The hip-hop movement has in its social composition, young poor people who organize themselves in different ways. In the city of Recife, we find different political and organizational forms coexisting at the same time, an association, a network, many crews (possessions) and groups that do not follow a territorial or seek to follow the tradition of being articulated in all elements. The aim of this paper is to highlight the social conflicts that this movement establishes, the tensions that it provokes in the reference system with which is related and the instabilities in the hegemonic logic that it causes. Therefore, we present the dynamics of the movement, its system of references, tensions, conflicts and antagonisms with which it works. We identified three major conflicts: the youth poverty in the context of the consumer society, the media and its relationship with the cultural industry, and African-descent. The antagonisms are placed in an ethical political field´s formulation that is related to conventional and unconventional participation.
hip-hop movement; conflicts; antagonisms