Prince William has been spotted shaking hands and joking around with locals as he took a jog through Central Park on his whistle stop visit to New York this week.
31.08.2023 - 18:23 / thefader.com
Brazil has long been a laboratory for sonic innovation, synthesizing the unique musical traditions of the country’s diverse population. At the cutting edge is baile funk, a sound that stems back decades but evolves in new directions at a lightning-fast rate, reinventing itself as a genre as unexpectedly as the beat switches.
You can still hear traces of the electro, Miami bass, and early hip-hop styles it evolved from in the off-kilter rhythms and metallic shards of noise, but baile funk has become its own complex musical ecosystem, with a diverse spectrum of regional variants and specific subgenres. Hip-hop began as dance music, but American rap music frequently has a cagey relationship to its origins in the discotheque and roller rink, often privileging the mental stimulation of clever lyricism over the physical exhilaration of live performance.
Baile funk has none of those same qualms, as much rap music as it is rave music: you often have the classic hip-hop combination of a boisterous MC combined with a nimble DJ, but the MC’s primary function is to pump up the jam, often just repeating the same word or phrase over and over until it blends into the beat. The primacy of producer-rapper duos within baile funk makes it a highly collaborative form, born from the uniquely electric relationship between a producer, a rapper, and the crowd they’re conducting.
The sanded-down mainstream version of baile funk might already be familiar to audiences outside Brazil — thanks to mainstream pop stars like Anitta and the Fast & Furious franchise’s enduring obsession with the city of Rio de Janeiro — but its most adventurous corners have often been a locally-kept secret. Even then, baile funk is a scene that’s intensely online as it
.Prince William has been spotted shaking hands and joking around with locals as he took a jog through Central Park on his whistle stop visit to New York this week.
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