"I'm a gangsta Crip/fuck gangsta rap," he declares early on, and here we have the basic paradox of Staples's persona.
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"Gangsta" begins with a smooth, subtly haunting line about needing a gangsta to be her ride or die through any and everything.
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The bday boy was onstage for most of the performances -- which included Cube's "Gangsta Gangsta," Luda's "Move B***H," and other '90s/2000s hits ... oldies but goodies in 2017.
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I think gangsta rap has never really gone away, it's just taken on different names; ratchet and trap and stuff like that have a lot of similarities to gangsta rap.
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Ty Dolla $ign Tres Rasche MixHoney Oso - "Gangsta" feat.
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Being gangsta is forming iconic records, Ruthless Records, Death Row, Aftermath.... so now, after 30 years of being heard, being gangsta is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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In 2018, you gotta keep it gangsta at all times.
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I take it day by day and keep it gangsta.
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It treats the CNN logo like a gangsta rapper's chain.
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We're the original gangsta couple; the one who's still together.
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With the Gaslamp Killer, Gangsta Boo, Nick Hook and Cuz.
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Gotta say, of all his cases ... this was the least gangsta.
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All are allegedly members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods a.k.
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We get plenty of gangsta rap and anti-broke boy anthems.
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" Basic Volume is sort of a gangsta rap record," he states.
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He'd been murdered right after putting in some real live gangsta shit.
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Nick Spicher said "gangster" instead of "gangsta," and it cost him $3,200.
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The song, "Gangsta," is the fourth single to premiere off the soundtrack.
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It was followed by her first mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1.
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Widely regarded as being more masculine and certainly more gangsta than Barack.
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TQ, man, you the most gangsta saint I know, dawg, belee that.
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Daddy Yankee collaborated with Snoop Dogg on "Gangsta Zone" back in 2005.
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But again, I keep my gangsta in my back pocket when needed.
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As for the gangsta/gangster mix-up, he agreed with the judges.
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We'll say this ... the new one's way more gangsta than the OG.
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Nonetheless, the album is unapologetically gangsta, and not just in the words.
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On the other hand, Staples's attacks on the gangsta world hit home, painfully.
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It's about time you let your pet's inner gangsta out of its cage.
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" And there's more ... "But your honor I'm not a gangsta, I'm just retarded.
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Appearing with longtime friends Cardi B and Konshens on Gangsta Bitch Music Vol.
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Listen to "Lick" below, and definitely check out Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2.
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Ice Cube is known as one of the founding artists of "gangsta rap."
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I wore hats backward, trimmed my hair, and created a gangsta life culture.
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She also pays homage to legendary Memphis rappers La Chat and Gangsta Boo.
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"The gangsta persona, I don't really like to play that up," he explains.
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Cameron: I came out of a pretty deep obsession with intense gangsta rap.
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For his part, Mr. Finley said the Gangsta Garden wasn't about food deserts.
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They, too, favored the most anarchic corners of heavy metal and gangsta rap.
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When they were trying to label us gangsta rap, we created our own label.
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It was in January 2017 when she released her EP Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol.
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Do you think gangsta rap has a role in movements like Black Lives Matter?
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"Those 'male tears' cups are gangsta," Jacob Dorland, an information security consultant, said approvingly.
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Mr. Finley, a former personal trainer and fashion designer, began Gangsta Garden in 2010.
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Does it show a different side of you [from Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1]?
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"It's gonna be straight up gangsta s—," Snoop says about the album, which remains untitled.
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Police investigate gangsta-rapper Sniffa Dog alleged to be running an illegal cheese import scam.
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There have been a handful of tracks shared—the brutally gangsta "Groovy Tony," the Anderson .
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What Warren G would call a gangsta, Milner would probably call a ne'er-do-well.
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In support of Vin Rock's definition of gangsta rap, Mozzy is wailing rather than crying.
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That rap section with BbyMutha to WIFIGAWD X TRiPP JONES back to Gangsta Boo… whew!
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Let's play a clip from the Wayne Brady is a gangsta episode of that show.
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I think I'm more of a social commentator, which I think political and Gangsta Rap are.
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Even Snoop Dogg runs his own e-sports tournament organization appropriately called the Gangsta Gaming League.
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Like Marilyn Manson and "gangsta rap," The Prodigy came to symbolize a kind of civilizational threat.
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I used to hear this one young self-styled gangsta named Drifter chattering all the time.
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WM: I'm going to move onto the gangsta down the end of the subway car. No!
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After his testimony, Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang members Anthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack were convicted.
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Even gangsta rap, which influenced trends during this time too, was largely centered on functional clothing.
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Though some music websites classify Nipsey's music as gangsta rap, his music spans multiple hip-hop genres, including the g-funk, or gangsta funk, sound of Dr. Dre fame that was ubiquitous to the streets of the Crenshaw District where Nipsey grew up in the 1990s.
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Stream "Cocaine Parties in L.A." below and check out our recent conversation with Gangsta Gibbs right here.
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You would be sparring to the loud soundtrack of both men arguing in gangsta Thai at ringside.
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Gangsta, perhaps more than some of the others on this list, feels like a Hollywood-friendly story.
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The film served as a dramatized history of gangsta rap's origins and close ties to the streets.
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Shouting, crooning, or oversharing, she's not some fake-or-not gangsta moll, though once she carries a .
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Tattoos on each hand spell out the image he cultivated in the mold of American gangsta rappers.
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"Straight Outta Compton", a film about the immensely influential gangsta rap group NWA, was a glaring omission.
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I have toyed with delivering it gangsta style via private jet and cash in a gold suitcase.
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So we have, for example, the love triangle of Konstantin, Nina and Trigorin communicating in gangsta rap.
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Tekashi also named rappers Cardi B and Jim Jones as members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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"Message of the day don't be a Internet gangsta," Meek Mill said Tuesday on Twitter, mocking Hernandez.
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From the days of so-called "gangsta" rap onwards, a unique morality has congealed around hip-hop.
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Disassociating himself from the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood Gang came &aposwith a price,&apos Hernandez saidHernandez detailed his life of crime while testifying against Anthony "Harv" Ellison and Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack, who prosecutors have described as high-ranking members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang, in September.
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But these guys were on some total gangsta shit, yet they were driving around listening to the Cure.
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The onetime college football star and "gangsta" rap pioneer eventually lost control of his label in bankruptcy proceedings.
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Out of that came drill music at the start of the current decade—gangsta rap without a conscience.
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A jury convicted members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods after the flamboyant rapper testified about their crimes.
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If that little bit of folklore doesn't lend it to gangsta rap, it's hard to say what would.
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The rapper, also known as 210ix2000ine, got the street authenticity he wanted from the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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But "I'm Gangsta" does offer an awfully candid portrait of what Wayne is looking to accomplish, on multiple levels.
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So-called gangsta rappers in the 1990s defended their jarring lyricism as honesty about their surroundings and their survival.
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The shot and step-over on Lue was the most gangsta thing I've ever seen in a sports context.
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The true meaning of gangsta being able to show what it takes to be the world's biggest music group.
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I tend to listen to rap, hip-hop, gangsta rap and some pop, and my favorite acts are Anderson .
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" However one of the staffers—a white woman—wore a shirt that said "I run on weed & gangsta rap.
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Hernandez&aposs conviction was part of a larger case brought against members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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In September, Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, testified against members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood Gang.
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The Internet had a field day (seriously, Google it) ... but when entertainment host Xilla brought it up, Denzel got gangsta.
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" Chris Hill says he produced a beat in March 2008 which appeared on "Chris Hill Beats (Gangsta Boogie Vol 2).
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As for his former coach Rick Pitino, Ware says he should definitely KEEP his championship tattoo because he's a "gangsta!"
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He traded his hard driving gangsta-style lyrics for Islamic devotional songs called Nasheeds, including one that praised bin Laden.
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BTW, we also talked to Game about Tekashi69's legal troubles and getting "gangsta checked" right after arriving in prison.
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"A lot of kids in Atlanta, they live in great neighborhoods but try to be street or gangsta," he says.
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It was a major part of the hip-hop movement at a time when gangsta rap got all the headlines.
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YG and Schoolboy Q definitely have elements of the kind of golden era of West Coast gangsta rap in them.
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" At one point, he also insisted that Little Cloud was "a sweet gift of love but also gangsta and powerful.
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Paul says he can't wait to perform with Juicy J, Gangsta Boo, Crunchy Black and the rest of the gang.
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"It's a balance between the masculine and the feminine, referencing folk Creole family jewels and the gangsta world," he said.
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"My squad in the club, but you know they not dancin' / We gangsta and gangstas don't dance, we boogie" #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes — jesseWilliams.
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From Gangsta Rapper to Jihadist Before Cuspert became a front man for jihadists, he was known as Deso Dogg in Germany.
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His personal life resembled a gangsta rap video that mixed violent, comic and countercultural overtones and ended with an inspirational beat.
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Her first two mixtapes, "Gangsta Bitch Music," Volumes I and II, from 2016 and 2017, had the feel of rough drafts.
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Watchdog groups with governmental ties like the Parents Music Resource Center argued that his "gangsta" music glorified violence and corrupted children.
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A couple of months later, that quintessential gangsta rap single also found its way onto his 1991 album, O.G. Original Gangster.
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Wayne raps "I'm so gangsta / if she don't go down no thank ya" so smoothly you can't help but admire it.
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In April, five white professors at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth dressed in a way that mimicked gangsta rappers.
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"Yellow Bar Mitzvah," released last year, is a rare German gangsta rap recording in which Hebrew features prominently in the lyrics.
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He spoke with a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods who he'd just met, and asked for some set decoration.
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In the least gangsta move possible ... he went live on Instagram as he walked around challenging Breezy to come get some.
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" Pretty gangsta, we know, but nothing compared to the most potent bar from the salvo ... we like to call it "The Ultimatum.
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"Gangsta rap died with Pac, Mozzy brought it back," is Mozzy's declaration of revival on his new album, 1 Up Top Ahk.
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It must also be among the first to operate a gay friendly "dark room" in earshot of classic West Coast gangsta rap.
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Morris has no black peers, or even friends who appreciate the American hip-hop music and gangsta-rap culture he's drawn to.
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The album was a hit and helped propel West Coast gangsta rap into the national spotlight — and into the center of controversy.
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Today, Perico announced that he'd be joining forces with Compton rapper Jay Worthy for a collaborative gangsta rap project titled Never Miss.
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Mr. Knight came to fame as a larger-than-life behind-the-scenes figure in the gangsta rap revolution of the 1990s.
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Mr. Nawaz argues that Islamism is cool to some in the same ways that punk rock and gangsta rap are perennially seductive.
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Hernandez pleaded guilty to several crimes related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods and testified against fellow gang members.
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Average folks became R&B superstars from reinterpreting old classics and hookless gangsta rap freestyles shot into the upper heights of Billboard.
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As a black man in America, there aren't many bygone eras I'm fond of, except maybe the gangsta rap of the early 90s.
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Dr. Dre, who rose to superstardom in the late 1980s as part of gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A, has not commented on the incident.
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Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots.
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Most of them are rap-related, but tangentially connected to the world of gangsta rap is the world of Italian-American gangster films.
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There's heart and smarts fueling the Cardi B spectacle, and Gangsta Bitch Music, however clumsily at times, succeeds in delivering the full picture.
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Gangsta Boo's influence also continues to touch hot underground artists, such as Princess Nokia, who has adopted Boo's iconic "yeah hoe" ad-lib.
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That's when one inmate 'G Checked' him -- meaning stepped up to him to see if he's a real gangsta or just a wannabe.
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Isaiah Quintabe (IQ for short) is an unlikely Sherlock, an incongruously polite cogitator operating out of gangsta turf in East Long Beach, Calif.
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The Outlaw movement revolutionized country music in the 1970s the way gangsta rap shook up West Coast hip hop in the early 1990s.
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We'd been witnesses to Cardi's growth with her Gangsta Bitch Music mixtape series, as she worked through the growing pains of finding her sound.
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Taken as a whole, the album functions as an associative tour of the ghetto while reporting on gangsta pathology from the grisly psychological inside.
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Like I mean especially with you, do you reject the notion that you're only a political rapper or that you're only a Gangsta rapper?
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The song sticks to his g-funk, gangsta rap origins and Perico talks about living his life fully, no matter who that might offend.
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The first sees Cube again relegated to the chorus again with a sampled "I keep it gangsta y'all" off "Chin Check" in the intro.
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We got Fetty doing the least gangsta thing possible -- dinner at Catch in WeHo -- and asked if he had concerns about returning to Paterson.
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Downtown LA gave us gangsta rap in the mid 80s, including NWA's single "Fuck tha Police" which railed against police brutality and racial profiling.
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Though difficult to admit this when I was the most gangsta school kid in rural North Yorkshire, I've always liked the idea of marriage.
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Brim is likely a reference to the Brims, a gang under the Blood Alliance but is separate from the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang.
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The trademark office agreed with the medical doc, saying although the gangsta doc was well known ... there wasn't enough evidence people would be confused.
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Street Rap "Gangsta rap" is not a name we use much in France, since it's usually seen as something typically (if not strictly) American.
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Anthony Ellison and Aljermiah Mack, two alleged members of the gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, face up to life in prison.
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"The word 'ghetto' has been romanticized as forbidden but attractive fruit via gangsta rap for middle class white kids in the 90s," he explained.
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The FBI has always had a hard-on for gangsta rap music, specifically the creative forces behind the genre's most iconic and provocative hits.
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Tekashi's former crew members were also recorded saying how Tekashi tried to separate himself from the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods after firing his entire staff.
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UFC champ Conor McGregor called Nate Diaz a "cholo gangsta from the hood" in one of the most hate-fueled pre-fight press conferences ever.
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On "Gold Teeth," Blood Orange informs listeners on how southern hip-hop has influenced him by enlisting Three 6 Mafia's Gangsta Boo and Project Pat.
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Seeing Gangsta Boo's name credited on a Blood Orange mixtape in 2019 is nothing short of exciting, but the final product is effortlessly great too.
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RUTH BADER GINSBURG is the only Supreme Court justice in recent memory to have a nickname drawn from the moniker of a murdered gangsta rapper.
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Counting West Coast gangsta rapper Warren G and the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as inspirations, he started rapping by the fourth grade.
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Some people said the lyrics of N.W.A and other gangsta rappers glorified violence, while others said they simply reflected the reality of black urban life.
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" In 2001, Mr. Heller told The Los Angeles Times that he considered gangsta rap "the most important movement since the beginning of rock 'n' roll.
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While he was reporting a Rolling Stone article about the emergence of gangsta rap, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg gave him a nickname: Nervous Cuz.
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Critic's Notebook The rapper's testimony about the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods showed how social media has upended the traditional relationship between hip-hop and gangs.
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Under his legal name, Daniel Hernandez, he gave sometimes riveting testimony a few months ago against former gang associates in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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Vince Staples is a rapper from Long Beach who fits a tradition of violent Southern California gangsta rap yet also expresses profound discomfort with that tradition.
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Yesterday he was back in form and addressed equally disillusioned gangsta Chris Brown after the two had a dispute over Soulja commenting on Karrueche Tran's Instagram.
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We felt like more than just being a black movie, we didn't think that would be an obstacle more than the subject matter of gangsta rap.
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Chris Pratt's the kinda G little homies wanna be like ... with a smoking' hot GF like Katherine Schwarzenegger, who's not afraid to get a little gangsta.
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In the same way an arrest can boost the street cred of a gangsta rapper, the explicit tape only fueled the persona he was already establishing.
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Only three classics: the besotted "Alien Girl," the merely sexed-up "P&P 1.5," and "Average Joe," a position paper for the gangsta realism to follow.
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Previously, Tekashi 69 was arrested in 2018 on charges of racketeering and weapons after his alleged involvement with Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, an East Coast gang.
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A 1992 hip-hop song, "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta," found immortality on the soundtrack of the cult-favorite film "Office Space" in 1999.
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While "Twist My Fingaz" and "Why You Always Hatin" can ignite any club, more impressive is how these hits support strong storytelling in the gangsta rap tradition.
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Green recently provided Noisey with commentary on some of her exclusive photos that captured the rise of West Coast gangsta rap in the form of Death Row.
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Much to the disapproval of protesters shown in the MTV News special, children from the East and West sides were never really protected from gangsta rap's messages.
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Since then, the 21-year-old has also worked with artists including Gangsta Boo, Main Attrakionz, and Spooky Black, and started his own label, Dream Sequence Records.
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It was very famous—an underground thing, known around the world—and it stood in opposition to the gangsta rap that was coming out at the time.
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The track is "Steady Mobbin'," a heady slice of gangsta funk that features our swaggering host cruising around his neighborhood in a Chevy Impala while packing heat.
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Hernandez was sentenced to 24 months in prison in December after pleading guilty to several crimes related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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The New York-born rapper dominated the headlines all year after being arrested for his connection with notorious gang Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods in late November 2018.
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Yeah, and I think to your point, with your music, people maybe say you're a political rapper, but you call yourself a gangsta rapper in your Twitter bio.
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CNN is also the original gangsta (OG) "fake news" organization, according to President Trump, even though CNN is very much a real and largely respected global news organization.
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Some of those children are now the new faces of the music but gangsta rap's identity has branched off in many ways since its 30-year-old origins.
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The Brooklyn rapper told us Wednesday, on "TMZ Live," Keef's a gangsta rapper who promotes violence ... and claimed that's the real reason he's getting heat on the streets.
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On the West side, it was nobody caring about that gangsta shit, the most popular guy was the guy who drove the Benz to school and had jewelry.
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Jerry Heller, a veteran music manager who helped introduce N.W.A to the masses and promoted gangsta rap to a mainstream audience, died on Friday in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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I like those gangsta rap records where they would big themselves up, where they're rhyming and like, 'I'm really good at sex'—that old school hip-hop rapping.
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He described the inner workings of his former associates — the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, who, according to prosecutors, are gang members responsible for violent crimes throughout the city.
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He was facing decades in prison for his alleged involvement in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a gang that has been associated with murder, robbery, and narcotics trafficking.
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Honestly it was one of the most confusing time periods of my life, because I was like Nostalgic is hard and in Florida everyone was like Nostalgic's gangsta.
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In some ways, you could say that Shaver was to country music what Ice Cube was to early gangsta rap: he wrote the lines that changed the game.
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Yo Gotti: You know mixtapes back then was the thing to do so I was looking at the brands like Gangsta Grillz and Southern Smoke at the time.
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The "Gangsta" singer, 23, and her partner, guitarist Javie Young-White, welcomed their first child, daughter Adeya Nomi over the weekend, Kehlani announced in an Instagram post on Monday.
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The couple rolled up on the restaurant in their casual best -- gym shorts, v-neck tee and ball cap for Chris ... and "spiritual gangsta" long sleeve tee for Kat.
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I'm not on The Bachelorette, but Rachel Lindsay has already stolen my heart with her warm smile, quick wit, and ability to get a little gangsta when need be.
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine named Cardi B, rapper Jim Jones, and several others as members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods as he spoke in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.
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Or when the gangsta rappers, and Oscar nominees, Three 6 Mafia, sang about pimps and hoes before the black-tie audience, hardly their usual crowd, and then, fantastically, won.
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We're told Tekashi, an alleged member of the 9 Trey Gangsta Bloods, was confronted by inmates affiliated with the Crips who were in the intake area as he arrived.
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The Gangsta Garden at the center of the eviction is in front of a building he rents, which is on a lot where he has another, more extensive garden.
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DENZEL CURRY Bare-chested and sweaty, working the entire stage, Denzel Curry, from Florida, took on gangsta-rap topics: battles for power, conspicuous consumption, drug deals, women, omnipresent death.
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Vince Staples: Prima Donna (Def Jam) The Crip whose life was saved by DatPiff mixtapes proves how real his gangsta is by stressing on how bad it makes him feel.
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Take singer Will Jay, who, with his music video for his song 'Gangsta,' strives to take down the masculinity debate — one florescent pink suit, and one twerk, at a time.
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Two of the 'Rica Famosa Latina' stars turned a scripted fight into a very real, very gangsta showdown that landed one of 'em in the hospital with a bloodied face.
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It was dubbed gangsta rap but what it was for me was an intimate look at what was happening in our community in Los Angeles, and in Compton in particular.
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The west coast MC was an affiliate of Snoop's, Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Warren G, Nate Dogg and others associated with Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips based out of Long Beach.
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Trench Town is no longer a war zone: Marley's old neighbourhood is being dolled up; local recording studios churn out gangsta reggae; a few intrepid tourists venture into the area.
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But Original Gangstas, while chock full of divisive theories from the time, is much more a reflection of the dramatic nature of gangsta rap than a judgment of its rappers.
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine named Cardi B, rapper Jim Jones, and several others as affiliates of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang as he spoke in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.
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The "Gangsta" singer, 24, opted for an oversized blazer while the "Go Loko" rapper, 29, wore for a white t-shirt, black pants and a leather jacket embroidered with flames.
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To gain even more credibility with his online audience, he partnered a year ago with Brooklyn men the police say are affiliated with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods street gang.
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Defense lawyers in the racketeering trial of Mr. Ellison and another member of 6ix9ine's former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, scrutinized the rapper's account, raising questions about his credibility.
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McGregor referred to Nate Diaz as a "cholo gangsta from the hood" during the insane news conference for the UFC 196 fight Wednesday day ... and clearly, he's not letting up.
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine and five others are facing life in prison for federal racketeering and firearms charges related to alleged criminal involvement in a gang known as Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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Seems like an unnecessary legal risk in a post-Gangsta Grillz raid era, but I guess these guys are trafficking music in the quite literal sense, and that's kind of dope.
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And in the process of telling their own stories, figures like Foxy Brown and Gangsta Boo have taught me invaluable lessons about friendship, consent, money, pain, family, and of course, sex.
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"Fuck these hoes talking 'bout / I been run the fucking South / been making sexy freaky women put that dick in they mouth," Gangsta Boo raps, making claims that speak for themselves.
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"Suicide Squad" director David Ayer got straight gangsta at his movie's premiere with a four-letter assault on the superheroes over at Marvel ... and then walked it back real freakin' quick.
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Invasion of Privacy is set to be released April 6 on Atlantic Records, and is her first full length release since she dropped Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 2 in early 2017.
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Tekashi69 isn't getting the red carpet treatment in federal lockup -- several Crips wasted NO time "gangsta checking" him, and TMZ has learned that's what got him transferred to a new facility.
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Since the group's inception just a few years prior, the lineup had expanded from the core trio of Infamous, Juicy, and Paul to include Crunchy Black, Koopsta Knicca, and Gangsta Boo.
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Right now, Cardi B is having a moment, and it's not because of her online persona and short video missives; In January, she released her second mixtape, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol.
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He talked about his son O'Shea Jackson Jr., who plays Cube in the film, the therapeutic value of gangsta rap, and what would be lost if "Compton" did not get a nomination.
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But by the early 90s, Los Angeles found the apotheosis of its culture in the emergence of G-funk, or "gangsta-funk"––funky, radical, a little apocalyptic, and, at times, brutally nihilistic.
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He landed in a Brooklyn home and at age 212, he joined the Shotgun Gangsta Crips, a local affiliate of the national Crips gang, he told a detective during a 243 arrest.
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The former Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods member, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, has a massive "69" inked across his forehead, along with other designs splashed across his cheeks, temples, and throat.
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There was a few times I would try to move back in with my mom, but we would still keep getting into it–I was a gangsta and she was a woman.
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What may end up being the lasting impression of this album, however, is the strain of anxiety that runs through it about the affiliations 6ix9ine made with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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The rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, 11 months after pleading guilty in a case connected to the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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In his statement to Engelmayer in court, Hernandez, took responsibility for his actions, described his relationship to the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang, and told the court about this childhood in Brooklyn.
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The lyrics of many songs were controversial, especially in the 22019s, with considerable profanity, and the discussion of edgy topics ranging from mental illness and gangsta life to rape, murder and necrophilia.
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Two years after the release of his last Hollywood movie—the nutso Chappie, featuring a sentient, gangsta robot and a mullet-sporting Hugh Jackman—director Neill Blomkamp is back with something even weirder.
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Neither Clarence nor Rell is particularly funny as a character, so when they switch into their faux-gangsta personas—Clarence's thug name is Shark Tank—the transformation doesn't work as humor or commentary.
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Cardi B and Offset went on their first date at Super Bowl LI in February 2017, and by May of that year they were collaborating on Cardi's mixtape, Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2.
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Rapper Tekashi 93ix9ine told a Manhattan jury on Thursday that Cardi B was a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang as he testified as a prosecution witness against his reputed associates.
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Howard Zar recalled receiving a letter from a student who had read his mother's memoir in class and summed up her spirited determination in more modern terms, praising her "as 'a "downright gangsta.
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It's the unfortunate paradox of the gangsta-styled rapper in Toronto: connecting with audiences through the harsh truths of their music but running headlong into Canada's barely-disguised contempt for its impoverished communities.
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Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced to 24 months in prison in December after pleading guilty to several crimes related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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" A couple of months later, Cardi B graced the cover of Vibe Viva, the Latinx edition of the hip-hop magazine, with the words: "homegirl, gangsta b*tch, and "feminist" plastered under her name.
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And with that reference-loaded approach, it's even more fitting to bring in Memphis producer Tay Keith whose beats sound like anyone from Skinny Pimp to Gangsta Boo could glide over them right now.
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MTV probed teens from different corners of the country (lazily picking black kids only from the ghetto and white kids only from suburbia) to grade gangsta rap on a scale of their personal morality.
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But on Tuesday, wearing a navy blue prison jumpsuit in federal court in Manhattan, he took on a new role: as a government witness, testifying against his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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Rapper Tekashi 69 on Thursday named fellow rapper Jim Jones as a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang, an admission that stunned the court and people following the trial on social media.
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On "I'm Gangsta," he muses, wistfully, about being "far from home, I still feel so hood" and then reflects on how his music has grown up since Tha Block Is Hot, released three years earlier.
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Last year, Perico gained traction beyond the west coast with his Shit Don't Stop mixtape—a funky, piano-laden ode to LA gangsta rap that gave the proper stage for his nasal delivery to shine.
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Uncle Murda just signed with G-Unit, but his recent buzzing singles nods to one of 50 Cent's old NYC rap rivals, Cam'ron, with dialogue from Cam's 2002 gangsta B movie classic Paid In Full.
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The 23-year-old rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, named Cardi B, rapper Jim Jones, and several others as members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods as he spoke in Manhattan federal court.
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While he employed the bombast and braggadocio common to gangsta and other forms of rap, he also dealt in introspection a la the so-called conscious rappers such as Chance the Rapper and Talib Kweli.
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" Compared with the understated elegance of his work with the Soulquarians, the beats on "The Diary" are grimy and adventurous, from the funk thrash of "Drive Me Wild" to the spacey wobble of "Gangsta Boogie.
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Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Wednesday, 11 months after pleading guilty to several crimes related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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No place seemed to epitomize the "gangsta" lifestyle more than Los Angeles, with television and movie portrayals of mostly black and Hispanic gang members transforming Southern California's laid-back image into one of racialized terror.
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Kevin Powell wrote a series of articles for Vibe in the mid '90s focusing on Tupac's 2 major influences -- the civil rights movement (his mother, Afeni Shakur, was a Black Panther) ... and the gangsta rap movement.
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It's hard to know who deserves the top prize: the stay-at-home-mom pig with 25 piglets (Reese Witherspoon), the young gangsta gorilla with daddy issues (Taron Egerton) or one of the other gifted animals.
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We already saw this go down for Swift when she donned a similar "gangsta" get-up in her "Shake It Off" video and drew the ire of writers who felt it was appropriative of black culture.
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The Harlem musician does have moments where she reminds you that she is in fact a rapper, like the three-song streak from "Gangsta Talk" to "Copy" that find her interchanging complex flows like a pro.
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Check out the clip -- TTI is the same place Keanu Reeves went to train for his gun-fu sequences in "John Wick 2" but we gotta say ... Bas looks a little more gangsta doing his thing.
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But in just under a year, his career has taken a remarkable turn: He is the prosecution's star witness in a racketeering and firearms case against members of his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
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Last night "Harlem Shake" producer, Baauer, made an appearance on the Stephen Colbert show to promote his recently announced and long-awaited debut album, giving a performance that can only be described as a more gangsta Hamilton.
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Recent albums from Sacramento's Blood-affiliated Mozzy and Harlem's Crip-connected Dave East pump hope into keeping the sub-genre relevant in 2017, giving an update on what gangsta rap from both coasts looks like right now.
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He ends up having me on his show one night (unfortunately, Gangsta Boo was out of town), engaging a writer friend and me in a discussion about the relationship between musicians and the journalists that cover them.
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Throughout the Ugly Conference, Lewis, who wears a red floral dress and signs her emails "Your Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution," gets the audience's attention by breaking into rallying cries and, later, made-up songs.
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Urban pressures made it a laboratory for gangsta rap; suburban boredom made it a haven for punk, and the state's Southern border has made it a gateway for subtle and overt influences from Mexico and points south.
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Mr. Hernandez and Mr. Jordan were part of a gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, and committed a series of violent crimes and drug-trafficking offenses, including attempted murder and armed robbery, the indictment said.
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced to 2 years in prison on Wednesday, 11 months after pleading guilty to several crimes related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.
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Cardi B originally surfaced as an Instagram celebrity, while gradually making her name as a rapper with extensive features on other artists' tracks, and eventually a series of mixtapes that included the scintillating Gangsta Bitch Music Vol.
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Their bundle of joy arrived via an "unmedicated homebirth" in the "Gangsta" hitmaker's bathroom, she said, adding that she would not be posting for a bit while she recuperated from the delivery and spent time with her family.
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Where gangsta rap and trap music routinely gave insight as to why people operated on the opposite side of the law, the post Call of Duty drill made an arcade game out of killings; the more, the better.
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Airbnb sells gift cards that can be used for accommodations from apartments to houseboats to experiences like "The Gangsta Gardener" in Los Angeles that involves biking, gardening and eating a farm-to-table dinner with a documentary producer.
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Read more: Tekashi 6ix9ine testified that Cardi B was a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang, and that's probably not going to end wellCardi B, meanwhile, told GQ she had connections to the Bloods last year.
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The rapper Tekashi69 was a star government witness at the trial of two men who were accused of being members of his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, and who were ultimately convicted on racketeering conspiracy charges.
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The track is a seasonal smorgasbord that serves up a gangsta rap-styled account of the origin of Jesus, imagines a bloody beef between Santa and the Grinch, and features a Wikipedia-assisted breakdown of the tenets of Kwanzaa.
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MTV Raps, their dispute kicked off in 1994 when Common released "I Used to Love H.E.R," a track about hip-hip that dissed gangsta rap and was interpreted as an insult by some West Coast rappers, including Ice Cube.
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And despite the sluggish passages and hum of unease, it's fun watching these performers play with clichés amid a guest visit from Anna Faris and the sight of Clarence's minivan's becoming a safe space for gangsta sharing and caring.
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The rap star, who recently made her acting debut in the Oscar-tipped Jennifer Lopez stripper drama "Hustlers," last week denied that she was a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang after claims by fellow rapper Tekashi69.
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His friends—who introduced themselves as Hotboy Nunk, Baby Gangsta, 4PFDT, Lil Tiger, and G-Five—piled onto this sentiment before personally writing their names in my notebook just in case the article did turn out to be worthwhile.
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Boosters of gangsta rap, as it was once called, defended the coldness and violence of their lyricism by professing it as a window into their reality, into the parts of the ghetto where rules were different than outside of it.
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Promoting her new album, Gbmv2 (Gangsta Bitch Music Volume 2, where she is flexing her best lyrical abilities to date), Cardi appeared on The Breakfast Club radio show, where she was once again fully human and completely honest about it.
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Faith Evans resorted to half-baked "gangsta-movie" quotes to explain why she bailed on a concert to instead play the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour ... so says a promoter who's asked a judge to block her from performing in Atlanta.
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I respect every ounce of gangsta Trey Songz is exhibiting while wearing this tank top, though I can't help but get DJ Pauly D flashbacks, because this is totally some bullshit he and The Situation would've worn on The Jersey Shore.
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The political rappers — in addition to Médine, the more prominent ones include Kery James, Youssoupha, Axiom, Oxmo Puccino and Abd Al Malik — generally get less airtime on the radio than the more American-style "gangsta" rappers, who exist here, too.
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Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine touched upon this dynamic in his explosive testimony against the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods earlier this year, claiming he only got involved with the gang to bolster the provocative image he presented in his music and videos.
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A terrific essay on rap music, "Gangsta Culture — Sexism and Misogyny," which my friend Dionne Bennett, another former student of bell hooks and an anthropologist at City Tech, teaches because "There is no better essay on this topic," says Dionne.
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During a pounding set at Coachella yesterday, the duo of El-P and Killer Mike dropped a brand new visual for "Love Again" featuring Gangsta Boo, one of their strongest cuts from their recent 2014 record Run The Jewels 2.
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In 1997, coming off of almost a solid decade of dead serious gangsta and politically conscious backpack rap, in one instant, Missy Elliott gave us permission to be weird, left-of-center, and downright funny, all without an ounce of gimmickry or novelty.
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But the joke was on the conventionally wise people because not only did Lil Wayne's album go platinum but his mixtape broke through in a way that put both him and the Gangsta Grillz series on the map in an unprecedented way.
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If the artist born Belcalis Almanzar had just stopped there, cranking out the kind of hard-hitting, hard-working banger you'd expect from someone whose previous mixtapes were both called Gangsta Bitch, that would also have been completely understandable—but she didn't.
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Throughout Lamar delivers star-studded, hooky-to-jingly, sneakily experimental pop-rap product tinged with the flick's racialized broad-stroke humanitarianism; whatever sketchy plot references some exegete may imagine, "I Am" is a stand-alone love song, "Paramedic!" a street-ready gangsta metaphor.
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It's definitely not the type of thing that you would associate with someone like, just picking a random example, a former cocaine kingpin from Norfolk turned genre-defining gangsta rapper who has also served as the subject of an amazing Kanye rant.
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Still, many readers will relate to these essays if they've ever struggled to find their authentic selves beneath the visage of pop-culture caricatures of who one should be: black cool, millennial chic, radical Afro-centric slam poet, good guy or hood gangsta.
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A shirt worn by a white female employee bearing the slogan "I run on weed & gangsta rap," was criticized by some as being tone deaf considering that Black people are disproportionately arrested for cannabis crimes and often left out of the legal industry.
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He listens to a lot of gangsta rap: the Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy, Wu-Tang Clan; after watching Notorious, the 2009 biopic of B.I.G., he decided he would like to visit Brooklyn, a New York City borough he imagines overrun more by gangsters than hipsters.
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Like many recent rappers who mean to depict the real terror of ghetto violence, he raps in a higher pitch and a jumpier tone than most of his predecessors — the convention in gangsta rap is to project a smug, relaxed mastery, which Staples markedly avoids.
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Sampled On: "9" He's yet to go all-in and make a full dancehall record, but Drake's certainly not afraid to cherry-pick from the genre, this time using a forlorn hook from Mavado's 2007 debut album, Gangsta for Life: The Symphony of David Brooks.
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His rap career was marred with controversies: In 2015 he was convicted for using a "child in a sexual performance," his ex-girlfriend has accused him of regularly assaulting her, and he pleaded guilty to charges connected to the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang.
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The rapper and Instagram star Tekashi69 was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday by a federal judge who gave him credit for pleading guilty and helping prosecutors send several of his former gang associates in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods to prison.
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In November 2018, Tekashi 69, born Daniel Hernandez, was indicted for federal racketeering and firearms charges and faced up to life in prison for his alleged involvement in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a gang that has been associated with murder, robbery, and narcotics trafficking.
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It's another hip-hop biopic in the footsteps of "Straight Outta Compton," but instead of the story of a West Coast gangsta rap group, it's the story of a 15-year-old girl named Roxanne Shante who started the biggest rap beef war in history.
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Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, née Daniel Hernandez, has pled guilty to nine charges of racketeering, drug-trafficking, and firearm-related issues along with a handful of alleged peers in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, in which Hernandez admitted his involvement last week, according to the New York Times.
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Zedbazi took the opposite approach and pioneered Iranian gangsta rap; becoming the first in a wave of musicians to swear and explicitly rap about sex and drugs, quickly achieving huge popularity among Iran's exceptionally young population (60 percent of the nation are thought to be under 30).
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" Snoop – who is currently starring with Martha Stewart in cooking-meets-talk show Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party – has been blasted for leaving his roots in gangsta rap for more mainstream success, including his cameos in pop music such as Katy Perry's 2010 hit "California Gurls.
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After having a flashback about another dip in the isolation tank to make contact with the monster, she comes to, calls a store clerk a mouth-breather, grabs some frozen Eggos, and walks out of the store Anton Chigurh-style, leaving shattered glass in her wake. Gangsta.
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" WATCH: Cardi B Tells Nicki Minaj They Can "Talk About It Or Fight It Out" In Instagram Post "How you say that I was the wild animal, that I attacked you, that you was mortified, that you was humiliated, playing the victim but now you the gangsta.
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Zedbazi took the opposite approach and pioneered Iranian gangsta rap; becoming the first in a wave of musicians to swear and explicitly rap about sex and drugs, quickly achieving huge popularity among Iran's exceptionally young population (60 percent of the nation are thought to be under 30).
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Other new albums this week include "1992" (Entertainment One/Fifth Amendment/Blood Money) by the Los Angeles rapper the Game, which starts at No. 4 with the equivalent of 32,000 sales; the title references the golden age of West Coast gangsta rap, with a dollop of nostalgia.
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N.W.A. were really into Prince They're known to millions as the self-proclaimed "World's Most Dangerous Group" but in Original Gangstas, Westhoff reveals that before they defined the genre of gangsta rap with their blockbuster album Straight Outta Compton in 1988, the band members were big fans of Prince.
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Though they were often condemned for violent words or images, today Public Enemy is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — and the gangsta rap group N.W.A., then seen by outsiders as "aggressive, profane young black men talking about mayhem," is the subject of a hit, mainstream movie.
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Gangsta rap is also a hard sell to an Academy that in years past failed to give a best picture nomination to the Eminem drama "8 Mile" (2002) or the widely praised "Boyz N the Hood" (1991), which nonetheless earned nominations for John Singleton, its writer and director.
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Playlist: "Body Count" / "KKK Bitch" / "There Goes The Neighborhood" / "Invincible Gangsta" / "The End Game" / "Talk Shit Get Shot" / "99 Problems BC" / "Institutionalized 2014" Momentarily putting aside the streetwise bonafides of those first four essential solo albums, a certain idiosyncrasy has always been a part of Ice-T's modus operandi.
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Not only were the acting nominees again all white, but "Straight Outta Compton," about the gangsta-rap group N.W.A., was noticed only for the work of its white screenwriters, and the "Rocky" sequel "Creed," which had a black director and star, received a single nomination—for Sylvester Stallone.
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I don't entirely agree with Staples's attacks on "gangsta rap" no matter how complicit the entertainment industry is in the institutional racism that makes the mere existence of such a genre possible, because rapping about the perks of the thug life and actually living it are two very different things.
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At first she obliged only a few people — "Original Gangsta" for Christy Turlington; "Fight the Power" for Mark Ruffalo — but now they're on sale, for $360 each, at the Crow's Nest Inn in Montauk (owned by her husband, the hotelier Sean MacPherson) and at the Upper East Side boutique Five Story.
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Though he had released a few halfhearted tapes since 2012, it was last year's mixtape Shit Don't Stop that attracted the attention of both the streets and critics outside the city, branding him one of the most promising new artists in a genre most people have left for dead, gangsta rap.
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Also I don't know what else I'd play - outside of recent R&B and rap, the only other sets I play lately are either 90s dance at my Rhythm of the Night parties or laughably obscure old gangsta rap records during the early hours at my hip hop party Halfway Crooks.
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Playlist: "6 'N The Mornin'" / "Pain" / "Colors" / "Power" / "You Played Yourself" / "Mind Over Matter" / "Depths Of Hell" / "The Rhythm" While the terms didn't stick around for all that long, hardcore hip-hop and gangsta rap served as convenient subgenre tags for the blunt, raw approach that Ice-T was developing.
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There was no such thing as a "Caroline's Comedy Hour" type, but "Def Comedy Jam" became shorthand for a profane act that swaggered with the bravado of gangsta rap, in which the jokes were acted out as much as told, and the subject matter kept a tight focus on sex.
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Most of them can be found in new book Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap – which offers an impressive and exhaustive look inside the real world of the pioneering group that brought gangsta rap to the masses.
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The attitude behind 50's brand of gangsta rap on steroids, while enticing to fans whose lives were a million miles apart from that reality, was not supposed to be directed to people with more power than him, but he proved to be too much of the outlaw he was marketed as.
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Watch References: 23 Brand Breakdown: Audemars Piguet, 2; Breitling, 1; Cartier, 1; Rolex, 2 Best Bar: "Wrist looking like the same arena where the Flyers be—ICEY" Meek's first retail mixtape marks the end of his Audemars period and the beginning of hearing "GANGSTA GRILLZ YOU BASTARD" on all of his mixtapes.
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What Nawaz seems to understand better than any of the other critics of Islam he's so often lumped with is that Islamism is cool — and it is cool in some of the same ways that punk rock and gangsta rap and macho rebellion in general, whether symbolic or real, are perennially seductive.
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Mr. Adler noted, however, that while "The Breaks" presents the conflict between MC Hammer's pop version of hip-hop and more street-level rapping, it neglects another 1990 cultural rivalry: between the Afro-centric, consciousness-raising New York style of groups like Public Enemy and the rise of tough-talking gangsta rap in Los Angeles.
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A press release issued by the United States Justice Department on Monday announced that 6ix1.53ine (along with five of the alleged co-conspirators who the indictment claims are Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang members) had been indicted in federal court in New York on an array of previously undisclosed racketeering, assault and firearms charges.
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Having successfully made the jump from reality TV stardom on Love and Hip Hop New York to—for Noisey's collective money—full-blown bonafide rapper status on her two mixtapes (Gangsta Bitch Music Volumes I and II), Cardi just signed a major label deal, and is being quickly embraced by the hip-hop community.
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James Milner looks like the sort of man who likes going for country walks with his dog, who likes drinking the odd half of Yorkshire Bitter and who refuses to go out in public without an authentic flat cap on his head, and here he is immersing himself in the lyrical complexities of gangsta-funk.
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East Coast acts like East Orange, New Jersey hit-makers Naughty By Nature and raucous Queens trio Onyx made brief appearances in the video but it was the West Coast figures in question that really laid claim to gangsta rap, as it was a way for them to distinguish themselves from their cross country peers.
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While the rest of the country chases Young Thug, G Perico can be categorized as a staunch gangsta rapper who has already earned comparisons to West Coast legends like Too $hort and DJ Quik—and if he threw a Raiders snapback over his Jheri curl, you'd swear he was Cube or Eazy circa '89.
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Cut to today, and she's a nationally respected DJ who's taken up residence locally at spots like the W Atlanta hotel and underground club El Bar to Insert Coin in Las Vegas and The Delano in Miami, and has DJed for the likes of Mike Will Made It, Three 6 Mafia's Gangsta Boo, and Rittz.
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Hip-Hop which took on Pac's Mobb Deep, Chino XL, and Biggie Smalls diss track "Hit Em Up." Users accused Pac of pimping out the gangsta persona once signing to Death Row, while others cited his shooting of two off-duty cops in Georgia as reason for why he was the realest of all rappers.
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That track is so gangsta because I was just ripping the fuck out of that shit, and originally that verse was supposed to be on a song with me, Young Kane, and Yung Simmie, because me and Simmie were running together before he got with Raider Klan too, and that's how it all went down.
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Although there have been rampant theories—including speculation that he was the victim of a retaliatory hit after his beatdown, captured on a security camera, of Southside Compton Crip Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson that night in the lobby of the MGM Grand—20 years later we're still no closer to knowing who murdered the gangsta rap icon.
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On one particularly bad day after I got in trouble because of my less than pleasant dealings with a customer who was mad at me because they felt the bananas on offer weren't ripe enough, I was on a smoke break continuing my first listening of F.B.G.: The Movie, the Gangsta Grillz x Freebandz compilation tape.
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On the one hand, there are harsher, noisier attempts to project gangsta menace, as on "Dirt Bag," whose percussion track clicks and booms in convoluted, delayed patterns that seem to intimidate him somewhat; on the other, behold more conventional exercises in melodic pop-rap like "Gang," in which Auto-Tune sands the edges off Blueface's voice.
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German gangsta rap is dominated by Arab and Turkish artists, and reports of anti-Semitism have been on the rise among both immigrant groups and young Germans generations removed from the lessons of World War II. Some of the country's most popular rappers have put out videos featuring Jewish stereotypes and lyrics drawing on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
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Gangsta Garden, founded by Ron Finley, became a cause célèbre after he repurposed a barren strip of public property in front of his house in the South Los Angeles neighborhood as a garden and then fought the city when it tried to fine him for violating a law requiring sidewalks and curbs be free of obstruction.
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Popular recurring choices include just about any excerpt of Toto's "Africa," the drum solo in Phil Collins's "Coming in the Air Tonight," the "Ting goes Skraaa!" part of Big Shaq's viral gangsta rap parody "Man's Not Hot," and the opening, "It's Britney, bitch," from Britney Spears's song "Gimme More," to name just a few of many, many suggestions.
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Friends and family attended the ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, including Dr. Dre, a former fellow member of the seminal "gangsta" rap group N.W.A. "You know, you don't get here by yourself and when you're coming up doing music, movies, just trying to be creative, you never figure you'll be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one day," Ice Cube said.
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Gamely playing straight man to Mr. Baron Cohen's clueless suburban would-be gangsta rapper, Mr. Schultze patiently explained why currency does not come in denominations of, say, $22.56; that there was no particular "bestest" personal identification number to use with a bank account; and that "buying low and selling high" in the stock market had nothing to do with artificial stimulants.
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Cardi B has taken to Instagram to announce that her debut album Invasion of Privacy will be released on April 6, aka next week (!!!!) This won't be Cardi's first full-length project––she released Gangsta Bitch Music mixtapes in 2016 and 2017––but it'll be her major-label debut, and her first release since "Bodak Yellow" topped the charts last year.
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Milk, naps, and gangsta rap: Stephen Colbert sums up day 2 of the Trump impeachment trial Trevor Noah has a genius method to help senators stay awake during Trump's impeachment trial New 'To All The Boys 2: P.S. I Still Love You' trailer brings the drama to Lara Jean's love triangle Trevor Noah unpacks day 1 of Trump's impeachment trial
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" In an interview with Good Morning America on August 20103, Hay elaborated, providing an explanation that some people have subsequently criticized because they feel Hay is blaming "gangsta rap" for her troubles: "The word was thrown around in the music I listened to, with the friends I hung out with," Hay said during the Good Morning America segment, "and I had no guidance.
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As for me & you "50"... Our past has proven we could both get on some gangsta shit if need be, being that lives have been lost on both sides..... Lives have been taken from friends, & fathers taken from kids.. Which could've easily been MY LIFE or YOURS..... If you choose to ignore the GROWN MAN approach & continue to harbor HATE for me & my side... That's your decision.
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These two details helped inform the former LA Weekly music editor as he wrote his newest book, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (out September 13 via Hachette Book Group), which dives deep into the history of the West Coast gangsta rap music that both shocked and enamored America in the 90s.
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DJ Drama -- whose uber-popular Gangsta Grillz projects have featured rappers like Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane and Meek Mill -- says he listened to Zo's "Born 2 Ball" album ... and he sees major potential in the BBB MC. Not only does Drama give props ... he wants to get Zo AND LaVar in the studio for his next G.G. tape ... with Papa Ball co-hosting the project.
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" Their song "Rules and Regulations," the first off their upcoming Shitty Punk Album, is a giant middle finger to the world that catpures their ethos in a nutshell: "Rules and regulations got me feeling like / Fuck it though!" goes the hook, over screaming synths and bass, and the verses feature a variety of invitations to, in the words of guest rapper Gangsta Boo, "get on they knees and lick my clit.
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You know that this limp could be mistaken for some kind of affect, some lame attempt at gangsta lean, but on some level that you maybe don't even acknowledge you know that walking like you do subverts the straight-postured upright citizenly way of moving one's arms and feet just so, to express obedience, to pledge allegiance to a way of life and to a nation and its laws.
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A rivalry between cities sets the stage for a new exhibition of original artworks by visual artist Pablo Power and American gangsta rap pioneer, Schoolly D. In addition to Power's illusory, split mirrored compositions, Philly VS New York: A Declaration of Co-Independence features some of the rapper's more personal works, developed in recent years, as well as original pieces that have served as his album covers in the past.
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Eventually, he stepped down from his editor position to focus on the book full time, tracking down as many people involved in the gangsta rap scene as he could find, from Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow of the late Eric "Eazy-E" Wright, to the Nation of Islam member who injected the NWA co-founder with an experimental drug from Kenya as a Hail-Mary attempt to treat his AIDS disease.
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In the 80s, she was a prominent figure in the fight to end Apartheid in South Africa, and as a Congresswoman she became known for leading "the fight supporting young people in the hip-hop and rap communities when there were those who wanted to censor [their music]," working with African American music executives when many feminists, black church leaders, and politicians were advocating for the censorship of hardcore gangsta rap.
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The rapper offered a damning testimony that directly contributed to convicting two members of Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, with which he himself had been affiliated according to the 29 indictments that applied to a dozen co-defendants in total, and the spectacle of his three days in Manhattan's Federal District Court was widely reported on not just by hip-hop blogs and the general music press, but by mainstream media nationwide.
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Over the next 28503 years, first as a member of gangsta rap pioneers the Geto Boys, and as a solo artist collaborating with hip hop icons such as Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, LL Cool J and Jay-Z, Scarface became a leading force in the Southern hip hop movement, which emerged as a distinct alternative to the more established East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop genres.
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" Read more: In the Studio With Paris's New Fashion Darling "When it comes to physical things (like bringing something tangible to fruition), I listen to this playlist I've made called 'Hype Me.' It has Jadakiss and the Lox, DMX, Black Rob, G. Dep, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Project Pat on it — a lot of late '90s, early 2000s gangsta rap — and that's what I put on when I need to speed up my process.
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But in dissing gangsta rap as a genre he first makes a calculated boast about his authenticity, claiming that the genre romanticizes atrocities that he's experienced for real unlike the rest of you fake MCs, and second, more importantly, he accuses the genre of profiting from the romanticization of such atrocities and hence indirectly contributing to institutional racism, of brutalizing a black audience being sold racist stereotypes of themselves and entertaining a white audience titillated by the stereotypes in question.
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