Baile Funk

Baile Funk is a music genre from Rio. Baile Funk was born as a kind of party especially for dancing. They came up only in the Favelas and poor areas of Rio. Baile Funk started already in the 60s with the aim to give an option to party for the poor and underprivileged people of the suburbs and favelas. At the beginning the sort of music that was played was soul and funk from the USA. Some years after, more and more different influences happened. At the end of the 80s with the appearence of electronic/digital music from f.e. Kraftwerk from Germany, Funk music changed and somehow emerged as Electro, Freestyle and after all Miami Bass in the middle of the decade. With the beginning of Miami Bass, Baile funk turned into as we know it today. The MC rap like a US Gangsta-Rapper about sex, drugs and criminality- he talks about the social everyday life in the Favelas, the Slums of Rio de Janeiro.