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November 22, 2007

A BAILE FUNK DICTIONARY

Filed under: Extra

seen here. baile funk wiki here.

alemão = a german; in the street slang meaning enemy. can be either someone from a rival drug gang or a police.
asfalto = the name reffering to the normal city instead of a favela or a morro. Comes from the paved streets. (many of the favelas have only unofficial dirt streets.)
baile = a ball, a party
baile funk = a funk ball, party where funk is played
bonde = a group of people, a crew – also a train like dancing style where you go dancing in a row, one behind each other.
carioca = a Rio inhabitant
comunidade = a favela community (some people consider favela a bit discriminating as a name and prefer to talk about communities.)
equipe = a sound system crew
funk carioca = People in Rion call the style of music funk carioca. Outside of Brazil it’s generally called baile funk deriving from the name of the parties where it’s played.
funkeiro = a person who likes baile funk
gringo = a foreigner
kuduro = Angolan ghetto-tech/house music
morro = a hill, also used generally as a synonym reffering to the favelas that are mostly situated on hills and hill tops.
popozuda = a girl with a big ass (brazilian men prefer the good, round big asses)
proibidão = genre of “extremely forbidden” songs, that usually contain gun lyrics, references and praises of the drug gangs or hard sexual slackness.
quadra = a home space of a samba school, used for training and parties
tamborzão = the main heavy percussion loop used in baile funk songs
traficante = a drug dealer operating within some of Rio’s drug factions




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