A Linguagem do RAP como Resistência à(s) Norma(s)

Abstract

This work aims to defend the idea that individuals who identify with the national RAP identity have their own language that resists the standard linguistic norm that was artificially imposed in Brazil, since the 19th century. The cultural identity formed from the hip hop movement brings in its discourse the protest against the difficulties that marginalized minorities go through in the urban space and affirm their linguistic and social identity through the construction of a specific linguistic variety of this movement. Such individuals use non-formal and non-standard uses of language, regardless of linguistic stigma or prejudice, because there are social motivations for these uses. Slang, discursive markers and lexical choices serve as a resource for uniting the group, as most of the time only its members understand and evaluate that specific variety well. We will take into account the dialogical conception proposed by Bakhtin's circle (2003 [1952/53]; 2004, [1929]), which has a socio-ideological dimension and fits the discursive question of RAP, considering that, in this approach, the word is considered the ideological phenomenon par excellence. We will illustrate our arguments by presenting two individuals representing the RAP of Florianópolis, Negro Rudhy and Élidecê, to exemplify this character of linguistic and performance resistances of this poetic-musical genre that, from the beginning, pledged to bring up the history of the black and peripheral people.