Rock in Rio 2022: Rap, electronic music and local minorities dominated the second day of the festival

The City of Rock vibrated to the rhythm of rap with shows that highlighted the voice of minorities in Brazil, on the second day of concerts at Rock in Rio, the largest music and entertainment festival in the world.

Prejudice to racism, inequality and indigenous rights stood out in the rumors of Brazilian artists like Racionais MC, Criolo, Xama and indigenous rap group Bro MC’s, on a day that ended with the Post Malone trap and in which also Alok’s electronics and the American Marshmello glowed.

The rain failed to water down Malone’s show, which debuted in the City of Rock with some of his biggest hits and where sunflower Y Congratulations it sounded in unison in the voice of the audience.

With them nearly 80 tattoosthe American artist, who yesterday he was seen in the audience accompanying Iron Maiden wearing the Brazilian team jerseya, demonstrated this time from the stage, because he occupied the top places of the charts, even surpassing the Beatles, with nine songs in the top 20 of the chart Scoreboard at the same time.

The Palco Mundo – as the main stage is called – was completed by DJs Alok and Marshmello, and by the American singer Jason Derulo, who was applauded for his voice and his choreography full of dance and pyrotechnics.

Voices of resistance and protests against Bolsonaro

In front of them, the local protest voices started very early in Rio, when still a shy sun accompanied them. the over 100,000 spectators that the City of Rock received on Saturday.

The fight against discrimination was highlighted by the Brazilian Rational MCa band born on the outskirts of São Paulo that paid tribute to the black victims that racist violence left in the country.

In his Rock in Rio debut, Brazil’s biggest rap band recalled the brutal murder of a young Congolese on a beach in Rio de Janeirobeaten to death after demanding payment of his salary in one of the kiosks where he worked.

Although not as common as on the first day, protests against Brazilian president, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro – he aspires to be re-elected on 2 October –recognized for his sexist, misogynistic and racist comments, they were heard again in the audience.

Xama, a rapper who started writing his own music to sell sweets on buseshe recalled the importance of supporting the artists of the favelas who, like him, grew up in the midst of the violence and shortcomings that are experienced in the less favored communities of the South American giant.

His presentation had as guests L7nnon and the group of Bro MC’s, the first from the outskirts of Rio and the others, originally from the Guaraní-Kaiowá ethnic groupthe main Brazilian indigenous people of southern Brazil.

L7n did not get to rap thanks to skateboarding and started his career when in Barcelona (Spain) his fellow competitorsafter listening to his creations, they suggested that he devote himself to music and leave the hobby behind.

For its part, Bruno Veron, Tio Creb, CH and Kevin Mbarete, who form the first indigenous rap group in Brazilbegan writing rap rhymes to “show what it means to be an indigenous people and what it means to be in struggle and resistance,” as its creator and leader, Veron, assured EFE.

How is Rock in Rio

Accompanied by Dream Theater, Gojira and Sepultura in the Palco Mundo, Iron Maiden had a very metal day on Fridayin the first of the seven days of concerts of the new edition of the festival.

The cries of “Fora Bolsonaro, pierce Bolsonaro!” They have been heard since the doors opened in the City of Rock, have been repeated throughout all the band introductions, and have continued this Saturday.

And it will continue for another four additional days (8, 9, 10 and 11 September) where bands like Coldplay, Green Day, Guns n ‘Roses, Gilberto Gil, Dua Lipa, Fall Out Boy, Camila Cabello and Avril Lavigneamong others.

This year, the festival is regarded as the world’s largest music and entertainment eventhe returned to Rio de Janeiro, the city where he was born in 1985. In 37 years he has had 21 editions in that Brazilian city and in other cities such as Lisbon, Madrid and Las Vegas, which were attended by more than 10 million viewers. .

Source EFE

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