G-funk
Synth-heavy hip-hop
G-funk is a subgenre of hip-hop that emerged from West Coast rap in the early 1990s, characterized by slow, heavy beats, deep bass lines, and synthesizer melodies borrowed from 1970s funk.
The style was pioneered by Dr.
Dre and defined the sound of artists like Snoop Dogg and Warren G: That album is pure G-funk.
The "G" stands for gangsta.
America's sunset shore
- ComptonLos Angeles suburb
- Long BeachCoastal California municipality
- lowriderVehicle with dropped chassis
- CrenshawHybrid melon variety
cruising · Snoop Dogg · Nate Dogg · gangsta rap · 1990s · California · palm trees · hydraulics
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- mixingCombining into one mass
- interpolationEstimating between known values
- multitrackMultiple parallel recording channels
George Clinton · Funkadelic · slow tempo · laid-back · crisp · 808 · drum machine · loop
Electronic sound-generating instrument
- whineComplain in high pitch
- portamentoSeamless pitch transition
- high-pitchedHigh in frequency
- glideMove with effortless continuity
whistle · keyboard · lead · melodic · sine wave · pitch bend · talk box · vocoder
Early nineties year
- 1993Four-digit date
- 1994A calendar year
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- breakthroughSudden important advance
mainstream · Billboard · MTV · classic · influential · pioneering · platinum · crossover
West Coast
America's sunset shore
- ComptonLos Angeles suburb
- Long BeachCoastal California municipality
- lowriderVehicle with dropped chassis
Crenshaw · cruising · Snoop Dogg · Nate Dogg · gangsta rap · 1990s · California · palm trees · hydraulics · Chucks
Dr. Dre
- samplingExtracting subset for study
- mixingCombining into one mass
- interpolationEstimating between known values
George Clinton · Funkadelic · multitrack · slow tempo · laid-back · crisp · 808 · drum machine · loop · syncopation
synthesizer
Electronic sound-generating instrument
- whineComplain in high pitch
- portamentoSeamless pitch transition
- high-pitchedHigh in frequency
glide · whistle · keyboard · lead · melodic · sine wave · pitch bend · talk box · vocoder · layered
1992
Early nineties year
- 1993Four-digit date
- 1994A calendar year
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
breakthrough · mainstream · Billboard · MTV · classic · influential · pioneering · platinum · crossover · commercial
- 90s MusicNirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Green Day, Radiohead
- Black Musicblues, jazz, gospel choir, hip hop, R&B
- California MusicDr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A., Ice Cube, Tupac
G-funkhorrorcore
Transgressive hip-hop about terror
drill · trap · crunk · grime · Dirty South
G-funkindustrial
Of factories and production
noise music · punk · death metal · grindcore · lo-fi hip-hop