<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Hyphy </Li> <Li> funktronica </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Hyphy </Li> <Li> funktronica </Li> </Ul> <P> G - funk, or gangsta - funk, is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast Gangsta rap in the early 1990s, heavily influenced by 1970s funk sound of artists such as Parliament - Funkadelic . </P> <P> G - funk (which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P - Funk tunes, and a high - pitched portamento saw wave synthesizer lead . The lyrical content depended on the artist and could consist of sex, drugs, violence, vandalism and distrust of and often degradation of women, but also of love for a city, 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 . </P>

What rappers unique sound was coined g funk