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El presente texto se basa en una investigación etnográfica con jóvenes raperos que viven en distintos barrios del partido de La Plata (capital de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Con el objetivo de contribuir a la comprensión de los mecanismos de construcción del rap, propongo analizar, desde la perspectiva de los mismos actores, sus procesos de formación en tanto músicos, sus prácticas compositivas de improvisación y de escritura de canciones, los criterios de validación y valoración de sus producciones y los distintos espacios sociales en los que se desarrollan estas prácticas, palabras clave: composición, espacio social, expresión, improvisación, rap This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with young rappers who inhabit different neighborhoods of La Plata (capital of Buenos Aires province). With the goal of contributing to the understanding of the mechanisms of rap songs' construction, we analyze, from the actors' perspective, their training processes as musicians; their compositional practices, including improvisations and songwriting; the validation and valuation criteria regarding their productions; and the different social spaces in which these practices are developed. keywords: composition, expression, improvisation, rap, social space

This article aims to reflect and discuss the sociopolitical propositions amalgamated in the songs of one of the most admired Mozambican rappers, Edson da Luz, better known as mano Azagaia, in order to understand his trajectory and identify his contributions to the formulation of a decolonial sociopolitical thought in the Mozambican context. The key question is: What is the intellectual legacy left by Azagaia in the songs \"caes de raca\" and \"maconarias\" that serve as a basis for the genealogy of an \"other\" decolonial thought in Mozambique? The data were obtained through a bibliographic review of Latin American decolonial texts (Quijano, Mignolo, Walsh) among others. The songs \"Caes de raca\" and \"Maconaria\" were the main sources of analysis, dialogue and reflection. The article is organized into two main moments, in addition to the introduction and final considerations, the first briefly addresses the conception of decolonial thought in reference and the second, intertwines decolonial thought with the musician's statements, highlighting the contributions to the emergence or expansion of decolonial debates in Mozambique as possibilities to destabilize and counter the prevailing Western hegemonic logic that maintains the colonial system. Keywords: Intellectuality. Decolonial Thought. Azagaia. Esse artigo tem por objetivo refletir e discutir as proposicoes sociopoliticas amalgamadas nas musicas de um dos mais admirados rapper mocambicano Edson da Luz, mais conhecido por mano Azagaia, para compreender a sua trajetoria e atinar seus contributos para formulacao de um pensamento sociopolitico decolonial no contexto mocambicano. A questao chave e: Qual e o legado intelectual deixado pelo Azagaia nas musicas \"Caes de raca\" e \"Maconarias\" que sirvam de base para a genealogia de um pensamento decolonial \"outro\" em Mocambique? Os dados foram obtidos por meio de revisao bibliografica de textos decoloniais latino-americanos (Quijano, Mignolo, Walsh) entre outros. Sendo as musicas \"Caes de raca\" e \"Maconaria\" as principais fontes de analise, dialogo e reflexao. O artigo esta organizado em dois momentos principais, para alem da introducao e consideracoes finais, o primeiro faz-se brevemente uma abordagem da concepcao do pensamento decolonial em referencia e no segundo, entrelaca-se o pensamento decolonial com as colocacoes do musico destacando as contribuicoes para a emergencia ou ampliacao de debates decoloniais em Mocambique enquanto possibilidades para desestabilizar e contrariar a prevalecente logica hegemonica ocidental que mantem o sistema colonial. Palavras-chave: Intelectualidade. Pensamento Decolonial. Azagaia. Este articulo busca reflexionar y discutir las propuestas sociopoliticas amalgamadas en las canciones de uno de los raperos mozambiquenos mas admirados, Edson da Luz, mejor conocido como Mano Azagaia, para comprender su trayectoria e identificar sus contribuciones a la formulacion de un pensamiento sociopolitico decolonial en el contexto mozambiqueno. La pregunta clave es: ?Cual es el legado intelectual dejado por Azagaia en las canciones \"caes de raca\" y \"maconarias\" que sirven de base para la genealogia de un \"otro\" pensamiento decolonial en Mozambique? Los datos se obtuvieron a traves de una revision bibliografica de textos decoloniales latinoamericanos (Quijano, Mignolo, Walsh), entre otros. Las canciones \"Caes de raca\" y \"Maconaria\" fueron las principales fuentes de analisis, dialogo y reflexion. El articulo esta organizado en dos momentos principales, ademas de la introduccion y las consideraciones finales, el primero aborda brevemente la concepcion del pensamiento decolonial en referencia y el segundo, entrelaza el pensamiento decolonial con las declaraciones del musico, destacando las contribuciones al surgimiento o expansion de los debates decoloniales en Mozambique como posibilidades para desestabilizar y contrarrestar la logica hegemonica occidental predominante que mantiene el sistema colonial. Palabras clave: Intelectualidad. Pensamiento Decolonial. Azagaia.

Migos rapper Kirshnik Khari Ball, known as Takeoff, was fatally shot in Houston on Oct. 31 at a private party at a bowling alley. He was 28.