The same year, Ice Cube's diss track towards N.W.A.
released another early example of the genre with their album Niggaz4Life, which reached No. History and origins Beginnings Įarly examples of the genre began to show up in 1989 with The D.O.C.'s It's Funky Enough and The Formula, the former was an early minor hit for the genre, reaching No. Too Short's lazy, drawl-heavy delivery was also a major influence on later G-funk rappers like Snoop Dogg. However, unlike Bay Area Mobb music, Southern California-born G-funk used more portamento synthesizers and less live instrumentation. Too Short had experimented with looping sounds from classic P-Funk records over bass-heavy tracks during this period. Īlthough G-funk originated in Los Angeles, the subgenre drew a large amount of influence from the earlier Bay Area-based sound known as Mobb music of the mid-to-late 1980s, pioneered by rappers like Too Short and E-40. This enabled him to produce music that had his own sounds, rather than a direct copy of the sample. Dre, a pioneer of the G-funk genre, normally uses live musicians to replay the original music of sampled records. Music theorist Adam Krims has described G-funk as "a style of generally West Coast rap whose musical tracks tend to deploy live instrumentation, heavy on bass and keyboards, with minimal (sometimes no) sampling and often highly conventional harmonic progressions and harmonies". Unlike other earlier rap acts that also utilized funk samples (such as EPMD and the Bomb Squad), G-funk often utilized fewer, unaltered samples per song. In essence, the smooth, slow-tempo sound of G-funk accompanied the perceived "laid-back" stereotype of Californian culture whereas East Coast hip-hop typically featured more aggressive attitudes alongside a fast-paced tempo (e.g. The trademark West Coast G-funk style of hip-hop was a very defining element of the region's music and helped distinguish it from the rivaling rap scene on the East Coast. There was also a slurred "lazy" or "smooth" way of rapping in order to clarify words and stay in rhythmic cadence.
The lyrical content depended on the artist and could consist of sex, drug use (especially marijuana), love for a city/neighborhood, love for friends and relaxing words. It is typically set at a tempo of anywhere between 80 to 100 BPM. G-funk (which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, heavy use of the snare drum, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead. The genre is heavily influenced by 1970s psychedelic funk (P-funk) sound of artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic. G-funk, short for gangsta funk, is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the late 1980s. Late 1980s and early 1990s, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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