Senzala e Favela (feat. Wilson das Neves e Emicida)
Chico Buarque
Slave Quarters and Slum (feat. Wilson das Neves and Emicida)
From the shame of slavery
In the affliction of the slave quarters
Color separation is seen
The black is always at ground level
On the steps of this scale
And that hasn't changed
Since the moment of creation
Of the first slum
The disintegration has returned
Black is still in this condition
Of misery and affliction
From when it began
Whip or bullet whizzing
Slum or slave quarters
It makes no difference
It seems to me that in every soap opera
Slave quarters or slum
It's our sentence
And where the government's hand comes in
It's just one more policy of exclusion
Our apartheid is endless
We have to fight for another abolition
From the shame of slavery
In the affliction of the slave quarters
Color separation is seen
The black is always at ground level
On the steps of this scale
That hasn't changed
Since the moment of creation
Of the first slum
The disintegration has returned
Black is still in this condition
Of misery and affliction
From when it began
Whip or bullet whizzing
Slum or slave quarters
It makes no difference
It seems to me that in every soap opera
Slave quarters or slum
It's our sentence
And where the government's hand comes in
It's just one more policy of exclusion
Our apartheid is endless
We have to fight for another abolition