> 01:21:35,223
♪ In the adjacent streets
The scene went on ♪
1488
01:21:35,307 --> 01:21:39,311
♪ War and destruction
The world at an end ♪
1489
01:21:39,394 --> 01:21:41,396
[sirens blaring]
1490
01:21:42,397 --> 01:21:43,732
-[gunshots]
-[woman screams]
1491
01:21:43,815 --> 01:21:45,817
[song ends]
1492
01:21:51,197 --> 01:21:52,782
[Mano Brown] Things got pretty tense.
1493
01:21:55,118 --> 01:21:57,704
[Edi Rock] They forbade us
from performing in the open
1494
01:21:57,787 --> 01:22:00,457
and they started
their campaign of persecution.
1495
01:22:01,625 --> 01:22:04,294
Because we were said
to be a danger to society,
1496
01:22:04,377 --> 01:22:09,716
a danger to public security,
or to the security of society.
1497
01:22:10,467 --> 01:22:12,385
[cracks knuckles]
1498
01:22:14,012 --> 01:22:16,264
It was the State… the police.
1499
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:20,310
It was some kind of setup
1500
01:22:20,393 --> 01:22:24,272
because everything was being done
by the book, the contracts and everything.
1501
01:22:24,773 --> 01:22:27,400
There was no reason
for that to happen so suddenly
1502
01:22:27,484 --> 01:22:30,612
and for Racionais to be banned
from performing in São Paulo.
1503
01:22:31,112 --> 01:22:32,906
I really think it was political.
1504
01:22:36,743 --> 01:22:38,703
It could've been over at any moment.
1505
01:22:38,787 --> 01:22:40,789
-[wind blows]
-[thunder rumbles]
1506
01:22:42,749 --> 01:22:44,793
[thunder cracks]
1507
01:22:56,012 --> 01:22:57,681
♪ What am I? ♪
1508
01:22:57,764 --> 01:23:01,935
♪ I'm clear and salty
I fit inside an eye, but I weigh a ton ♪
1509
01:23:02,018 --> 01:23:04,437
♪ I taste like the sea
And I can be discreet ♪
1510
01:23:04,521 --> 01:23:07,357
♪ I'm a tenant of pain
Where I prefer to live ♪
1511
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:10,402
♪ In the dead of the night
I'm a hostage of vengeance ♪
1512
01:23:10,485 --> 01:23:13,071
♪ I'm a sister to despair
I'm hope's worst nemesis ♪
1513
01:23:13,154 --> 01:23:15,949
♪ I can be caused by the vermin, mundane ♪
1514
01:23:16,032 --> 01:23:18,952
♪ Or by the love
Of your cruel flower's thorn ♪
1515
01:23:19,035 --> 01:23:21,663
♪ I'm a lover of drama
I come to your bed ♪
1516
01:23:21,746 --> 01:23:24,541
♪ Willingly, without permission
You make me suffer ♪
1517
01:23:24,624 --> 01:23:27,419
♪ I thought I was strong ♪
1518
01:23:27,919 --> 01:23:30,463
♪ I'll be weak
When others come ♪
1519
01:23:30,547 --> 01:23:33,216
♪ If things are tough
And the going is slow ♪
1520
01:23:33,299 --> 01:23:35,885
♪ Right now,
Let me walk against the wind ♪
1521
01:23:35,969 --> 01:23:38,847
♪ Why be tough
If your heart is vulnerable? ♪
1522
01:23:38,930 --> 01:23:41,766
♪ Well, not the wind
It's soft but relentless and cold ♪
1523
01:23:41,850 --> 01:23:42,684
♪ And I'm warm ♪
1524
01:23:42,767 --> 01:23:44,644
♪ I smeared the poet's morose sentence ♪
1525
01:23:44,728 --> 01:23:47,689
♪ I ran down
The prophet's brown semblance ♪
1526
01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:51,276
♪ The worms clear the way
As a man's tear falls ♪
1527
01:23:51,359 --> 01:23:53,445
♪ This is your lifelong struggle ♪
1528
01:23:53,528 --> 01:23:56,072
♪ They say men don't cry
Yeah, right ♪
1529
01:23:56,156 --> 01:23:59,200
♪ Don't follow the crowd, brother
Jesus wept ♪
1530
01:23:59,284 --> 01:24:02,662
♪ Damn, brother, I'mma tell you
And I may be high ♪
1531
01:24:02,746 --> 01:24:04,581
♪ But the world is well fit to end ♪
1532
01:24:04,664 --> 01:24:07,208
♪ What can you do
When the fortress trembles ♪
1533
01:24:07,292 --> 01:24:10,211
♪ And all the good around you
Gets corrupted? ♪
1534
01:24:12,464 --> 01:24:16,384
[Ice Blue] Everybody who had stressed
the importance of the Black Revolution
1535
01:24:16,468 --> 01:24:17,510
was persecuted.
1536
01:24:18,011 --> 01:24:19,429
And therefore, silenced.
1537
01:24:20,346 --> 01:24:23,725
Everything I do and did
is based on Marighella's code.
1538
01:24:26,603 --> 01:24:29,272
[Edi Rock] The meantime between records
was ten years.
1539
01:24:29,773 --> 01:24:32,192
Marighella was the kick-start
to our comeback.
1540
01:24:32,275 --> 01:24:34,527
[tires screech]
1541
01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:39,908
[KL Jay] Quiet, or you'll die.
1542
01:24:41,493 --> 01:24:43,036
[Mano Brown] Move, God damn it!
1543
01:24:44,370 --> 01:24:45,580
On your knees!
1544
01:24:47,916 --> 01:24:49,334
[woman] Freedom Radio is on the air.
1545
01:24:49,417 --> 01:24:50,919
REVOLUTIONARIES TAKE OVER RADIO STATION
1546
01:24:51,377 --> 01:24:53,630
[Mano Brown] The hood's reaction
to Marighella.
1547
01:24:55,131 --> 01:24:56,549
A lot of people could relate to it.
1548
01:24:58,176 --> 01:25:00,845
A lot of guys who'd
never heard of him were interested.
1549
01:25:00,929 --> 01:25:03,389
-["Mil Faces de um Homem Leal" plays]
-…Carlos Marighella.
1550
01:25:05,183 --> 01:25:07,352
[Mano Brown] At the same time,
he was an angel.
1551
01:25:07,435 --> 01:25:08,937
He had dreams of equality.
1552
01:25:09,562 --> 01:25:11,397
[gunshot]
1553
01:25:12,690 --> 01:25:14,067
♪ Stand for the General ♪
1554
01:25:14,150 --> 01:25:15,777
♪ A thousand faces of a loyal man ♪
1555
01:25:15,860 --> 01:25:17,195
♪ C'mon! ♪
1556
01:25:17,779 --> 01:25:19,531
♪ Stand for the General ♪
1557
01:25:19,614 --> 01:25:21,199
♪ A thousand faces of a loyal man ♪
1558
01:25:21,282 --> 01:25:22,534
♪ Protector of the crowds ♪
1559
01:25:22,617 --> 01:25:24,536
♪ Three reincarnations
Of celebrity thugs ♪
1560
01:25:24,619 --> 01:25:27,288
♪ With brilliant brains
Gathered in Heaven ♪
1561
01:25:27,372 --> 01:25:29,457
♪ Destination for the faithful
If fealty's what God wants ♪
1562
01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:30,375
♪ Consummate… ♪
1563
01:25:30,458 --> 01:25:33,586
[Mano Brown] You only get to take
the first place a few times in life.
1564
01:25:33,670 --> 01:25:35,797
And, with that video, we did it again.
1565
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:38,133
[presenters] Racionais MC's!
1566
01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:40,009
[audience cheering]
1567
01:25:41,177 --> 01:25:42,512
We're alive!
1568
01:25:45,890 --> 01:25:48,560
And to close out the best VMB of all time,
1569
01:25:48,643 --> 01:25:50,812
the best VMB concert of all time,
1570
01:25:50,895 --> 01:25:53,106
I give you, Racionais!
1571
01:25:54,149 --> 01:25:57,485
[Mano Brown] Then we performed live again
on MTV and on TV.
1572
01:25:57,569 --> 01:25:59,654
We'd been on MTV in '98,
1573
01:25:59,737 --> 01:26:02,365
and this was what, like 14 years later?
1574
01:26:04,742 --> 01:26:07,954
We had a new outlook,
with all that change,
1575
01:26:08,037 --> 01:26:10,832
all that experience,
all that coming together.
1576
01:26:12,542 --> 01:26:14,878
That's where Eliane came along and said…
1577
01:26:15,378 --> 01:26:16,337
[snaps fingers]
1578
01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:19,257
"We gotta be together to do this."
1579
01:26:19,340 --> 01:26:20,550
ELIANE DIAS
RACIONAIS' MANAGER
1580
01:26:20,633 --> 01:26:25,013
Racionais, as I see them,
they achieved this breakthrough.
1581
01:26:25,096 --> 01:26:26,681
We had low self-esteem.
1582
01:26:26,764 --> 01:26:29,267
We lacked courage, and they made us brave.
1583
01:26:29,350 --> 01:26:31,102
So we can take control of our lives.
1584
01:26:31,186 --> 01:26:33,188
"I can do it and I will do it."
1585
01:26:33,271 --> 01:26:35,356
This happened to me
and to a lot of people.
1586
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:38,693
I hear this daily,
"Racionais changed my life."
1587
01:26:38,776 --> 01:26:40,612
"Racionais changed my life."
1588
01:26:40,695 --> 01:26:43,239
"I heard this Racionais song,
and it changed my life."
1589
01:26:43,323 --> 01:26:46,409
"I started studying because of Racionais."
1590
01:26:50,788 --> 01:26:54,876
Racionais had left Virada Cultural in 2007
1591
01:26:54,959 --> 01:26:57,378
on bad terms, after that whole incident.
1592
01:26:57,879 --> 01:27:00,715
But then, their management
called them back to perform.
1593
01:27:00,798 --> 01:27:03,009
"Hey, the time has come. Let's do it."
1594
01:27:03,092 --> 01:27:04,260
"Let's do it."
1595
01:27:08,223 --> 01:27:10,975
All I said was, "The police can stay."
1596
01:27:11,059 --> 01:27:13,978
"There's no need for that.
There will be no trouble."
1597
01:27:14,062 --> 01:27:16,689
"Because Racionais communicates
with the people."
1598
01:27:16,773 --> 01:27:20,401
The audiences keep watching
and paying attention to what they say.
1599
01:27:20,485 --> 01:27:22,528
It's like a channel,
like an umbilical cord.
1600
01:27:22,612 --> 01:27:26,574
And people get very angry
when that channel is interrupted.
1601
01:27:29,202 --> 01:27:31,287
We eventually reached an agreement.
1602
01:27:31,371 --> 01:27:35,124
The police would stay in the back
and not within the crowd.
1603
01:27:37,293 --> 01:27:41,130
There were 100,000 people
at Racionais MC's concert,
1604
01:27:41,214 --> 01:27:42,882
and everything went fine.
1605
01:27:42,966 --> 01:27:44,968
-[hip-hop plays]
-[spectators cheer]
1606
01:27:46,135 --> 01:27:48,221
Racionais MC's!
1607
01:27:50,848 --> 01:27:53,142
[Ice Blue] Listening to Racionais
went viral.
1608
01:27:54,894 --> 01:27:57,939
[Dexter] Brown invited me to participate
in the video for "Marighella."
1609
01:27:58,815 --> 01:28:00,650
And it was an honor
to have the opportunity
1610
01:28:00,733 --> 01:28:03,569
to describe the story of a Brazilian hero,
1611
01:28:04,070 --> 01:28:06,489
together with my heroes, Racionais.
1612
01:28:06,572 --> 01:28:08,866
I'm reminded of a quote by Malcolm X.
1613
01:28:08,950 --> 01:28:12,203
He once said the only people
who have truly changed history
1614
01:28:12,287 --> 01:28:15,581
are those who changed
man's concept of himself.
1615
01:28:19,585 --> 01:28:20,962
Racionais did that.
1616
01:28:21,045 --> 01:28:22,797
They didn't change just one person.
1617
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:24,799
They changed an entire generation.
1618
01:28:26,426 --> 01:28:29,846
♪ It's necessary to believe
That the dream is possible ♪
1619
01:28:29,929 --> 01:28:33,266
♪ The sky is the limit
And you, brother, are unbeatable ♪
1620
01:28:33,349 --> 01:28:36,394
♪ The bad times will pass
It's just a phase ♪
1621
01:28:36,477 --> 01:28:39,605
♪ The suffering only feeds your courage ♪
1622
01:28:41,232 --> 01:28:43,359
Then we started looking for venues.
1623
01:28:43,443 --> 01:28:47,572
Let's map out the top venues,
and we'll only perform at those.
1624
01:28:47,655 --> 01:28:51,242
But then people would say,
"You're bringing Racionais here?"
1625
01:28:51,326 --> 01:28:53,995
"They'll break everything!
They'll ruin everything."
1626
01:28:54,078 --> 01:28:55,955
"Their audience will break everything."
1627
01:28:56,039 --> 01:28:57,290
I said, "No, they won't."
1628
01:28:59,334 --> 01:29:02,628
After 30 years, all you want
is for people get home intact.
1629
01:29:04,213 --> 01:29:06,257
That's the kind of cliché
I can do without.
1630
01:29:06,758 --> 01:29:09,260
A dead body at the end
of a Racionais concert.
1631
01:29:09,344 --> 01:29:10,595
-[choir vocalizes]
-[intro plays]
1632
01:29:10,678 --> 01:29:14,307
[man vocalizing]
1633
01:29:18,353 --> 01:29:20,772
♪ This one is for you
1634
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:22,940
♪ Stay alive ♪
1635
01:29:24,609 --> 01:29:26,402
♪ Stay alive ♪
1636
01:29:27,028 --> 01:29:28,363
[vocalizes]
1637
01:29:28,446 --> 01:29:32,533
A lot of those people had never set foot
in a place like that before.
1638
01:29:35,912 --> 01:29:38,498
[music fades out]
1639
01:29:38,581 --> 01:29:41,793
[hip-hop rhythm plays]
1640
01:29:41,876 --> 01:29:44,420
QUAD STUDIOS
NEW YORK - 2014
1641
01:29:44,504 --> 01:29:47,840
[Eliane] They made up their mind.
They went to New York to record the album.
1642
01:29:48,591 --> 01:29:52,136
[hip-hop beat plays]
1643
01:29:52,220 --> 01:29:54,347
[vocalizes rhythm]
1644
01:29:54,430 --> 01:29:56,099
So, it's not…
1645
01:29:56,182 --> 01:29:58,101
[vocalizes and taps rhythm]
1646
01:29:58,184 --> 01:30:00,686
-Right.
-And… [taps rhythm]
1647
01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:01,604
It's…
1648
01:30:01,687 --> 01:30:03,689
[vocalizing and tapping rhythm]
1649
01:30:06,234 --> 01:30:07,318
-Right.
-Right.
1650
01:30:07,402 --> 01:30:08,736
Do you hear the alternating paths?
1651
01:30:09,695 --> 01:30:13,116
[Mano Brown] Don't you have one bass drum
to do what these three are trying to do?
1652
01:30:13,199 --> 01:30:14,742
Because I made that one at home.
1653
01:30:17,453 --> 01:30:21,416
But I think it will never be as good
as the real, original heavy bass drum.
1654
01:30:21,916 --> 01:30:23,501
[hip-hop beat plays]
1655
01:30:26,170 --> 01:30:28,423
[Mano Brown] The world had changed
since 2002.
1656
01:30:29,632 --> 01:30:30,967
Thirteen years later.
1657
01:30:32,176 --> 01:30:35,221
It seemed like Brazil
had finally entered a phase of progress.
1658
01:30:35,805 --> 01:30:40,268
We could see it in the people,
food, drinks, clothing, watches.
1659
01:30:40,351 --> 01:30:41,436
In real life.
1660
01:30:42,895 --> 01:30:46,065
That has an impact on the streets
and in the music as well.
1661
01:30:47,275 --> 01:30:50,361
-[radio beeps]
[Ice Blue on radio] It's all set.
1662
01:30:50,445 --> 01:30:53,322
The boys will be there
to collect the money from the water tower.
1663
01:30:54,991 --> 01:30:58,661
Attention! Attention!
This is a work of fiction.
1664
01:30:58,744 --> 01:31:00,496
Any similarity to anyone's reality…
1665
01:31:00,580 --> 01:31:02,498
BLACK BLUE
RACIONAIS FAMILY
1666
01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:04,292
…is a mere coincidence.
1667
01:31:05,293 --> 01:31:08,588
[Ice Blue on radio] Here's the thing.
There's a bunch of pigs in the street.
1668
01:31:09,088 --> 01:31:10,214
Things could go south.
1669
01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:11,215
[radio beeps]
1670
01:31:12,216 --> 01:31:14,302
[KL Jay] Copy that.
Tell the boys to stay alert,
1671
01:31:14,385 --> 01:31:18,181
to make sure they're not being followed,
and their phones are working. Over.
1672
01:31:20,641 --> 01:31:23,853
[Mano on radio] Got it.
The pieces are clean. I'll bring 'em over.
1673
01:31:23,936 --> 01:31:26,814
Same bat-place, same time. Over, bro.
1674
01:31:27,690 --> 01:31:30,526
[Ice Blue on radio]
Everyone is aware things are crazy,
1675
01:31:30,610 --> 01:31:34,280
the going is slow… and, yeah…
1676
01:31:34,363 --> 01:31:35,740
Colors and values…
1677
01:31:35,823 --> 01:31:36,866
[machine guns firing]
1678
01:31:36,949 --> 01:31:38,743
["Cores & Valores" plays]
1679
01:31:38,826 --> 01:31:40,203
[Mano Brown] We've taken over!
1680
01:31:41,162 --> 01:31:42,622
-[radio beeps]
-[Mano Brown] Over.
1681
01:31:48,419 --> 01:31:51,255
[low-pitched voice]
♪ We are what we are ♪
1682
01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:52,798
♪ We are what we are ♪
1683
01:31:52,882 --> 01:31:55,843
[normal voice]
♪ Colors and values ♪
1684
01:31:55,927 --> 01:31:57,094
♪ Colors and values ♪
1685
01:31:57,178 --> 01:32:00,181
[low-pitched voice]
♪ We are what we are ♪
1686
01:32:00,264 --> 01:32:01,724
♪ We are what we are ♪
1687
01:32:01,807 --> 01:32:02,725
♪ Colors and values ♪
1688
01:32:02,808 --> 01:32:04,477
[normal voice]
♪ Funk Conspiracy
1689
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,230
International in Jamaica, Queens ♪
1690
01:32:07,313 --> 01:32:09,774
♪ Fundão, Sabin
A job for me ♪
1691
01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:11,609
♪ If God made me like this ♪
1692
01:32:11,692 --> 01:32:14,111
♪ Then we're good, son
I bought some green ♪
1693
01:32:14,195 --> 01:32:16,906
♪ Clouds and black sheep
Always follow me ♪
1694
01:32:16,989 --> 01:32:19,909
♪ The dark times come
And it was us too ♪
1695
01:32:19,992 --> 01:32:22,620
♪ I walk, walk, walk
The thin dotted line ♪
1696
01:32:22,703 --> 01:32:25,957
♪ On the land whose hero killed
A million Indians ♪
1697
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,043
♪ Around the edges
Black man is king ♪
1698
01:32:29,126 --> 01:32:32,004
♪ It doesn't matter
If you like us or not ♪
1699
01:32:32,088 --> 01:32:34,632
♪ Degrade myself just to please you?
Never! ♪
1700
01:32:34,715 --> 01:32:37,343
♪ Because I don't say it
They think I don't know it ♪
1701
01:32:37,426 --> 01:32:40,555
♪ São Paulo has a lot of money to try ♪
1702
01:32:40,638 --> 01:32:42,807
♪ Without losing the focus
Check the flow ♪
1703
01:32:42,890 --> 01:32:45,226
♪ You see, Cross Fox, Tucson, X5, bam ♪
1704
01:32:45,309 --> 01:32:47,103
♪ Black and golden yellow, it's opulent ♪
1705
01:32:47,186 --> 01:32:49,355
[low-pitched voice]
♪ We are what we are ♪
1706
01:32:49,438 --> 01:32:51,107
♪ We are what we are ♪
1707
01:32:51,190 --> 01:32:52,942
[normal voice]
♪ Colors and values ♪
1708
01:32:53,025 --> 01:32:54,026
[cash register rings]
1709
01:33:00,074 --> 01:33:02,368
[Mano Brown] That's rap.
Business, real life.
1710
01:33:02,451 --> 01:33:03,536
The behind the scenes.
1711
01:33:04,161 --> 01:33:08,332
It's life on the table, perspective,
invested dreams, a lot of things.
1712
01:33:08,416 --> 01:33:12,086
I'm a business leader,
a clan patriarch, I know everything.
1713
01:33:13,921 --> 01:33:16,257
From philosophy to romanticism…
1714
01:33:16,340 --> 01:33:18,092
It's more serious than it seems.
1715
01:33:18,175 --> 01:33:20,094
That's what Racionais is like.
1716
01:33:20,177 --> 01:33:21,512
["Você Me Deve" plays]
1717
01:33:24,181 --> 01:33:26,684
[rapping in Portuguese]
1718
01:33:34,275 --> 01:33:37,236
[no audible dialogue]
1719
01:33:40,531 --> 01:33:41,866
[Mano Brown] Oh, I see!
1720
01:33:43,826 --> 01:33:46,829
[Mano Brown] I want these new kids
to go beyond what I did,
1721
01:33:46,912 --> 01:33:47,830
these new rappers.
1722
01:33:48,331 --> 01:33:49,707
Because I aim to go beyond.
1723
01:33:49,790 --> 01:33:51,500
If they don't, I will.
1724
01:33:52,918 --> 01:33:54,003
To make it happen.
1725
01:33:56,631 --> 01:33:59,842
♪ Shout-outs, shout-outs, shout-outs
Shout-outs, here we are, awesome ♪
1726
01:33:59,925 --> 01:34:02,345
♪ Hail the race
Progress for us ♪
1727
01:34:02,428 --> 01:34:04,889
♪ Expanding business
In the back of the club ♪
1728
01:34:04,972 --> 01:34:07,725
♪ Slaying the dragon
Of sloth and idleness ♪
1729
01:34:07,808 --> 01:34:10,227
♪ A united family will crush a boycott ♪
1730
01:34:10,311 --> 01:34:12,897
♪ Let's go, Pixote
Hollywood doesn't wait ♪
1731
01:34:12,980 --> 01:34:15,941
♪ Black people in the new era ♪
1732
01:34:16,442 --> 01:34:19,236
♪ Gotta make it happen
Gotta make it happen, why not? ♪
1733
01:34:23,074 --> 01:34:26,577
Every year that goes by,
I prepare myself to stay even longer.
1734
01:34:27,078 --> 01:34:29,246
Because the pressure
for me to leave is immense.
1735
01:34:29,330 --> 01:34:30,665
From all sides, you know?
1736
01:34:31,165 --> 01:34:32,792
I have to invest to stay.
1737
01:34:32,875 --> 01:34:33,918
It's not free.
1738
01:34:34,627 --> 01:34:37,797
Staying in the favela
and keeping a close watch. It's costly.
1739
01:34:45,012 --> 01:34:46,764
[Ice Blue] I'm a boy from a favela.
1740
01:34:46,847 --> 01:34:49,767
When I saw a cool bike, I wanted one too.
1741
01:34:50,267 --> 01:34:53,771
And it's cool that people know
that I have one that I didn't steal.
1742
01:34:54,271 --> 01:34:56,899
Isn't that nice?
Isn't it nicer if people know that?
1743
01:34:56,982 --> 01:35:00,152
♪ That your dream of having
A red Fireblade ♪
1744
01:35:00,236 --> 01:35:03,030
♪ A Repsol CBR, A VMAX, a pad ♪
1745
01:35:03,114 --> 01:35:06,283
♪ An Audi R8 GT, a Carrera Porsche ♪
1746
01:35:06,367 --> 01:35:09,328
♪ A Zenith on the wrist
Or a Patek Philippe ♪
1747
01:35:09,412 --> 01:35:12,331
♪ A gold chain
With diamonds and sapphires ♪
1748
01:35:12,415 --> 01:35:15,668
♪ A necklace people can't believe ♪
1749
01:35:15,751 --> 01:35:19,046
♪ A Black boy with no father
Who persists ♪
1750
01:35:19,130 --> 01:35:22,591
♪ Can make it to the store
See a new car and say ♪
1751
01:35:22,675 --> 01:35:24,927
♪ "I want it, I'll buy it full price!" ♪
1752
01:35:25,010 --> 01:35:26,512
♪ But even if you can pay ♪
1753
01:35:26,595 --> 01:35:28,973
♪ Some will still be suspicious ♪
1754
01:35:29,056 --> 01:35:32,059
♪ Because racism has been in disguise
For centuries ♪
1755
01:35:32,143 --> 01:35:34,854
♪ They don't accept your status
Or your skin tone ♪
1756
01:35:36,689 --> 01:35:40,359
What I like to do is eat.
I like going to restaurants.
1757
01:35:40,443 --> 01:35:43,654
And Black people don't frequent
restaurants in São Paulo.
1758
01:35:44,155 --> 01:35:45,448
But Blue does.
1759
01:35:48,033 --> 01:35:51,662
Once I realized I was getting haircuts
to go to those places,
1760
01:35:52,621 --> 01:35:53,998
staying within the norm,
1761
01:35:55,666 --> 01:35:56,959
I thought, "Damn, bro."
1762
01:35:57,626 --> 01:36:01,547
"The time has come for me
to grow out my hair, get more tattoos."
1763
01:36:02,423 --> 01:36:04,467
I wanna go there and cause a scene.
1764
01:36:04,967 --> 01:36:08,053
I want them to feel
uncomfortable in my presence.
1765
01:36:10,556 --> 01:36:13,476
We're here to stay.
Slave quarters are over.
1766
01:36:15,186 --> 01:36:18,397
[reporter 1] Over half of all Brazilians
consider themselves Black.
1767
01:36:19,732 --> 01:36:20,941
[reporter 2] In Rio de Janeiro,
1768
01:36:21,025 --> 01:36:24,779
Marielle was the fifth most-voted
council member to office…
1769
01:36:24,862 --> 01:36:26,489
It's happening. We can see it!
1770
01:36:26,572 --> 01:36:28,199
We can feel it, bro. Fuck!
1771
01:36:28,282 --> 01:36:30,284
Black people are making it, bro!
1772
01:36:31,869 --> 01:36:34,205
[reporter 3] One of the country's
top universities
1773
01:36:34,288 --> 01:36:38,501
will include Racionais in the 2020
curriculum for their entrance exams.
1774
01:36:40,211 --> 01:36:42,338
RACIONAIS MC'S ARE BRAZIL'S PUBLIC ENEMY
SAYS SPIKE LEE
1775
01:36:42,922 --> 01:36:44,965
I wasn't thinking about a yacht. No.
1776
01:36:46,008 --> 01:36:47,301
I was just thinking about
1777
01:36:47,384 --> 01:36:50,137
really white sneakers
and really blue jeans.
1778
01:36:50,888 --> 01:36:52,598
That was this thug's dream.
1779
01:36:53,098 --> 01:36:57,770
I thought, "Damn!
White sneakers and really blue jeans."
1780
01:36:58,604 --> 01:37:02,983
"And, as soon as I get some money,
I'll spend it all on cookies and pudding,
1781
01:37:03,067 --> 01:37:04,401
and eat until I'm sick."
1782
01:37:11,784 --> 01:37:15,204
[Edi Rock] I look back while I'm singing,
and I see Kleber up there.
1783
01:37:17,039 --> 01:37:20,626
That fucking amazing stage,
that enormous table,
1784
01:37:20,709 --> 01:37:24,129
and he's still scratching like he did
when we used to rehearse at…
1785
01:37:25,798 --> 01:37:26,966
Ah, fuck.
1786
01:37:29,301 --> 01:37:30,803
[sniffles]
1787
01:37:31,303 --> 01:37:33,973
It's moving. It's fucking heavy.
1788
01:37:34,056 --> 01:37:36,350
[crowd cheering]
1789
01:37:45,568 --> 01:37:48,279
-[Ice Blue] …set up the stage to sing!?
-[Edi Rock] No, that was in…
1790
01:37:48,362 --> 01:37:49,613
When I almost died?
1791
01:37:49,697 --> 01:37:50,865
[both chuckle]
1792
01:37:50,948 --> 01:37:51,824
[Mano Brown] Remember?
1793
01:37:51,907 --> 01:37:55,661
Milton scheduled us at 6:00 a.m.
in Taboão to load the truck.
1794
01:37:56,412 --> 01:37:59,373
[Edi Rock] I remember that.
Wasn't he angry as fuck?
1795
01:37:59,456 --> 01:38:00,916
At 6:00 a.m.
1796
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,002
-[Edi Rock] "You're artists?"
-[KL Jay] He showed up…
1797
01:38:03,085 --> 01:38:05,212
-[Mano Brown] He arrived at 12:00 p.m.
-[chuckles]
1798
01:38:05,296 --> 01:38:07,006
The owner of the venue was happy.
1799
01:38:07,506 --> 01:38:10,759
He placed a guitar on the floor
and said, "See this guitar?"
1800
01:38:10,843 --> 01:38:12,845
"I like this guitar
more than I like my wife."
1801
01:38:15,472 --> 01:38:18,893
"This was a '66 guitar,
from festivals and stuff."
1802
01:38:18,976 --> 01:38:20,561
It was really fucking awesome.
1803
01:38:20,644 --> 01:38:23,939
The guitar was laying on the floor,
and we were just admiring it.
1804
01:38:27,067 --> 01:38:29,904
Man, I was so angry.
There were so many boxes.
1805
01:38:29,987 --> 01:38:31,864
I remember
I had to unload a bunch of them.
1806
01:38:31,947 --> 01:38:34,074
[Mano Brown] There was a horn
on top of a box.
1807
01:38:34,158 --> 01:38:35,910
It slipped,
and he couldn't catch it in time.
1808
01:38:35,993 --> 01:38:38,203
-[both chuckling]
-Guess where the horn fell.
1809
01:38:39,204 --> 01:38:42,583
-The guitar! Bam!
-[Mano Brown] On the guitar, bro!
1810
01:38:43,876 --> 01:38:48,213
The box fell on his head, so I was like,
"Blue! Blue! Are you all right?"
1811
01:38:48,297 --> 01:38:50,925
And the guy was like,
"Fuck him! My guitar!"
1812
01:38:51,008 --> 01:38:54,053
It tore off the butt of the guitar
You know? The curvy part.
1813
01:38:54,678 --> 01:38:56,096
[Ice Blue chuckles] Man…
1814
01:38:57,222 --> 01:38:59,141
He said, "What was that?!"
1815
01:38:59,224 --> 01:39:00,935
He looked at the guitar and went,
1816
01:39:01,018 --> 01:39:02,436
"What the hell did you do?"
1817
01:39:03,020 --> 01:39:05,606
[all laughing]
1818
01:39:07,900 --> 01:39:10,027
[laughing] "You imbeciles!"
1819
01:39:13,197 --> 01:39:15,199
[KL Jay] "Imbeciles" isn't enough…
1820
01:39:17,284 --> 01:39:18,827
[Ice Blue] Thirty-one years later.
1821
01:39:24,792 --> 01:39:27,461
[Edi Rock] It's a different moment,
but I'll always be here.
1822
01:39:27,544 --> 01:39:28,671
My roots are here.
1823
01:39:28,754 --> 01:39:31,173
This is a nice moment
to be with the family.
1824
01:39:31,256 --> 01:39:32,383
It's my roots, man.
1825
01:39:34,259 --> 01:39:35,844
The simplest things, you know?
1826
01:39:36,345 --> 01:39:38,430
That's where the true value is.
1827
01:39:38,514 --> 01:39:41,392
Somebody you love
and who loves you by your side.
1828
01:39:42,518 --> 01:39:45,521
[singing Candomblé chant]
1829
01:39:58,409 --> 01:40:02,579
[Edi Rock] It makes you look at yourself,
at life, at the past…
1830
01:40:03,122 --> 01:40:05,124
[Mano Brown] A connection with myself
from way back.
1831
01:40:05,207 --> 01:40:08,752
As if I was waking up
in my house in the hood, back in '87.
1832
01:40:09,503 --> 01:40:13,841
If I could go back and see myself now,
I won't understand who those guys are.
1833
01:40:15,968 --> 01:40:16,802
D major.
1834
01:40:16,885 --> 01:40:20,764
♪ When the rooster crows
Announcing a new day ♪
1835
01:40:20,848 --> 01:40:25,769
♪ Bless us, Our Lady of the Rosary
Pray for our joy ♪
1836
01:40:25,853 --> 01:40:30,190
♪ Bless us, Our Lady of the Rosary
Pray for our joy ♪
1837
01:40:30,274 --> 01:40:31,275
♪ Let me tell you! ♪
1838
01:40:32,026 --> 01:40:36,321
♪ Forgive me if I have asked for your help
With our Father too many times ♪
1839
01:40:36,822 --> 01:40:41,326
♪ May the blood of my brothers
Never again stain the earth ♪
1840
01:40:41,410 --> 01:40:45,831
♪ May the cry that once called for war
Become a chorus for peace ♪
1841
01:40:45,914 --> 01:40:49,668
♪ Flowers bloom even in the dump
As Racionais once sang ♪
1842
01:40:49,752 --> 01:40:50,794
♪ Racionais ♪
1843
01:40:50,878 --> 01:40:55,174
♪ May the cry that once called for war
Become a chorus for peace ♪
1844
01:40:55,257 --> 01:40:56,091
[Edi Rock] Yeah!
1845
01:40:56,175 --> 01:40:58,844
♪ Flowers bloom even in the dump
As Racionais once sang ♪
1846
01:40:58,927 --> 01:40:59,762
♪ When the rooster… ♪
1847
01:40:59,845 --> 01:41:02,473
♪ When the rooster crows
Announcing a new day ♪
1848
01:41:03,557 --> 01:41:06,810
[Mano Brown] A lot of our upbringing
came from them, from their family.
1849
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:09,104
Our discipline and our outlook on life.
1850
01:41:10,981 --> 01:41:14,276
[Ice Blue] The stage was always full
because everybody was there.
1851
01:41:14,359 --> 01:41:15,819
Our cousins were always with us.
1852
01:41:15,903 --> 01:41:18,822
You know that line,
"I do my own security myself"?
1853
01:41:18,906 --> 01:41:21,200
That's the deal. Only us.
1854
01:41:21,283 --> 01:41:23,911
[drums play steady rhythm]
1855
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:29,166
[Ice Blue] And throughout these 30 years
of Racionais,
1856
01:41:29,249 --> 01:41:31,960
being alive is impressive in itself.
1857
01:41:32,044 --> 01:41:33,879
All four of us? Being alive?
1858
01:41:34,713 --> 01:41:35,923
Impressive.
1859
01:41:36,006 --> 01:41:37,341
'Cause it was hard.
1860
01:41:40,761 --> 01:41:42,679
A lot of protection, a lot of prayer.
1861
01:41:42,763 --> 01:41:45,974
a lot of blessings,
my Orishas looking out for me.
1862
01:41:47,059 --> 01:41:48,852
[women's choir vocalizing]
1863
01:41:48,936 --> 01:41:52,481
If we stopped to think about the dangers,
we wouldn't have moved.
1864
01:41:52,981 --> 01:41:55,359
Because danger has always been present.
1865
01:41:55,442 --> 01:41:57,444
Before, during, and after.
1866
01:41:58,612 --> 01:42:00,697
[reporter 1] A store owned by
a traditional brand
1867
01:42:00,781 --> 01:42:03,784
was accused of racism
by a Black customer in Salvador.
1868
01:42:03,867 --> 01:42:06,203
[reporter 2] The parents of a young girl
claim their daughter
1869
01:42:06,286 --> 01:42:08,080
was a victim of racism.
1870
01:42:08,163 --> 01:42:11,625
The naval officer was arrested
after shooting a neighbor to death.
1871
01:42:11,708 --> 01:42:14,378
He claims to have mistaken him
for a robber.
1872
01:42:14,461 --> 01:42:16,004
The victim was Black.
1873
01:42:16,088 --> 01:42:17,840
The ten-year-old boy was murdered by…
1874
01:42:17,923 --> 01:42:21,593
[reporter 3] Five young men were killed
by military police officers,
1875
01:42:21,677 --> 01:42:26,515
with no less than 111 bullets
shot at a young man's car.
1876
01:42:26,598 --> 01:42:30,936
[woman] It's unacceptable that every
23 minutes a young Black man is murdered.
1877
01:42:31,019 --> 01:42:35,232
It's unacceptable that every 23 minutes
a Black woman will stand by a grave,
1878
01:42:35,315 --> 01:42:36,733
burying her Black son.
1879
01:42:38,777 --> 01:42:40,988
[KL Jay] Black people are
in enemy territory.
1880
01:42:41,071 --> 01:42:42,573
I can see my children getting killed,
1881
01:42:42,656 --> 01:42:46,034
And I'm transported back
to the Brazil of 500 years ago.
1882
01:42:49,496 --> 01:42:52,666
[Mano Brown] At these times, people look
for a leader. "Racism? I got it!"
1883
01:42:52,749 --> 01:42:53,917
But that's not it.
1884
01:42:54,918 --> 01:42:56,587
It's not just about Black people.
1885
01:42:56,670 --> 01:42:59,089
Racism is wrong. Injustice is wrong.
1886
01:42:59,173 --> 01:43:00,215
You gotta complain.
1887
01:43:00,299 --> 01:43:02,843
If you're white and you see
a Black person in danger,
1888
01:43:02,926 --> 01:43:04,344
you take that bullet too.
1889
01:43:04,428 --> 01:43:06,513
We're in enemy territory.
1890
01:43:09,057 --> 01:43:09,933
You know?
1891
01:43:12,728 --> 01:43:15,355
In Haiti, the Black population
took over by force.
1892
01:43:16,356 --> 01:43:18,817
Slave labor landed there
and became the majority.
1893
01:43:20,277 --> 01:43:24,072
And the fear of a Black majority
taking over arrived in Brazil too.
1894
01:43:25,157 --> 01:43:28,785
[reporter 1] Councilwoman Marielle Franco
has died in Rio de Janeiro.
1895
01:43:28,869 --> 01:43:32,414
She was murdered on Wednesday evening,
when her car was shot.
1896
01:43:33,498 --> 01:43:36,001
They're afraid. Afraid of a Black planet.
1897
01:43:38,921 --> 01:43:41,798
The rise of Black people
in society is tough, bro.
1898
01:43:41,882 --> 01:43:43,592
The higher the rung, the bigger the enemy.
1899
01:43:44,343 --> 01:43:46,136
They don't get any less powerful.
1900
01:43:46,220 --> 01:43:49,306
The more power you gain,
the more powerful your foes.
1901
01:43:49,389 --> 01:43:52,517
[chanting] There's no rest!
The government is killing Black women!
1902
01:43:52,601 --> 01:43:54,519
They're killing our children!
1903
01:43:55,646 --> 01:43:58,982
We can't take it anymore. Enough!
1904
01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:00,692
Enough racism!
1905
01:44:00,776 --> 01:44:02,277
Enough murder!
1906
01:44:02,361 --> 01:44:04,112
Enough racism!
1907
01:44:04,196 --> 01:44:06,031
BLACK MOTHERS
CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE TEARS
1908
01:44:06,114 --> 01:44:07,991
STOP KILLING US
THE FAVELAS RESIST!
1909
01:44:08,075 --> 01:44:10,744
[Edi Rock] We haven't seen
a political force for Black people,
1910
01:44:10,827 --> 01:44:13,163
for the majority, in a long time.
1911
01:44:13,664 --> 01:44:16,458
They tried to silence us,
but we got bigger.
1912
01:44:22,881 --> 01:44:24,883
Stupid racists, leave us alone!
1913
01:44:24,967 --> 01:44:26,843
Stupid racists, leave us alone!
1914
01:44:26,927 --> 01:44:29,596
Stupid racists, leave us alone!
1915
01:44:31,431 --> 01:44:33,976
This genocide is happening
out there in the open.
1916
01:44:34,059 --> 01:44:35,269
But things are gonna change.
1917
01:44:35,352 --> 01:44:37,688
They're gonna change.
It's gonna change, bro.
1918
01:44:38,981 --> 01:44:40,607
ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER
1919
01:44:41,525 --> 01:44:43,777
Survival is daily. The fight is constant.
1920
01:44:44,278 --> 01:44:45,362
There's no rest.
1921
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:49,491
[breathes deeply]
1922
01:44:51,368 --> 01:44:56,039
Racionais didn't invent the cause.
The cause is much greater than Racionais.
1923
01:44:56,123 --> 01:44:59,459
And many people came before us
hitting the same key.
1924
01:44:59,543 --> 01:45:01,545
Without fanfare or an album cover
1925
01:45:01,628 --> 01:45:04,047
or a music video,
but the fight is the same.
1926
01:45:07,384 --> 01:45:08,885
In the '70s, when I was born,
1927
01:45:08,969 --> 01:45:11,972
Black people were doing
the rituals from the '70s, you know?
1928
01:45:13,390 --> 01:45:16,101
With the hair, clothes,
and the struggle at that time.
1929
01:45:16,643 --> 01:45:18,812
With the body movement of that time.
1930
01:45:18,895 --> 01:45:20,188
And it's happening again.
1931
01:45:20,772 --> 01:45:24,359
With the new aesthetics, a new ritual…
1932
01:45:26,403 --> 01:45:27,404
a new worship.
1933
01:45:30,866 --> 01:45:33,910
If you don't think the Palmeiras stadium
filling up with 15,000
1934
01:45:33,994 --> 01:45:37,456
waiting for James Brown
to go on, singing, is an act of worship…
1935
01:45:37,539 --> 01:45:38,790
It is an act of worship.
1936
01:45:41,460 --> 01:45:43,754
[ominous chord plays]
1937
01:45:43,837 --> 01:45:44,755
It's spiritual.
1938
01:45:46,214 --> 01:45:48,425
[crowd chattering]
1939
01:45:49,343 --> 01:45:51,345
[whistling and cheering]
1940
01:45:58,143 --> 01:46:02,522
[Edi Rock] We sing freedom, right?
And it speaks for itself, in all corners.
1941
01:46:03,023 --> 01:46:06,443
It comes from Africa, and it's very rich.
1942
01:46:06,526 --> 01:46:09,488
[cheering]
1943
01:46:18,497 --> 01:46:20,832
Black music is very spiritual by itself.
1944
01:46:22,834 --> 01:46:25,045
That's what Racionais has always been.
1945
01:46:25,128 --> 01:46:27,923
We didn't know it at the time,
because we were 19.
1946
01:46:30,634 --> 01:46:33,136
We're 50 now,
with a different perspective.
1947
01:46:33,220 --> 01:46:34,096
[cheering intensifies]
1948
01:46:34,179 --> 01:46:35,305
And more power.
1949
01:46:38,475 --> 01:46:40,644
[cheering grows louder]
1950
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:44,481
[performing "Negro Drama"]
1951
01:46:49,236 --> 01:46:50,153
[Edi Rock] Cheers!
1952
01:46:51,613 --> 01:46:53,990
[Ice Blue] C'mon! C'mon! C'mon!
1953
01:46:54,074 --> 01:46:57,160
♪ Black Drama
Between the success and the mud ♪
1954
01:46:57,244 --> 01:47:01,206
♪ Money, trouble, envy, luxury, fame
Black Drama ♪
1955
01:47:01,289 --> 01:47:04,292
♪ Frizzy hair, dark skin
Wounds, and brands ♪
1956
01:47:04,376 --> 01:47:06,336
♪ Looking for a cure ♪
1957
01:47:06,420 --> 01:47:09,256
♪ Black Drama
Tries to see and sees nothing ♪
1958
01:47:09,339 --> 01:47:12,717
♪ Except for a fading star
In the distance ♪
1959
01:47:12,801 --> 01:47:15,303
♪ Feel the drama
In the price and the charges ♪
1960
01:47:15,387 --> 01:47:18,140
♪ In love, in hatred
In the misguided vengeance ♪
1961
01:47:18,223 --> 01:47:21,268
♪ Black Drama
I know who's scheming and who's with me ♪
1962
01:47:21,351 --> 01:47:24,688
♪ The burden that I bear
To be more than a fuck-up ♪
1963
01:47:24,771 --> 01:47:27,524
♪ The drama of jail and favelas ♪
1964
01:47:27,607 --> 01:47:30,527
♪ Graves and blood, sirens
Cries and candlelight ♪
1965
01:47:30,610 --> 01:47:33,905
♪ A passenger from Brazil
São Paulo, the agony ♪
1966
01:47:33,989 --> 01:47:36,741
♪ Surviving through honor and cowardice ♪
1967
01:47:36,825 --> 01:47:39,119
♪ Hoods, alleys, and hovels ♪
1968
01:47:39,202 --> 01:47:42,622
♪ You must be thinking
What this has to do with you ♪
1969
01:47:42,706 --> 01:47:45,750
AGAINST THE GENOCIDE OF BLACK PEOPLE
MOURNING - RACISM KILLS
1970
01:47:46,334 --> 01:47:50,338
[Mano Brown] The feeling that made me
fight in rap and in Racionais was rage.
1971
01:47:50,922 --> 01:47:53,842
It wasn't joy, comfort,
and a full stomach.
1972
01:47:54,342 --> 01:47:55,343
Quite the opposite,
1973
01:47:55,427 --> 01:47:57,888
It was an empty stomach, hatred, ambition.
1974
01:48:01,308 --> 01:48:05,687
[Mano Brown]
♪ Crime, soccer, music… Damn ♪
1975
01:48:06,188 --> 01:48:09,524
♪ I also couldn't escape it
I'm just another man ♪
1976
01:48:10,150 --> 01:48:13,820
♪ Forrest Gump is a fairy tale
I'd rather tell a real story ♪
1977
01:48:15,697 --> 01:48:16,865
♪ I'll tell my own ♪
1978
01:48:17,365 --> 01:48:19,367
♪ Look, it'd be a good movie ♪
1979
01:48:19,451 --> 01:48:22,078
♪ A Black mother
with her son in her arms ♪
1980
01:48:22,162 --> 01:48:24,956
♪ Alone in a forest
Of steel and concrete ♪
1981
01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:27,667
♪ Look and look again
At the face in the crowd ♪
1982
01:48:27,751 --> 01:48:31,171
♪ The crowd is a monster
Without a face or a heart ♪
1983
01:48:31,254 --> 01:48:34,132
♪ Hey São Paulo, land of skyscrapers ♪
1984
01:48:34,216 --> 01:48:37,135
♪ The drizzle rips the flesh
It's the tower of Babel ♪
1985
01:48:37,219 --> 01:48:40,180
♪ Brazilian family
Two against the world ♪
1986
01:48:40,263 --> 01:48:43,266
♪ A single mother to a promising bum ♪
1987
01:48:43,350 --> 01:48:46,144
♪ Lights, camera, action
And recording, the scene goes ♪
1988
01:48:46,228 --> 01:48:49,314
♪ The bastard
Another fatherless brown boy ♪
1989
01:48:49,397 --> 01:48:52,108
♪ Hey, slave lord, I know who you are ♪
1990
01:48:52,192 --> 01:48:55,111
♪ You can't hack it alone
You can't hack it on your feet ♪
1991
01:48:55,195 --> 01:48:57,948
♪ You said it was good
And the hood echoed back ♪
1992
01:48:58,031 --> 01:49:00,575
♪ We also have whiskey, Red Bull
Nike, and assault rifles ♪
1993
01:49:00,659 --> 01:49:02,994
♪ I admit it, your cars are nice ♪
1994
01:49:03,078 --> 01:49:06,206
♪ And I can't make the Internet
Or cassettes ♪
1995
01:49:06,289 --> 01:49:08,959
♪ Or the sick cars
I might be a little late ♪
1996
01:49:09,042 --> 01:49:10,961
♪ I think I am ♪
1997
01:49:11,044 --> 01:49:12,921
♪ But your game is rigged
And I can't fit in ♪
1998
01:49:13,004 --> 01:49:15,674
♪ I'm a lot of trouble
From Carnaval to Carnaval ♪
1999
01:49:15,757 --> 01:49:19,261
♪ I'm from the jungle
I'm a lion in your backyard ♪
2000
01:49:19,344 --> 01:49:23,431
[muted beat continues and fades out]
2001
01:49:25,267 --> 01:49:27,394
[violin plays melancholy solo]
2002
01:49:31,523 --> 01:49:35,277
[Mano Brown] You're already a survivor
of a massacre, a genocide, bro.
2003
01:49:35,902 --> 01:49:37,904
The strongest survivor of the genocide,
2004
01:49:37,988 --> 01:49:40,365
who suffered the botched
transatlantic transplant,
2005
01:49:40,448 --> 01:49:42,075
who didn't become shark food.
2006
01:49:43,702 --> 01:49:46,413
Your ancestors were fucking strong.
2007
01:49:48,790 --> 01:49:49,749
You can't buy that.
2008
01:49:49,833 --> 01:49:51,835
[beat resumes]
2009
01:49:52,877 --> 01:49:54,045
[woman vocalizing]
2010
01:49:54,129 --> 01:49:57,507
Alone, we're weak.
Together, we're powerful.
2011
01:50:05,265 --> 01:50:07,726
Today, I'm more in love with music.
2012
01:50:08,226 --> 01:50:11,313
I love my race first and foremost,
and I make music for them.
2013
01:50:11,896 --> 01:50:13,732
That's my way of doing politics.
2014
01:50:16,651 --> 01:50:19,571
Because the revolution is in need…
of a heart.
2015
01:50:24,659 --> 01:50:26,661
[rapping in Portuguese]
2016
01:50:49,476 --> 01:50:51,478
[song fades out]
2017
01:50:51,561 --> 01:50:53,647
["Vida Loka, Pt. 2" plays]
2018
01:52:26,656 --> 01:52:33,413
[no audible dialogue]
2019
01:55:25,543 --> 01:55:28,212
[spectators cheering]
2020
01:56:12,215 --> 01:56:15,635
[song fades out]