"FROM BATUQUE TO PICK-UPS: Traditions, communities and discursive contingency of Racionais MC's".
Racionais MC's; traditions; racism; genocide; democracy.
This paper focuses on the production of the São Paulo rap group, Racionais MC's. We argue that the aesthetic-political supports present in their work are tributaries of the musical traditions and communities that make up the country and the artists themselves. To this end, we observe their productions from two places, mainly: the place of denunciation of racism, which announces poverty and criminalization as products of racial subalternity insistent in democracy; and the place of death and the dead. In this framework, we argue that the inputs handled by the artists in their discursive production, which made them a phenomenon of popular culture, are directly linked to the traditions and communities that cross through them, such as candomblé and the black women's movement. From this fact, we observe the contradictions, autonomies, and choices made by them, especially in the subaltern discourses referring to women that, as we have situated, ground their narrative and, at the same time, destabilize the radicality that adjectivizes them.