MV Bill

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Member Since: 4/10/2006
Band Website: WWW.MVBILL.COM.BR / WWW.MVBILL.BLOGSPOT.COM
Band Members: NEW MV BILL'S PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE! ASSISTA AQUI OS VIDEOS FEITOS FAS NO YOUTUBE! PLAYLIST ESTILO VAGABUNDOTHE HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL FROM THE REAL CITY OF GOD MV BILL: Hip Hop’s last hope whose lyrics reflect a belief that reading, education, political consciousness and solidarity will transform Brazil’s poor into an organized force to fight the violence, ignorance, apathy and corruption with which Brazilian society, politicians and police have been guilty of. “Hip-hoppers in Brazil want life to improve, and that is the reason why the movement has already taken a lot of young people away from crime, made it possible for many others to give up drugs and prevented a lot of people from leading a life of delinquency... poverty can not be seen as fate.” MV BILL MV BILL (Mensageiro da Verdade or in English Messenger of the Truth) is what he is, honest, talented and extremely in touch with the real issues concerning crime, drugs and HIP HOP in Brazil. MV BILL lives and was born in the CITY OF GOD shanty town which was made famous, or infamous by the highly acclaimed film. MV liked the film but was the first to point out that it made things tougher for the already criminalized inhabitants of the slum. The police now had an excuse to hit them harder, people were fired – the community was badly affected. MV speaks out against all injustices, his books about drugs, the slums, hip hop and above all the truth about what really goes on in Brazil sold well CABECA DE PORCO (Pig’s Head) and FALCAO, MENINOS DO TRAFICO (no translate)and is the alternative bible of whomever wants to know what’s really what in a country that is usually known for its beautiful bodies, sexy beats and hot beaches. MV is a revolutionary, a rapper with a brain, tells it like it is and has done a lot for society by speaking the truth without hypocrisy never assuming he would make money out of HIP HOP and continuing to believe in his ideals by BOYCOTTING certain music festivals and standing up to the Brazilian kidnapping fearing upper class by performing w a gun on stage at a major gig and then covering it with a white cloth and reading out statistics of gun deaths to a crowd which roared with approval. The mainstream media however, continues to portray MV BILL in a stereotypical way by labeling him a criminal sympathizer despite his anti-gun and drug stance. MV BILL is an independent thinker and this is reflected in his lyrics, he is a real rapper who continues to pave his own way in a land of the disillusioned and the invisible. Leaving aside the controversy caused by the misinterpretation of his lyrics, MV BILL has already had his work recognized worldwide, having received an award for UNICEF’s distinction of the year in 2004, and in 2003 as one of the most politically aware rappers of our time. He is a major patron and key member of CUFA set up by Hip Hoppers, artists and people who live in the favelas, they have created support programmes and a platform for children to express themselves through art. MV BILL asked RONALDO (football hero) to give half his earnings from a key game to CUFA, setting a precedent which is set to finally change things in the slums. MV BILL had performed with the FUGEES in Paris at the Festival Rencontres Trans Musicales in December 2005 as well as appearing alongside MOS DEFF in a documentary about Hip Hop in Brazil.2006 MV Bill showed in the biggest tv chanel in Brasil a documentary about crime, drugs and childrens by one point of view completely different and it was the start for one big movement in all country. And it is a part of one trilogy (dvd, book and cd) where MV Bill is your guide. A writer, documentary maker, opinion maker and hip hop hero, he brings TRUE STORIES of the favelas, injustice, STRUGGLE, and street gangs to life with real power. His first single censored by the Brazilian police - he refuses to be silenced, his 3 cd and his 3 book are out now! The Cd is available at Itunes.‘In Brazil, hip-hop is no longer a type of music, a culture, but it has become an instrument of transformation, of changing people’s lives.’ MV Bill‘Hip hop’s last hope.’ Real Hip Hop‘MV Bill is a modern day Robin Hood.’ SPIN MagazineMV'S LATEST VIDEOMV BILL + CAETANO VELOSO = LINGUA DE TAMANDUA
Record Label: CHAPA PRETA
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