G-funk
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| Cultural origins | Late 1980s, Greater Los Angeles, California |
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| Greater Los Angeles, California | |
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G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap[5]) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily influenced by the synthesizer-heavy 1970s funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), often incorporated through samples or re-recordings.[4] It is represented by commercially successful albums such as Dr. Dre's The Chronic (1992), Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (1993), and 2Pac's All Eyez on Me (1996).
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