AmarElo - It's All For Yesterday
Rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.
Leandro Roque de Oliveira, better known by the stage name Emicida, is a Brazilian rapper, singer and composer. He is considered one of the biggest hip hop revelations in Brazil in the 2000s. And he has an inspiring new project we will tell you a bit more about below.
As the title already says, Emicida: AmarElo – It’s All for Yesterday is in a hurry to make it happen. The recording of the show that the rapper made in November 2019 at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo mixes, in the Netflix film, with historiography of Brazilian blackness, historical repair, sociological analysis, autobiography and, eventually, in the middle of it all, a record making-of. It is an expression of an artistic claim in the same way that it is an expression of an urgency in the discourse.
It’s All for Yesterday so it quickly shows up much more of a myth-building film than necessarily a behind-the-scenes or creative process documentary.
We watched it and couldn’t recommend it more. Provocative, heartfelt and inspiring, it is mesmerizingly beautiful with songs filled with poetry and a long over due shout out for respect!
Available on Netflix from 2020.
But the trailer you can watch here at DCOMMX now! Just slide down.
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Some of our favorite songs by non-binary, gender-fluid, agender, genderqueer, and other artists beyond the binary! Listen now on Spotify!
From a past of struggle to a future of social change. IT’ S ALL FOR YESTERDAY! Now on Netflix!
Filmed in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the James Herriot series. You can find it on channel My 5.
