Rap and rhyme duel at school: experiences based on hip-hop pedagogy*1

Abstract Based on elements of the so-called hip-hop pedagogy and the concept of connective marginalities, this article aims to present reflections about pedagogical experiences that had the rap, an oral expression of the hip-hop movement, as a central element in the classroom. This article aims to develop such discussion based on the experience of a workshop and a rhyme battle held in 2023 with elementary school students at the EMEF Professora Célia Regina Lekevicius Consolin school, an educational unit located in the north zone of São Paulo, SP, in order to dialogue with possible ways to work with rap, especially raps defined as socially engaged as didactic tool, mainly in a context of high social and economic vulnerability, as is the case of the aforementioned school students, of many residents who live in housing complexes and precarious housing near the school and also of young people all around the world. Through these activities, carried out in the school environment with 5th and 8th grade classes, it was possible to propose a space of valuing black culture and of anti-racist, critical and culturally relevant educational practices that can contribute to the implementation of laws nºs 10.639/03 and 11.645/08.