DJ marlboro and Hip Hop in Brazil

In a famous quote, Chuck D refers to rap as the black CNN. In many respects Rio or baile funk could be referred to as favela CNN. That is, it's used as a medium to convey how the people who live in the Brazilian favelas really feel using their own language, idioms and slang. baile funk is basically a strain of Miami Bass breakbeat, but much cruder and ruffer in it's production. There is a healthy anything-goes and fuck-fashion attitude to using samples, and classic late 80's Todd Terry can meet the riff from Doo Wah Diddy.

The scene is scorned upon by the Brazilian electronica scene-makers as well as the middle-class media. It's prole-like unpretentiousness and complete lack of "cool" makes it a scene apart from the rave and club scene dominated by São Paulo and the fashion conscious Paulistas. But ironically, baile Funk is the original Brazilian electronic dance music stemming from the incredibly popular Rio sound-systems of the 70's.

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