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...Biggie, who was discovered by Sean Combs (then Puff Daddy), flaunted the gangsta-rapper M.O. of drug-dealing, motor-mouthing and subsidiary violence. The movie Biggie (Jamal Woolard) is portrayed sympathetically - sometimes cunning, ruthless and weak, but a gifted, generous man who's surrounded by strong women: his girlfriend-rappers Faith Evans (Antonique Smith) and Lil' Kim (Naturi Naughton) and especially his mother Violetta (Angela Bassett). His ladies provide a few steamy sex scenes; The Lady, Violetta, anchors the story as one of a noble mom demanding that her boy meet the high standards...
What do you think about gangsta rap and its message? Bart Couder, BRUSSELS...
Modern-day gangsta rap is cool. Some stuff I like. Some I don't. Every piece of entertainment sends out messages to young people, though. So what's important is that parents educate their children to know the difference between entertainment and reality...
...mood swings), with songs that “co-star” artists like Lil’ Wayne, Nas, Jay-Z, and T.I., as well as some more unexpected guests like Floyd Mayweather, Chris Rock, and Spike Lee. The first group of rappers adds flourishes of the usual gangsta rap fare throughout the disc, but it’s Lee’s influence that brings a certain depth to “Theater of the Mind.” While Ludacris’s claims to supremacy and boasts of sexual prowess on tracks like “Undisputed?...
...film's impact on the music industry: "Snoop Dogg told me that Scarface laid out everything a gangsta needed to know: how to handle himself, how to live by a code of making money that may be gotten in illegal ways, but having a kind of morality. He would not kill that man's wife and kids with that bomb, you've got to remember that. He had limits ... You can watch it for fun, to get off on his big guns and 'Say hello to my little friend' ... But you can also use it the way businessmen use self...