{"id":42226,"date":"2018-10-05T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T09:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/boca-de-lobo-a-walk-into-the-wolfs-den-with-criolos-last-video-about-brazils-social-emergency\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:15:00","slug":"boca-de-lobo-a-walk-into-the-wolfs-den-with-criolos-last-video-about-brazils-social-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/boca-de-lobo-a-walk-into-the-wolfs-den-with-criolos-last-video-about-brazils-social-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Boca de Lobo\u2019: a walk into the wolf\u2019s den with Criolo\u2019s last video about Brazil\u2019s social emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17005 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo-759x533.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo-1010x709.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo-661x464.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo-465x326.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/criolo-boca-de-lobo-375x263.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"><b>A wise and lucid observer of social and political decay in his own country, Brazilian rapper Criolo returns to conscious rap with the video for \u201cBoca de Lobo\u201d \u2013 both a realistic and bold denunciation of Brazilian chaos and a call to collective mobilization.<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAgora, entre meu ser e o ser alheio, a linha de fronteira se rompeu\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cNow, the frontier line between myself and the alien has broken\u201d. This extract from a poem penned and recited by the great Wally Salom\u00e3o initiates the diatribe Criolo chose to send to a political regime whose abuse of power has contaminated a great part of society. No one is spared the possibility of walking into the <em>boca de lobo<\/em> \u2013 literally the \u201cwolf\u2019s mouth\u201d, both meaning \u201cthe lion\u2019s den\u201d, the trap of a perverted society; and also designated to the pavement drains in Brazilian. And many of the recent civil rights demonstrators have found themselves laying on the ground, their bloody face stuck to one of these drains, during one of the many heavily-repressed demonstrations broken up by State police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"CRIOLO - Boca de Lobo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgekT-PEb6c?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;\">This weekend, Saturday, 5th and Sunday, 7h October, 150 millions Brazilian voters will decide about their own future in the ballot boxes: whether they go back to the cruel and violent souvenir of the dictatorship, or they cope with and face up to the imperfections of a modern democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;\">Over the course of only a few decades, Brazil managed to get out of a Christian-influenced military dictatorship (1964-1985), then tried and blossomed into a socialism-inspired liberal democracy that could not erase corruption (Lula da Silva then Dilma Rousseff, 2002-2016), before it sank again, and brutally, under the lousy tricks of an unapologetic neoliberal-authoritarian State (Michel Temer, 2016-2018). This last transition has insidiously paved the way for the possibility of yet another fascist-neoliberal dictatorship, promoted and advocated by former colonel Jair Bolsonaro: the latter, a nostalgic of the military junta, has been at the top of the most recent opinion polls regarding the future presidential elections, despite a failed murder attempt on his own life. One of his slogans? \u201cGod, Homeland, Family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #27ae60;\">\u201cThe industry of despair is a good business for the government:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> They sell more remedies, they sell more consortiums,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> They would even sell their own mothers, if it was a good deal.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> Montesquieu is suffering; they sold him into small shares.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> (&#8230;)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> Here is the machine that kills the poors:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> In Brazil, you die from having an opinion.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> \u2013\u00a0Criolo, \u201cBoca de Lobo\u201d [loose translation by the author]<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u201c\u00c9 que a industria da desgra\u00e7a pro governo \u00e9 um bom neg\u00f3cio<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Vende mais rem\u00e9dio, vende mais cons\u00f3rcio<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Vende at\u00e9 a m\u00e3e, dependendo do neg\u00f3cio<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Montesquieu padece, lotearam a sua f\u00e9<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> (\u2026)<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Olhe, essa \u00e9 a m\u00e1quina de matar pobre<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> No Brasil, quem tem opini\u00e3o, morre\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criolo, as always, sits on the fence of a bipartite game whose flaws he already knows too well. On the contrary, and tr<span style=\"color: #333333;\">ue to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/criolo-the-conscious-kid-of-sao-paulos-zona-sul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his role of conscious rapper-educator<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">, he tries to awaken people\u2019s minds and\u00a0invites his listeners to take a critical look at a r<\/span>eality that looks more like an apocalyptic video game scenario than today\u2019s Brazil society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe won\u2019t forget the bad things the government leaders have done to us, the people. We won\u2019t forget anything, but we have to understand the situation without falling back onto anger and hatred\u201d, confesses Criolo about his latest single and video. Then he adds, \u201cwe are living strong and defining moments, that will mark history. Let\u2019s wish that the result will be on the positive side of things: hope, love and happiness. Let\u2019s work for reconciliation and let&#8217;s rediscover what brings us balance and serenity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shot in the center of megalopolis S\u00e3o Paulo, with the participation of civil rights activists \u2013\u00a0noticeably squatters from the collective \u201cOcupa\u00e7\u00e3o 9 de Julho\u201d \u2013\u00a0the video shows Brazil as a society that has long remained on the verge of implosion, if not explosion, and whose safety valve started to malfunction. The system could not bear\u00a0the all-over-the-place corruption, inside the political elite as well at street-level and family-level, and a great violence eventually took over: militarized police repressing pacific demonstrations, shop lootings, murderous police interventions in favelas, violent \u201ccleaning\u201d of the drug zones (noticeably\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cracol\u00e2ndia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and lastly, a giant fire that burnt almost the\u00a0entirety of Rio&#8217;s\u00a0National Museum, only because the State had never allocated enough resources to renovate and maintain the building&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What about \u201cthe poors\u2019 health programme? Do not fall sick!\u201d, Criolo raps with pertinence and determination, he the former educator who grew up in S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s favelas. He the rapper who has not forgotten that a good flow is better than any political speech:<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #27ae60;\">\u201c1 for rancor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 2 for money<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 3 for money<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 4 for money<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 5 for hatred<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 6 for despair<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> 7 to smash your head onto a pavement drain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> While the elite is applauding their heroes.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #27ae60;\"> \u2013\u00a0Criolo, &#8220;Boca de Lobo\u201d [loose translation by the author]<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>\u201c1 por rancor,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 2 por dinheiro<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 3 por dinheiro,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 4 por dinheiro<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 5 por \u00f3dio,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 6 por desespero<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> 7 pra quebrar a tua cabe\u00e7a num bueiro<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> Enquanto isso a elite aplaude seus her\u00f3is\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #27ae60;\">Read next: <a style=\"color: #27ae60;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/criolo-the-conscious-kid-of-sao-paulos-zona-sul\/\">Criolo, the conscious kid of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Zona Sul<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wise and lucid observer of social and political decay in his own country, Brazilian rapper Criolo returns to conscious rap with the video for \u201cBoca de Lobo\u201d \u2013 both a realistic and bold denunciation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":17005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9373,7834],"tags":[4754],"location":[7902],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42226"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42226"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}