G-Funk?

[¿Que?]

G-funk, or Gangsta-funk, is a sub-genre of hip hop music (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hip_hop_music) that emerged from Westcoast (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Westcoast_hip_hop) gangsta rap (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gangsta_rap) in the early 1990s. G-funk (which uses funk music (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Funk_music) with an artificially lowered tempo (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tempo)) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Synthesizers), slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-funk (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/P-funk) tunes, and a high-pitched portamento (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Portamento) sine wave synthesizer lead. The lyrical content consisted of sex, drugs, violence, and women. There was also a slurred “lazy” way of rapping in order to clarify words and stay in rhythmic cadence (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rhythmic_cadence).G-Funk (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/G-funk)

What are you guys' thoughts on G-Funk? As a fan of Parliament/Funkedelic, I've always kinda liked it, but was bothered by the gratuitous misogyny. Here are some examples:

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Should we leave this genre in the trash bin of hip hop history, or is a revival in order?

[JustMovement]

i like all of those songs and i love the funk. there is alot of trash as well and its wen hip hop became commercial, but fuck it

[Fawkes]

I dig it. Obviously I hate all the macho sexist bullshit, but that doesn't stop me from appreciating it for what it is.


Should we leave this genre in the trash bin of hip hop history, or is a revival in order?
No, revivals are never in order.

[Delenda Carthago]

booooooooooorrring.

[Zostrianos]

Glad there's already a thread for this. I used to love G-Funk in my teens, and still listen to it sometimes:

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[Zostrianos]

These are must have albums if you like G-Funk:

The Chronic - Dr Dre

Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg

Safe and Sound - DJ Quik

Doggfood - DPG

Real Brothas - BG Knocc Out & Dresta

Tha Shit (http://fromthaold2thanew.blogspot.com/2009/05/2nd-ii-none-shit-2008.html)- 2nd II None

All day everyday - South Central Cartel

Tha Doggfather - Snoop Dogg

Regulate - Warren G

G-Funk classics 1 &2 - Nate Dogg

Retaliation, revenge and getback - Daz Dillinger

Guerrilla Funk - Paris

It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa - Eazy E

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Good stuff...getting out my decade-old copy of The Chronic right now. :thumbup1:

[Ostrinski]

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Seems like the west coast brought chauvinism into hip hop. There really isn't any in east coast hip hop.

[Zostrianos]

Seems like the west coast brought chauvinism into hip hop. There really isn't any in east coast hip hop.

Yeah, that's the bad side of G-Funk. Ultimately, the way I remember we saw it in high school (when G-Funk was really popular), is that it's just music - the lyrics are questionable, but it's fiction and it was meant to shock and offend more than anything else.

[¿Que?]

Yeah, that's the bad side of G-Funk. Ultimately, the way I remember we saw it in high school (when G-Funk was really popular), is that it's just music - the lyrics are questionable, but it's fiction and it was meant to shock and offend more than anything else.
A lot of it borrows from George Clinton and P-Funk/Parliament/Funkadelic, including some of the sexism. The difference is that Clinton was more innuendo, whereas the G-Funk is more explicit. For example, Dr. Dre:
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