{
  "slug": "baile-funk",
  "name": "Baile Funk",
  "aliases": [
    "funk carioca",
    "funk brasileiro",
    "proibidão",
    "montagem"
  ],
  "description": "Rio's favela dance parties from the late eighties, built on two Miami bass breaks looped almost without variation, with shouted Portuguese over the top and a police relationship that has never been anything but hostile.",
  "origin": {
    "place": "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil",
    "year": 1989
  },
  "lineage": [
    {
      "genre": "miami-bass",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/miami-bass/",
      "inherited": "Two records, endlessly. The Volt Mix and 808 breaks arrived from Florida on cassette and became the bed for essentially the entire genre — a whole music built by looping somebody else's drum programming."
    },
    {
      "genre": "samba",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/samba/",
      "inherited": "The vocal and the occasion. The call-and-response, the local celebrity and the neighbourhood dance are carnival practices; funk carioca is what happens when the bateria is replaced by a drum machine."
    }
  ],
  "bpm": {
    "min": 125,
    "max": 135
  },
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/baile-funk/",
  "trackCount": 7,
  "curatedBy": [],
  "playlists": {},
  "tracks": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "trackKey": "cidinho-e-doca--rap-da-felicidade",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/cidinho-e-doca--rap-da-felicidade/",
      "title": "Rap da Felicidade",
      "artist": "Cidinho e Doca",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/cidinho-e-doca/",
      "year": 1995,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "\"I only want to be happy, to walk freely in the favela where I was born.\" The genre's most quoted line, over the most basic possible beat.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "miami",
          "name": "Miami",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Cidinho%20e%20Doca%20Rap%20da%20Felicidade",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7pD8k2zaLqk",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "trackKey": "bob-rum--rap-do-silva",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/bob-rum--rap-do-silva/",
      "title": "Rap do Silva",
      "artist": "Bob Rum",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/bob-rum/",
      "year": 1995,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A narrative about a boy killed by the police, and one of the first funk records to reach national radio. It was banned from some stations for exactly that.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "dancing-to-bad-news",
          "name": "Dancing to Bad News",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Bob%20Rum%20Rap%20do%20Silva",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZ9MGgC1NI",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "trackKey": "dj-marlboro--melo-do-tabaco",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/dj-marlboro--melo-do-tabaco/",
      "title": "Melô do Tabaco",
      "artist": "DJ Marlboro",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/dj-marlboro/",
      "year": 1989,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Marlboro is the producer who turned the bailes into a recorded genre, and this is close to the beginning. Everything is the drum machine and the shouting.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "miami",
          "name": "Miami",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/DJ%20Marlboro%20Mel%C3%B4%20do%20Tabaco",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/search?q=DJ%20Marlboro%20Mel%C3%B4%20do%20Tabaco",
          "exact": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "trackKey": "tati-quebra-barraco--sou-feia-mas-to-na-moda",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/tati-quebra-barraco--sou-feia-mas-to-na-moda/",
      "title": "Sou Feia Mas Tô na Moda",
      "artist": "Tati Quebra Barraco",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/tati-quebra-barraco/",
      "year": 2004,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "\"I'm ugly but I'm in fashion.\" The funk carioca of the 2000s was full of women being ruder than the men, and Tati was the sharpest of them.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Tati%20Quebra%20Barraco%20Sou%20Feia%20Mas%20T%C3%B4%20na%20Moda",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNjQ8F-CAA",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "trackKey": "mc-bola--bota-o-cabelo-pra-tras",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/mc-bola--bota-o-cabelo-pra-tras/",
      "title": "Bota o Cabelo pra Trás",
      "artist": "MC Bola",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/mc-bola/",
      "year": 2009,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Montagem style — the beat cut into stutters and hard edits. Rio producers pushed the loop into something increasingly abstract while keeping it completely functional.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/MC%20Bola%20Bota%20o%20Cabelo%20pra%20Tr%C3%A1s",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/search?q=MC%20Bola%20Bota%20o%20Cabelo%20pra%20Tr%C3%A1s",
          "exact": false
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "trackKey": "mc-joao--baile-de-favela",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/mc-joao--baile-de-favela/",
      "title": "Baile de Favela",
      "artist": "MC João",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/mc-joao/",
      "year": 2015,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "São Paulo's version, and a hundred million views. Funk stopped being a Rio secret and became the dominant popular music of the country.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "miami",
          "name": "Miami",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/MC%20Jo%C3%A3o%20Baile%20de%20Favela",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_Uy9fkz9Q",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "trackKey": "mc-serginho--um-tapinha-nao-doi",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/mc-serginho--um-tapinha-nao-doi/",
      "title": "Um Tapinha Não Dói",
      "artist": "MC Serginho",
      "artistUrl": "https://waxonia.com/artist/mc-serginho/",
      "year": 2001,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "An enormous, disreputable hit that got funk onto television and into an argument about its lyrics that has never really ended.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/MC%20Serginho%20Um%20Tapinha%20N%C3%A3o%20D%C3%B3i",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iq6dTFi2tSM",
          "exact": true
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}