# MC João — Baile de Favela

MC João’s Baile de Favela (2015) appears on 2 of our lists — Baile Funk and Miami, highest at No. 6 in Baile Funk. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 2015
- **On:** Baile Funk and Miami
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31
- **Artist:** [MC João](https://waxonia.com/artist/mc-joao/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/mc-joao--baile-de-favela/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 6 in [Baile Funk](https://waxonia.com/genre/baile-funk/)

São Paulo's version, and a hundred million views. Funk stopped being a Rio secret and became the dominant popular music of the country.

### Picked by [Miami](https://waxonia.com/theme/miami/)

São Paulo, a hundred million views, and the drum still tuned the way a Florida producer tuned it in 1985. Included as the far end of the line: thirty years on, the most popular music in Brazil is running on Miami's kick.

## Analysis

5 sections, the first drop of 3 at 0:19, 10% of the way in.

- **Tempo:** 129.2 BPM — holds throughout
- **Key:** F# minor
- **Dynamic range:** 3 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- **Length:** 3:08

- `0:00` A · **intro**, sung — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: vocals
- `0:35` B · **peak** (bar 19), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals
- `0:49` C · **steady** (bar 26), instrumental — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: bass, other
- `1:04` B · **peak** (bar 35), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: drums, bass, vocals
- `2:33` B · **outro** (bar 82), instrumental — the closing fall — playing: bass

**Drops** at 0:19 (bar 10), 0:56 (bar 30), 2:17 (bar 74). A drop is a moment, not a stretch.

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **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

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/MC%20Jo%C3%A3o%20Baile%20de%20Favela) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_Uy9fkz9Q)

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