The main work of the biggest rap group in Brazil published in book form, as compelling as ever and as current as ever. Mandatory reading for the Unicamp entrance exam.

At the turn of the 1990s, Racionais MC's emerged as one of the most important events in Brazilian culture. Praised by critics, the album Sobrevivendo no inferno sold more than one and a half million copies.

Now published in book form, preceded by an introductory text and interspersed with classic and previously unpublished photos, Racionais' raps are the most accomplished image of a society that has become humanly unviable, and a radical, aesthetically brilliant attempt to survive it.

“It was with Surviving in Hell that black and peripheral youth were formed. Because of this album, many people graduated in self-esteem and did not enter the college of crime.” — Sérgio Vaz

“The non-cold, historical and real account of the mentality that massacres and excludes in Brazil.” — Criolo