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...opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...
TIME: Some say gangsta rap is white record execs making money off blacks rapping about shooting other blacks...
...Angeles offices of Death Row Records someone is singing, "If you don't give a f--- about a bitch/ Then you're rolling with the Row." The lyrics are from Doggystyle, the debut album by gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, the label's star. Doggystyle, released Nov. 23, sold 800,000 copies in its first week and enters this week's Billboard charts at No. 1. Associates of Snoop lounge around Death Row, loose and jovial. Snoop, 22, smiles along, autographing posters of himself. Despite the happy mood, he has grave legal troubles. Police say that in West Los Angeles...
TIME: What do you think of the protests against gangsta rap that are being led by the Rev. Calvin Butts III of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...touches of introspection, had been applied to some of the cruder songs. Perhaps Snoop feels he's reflecting his environment. But when you're a star, your environment begins to reflect you. So far in his brief career, Snoop has been mostly content with showing his young fans gangsta culture. Here's hoping that in the future he creates songs that show them a way out of that culture. He has the talent...