However, unlike other movements, hip-hop is characterized by its fluidity, as well as by the informality of its links, so it applies what McDonald has defined as “experience movements,” that is, of mobilizations that are not structured in more or less established organizations, but are activated according to the circumstances and the bonds of solidarity. “Remember that hip-hop is the one that creates the consciences of the ‘parche’, 2 of the corner, that defends a group of beliefs that this is the culture that prepares revolutions with a little science, prepares minds for solutions.” 3 Hoppers define themselves as movement, as participants in a mental revolution, that is, an alternative culture. In effect, the spectacle is constituted at the same time, in a mobilization tool, as in an obstacle that deactivates its discourse. This analysis emphasizes how these songs are presented to the public, as well as the tensions that arise between their proposal of social mobilization and the show. Here, the lyrics of the hip-hop songs of Bogotá are analyzed. Hip-hop reflects a long and complex tradition of Afro fights in the United States that, marginalized from the sociopolitical spaces of society, found in this art a powerful tool of denunciation, vindication, and participation. These music and their dances were spread through films and records that played on youth radio stations in the 1980s. Indeed, since the 1970s, a musical style has developed in New York in which the DJs mixed music (“scratching” the acetates) with the improvisations of the “Masters of Ceremonies” (MC) in the middle of parties where they invented dances that gave rise to rap and break dance. Report, resist, confront, mobilize are some of the verbs that have found life in hip-hop since its origin. Its purpose is to denounce, through its art, the death of hundreds of young people from the popular neighborhoods fallen at the hands of social extermination, who saw in them “dangerous bodies” that had to be eliminated. On June 5, 1995, a group of hoppers took the Plaza de Bolívar, located in Bogotá, Colombia.
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