When Time Magazine put him on its cover, it declared him "more GQ than gangsta".
What probably helped Straight Outta Compton do so well was that it wasn't all gangsta gunplay.
All that said, we should not fear that the game is lost to gangsta-rapper ballers.
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A. has stood out so prominently, especially against the current backdrop of bubble-gum pop and gangsta rap.
My life would surely be much more amusing if I were living in his fictitious Bacchanalia with a gangsta-rap soundtrack.
Their mix of explicit lyrics, accordions, tubas and 12-string acoustic guitars make for an odd cross between gangsta rap and polka-esque folk music.
You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a 'gangsta.
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Because in Perry's films, the dramatization is intended to be based in reality, while a thirsty gangsta goat by the name of Felicia is not.
He lived the life of a gangsta and had never dreamed Ji could get his family out of the ghetto the clean way, by playing ball.
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Eleven years since he was killed in an as yet unsolved drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur still can't rest in peace.
The same hip-hop crowd that made the clothes famous eventually helped to sink the brand, after white suburban kids decided that they'd had enough of the gangsta look.
On his mixtapes, he's evolved out of conventional bling-thug rhetoric into something much looser and more playful, treating gangsta rap's antisocial themes primarily as an arena for wordplay.
"A day after we talked, he called to thank me for some travel suggestions I'd given him, " she recalls of the boy, who was dressed threateningly in gangsta-rapper clothes.
The show started with a demonstration of a "seed" moment for jookin', the "gangsta walk, " a stride full of accentuation and attitude, somewhere between a fashion-runway walk and a stare-down.
At once a Lalaland filled with dreamers, Los Angeles has also been scene to some of the worst race riots in American history: a paradoxical place that spawned both Charlie Chaplin and Gangsta Rap.
Growing up in the Hollygrove section of New Orleans, Lil' Wayne (Dwayne Carter), also known as Weezy F Baby, Birdman Junior, and Raw Tunes, wrote dozens of gangsta rap hits while still in his teens.
Common is not a gangsta rapper.
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