Eminência Parda/ AmarElo

by Emicida

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	1.	Eminência Parda featuring Dona Onete, Jé Santiago & Papillon 04:04 video	info
	2.	AmarElo featuring Majur and Pabllo Vittar 05:21 video	info

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“Eminência Parda” is Portuguese for the French phrase “éminence grise” and in interviews Emicida has asked “Where does the real power come from? Who has reduced us to believe that power and people like us are
contradictory?”.

The essential narrative of "Eminência Parda" reflects what Emicida has lived and conquered in the last 10 years and the song's video opens with scenes of a black Brazilian family driving to a restaurant to celebrate the daughter’s university graduation. As they enter the establishment, the voice you hear is Dona Onete's, a grand old lady of North Brazil, with words taken from a traditional song that featured on the classic samba album ‘O Canto Dos Escravos’ (Song Of The Slaves) by Clementina de Jesus: “Little kid, little kid, ask where he’s going”.

As the song unfolds to its trap music beats and to the evident distaste, fantasies and fears of other diners, Emicida and the young rappers Jé Santiago from Brazil and Papillon from Portugal, explore their themes. The songs exits as it entered, and while the video ends violently, Emicida's ultimate message is positive: “We are bigger than the nightmares that have been imposed on us. We have overcome them before and we will overcome them now".

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released July 11, 2019

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Emicida São Paulo, Brazil

Born Leandro Roque de Oliveira (Emicida is a play on ‘MC’ and ‘homicide’), 31 years ago in a northern suburb of São Paulo, Emicida began, by imitating every MC he heard and rapping in his own version of English. He soon shifted to Portuguese and via circulated recordings of his appearances at freestyle rapping battles and, later, mixtapes from his own makeshift studio, his fame spread. ... more