Their musical style is predominantly hardcore rap, although later albums include funk, Soul music and reggae influences.

"Dance to the Music" and the later Family Stone singles also helped lead to the development of what is now known as funk music.

Whenever Boxy speaks, '70s funk music, typical of blaxploitation films, is played in the background.

Boogie (or electro-funk) is a post-disco subgenre influenced by funk music that was popular in the early to mid-1980s.

The song's instrumental backing featured a pronounced rhythmic attack that anticipated Brown's later funk music.

Navarro, unlike Flea and Kiedis, was not influenced by funk music.

As funk music gave way in popularity to disco in the 1970s, the group's material and arrangements changed accordingly.

It incorporates hip hop, 1970s-style funk music and contains influences of soul.

The beats were slower and mellower, borrowing from late 1970s and early 1980s funk music.

By 1967, Brown's emerging sound had begun to be defined as funk music.