TY - JOUR AU - Mari Cristina de Freitas Fagundes AU - Ana Clara Correa Henning AU - Gabriela M. Kyrillos AU - Thais Luzia Colaço PY - 2014/09/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - LAW, RAPPING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: RETHINKING TRUTH IN CONTEMPORANEITY JF - European Scientific Journal, ESJ JA - ESJ VL - 10 IS - 10 SE - Articles DO - 10.19044/esj.2014.v10n10p%p UR - https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/4189 AB - Our criminal justice system produces socially naturalized truths which authorize certain subjects’ discourse, and silence others’. Rapping, as a counterculture, produces resistance from peripheral spaces in the complex power and knowledge net around us. Rap lyrics problematize a form of violence present even inside the state action, either as classifying subjects or in it’s so-called democratic discourse. Those questions are reasoned in this paper, in bibliographic contribution and compositions analysis in this genre. ER -