'If it doesn't smell like funk, something's wrong with your recipe': Brazilian baile funk goes global, again

Four decades after it originated in the favelas of Rio, a new wave of the electronic music genre is exploding on TikTok, and inspiring the likes of Cardi B and Travis Scott Harsh, thunderous kicks; offbeat, crispy cymbals; powerful - sometimes incomprehensible - vocals, all preferably blasted out of sturdy speakers. This is the sound of baile funk, an electronic music born 40 years ago the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and one of the most thrilling and downright weird sounds to ever cross i...