"Who was born, was born, who hasn't been born, will not be born" "With peace, justice and liberty funk will always roll on" "Who was born, was born, who hasn't been born, will not be born" "With peace, justice and liberty Funk will always roll on" "I am from the slums and all I want is to be happy" "I am talking about Cidinho and Doca who are the roots of funk" "A man planted evil and I had to tell you" "Like Mestre Mulato says Try and learn how to live" "Who was born, was born, who hasn't been born, will not be born" "With peace, justice and liberty Funk will always roll on" "Was that OK?" ""I AM UGLY, BUT TRENDY"" "Well people, we are here in the City of God... where sensual funk began... because funk was divided into two different sides..." "I adore the sensusal." "No, because we have to say that sensual." "Maybe I shouldn't even say that, but people say it is pornography..." "It's not like that." "It's sensual funk." " You are our girls." " Yeah, and you are our boys." "Right?" "Here is Preto de Elite... this one is Jorge..." "Cleber Preto... this one is Tico... they are Os Havaianos..." "Tentação do Funk." "That one is my friend Ramona Guity." "Guity, Guity!" "Right?" "Well, from here, since Duda began to launch the groups... since I began to sing..." "I have the pleasure to mention to you I dragged everyone along." "Like Carrasco, Bonde do Tigrão, Bonde do Vinho..." "Faz Gostoso, Preto de Elite..." "Os Havaianos, Tentação do Funk..." "Tati Quebra-Barraco, Serginho and Lacraia." "Those aren't from here, but the inspiration came from here." "Because if it wasn't for us who started it..." "It was from here, City of God that it went to the crowds." "I'll tell you what funk is... it was always made in poor areas, slums..." "Now it's reaching the higher classes." "This is where it all begins..." "Soul Predominance, Big Boy's Ball, the 70's." "Here we have Ademir Lemos, another great DJ... who ran the ball with Big Boy... and helped keep soul music alive here." "And here we have one of the first sound crews..." ""Som Grand Prix", a 1978 album..." ""Furacão 2000"." "At each ball more than 10,000 soul fans confirm:" "This is the sound!" "Here you have an idea of what the Furacão ball was like... in the 70s." "Second half of the 80s, 2 Live Crew..." "Miami Bass, Hip Hop who up until now... forms the basis for Funk Carioca." "It's called Miami Bass because the name appeared in Miami... those songs with a heavy bass, 808." "This is the man, He can keep it up all night" "Babe, you naughty thing, Do you want to drive me mad?" "Twelve hours in a hotel suite, I would pay to see that" "Shagging, you do it well, What a situation" "I am already crazy, horny" "Acapella, then it starts to, more or less, an idea of as music... and the beat you will use according to the music." "Then you start looking for the right beats to make the song." "I use a computer program to get the sound I want." "And then I can either beat it out on a drum machine." "I can either do it on a drum or on this keyboard." "This keyboard is connected to a sampler." "This is a Darose 760 sampler... the one I use." "I can beat it out here... but the sound is generated by that, a sampler." "Then it goes to the mixer, and the yelling is added on top of it." "The melody is always the same..." "Then other lyrics are added." "Because in the past there was a funk ball..." "Because in the past there was a funk ball..." "There was a funk ball..." "How can I say?" "The A side and the B side." "It was the Country ball, a sort of fight club..." "The A side and the B side, time sof corridor balls." "This caught the attention of people abroad." "The Brazilian Fight Club, the punching was a form of recreation." "Something that at times could be explosive and people died." "Funk balls were on the decline for many years." "From the fight balls, where the incentive was violence." "We could jump, changing the whole idea of funk." "And it became funk of pleasure." "It became funk of pleasure where everybody dances." "A lot of women were very shy about doing this." "So, what happens is that funk encouraged them to let it out... like Tati sings:" "Put it in the mouth, put it in the face." "So, today it's more open." "There are many songs that talk to the girl, talk to the boy." "For women, and for men too, because men tell the girl:" ""Let's go there"..." "In the old days, before funk... she would go straight away, she accepted it." "Now, with funk coming up, no." "Especially with Tati, she's saying a lot of things, warning women." "It's not a vindication of sex, it has a double meaning." "If she wants to sing one day, to rap, that type of thing." "A vindication of sex, I'll sign on the dotted line." "Why will I endorse it?" "Because it's for a purpose." "The gynaecologist tells the girl who's starting to date... starting to have relationships, she should see a gynaecologist... to prevent diseases later on." "The story is the girls one day will have to consult a gynaecologist." "This music caused a controversy when it was released." "The song starts: "A vet for the dogs, an electrician for the shocks a gynaecologist, you bet, is for "the touch"" "Fiery and hot, She goes to the gynaecologist" "You've got to take care Of your pussy" "To sing in an extremely spontaneous way that pleases... something so daring, a woman to come on stage and say..." "I want this, I want that, I'll do this, I'll do that." "In the pussy, the pussy, the pussy, the dick" "The dick, the dick, The dick, in the pussy" "Fucking hell, the woman is fantastic!" "The first time she said 'Put it all in, including your balls'..." "I said that's well tasty!" "For someone to say that, they need attitude." "You know what I mean?" "Now you turn over, I'm sticking it in" "Funk when it talks about depraved things, that's what's happening." "It's just like that." "It's not only men, but women like it too." "Funk is talking about depraved things, like they say... but what about the television?" "An old man shagging a young girl in a soap at 8PM is not filth." "Do you know what I mean?" "The guy hunched over the woman at 8 o'clock on Globo TV isn't dirty." "Funk is dirty." "Dirty is the money the government steals from us... that's the crime." "You know what I'm saying?" "Reality isn't crime." "Reality isn't dirty." "Everyone likes to make love, everyone likes to come." "Certainly, it would have been crazy because in my day we had nothing." "Nobody dated, because our fathers wouldn't let us." "There was always someone watching." "Today, no, there's more freedom." "I have a daughter, the little one is four." "I learnt on the streets... because my mother didn't feel free to talk to me about sex." "So what am I going to do with my daughter?" "I am going to talk to her, for her to trust me." "So what happened to me will not happen to her." "I lost my virginity at the age of 11." "At 16 I was a mother." "I have no regrets, thank God." "My oldest is 15." "There is a lack of communication... and if we don't look after our children." "From now on, things will only get worse." "She has to buy the contraceptive pill, take it... and use many condoms." "The path taken by the others my daughter could take." "Because we live here." "We know we cannot give our children the best." "We try, but we cannot..." "not everything, but we'll get there." "In my house it's me and my children." "I don't want anyone to take my remote control and give us orders." "Not in my house." "Only us." "Only me and my children." "We are in charge." "Raquel is a virgin." "No, just my sign." "No, just my sign." "What's the matter?" "These are the things she is asking us, man!" "I don't behave in the way that funk is portrayed." "I am like this and I am going to stay like this." "And it's not because you go to a funk ball." "People say if you go to a funk ball you will get pregnant." "I've had fun in many funk balls in my life and I am what I am." "To show that in the slums we also have virgin girls." "Open your mouth, don't you see?" "You have to spit it out." "When I was the cover of Sexy Magazine..." "When I was the cover of Sexy Magazine... the headline was:" "The funk virgin." "Because at that time I was virgin and at 18 they tought it was weird." "An 18 year old funk girl still a virgin?" "8 months pregnant and will face..." "I argued with my brother, 'Would you like me to stay quiet for 2 months?" "'" "I am going to book my cesarean for the 26th... on the 23rd I'll stop." "On the 24th I'll go to the hospital." "On the 29th I'll have my tubes tied." "On the 1st I'll be on stage." "Thank you guys for everything." "Fuck everybody's asses, don't forget mine!" "Many women used to be slapped, you know, were verbally abused." "They would bow their heads." "Not now." "Todat they are like this..." "They work, they fend for themselves, they look after their children... they live alone." "They're warriors, today women are warriors." "Oh, of course I would've liked it if it was like that in my time." "I think I would hardly ever have been at home." "I think I would stay out, living the funk thing." "Let's say that what encouraged me to do this kind of music... let's say it was Brazilian cinema." "The sexy scenes." "And the first explicit music... that made the crowd go wild... talking about women doing it doggy style." "Sideways... was mine." "It was the first music I did for the Bad Girls Band." "It was "Discurti" that said if a bloke pays for the motel... the girl will do whatever he wants." "So, Doggy style, sideways, in your pussy and in your mouth" "And then return to the slum Open and raw" "If a bloke pays for the motel" "The girl will do whatever he wants." "Doggy style, sideways" "In your pussy, In your mouth" "Then return to the slum Open and raw" "Wow!" "It's very sexy." "The lyrics and her voice, it's so sexy." "It must be a success there, isn't it?" "The people probably move diffrently." "It's very cool, I like it." "A lot of it is like a sexual game." "It's something that at times I see as being almost infantile." "They ask me to go out, What a deception" "They take me to the cinema To watch "Pokemon"" "Be smart and pay attention To what I'm telling you" "I want to go to a hotel To play with the picachu" "It was like this, there weren't any women singing." "So I went to the ball early, intending to record... whilst they were soundchecking, things like that." "When I arrived the DJ was already there." "There were some blokes recording." "I was the only woman there." "I said, "I want to record too"." "I wanted to be the last one, because I thought they would laugh at me." "Then the blokes said, "If you're going to sing, we will stay"." "So I sang the song and the DJ, who was also a producer, liked it." "He said it was cool, because the music caused an impact." "The lyrics go like this..." "If you wan to take me out, You have to be prepared" "It's not your Cyclone trainers That say you are the man" "I chatted you up, Everybody saw" "But when we got to the point, Where were you?" "You had vanished" "The blokes all reacted to this saying that they didn't vanish." "Then the producer saw the impact and produced the music." "Next thing I knew was that the music was being played on the radio." "People began to phone the radio station, requesting the song." "They asked me to record more and that was it." "The injection was like this, the idea..." "I was watching TV and there was a man who was mind bending." "He said, "It's stinging but it coming in." ""It's stinging but it coming in." "That stuck in my mind." "My hudsband said, "You should write a song about that"." "Because he asked me to write a song about that..." "I started to think." "I thought long and hard." "And then I remembered that..." "I had an appointment with the doctor." "I had to have a tetanus shot because I was pregnant at the time." "It all came together... when I remembered I have a fear of injections." "I put that together with the TV programme I watched..." "And that was it, I did it and it was a success, a big one... because of what I am now known as Deise Injection." "When I go to the doctor, I have a pain" "He wants to give me an injection, what is he trying to do to me" "An injection hurts when it pierces and scratches when it goes in" "Doctor, this is not possible." "Her ass can take it" "It's stinging, but it's coming in It's stinging, but it's coming in" "It's stinging, it's coming in" "It's stinging, it's scratching" "It's stinging, it's coming in" "Ouch, doctor, the pain" "Ouch, ouch, doctor, the pain" "Ouch, ouch, doctor, the pain" "Ouch, ouch, doctor, the pain" "Ouch, the prick hurts" "Hurts, hurts Ouch, the craziness" "It's stinging, but it's coming in It's stinging, but it's coming in" "That's how it goes, ok." "Let's go." "This one here..." "he is a real "funkeiro"." "Have you heard that music Pavaroti?" "Pavaroti, Pavaroti..." "He is the author." "Pavaroti, uncontrolled..."Wow, look at that, you are uncontrolled"." "He is the author of that music too." "Wow, what's that?" "She is uncontrolled She is uncontrolled" "She goes up, she goes down, she spins, she is uncontrolled" "Don't stop, don't stop, don't." "Don't stop" "Don't stop until you hit the ground" "Ground, ground, ground" "Ground, smart ass..." "are you ashamed?" "Go now." "Pavaroti, Pavaroti Pavaroti, Pavaroti" "I have two friends, Nasal and Pavaroti" "At the funk ball they aproach girls and they get what they want" "I have two friends, Nasal and Pavaroti" "At the funk ball they aproach girls and they get what they want" "Dance, Nasal!" "Big Bum put your hands on your knees and start dancing" "Down, down, makes Nasal delirious" "But Pavaroti, my mate, you made the women dance" "No I want to see you making the hard ones jump" "And you mute?" "Have you nothing to say?" "Ow, ow, hands on your head!" "Ow, ow, down to your waist" "Spin around, clench your buttocks, making the women lose control" "Ow, ow, hands on your head!" "Ow, ow, down to your waist" "Spin around, clench your buttocks, making the women lose control" "Funk is a movement of the discriminated." "People who live on the edge." "Those who are pushed to one side, always..." "That's cool." "I am very proud to be a "funkeiro"." "And the amount of women in funk." "No other movement has so many." "Nowadays, if you were to ask any of those girls... if they are feminists... their first reaction would be to say no." "That feminism is a thing of the past that doesn't exist anymore." "But their way of speaking is completely feminist." "Men are bastards, without shame." "Because sometimes a woman does everything, even a handstand... and her man will still go out and look for another one." "Men use dto be content with one." "Now they want two or three... and that was supposed to be normal, acceptable, you know what I mean?" "I am single because I want to be." "Why?" "Because men want to be nasty." "If they ar enasty to me, I'm going to be nasty to them." "You know?" "They have to respect me." "I will respect him but he has to respect me." "So I remain single, I stay in my place, you stay in yours..." "Bye, bye." "He goes away and I go too." "They say women can cheat the devil?" "When she wants to cheat, she cheats." "It's difficult for men to be humiliated... because when a woman has to do it... she knows how to do it well, secretly." "I always write songs for the mistress... because the faithful wife is always humiliated." "There's nothing more humiliating than your man leaving the house... to be with another woman." "Come to the ball, smart ass." "You think you are hard" "But in your house" "Your woman is chagging a big black guy" "Of course your girl doesn't give a shit" "Whilst you are having a nibble, your girl is being nibbled" "In a house where I worked... the woman came to me and said, "Deise, that song of yours is cool." "Could you give me a CD?"" "Then, I was walking down the hall late at night... my CD was playing and I could hear the man going, "Aaaaah, aaaah."" "You know what?" "It excites you, get it?" "It's something normal, sex is sex all the time." "So, like Tati's music, people in the beginning criticised it a lot." "But today, that's all there is." "So I think that's cool." "She is talking about the freedom of speech for women." "I am not saying that she, in particular, suffered opression..." "She's doing that because she is speaking on behalf of all women." "Women like her." "She has more female fans than male." "Why?" "It's obvious." "Because she shouts and women always like to shout... to tell men off, to fight for equal rights." "But she is a feminist without a manual, she didn't learn that way... she learnt from life, just by living." "Nothing you do will work, whatever you do I will tell you off" "Call me a whore just because I'm shagging your man" "Nothing you do will work, whatever you do I will tell you off" "Call me a whore just because I'm shagging your man" "My fame as a whore, I'm here to accept that" "But don't call me ugly, That's being aggressive" "When I started singing..." "I didn't have many songs, only Barraco 1 and 2, so..." "In the City of God there was a festival and everybody was singing." "And what did I do?" "When I started singing, I didn't have many songs... so I began to promote them." "Then I did "69" in my voice because... the author of this song let me record it." "But "69" belongs to Carrascos, really." " 69, roast chicken" " We like it sideways" "In the City of God there are..." "I won't even talk about it..." "it's something like..." "It began with Cidinho and Doca, right?" "Then Tati became the big sensation... then came Tigrão, Bonde do Vinho..." "Carrasco..." "Faz Gostoso, Descontrolada, the Saradinhos..." "There is also Deise Injection..." ""Nothing you do will work whatever you do I will tell you off", it's hers." "Look at me, I am nothing, I am nothing..." "Look at me, I am nothing, I am nothing... but if I appeared on TV shaking my ass on the neck of a bottle..." "I would get media coverage?" "I would." "Carla Perez got it." "I remember well Rio's former Defense Secretary, Josias Quintal... during a meeting, asking me why... there's so much sex in funk music." "Then I said to him:" ""Secretary, these people who are singing funk today... they are 16, 17, 18." "When they were younger, funk wasn't a hit with the media." "Axé music was the big thing." "The children who are now becoming adults... and singing "69 roast chicken"... and other songs that anger you, they heard no less than:" ""Rub it on the bottle neck, come down on the bottle neck"." "And a half-naked woman rubbing herself on a bottle of beer... and that was a big hit!"" "The television was showing it... the radio was playing that kind of thing and everyone accepted it." "When the funk crowd learnt that they could do it too... they began to innovate and to be more daring." "But it's not funk that talks about sex." "In the carnival the women have their breasts out..." "I mean, it's something everyone can see." "In funk, on stage nobody shows their bums or breasts." "In Forro there is a double meaning." ""Give me your ass and I'll give you 10 quid"." "Or that one, "Sit, sit, sit and ride my bike"." "Hip Hop also has a double meaning." "I mean, funk has a double meaning, but it's not pornography." "Everybody has their rhythm... their own way of showing their music to the world." "Well, my friend, it's sexist." "Look at Lacraia, he's fucking prejudiced." "So it's sexist, Lacraia is one of us just like everyone else." "Funk is unprejudiced." "What do the people think of Lacraia?" "Everyone likes him a lot!" "In funk, for example, there isn't a gay crowd and he's been accepted." "I think it's really cool." "It shows that there are no preconceptions in funk." "There are so many people in volved in funk... that society and the media should not ignore us." "People always say that funk is fun." "People always say that funk is fun." "Funk is fun for those who come to our shows." "For us it is a job, it is how we make a living." "It's how we earn the money without a P45 or insurance papers." "Well, if we can do 3, 4, 5 shows in a weekend... or in a day." "I did 8 shows in a day, one Sunday." "I usually do 9 shows in a weekend." "In Rio de Janeiro, I make 400 Reais per show." "But outside Rio, I can make 2,000 to 2,500 Reais per show." "Let's do it!" "For the first time in "Paradise"... since "Faustao" and great success in Rio and all over Brasil... they are hot, they are fit." "They are Bonde Faz Gostoso!" "Everybody earns, the road crew, the lorry driver." " It generates its own capital." " Provides us with jobs." "Security jobs, bar jobs..." "I can't say I make a living from working with funk." "I have other jobs." "I have other security jobs... but on weekends I work with them." "The money I earn, isn't enough... but it helps a lot." "I don't know where I would be without funk." "Let's be honest, let's talk about reality." "We go to a big club to make a show... they hire us and a pagode group." "We fill the house, but..." "The treatment is different, do you know why?" "They only cover our car costs." "So the pagodeiro's car costs 800 Reais... whereas ours are only 100 or 200 Reais." "But it's usually funk that draws in the crowds." "People took a long time to enjoy samba but they learnt to." "People took a long time to enjoy samba but they learnt to." "They are taking a lot longer to accept funk." "I want to know what's going on." "It's something spontaneous." "It was born in the slum from a massacred culture." "It caught the attention of the world and society, and it's here." "Sex isn't the problem." "The problem isn't that they discriminate against funk..." "They discriminate against the people from the slums... because they don't want to see us on the up." "This music has its own characteristics... unlike anything else in the world." "This should be acknowledged by our Ministry of Culture... before anywhere else." "But unfortunately it's not." "The world recongnizes it... but there they say "Funk is music for blacks and poor slum dwellers."" "The favelados, the niggers." "For them all funkeiros are thieves." "The other day we went to a show with Tati." "When we arrived..." "We heard them say, "The favelados are here"." "They were upstairs and they threw water over us..." "I said, "In the City of God... the favelados throw water from a building"." "It was a large surge of water." "It was a luxury building in Copa." "Copa, wasn't it?" "Yes, in Copacabana." "It was a nightclub." "But it wasn't from the nightclub." "It was the people from upstairs." "They think that because we are favelados, we have no culture." "They don't see funk as a culture." "If you mention funk... they immediately think City of God, the favelados." "Living in a community at times has a positive side, you know." "But the negative side outweighs it because anything can happen here." "There is a lot of discrimination." "The other day I took a taxi..." "I was with my daughters, right?" "And I took a taxi and the driver said he would not enter City of God." "How disgusting, man!" "How disgusting!" "I said, "What's up, my friend?" "Are you crazy, man?" "I am with my two daughters." "Here we have many more good people than bad"." "Inside the community, only 1% take the wrong path, leaving 99%." "I am included in the 99% left that are good." "My family too, my partner and many other people." "But the bloke would not go in, he would not go in." "So that was it I was so pissed off with him that I said." ""Then I'm goin to get out here at the square and I am not paying"." "Do you know what he said then?" ""That's alright, mate"." "I was so surprised, man." "He surprised me." "He said to me, "It's OK, brother, you don't have to pay... just don'ask me to go in there."" "So that was." "You know." "I'm sure I will write a song about that... but the penny hasn't dopped yet." "Because while I am telling you this, I can still feel it... because that's where I am from." "It was like someone saying something bad about your family." "The way I see it he was speaking badly about my family... my acquaintances, my uncles, my aunties, my children." "All that disgusted me a lot." "You are looking for a job, they ask, "Where do you live?"" "You reply "City of God", they tell you to wait at home." "That bloke looks on our people with fear or disdain." "That's not just the start of discrimination... that's fully-fledged discrimination." "I think that at 4 in the afternoon, I don't know... it's a community..." "violence is everywhere, there too." "If it had been in the middle of the night and he said..." ""No, the police might come, there are gangsters there... could be some shooting, they might hit me... dent my car or puncture my tyres"." "He can worry about himself... but he can't be worried about me or you, do you know what I mean?" "I think that you shouldn't only look at the City of God... but all the communities of the world... without exception as human beings." "The message is directed to the people who we want to listen..." "It's not only concerning women but also the violence in the slum." "Like our friends Cidinho and Doca... sing the Rap of Happiness, they talk about our slum... respect for our people, to stop preconceptions... and for the police to give us some respect." "She was talking about the gringas dancing." "Very cool." "Just talking about it makes me laugh." "It's funny." "There it goes..." "There go the voices..." "get ready..." "All I want is to be happy" "Walk peacefully in the slum where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "All I want is to be happy" "Happy" "Where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "Dear authority I just don't know what else to do" "Wíth so much violence I am frightened of living" "I live in the slum and I am not respected at all" "Sadness and happiness walk side by side here" "I pray to the Aparecida, the protector" "But I am interrupted by the machine gun fire" "While the rich live in their big beautiful houses" "The poor are humiliated and degraded in the slum" "I just can't take anymore of this violence" "I am just asking the autorities to be more competent" "All I want is to be happy" "Walk peacefully in the slum where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "All I want is to be happy" "Happy" "Where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "To have fun nowadays, is something we can't even think about" "Even in the balls they come to humiliate us" "Staying in the square that used to be so normal" "Now can be a place of violence" "Innocent people who have nothing to do" "Are losing their right to live" "I've never seen a postcard from a slum" "All I see are beautiful landscapes" "Who goes abroad misses the slum" "Foreigners come here and never know the reality" "He goes to the south zone to try coconut water" "And the poor in the slum are having it rough" "A change of president gives new hope" "I suffered during the bad times and now I want my reward" "The people have the power they just need to find it" "If they don't do anything there, we will do it from here" "All I want is to be happy" "Walk peacefully in the slum where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "All I want is to be happy" "Happy" "Where I was born" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "And to be proud" "And to be conscious of the poor and from where they belong" "Cheers!" "In the times of the Rap of Happiness "All I wan is to be happy."" "It was the slums singing to the streets." "He was always trying to show that slums were cool... that they had self-esteem." "When funk was banned from the streets... it went back to the slum, the slum began to sing to the slum." "When a slum is singing to a slum, there are new rules... laws and listeners." "A listener who really knows what is happening." "I was on stage singing... and a bloke said I was singing prohibited rap." "It was the third song, the place was heaving... six thousand people in the house, he came up to me and said:" ""Stop singing or I'll arrest you because that rap is prohibited"." "They said on TV, "We are taking some MCs in for questioning"." "How can I say that? "They will have to give statements."" "My music was in the paper." "Four songs of mine were, one by Menor do Chapa... and one by Cidinho and Doca." "The heat was one me." "Most of my songs are factual." "They are about things that really happen." "For example..." "One in the morning, the gang gets ready" "Down the alley, Colombia style." "When I was going up I couldn't believe it" "Shots everywhere, Baghdad style." "I was going to the ball and the police were entering the slum... at the same time the gang were coming out." "There were shots coming from all directions." "I was stuck in the middle and said to the driver..." ""Fucking hell, man, it's just like Baghdad"." "After hearing people complain about the music... but it talks about the reality of the slums." "People on the outside get scared... 'cause this is the reality people live." "And they think that this kind of song should not be made." "How come?" "This is how they live, it's what they're going through." "How can they write lyrics for you if you don't live their reality?" "Everything we sing is the truth." "We see a man pass by with his hands tied... everyone has a quick commentary, nobody wants tho get closer." "They go in, pretend they haven't seen anything, but everybody knows." "He is going to die." "Why is he going to die?" "People say he grassed." "They said he was a rapist or a thief." "Do we talk about it in our music?" "We do." "Why?" "Because it really happens, we live in there." "The comments about our music are..." ""This music is heavy, hmmm, that bloke is probably a criminal."" "But this is not te case, man, we've grown up there." "We are not, but that guy who studied with us today is... that guy who worked with us today is..." "What is left for us to do is to show him... that there is a better way to live than the way he is living." "Who wants to deal, deals; who wants to be involved with dealing... becomes involded." "Who wants to sing, sings;" "who wants to show culture, shows." "That's a question of the slums in Rio and the rule of criminal gangs." "Tehre are funk songs that praise the gangs." "When some funk song says Comando Vermelho is cool." "Terceiro Comando is cool, he's talking about where he lives." "When the authorities come to the slums, they come to beat them... to extort, to put thye slum down and take their peace away." "There are raps that talk about violence... of lives reaped by crime... but it's not an apology." "Very often it's a rebuke on violence." "It's a lot easier for a bloke to listen to your music... than to listen to your advice." "Sometimes the bloke will take something... from your song, as an example." "And if you sit next to him to talk... it'll go in one ear and out the other." "What happens is much more cruel than the music says." "People discriminate against and speak badly of the music... they forget that it is a reality that must be dealt with." "They prefer to shut the boy up than to deal with the problem." "That's disgusting." "Yesterday I played in Paris." "I played twice in Paris, yesterday and the day before yesterday." "Funk looks like the Carnival there." "It was a big success, a big success." "Today I'm playing in five different places... and tomorrow I'll play in Slovenia, too." "Page 127." "The hard-working DJ from Rio, Marlboro... is in town to play not in one but five clubs in one night." "As incredible as it seems, the women wiggling their asses... it's a bit like the funk balls, but the dancing has a long way to go." "But the understood the spirit of the songs." "I was in a show, played one, two... three tracks of Rio funk in the middle pf my set... and the crowd went wild." "It was the most genuine Brazilian electronic music... it has been going on for years over there." "So then we managed to get four slots with a radio station... and it was a complete success, there were phone calls all the time." "People were asking:" ""What music are you playing?"" "Do you speak Portuguese?" "Let's see his take on funk, let's see how he listens to funk." "It's the sound of the blacks" "From the slums" "But when it's plying, nobody can stand still" "It's the sound of the blacks" "From the slums" "But when it's plying, nobody can stand still" "What did he think?" "It's the sound of the blacks" "From the slums" "But when it's plying, nobody can stand still" "It's the sound of the blacks" "From the slums" "But when it's plying, nobody can stand still" "Our music has no age, has no race, has no colour" "But society doesn't value us" "Well, so you can see we have no preconceptions" "Fit men like these..." "Look at his muscles." "Look at his body, look at that one's body..." "Where is he?" "Ran away?" "Don't run, man!" "You too." "Look at the size of the man... and everybody here has no preconceptions." "It's the funk ball." "And everybody is grinding, you have to dance, right?" "We are more beautiful with wax in our hair... it makes it shiny." "It's good to be shiny." "My hair looks chic, honey." "It is straight."