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Capicua - 30 years taking feminist hip-hop to the rappers' boys' club
Ana Matos Fernandes, the rapper known as Capicua, Is one of Portugal’s most well-known hiphop lyricists. Born in Porto in 1982, she has a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Human Geography; her lyrics are as sharp and informed as…
Hip-hop on Lisbon’s South Bank – 40 years in the making
Hip-hop Tuga, otherwise known as Portuguese hip-hop, began in the late 1980s on the south bank of the river opposite Lisbon, the area known as the Margem Sul (South Bank), including Almada and Miratejo, where Cape-Verdean culture…
