from the mid 90s, the genre and the parties became more popular with other cariocas and some prominent 'sound teams' helped with the spread such as, soul grand prix, furacăo 2000, a cova, pipo's, and cash box.

over the last decades, the city has gone through legal measurements regarding the acceptance of funk carioca, seeing as the parties were historically an event rebelling against establishment as well as involved drugs, weapons, and discourtesy, attracting police force - officially on september 22nd of 2009 is defined as a cultural and musical movement of popular character by law.