Hip Hop music was at the beginning a vehicle for social comments and self expression but has too often slide into being no more than cliches about fast cars, fast women and fast money...But in some countries, like Mozambique, it can still digs deep into people's everyday life, and troubles, and hopes, and its social message and comments still matter and influence. And in some case it matters so much that the artist ends up in jail because his message somehow unbalanced the Governement. Azagaia is a famous Mozambican hip hop singer recently jailed for some seemingly minor drug offenses but the truth is that his message and the impact it has on the people was too big to be ignored. His main problem seem to be in songs like "A Minha Geração" (where he sings about the governement) and "Arrriii" (on the influence the USA may have on the Mozambican affairs): obviously Azagaia has decide to use his artistic talent to express himself on internal politics and the small or the poor.
Just like Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Clash, The Jam and so many, many other bands that were in it for more than money and fame....
More on this: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/08/04/mozambique-behind-the-detention... and http://youtu.be/GjbJzRvxapg)
Thanx to http://www.rue89.com/2011/08/10/ma-generation-le-hip-hop-emprisonne-au-m...
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