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G Funk
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 (P-funk) sound of artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic. Characteristics 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. The lyrical content depended on the artist and could consist of sex, drug use (especially marijuana), love for a city/neighborhood, love for friends and relaxing words. There was also a slurred "lazy" or "smooth" way of rapping in order to clarify words and stay in rhythmic cadence. The trademark West Coast G-funk style of hip-hop was a very defining element of the regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Hip Hop
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast region of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records and the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, and others. History Early years Several events laid the foundations for West Coast hip hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Mellow Man Ace, Too Short, Kid Frost, Ice-T and Eazy-E—or even before the emergence of rap itself. According to Syd Caesar, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts riots of 1965." In 1967, Budd Schulberg founded a creative space in Los Angeles entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythmic Cadence
In Western musical theory, a cadence (Latin ''cadentia'', "a falling") is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). ''The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', pp. 105-106. . A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music. A rhythmic cadence is a characteristic rhythmic pattern that indicates the end of a phrase. A cadence can be labeled "weak" or "strong" depending on the impression of finality it gives. While cadences are usually classified by specific chord or melodic progressions, the use of such progressions does not necessarily constitute a cadence—there must be a sense of closure, as at the end of a phrase. Harmonic rhythm plays an important part in determining where a cadence occurs. Cadences are strong indicators of the tonic or central pitch of a passage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Formula (song)
"The Formula" is a song by American rapper The D.O.C. from his 1989 debut album '' No One Can Do It Better''. It was released as the third single to support the album and reached #4 on the Hot Rap Songs and #76 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts in April 1990. Background "The Formula" was produced by Dr. Dre and contains samples from Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", from his 1971 album '' What's Going On''. The remix of the song features a lengthy instrumental outro. Music video The music video for "The Formula" was shot before The D.O.C.'s car accident. It begins with Dr. Dre and Eazy-E in a studio where musicians come in for an audition but get turned down; the two complain about the experience, finding it increasingly difficult to locate "the perfect rapper". In the video, Dre plays a scientist, and is implied to be biologically modifying the D.O.C. in a method similar to Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Funky Enough
"It's Funky Enough" is the debut single by American rapper, The D.O.C., featured as the first track on his 1989 debut album '' No One Can Do It Better''. It spent 18 weeks on the US Top Rap Songs chart, including four at #1. A video shot in black and white was made to promote the song. Background The song was produced by Dr. Dre. It samples "Misdemeanor" by Foster Sylvers. The song has appeared on many video games such as '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', '' True Crime: Streets of LA'', and '' Madden 2005''. Its line "Y'all ready for this?" has been sampled on many rap tracks. Samples and covers Most notably, "Y'all ready for this?" has been made globally famous as a sample in the song "Get Ready for This" by the early 1990s dance group 2 Unlimited. That song is arguably the most played opening song for arena-based sporting events. The quote "stop him in his tracks, show him that I am Ruthless" was sampled by Eazy-E for the chorus of his diss song against Dr. Dre, " Real M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The D
The D may refer to: * A nickname for the city of Detroit * Tenacious D, an American rock band composed of Jack Black and Kyle Gass * The D Las Vegas The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel (formerly Fitzgeralds) is a 34-story, 639-room hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, owned and operated by Derek and Greg Stevens. The D is located at the eastern end of the Fremont Street Experience. It ..., a hotel and casino in Nevada * A slang term for dick See also * D (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:D, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper. His fame dates back to 1992 when he featured on Dr. Dre's debut solo single, " Deep Cover", and then on Dre's debut solo album, '' The Chronic''. Broadus has since sold over 23 million albums in the United States and 35 million albums worldwide. His accolades include an American Music Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and 17 nominations at the Grammy Awards. Broadus' debut solo album, '' Doggystyle,'' produced by Dr. Dre, was released by Death Row Records in November 1993, and debuted at number one on the popular albums chart, the ''Billboard'' 200, and on '' Billboard''s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Selling 800,000 copies in its first week, ''Doggystyle'' was certified quadruple-platinum in 1994 and featured the singles " What's My Name?" and " Gin and Juice". In 1994, Death Row Records released a soundtrack, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-40
Earl Tywone Stevens Sr. (born November 15, 1967), better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper. He is a founding member of the rap group The Click, and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. He has released 26 studio albums to date, appeared on numerous movie soundtracks, and has also done guest appearances on a host of other rap albums. Initially an underground artist, his 1995 solo album '' In a Major Way'' opened him up to a wider audience. Beginning in 1998, he began collaborating with mainstream rappers outside the San Francisco Bay Area. He rose to higher mainstream popularity in 2006 with his single " Tell Me When to Go", which was produced by Lil Jon. Early life Earl Tywone Stevens was born in Vallejo, California. He grew up with his siblings raised by a divorced mother who worked three jobs, and he became interested in hip hop after hearing " Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. Beginning in fourth grade, Stevens played the snare and bass drum. He gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Short
Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper and record producer. He became famous in the West Coast hip hop scene in the late 1980s, with lyrics often based on pimping and promiscuity, but also drug culture and street survival. This is respectively exemplified in his most popular songs " Blow the Whistle" and " The Ghetto". A pioneer of West Coast rap, Shaw began recording in 1983, cultivating a large following in his native Oakland. In 1987, his fourth album '' Born to Mack'' attracted the attention of Jive Records, who signed him and distributed the album nationally. His subsequent 1988 album '' Life Is...Too Short'' was highly successful, going double platinum, and he remained prominent into the 1990s. Early life Shaw was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, he and his family moved to Oakland, California. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobb Music
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast region of the United States. West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early to-mid 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of record labels such as Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records, Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records and the continued success of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, and others. History Early years Several events laid the foundations for West Coast hip hop, long before the emergence of West Coast rappers such as Mellow Man Ace, Too Short, Kid Frost, Ice-T and Eazy-E—or even before the emergence of rap itself. According to Syd Caesar, "a cataclysmic event helped give rise to it out West: the Watts riots of 1965." In 1967, Budd Schulberg founded a creative space in Los Angeles entitled Watts Writers Workshop, intended to help the people of the Watts neighborhood and provide a place for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Governments to include the nine counties that border the aforementioned estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco. Other definitions may be either smaller or larger, and may include neighboring counties that do not border the bay such as Santa Cruz and San Benito (more often included in the Central Coast regions); or San Joaquin, Merced, and Stanislaus (more often included in the Central Valley). The core cities of the Bay Area are San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. Home to approximately 7.76 million people, Northern California's nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bomb Squad
The Bomb Squad were an American hip hop production team known for its work with hip hop group Public Enemy. The Bomb Squad is noted for its dense, distinct, innovative production style, often utilizing dozens of samples on just one track. They are also known for incorporating harsh, atonal sounds and samples into their productions. About.com ranked the Bomb Squad #12 on its Top-50 Hip-Hop Producers list. Members *Hank Shocklee *Keith Shocklee *Chuck D (Credited as Carl Ryder); also member of Public Enemy *Eric "Vietnam" Sadler * Gary G-Wiz (Gary Rinaldo) *Bill Stephney (former member) Partial discography *Public Enemy – '' Yo! Bum Rush the Show'' * True Mathematics and the Invisible Empire – ''After Dark'' *Kings of Pressure – 'Armed and Dangerous' *Kings of Pressure – 'Give Me the Mike (Is This the End)' / 'You Know How to Reach Us' *Robert S. – 'Good as Gold' / 'Big Words' *Public Enemy – ''It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back'' * Doug E. Fresh a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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