RAP, MUSIC AND THE VOICE OF SOCIAL EMANCIPATION

Hip-hop on the scene,

Abstract

This article reflects on hip-hop movements, more precisely rap music in the voice of the Angolan rapper, jurist and philosopher MCK, as a discursive tool of resistance, emancipation and awakening of conscience by giving voice and protagonism to groups. socially excluded because they belong to the margins of society and linked to the world of crime, drugs and prostitution. Based on the compositions of rapper MCK, we seek to describe the master of ceremonies - emceein/MC as the spokesperson for his community by defending a clear point of view, is aware of his political role and fights for the right to narrate the collective history in name and, by acting as an important voice of emancipation, of awakening consciousness and resistance. To discuss ways of thinking about social emancipation in rap and the voice of Angolan rapper MCK, we start from the assumption that music, in addition to entertaining, also serves to educate, re-educate, socialize and awaken the consciousness of the population and that rap is device that mobilizes discourses of emancipation and resistance that characterize and encourage the fight against social segregation, racism, machismo, social violence, sexism, social inequality, among other prejudiced and discriminatory forms that people who are involved in crime, in crime, prostitution, gang fights have been victims of society.