M. V. BILL

MV Bill is a Brazilian rap singer and co-author of the best-selling book Falcão - Meninos do Tráfico.
MV Bill, whose real name is Alexandre Barreto, is one of the leading and most controversial rappers and heroes of Brazilian hip-hop in Rio de Janeiro. Rio remains as the center of developing Brazilian politics [1] and offers MV Bill a fitting place to pursue his advocacy and fight for social justice. MV Bill is a strong advocate for getting the Brazilian youth out of the druge trade and into some other forms of self uplift, so he began a network of NGOs located in Rio, which strive to teach hip-hop skills, graffiti, and break dancing to children, alongside important educational classes, such as computer training. Many of his songs contain lyrics discussing the Brazilian youth lost to the dangerous trades and violent confrontations in Rio. MV Bill has also funneled his passion towards social injustice into a book, “Cabeca de Porco,” that he co-authored with Celso Athayde and Luis Eduardo Soares, one of Brazil’s foremost social anthropologists. The book, published in 2005, revolves around the issue of social injustice and violence in Brazil and discusses what must be done to solve the problem.[2]