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Picking a favorite detail is an arbitrary exercise, but I’ll go ahead and choose “The coca leaf is slightly damp / Sproutin’ in the back yard next to Grand Duke tomato plants.” Where other rappers retell the same gangsta story, Ghostface writes...
...bastards.” And I mean that in both senses of the word. This is most harmful because it promotes the crude objectification of women. And this is only one example where a hip-hop artist is dispensing harmful lyrics. The always self-consciously provocative gangsta rappers 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg provide us with another good example. After seeing their music videos and hearing them talk about their multitude of “bitches,” it is no wonder that violence against women continues to be one of the biggest contributors to domestic violence. Gangsta...
That isn’t very gangsta, and it’s inaccurate too: toes are pedicured. It’s probably not a good sign that I know the difference...
...little premature: Cube is still, in the biological sense of the word, “alive” (unlike, say, Tupac and Biggie). But the last ten years of his career have all but erased the memory of his ascendancy in the controversial West Coast “gangsta rap” scene...
...runaway popularity of the “gangsta rap” aesthetic in the 1990s conferred star status on Cube and enabled him to make the transition from recording studios in South Central to film studios in Hollywood. His first major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...