G-funk

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of gangsta funk; also in imitation of P-Funk (“Parliament-Funkadelic”).

Noun

G-funk (uncountable)

1. (music) A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.

   Man, I love sitting back and listening to some jived out G-funk!

   • 2004, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     The Chronic, and the other G-funk albums that followed, scandalized the civic engagement and racial ideals of gangsta's parent culture in several salient ways.