Word: gangstas
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...comes to market, a market that caters to all the moods of the American disposition, from moonglow to bloodlust. At Sam Goody's, the chain record store, the CD bins are stuffed with amiable releases by Hootie and the Blowfish and Boyz II Men. But they also hold the gangsta rap of Bloods and Crips and Tupac Shakur. Nearby, at the Time Out video arcade, Jordan Trimas, 16, is playing Primal Rage, a game in which dinosaurs tear one another to pieces. "Sure, the violence influences kids,'' he shrugs. "But nobody can do anything about...
DIED. ERIC WRIGHT, 31, rapper; of complications from AIDS; in Los Angeles. His steely, insistent tenor made "Eazy-E" one of the instantly identifiable elements of N.W.A., the rap group that took the genre to the harsher heights of "gangsta rap," with profane language and violent imagery that kept the music off radio stations and marching out of stores. Following N.W.A.'s dissolution, Wright began a second career as solo artist, producer--and a truly offbeat dabbler in Republican politics...
AILING. ERIC WRIGHT, 31, better known as Eazy-E, co-founder of early gangsta rap group N.W.A.; from AIDS; in Los Angeles. In critical condition, Wright did not know he had the disease until he was hospitalized three weeks ago for breathing problems...
...ignore the difference in quality between Beethoven and `Gangsta Rap' is absurd. All one can do is feel pity for those who don't appreciate the difference in artistic value between a masterpiece and a urinal. One can also feel saddened by the fact that very little great art is being produced today because of the spread of post-modernist philosophy...
...hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual, too nasty to invoke outside gangsta rap and the barracks. "Remember," says language expert and New York Times columnist William Safire, "it's so offensive that Barbara Bush didn't use it but said that what Geraldine Ferraro was 'rhymes with rich.' " Defined by Webster as "the female of the dog, a lewd or immoral woman...