Throughout decades, rap music has been central to the construction of an anti-racist discourse in Portugal. With songs denouncing police violence, social exclusion, colonial legacy and racism, black rappers from the peripheries of Lisbon play a vanguard role in the fight against racial oppression, particularly those who sing in Cape Verdean Creole. Supported by digital devices and networks, these young people build circuits of sociability and musical production that promote an insurgent aesthetic capable of challenging their imposed subordinated status. My presentation will focus on the relevance of rap in making the problem of racism visible in the Portuguese society. Using different qualitative researches, I will analyse lifestyles, lyrics, access to digital networks and the engagements of rappers in the anti-racist movement.

Contract funded by FCT (DL57/2016, Lei 57/2017)

Rap,Anti-racism,lifestyle,Black youth,Outskirts,Lisbon,Racism,Music,Politics,Resistance