bun-u said:"carioca" is the slang for rio inhabitant, like cockney.....
you should've seen the disdain i got from staff in regular rio record stores, when I asked for this favela stuff, like I'd asked to shit in their beds or something...I finally found the compilations (usually bootlegged) in the markets.
funny i got exactly the same response trying to buy shaabi in egypt. a lot of the guys in the record shops just looked at you like you were nuts and one of them told "that is music for cab drivers, waiters and disreputable people"! course, that immedaitely made me like it even more