today, the style has become much more fashionable amongst the middle-class youth, and has spread to more official venues across the city, with lapa being one of the more up-market hubs of the genre - the style has also grown in popularity in other parts of the world now as well, particularly in europe and north america.   

now, there are more than 100 bailes every weekend, with the parties attracting an estimated 100,000 people over the course of the week - a number of hostels in rio now offer package tours to the city's safer funk 'balls' - especially in favelas, where they have been at time prohibited by law enforcement.