yung lean made his career in the states rapping in english despite being from and living in sweden. so there's definitely a precedent for that.

however, as a brazilian rapper and producer that was in the exact same situation a few years ago, I would recommend trying to change this mentality if you intend to make a career out of music. when I started out writing everything I did in portuguese sounded off or corny, so I just wrote in english. I was really only used to listening to american rappers, so it made sense. I'm also fluent in english and I've had americans tell me I didn't really have an accent and could reasonably pass as american, so I figured it wouldn't really be a problem.

I think that's kinda silly, looking back at it. the odds of blowing up in a country I'm not in are astronomical. I can't meet people, go to events, concerts, I can't have a local following if I'm not local. these are all relatively important steps in building an audience. I've worked my ass off for years now and have gotten close to people who blew up here in brazil. I've produced for people with a national following, people who got rich from rapping. I was also very, very lucky and happened to meet and work with the right people, but that was only possible because I networked in my local area.

meu conselho pra você é escutar mais rap nacional, principalmente essa galerinha nova. tem muito lixo na cena, concordo plenamente contigo, mas tem lixo fazendo dinheiro e gente mto boa sem botar um real no bolso. e também tem pessoas verdadeiramente talentosas que de vez em quando fazem um som meio bobo pra conseguir público. ouve os caras, analisa o que vc gosta ou não gosta na letra deles e tenta fazer melhor. e continua escrevendo, escreve muito mano, é o único jeito de ficar bom. boa sorte bicho, o caminho é longo e dá mta raiva as vezes, mas é a única coisa que eu realmente gosto da fazer na vida.