Word: gangstas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lines to live by from gangsta rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur, 22, who not long ago gave an interview on MTV with what looked to be a pistol tucked into his waist. Last week Shakur was arrested in Atlanta and charged in the shooting of two off-duty police officers...
Kathrin, who is four months pregnant, survived the ensuing crash unharmed. By Friday, police had already arrested the 20-year-old triggerwoman, a 5-ft. 3-in., 210 pounder with gold-capped teeth whom friends likened to "Gangsta Bitch," the tough street woman described in the rap song by Apache. Police also grabbed Alvan Hudson, 19, who they say was in the truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade...
...most part, balanced and coherent. On Race War, Ice-T calls for blacks, Asians and Hispanics to unite. On Message to the Soldier, he raps, "Check the history books, son/ Black leaders die young/ They tell us that our words are scary/ They're revolutionary." With his gangsta posturing, Ice-T is far from a role model for urban youth, but his real goal is to expose suburbia to inner-city anger. "I'll tell you what we did," he raps on the title track. "We stole your kids...
...song I Need a Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully...
...Bitch by the rap group N.W.A., they either blush, cringe or call for the censor. But when Bryan Turner hears the song, he can almost hear the cash register ringing. Turner, 36, is co-founder of Priority Records, the label that has carried N.W.A. (Niggers with Attitude) and other "gangsta" rappers. Formed eight years ago, Priority has built a financial fortune and a reputation as the music industry's House of Raunchy...