• Indigenous rap group Brô MC's (photo: André Patroni/Divulgação)
    Short Essay
    To what extent do sampling practices maintain or disrupt an exoticized ideal of indigenous populations? The Brazilian research collective Laura confronts two sampling strategies performed by different artists in Brazil. On one hand, a worldwide EDM artist who repeats the clichés of exotizing cultural appropriation, and on the other indigenous artists who use rap as a mode of enunciation.