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