GOG, um poeta da periferia: sua vida, seu rap e o Tarja Preta

Abstract

This Master's thesis aims to read 12 songs by the rapper GOG, from the album Tarja Preta and presented in the book A Rima Denuncia. GOG, Genival Oliveira Gonçalves, is a Brazilian rapper, active in the hip-hop movement since the late 1980s, with little academic and even media prominence compared to artists such as Racionais MC's, Emicida, Gabriel O Pensador and MV Bill. Drawing an overview of GOG's entire discography, the research intends to demonstrate the importance of his lyrics and songs as a tool capable of changing the individual and collective reality of peripheral youth and adults and also seeks to present the importance of literature that has been made in music format, bringing to light an author, the rapper, still alive, and active in places where traditional education is often seen as outdated and meaningless for a portion of the underserved and peripheral community that has suffered for centuries from inequalities of opportunities, racial and social prejudice.