More than a music video, “Bluesman” became an 8 minute short-film that revealed the unconscious racism within the spectators by showing a black man running, not from the police, but simple because he was late for class, rupturing the popular racist Brazilian saying “A white man running is an athlete, a black man running is a thief.”

In Brazil, the country with the biggest black population outside of Africa, racism is institutionalized. So, when upcoming artist Baco Exu do Blues asked us to launch his second album - Bluesmen - we didn’t make it about the songs. We turned it into a movement that broke the stereotypes of Blackness imposed by society and changed the course of Brazilian rap.