How To Classify G-Funk Era From It's Birth To Today

[b.laden]

and dont forget  other producers like the bomb squad production ( public enemy)they  made a type of modern funk with a typical james Brown bass . The track Fight the Power is typical Funk music over violent lyrics  , other artists like Schooly D who was one of the first gangsta rapper if not the first .
Dr Dre Yella Big Hutch was highly influenced by the Bomb squad . they produced Cube first LP.
but i guess the G Funk West took another direction with the chronic doggystyle and Black mafia life  with the George Clinton style and we know what kind of music...

[Sccit]

Let me guess, you had a conversation while working on detox and he told you he created gfunk?

oh, u a comedian now?


you’re deflecting from the fact that you can’t prove dre ever credited someone else for creating g-funk


see through


 

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

How to classify G Funk?  For a more Scientific explanation I bring to you the immortal words of the legendary Nate Dogg (the King of G Funk, the one and only)

G -  Game (money I make)
F -   Fools (I break)
U -  Undisputed Champ
N -  Neva gonna get it
K -  nikkaz that I knock on they back

(damn it feels good to see Long Beach on the maaaap)

[Jay_J]

efil4zaggin was already using the sound that hutch ran with

to say 1 person started it is disingenuous

all you gota do is google “who started g-funk?” to see just how multi-layered it truly is

You totally got me wrong bro. You are not paying attention. I didnt say one person started it. I said one person consciously did it first and named it and shaped a formula how to do it. Dre took that formula and re shaped in his own way and made it sound something powerful and considered as a sub genre. I'm giving credits to both actually.

I dont have to google bro. You know that. I live that shit

When it comes to proove it yeah i believe what Hutch said. There are people in the game who supported what he said. Also dre or anybody close to Dre never disclaimed it.

[Dee Tha AK]

How to classify G Funk?  For a more Scientific explanation I bring to you the immortal words of the legendary Nate Dogg (the King of G Funk, the one and only)

G -  Game (money I make)
F -   Fools (I break)
U -  Undisputed Champ
N -  Neva gonna get it
K -  nikkaz that I knock on they back

(damn it feels good to see Long Beach on the maaaap)

Good breakdown

Never noticed the lyrics

[abusive]

You totally got me wrong bro. You are not paying attention. I didnt say one person started it. I said one person consciously did it first and named it and shaped a formula how to do it. Dre took that formula and re shaped in his own way and made it sound something powerful and considered as a sub genre. I'm giving credits to both actually.

I dont have to google bro. You know that. I live that shit

When it comes to proove it yeah i believe what Hutch said. There are people in the game who supported what he said. Also dre or anybody close to Dre never disclaimed it.

I was going to say that. Even here at this site when people get at Dre people from his camp rush in to his defense. Notice how that isn't happening with this thread?

[Sccit]

You totally got me wrong bro. You are not paying attention. I didnt say one person started it. I said one person consciously did it first and named it and shaped a formula how to do it. Dre took that formula and re shaped in his own way and made it sound something powerful and considered as a sub genre. I'm giving credits to both actually.

I dont have to google bro. You know that. I live that shit

When it comes to proove it yeah i believe what Hutch said. There are people in the game who supported what he said. Also dre or anybody close to Dre never disclaimed it.

i think most of this is being based on hutch giving himself credit ..

you can say black mafia life was the first consciously full fledged g-funk album but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t g-funk before that, which is what’s being discussed .. so in that sense, hutch didn’t invent g-funk, hutch was just the first to go all in on it. 

i don’t even think making it a sub-genre was a conscious effort tbh .. pac was probably tryna come up wit clever rhymes in the moment and hutch told him to say “g-funk” on the spot because it sounded cool 

hutch is a great producer but just like the glove, he thrives on giving himself credit

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

Good breakdown

Never noticed the lyrics

Thanks homie, props.

And many try to copy the G Funk sound, but copy machines can’t copy platinum

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

In 1991 Pac comes to studio to record his verse for Black Mafia Life album but before he asks "Whats your style? I want to mention it in my verse" then Hutch answers "its g funk".

Just cause of how I came came up and the timing of when I got into rap I like to give the credit to Dre, Warren, and Nate…

…but this is an interesting quote and piece of hiphop history you posted on this thread.  Because, to me it’s another jewel 💎 in 2pac’s crown if he was the first to say the word on record and then for Hutch’s side the fact that a player like Pac would not know the official name of the sound yet and had to ask Hutch and then Hutch provides him wit the name—well that’s a huge feather in Hutch’s cap.

Good thread and good piece of history.

[Dee Tha AK]

Just cause of how I came came up and the timing of when I got into rap I like to give the credit to Dre, Warren, and Nate…

…but this is an interesting quote and piece of hiphop history you posted on this thread.  Because, to me it’s another jewel 💎 in 2pac’s crown if he was the first to say the word on record and then for Hutch’s side the fact that a player like Pac would not know the official name of the sound yet and had to ask Hutch and then Hutch provides him wit the name—well that’s a huge feather in Hutch’s cap.

Good thread and good piece of history.

[Jay_J]

Just cause of how I came came up and the timing of when I got into rap I like to give the credit to Dre, Warren, and Nate…

…but this is an interesting quote and piece of hiphop history you posted on this thread.  Because, to me it’s another jewel 💎 in 2pac’s crown if he was the first to say the word on record and then for Hutch’s side the fact that a player like Pac would not know the official name of the sound yet and had to ask Hutch and then Hutch provides him wit the name—well that’s a huge feather in Hutch’s cap.

Good thread and good piece of history.

so, we are alreayd off topic, i want to know how would you classify and catogorize g-funk in itself? how many types of era could you determine in g-funk history?

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

so, we are alreayd off topic, i want to know how would you classify and catogorize g-funk in itself? how many types of era could you determine in g-funk history?

When it comes to labels in music you hear many artists mistakenly say that "music is just music.  Why do we have to classify it and say, well this is gangsta rap, and this is conscious rap, and here you have Southern Rap, music is just music."

And people actually think that's an intelligent way of speaking—not realizing that a lot of these terms were created or publicized to further promote and market their music and help their careers become successful not only commercially but also critically. Such terms and phrases are popularized by journalists and other entities that cover the music all to help promote and translate the product in a way that is palatable to the consumer. 

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It's the same thing in politics.  A lot of idiots say stupid shit like, "What's this left and right, Republican, Democrat, conservative, libertarian, communist, socialist, man.. people are people".  That's a bit like saying "I love everybody and everybody is good"—and shows no discernment.  Let me give you another analogy—if a beautiful woman came up to you and told you you were so handsome and she loved you and you were a great person you would feel elated.  But now, imagine if you saw her move on to the next man walking the street, and the next man, and the next man, and the next man, and every man that walks by—well now those same words mean nothing.

So by saying all music is the same or all people are the same you are essentially saying nothing.

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So back to your o.g question, what originally is G-Funk?  These are just labels we use that help us classify music and it serves a valuable purpose; but these are loose definitions and not an exact Science with only one objective answer.  So if you ask me the question; G Funk is what Warren put in the G Funk documentary.  To me, G Funk is Doggystyle, the G Funk Era, the Twinz, Dove Shack—and then the contributions they made to others albums like to the Chronic.

..213 and the work they did from the time the formed on the underground up until Pac died is G Funk by my definition, but I respect other definitions like what Hutch said

[Detox Is A Myth!!!]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I know some people are going to single out the synth whistle as being necessary for it to be G-Funk, but I disagree.  I was listening to Snoop's "Don't Do the Crime" and even though this song lacks the synth whistle, this song definitely isn't east coast, it definitely isn't some south sh1t, it's some west coast funk.  It makes me realize that the essence of G-Funk is smooth, laid-back beats overlaid with hardcore rhyming from a gangbanger's perspective.  Typically it will have someone singing on the hook.

1. Laid-back beat (at least relative to other regions' beats) usually with a strong base groove and melodic keys
2. Hardcore rhyming
3. Clean catchy hook

[Jay_J]

I haven't read the whole thread, but I know some people are going to single out the synth whistle as being necessary for it to be G-Funk, but I disagree.  I was listening to Snoop's "Don't Do the Crime" and even though this song lacks the synth whistle, this song definitely isn't east coast, it definitely isn't some south sh1t, it's some west coast funk.  It makes me realize that the essence of G-Funk is smooth, laid-back beats overlaid with hardcore rhyming from a gangbanger's perspective.  Typically it will have someone singing on the hook.

1. Laid-back beat (at least relative to other regions' beats) usually with a strong base groove and melodic keys
2. Hardcore rhyming
3. Clean catchy hook

Good contrubition bro... thanks.

there are lots of examples of this type of g-funk, especially in mid 90s.