“Hip Hop Tuga – Quatro Décadas de RAP em Portugal (2023)” [Portuguese Hip-Hop – Four decades of RAP in Portugal] by Ricardo Farinha | Book

Abstract: “Johnny Def, General D, Black Company, Da Weasel, Mind da Gap, Djamal, Boss AC, Dealema, Sam The Kid, Valete, Força Suprema, Chullage, Regula, Allen Halloween, Nerve, Capicua, DJ Ride, Plutonio, Dillaz, Slow J, T-Rex. These are just a few names of the protagonists who have marked the history of rap in Portugal over the last 40 years.

Many have disappeared, others have persisted, new ones emerge every year and Hip Hop Tuga is increasingly alive. It has matured, diversified and gone from a small niche movement to an influential culture that has also helped transform society.

In Hip Hop Tuga – Four Decades of Rap in Portugal, the author, Ricardo Farinha, has done an archaeological job, searching for the precursors of the style but also the stories of the new values, and the result is an almost encyclopedia with biographies and unpublished images shared by the artists and by those who, out of love, gave stage and voice to one of the most revolutionary genres of music in the world.”

 

The book was published by Iguana and can be found in bookstores such as Wook or alternative networks such as Circus Network.

ANO

2023

AUTORES

Ricardo Farinha

EDITORES

Iguana