G-funk

noun

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

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

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Meanings

nounG-funk (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.

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

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    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

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

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APA

G-funk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G-funk

MLA

“G-funk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G-funk. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “G-funk,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/G-funk.

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