Brazil's MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album Issued on: 19/05/2021 - 04:08 Rapper MV Bill, is seen in Rio de Janeiro April 27, 2021 CARL DE SOUZA AFP 3 min Rio de Janeiro (AFP) Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years. At 47, Alex Pereira Barbosa -- his real name -- has earned the right to call himself a veteran of Brazilian rap since his 1988 debut as a teenage hopeful straight out of City of God, the Rio de Janeiro slum made famous in the film of the same name (2002).