Facção Central

Facção Central is a rap group based in Downtown São Paulo, Brazil. Their lyrics cover crime, poverty and social apartheid in the biggest city of Brazil. They became notorious after releasing the video for their song "Isso Aqui É Uma Guerra" (This Is A War). Sao Paulo was known in 1999 to be the most dangerous city of the world with around 10,000 murders per year. The video shows scary scenes of car theft, kidnapping, robbery and murders. It was censored in 1999 and the band members were accused of glorifying crime.