{"id":1066,"date":"2011-04-29T22:42:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:34:02","slug":"a-man-turned-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"A Man Turned Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A portrait of Valnei Succo<\/strong> by Samuel Lima<\/strong>, both of whom are participants in the RioOnWatch<\/a> project\u00a0being trained in CatComm<\/a>‘s community journalism course<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Graffiti artist and MC in pursuit of a Catalan course, MC Succo is a 23-year-old Flamengo fan, born and raised in the favela Faz Quem Quer, Rocha Miranda in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. His given name is Valnei, by his mother’s own creation, joining his father’s name, Valdir, with his uncle’s, Lucinei. \u201cMy sister also got a similar, mixed name: my mother\u2019s name, which is Lucilene, with her father\u2019s name, Josemir. So her name is Josilene,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The history of his nickname begins with his friend, the auto mechanic who first called him \u201cTire Juice\u201d more than ten years ago, because of the color of his skin. \u201cSince people like to abbreviate everything, it became just Juice,\u201d he says, before lamenting that friend’s death, murdered for liking to “mess with other men\u2019s wives.\u201d The loss makes him think of what he calls Rio\u2019s urban Western, complete with burned tires and all. Four days later, his friend\u2019s killer would die in front of his house. \u201cBecause [my friend] had credit, so the guy shouldn’t have done that to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite having a historic connection to Faz Quem Quer, the first houses of which were built by his grandparents about 40 years ago, Valnei only goes to his community now to collect the rent for the house he inherited from his parents. \u201cAt this moment I am living with my grandmother on the asphalt [as opposed to in the favela] in Rocha Miranda.\u201d<\/p>\n

The favela Faz Quem Quer was occupied by the Military Police about a month ago, after an intense firefight during a funk party that ran beyond its scheduled time and bothered residents. \u201cThe police came in striking everyone, including residents and even those who had called them. Then, the police began to walk around with the \u2018snitches\u2019 to pinpoint residents who worked in the drug trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Succo is used to gunfire between criminals and the police. It’s no coincidence that his brother wrote a track called \u201cSad News,\u201d based on a massacre that took place at the end of 2002. \u201cFourteen youngsters, aged 16 to 27,\u201d remembers Succo, who remained locked in school for hours that day. \u201cAnd the bodies just stayed there for two weeks. One even got to the point where it split down the middle.\u201d Those kids were friends of Succo’s and his brother: \u201cThey were involved in the drug trade, yes, but there was no firefight or even an attempt to subdue them.\u201d The victims of the 2002 massacre were not the only people linked to the drug trade among Succo\u2019s relations, he has relatives still involved in organized crime. \u201cOne of my cousins is a manager and another is a boss. And I have a cousin in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MC attributes the strong presence of drug trafficking in the community his grandparents named to the almost complete absence of the State, reduced to one municipal school, one preschool and one space for kids from five to ten to play sports. Since the arrival of the police, the \u2018pagofunk\u2019 dance and some popular street parties organized by one of his uncles have been banned. One of the rare actions by public authorities he celebrates are the recently paved roads. \u201cFor seven years the bus didn’t come all the way up to the top of the hill, but now it\u2019s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

An admirer of Marechal’s and Os Inumanos’ rap and Arlindo Cruz’s and Bezerra da Silva’s samba, MC Succo is adding the two rhythms to funk music in a project that he is writing for the State Bureau of Culture. \u201cThe name of the project is \u2018Two Elements\u2019 and it will be a songwriting and deejaying (with software) class,\u201d says the young Rocha Miranda resident who started to rap thanks to a battle of sound crews at his community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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