Hold on, let's get down the sierra
It's right there, Cidade Aracy
My place, where I was born and grown
And learned how to live
Learned that respect is a law, and need to have it to keep up
Learned how to subsist, to do the right things
Just don't mistake humility with naivety
Looking through the window, everything remains pretty
Piped water, asphalt, we're evolving
Dirt road, when it was raining, was complicated
No problems, plastic bags on the feet always helped
Now everything is paved, until Campão
No kidding, there's no place better than Aracy
Returning from school, singing rap in the bus
Consciousness, just for the record: me, Alan, Little Cleber and Ribamar
Always with the purity of a girl, but malice in the look
And the time goes by, I know everything will pass
I saw better lovers and friends moving away
I have always been touched by the simple things
Several ideas trafficked on the corner of 20th Street
It's right there, where I always say goodbye but come back thereafter
It's right there, my beloved neighborhood
And it's right here, where my Beats Per Minute increases Every step is a flash memory reflected in my retina
My name is Carlos, I'm also known as Karluz Magum
I'm 32 and I'm in inside the Hip-Hop culture since I was 12 years, 11, 12 years old
I've started knowing Hip-Hop through older cousins of mine, who already listen to rap at that time
I started to like it because I was attracted by break Those people who dance
I found it very cool, I tried to dance but didn't had enough coordination to learn it
Then I ended up discovering myself at writing, rhyming Since then I've been trying to rap
While I was talking about light, life and love
You laughed on my back, Cain, betrayer
While I was talking about overcoming
You were conspiring, asshole
In my face you call me brother In my back gives me condemnation
My name is Sara, Sara da Silva Oliveira
But how the last name is from my father, and I barely speak to him I decided to use Donato because it's my mother's last name
I'm 25, I rap since I was 14 years old I've always liked rap, my brother used to rap, to like rap
So I was always have been involved
From that I started to know the elements of Hip-Hop
I knew break before I knew rap, but I didnt't make a connection that both were from the same culture, from the Hip-Hop movement
Then, after rap I begin to realize what the Hip-Hop movement was about, what it covered
And I started to like rap even more and realized that I wanted this for my life
Each one in your actions, religions and options
I feel that I was born to transform
I rap to modificate and I know it's not easy
But my part I know I do
It's not enough exact, but we are recognized by our acts
Yes, I've thinked about giving up To rap or be a Jequiti's seller (brand of cosmetics)?
I never had vocation to be a seller neither to sell myself to a TV station
See, here I see a scene that...
In fact, there's always been women in Hip-Hop Here in São Carlos too
Actually, I believe that they have always been disdained
Not just here in São Carlos, but on the Hip-Hop in general In mundial Hip-Hop
Here in São Carlos, years ago, there was me and two girls rapping
The girls were rapping too, there was once 4 girls in a rap battle
From 8 people in a rap battle, having 4 of them women Is a huge number
And nowadays there's a girl who battles, which is Lara But there are others girls beggining
Girls that really likes rap, girls who despite not being on the stages they are writing and getting stronger to be on the stage
And that's a thing we're working out I've been talking about it with the girls, because that's the idea
To get stronger, and every time see even more women inside the Hip-Hop scene
I think that the Hip-Hop's scene in São Carlos is one of the strongest scenes in the interior of São Paulo state
I think that even in the whole Brazil São Carlos is known as a very strong scene
There's a lots of hip hoppers here, of the 4 elements
There's at least around 10 good graffiters
Around 30 good B-boys
Around 50 good MC's
At least 10 good beatmakers and more 6 good DJ's, you know?
Put it, Vinicius, 40 seconds to Natan
So here I come, with a conscient rap
Looks like you still sucks, like before
I got into your mind, you didn't retaliate
Looks like you rhyme, but isn't conscient
So try to get me, understand it
I enter into your mind and now you think you're good and breaks your teeth
You fall flat, your chin hits floor, you're over
I finish, you won't win even if you born again, my ally
You must be burbling or have been burbled, so I left you behind
I prefer to battle someone with a highest level
The thing is insane, in the rap I sweat
I wanna be the worst, fuck this order
Because in your head I've already made a disorder
We have been through a hard time here last year, 2015
And now we're working again, it's ant work, it's base work
We have to keep calling people, talking, adding, you know? It's hard
And then last year Issa came talk to me
She said "Sara, we have to do something together, we are always together in the same events, we think similar"
Then we started to write together, and now we have this new work and it's me and her, which it's a duo, right?
It's called Rap Plus Size
Actually, it came from the idea that we wanted shock The idea is to shock the people
And that's a name which shocks, why Plus Size?
People always ask Some people doesn't know what it means (Plus Size)
Then we say that it's fat women rap To show we can do what ever we want
Because even inside the rap there's a woman pattern
To reach this pattern you have to be thin, caucasian and there it goes
The blood test detected that I have rap in my veins
The glucose is high because the veins are filled with love for rap
Talking about measure my thickness, they want to measure my waist
If it's thick, please, idiot, don't get schoked
Running on the running machine Searching for the false perfect pattern
Runs to buy miracle products with immediate effects
Herbalife, Green Tea, lock your mouth, don't eat
No talking, reacting, you have no right to choose
Wanted to teach me how to obey, but I was never a good student
Wants to hide prejudgement worried with my spine
"Sara, it's the health, lose your weight, get thin! Mold yourself, cut yourself, make plastic surgery and get crazy!"
I don't want your tips neither your static theories
I prefer the pratice, just respect it's enough to me
I don't accept your tendecies, it's all forged beauty
I recommend you a diet, keep your mouth shut!
The body is mine, don't like it? Your problem
I don't need your approvement
There's a lot of male-chauvinism in the Hip-Hop
I'm from a time when the girls used to dress themselves like me to go to the rap events
I thought that the girl was a boy, young, no beard Then you would realize that it was a girl
And it was complicated for the girls to come Now the girls come to the events dressed how they want
With shorts, womanly, how they want to
And they have voice inside the culture because a lot of girls started to stand up
They showed to the guys that they were male-chauvinists
That it's no use to fight against a oppression if you are a opressor too
In most rap battles, guys will appeal
We talk a lot about it, when someone calls me fat in the rap battle I know I'll win
Because I already have a answer to that, you know? I lived this during my whole life
So ain't gonna be a dude in a rap battle that will say this to me like it's gonna put me down
Like it's gonna offend me, because it won't, that's what I am So, whatever
So hear it, I come innovating
Because here you won't get anything, you're a fan of scoundrels
Don't come to my troop, or just disturb
The thing is insane, we dispute in the race, you go down rolling
Just suspicious ones come around here, my friend
It's this way that I come improvising, mocking this girl
She comes from São Paulo, but here doesn't get anything
The thing is insane, I don't know, it's so tense I keep rhyming here with a gas canister
The thing is insane, that's the way it is, now I'm going to say
Go back to your neighborhood, you don't have what it takes
To represent São Carlos - SP
So hear it, man, what I say here offhand
That you fall to the ground, and no one will give you a hand because no one's a crane, you know
Everytime the guys battle a woman they will talk about the stereotypes
About the beauty thing, I don't know, about the clothes, the hair
Because they think it matters to us
And we're already used to that, me, at least, me and Issa We are trained to deal with this
If someone calls us fat in the rap battle I already say "Hm, dude, you're going to lose"
Hey, hear it, here you ain't no doctor
I will come rolling down like a steamroller
Because you know that we fall down and stands up
What I'm good at is improvisation, you won't get a chance
Because I don't bother about you
You know that your dick I lift with a tweezer!
Won't delude me, and Little Carlos come saying that you're a good MC
But, excuse me, I'm really not a fan of scoundrels Because I'm not a fan of this poison person in front of me!
Hey, excuse me, asshole, I'm a fan of the best ones, so pay attention
What's real rap, I'm fan of my friends of São Carlos, Sara Donato!
Murder in the battle, that's the way it has to be, blood, no massage
But we see a lot of this in rap battles And the idea of doing a female rap battle is this
Strengthen the girls by battling with each other Where they have more liberty
And have more intimacy To strengthen them to battle any other person anywhere
The girls have made a lot of things
Now they are more organized than us, inside the Hip-Hop culture
They have much more voice, they are more united
Because we are men, we have the habit of compete between us
Because it's in the nature of the men compete and kill each other So the girls broke this habit
They united with the idea of making a different Hip-Hop and thanks to their fight a lot of things are changing
The House of Hip-Hop, dude...
It was one of the craziest and productive experiences of my life I think that of the life from the hundred people who participated
As the Hip-Hop being the leading figure It was us, from the Hip-Hop scene, which were the leading figures
And I was the president and Sara was the president too It wasn't only me. It was me and Sara
I was in charged of the press things Standing up against the government, articulating
Because when I want to I can talk a cult portuguese
And Sara used to make the internal articulation of the House because she commanded, she is bossy and everybody obeys her
Wow, the House of Hip-Hop was one of the best things that ever happened in my life
Because I always have been from the Hip-Hop culture Since I see me as a person, and we had a dream
Other persons, even before me
They had this dream, but they used to let it go because of other things Everyone has his own life, and stuff like that
The first time that we thought about it and went there in the House Which wasn't at the time we occupied, we went there before
A year earlier, we were in a square, drinking wine
And then the boys said "There's a house, a place that's abandoned and it's going to be the House of Hip-Hop"
So we said "Oh, let's go there" It was me, Cris, Helen, Magum, and Jhow, I guess
We got into the car and went there
When we got there, we saw the building We got inside and saw how it was
And we said "Wow, it would be amazing if we could build a House of Hip-Hop here"
So we started to articulate ourselves and after a year we occupied there in fact
We occupied the House of Hip-Hop de São Carlos Where now was inaugurated the Center of Reference of Elder
The building had been abandoned for ten years
The building was a drug use place Many people were there to use/sell drugs, it was a prostitution point
It was one block away from Getulio Vargas Avenue here in São Carlos Who knows São Carlos knows that this is a Avenue of prostitution points
And the building was used as a motel for this So we entered, occupied, cleaned everything
I'll even talk: we cleaned shit, cleaned used condoms We took all the garbage away from there, we transformed the place
With no money at all, with nothing
But the House of Hip-Hop, when we arrived there we had to work with everything
It was a real occupation, the building had been completely abandoned More than eleven years abandoned, I'm not sure
And then we had to revitalize the space The building had no door, no window, and it was...
It was almost this time of the year April, it was really cold, really really cold
So we had to deal with all these things Like stand there and sleep on the floor, with that cold
Did you sleep there everyday?
Yes, everyday we slept there, it was a occupation and we stayed there for all these months we occupied
We occupied during about 3 months, to be honest 82 days Almost 3 months, working with the Hip-Hop culture
We used to have workshops there, of the 4 elements And all our partners used to offer workshops too
Fora do Eixo used to offer workshops Levante used to offer workshops (both are collectives)
The crew of Pé de Macaco (collective) were there They used to record everything for us
The first video to show the people that we were there occupating was made by Pé de Macaco
It was insane because the kids from the neighborhood started to come Kids are curious, they are the first to arrive
"What are you doing there?" Then they came to see what we were doing, they saw it was cool
So they wanted to keep with us and they kept with us and called their friends
When you see it, there were 100 kids in the place And we used to all eat together, we used to cook for 50 kids everyday
For us to eat and for the kids to eat too And then you ask: "How? With no money?"
Donation, dude. We asked for donation and people donated to us
It was really important because our idea was to have a place for the Hip-Hop culture in São Carlos
And we went beyond that, right? Beyond the Hip-Hop culture We ended reaching a lots of kids
So we realized that we had to change the way we used to approach some topics
Then we really sat and thought about a metodology to work with these kids and the Hip-Hop culture
We started to work with the kids because they were most of the people who used to go to the workshops
We had workshops everyday Graffiti workshops, breakdance workshops, MC's workshops...
And the most of people who used to go were kids. Most of them
It's really nice because we see that it has improved
During the time we stayed there the neighborhood realized this
They helped us, we received a lot of donations from the neighborhood
So we worked with the Hip-Hop culture and went beyond that
There was even Popular Classes (free classes) inside the House of Hip-Hop of São Carlos
So it was a thing that was really important to me
Not just for me, but for everyone who participated the House of Hip-Hop of São Carlos
But the ending of it was a little bit melancholic
The Town Hall started to fatigue us They said that they would desocupy the building, but didn't come
Then we received a Repossession Warrant We tried to appeal, but it didn't work
At the same time, I was charged by a Criminal Process because I signed my name for the occupation of the House
I was charged by a Criminal Process for Robbery Possession
My lawyer said to me "You're being charged by Robbery Possession."
I said "What the hell is this?" He said "He (the Mayor) is saying that you stoled the building to yourself"
So I said "You're crazy, you're seeing what's going on here." "He is charging you, he want's to process you."
But that's a Criminal Process I could stay for two years in jail because of it
Because I helped a district! But how?! And so it is
Well, first, welcome everyone to the House of Hip-Hop of São Carlos
We just saw the Military Police and the Municipal Guard
They came with an Order from the Secretary of Citizenship and Social Care to take us off the place
They said the Bidding was ready and the construction company was ready to start to work
They want us to leave the place anyhow
We already sent our letter, filing our claims for the Town Hall The Town Hall didn't answer to us
We made our Order, such online as physical We already have about 1.500 signatures in that
We ask for everyone's help to come here, colaborate with us
The battle is resistance
The Hip-Hop culture never will be accept easily The street's culture will never be easily accept by the elites
So how we can't deal to the Town Hall of São Carlos We have to deal it in another way
To press them to give us the building, which was a local of drug use a prostitution point
And we transformed it into the House of Hip-Hop with a educational, social, cultural and citizenship work
Thank you a lot, man, come here to fortify us. Light!
The situation doesn't get's better for you But at the same time you know that you've done a good thing
You know that your project worked out and it helped a lot of people
And if it bothers the Public Power To the point of causing this political persecution against you
It's because you've made a thing that the Public Power doesn't have the capacity to do, with all the money from the Town Hall's budget
And you, with no budget at all, made it The House of Hip-Hop was exactly this here in São Carlos
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