īut while Hutch had these figures in his life, there were also the temptations of the streets. His uncle, Willie Hutch, was a legendary Motown singer and songwriter, whose work includes penning Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” and recording the soundtrack for blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown. His father was Richard Hutch, a Motown writer. When you look at Pomona, it’s like a smaller version of all that.” “And then we got to incorporate that into what we were doing. “The thing about the city we came up in is that we were still influenced by South Central music, by Compton music and all that,” the now 55-year-old Hutch said. This is where Gregory Hutchinson, first known as Cold 187um and now known as Big Hutch, calls home. Pomona, California, home to the largest automotive swap meet on the West Coast, is a majority-minority community, which was about 50 percent Latino and 14 percent Black in 1990. The 909, home of the Inland Empire, isn’t exactly one of them. There are many famous area codes in Southern California. Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images How the 909 Became a Part of West Coast Rap Rappers Cold 187um, Go Mack, KMG and DJ Total K-Oss of Above The Law poses for photos at George's Music Room in Chicago, Illinois in April 1993. In a conversation with Big Hutch and Money B, the two OGs provided a behind the scenes of the making of “Call It What U Want” and its star-studded music video, memories of working with 2Pac - who, according to Hutch, wasn’t exactly a known quantity at the time - and how current West Coast artists like Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q are continuing the legacy of g funk. But why has this pioneering song flown under the radar? How did Pac become involved with the song? And, most importantly, why do Above the Law believe they created g funk? Okayplayer recently asked these questions and more to Big Hutch and Money-B. The song and music video of “Call It What U Want” includes many other fallen legends like Eazy-E and Shock G. "2Pac'll pack a person, pump the trunk, I'm bumpin' g funk, but you can call it what you want," Tupac Shakur booms on the first verse of “ Call It What U Want ,” Above the Law’s P-funk- infused track that features a young Shakur and Money-B (both representing Digital Underground). There, a group called Above the Law - headlined by producer Big Hutch, the nephew of Motown legend Willie Hutch - pioneered gangsta funk, with their sophomore album Black Mafia Life (released in February 1993) being the first to explicitly call g funk by its name. However, about 30 miles east from the well-known Los Angeles communities of Compton, Watts, South Central, and Long Beach, the inland town of Pomona is where some argue g funk actually began.
From there, you might hear the names of other trailblazers: DJ Quik, Warren G, and Daz Dillinger. G funk is often considered to be the brainchild of Dr.
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The reliable formula of funky synthesizers, deep basslines, and soulful crooners spread like wildfire across the country to become the defining sound of mid-‘90s West Coast rap (and rap in general), thanks to record labels like the imposing Death Row Records, larger than life rappers, and classic movie soundtracks. Hip-hop fanatics may be talking about the beloved genre turning 50 this year, but one of its most beloved subgenres is now officially three decades old - g funk.
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