that doesn't mean anything in terms of the mechanics of the music. What are the elements of G-Funk? How does he approach it? What made it go in a different direction than say, textbook West Coast Hip-hop?


Not discounting his contributions, but I can't take it seriously as a genre of music if "I do whatever I feel like doing" is the template. You gotta work within the confines of SOME type of musical template, right?

I can't play Jazz and then just decide that it's Heavy Metal just because that's how I *feel* that day, can I?