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Just a Small Introduction to The G-Funk Era, the first line of Snoop’s first verse on his debut album ‘Doggystyle’ introduces us to the future of the funk Snoop Doggy Dogg. The track samples the crunchy guitar bass from the Parliament Funkadelic song ‘Aqua Boogie’. This set the tone for 1993 - 1996 where West Coast (and even some East Coast) rap groups would sample the smooth bass lines and high pitched saw wave on moog keyboards (aka the West Coast whistle) that paved the way to a new sound that dominated the music billboard charts and formed a new emergence that would define groups such as …