{"id":12069,"date":"2020-09-27T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/?post_type=focus&p=12069"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:40:16","slug":"indigenous-rap-goes-to-war-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"focus","link":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/indigenous-rap-goes-to-war-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous rap goes to war in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following in the footsteps of pioneers Br\u00f4 Mc\u2019s, Kunumi MC<\/span> shouts about the anger of the peoples threatened with genocide by Bolsonaro\u2019s politics.<\/b><\/p>\n

In the video for \u201cXondaro Ka\u2019aguy Regu\u00e1\u201d (the warrior from the forest), released in the spring, Kunum\u00ed MC<\/span> sports the traditional headdresses and body paint inspired by indigenous traditions, as well as futuristic ornaments and virtual reality glasses, swapping between Amazonian landscapes and the urban jungle of S\u00e3o Paulo. Set against Indian flutes and trap basses,  the Guarani raps: \u201cThere used to be plenty of fruit to eat in the forest \/ But the white man came and destroyed everything God had created\u201d.<\/span> <\/span><\/i>In 2020, the destructive white man is embodied by Jair Bolsonaro. Since his inauguration on 1 January 2019, the Brazilian president has pursued a policy that the indigenous peoples, and their champions, describe as \u201cgenocide, ethnocide and ecocide\u201d. Not only does he want their lands to be opened up to the agricultural industry, mining and oil exploration, and hydroelectric dams, his declarations give free rein to wild deforestation and the abuses of illegal goldmining \u2013 the murdered <\/span>caciques<\/span><\/i> (chiefs) no longer come into it. Similarly, since the health crisis exploded, he has shown no concern for the fate of these particularly vulnerable populations, of which several thousand members have contracted Covid-19, with several hundred dying from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kunum\u00ed MC<\/span> - Xondaro Ka\u2019aguy Regu\u00e1 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wer\u00e1 Jeguaka Mirim by his real name, Kunum\u00ed MC<\/span> his only 19 (\u201ckunum\u00ed\u201d means \u201cyoung man\u201d in Guarani). He was born and lives in Krukutu, a community of 250 inhabitants, surrounded by nature on the fringes of the megalopolis S\u00e3o Paulo. It was there that he attended school and shaped his political consciousness, with the help of his parents \u2013 his father Ol\u00edvio Jekup\u00e9 was one of the first indigenous writers to be published \u2013 and television, echoing the struggles being waged across the country. As a teenager, he took on this fight in the middle of the opening ceremony of the 2014 FIFA<\/span> World Cup: recruited to release a dove as a symbol of peace in the stadium, he deviated from protocol to display a banner showing the word \u201cDemarca\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d \u2013 the demarcation of the lands of indigenous peoples, acquired in the constitution of 1988 and often challenged, by Bolsonaro in particular. \u201cThat day I realised what my mission would be: fighting for my people\u201d, says the young man.<\/span> But he still had to find a medium: \u201cI chose rap because it\u2019s like poetry\u201d, he explains, emphasising the profound influence of Br\u00f4 MC\u2019s, Brazil\u2019s first indigenous rap group \u2013 Kunum\u00ed MC<\/span> is the first solo rapper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Br\u00f4 MC\u2019s - Retomada <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n