Tasha & Tracie

Tasha Okereke and Tracie Okereke grew up in Jardim Peri, in the North Zone of São Paulo. They are the daughters of Roseane Aparecida do Nascimento and James Okereke.{{Cite web |title=Pretas, chaves e da favela |url=https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/tasha-tracie-okereke-rap-moda-favela-entrevista/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado |language=pt-BR}} [[Okereke]] is a surname of African origin. It comes from their Nigerian father, as their mother is Brazilian.{{Cite web |author=Catraca Livre [@CatracaLivre] |date=2022-07-20 |title=2) Okereke é um sobrenome de origem africana, vindo do pai de Tasha e Tracie que é nigeriano, já a mãe delas, é brasileira. |url=https://twitter.com/CatracaLivre/status/1549773254365257728 |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Twitter |language=en}} Both were arrested at different times for undisclosed reasons, which caused the girls to alternate between their childhood homes. There was also a period when the mother, with whom they spent most of that phase of their lives, moved to another city and they, as teenagers, had to support themselves. They worked in a store, restaurant and telemarketing. At 17, they already lived alone and had to work to pay the rent.{{Cite web |last=Vanini |first=Eduardo |date=2023-01-08 |title=Conheça Tasha & Tracie, a nova sensação do rap: ' A nossa vontade é revolucionar' |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/ela/gente/noticia/2023/01/conheca-tasha-and-tracie-a-nova-sensacao-do-rap-a-nossa-vontade-e-revolucionar.ghtml |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=O Globo |language=pt-br}}

Tasha Okereke and Tracie Okereke grew up in Jardim Peri, in the North Zone of São Paulo. They are the daughters of Roseane Aparecida do Nascimento and James Okereke.{{Cite web |title=Pretas, chaves e da favela |url=https://elastica.abril.com.br/especiais/tasha-tracie-okereke-rap-moda-favela-entrevista/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Elástica – Todos do mesmo lado |language=pt-BR}} [[Okereke]] is a surname of African origin. It comes from their Nigerian father, as their mother is Brazilian.{{Cite web |author=Catraca Livre [@CatracaLivre] |date=2022-07-20 |title=2) Okereke é um sobrenome de origem africana, vindo do pai de Tasha e Tracie que é nigeriano, já a mãe delas, é brasileira. |url=https://twitter.com/CatracaLivre/status/1549773254365257728 |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=Twitter |language=en}} Both were arrested at different times for undisclosed reasons, which caused the girls to alternate between their childhood homes. There was also a period when the mother, with whom they spent most of that phase of their lives, moved to another city and they, as teenagers, had to support themselves. They worked in a store, restaurant and telemarketing. At 17, they already lived alone and had to work to pay the rent.{{Cite web |last=Vanini |first=Eduardo |date=2023-01-08 |title=Conheça Tasha & Tracie, a nova sensação do rap: ' A nossa vontade é revolucionar' |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/ela/gente/noticia/2023/01/conheca-tasha-and-tracie-a-nova-sensacao-do-rap-a-nossa-vontade-e-revolucionar.ghtml |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=O Globo |language=pt-br}}

Sisters of Bitrinho, one of the founders of Batalha do Santa Cruz, the sisters still very young attended a rhyming battle in the São Paulo rap scene, responsible for revealing names like Projota, [[Emicida]] and Rashid. They met [[Drik Barbosa]] and were encouraged by the rapper to start the blog "Expensive Shit".{{Cite web |last=Moura |first=Beatriz |date=2021-08-04 |title=Entrevista: Tasha e Tracie – As meninas que *s menin*s gostam – Casa Natura Musical |url=https://casanaturamusical.com.br/tasha-tracie-diretoria-entrevista-goma-casa-natura-musical/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |language=pt-BR}}

Sisters of Bitrinho, one of the founders of Batalha do Santa Cruz, the sisters still very young attended a rhyming battle in the São Paulo rap scene, responsible for revealing names like [[Projota]], [[Emicida]] and [[Rashid (rapper)|Rashid]]. They met [[Drik Barbosa]] and were encouraged by the rapper to start the blog "Expensive Shit".{{Cite web |last=Moura |first=Beatriz |date=2021-08-04 |title=Entrevista: Tasha e Tracie – As meninas que *s menin*s gostam – Casa Natura Musical |url=https://casanaturamusical.com.br/tasha-tracie-diretoria-entrevista-goma-casa-natura-musical/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |language=pt-BR}}

== Musical career ==

== Musical career ==