found: Work cat: Dr. Dre. The chronic, 1992.
found: Wickett Crickett. Where U from, where U from, where U from, 1996.
found: Grove music online, May 5, 2022:Death Row (The label's first release was Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, a groundbreaking album that paired explicit and often violent lyrics with commercial beats that were based on older soul, funk, and R&B songs. The musical style of The Chronic became known as "G-Funk" (Gangsta-funk), a style that dominated many of Death Row's early albums as well as most West Coast gangsta rap throughout the 1990s)
found: Krims, Adam. Rap music and the poetics of identity:p. 74 (One of the great commercial presences in the history of rap music has been G-funk, a style 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)
found: Wikipedia, May 5, 2022(G-funk; short for gangsta funk, is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the late 1980s. The genre is heavily influenced by 1970s psychedelic funk sound of artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic; G-funk (which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, heavy use of the snare drum, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead. It is typically set at a tempo of anywhere between 80 to 100 BPM; although 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; the majority of G-funk music has come out of California, the overall sound has been utilized by additional US rappers and hip-hop groups that were based in other states across the U.S. during the time of the style's popularity in the 1990s; Southern G-funk - in the 1990s, Houston, Texas had a small, but noteworthy g-funk scene at the peak of the genre's popularity)
