Word: gangstas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little bit weird for me to watch you all go gangsta before,” Gavin DeGraw said between songs. “Ivy League gangstas...
...Michael Jackson in his “Will You Be There” video from “Free Willy.” The allusion to MJ in WJ’s video just warms my heart. But there are plenty of scenes in which Jean apes your typical gangsta rapper, driving a bright yellow sports car from three feet behind the wheel and wearing thugged-out glasses that are more Kanye than they are Wyclef. It’s a nice change to see Wyclef trading in his dreads for a little bling, especially since this video is easier...
Snoop Dogg is Long Beach’s renaissanceman. He has been a crack dealer, agang banger, a gangsta rapper, a comedyshow host, a pornographer, a marijuanaenthusiast, and, more recently, a realitytelevision star. Part of Snoop Dogg’s appealis that he is a pop culture icon whoseems to defy logic with his resiliency andprofile in the rap game. Snoop is just asvisible now as he was in 1992, when hewas the runaway guest star of Dr. Dre’swest coast classic “The Chronic.” Thatsaid, the question of whether you?...
With his latest mixtape, “Harlem’s American Gangster,” rapper Jim Jones attempts to present a depiction of Harlem street life as only a native of Harlem could do. Unfortunately, Jones fails, offering instead the conventional definition of gangsta rap that the naïve have come to accept and the knowledgeable have begun to ignore. Released on February 19th, “Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born...
...Pastor Troy, I got a license to kill / I’ll shove that .50 cal in ya mothafuckin’ grill” doesn’t sound like the hollow boast of a pop-rapper. Nor does it sound like the too-hard attempt of a reactionary gangsta. It sounds like the opening couplet from any old revered ’80s true-school rapper, run through a raw Dirty South filter. Between albums like this, the canonization of Scarface and the late Pimp C, and the rise of rappers like T.I. and Lil’ Wayne, maybe...