Word: gangstas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DEATH OF A GANGSTA RAPPER...
...generated $100 million in revenue last year. They talk about violence--Knight, a 6-ft. 4-in., 315-lb. former pro-football player, is an intimidating figure to some--and Death Row, whose roster of artists includes Snoop Doggy Dogg, is a driving force in the controversial genre of gangsta rap. Knight was behind the wheel of the BMW in which Tupac Shakur, a rapper on his label, was riding when he was fatally shot on Sept. 7 in Las Vegas...
...death of Shakur, who sold more than 10 million albums, constitutes a defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about...
...church choir, admits Williams, who was condemned to death in 1981 for fatally shotgunning four unresisting victims during motel and convenience-store holdups. But his transformation, he insists, should be judged separately from his crimes. Arriving at San Quentin in 1981 as a feared gangsta godfather, Williams was content for years to watch sullenly from death row as gang violence spread--and with it, an urban nightmare...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...