PUTOS QUI A TA CRIA talks about a reality that unfortunately exists in Portugal. After 30 years of fascism, the 25th of April of 1974 brought LIBERTY and DEMOCRACY to the Portuguese people and consequently to the ex – colonies in Africa and Portugal that was mainly a country of emigration begun as well to be a country of immigration.
Many Africans came to Portugal; the common history was the key to a dream that in many cases became a nightmare.
In the eighties many slams started to grown in the suburbs of Lisbon. The neighbourhood it’s solidarity and as well at the some time exclusion. The African communities become to be one of the most venerable groups to poverty and social disintegration.
Nowadays thousands of young people, vulgarity called the second generation, claim for their rights. They don’t want to follow their parent’s footsteps, instead of the dream they search for a real equal treatment in the Portuguese society. But the stigma towards them stills exit; disinterest, unfaith, revolt, frustration and the concerning increasing of the youth criminality underlines many life’s stories.
With PUTOS QUI A TA CRIA a group of 9 young rappers, from different disadvantage neighbourhoods around Lisbon – Portugal, came together to fight against discrimination, prejudice and violence and leave a message of hope to all invisible children that are growing up outside in the Portuguese suburbs.
Este projecto foi financiado pela Comunidade Europeia através da medida 3 do Programa JUVENTUDE - Iniciativas Jovens.