That's how many people here see their life. More of the world may start coming to see us in Rocinha -- and we welcome all of you. But if you give us a choice, most of us would probably rather be out there.

Some people thought, 'Well, it's next door to all the fancy Ipanema hotels -- so instead of scaring tourists away, why not bring them here and show them it's not such a bad place at all',

Many of our residents work at these hotels and homes in Ipanema, so it's a bit strange to see the rich people and outsiders come through here --looking at our homes and streets. Normally, people stay far away from Rocinha, unless they're here to buy drugs, like many of the rich people do.

“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.”

The Phipps wants us out now, ... I have nowhere to go.

It would suck for me to just be in the studio. We definitely want to tour, but two of us are married so its hard to tour just for the sake of touring. We want our music to heard. We want our songs to be known and for now we're playing locally trying to make that happen.