Since the early 2000s, hip-hop in Brazil has emerged as a musical culture specific to “sensitive” or “vulnerable” neighbourhoods in the periphery of major urban centres. An analysis of this musical practice in a comparative approach (with, for example, France or the United States) inevitably leads us to think of hip-hop as an aesthetic which is essentially marginal or subversive and specific to a certain population. However, this approach should be enriched with a historical perspective in order to understand the Brazilian hip-hop, not as the transposition in terra brasilis of a model, but rather as a construction with multiple social and identity references. It is the issue of this article that focuses on the processes that tend to set the hip-hop at the heart of the “outlying” neighbourhoods of Brazilian cities. The ring road, as a location for the hip-hop, has more than a historical and social construction than an identical transposition of a culture of North American ghettos.