The 7 best Baile Funk tracks of all time
Baile Funk
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.
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Cidinho e Doca / Rap da Felicidade
"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.
Bob Rum / Rap do Silva
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.
DJ Marlboro / Melô do Tabaco
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.
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Tati Quebra Barraco / Sou Feia Mas Tô na Moda
"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.
MC Bola / Bota o Cabelo pra Trás
Montagem style — the beat cut into stutters and hard edits. Rio producers pushed the loop into something increasingly abstract while keeping it completely functional.
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MC João / Baile de Favela
São Paulo's version, and a hundred million views. Funk stopped being a Rio secret and became the dominant popular music of the country.
MC Serginho / Um Tapinha Não Dói
An enormous, disreputable hit that got funk onto television and into an argument about its lyrics that has never really ended.