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In the early days of hip hop, funk music was widely used as a source of samples. This continued to a lesser extent in more recent years. This continued to a lesser extent in more recent years. Pages in category "Funk-rap songs"
G-funk, short for gangsta funk, (or funk rap [5]) is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s. The genre is heavily influenced by the synthesizer -heavy 1970s funk sound of Parliament-Funkadelic (aka P-Funk), often incorporated through samples or re-recordings. [ 4 ]
Hip hop as a general rule consists of two elements: an instrumental track (the "beat") and a vocal track (the "rap"). The artist who crafts the beat is the producer (or beatmaker), and the one who crafts the rap is the MC (emcee). In this format, the rap is almost always the primary focus of the song, providing most of the complexity and ...
Funk ostentação; Frat rap; G-funk; Hardcore hip hop. Dirty rap; Gangsta rap. Mafioso rap; Horrorcore; Memphis rap; Hyphy. Jerkin' Instrumental hip hop; Latin hip hop. Chicano rap; Lofi hip hop; Miami bass; Mumble rap; Nerdcore. Chap hop; Political hip hop. Conscious hip hop; Progressive rap; Religious hip hop Christian hip hop; Jewish hip hop ...
In 2005 Format released his second album "If You Can't Join 'Em… Beat 'Em" and toured extensively throughout 2005/06. In 2006 Format's fabriclive 27 in the Fabric DJ mix series was one of the most well received of the series. His DJ sets are renowned for their boundary-crossing selection of the funk, soul, rock & hip-hop and his fabric mix ...
The song debuted as a minor hit but later became one of Three 6 Mafia's most popular songs. The 2007 documentary film Screwed in Houston details the history of the Houston rap scene and the influence of the chopped and screwed subculture on Houston hip hop. In 2011, University of Houston Libraries acquired over 1,000 albums owned by DJ Screw.
Phonk (/ f ɒ ŋ k / ⓘ) is a subgenre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.The genre is characterized by its use of vintage Memphis rap vocals, chopped and screwed production techniques, and samples from early 1990s hip hop, often combined with samples from jazz and funk.
Dan Cairns of The Sunday Times has described "The Message"'s musical innovation: "Where it was inarguably innovative, was in slowing the beat right down, and opening up space in the instrumentation—the music isn't so much hip-hop as noirish, nightmarish slow-funk, stifling and claustrophobic, with electro, dub and disco also jostling for room in the genre mix—and thereby letting the lyrics ...