Rap rhythm from Rio de Janeiro's favelas causing a stir
Posted May 03, 2021 7:00 am
Trap de Cria artist Vitor Oliveira, known as "MC Piloto," right, reacts as Willian Santos "DJWillTrap" edits one of his tracks at his recording studio in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Oliveira has plowed all of his resources into transforming a tiny apartment into a recording studio and editing room, to which he returns to each night after driving his motorcycle taxi up and down one of Latin America's largest slums. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artists Ramon Silva, known as "Suav," from left, Brendon Oliveira "Trezenit," and Erison de Araujo "DeAra" perform with other artists and friends during the recording of a music video in the Parada de Lucas slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Trap de Cria has a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, and is comparable to U.S. gangsta rap in speaking to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods while depicting gang life. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artist Vitor Oliveira, known as "MC Piloto," second left, gathers on the rooftop of his home and recording studio with friends and other rappers in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Oliveira is churning out a new type of music, Trap de Cria, which roughly translates into Homegrown Trap, and planning a blitz of 18 original tracks, all accompanied by videos. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - Trap artist Marcos Borges, known as "MbNaVoz," holds an Airsoft gun during a livestream as he records a music video for the song "Se Tem Glock" in the Jardim Catarina community in Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, April 11, 2021. Most of these rappers aren't involved with Rio's so-called factions, or at least not directly. Their millions of YouTube viewers wouldn't know it from their videos flaunting these Airsoft guns and gold in working-class neighborhoods dominated by drug traffickers. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap artist Filipe Toledo, known as 'Lindinho 22,' poses for a photo with an Airsoft gun during the recording of a 'Trap de Cria' music video in the Jardim Catarina community in Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, April 11, 2021. 'Our weapon is our voice, our ammunition is our lyrics,' Toledo said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artists Marcos Borges, known as "MbNaVoz," from left, Wesley Souza "MC Branquinho," Fernando "Barbeirin" and Pablo "PBSant" ride motorcycles holding an Airsoft gun as they record a music video for the song "Se Tem Glock" in the Jardim Catarina community in Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, April 11, 2021. Trap de Cria, roughly translated into Homegrown Trap, recently stemmed from Atlanta-style trap in Rio's favelas and remains largely unknown outside them. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Director Diego Esteves and cameraman Wellington Maga work on the music video Deep Web by Trap de Cria artist "Thai Flow," at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Esteves, who has directed dozens of Homegrown Trap's music videos and other clips, argues that the blowback Homegrown Trap has started receiving is notable precisely because the sub-genre remains mostly underground. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artist Vitor Oliveira, known as "MC Piloto," stands at the entrance of his home and recording studio with Brendon Kelvin, in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Not 100 feet from his studio, cocaine and marijuana are sold by young men ambling about with semi-automatics. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artists Erison de Araujo, known and "DeAra," right, and Brendon Oliveira "Trezenit," listen to a song inside a recording studio in the Parada de Lucas slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Trap de Cria, roughly translated into Homegrown Trap, recently stemmed from Atlanta-style trap in Rio's favelas and remains largely unknown outside them. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Artist Filipe Toledo, known as 'Lindinho 22,' holds an Airsoft gun before the recording of a Trap de Cria music video in the Jardim Catarina community in Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, April 11, 2021. Last year, Rio's police launched an investigation into a video made by two rappers from Sao Gonçalo, a city in Rio's metro region, to determine how they obtained SUVs and whether real guns were used. The clip has been viewed 4 million times. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Homes are illuminated at dusk in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Gangs control many of Rio's hundreds of favelas like Rocinha that are home to 1.7 million people, or about 14% of the metropolitan region's population, according to the 2010 census. Services are usually precarious and chances for social advancement limited. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Producer Cassiandra Azevedo, right, directs Trap de Cria artist Thaina Denicia Silva, known as "Thai Flow" during the recording of her music video Deep Web, at a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. 'No one wants to hear kids are dying, young people are dying, that they didn't give us opportunities,' said the 23-year-old Silva, a former stripper. 'We don't want to talk about it, but we don't have any other option.' (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artist Thaina Denicia, known as "Thai Flow," performs during the recording of her music video Deep Web in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Silva doesn't feature guns in her videos, nor judge those who do; her father was a trafficker and she grew up with crime inside her home. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap artist Denilson, known as "TB" holds an Airsoft gun a he stands behind Wesley Souza "MC Branquinho" during the recording of a Trap de Cria music video in the Jardim Catarina community in Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Sunday, April 11, 2021. According to Vinicius Moraes, who is doing his doctoral research in social anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Trap de Cria, also known as Homegrown Trap or Real Trap, has begun gaining traction beyond the favelas among the middle class. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Producer Giovani Rafael, second left, directs Trap de Cria artist Ramon Silva, known as "Suav," right, as cameraman Gabriel Santana "San" records a music video in the Parada de Lucas slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Trap de Cria has a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, and is comparable to U.S. gangsta rap in speaking to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods while depicting gang life. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Trap de Cria artist Vitor Oliveira, known as "MC Piloto", poses for a photo on the rooftop of his home and recording studio at the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, April 12, 2021. Oliveira has recorded 10 tracks and two videos for his 18-song project. From his elevated perch, music can sometimes seem a distant dream, but he visualizes himself dodging all pitfalls. 'But I'm prepared to take off,' he says. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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