MC 7Belo

MC 7Belo came up in Rio de Janeiro, where Brazilian funk has long been a voice for neighborhoods that don't get much attention elsewhere. The group's 2017 track "Vou Deixar a Marca" became one of those songs that just stuck around, getting played at parties and in cars across the city.

Their music tends to be direct and physical, with titles like "Raba Safada" and "157 de Tcheca" making the subject matter pretty clear. It's the kind of stuff that gets criticized for being too explicit or for touching on violence, but it also sounds exactly like where it comes from.

The group includes MC 7Belo himself, whose real name is João Vitor Silva, along with DJ Guga and DJ Anderson. They work in that collective style common to funk, where the track matters as much as the voice on top of it.