Funk is a popular form of music in Brazil that has its roots in Miami Bass style rap music. The beats are deep and rapid, and the voice aggro. Miami bass (also known as booty bass or bass music) is a form of music known for deep, throbbing beats, hyperkinetic rhythms and, often, sexually explicit lyrics. ...
Funk has its origins in the Favela culture of Rio De Janeiro. As the favelas are frequently the feared and ignored half of metropolitan Brazil, funk is a reflection of this cultural division. Much like rap and hip hop culture is wildly popular yet feared in the United States, funk is viewed as a overly loud, aggressive, sociopathic form of music by many of brazilian elite... Yet the kids just love it. A Rio de Janeiro favela A favela, picture by Ben Ateva Favela is a term commonly used in Brazil to describe areas such as shanty towns or slums. ... Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ...
Much like any good dance music, funk lifts heavily on samples - international rips, as well as rips on previous funk music. Much of the production occurs in small scale studios in Rio, and achieve distribution through hand-burned CDs in the markets throughout Rio, São Paulo, and Salvador.
The funk balls appeared immediately after poor youth were swept off Rio's beaches and forcibly kept in the slums on weekends.
Brazilian authorities blame the music, not poverty, for the funk ball carnage.
The tie that binds Brazilian kids who party to death with Afghanistani kids who are willing to kill people if they dare to party isn't just their common poverty.