Recording
Rap do Silva
Bob Rum
Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1995
- On
- Baile Funk and Dancing to Bad News
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Ranked No. 2 in Baile Funk
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.
Picked by Dancing to Bad News
A boy shot by the police, told over the plainest baile beat there is, and it reached national radio before some stations banned it for the story rather than the noise. The party rhythm is what got it heard at all.
Analysis
6 sections, the first drop at 0:18, 8% of the way in.
- Tempo
- 129.2 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 7 dB
- moderate range, typical of a modern master
- Length
- 3:40
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:18Bpeakbar 10
- 0:31Bpeakbar 17
- 2:39Bpeakbar 86
- 3:16Bbreakdownbar 106
- 3:26Aoutrobar 111
Drop at 0:18 (bar 10). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:18
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 89
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 2:07
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 52
- Density
- 87
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:37
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 64
- Density
- 86
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · sung · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:10
- Energy
- 81
- Brightness
- 38
- Density
- 72
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:14
- Energy
- 5
- Brightness
- 94
- Density
- 91
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Against Baile Funk
Drops where Baile Funk usually drops — 8% of the way in.
6 sections here; 5 is typical.
Drawn from the 5 records on our Baile Funk list we have measured. The line over the energy curve above is that median.
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.