This article was originally published in August 2005. In rendering his decision in a 1964 obscenity trial, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart wrote: "I shall not today attempt to further define ...

It’s apparent that the influence of G-funk is not only on the West Coast but also global. There are big names who have left their legacy and are continuing to make an impact in the music industry and ...

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The West looked to India during the psychedelic ’60s, and India returned that gaze, incorporating Shadows/Ventures-style guitar instrumentals with Eastern scales and later, wah-wah funk, often into ...

Nate Dogg, the deep-voiced hip-hop crooner who sang hooks for Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Eminem and was best known for "Regulate," his classic collaboration with Warren G, has died at 41. The artist, ...

George Clinton hailed the “seemingly impossible” achievement of P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian’s new book. Titled The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

It should come as no surprise that YG's faithful evocation of mid-’90s Southern California G-funk, Still Brazy, has dominated this summer of record heat, gun violence, police brutality and polarizing ...

The singer lent his soulful baritone to G-Funk classics such as "Regulate." March 16, 2011 -- Nathaniel D. Hale, the hip-hop star who rose to fame in the 1990s as Nate Dogg, died Tuesday, according to ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...