Táticas e estratégias para desestabilizar certezas e questionar verdades no presente: o Rap pelotense e seu discurso de Resistência ao Sistema de Justiça Criminal.

Abstract

This study has as its main objective the construction of a bridge between RAP (rhythm and poetry) and the Criminal Justice System, in order to bring up some questions about the truths produced by this music style, through the themes approached by the rappers from Pelotas/Rio Grande/ Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. To achieve it, it was questioned that RAP could possibly be a form of resistance against the Criminal Justice System, in times of liquidity and as a component of normalization society. It was conducted, with this goal, interviews with local rappers, and then analyzing these talks in combination with some RAP lyrics pointed by the rappers themselves. Besides that, it was tried to execute a historical approach of Hip-Hop and RAP since their appearance in New Yorker ghettos until their arising in Pelotas. Moreover, founded on Michel Foucault’s studies, as well as on Conflicting and Violence Sociology, it was sought to articulate the empiric data with the theory in question, approaching emphatically the concepts of “truth”, “norm”, “power”, “resistance” and “potentialities”. The methodology that was used was based on semi-structured interviews and on some analyzing tools from Michel Foucault’s speech. Through analyzes, it got possible to reach to the Resistance speech to the Criminal Justice System, sustained by the local RAP. Besides this, the research brought up the statements that support this speech, such as “youth”, “living in the blur” and “potentialities”. From it, it is possible to perceive their songs as a powerful cultural artifact to rethink some truths already stabled in the contemporary society, which are produced in and by the right, and reproduced it in a social way, highlighting the great need of hearing some “subjected knowledge” to think, then, about other truths that are also pulsating in the current society.