Hip Hopping Mad

In their community of makeshift homes built into steep hillsides, it’s the pop bottles and plastic bags floating in the cloudy brown creek that inspire Trindon, Crânio, Adilson and Sinval. With the requisite hand gestures, these young hip hoppers rap their newest song: “Get conscious! What are you? Water! Life is water! Without it we are nothing! Nothing! Nothing!” In the São Paulo state favela of Inferniho (Little Hell), these guys are cool and they’re raising a little hell. ...