The album was eventually certified Triple Platinum by the RIAA in 1993 for selling three-million copies, it has also been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The album was a massive success, having three top 40 singles: " Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", the Eazy-E diss " Dre Day", and " Let Me Ride." It also reached No. Mainstream ġ992 was the breakout year for the genre, with Dr. Though these claims have been disputed with Cold 187um, a member of Above the Law, claiming that he came up with the name and sound. Dre, who produced No One Can Do It Better and Niggaz4Life, is often seen as the originator/creator of the G-funk sound. 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. 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, drugs, love for a city, love for friends and relaxing words.
G-funk (which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead.
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