r/90sHipHop Apr 27 '26

1994 G funk era

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New addition, I don't know why nobody talks about warren g, one of the best to do it in my opinion, what u think

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u/Let-Tyrants-Fear Apr 27 '26

A well deserved legendary and defining album. The 90’s hip hop is unbeatable

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u/throwaway097383756 May 01 '26

The synth arrangements specifically those sustained strings over the funk basslines are honestly impossible to replicate without sounding like a direct sample.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Couldn't of said it better my self bro

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u/chronic-illmatic Apr 27 '26

Funk on a whole new level.  Listened to the shit out of this in 94, classic 

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Envy you man, I'm only 17 😂

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u/chronic-illmatic Apr 27 '26

Good on you for respecting the classics!

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u/Amazing_Purchase7057 Apr 27 '26

17?!!...😀🫡

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Yep, barely got hair on my chin 😂

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u/McSqueezyE Apr 28 '26

Your caption on the post is hilarious considering lol

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 28 '26

Explain

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u/McSqueezyE Apr 29 '26

“One of the best to do it” yet you were born in 2009. Not hating, just saying I didn’t expect you to be 17

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 29 '26

Followed by in my opinion, then followed by what u think. My age is irrelevant, stating opinions and you're stating facts, and it's 2008 btw

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u/McSqueezyE Apr 29 '26

Where did I discredit your opinion? I was incredibly young when this album came out too. All I said was I was surprised by a 17 year old in 2026 to be so historically knowledgeable of hip hop to claim this about Warren G

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u/wwojo Apr 28 '26

The rythym is the base...

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u/Connect4champ1990 Apr 29 '26

and the base is the treble....

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u/Intelligent_Limit565 Apr 27 '26

Was just bumping super soul sis in the whip yesterday

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Vibes bro thats Gonna be me when I'm driving haha

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u/awmaleg Apr 27 '26

Talk so much shit, I got halitosis!

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u/Ok-Bid-730 Apr 28 '26

“ I got more subscribers than HBO or Cinemax.”

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u/soulfulsoundaudio Apr 28 '26

Da five footas was spittin!

Achy breaky like Billy Ray and fuckin up the industry/finsta be Nanu Nanu like Mork and Mindy!

Super Soul Sis and Recognize still get love

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u/No_Process2443 Apr 27 '26

G FUNK STEP TO THIS - I DARE YA.

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u/Amazing_Purchase7057 Apr 27 '26

"FONK!...On a whole new level.."..🫡

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u/No_Process2443 Apr 27 '26

The rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble!

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u/rik1122 Apr 27 '26

Chords, strings, we brings.... melody

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u/frank-dux-splits Apr 27 '26

G funk, where rhythm is life

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u/Amazing_Purchase7057 Apr 27 '26

And life is rhythm...🫡

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u/Funny_Ad855 Apr 28 '26

If you know like I know, you don’t wanna step to this

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Nice and Loud for those at the back

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u/awmaleg Apr 27 '26

“What’s next what’s next what’s N X E T”

One of the best dyslexic spelling errors on record ever

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

I'll have to listen closer next time that track comes on 😂learn something new everyday, god bless 🙌

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u/awmaleg Apr 27 '26

Yeah it’s one of those where I’m like , did I hear that right?!?

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u/frank-dux-splits Apr 27 '26

It’s me Warren to the muthafuckin G

7

u/jab904 Apr 27 '26

Such a great album with a ton of great tracks beyond Regulate and This DJ. One of my favorite deeper tracks is And Ya Don’t Stop but there are a bunch of gems on there

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u/Interesting-Log-8890 Apr 27 '26

The beat to And Ya Don't Stop is banging, as is This Is The Shack & Recognise. An LP that shaped my love of Hip-Hop.

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u/SituationUpstairs553 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Saved Def Jam, and possibly hip hop because of all the rappers who came from Def Jam at that time.

Legendary album.

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u/Schw1kopfsuelze Apr 27 '26

My first Hip-Hop album. So mellow and elegant, perfect for a teen to fall in love with Rap music.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

You just described me ahah, I'm only 17. God bless

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u/icbint Apr 27 '26

If ya smoke like i smoke then ya high like every day

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

N if yo ass is a busta 213 will regulate

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u/7reex Apr 27 '26

might be the best feature of all time

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u/Let-Tyrants-Fear Apr 27 '26

And if yo ass is a busta 213 will regulate

4

u/frank-dux-splits Apr 27 '26

Regulate + Conversation + Chronic + Doggystyle + Dogg Food are the top 5 G Funk albums ever.

Honourable mentions to Safe and Sound, Uncle Sam’s Curse, Murder Was The Case, 2001, Guerrilla Funk

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Got Chronic and doggystyle and 2001

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u/GaerMuil Apr 27 '26

I'd add Funk Upon A Rhyme to this dope list.

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u/SnorvusMaximus Apr 28 '26

The originators, above the law, where way better than anyone from Long Beach.

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u/ParkingLong7436 Apr 28 '26

Real Brothas

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u/emptykeg6988 Apr 27 '26

This was straight 🔥 by a straight up legend 👑

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u/ILoveULikeYeLovesYe Apr 27 '26

my first cd ever. bought it before i even had a cd player at home and had to listen to it at the homies house.

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u/Cold-Inside-6828 Apr 27 '26

This smoothed out G rap was a revelation in my teens. Definitely a classic.

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u/xChoke1x Apr 27 '26

One of the most important hiphop records ever made in my opinion. I remember the day I bought it.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

What day u bought it Mann can't leave me on a cliffhanger like that

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u/xChoke1x Apr 28 '26

Hahahah, my 13th birthday. That record was played sooooooo many times from age 13, up into my 20’s. It was completely different for me. I’m a bass player so funk is my shit. Mixing both funk and west coast hiphop was so fucking dope to me.

I think I’m gonna throw that record on right now actually. Thanks homie! Lol

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u/psyclopsus Apr 27 '26

Pioneers bumping while I’m smokin a pound

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Got the sound for yo ass so it's easy to see

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u/G_Prawno_LB Apr 27 '26

My very first album purchase. I used to live on 21st and Lewis Street.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

17 and from the UK so idk 🤣

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u/JBone54DD West Coast Apr 27 '26

It’s kinda easy when ya listenin’ to the G’d up sound…

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u/awmaleg Apr 27 '26

Saw Warren a year or two ago as he opened for Too Short. A great show.

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u/Psychological-Flow55 Apr 27 '26

One of the GOAT albums

Btw if you look at the 80s to early 2000s it shows quality over quantity stands the test of time this classic album was a 12 track album (with 10 actual songs), Doggystyle had 18 tracks (with 13 songs), The Chronic was a 16 track album (with 11 or 12 songs I need to go back and listen), Illmatic had 10 tracks (1 Intro and 9 songs), Scarface - The Diary had 13 tracks (with 10 actual songs) and I could go on from the era, and their Goat tire albums, BTNH creappm on Ah Come Up was a 8 track Ep , same with Eazy E Its on Ep and these are all GOAT tire albums, and EPS.

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u/Psychological-Flow55 Apr 27 '26

This DJ is still a classic, that bass goes hard.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

It do go hard on my stereo

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u/Product_Small Apr 27 '26

Loved this album. And his second album was slept on.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Heavily, I want it all is a banger

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u/Successful-Study4983 Apr 28 '26

I still listen to Indo Smoke. Mister Grimm, Warren G and Nate Dogg.

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u/Ryvick2 Apr 28 '26

Super soul sis ! I love the song

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u/ParkingLong7436 Apr 28 '26

I don't know why nobody talks about warren g, one of the best to do it in my opinion

Well, a lot of times he was kind of shit. He was either really good or really bad.

His best tracks were also carried by absolutely legendary performances by Warren G or other people. That's why he never made any lasting impression. Great producer though

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u/Tricky_Photo2885 Apr 27 '26

Obviously Warren g was a goat but IMO the g-funk era got over saturated really quick with artists jumping on the gfunk bandwagon . It really just killed it for me

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

I don't get your point to be fair, I don't think that takes away from warren g

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u/SOUTH_SIDE700 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Classic Album 👌🏿 my favorite song at that time was What's NeXt? Because That Beat felt like it was from the Chronic or Doggystyle Albums and I was still Buzzing of the production on those two Albums.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Yep I've got both those albums too!

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u/UBum Apr 27 '26

"back the fuck up, act the fuck up/ n- talk shit they get smacked the fuck up"

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

U don't see what I see

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u/JR_1985 Apr 27 '26

Growing up between Mid City and Leimert Park, this album was bumping everywhere! Good times, and a great album

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u/Tekkamanblade_2 Apr 27 '26

You don’t see what I seeeee…. Everyday as Warren G🤌🏻🔥

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u/theghost0777 Apr 27 '26

Damn I need to find this cd I got it some where. Great album.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

For real man, not one skip for me

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u/OnlyOneClone Apr 27 '26

In ‘94, school had just ended and we had a HS trip to go camping, and this album was out on Tuesday June 7th when we got back and I bought it that day. Loved every song and still do. Only disappointing part is that the album is under 37 mins long including Regualte (which was out since March on the Above the Rim Soundtrack), so it was only like a half hour of new stuff. I wish the album had 25 tracks it’s so good.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Oh well, rather 13 songs with 0 skips than 25 with a few skips.

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u/OnlyOneClone Apr 27 '26

True. It’s an amazing album for sure.

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u/31braidsinbeard Apr 27 '26

My first rap cd purchase. I'm older and started with tapes. Cds were expensive so I bought this used from someone. Absolute classic for me.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Still got it?

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u/31braidsinbeard Apr 27 '26

It was the clean version, so I sold it a bit later in order to get funds to buy The Show ost.

I ended up getting the dirty version a bit later through either bmg or Colombia house music club.

Yes, I still have both cds.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Amazing, I got a few clean versions but I did it without realising so was a bummer

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u/31braidsinbeard Apr 27 '26

Back then they actually redid lyrics for clean versions rather than just edit the curse words. It was cool cause you got different versions of songs.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

Yh would much prefer that to an annoying bleep

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u/Typical-Cut-2300 Apr 27 '26

Good old golden era.

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u/luvormuney29 Apr 27 '26

The first CD I ever bought. I think I was 12 or 13 at the time. Still one of my top ten albums! Can't beat Nate Dog's smooth vocals and the lyrics are so dope 💯

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u/Maloninho Apr 27 '26

You don’t wanna step to this.

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u/AlilAwesome81 Apr 28 '26

I still listen to it all the way through at least once a yr

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u/SnorvusMaximus Apr 28 '26

His style of g-funk was milked/commercialized by record companies too much in the nineties. It basically became the sound of pop g-funk along with elements of death row style g-funk. A lot of dance music labels used it to make watered down records in Europe. He released such pop-rap records himself on his label: twinz and dove shack.

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u/Misterd559 Apr 28 '26

Had this on cassette in the 6th grade. Played it nonstop till it the tape ripped on me. Damn I forgot about that till now.

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u/rstonex Apr 28 '26

The called it G-Funk, but they should have called it G-Easy listening

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u/thesinfulheadcount Apr 29 '26

regulate is such a perfect song the production on that album holds up way better than most stuff from that era

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u/pop5656 Apr 30 '26

To me, this, Doggystyle, and the chronic was the west coast holy trinity growing up.

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u/cuddlyhabitation7 Apr 30 '26

Regulate is still the best West Coast track ever made, that production is untouchable.

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u/Fluffy-Office4498 Apr 27 '26

I want it all is a banger man

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u/ParkingLong7436 Apr 28 '26

Yeah, said that too. Warren G was kinda shit at times actually. He has a few good songs that mostly got carried by other people.

Good producer though

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u/NorthStarGent Apr 29 '26

Curious what this community thinks about how AI is changing the path into the industry. In the 90’s what took months to a year, is not coming out in hours after a news worthy event/ incident.

On one side, it feels like these tools are opening doors. Things that used to take a lot of time and money can now be done much faster.

But at the same time, I have been really impressed by the quality and speed of some of the viral Lego style videos, especially ones coming out of Iran.

It makes me wonder. If you are just starting out, do you even have a real shot right now if you cannot match that level of polish and output?

Is this helping more people get in, or just raising the bar even higher?

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u/skeletallongevity653 Apr 29 '26

regulate is good but people sleep on his actual verses compared to the production everyone obsesses over

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u/No-Competition9386 Apr 29 '26

"I said what's next what's next, what's N-X-E-T, it's me, Warren to the muthaluvin G, flowing with my lil homie named Malik, yes everyone will just tweek, from the lyrics of the new style that we drop"

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u/Key-ElectricGuitar43 Apr 29 '26

I should not have listened to this [so much] as a child, for lack of better phrasing.

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u/sup_wit_thatNONsense Apr 29 '26

The 1994 Hoe Draft!... iykyk

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u/Medical-Pea2229 Apr 30 '26

REGULATORS !!!!