{"id":2450807,"date":"2019-11-06T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=908200"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:05:34","slug":"drake-tries-his-hand-at-baile-funk-still-ends-up-sounding-like-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/drake-tries-his-hand-at-baile-funk-still-ends-up-sounding-like-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Tries His Hand at Baile Funk, Still Ends Up Sounding Like Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1069779090W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/drake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_drake\" data-tag=\"drake\">Drake<\/a> borrowed a jolt of energy from the speedy Brazilian genre known as baile funk on Wednesday, when he remixed MC Kevin o Chris\u2019 streaming hit \u201cEla \u00e9 do Tipo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MC Kevin o Chris originally released \u201cEla \u00e9 do Tipo\u201d in March. The single\u2019s whiplash-inducing swings from airy to punchy proved popular, amassing more than 80 million streams on Spotify. A YouTube video that features the MC cheerfully driving a Volkswagen bus through the sky picked up another 16 million views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Baile funk hits are sparse and hard-driving, sometimes reaching tempos of 150 beats per minute. The tracks often contain little more than a single vocal line, a twisting melodic motif, and bounding programmed percussion. Drake has never operated in this setting before, but he treats \u201cEla <span>\u00e9<\/span> do Tipo\u201d the same way he treats R&amp;B tracks, singing soft, glum lines about a dysfunctional romance. Drake starts out as the callous guy \u2014 \u201cthe first time I saw you I wasn\u2019t thinking of you and I\/I was just thinking of I\u201d \u2014 and ends up lovelorn and pining: \u201cTry, you won\u2019t even try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEla <span>\u00e9<\/span> do Tipo\u201d remix appears to mark the return of Drake\u2019s international interest. The star spent much of 2015, 2016, and 2017 trying to elevate music from abroad \u2014 Nigerian afrobeats, U.K. grime, Jamaican dancehall \u2014 especially on <em>More Life<\/em>, a \u201cplaylist\u201d that functioned as a sprawling, curious album. On 2018\u2019s massive <i>Scorpion <\/i>album, however, he re-focused on rap and R&amp;B, the styles that made him a star.<\/p>\n<p><!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>Drake is not the only artist looking at Brazil. Baile funk started to attain new levels of global exposure in 2017, in part because the genre performs extremely well on YouTube \u2014 KondZilla, one of the ten most popular YouTube channels in the world, is entirely devoted to baile funk.<\/p>\n<p>Once major labels realized how popular the genre was, they began to look for ways to reach baile funk\u2019s enthusiastic listeners. Universal Music picked up MC Fioti\u2019s \u201cBum Bum Tam Tam\u201d \u2014 the first billion-view baile funk video \u2014 and released a remix with Future and J Balvin. 2 Chainz and French Montana appeared on a remix to another major Brazilian hit, MC Kevinho\u2019s \u201cOlha a Explos\u00e3o.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With help from Drake, MC Kevin o Chris may enjoy a rare privilege for a baile funk artist: charting in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-mc-kevin-o-chris-remix-908200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake borrowed a jolt of energy from the speedy Brazilian genre known as baile funk on Wednesday, when he remixed MC Kevin o Chris\u2019 streaming hit \u201cEla \u00e9 do Tipo.\u201d MC Kevin o Chris originally released \u201cEla \u00e9 do Tipo\u201d in March. The single\u2019s whiplash-inducing swings from airy to punchy proved popular, amassing more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2450807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 04:06:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}