Talk:Rap das Armas

Meaning of Alemão
Alemao means german in portuguese and centrally/most used for naming the police..... when the police get to the ghetto the shout to one another "os alemao tao chegando ai" that means "the germans are coming here" :)

Alemão/German is a slang for enemy or "persona non grata".Can be the police, other drug dealers or anyone, but in the lyrics it is clear that it is not the police except when specified.

The word "alemão" (german), is a very specific slang for the police, not any enemy. There´s no passage in the lyrics that refer the word "alemão" for anyone except the police. When they sing, ".../Nois c´os alemão vamu nus diverti/...", they´re actualy saying, "We´re going to have some fun with the police".
 * Aleão (German), simply put, means the enemy. It is often used to refer to members of another faction. But as well said above, it really means persona non grata. Mamonas Assassinas for instant made a satire on this slang with a song depicting an alemão that steals the girl from the singer. In the first Tropa de Elite Movie, Bahiano says that polícia aqui no morro é inimigo, é alemão! (police in the slum is the enemy, alemão), but the police is often referred to as vermes by criminals (there are videos on YouTube of recorded conversations on open radio between criminals which supports this). The police also call criminals vermes (as you can see on the Tropa de Elite movie, when Capitão Nascimento tells one of his officers to put the vermin on the Pope's bill). --189.100.146.106 (talk) 01:48, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

There´s a place called "Morro do Alemão" in Rio de Janeiro, but there´s no relation with the music.
 * Complexo de Alemão takes its name from the former owner of the land (who was Polish and not german, by the way) --189.100.146.106 (talk) 01:48, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

"Funk"
The quotation in this article "but also when they take the bus or attend funk dances" sounds very outmoded. I think that it could at least be reworded to sound less old-fashioned.Jimjamjak (talk) 11:45, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * In Brazil, this crap music is called "funk", having or not roots on the original North-American Funk music (way better lyrics and style, of course). Rap das Armas is more like a bad quality gangsta rap than funk music. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Officer Boscorelli (talk • contribs) 14:32, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Serbo-Croatian?
Why is the "1995: Early version" section in serbo-croatian or something? Wanted to change but I did not know what version to use... would be bad if somethin disappeared. --Bobjork (talk) 20:10, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * there's no reason and you were allowed to delete it for good, since the "official" language of English Wikipedia is, OF COURSE, English. I deleted it for you, don't need to thank me. --Officer Boscorelli (talk) 14:34, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Calling for Peace? You Can't Be Serious
I giggled at this piece of text: Although the text called for peace and was against violence [...] OK... Says Who?! But I rather give this (quite subjective) passage the benefit of the doubt an convince myself that the person that wrote this was in good faith and probably got lost using Google Translator or something. After the part about the beauty's of the city, when it starts talking about the police, weapons, drug trafficking and all that, the lyrics clearly tend to glorify the criminal factions, most particularly the Comando Vermelho, since one of the singer shout the faction's motto fé em deus (faith in god). No, they aren't religious missionaries -- they are drug drug dealers and terrorists.

Yes its true they are making fun of reality... they mean in the lyrics that the drug dealers are bigger than everything... the music says " aqui nao tem mole pro EXERCiTO,CIVIL nem pra PM " that means that they dont do easy with the EXERCITO[millitary] CIVIL[civil police] or PM[millitary police} —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.77.139.137 (talk) 17:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)