Jocimar

Jocenir José Fernandes Prado, known as Jocenir, author of "Diário De Um Detento", in partnership with Mano Brown (Racionais Mc's), served time in Avaré at the "Dr. Paulo Luciano de Campos" Penitentiary (P1). Who talks about the partnership is Mano Brown himself, in a video that circulates on the internet. The rapper says that he met Jocenir at the Casa de Detenção in São Paulo, who gave him the lyrics of what would become one of the best-known songs by Racionais Mc's and national rap. "I completed the lyrics and we were ready to record the song, we went after Jocenir to tell him, but he was no longer at the Casa de Detenção. Then we found out that he was in Avaré. We went after him in Avaré to tell him the news and he almost didn't believe it," said Mano Brown. Some time later, already at liberty, Jocenir wrote the book "Diário De Um Detento", the eponymous name of the hit song, in which he tells of his arrest and the prison routine in the public jails of Barueri and Osasco and the Casa de Detenção and P1 of Avare. The book led Jocenir to grant interviews to Jô Soares and Marília Gabriela. Rap, released in 1997 on the album "Sobrevivendo no Inferno", leveraged the group's career and certainly belongs to the team of Brazilian music that marked the time. The lyrics, a dazzling epic, with strong images and a unique poetics ("ratatá, another subway will pass"), which involves denunciation, heart, chronicle and boldness ("tick-tac, it's still 9:40, the clock in the jail is ticking in slow motion"), was already sung by manos, minas and "playbas", who knew it by chorus by chorus, and boosted the rap movement, exporting it outside the "perifa". In the book "Diário de um Detento", Jocenir curbs his amazing semantics and starts with a simple, didactic narrative, with a beginning, middle and end, pointing out the numerous flaws of the system and navigating around the stress that life in prison imposes.