“Assaltos & Batidas”: FBC’s new album

FBC is back! And this time, he brings an album that is more than just music: it is experience, social criticism, and living art. In “Assaltos & Batidas”, the rapper from Minas Gerais combines heavy beats and cutting narratives to reflect the daily life of Brazilian outskirts. Produced by Coyote Beatz, Pepito, DJ Cost, and Nathan Morais, the album also features collages with Racionais MC's, Facção Central, and BaianaSystem, establishing a direct link with the lineage of resistance music in the country. The tracks dialogue with jazz, metal, funk, MPB, and classic rap from the 90s, creating a rich, aggressive, and exciting sound. The album, released on June 6, features 11 new tracks that serve as portraits of the favela, connecting sound and discourse with intensity and truth. But the project goes beyond the album. “Assaltos & Batidas” has also been turned into a film. In the short film directed by Renan 1RG, we meet Magrão, a young man from the favela who, between the seduction of crime and the strength of militancy, faces the weight of decisions that are not just his, but of an entire exclusionary system.

Recorded in Belo Horizonte with a cast made up of independent artists and residents of the outskirts of the city, the film transforms the songs into a powerful audiovisual narrative, designed to engage with social media audiences in the formats of Reels, TikTok and Shorts. And there's more: the album's concert also promises to be an event. With a full band, set design, costumes and screens, FBC transforms the stage into a canvas and the album into a total experience. A hybrid, political and popular project that uses different languages and spaces without losing its center: the deep Brazil of the streets, of the struggle, of art.

In “Assaltos & Batidas”, FBC mixes everything: denunciation and poetry, chronicle and dream, assault and beating. It is rap as a mirror and as a scream. And yet more proof that FBC doesn’t just make music, he makes history.