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G-funk

G-funk noun: a kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.

Noun

G-funk (uncountable)

  1. A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.
    • Man, I love sitting back and listening to some jived out G-funk!
    • 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.2004, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 144

Origin of G-funk

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

Questions about G-funk

What does G-funk mean?
G-funk means a kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.
What part of speech is G-funk?
G-funk is a noun.

Words near G-funk in the dictionary

  1. g-flats
  2. g-force
  3. g-forces
  4. G-form
  5. G-forms
  6. G-funk
  7. g-girl
  8. g-girls
  9. G-LOC
  10. G-mail
  11. G-man

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