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Meet Lela MC, the 12-year-old who is already a big presence on Bogotá’s rap scene – picture essay

Gabriela Brito, AKA Lela MC, performed her first rap song six months after her family fled Venezuela amid violence and a severe lack of necessities

It’s rush hour in Bogotá, and the city’s rapid-transport system is tightly packed with commuters when, on one bus, the thump of a hip-hop beat reverberates from a boombox, and a young girl starts rapping into a microphone.

Passengers crane to watch the performance, and – above the groaning of brakes and tattoo of car horns – she spits out an intricately rhyming piece about exile and hope.

Lela, 12, sings her track, Time Machine, in Bogotá. Below, Lela sits on a sofa inside the club.

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Topic: [The Guardian] Meet Lela MC, the 12-year-old who is already a big presence on Bogotá’s rap scene – picture essay (Read 1366 times)

[The Guardian] Meet Lela MC, the 12-year-old who is already a big presence on Bogotá’s rap scene – picture essay

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