In this article I demonstrate how Brazilian hip-hop participants mediate marginality through discourses and practices of negritude. By taking a historical approach, I analyse the competitive processes with which São Paulo hip-hoppers articulate sound and story to a dynamic sense of personhood and social collectivity. The article contributes to general theories of music and identity as well as to the present literature on the “reterritorialization” of hip-hop culture throughout the contemporary world.
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