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...best songs the two MC’s have made together. One of three Dr. Dre-produced songs on the album, “Psycho” has a slow-moving and tense beat that is punctuated by a sweeping, dramatic string sample. 50 returns to his most successful gangsta style in lines like, “it’s murder when they found the gun now they doing ballistics / but they can’t find a fingerprint this shit’s going terrific...
...solo albums by any member of Wu-Tang in this decade or the last.Raekwon resumes right where he left off with the first Cuban Linx. It was then that he introduced his Mafioso persona, soulful stylings, and violent, gritty themes, helping to shape the genre that grew into the gangsta rap of the late 90s. Adopting the moniker Wu Gambino to emphasize their grisly underground content, the Wu-Tang Clan propelled Raekwon’s success forward on Cuban Linx, and in turn reaped the rewards from the new niche they pioneered and would continue to dominate...
...purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh at American gangsta rappers. "Violence?" they seem to say. "War? What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frre? You've been a country for 200 years. We've got 30 centuries of blood in our soil...
...rare scenes that suggest Jamie Foxx may be shrewdly making fun of the cheesiness of his own video. During the requisite money raining scene, Foxx actually puts the bills into his pocket as if to say, “Gee, this economy isn’t conducive to the gangsta lifestyle anymore.” And he has to be making fun of the rap genre in those scenes where he is dancing with a set of back-up dancers wearing matching hideous sequined tracksuits. It’s alright though if he doesn’t care...
...look at the whole GTA series as a sustained fictional inquiry into the myth of the great American badass - the criminal, the gangsta, the made man, the outlaw. It's a loving inquiry, but it has a consistent critical distance, an outsider's point of view. And no wonder: the games aren't created by Americans at all. Houser, a Brit, is based in New York City, but most of the work gets done by Rockstar North, a team of Scots based in Edinburgh...